Reflexology to Stop Coughing

Cough can be caused by various diseases and medical reasons such as the West will treat you differently for ordinary fever or emphysema, reflexology is not a single treatment of cough. To determine the best treatment for your disease, consult your primary care provider. If you are interested in using reflexology to treat cough, asking for recommendations for a qualified practitioner in your area. Depending on your condition, treatment can relieve the symptoms of coughing or your work on the basic sources.

Causes of cough

Coughing is not a disease in itself but a symptom associated with many diseases and conditions. In some cases, cough has shown not a disease, but the body's defense against the environment as pure as a very dusty room. Coughing is a reflex activity lost your respiratory system, excess mucus or contagions, including smoke. In some cases, coughing may indicate a deeper disease. Cough up to three weeks is considered acute, those of up to eight weeks of sub-acute, and a cough that lasts longer than eight weeks is considered a chronic disease

How Reflexology Works

Reflexology is a distinct change for you, than Western medicine. Instead of fighting an infection that causes the disease, reflex zone massage the energy flow through the restoration of balance in 10 areas of the body is to be restored. A reflexologist applies pressure to specific areas of the feet, hands or ears to different areas of the body and even comply with certain organs. By restoring the balance, reflexology investigated in order to activate the potential of the body to heal itself.

Reflexology for cough

Your reflexologist treating your cough will largely depend on which specific details of your illness. However, for frequent cough reflex include stimulating the reflex zones of the foot that affect the respiratory system. On the feet, lungs, chest and upper back area corresponding with a large range of tension, just before the toes, and the area directly under the ball of the foot. In reflexology, sinus, a thin ring around each of the toes, convey the right to the top hinge.

Priorities for the cough reflex

The hands have reflex points that correspond to those in the organs directly used cough. For the lung and chest problems, you can stimulate your reflex zones on the upper edges of the hands directly under your fingers. The lower limit of this range of lung, breast, chest, and is a curved line starting near the first joint of the thumb where it connects to the hand is limited, then arches upward, approaching the finger.

What is Reflexology

Reflexology is a massage therapy method that promotes healing and beneficial changes in the body of a patient by applying pressure on reflex area(s) with the use of thumb, finger and hand techniques. This method of working on the reflexes of the hands and feet is capable of improving the health, relaxing the body, and relieving body pain.

The history of reflexology can be traced back many centuries ago in Ancient Egypt. Proofs regarding the use of this type of alternative medicine during that time are made evident by the wall paintings on the tombstones of physicians. These wall paintings depict the therapy by treating the patients with their hands and feet. There are also evidences of the use of reflexology on other countries such as Japan, Russia, Ancient Greece, China, and India. However, reflexology was not that popular until the modern reflexology methods were developed and added as a part of the regular wellness care of the public.

Reflexology tackles the reflex points all over the hands and feet of the patient. It is believed that these reflex areas play an important role in unblocking the energy pathways connecting all over the whole body of a patient. Blocked energy pathways may eventually result to the imbalanced energies within the human body thus weakening the immune system and making it prone to different kind of disease and body pain. Healing and maintaining the health of the patient by targeting these reflex areas is done by using different finger, thumb and hand techniques applied with different pressure depending on the need and preference of the patient. This process of stimulating and applying pressure on these areas of the hands and feet also allows a good circulation as well as promoting bodily and muscular functions.

The reflex points can be found on the reflexology charts that mirrors the body as a whole representation divided into two half parts based on which hands and feet the massage therapist is manipulating. When the therapist is massaging the right hand and foot, the right half area of the body will receive the treatment while when the left hand and foot is worked on by the therapist, the left half then gets the benefits.

Many studies and surveys prove the effectiveness and benefits taken from regular reflexology. Most of these cases involve patients with different types of disorders. These benefits are both helpful in the physical and mental health of the patients. After regular reflexology sessions, the patients will experience a significant improvement in their physical health such as release of muscle tension which creates relaxation of the whole body, reduces pain on targeted areas, increases the immunity, and helps the body to quickly recover from an injury or trauma. Reflexology also helps the patient recover emotionally by stimulating the nervous system which helps by improving and manipulating the mental health of the patient.

However, just like any type of massage therapy, a doctor's advice and opinion regarding reflexology should be asked first before taking the action in having a reflexology session

History of Reflexology

Sensitivity to the origin can be traced back to ancient Egypt. A physician's tomb in Saqqara, the wall painting, dating back to the 2330 B.C.


Greece to the AD200, in addition to being the home of the speech, where Delphi is an ancient health hydrotherapy massage, spa
and good sensitivity, were used to induce relaxation and foresight. Sensitivity has been used in similar conduct appear to
early China, Japan, India and Russia.


Its origins in modern day reflexology zone therapy was pioneered by Dr. William H. Fitzgerald (A). The body divided to
ten longitudinal zones, the theory being that the reflexes work with these areas and the pressure of a reflex stimulation which can generate
pain within a given area affected organs, the body's organs and glands get rid of.


