Korean Su-Jok Therapy (hand and foot).
The most interesting variation on Reflexology and Acupuncture in recent times is probably the Korean Su-Jok (hand and foot in Korean) or Koryo Hand Therapy system which includes more tools, such as probes and massage rings for fingers and magnets and seeds to stimulate points for longer periods, much as the original Dr. Fitzgerald Zone therapy method used various tools such as clamps and pegs to increase the effect.
Dr Park Tae Woo developed it and used mainly small acupuncture needles for Sujok which is perhaps why he stressed hand treatment, even though he knew that foot treatment was often more effective. As in normal acupuncture people don’t like needles in their feet!
Also in Sujok Moxa (mugwort herb) is used for warming up the meridians before treatment (except in cases where Moxa is contraindicated), as it is also in acupuncture. Moxa is especially important for frail people and chronic (long term) diseases.
Sujok uses moxa-cigars and mini-moxas for example to target small or large areas.
Moxa is usually made of the Mugwort plant and can often be the main help for many diseases where strength is needed.
Keep in mind that you have to be careful not to forget moxa after use as it can start a fire if not extinguished properly, I still have holes in my carpet where mini moxas fell off and burnt before I realised.
Actually moxibustion is very much part of acupuncture and always has been. This is all designed to increase the effect of the treatment compared to the usual Reflexology treatment, in other words to send a more powerful healing impulse.
The Korean Sujok system developed by Professor Park Tae Woo is perhaps more exact, certainly more comprehensive and targeted than usual Reflexology and claims to be more effective. It is often combined with standard body Acupuncture treatment for the same diseases at the same time or the following day for example.
The general idea in Sujok is to increase the effect and send a stronger healing impulse than usual methods of Reflexology, it also attempts a more reasoned and complete analysis of how to treat a problem, aiming to also treat for instance the spinal and brain areas most likely to be associated with the disease, as well as other likely involved organs in any disease picture.
The Insect (secondary correspondence system) system in Sujok.
Sujok also points out that the whole body is also reflected in each finger or toe and that this secondary “Insect” system can also assist with therapy as well as the better known main reflecting areas of Sujok and of Reflexology which you see on all the reflexology charts. It is called an Insect system because Dr Park saw the three segments of an insect body as the model for the reflecting model on the toes and fingers.
Indeed Dr Park also developed a therapy based on the nails only, and another based on only the fingers.
Although the Insect system is seen as secondary to the usual main correspondence system it is helpful especially in serious and difficult cases to augment the standard Primary Correspondence treatment.
Sujok often uses small needles to act on the areas as in acupuncture but you can also use probes and fingers and other tools of course rather than needles. Sujok also uses various massage tools, massage rings for the fingers and magnets and seeds to augment the therapy.
In particular in Sujok the idea is to find the pain points in the area of treatment, using special simple probes to find them. For example if the liver had a problem then a particular part of the liver reflecting area on hand or foot or ear etc will often have a pain point where the exact liver problem is located, for example a tumor in part of the liver or the entrance to the gall bladder or whatever. Massaging or needling this very small area will be of most benefit to the patient.
A similar idea to the Sujok pain points emphasis comes with Trigger Point therapy for muscles in massage where we look for small areas in muscles to be worked on rather than just looking at the whole muscle. It’s all just common sense really isn’t it?
Dr Park Tae Woo in Korea also developed other simple therapies to work on the nails of the foot and hand for example, and also simple bodily twist exercises to treat diseases (Twist Therapy). His system was called Onnuri medicine and he also wrote books on diagnostics which I have not yet obtained but which are likely to be very useful. In a way his system is often seen as Oriental medicine linked with Western science ( he was an eminent scientist also).
Along with his many other innovations Dr Park can be seen as a significant contributor to health and especially self-help medical care. Sujok spread especially where poverty made access to doctors problematic, and is popular in India, Thailand and Russia and Eastern Europe I notice.
