Acupressure is an ancient eastern method of treatment of many pathologies. It is based on the effect on the corresponding points on the body that 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 action 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 with it, finger pressure is applied to the corresponding parts of the body, which leads to an improvement in the condition of patients and the restoration of impaired functions.
These sites in modern medicine are called biologically active points. I must say that there are 365 of them on the human body, moreover, they all have certain features. So, they are characterized by low electrical skin resistance, significant electrical potential and high skin temperature. In addition, they are characterized by increased pain sensitivity, accelerated metabolism and increased oxygen uptake.
What effect does acupressure have on the human body?
Depending on what points you can act on, you can stimulate or relax the nervous system, increase blood circulation and tissue nutrition in the body, affect the functioning of the endocrine glands, eliminate pain of various etiologies, and relieve muscle spasm and muscle tone.
Such a wide list of effects on the human body allows the use of acupressure with 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 whole body;
• circulatory system diseases , among which essential hypertension, reflex angina pectoris, extrasystole (if it is not associated with severe myocardial damage) should be noted;
• pathology of the digestive system, especially its functional disorders.
Acupressure of the back is widespread
, which is especially often used for lesions of the musculoskeletal system and
connective tissue. This therapeutic technique perfectly helps to cope with pain with osteochondrosis, arthritis of rheumatic or allergic origin, radiculitis, spondylosis.
Despite the positive effect on the body, the use of acupressure is not possible 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 effects on biologically active points among pregnant women, the elderly, and also children up to one year of life.
It is worth noting that with each disease you need to act only on the corresponding points. Interestingly, they are mainly not located in the affected area. So, in case of cardiac abnormalities, acupressure is not performed on the chest, but on the feet, and with severe headaches, a point impact in the region of the 2-3 lumbar vertebra is recommended.