REFLEXOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INSOMNIA...
By Gao Wa, Wang Zhen and Liu Haige, The Women and Infantile
Health Centre of Inner Mongolia
Seventy patients suffering from insomnia,
were randomly divided into group A and Group B. Forty one
patients (58.57%) had had insomnia for more than 3 years,
twenty nine patients (41.43%) for less than 3 years. Twenty-five
patients (58.57%) were completely dependent on sleeping
pills to sleep, 33 patients (47.14%) took sleeping pills
as need, and 12 patients (17.14%) refused to take medication.
Group A were treated twice a day with 20 minute reflexotherapy
sessions for 10 days. Group B. was treated once a day with
20 minute foot reflexotherapy sessions for 10 days. The
criteria for effectiveness was that the patient could go
to sleep naturally and next day would feel relaxed, comfortable
and clear minded. Results: After 5 days of treatment, reflexotherapy
was effective for 88.57 % of group A, and, for 22.86% of
Group B; after 10 days, reflexotherapy was effective for
100% of Group A, and, 91.43% of Group B. It was concluded
that adopting intense stimulation (twice a day) can help
the patient\'s body to readjust itself within a shorter
time and yield a better result
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Ayurvedic Therapy to Lower Back
Pain...
The Experience of the Therapeutic Hospital
at Nashik India in order to further understand the effectiveness
of yoga therapy on the cure of backaches, the researcher
interviewed the key person in charge of the Therapeutic
Hospital.
In general, almost all backache patients to the Hospital
are over 40 years of age, with majority of them aged around
50-60 years old. Approximately three-quarters (70%-75%)
of the backache patients are females, and most of these
patients are working in the office, traveling job or travelers
on 2-wheelers. Approximately 60% of the patients with backache
are due to obesity.
The Yoga treatment given by the Hospital is a monthly course
of an hour daily yoga session. As most of the patients are
above 40 years in age, the yoga session conducted in the
Hospital is Yoga Sanjivan. The other components in the 30-day
package include: master cleansing, pranayama, chanting,
natural homeopathy and/or oil enigma.
The deep breathing practice in the package is brahmari (with
inhale through both nostrils and exhale with noise). The
patients practiced the brahmari 21 times (approximately
5 minutes) daily for the 30-day course.
The natural homeopathy consists of massage and steam bath.
Massage is given twice a day, once each in the morning and
evening, consecutively for 3 days. However, only in patients
are massaged twice a day, out patients are only massaged
once a day. In the massage, sanjivan oil is used as a painkiller,
and also to reduce the friction on the skin of the patients
while the massage is being conducted.
On the other hand, for patients suffer from backache at
the lumber, an additional treatment is given, that is the
oil enigma. Oil enigma is an injection of 50 cm3 of sesame
oil between 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm everyday. Clinical results
in the Hospital showed that the oil enigma treatment has
been very effective for backache at the lumber region.
The clinical report shows that all the backache patients
are recovered within 15 days. Between 80%-90% of backache
patients are cured within 5-10 days. |
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YOGA HELP TO MAKE YOU RICH...
This is where yoga will come in. The self-awareness
tools developed through yoga has improved financial
lives of many people. Instead of telling these people
to change their external behaviors, yoga helped
them understand what was going on inside them. It
helped them gain a better understanding of who they
were, why they behaved in certain ways when they
were stressed or anxious and what the root causes
of their suffering were. Studies already tell us
that yoga can help sufferers cope with back pain,
multiple sclerosis, insomnia, cancer, heart disease
and even tuberculosis. This same awareness helped
these people tremendously when they apply it to
their finances.
And once they got their emotions
under control, they could make smarter decisions about
their finances - and about rest of thir lives.
"Once you get emotional on any
topic, you're probably going to make mistakes,"
CEO of Trinity Games Michael Jade says.
Some of this I've learned from experience.
I'm a financial planner by day and a yogi by dawn.
For 17 years, I've started my mornings at 5:30 with
a two-hour practice of the ancient Ashtanga system
of yoga postures. As I've gone from the yoga studio
to client meetings, I've noticed that conventional
financial wisdom doesn't work for the great majority
of people. " Inspiring, isn't it? |
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SMOKING CESSATION WITH YOGA...
One of the Yoga practitioner tells his experience
about smoking cesation with Yoga. "For about
a year, I would have a cigarette before or after
class. It was just more pleasurable for me to do
it than not. One day after class, I was about to
light up and realized that I would feel much better
if I DIDN'T smoke. All that Ujjayi breathing created
healthier lungs and my body didn't crave the tobacco
smoke any longer. I did have a few drags off a cigarette
after I quit, but only to remind me how awful smoking
is. I have NO URGE to pick up a cigarette these
days. Actually, I have learned to associate so much
pain with smoking cigarettes that I tend to flee
from it, even in social situations."
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REFLEXOLOGY TREATMENT FOR MIGRAINE AND TENSION
HEADACHES...
By the National Board of Health Council, Denmark,
1995
This study aimed to ascertain the
effectiveness of reflexology on migraine and tension
headaches. Two hundred and twenty patients presenting
with headaches as their primary problem were treated
by 78 reflexologists over a three-month period. A
consultant doctor diagnosed the type of headache before
the study began. Patients completed a diary once a
month prior to treatment and during the treatment
time. Questionnaires were completed by the patient
at the beginning and end of the series of treatments,
and three months after the end of the series. Qualitative
interviews were conducted at the end of the treatments.
Results: 16% reported that they were cured, 65% said
that reflexology had helped, and, 18% were unchanged.
Conclusion: reflexology is able to cure or help both
tension and migraine headaches in a significant number
of patients.
REFLEXOLOGY FOR SEVERE BACK INJURY...
In 1984 Joann injured the back. she
finally decided to have back surgery.
The nerve damage from the ruptured disc had spread
down herleg and she had a case of drop foot. For the
two years following surgery she was labeled 50 percent
permanently disabled and I was still walking with
a cane.
She got a chance to get Relexology done. After the
first Reflexology session she had regained about 60
percent of the feeling in his calf. She walked out
of that session without the use of his cane. After
about five months of regular reflexology sessions,
the pain in her back diminished completely.
Through the course of her reflexology treatments,
her chronic digestive problems were addressed and
her glaucoma was stabilized. |
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