Sujok is a goldmine of such usually unavailable secrets and detailed maps of previously unknown connections and multiple correspondence systems.
Sujok Nail therapy
A very, very useful little book is Sujok Nail Therapy by Park Jae-Woo. It contains much information on the fingers and nails of hands and feet, and lots of ideas on treatment strategies. It also has a good explanation of Homo, Hetero and Neutro.
The nails and the areas around them can treat the whole body, being the most hetero (active) part of the body, and with links to the whole system. Seed therapy, magnets, massage, colour, moxa and all the other ways of treatment can easily be used on the fingers and toes.
For example the right hand little finger nail has a special affinity with the pancreas, and the left hand little finger nail with the gallbladder and so on. The book shows the link up of body parts to all the fingers, toes and nails, so you know which ones are best to use for each organ and/or disease and the general types of disease, homo, hetero or neutro.
You can also choose nails to treat based on characteristics like heat or cold, colour, deformity, pain or numbness. Also you can choose according to the standard correspondence system of which limb is represented on which finger for example.
A similar map showing the link up of fingers and toes for all endocrine glands is also given. The little book is a goldmine of information infact, all in a neat little package.
The thumbs on the hands are best for Hetero (acute) disorders, and the big toes best for Homo (chronic) disorders.
Using massage on the correspondence systems of the nails is also effective, with many techniques available. Using a diagnostic stick or similar implement you can then
use clockwise movements for acute (Hetero) diseases and
anti-clockwise for chronic (Homo) diseases.
Therefore the targeted treatment you can give with say nail therapy enables you to treat many types of pain from multiple causes. This nail therapy can thus be an option whenever trying to address pain (or any other problem) from most sources.
Sujok Seed Therapy
One other method I will mention is Sujok seed therapy, a very simple but effective way of treatment. Seeds are taped with plaster to relevant areas on or around the nails, in similar ways to magnets, and indeed they can be used on other parts of the Correspondence Systems as well of course, not only on nails.
In other words things can be done with many simple methods, not just acupuncture needles, and very effective seeds, magnets, moxa, massage, colour and other methods can be too.
Seeds contain lots of energy to build a new plant, and all the information to build a new plant. It helps if the type of seeds used are aligned more with the disease, for example kidney beans help kidney diseases well, but to some extent any kind of seeds can be used.
Try not to use seeds treated with chemicals and pesticides as from hardware stores, fresh seed is much safer and better. Apple, pumpkin, water melon and buckwheat seeds are good examples of seeds you can find easily and use. There are of course many other seed options.
Sometimes small twigs can be used, and often the old doctrine of signatures comes into it. For example carnation and some other stems are segmented a bit like a skeleton of bones and can be used for spinal and other bone problems. They all of course grow according to the same laws.
There are many other examples of these similarities, such as heart shaped seeds being good for using on heart problems and so on. Kidney beans can be used on kidney problems and so on. Even so any seed can be used if more exact types cannot be found at the time.
Various types of strategy have been developed for seed treatment in Sujok, such as arranging the seeds so that their energy flow suits the disease, to treat constipation or hernia for example.
Treatments with different numbers of steps have been developed, such two, three and five point therapy. This depends partly on the nature and severity of the disease and it’s history. Simple practical information that enable you to help yourself and others.
When effective the seed often breaks up as if the energy has been transferred, which presumably is what actually happens.
The little book Sujok Seed Therapy is thus a little medical system virtually in itself.
Sujok books
Sujok has many books by Dr Park, all of them have strong points. Especially I recommend Nail Therapy, Seed Therapy and Being Your Own Sujok Doctor, as all three are very practical and not too big!
Other Sujok books though are also good, including Sujok Onnuri Therapy Books 1 and 2 which cover the Correspondence systems in more detail, and Sujok in Emergencies for example. Twist Therapy is also potentially very valuable too.
