ACUPRESSURE GUIDE

Sławomir Graff

The work is a kind of therapeutic guide.
Using the acupressure method, you can independently strive to control many common
ailments.
The described technique of treatments and their application come from a photocopy of a German-language text
made in the Republic of South Africa by Grzegorz Kowalczyk.
Translation into Polish by Sławomir Graff
Legend:
Points of acupressure action (in the procedure described under each of the described ailments):
A. main
B. additional
C. auxiliary (distant effect)
D. supplementary

Fragments concerning the therapy of several diseases:
b) Headache
Basically, the essence of headache has not been fully explained to this day. We only know that brain tissue
does not hurt, and the source of pain is stimuli coming from the meninges and cerebral vessels. Presumably, various
types of headaches are caused by spasms of the cerebral vessels or, on the contrary, excessive
relaxation of the vessels.
Headaches can be located in different places in the skull and triggered directly by
various factors. Headaches are known in the course of: meningitis, concussion
, infectious diseases, cerebral atherosclerosis, hypertension, anemia,
fluctuations in blood sugar levels, damage to intervertebral discs,
digestive disorders, constipation, heat stroke, incorrect body posture and incorrect foot positioning.
We should also add headaches caused by excessive stress, fatigue,
excessive psycho-emotional arousal, hypersensitivity to weather changes, lack of
sleep, alcohol and nicotine abuse. Mental illnesses can also occur with headaches
.
In the case of any headache that lasts longer than 3 days and does not subside after
acupressure, a doctor should be consulted. Long-term treatment of headache with
painkillers is dangerous. Their effect soon wears off, and the cause of the pain
remains undetected. The dose of the drug must be constantly increased until the body is poisoned and sometimes
life-threatening kidney damage occurs. Painkillers should only be used exceptionally –
acupressure is no less effective. Besides, not every indisposition and bad mood should be
treated immediately with a painkiller.

Generalized headache, described by patients as pressure, noise or buzzing under the skull,
occurs in infectious diseases / mild infections of the upper respiratory tract - so-called cold,
flu /, sleep deprivation, alcohol poisoning, constipation, hypersensitivity to weather changes. Pressure in
the headache may become unbearable as it grows, Short-term attacks of pain without significant disturbance of
general well-being are typical of excessive psycho-emotional excitability.
A.
• press firmly on both sides of the point on the forehead above the eyebrow peak
• clasping the bridge of the nose with the thumb and index finger, press it halfway up
• on both sides below the mandible
B.
• tap lightly on the cartilage of the auricle
• tap firmly on the skull cap
• massage the skull cap along the midline from the forehead to the occiput
C.
• with the right thumb, press on the radial artery on the left wrist
• on both feet, medially, points above the metatarsophalangeal joints of the big toes

If the pain most often appears in the morning, after waking up, and is located in the occiput, with a superficial
feeling also in the forehead, eyes and neck, and at the same time it subsides after about 1 hour,
but sometimes it increases intermittently – its picture suggests an infectious disease, inflammation of the paranasal sinuses
, dental disease, inflammatory and degenerative changes in the cervical spine. Pain in the forehead and
occiput, sometimes accompanied by fever and vomiting, is seen in atherosclerosis,
hypertension, irritation of the meninges, brain tumor, and nephritis, and must be
examined by a doctor. A severe hemiplegic headache radiating from the eye area
may herald an acute attack of glaucoma and also requires immediate medical attention.
This also applies to sudden onset of pain in the temple, pulsating and extremely troublesome, in a heavy
smoker - such pain may signal life-threatening inflammation of the temporal artery. Pressing
the appropriate points also relieves the above-mentioned pains, but does not affect their cause.
In these cases, even if the pain subsides after acupressure - you should see a doctor.
For temple pain:
A.
• press the zygomatic arch with the index finger 1/2 the distance between the eyebrow and the auricle
For
occipital pain:
A.
• press the neck muscles with the index and middle fingers 3 cm behind the posterior edge
of the auricle

For forehead pain:
A.
• simultaneous pressure on 2 points – with the thumb on the trunk of the carotid artery at the bifurcation and the point behind
the auricle in the depression above the mastoid process.

i) Anxiety and depressive states

Fear of nothingness and of losing the meaning of one's own existence is an element of the life of each of us.
A neurotic person tries in vain to repress this groundless type of fear from his consciousness.
Martin Heidegger called this fear the basic drive of our existence. We must learn to live
with this phenomenon, as our ancestors learned and as our descendants will do.
Fear must be distinguished from fear of a specific phenomenon, e.g. punishment. Fear arises in
the course of many somatic and mental illnesses, e.g. the feeling of fear accompanies acute states
of coronary insufficiency. Fear is characteristic of neuroses, depressions and some mental illnesses.
In the course of severe neuroses, patients sometimes develop a defense mechanism against fear
called obsession. Too strong fear triggers another fear of this fear, which as a pathology
we call phobophobia.
Obsessions and psychoses always require specialist medical care, and acupressure is
of little importance in these cases. On the contrary - other cases of fear conditioned by
somatic illnesses, stress, minor neurotic disorders and states of depression
respond very effectively to acupressure. In any case, before deciding to use anxiolytics,
we should try acupressure for at least a few days, which naturally restores
balance without causing, like drugs, only symptomatic suppression of anxiety.
A.
• submental dimple on the lower edge of the mandible
• lower edge of the sternum body
B.
• point at the tibial tuberosity
Endogenous depressions, which develop on a constitutional basis and are referred to as
cyclothymia or manic-depressive psychosis, proceed in phases and absolutely require
professional medical care. Acupressure is helpful in overcoming the feeling of helplessness, confusion
and depressive mood resulting from unfavorable weather changes, failures and
unpleasantness.
At the first signs of this type, you should act:
A.
• on the rib arch in the nipple line, not too hard, with the middle and index fingers
• in the cubital fossa, press 4 points centimeter by centimeter from the ulnar edge to
the radial
B.
• massage the radial artery on the wrist
• press the radial edge of the middle finger at the nail sinus firmly with the thumb.

c) Sciatica

Hip pain is the result of compression of 1 or several sciatic nerve roots by a damaged disc
or intervertebral discs of the lumbar spine. The pain begins gradually or suddenly, may be
chronic and recur frequently. When coughing, sneezing, bending over, or changing the position of the
lower limbs, the symptoms intensify. The radiating nature of the pain can tell which
the disc is damaged. When the pain radiates more to the back of the thigh, to the calf and through the heel to the little
toe, then the last lumbar disc L5/S1 is damaged. When the pain spreads along
the lateral surface of the limb and reaches the big toe, the penultimate lumbar disc
L4/L5 is damaged.
Acupressure helps to control the symptoms quite quickly, but the causal treatment must be performed by a doctor. The symptom of paresis caused by nerve compression by the herniated nucleus pulposus of the spine
is an urgent need to see a doctor. This condition requires surgical intervention. A. • the middle of the gluteal fold • the depression between the lateral malleolus and the heel B. • the intervertebral spaces L1-L5.