Now there is safe headache relief, Chinese Medicine style, literally at your finger tips and it is free. The majority of headaches can promptly be relieved using nothing but the touch of your finger.
In fact, pain in any part of the body can be erased within moments using that ancient Oriental self-health technique called G-Jo Acupressure.
Michael Blate, director of the G-Jo Institute, is on the SLOWER Network panel of experts and reports that G-Jo means "first-aid" in Chinese medicine. G-Jo is a form of acupuncture, without the needles. Instead, deep pressure is used on one or more tiny therapy spots or "acupoints." Typically, these are buried in soft hollows or depressions scattered around the body.
There are at least 1200 acupoints known. Each controls one or more specific areas or functions of the body.
Deeply massaging an acupoint helps unblock the flow of the energy that makes the heart beat with life. As proper energy flow is restored, pain vanishes and health returns.
The key is knowing which acupoint controls what area of the body. With headaches, for example, there are at least 20 important G-Jo acupoints for relieving (and often healing) the many types of headaches that Western medicine has identified.
Fortunately, there are several broad-acting acupoints -- known as cookbook points -- which are typically tried first ... and which often produce immediate, profound results.
One such point is G-Jo Point 13, one of the best-known, and most broad-acting, of all the body's many acupoints.
You can find this powerful healing spot by placing your right hand so the palm faces the floor. Squeeze your thumb tightly against your pointer finger so a fleshy mound pops up on the back of the right hand between those, two fingers.
Place the tip -- not the pad or fleshy part -- of your left thumb (or the bent knuckle of the left index finger or even the eraser tip of a pencil) on top of that mound. Keeping that thumb tip (or other "triggering" tool) in place, relax your right hand and begin pressing deeply in that area until you feel a tender "ouch" point.
The more it hurts the better it is likely to be for your kind of headache.
Now trigger the point deeply, in a digging or goading fingertip massage. Do this for 15 or 20 seconds on the right hand, then stop and duplicate the process on the back of your left hand.
If the headache pain is eased but not quite gone, simply trigger those same acupoints for another few seconds and test again.
A profound sense of relief often happens upon stimulating a good acupoint. Stop triggering the point as soon as this reaction occurs (usually within half a minute or less). In any event, triggering for more than a minute or so is usually unnecessary.
The G-Jo institute suggests that before using acupressure or any self-health method, you first check with your doctor if you are pregnant, are a chronic heart patient suffering from a serious illness.
So the next time you're suffering from a headache, don't grab the aspirin bottle -- reach for a G-Jo Acupressure point, instead. It's what the Chinese been doing for generations and it works!
Several broad-acting acupoints -- known as cookbook points are illustrated and identified in a free, beginner's course in G-Jo Acupressure found at www.g-jo.com/points.html.
All headache -- and other G-Jo -- relief points are fully described in a Master of G-Jo Acupressure Home-Study Certification Program.