Eclectic Approach gives you more options
As you can see from this article and my other websites, my approach is rather eclectic, whereas many practitioners are wedded to only one approach, rather like fanatically following an ideology in some cases.
If you only know acupuncture, herbs or Osteopathy (or whatever) then you use it in all cases but infact it is not indicated in all cases, this is just one example. Of course many people only learnt one thing anyway.
It does not matter what you use, if the Brazilian toe massage (just to take an unusual example) fixed it and nothing else worked, then the main thing is you finally got a result, even if sometimes we are not quite sure why one thing worked and another did not work.
In general if possible work on the feet for upper body problems, and hands and ears for lower body problems, but it is not a hard and fast rule by any means. The points on the feet are also more sensitive than those on the hands but harder to reach especially for self therapy!
All these diagnostic pointers from various disciplines have to be applied flexibly, including the famous Hering’s Law of Cure in Homeopathy (which was never set in concrete even by Constantine Hering himself it now transpires).
Chronic pain though may not be fixed or not completely fixed if it is due to trauma like a broken bone, a vertebra out of place, ongoing disease or whatever. After all pain is a signal that something is wrong. So fixing the cause if possible is needed to permanently stop pain.
Cancer.
The characteristic pulling pains of cancer need the cancer process to be reversed if we are to entirely fix the pain. Cancer is due to tissue and plasma shrinkage, cancer is infact a shrinking disease due to long term inhibition of pleasure due to unconscious emotional blocks. The exception of course is if there is poison or radiation damage causing the cancer.
Cancer cells are simply cells going anaerobic due to lack of oxygen because Chi (Orgone Energy, Prana) has ceased to be circulated properly because of character blocks (bio-energetic blocks).
The Orgone blanket could help in many cases, it concentrates life energy (Orgone, Chi, Prana, ether) and recharges the organism, so some cancer pain may be greatly relieved.
Be sure to follow the instructions that come with the Orgone blanket (internet sites can tell you all about Orgone blankets and similar tools), do not overdo it, and do not use it within about three metres of electrical sources like T.V’s or computers. Best to use a room away from such disturbances. Using the Orgone blanket would be greatly facilitated if you have read The Cancer Biopathy by Dr Wilhelm Reich.
The best ever book on Cancer is Wilhelm Reich’s “The Cancer Biopathy”. Dr Wilhelm Reich explains what others misunderstand or can only guess at. It will blow your mind, like all of Reich’s books.
Another very useful little book is by Dr. Robert T Cooper who treated cancer very successfully with Homeopathic Arborivital plant remedies, his book is called Cancer it’s Homeopathic treatment.
His son Dr Le Hunte Cooper also wrote and lectured on the subject and a book on this is also in print, consisting of the proceedings of various conferences on cancer in the 1920’s. Frankly it is less useful than his father’s book I think but still worth reading.
The work of Dr Royal Raymond Rife was also suppressed by the medical cartel, but is well worth looking into on the internet and if possible later in books. He also was a cancer genius, as well as other things, but his work was soon repressed.
Psychosomatic approaches
Gestalt Therapy techniques such as following the pain around in the mind and seeing how it changes can be used for emotionally caused pains such as in neurasthenia for example. Similar techniques can sometimes be useful, acting like a bio-feedback loop, for examining and trying to gain control even over physically caused pains.
These techniques are explained in the Gestalt Therapy Book by Perls,Hefferline and Goodman at some length, and there are other resources on the web for further techniques for similar efforts.
The Reich book “Man in the Trap” by Dr Elsworth Baker has good sections on the emotional underpinnings of most diseases including heart disease, arthritis and diabetes. If you read the book you get a much deeper understanding of disease as well as a deeper understanding of human history and the human dilemma. The book may be available to read online for free. Unfortunately most health therapists have never even heard of Dr.Wilhelm Reich.
