As a last resort, insomniac Maria Fitzpatrick tried reflexology – with surprising results.
‘Have you had problems with your spine, madam?” There it is, I think to myself: the question that confirms that I was right to doubt reflexology. I would have been impressed, even hopeful, if the therapist, who knows next to nothing about me (except that I’m seeking a solution for chronic insomnia), had put his finger on my history of kidney problems while kneading my feet, or even found something disrupting the “energy pathway” to my tired brain.
My back – where I’m told there is a “blockage” – is possibly the only part of my body that has never caused me any trouble. It’s easy, at this moment, to see why many traditionalists believe reflexology practitioners to be nothing more than pseudo-science-peddling, fortune-teller masseurs laughing all the way to the bank.
And yet, the art of reflexology, which holds that every part of the body is “mapped” to a corresponding region of the feet, is positively booming in Britain. There are currently an estimated 35,000 reflexologists at work here, pummelling and prodding the nation’s soles – and, less commonly, hands – to provide relief for ailments such as sinusitis, asthma, allergies, migraine, angina and digestive complaints. Continue reading “Reflexology Prescribed by Medical Doctors in UK”