Sujok Nail Therapy.
A very, very useful little book is Sujok Nail Therapy by Dr. 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 Dr Park's concepts of Homo, Hetero, Neuto and Neutro.
Nails are one of the more accessible microsystems of the body, containing vast amounts of information in many projections on the nails of hands and feet.
So by applying massage, moxa, magnets, colour, hot and cold and other methods we can simply treat the whole body.
There are correspondences for the major organs and for the glands on the nails, as well as round systems for many types of information projection including whole body projections.
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 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 disease including pain from multiple causes. This nail therapy can thus be an option whenever trying to address pain (or any other problem) from most sources.
In other words you have a little health system in Nail Therapy which can help to address just about any health problem.
You can tonify or sedate organs and glands, and you have a strategy to strengthen the body to deal with acute or chronic diseases.
You have several modalities for different people, magnets, massage, moxa, seeds and colour therapy for example, all applied to the nails of hands and feet.
Working out a treatment plan then is easy enough for any patient once you get the hang of the Sujok Nail Therapy book.
You can of course combine Nail Therapy with the rest of Sujok such as the other Correspondence systems and diagnostics such as the Six Ki theory. Sujok Triorigin treatment and Sujok Twist Therapy also come to mind.
You could also combine Nail Therapy with other types of Alternative Health treatments, although it is usually best to give one approach a chance to work before using others.
Do not forget the psychological side of things, which is usually the root cause behind all disease. Wilhelm Reich and Gestalt Therapy are the two things you need to start reading about, see my other web pages.