Dreams can also be utilised in health problems, as disease and it’s causes often appear in a disguised form in dreams. Various techniques for working with dreams are available when we discuss Gestalt Therapy. See my pages on Gestalt Therapy.
The point is that Gestalt type techniques can creatively help you to find answers, even to pain, in ways that would never even occur to most health practitioners (or most psychologists!).
The emotional is not well understood in Oriental medicine, and they are resistant to looking at it at all, trying to pretend that everything is physical. The Character Structure meaning of the emotional blocks is the key that they do not want to know about.
Of course Oriental societies were terribly stuck in a highly conservative and class ridden feudalistic rut, and still are very largely, and even in the West Dr Sigmund Freud and even more so Dr Wilhelm Reich were bitterly resisted by vested interests like religion and class society. Indeed a resolution of all this awaits a more enlightened and less materialistic society.
A Gestalt session of psychotherapy can often dramatically relieve physical symptoms, especially neurotic ones. However neurotic pain accounts for a very significant percentage of people seeking treatment.
The books by Debbie Shapiro on the emotional meanings behind many diseases (psychosomatic meanings) can be useful to put things in perspective and give some hints as to the real problem.
As she points out the emotional cause of disease is usually the first thing to be thrown out of the window.
Acupressure
Acupuncture / Acupressure also has many points and strategies for pain, as evidenced by it’s use for anaesthesia purposes in some operations. Acupoints for pain are many and often relate to particular pain areas and types.
Books on acupuncture/acupressure with details on the meridians and acupoints can easily be obtained. The books for instance by Roger Dalet and also those of Michael Blate are very useful, and there are many other good acupressure authors.
Actually Acupressure can help with less obvious things, such as inability to study (or teach) and stagefright for example. Such points can be massaged simply and help with such problems, imagine immediately being more confident in interviews or other stressful situations, or being able to study or teach a bit better than before. As with Mudras, apart from a book there is no cost.
For alternative health books, first stop have a look in the Public Library at the alternative health section, then try the Book Depository website etc. Amazon and Abe Books can also be worth a look.
There is a good site called www.booko.com.au which will list the ten cheapest places online worldwide to buy the book you want.
The Mario Wexu book “The Ear-Gateway to balancing the Body” is very good on ear acupuncture, and cheaper too, and has a good section on pain control, a subject which most books and articles tend to gloss over without much attempt at explanation.
Infact I would recommend all therapists to buy the Mario Wexu ear book as it is written in a modern and open minded way and tends to throw light on several often murky areas of diagnosis, theory, history and treatment. It is useful for other systems too not just ear acupuncture. It is one of the most helpful books on Alternative Health that I have ever seen.
You may have to order his books from places like India or Russia though as they do not seem readily available on Book Depository or in public libraries at the moment.
One can trace various acupoints on the feet and hands and ears, mainly on the usual meridians although there are some extra stand alone points not on a known meridian. These acupucture points can also be seen as miniature Chakras or energy vortexes if you prefer the Indian outlook on these things.
Indications for using these points are in acupuncture books of course and in Chinese reflexology books often too, and on some charts, this is really part of acupuncture but is combined with the reflecting areas for a more total treatment option.
Learning about the acupuncture points can help a lot combined with reflexology for the same diseases, there are indications for each point and it is a more exact science than reflexology but more complex.
Apart from the Acupuncture meridians there is also a separate reflecting area system though, where the whole body is reflected in holographic style on the ear, foot, hand and some other parts of the body. Indeed some maintain that the whole body is reflected holographically in every cell of the body!
To sum up Reflexology in it’s various forms, and especially in the detailed Sujok form, can be very effective even in serious diseases, even more so if you know the 3-phase system and diagnosis.
Even more if you can combine it if possible with other approaches such as Homeopathy, Colour Therapy and Gestalt Therapy (to try and better address the fundamental emotional causes of most diseases) to just take three examples, and other modalities as needed.
It is a matter of using what you know (or what you can realistically learn in the circumstances) to design solutions that work.
