Acupressure is a sure and effective means of dealing with minor ailments-without side effects.

It is based on fundamental principles that have not changed in five thousand years, and it can be easily appied. All that is needed is a knowledge of the most important skin points.

Here is a fully illustrated guide to the locaton of pressure points for the treatmet of a range of common problems-particularly those of a nervous origin-which shows how with the use of finger or thumb pressure anyone can bring quick relief.

Contents

The alarm or 'Mu' points
Anxiety Godly serenity
Asthma/Dyspnoea Chaba-ex
Appetite An-min
Blood-pressure (low) Wuh-te
Blood-pressure (high) Yang-si
Catarrh Si-bai
Childbirth (difficult) Ha-aou-ha
Circulatory disturbances El-mu
Collapse/circulatory stimulaton Wuh-te
Cold (head-cold 1) Chi-schi Ku-san
Cold (head-cold 2) Fu-san Ni-schi
Constipation Tu-hsio
Diarrhoea Tu-schiau
Cough Chaba-ex
Dyspnoea (shortness of breath) Tu-li
Ear ache Yun-ya
Eye pains/flickering of the eyes Tai-yang
Fatigue Pia-sen
Gall bladder colic Chu-san
Giddiness Tsen-tsei
Headache (frontol headache) Hsi-san
Headache (migrane) Ho-ku
Headache (back of head) Fen-chi
Heart pain Cha-ti Cha-fu
Influenze Ku-san
Intervertebral disc damage (lumbar region) Ka-te
Joint pain Ying-chau
Menopause complaints Ta-neal or Jen-mai
Menstrual troubles Concepton point
Neck vertebrae (tension release) Fei-yan
Nervousness Godly serenity
Pain (acute) Ho-ba
Pain (chronic) The three heaters
Rheumatic pains The three heaters
Sexual disturbances (male-erecton weakness) Lo-si-mue
Sexual disturbances (male-impotence) Cli-be
Sexual disturbances (female-frigidity) Cli-be
Sexual disorders (female-vaginismus) Tu-li
Sleep disturbances Ha-u-san
Stomach and intestinal disturbances Tu-schen
Sweating Bru-mae
Thirst Yan-sen
Throat pain (sore throat) Hsi-chin
Tobacco addiction Chaba-ex
Toothache Ho-ba
Travel sickness Pi-in-san
Weight reduction (subduing the appetite) Yu-pe