Acupressure is an ancient oriental method of therapy for many pathologies. It is based on the impact on the corresponding points on the body, which are associated with internal organs.
This type of treatment is characterized by an individual approach to the patient, a gradual and complex effect on the pathogenetic mechanisms of diseases through external influence on the active points of the body. Since it has long been known that the disease of one organ should be treated as if the whole organism is sick, because all the structures of the human body are closely interconnected.
Acupressure is somewhat similar to acupuncture, but it uses finger pressure on the corresponding areas of the body, which leads to an improvement in the condition of patients and the restoration of impaired functions.
These areas in modern medicine are called biologically active points. I must say that there are 365 of them on the human body, and all of them have certain features. So, they are characterized by low electrical skin resistance, significant electrical potential and high skin temperature. In addition, they have an increasedpain sensitivity, accelerated metabolism and increased oxygen uptake.
What effect does acupressure have on the human body?
Depending on which points to act on, you can stimulate or relax the nervous system, increase blood circulation and tissue nutrition in the body, influence the functioning of the glands of the endocrine system, eliminate pain of various etiologies, relieve muscle spasm and tone.
Such a wide list of effects on the human body allows the use of acupressure in the following pathologies:
• neurosis and depression;
• diseases of the nervous system, including neuritis, neuralgia, vegetative-vascular disorders, sciatica. In addition, acupressure of the head perfectly fights not only with migraine attacks of neurogenic origin, but is also able to heal the entire body;
• diseases of the circulatory system, among which should be noted essential hypertension, reflex angina, extrasystole (if it is not associated with severe myocardial damage);
• pathologies of the digestive system, especially its functional disorders.
Acupressure of the back is widely used, which is especially often used for lesions of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. This therapeutic technique perfectly helps to cope with pain in osteochondrosis, arthritis of rheumatic or allergic origin, sciatica,spondylosis.
Despite the positive effect on the body, the use of acupressure is impossible in the presence of benign tumors, cancer, blood pathologies, acute infectious diseases, myocardial infarction, acute thrombosis or embolism, tuberculosis, severe exhaustion, peptic ulcer. Do not apply exposure to biologically active points among pregnant women, the elderly, as well as children under one year of age.
It is worth noting that for each disease, only the corresponding points should be affected. Interestingly, they are generally not placed in the area of the affected areas. So, for cardiac disorders, acupressure is performed not on the chest, but on the feet, and for severe headaches, acupressure is recommended in the region of 2-3 lumbar vertebrae.
