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Acupressure's Potent Points

A Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments
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Acupressure's Potent Points by Michael Reed Gach is a comprehensive guide to self-care using acupressure, a traditional healing technique. The book demonstrates how gentle pressure applied with the fingers can stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities to relieve common ailments such as headaches, arthritis, insomnia, and more. Featuring over 400 photographs and clear illustrations, it provides step-by-step instructions, pressure-point locations, a five-minute wellness routine, and helpful tips on living and eating well. This accessible resource empowers readers to use their hands as tools for health and vitality.
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This book is ideal for individuals interested in natural health remedies, self-care techniques, and complementary therapies who want to manage everyday aches and improve wellbeing without relying solely on medication.

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Shows how to use the basic techniques of acupressure to activate the body's natural healing processes, and suggests treatment for headaches, arthritis, colds and flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, and depression.

A Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments

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Acupressure's Potent Points by Michael Reed Gach is a guide to self-care for common ailments, offering relief from pain, tension, and stress through the centuries-old technique of acupressure. This method utilises gentle pressure from your hands to activate your body's self-curative abilities.

"A faithful and thoroughly incisive book on the ancient art of healing. With clarity and inspiring instructions, this is a welcome gift for all who seek health and well-being." - Chungliang Al Huang, author of Quantum Soup

With your hands, you have the potential to improve your health, increase your vitality, and relieve everyday aches, pains, and ailments without the need for drugs. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin, which in turn activate the body's natural self-healing processes.

In Acupressure's Potent Points, Michael Reed Gach, founder and director of the Acupressure Institute of America, reveals simple techniques that enable you to relieve headaches, arthritis, colds and flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, hot flashes, depression, and moreβ€”using the power and sensitivity of your own hands.

Written in clear, accessible language, with more than 400 photographs and easy-to-follow illustrations, Acupressure's Potent Points includes:

  • Keys to pressure-point locations and instructions on how to apply pressure safely and effectively
  • Step-by-step exercises
  • A five-minute acupressure wellness program
  • A chart to help you document your health progress
  • Tips on living and eating well
  • And much more!

This practical guide covers more than forty ailments and symptoms, from allergies to wrist pain, providing pressure-point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function. Acupressure complements conventional medical care and enables you to take a vital role in becoming well and staying well. With this book, you can turn your hands into healing toolsβ€”and start feeling good now.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780553349702

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 1990

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House USA Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 533g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Michael Reed Gach, PhD, Dipl ABT, founded the Acupressure Institute in 1976, one of the leading international training schools in Asian bodywork. Gach is a national expert on acupressure therapy and has taught over 100,000 people from all over the world. He is also the originator of Acu-Yoga, a self-healing system of exercises that integrates acupressure and yoga. Gach received his PhD from Columbia Pacific University in health and human services.

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