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A rival and feet through the point region to exert pressure and use of limbs and body coordination, to promote self-treatment system in the human body massage methods.
-Reflexology is a broad concept, but its main branch, foot reflexology
is, on both feet for the application of parts of reflection.
-As biped in the human body is in a special position, so that foot
reflexology a reflection of the important components of a reflection of
the practice of induction courses and reflexology division of basic
skills.
-It is the most basic understanding of the full reflection "medical treatment" therapy.
-Foot Reflexology effect.
-As the saying goes: "stop-gap measures feet" on foot reflexology,
because there are both feet and viscera organ of the body corresponding
to the various reflex, so be it headache, Jiaotong, low back pain , Or
other organs of what illnesses are taken "doctors feet" approach, which
is the area on foot to stimulate the reflection of the way. Reuploaded
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More than 240 entries representing folk medical practices used in North
America, Britain, Ireland, and Scotland were gleaned from extensive
research. Articles are followed by no less than a dozen scholarly
references related to the study of superstition and folklore. Ranging
from a concise paragraph to several pages in length, entries include
the treating of ailments and conditions such as Insect bites and stings (applying spit, urine, soda, vinegar, or well-chewed tobacco); Palsy (ingesting cowslip, applying leeches, or holding a dying chicken); and wrinkles (drinking elderflower water, goat's milk, or an infusion of butterwort) and the supporting of contraception
(using birch bark diaphragms, impotence-inducing Rhus trilobata, or
eating heart ventricles). Other entries discuss the various uses of
remedies such as dandelion and Holly. See also references follow each article, and an index completes the volume.