The most interesting variation on Reflexology and Acupuncture in recent times is probably the Korean Su-Jok (hand and foot in Korean) or Koryo Hand Therapy system which includes more tools, such as probes and massage rings for fingers and magnets and seeds to stimulate points for longer periods, much as the original Dr. Fitzgerald Zone therapy method used various tools such as clamps and pegs to increase the effect.
Dr Park Tae Woo developed it and used mainly small acupuncture needles for Sujok which is perhaps why he stressed hand treatment, even though he knew that foot treatment was often more effective. As in normal acupuncture people don’t like needles in their feet!
Also in Sujok Moxa (mugwort herb) is used for warming up the meridians before treatment (except in cases where Moxa is contraindicated), as it is also in acupuncture. Moxa is especially important for frail people and chronic (long term) diseases.
Sujok uses moxa-cigars and mini-moxas for example to target small or large areas.
Moxa is usually made of the Mugwort plant and can often be the main help for many diseases where strength is needed.
Keep in mind that you have to be careful not to forget moxa after use as it can start a fire if not extinguished properly, I still have holes in my carpet where mini moxas fell off and burnt before I realised.
Actually moxibustion is very much part of acupuncture and always has been. This is all designed to increase the effect of the treatment compared to the usual Reflexology treatment, in other words to send a more powerful healing impulse.
The Korean Sujok system developed by Professor Park Tae Woo is perhaps more exact, certainly more comprehensive and targeted than usual Reflexology and claims to be more effective. It is often combined with standard body Acupuncture treatment for the same diseases at the same time or the following day for example.
The general idea in Sujok is to increase the effect and send a stronger healing impulse than usual methods of Reflexology, it also attempts a more reasoned and complete analysis of how to treat a problem, aiming to also treat for instance the spinal and brain areas most likely to be associated with the disease, as well as other likely involved organs in any disease picture.
The Insect (secondary correspondence system) system in Sujok.
Sujok also points out that the whole body is also reflected in each finger or toe and that this secondary “Insect” system can also assist with therapy as well as the better known main reflecting areas of Sujok and of Reflexology which you see on all the reflexology charts. It is called an Insect system because Dr Park saw the three segments of an insect body as the model for the reflecting model on the toes and fingers.
Indeed Dr Park also developed a therapy based on the nails only, and another based on only the fingers.
Although the Insect system is seen as secondary to the usual main correspondence system it is helpful especially in serious and difficult cases to augment the standard Primary Correspondence treatment.
Sujok often uses small needles to act on the areas as in acupuncture but you can also use probes and fingers and other tools of course rather than needles. Sujok also uses various massage tools, massage rings for the fingers and magnets and seeds to augment the therapy.
In particular in Sujok the idea is to find the pain points in the area of treatment, using special simple probes to find them. For example if the liver had a problem then a particular part of the liver reflecting area on hand or foot or ear etc will often have a pain point where the exact liver problem is located, for example a tumor in part of the liver or the entrance to the gall bladder or whatever. Massaging or needling this very small area will be of most benefit to the patient.
A similar idea to the Sujok pain points emphasis comes with Trigger Point therapy for muscles in massage where we look for small areas in muscles to be worked on rather than just looking at the whole muscle. It’s all just common sense really isn’t it?
Dr Park Tae Woo in Korea also developed other simple therapies to work on the nails of the foot and hand for example, and also simple bodily twist exercises to treat diseases (Twist Therapy). His system was called Onnuri medicine and he also wrote books on diagnostics which I have not yet obtained but which are likely to be very useful. In a way his system is often seen as Oriental medicine linked with Western science ( he was an eminent scientist also).
Along with his many other innovations Dr Park can be seen as a significant contributor to health and especially self-help medical care. Sujok spread especially where poverty made access to doctors problematic, and is popular in India, Thailand and Russia and Eastern Europe I notice.
