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Massage Therapists Can Benefit From Acupressure Financially
In Taichung Taiwan, the China Medical University School of Nursing recently conducted a double-blind clinical trial involving premature infants who were administered acupressure (meridian massage) over a 10 ten period. The massage was given thrice a day 15 minute each session. The subjects in the treatment group received meridian massage, were rubbed on the tummies, and were given other acupressure kneading applications before they were fed.
Comparing the subjects who were given conventional care (the control group) to the treatment group the researchers saw some fascinating observations. Though there was no significant difference between the two groups during the initial week of the study, the next week revealed that the infants in the treatment group experienced a gain in weight that was significantly higher than the infants in the control group. The conclusion showed acupressure as a promising natural and effective treatment for premature infants that can stimulate growth and enhance health.
What is Acupressure?
A component of Chinese medicine, acupressure is a more ancient form of acupuncture that innervates pressure points along the energy channels of the body. It is a natural and noninvasive type of treatment that is known to eliminate blockages in the energy channels where life energy or Chi flows. This helps sets off the self-healing processes of the body and restores balance in the body.
Both a type of massage therapy and energy medicine, acupressure is a pain-free type of treatment. Unlike acupuncture, it does not use needles but only firm but gentle manual therapy.
Some Facts about Acupressure
Besides boosting wellness and health in premature infants, acupressure is an effective means of increasing blood circulation and immune system functioning, relieving stress, regaining balance in the body, ameliorating pain, and promoting the general wellbeing of children and adults.
Acupressure can help treat the following conditions:
• Arthritis
• Back pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Nausea (particularly for people with cancer)
People Who Practice Acupressure
Though basic acupressure methods for self healing are usually offered in community courses, acupressure certification programs are being provided by a growing number of Oriental medicine colleges and massage treatment schools. Teachings on acupressure typically include the application and history of this therapy as well as philosophies of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) regardless if they’re offered as an individual training program or as advanced studies. Additional studies that may be included in acupressure training include pathology, physiology, anatomy, meridian therapy, and the theory of the Five Elements.
A national level acupressure certification can be attained by passing the Asian Bodywork Therapy exam, which is provided by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Acupressure and other specialized and diverse training is now critical for both conventional and holistic health practitioners since massage therapy is increasing in demand day by day. Acupressure is now also being learned by vet technicians, veterinarians and other conventional medical practitioners to better serve their canine, feline, and equine patients. Certified acupressure therapists who are also massage therapists are much more able to provide more thorough bodywork procedures to clients, and can earn a significantly higher pay due to these techniques.
How Chinese Nutritional Therapy Can Help Prevent Night Sweats In Women
Night sweats are oftentimes symptoms of hot flashes and in Chinese medicine, there are specific foods and tea recipes that can help prevent them from occurring. In TCM or traditional Chinese medicine, women suffering from night sweats and hot flashes and night sweats are advised not to eat spicy and hot foods.
They are also advised to avoid eating fruits like lychee as well as mutton and herbs such as cinnamon, pepper, ginger, mustard, and fennel. Instead, they should be taking in nourishing and cooling foods that can help rein in their yang and enrich their yin.
Recommended foods include loquat fruit, radish, lotus seed, water chestnut, Chinese cabbage, soybean sprout, tomato, peach, orange, pears, honey, root of lotus, white fungus, and lily bulb as well as eels, duck, oyster, conch, sea cucumber, cuttlefish, and liver.
For night sweats, there are some teas that can be beneficial for their condition. These teas may include a mixture of shriveled wheat, red dates, mulberry leaf, and smoked plum all boiled for an hour in water then drunk.
Red dates and dried immature peach is another mixture that can be served as tea for night sweat problems. They are also boiled in water for an hour and then drunk. In addition, you can also drink herbal teas made of processed rhizome of Rehmannia, smoked plums, red dates, and hairy vein agrimonia herb that can be added with honey as sweetener.
Some women experiencing light night sweats may find relief from some soups. Some of these soups are made from dried and baked mulberry leaves that are grounded into fine powder and then placed in a bowl of rice soup.
Equally beneficial for mild night sweat problems is a soup made of white fungus, lily bulb, rock sugar, and rice. Considered good for the health are chicken soup, catfish soup, and black soybean soup added with malt sugar and root of Rehmannia. People who love eating meat may avail themselves of soup made out of rabbit meat mixed with roots of coastal glehnia and fragrant rhizome of Solomon seal.
But the most important thing of all to prevent the occurrence of nights is to preserve a good work life balance. This is why most Chinese medicine practitioners require their women patients with night sweat problems to live a less stressful lifestyle and to moderately exercise on a regular basis. They are also advised to change clothes frequently and stay in well-ventilated rooms. Before going to bed, they also need to bathe first and drink adequate amounts of water to keep their bodies well-hydrated.
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