Field Therapy Eunice (B) Ingham, 1930 in the treatment of their patients had been adopted by a physical therapist. He developed it further,
the finding that some areas of the body more effective and others that were accessible on foot work. He eventually
mapped the entire body on foot. She found that a therapeutic effect can be achieved by using pressure with the thumb and
specific tender spots on the fingers of problems elsewhere in the body



Reflexology can be done practically anytime and anywhere. The trick is consistency. We have been impressed with the results from China. Their secret seems to be that they do reflexology once a day for six days in two week segments. Then they review the results and do more segments as necessary.


This requires self help and family help as well as the guidance of practitioners. The practitioner can give you a quality signal to break up the pattern of stress but you and your family can provide the quantity to help break it up the stress patterns in your feet and hands.


Build reflexology into your life. It is easy to do reflexology well doing other activities. Put a foot roller under your desk or work your hands while waiting for the kids at school. Be creative but be consistent. Five minutes a day is worth more than an hour once in awhile.

Benefits of Reflexology for Health

What are benefits of reflexology?

Research has shown that reflexology techniques are effective and beneficial in many ways. A survey of 170 from 21 countries reflexology studies show that reflexology is effective, concerns a variety of physical and emotional needs. Reflexology:

Creating Flexibility: From the moment they start work hand reflexologist begins relaxation in research with EEG activity of the brain shown. A total of 24 studies showed that the loosening effect of reflexology.
Reduction of pain: pain reduction after reflexology work in 27 studies, including research showing the impact on people of all ages and health states documented
Improved health concerns: Research shows that reflexology work helps indiviuals all ages, with approximately 78 health concerns of a child aggressive behavior to the needs of older people with diabetes.
Increase of blood flow: a separate study showed that reflexology work helps blood circulation, legs, brain, kidneys and intestines.
Aids recovery after surgery: Reflexology help salvage work after the operation, as several studies demonstrated reduced pain and reduced use of pain medications after surgery.
Effect on physiological parameters (eg blood pressure and cholesterol levels, measurement of ECG, EEG and fMRI)
Improvement of medical care: Reflexology helps where nothing else can for the game: to suffer phantom pain, patients with neuropathy and hemodialysis patients, to name a few.
Mental Health Benefits: Studies have shown that reflexology can depression (11 studies) and anxiety (9 studies) to reduce.
Completion of cancer treatment: pain, nausea, vomiting and / or anxiety relief for patients with chemotherapy following reflexology work BY16 FOM study 7 countries, as shown.
Effect facilitates pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth: Women who received reflexology experienced shorter working hours and used fewer analgesics. In addition, reflexology showed a positive effect on postpartum depression, anxiety, urinary and bowel movements.
In general, the benefits of reflexology with the reduction of pressure to do. Because the feet and hands help set the tension level for the whole body, it is a simple way to reduce the pressure signal and reset homeostasis, to interrupt the body's equilibrium.

Reflexology is a complement to standard treatment. It should not be construed as medical advice. It should not be a substitute for medical help. Please use it wisely. We care about your safety


For best results, apply reflexology techniques to targeted reflex areas consistently. This can be accomplished with self reflexology techniques, those applied by family as well as with the guidance of the professional reflexologist.

You yourself can most easily provide reflexology work frequently and consistently, using self applied techniques to break up the stress patterns in your feet and hands. Apply pressure simply using a foot roller or, for the hands, a golf ball. Think morning, noon and night. Build reflexology into your life. It is easy to do reflexology while doing other activities. Put a foot roller under your desk at work, use a golf ball on your hands while waiting for the kids at school or do either while watching television. Be creative in how and where you apply techniques but be consistent.
Reflexology applied by family or friends provides several benefits: application of pressure techniques, non-invasive touch and an opportunity to visit.

The reflexologist can provide you with a relaxing experience, quality technique application as well as educate you in how to do it yourself.

Introduction to Reflexology

Reflexology is the practice of pressure on the feet and hands with specific thumb, finger and hand techniques without oil, cream or lotion based on a system of zones and reflex areas that the image of the body on the feet and hands with a premise that such work effects a physical change to reflect the body. How ever in a certain
region massage oil is used as lubricant to prevent injury.


Reflexology Charts – Reflexology Foot Chart
Foot reflexology is the most common type of reflexology because the feet are not subject to the daily environments most body parts are, thus making them more sensitive and responsive to treatments. The reflexology charts below show you how areas on the feet relate to specific organs in the body and how pressure points can be used to increase blood to those regions. Learn how to use a reflexology foot chart.

Reflexology Charts for your feet

Reflexology Charts – Reflexology Hand Chart
Hand reflexology is a wonderful means of complimentary reflexology therapy and an alternative for those with sensitive feet or feet that are injured or subject to varying health issues. For reflexologists, hand reflexology is a great self-therapy that can done at almost anytime throughout the day. Use the reflexology charts below as your guide!

Reflexology Charts for your hands