Sujok is a goldmine of such usually unavailable secrets and detailed maps of previously unknown connections and multiple correspondence systems.
Sujok Nail therapy
A very, very useful little book is Sujok Nail Therapy by Park Jae-Woo. It contains much information on the fingers and nails of hands and feet, and lots of ideas on treatment strategies. It also has a good explanation of Homo, Hetero and Neutro.
The nails and the areas around them can treat the whole body, being the most hetero (active) part of the body, and with links to the whole system. Seed therapy, magnets, massage, colour, moxa and all the other ways of treatment can easily be used on the fingers and toes.
For example the right hand little finger nail has a special affinity with the pancreas, and the left hand little finger nail with the gallbladder and so on. The book shows the link up of body parts to all the fingers, toes and nails, so you know which ones are best to use for each organ and/or disease and the general types of disease, homo, hetero or neutro.
You can also choose nails to treat based on characteristics like heat or cold, colour, deformity, pain or numbness. Also you can choose according to the standard correspondence system of which limb is represented on which finger for example.
A similar map showing the link up of fingers and toes for all endocrine glands is also given. The little book is a goldmine of information infact, all in a neat little package.
The thumbs on the hands are best for Hetero (acute) disorders, and the big toes best for Homo (chronic) disorders.
Using massage on the correspondence systems of the nails is also effective, with many techniques available. Using a diagnostic stick or similar implement you can then
use clockwise movements for acute (Hetero) diseases and
anti-clockwise for chronic (Homo) diseases.
Therefore the targeted treatment you can give with say nail therapy enables you to treat many types of pain from multiple causes. This nail therapy can thus be an option whenever trying to address pain (or any other problem) from most sources.
Sujok Seed Therapy
One other method I will mention is Sujok seed therapy, a very simple but effective way of treatment. Seeds are taped with plaster to relevant areas on or around the nails, in similar ways to magnets, and indeed they can be used on other parts of the Correspondence Systems as well of course, not only on nails.
In other words things can be done with many simple methods, not just acupuncture needles, and very effective seeds, magnets, moxa, massage, colour and other methods can be too.
Seeds contain lots of energy to build a new plant, and all the information to build a new plant. It helps if the type of seeds used are aligned more with the disease, for example kidney beans help kidney diseases well, but to some extent any kind of seeds can be used.
Try not to use seeds treated with chemicals and pesticides as from hardware stores, fresh seed is much safer and better. Apple, pumpkin, water melon and buckwheat seeds are good examples of seeds you can find easily and use. There are of course many other seed options.
Sometimes small twigs can be used, and often the old doctrine of signatures comes into it. For example carnation and some other stems are segmented a bit like a skeleton of bones and can be used for spinal and other bone problems. They all of course grow according to the same laws.
There are many other examples of these similarities, such as heart shaped seeds being good for using on heart problems and so on. Kidney beans can be used on kidney problems and so on. Even so any seed can be used if more exact types cannot be found at the time.
Various types of strategy have been developed for seed treatment in Sujok, such as arranging the seeds so that their energy flow suits the disease, to treat constipation or hernia for example.
Treatments with different numbers of steps have been developed, such two, three and five point therapy. This depends partly on the nature and severity of the disease and it’s history. Simple practical information that enable you to help yourself and others.
When effective the seed often breaks up as if the energy has been transferred, which presumably is what actually happens.
The little book Sujok Seed Therapy is thus a little medical system virtually in itself.
Sujok books
Sujok has many books by Dr Park, all of them have strong points. Especially I recommend Nail Therapy, Seed Therapy and Being Your Own Sujok Doctor, as all three are very practical and not too big!
Other Sujok books though are also good, including Sujok Onnuri Therapy Books 1 and 2 which cover the Correspondence systems in more detail, and Sujok in Emergencies for example. Twist Therapy is also potentially very valuable too.
