Renewed interest in natural healing, hesitation to see a doctor, avoiding expensive surgery and being fed-up with relying on habit-forming drugs are some of the reasons which led many people to turn to simpler harmless alternative medicine such as reflexology for the treatment of common health problems as a preventive way of keeping oneself healthy. It is a drugless, natural healing therapy without harm, pain, injury, and negative side effects caused by costly drugs that are usually used by conventional medical treatment.

It has been observed that numerous individuals have become more concerned an involved in their health and well-being. And the focus now is prevention from getting sick and maintenance of normal health.

Reflexology helps relieve pain, hasten healing, and cure diseases. It assists the body’s ability to heal itself, by stimulating and balancing directly all the internal organs and glands of the body, normalizing its functions, to keep oneself relax and free from stress for tension can cause sickness. With reflexology therapy, illness can be prevented and good health can be achieved and maintained.

Like acupuncture (without the needles and the risk of infection), reflexology is a technique of compression massage at specific points on the feet, hands, and alternatively on the head linked to all parts of the body.

The Body/Feet Vertical Zones diagram is one of the many representations of reflexology. It is known that a relationship between areas on the feet and hands on the body’s nerves, glands, and organs has been recognized for thousands of years by many civilizations. Reflexology is a safe ancient natural therapy which has been said as being practiced more than 4,000 years ago in China, Egypt, and India.

Now, reflexology is widely used by medical professionals and alternative practitioners. Doctors, nurses, and physiotherapists are said to include reflexology in their healing practices. Compression massage is used in the patients to alleviate pain, relax the body, and improve the healing process.

Almost all alternative therapies treat the body as a whole. Reflexology being a holistic massage is identified as the ideal way to maintain good health and prevent illnesses. Compression massage is applied to soothe and help the body’s natural healing process by crushing and eliminating the crystalline waste deposits or disease-causing toxins which have accumulated at the nerve endings of the feet and hands.

To remove congestion and blockages from the energy pathways, permitting unobstructed flow of (life-force) energy through the body; to establish harmony and polarity balance; to improve blood and lymph circulation; to normalize organ and gland functions, activating their performance; and to relax the whole body as well as the mind.