Is stress making you sick?

When a traditinal Chinese doctor sees the patient for the first time, the doctor always asks him what happened in his life on the outset of the illness.
Was there a change in his living conditions? Did he start a new job or were there problems in the old one? Did he get married or divorced?

Because emotional balance is so important for the physical health, the "seven emotions" are considered as a major cause of ilness in traditonal Chinese medicine. Although anger, sadness, fear and worry are perfectly normal emotions, they can sometimes overwhelm the body's adaptation mechanism and the person falls ill. It is said in the traditional Chinese medicine that sorrow damages the heart, fear damages the lungs, and anger damages the liver.

The Chinese understood early on that when the organs and the muscles do not function properly, there cannot be harmony in the mind. A healthy body is important for a healthy mind. Acupressure is an exellent method for balancing both the mind and the body.

That's how you calm your heart: Press with the thumb of your right hand on the Pericardium point on your left wrist. It is located in the middle of the inner side of the forearm, two thumbs' width from the wrist crease. Hold a light but firm pressure between the big tendons.

The touch calms the body and relaxes the mind. It also creates a strong connection to the environment.
When a nurse is taking a patient's pulse, his heart starts beating regularly, even if it had been irregular before that. It has also been proven that the power of touch enchances the immune system and is the best medicine for depression. It is also important for you to circulate your energy by physical movement. Walking one or two hours a day will get you out of a gloomy mood.

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Pain in the wrists - stroke them

Stroking the wrists and arms many times a day improves the blood and lymph circulation and relieves pain, inflammation, and swelling.

Grab a finger between the thumb and the forefinger of the other hand and stroke it lightly from the tip to the base. Repeat eight times. Go to the next finger until you have done all the fingers. Then stroke the back of the hand from the fingertips to the forearm. Next stroke the arm from fingertips to the shoulder. Repeat eight times.

How to treat your Insomnia

Very often people who complain of insomnia are afflicted with psychological problems, stress, worry or anxiety that keep them awake at night. But there are also other reasons: hunger or too late dinner, disturbances in digestion, neck and shoulder tension and pain.

Acupressure balances the body and is an efficient way to treat insomnia. The following acupressure points are the basic points for insomnia. Press them daily.

1. Place both of your thumbs underneath the base of your skull into the middle of the big muscle. This is the location of the point Anmian, "sleep well". It is the basic point for the insomnia. Tilt your head back to relax on your thumbs and press on Anmian firmly up toward the bone. Keep the pressure steady.

Foods for Stomach Pain and Indigestion

Did you know, that you can cure a flu with ginger and green onions? Or that dark rice calms the nervs and treats depression? And also that ginger lowes blood pressure and chicken liver improves sexual performance?

By eating the right foods we can both prevent and treat illnesses. Food is used as a remedy in Chinese Medicine. The famous Chinese doctor Sun Sshu-mo wrote, 1400 years ago, that "an illness must be always treated with food first, and a medicine used only if food doesn't bring any results."

But it is not enough, that we eat the right foods,  we must also be able to assimilate them.  A strong digestion is the foundation of our health and longevity.

Here is an exellent remedy for indigestion, gas and stomach cramps: Make a soup of fennel, cellery, and onion in a vegetable or chicken broth, add a few slices of fresh ginger and a little bit of fresh dill at the end.

Do your own Facelift

Do you want to look years younger? Do you consider having a facelift, but are afraid of scarring, pain, swelling, time off work needed for recovery, or just going under the knife?

There is another, safer, and more natural way to tighten those sagging muscles at the jaw, erase the fine lines around the eyes and get a healthy and more radiant look: Acupressure Facelift.  You can do it with your own fingertips and it only takes 15-20 minutes a day.