Eclectic Approach gives you more options
As you can see from this article and my other websites, my approach is rather eclectic, whereas many practitioners are wedded to only one approach, rather like fanatically following an ideology in some cases.
If you only know acupuncture, herbs or Osteopathy (or whatever) then you use it in all cases but infact it is not indicated in all cases, this is just one example. Of course many people only learnt one thing anyway.
It does not matter what you use, if the Brazilian toe massage (just to take an unusual example) fixed it and nothing else worked, then the main thing is you finally got a result, even if sometimes we are not quite sure why one thing worked and another did not work.
In general if possible work on the feet for upper body problems, and hands and ears for lower body problems, but it is not a hard and fast rule by any means. The points on the feet are also more sensitive than those on the hands but harder to reach especially for self therapy!
All these diagnostic pointers from various disciplines have to be applied flexibly, including the famous Hering’s Law of Cure in Homeopathy (which was never set in concrete even by Constantine Hering himself it now transpires).
Chronic pain though may not be fixed or not completely fixed if it is due to trauma like a broken bone, a vertebra out of place, ongoing disease or whatever. After all pain is a signal that something is wrong. So fixing the cause if possible is needed to permanently stop pain.
Cancer.
The characteristic pulling pains of cancer need the cancer process to be reversed if we are to entirely fix the pain. Cancer is due to tissue and plasma shrinkage, cancer is infact a shrinking disease due to long term inhibition of pleasure due to unconscious emotional blocks. The exception of course is if there is poison or radiation damage causing the cancer.
Cancer cells are simply cells going anaerobic due to lack of oxygen because Chi (Orgone Energy, Prana) has ceased to be circulated properly because of character blocks (bio-energetic blocks).
The Orgone blanket could help in many cases, it concentrates life energy (Orgone, Chi, Prana, ether) and recharges the organism, so some cancer pain may be greatly relieved.
Be sure to follow the instructions that come with the Orgone blanket (internet sites can tell you all about Orgone blankets and similar tools), do not overdo it, and do not use it within about three metres of electrical sources like T.V’s or computers. Best to use a room away from such disturbances. Using the Orgone blanket would be greatly facilitated if you have read The Cancer Biopathy by Dr Wilhelm Reich.
The best ever book on Cancer is Wilhelm Reich’s “The Cancer Biopathy”. Dr Wilhelm Reich explains what others misunderstand or can only guess at. It will blow your mind, like all of Reich’s books.
Another very useful little book is by Dr. Robert T Cooper who treated cancer very successfully with Homeopathic Arborivital plant remedies, his book is called Cancer it’s Homeopathic treatment.
His son Dr Le Hunte Cooper also wrote and lectured on the subject and a book on this is also in print, consisting of the proceedings of various conferences on cancer in the 1920’s. Frankly it is less useful than his father’s book I think but still worth reading.
The work of Dr Royal Raymond Rife was also suppressed by the medical cartel, but is well worth looking into on the internet and if possible later in books. He also was a cancer genius, as well as other things, but his work was soon repressed.
Psychosomatic approaches
Gestalt Therapy techniques such as following the pain around in the mind and seeing how it changes can be used for emotionally caused pains such as in neurasthenia for example. Similar techniques can sometimes be useful, acting like a bio-feedback loop, for examining and trying to gain control even over physically caused pains.
These techniques are explained in the Gestalt Therapy Book by Perls,Hefferline and Goodman at some length, and there are other resources on the web for further techniques for similar efforts.
The Reich book “Man in the Trap” by Dr Elsworth Baker has good sections on the emotional underpinnings of most diseases including heart disease, arthritis and diabetes. If you read the book you get a much deeper understanding of disease as well as a deeper understanding of human history and the human dilemma. The book may be available to read online for free. Unfortunately most health therapists have never even heard of Dr.Wilhelm Reich.
Dreams can also be utilised in health problems, as disease and it’s causes often appear in a disguised form in dreams. Various techniques for working with dreams are available when we discuss Gestalt Therapy. See my pages on Gestalt Therapy.
The point is that Gestalt type techniques can creatively help you to find answers, even to pain, in ways that would never even occur to most health practitioners (or most psychologists!).
The emotional is not well understood in Oriental medicine, and they are resistant to looking at it at all, trying to pretend that everything is physical. The Character Structure meaning of the emotional blocks is the key that they do not want to know about.
Of course Oriental societies were terribly stuck in a highly conservative and class ridden feudalistic rut, and still are very largely, and even in the West Dr Sigmund Freud and even more so Dr Wilhelm Reich were bitterly resisted by vested interests like religion and class society. Indeed a resolution of all this awaits a more enlightened and less materialistic society.
A Gestalt session of psychotherapy can often dramatically relieve physical symptoms, especially neurotic ones. However neurotic pain accounts for a very significant percentage of people seeking treatment.
The books by Debbie Shapiro on the emotional meanings behind many diseases (psychosomatic meanings) can be useful to put things in perspective and give some hints as to the real problem.
As she points out the emotional cause of disease is usually the first thing to be thrown out of the window.
Acupressure
Acupuncture / Acupressure also has many points and strategies for pain, as evidenced by it’s use for anaesthesia purposes in some operations. Acupoints for pain are many and often relate to particular pain areas and types.
Books on acupuncture/acupressure with details on the meridians and acupoints can easily be obtained. The books for instance by Roger Dalet and also those of Michael Blate are very useful, and there are many other good acupressure authors.
Actually Acupressure can help with less obvious things, such as inability to study (or teach) and stagefright for example. Such points can be massaged simply and help with such problems, imagine immediately being more confident in interviews or other stressful situations, or being able to study or teach a bit better than before. As with Mudras, apart from a book there is no cost.
For alternative health books, first stop have a look in the Public Library at the alternative health section, then try the Book Depository website etc. Amazon and Abe Books can also be worth a look.
There is a good site called www.booko.com.au which will list the ten cheapest places online worldwide to buy the book you want.
The Mario Wexu book “The Ear-Gateway to balancing the Body” is very good on ear acupuncture, and cheaper too, and has a good section on pain control, a subject which most books and articles tend to gloss over without much attempt at explanation.
Infact I would recommend all therapists to buy the Mario Wexu ear book as it is written in a modern and open minded way and tends to throw light on several often murky areas of diagnosis, theory, history and treatment. It is useful for other systems too not just ear acupuncture. It is one of the most helpful books on Alternative Health that I have ever seen.
You may have to order his books from places like India or Russia though as they do not seem readily available on Book Depository or in public libraries at the moment.
One can trace various acupoints on the feet and hands and ears, mainly on the usual meridians although there are some extra stand alone points not on a known meridian. These acupucture points can also be seen as miniature Chakras or energy vortexes if you prefer the Indian outlook on these things.
Indications for using these points are in acupuncture books of course and in Chinese reflexology books often too, and on some charts, this is really part of acupuncture but is combined with the reflecting areas for a more total treatment option.
Learning about the acupuncture points can help a lot combined with reflexology for the same diseases, there are indications for each point and it is a more exact science than reflexology but more complex.
Apart from the Acupuncture meridians there is also a separate reflecting area system though, where the whole body is reflected in holographic style on the ear, foot, hand and some other parts of the body. Indeed some maintain that the whole body is reflected holographically in every cell of the body!
To sum up Reflexology in it’s various forms, and especially in the detailed Sujok form, can be very effective even in serious diseases, even more so if you know the 3-phase system and diagnosis.
Even more if you can combine it if possible with other approaches such as Homeopathy, Colour Therapy and Gestalt Therapy (to try and better address the fundamental emotional causes of most diseases) to just take three examples, and other modalities as needed.
It is a matter of using what you know (or what you can realistically learn in the circumstances) to design solutions that work.