Methods and Techniques of Reflexogenic Massage

There are some methods and techniques of reflexogenic massage, which selection depends on the total square and indispensable intensity action. There are two general types of massage techniques.

Massage with arms and fingers. The manual method is the simplest and usually most effective. You can massage with the tips of the fingers doing finger circling in a clockwise direction or in a counterclockwise direction (first variant is appropriate to increase the power and energy of the particular organ or body system, the second one helps to relax and lower pain and inflammation). If the particular marking needs more strength press (in the bottoms of the feet), you may use the movable joint of the bowed finger.

Remember! Massage creams or oils are not necessary for the reflexogenic massage. You don’t need to skim your skin, just effect the particular zone, without skin friction.

There a lot of different massagers to massage the necessary zones. They are made from different materials: wood substance, plastic material, metal. They also have different forms and can have pebbles, bubbles, needle nozzle. If you’ll look for an appropriate massager, you have a wide choice of them to suit yourself.

Do You Need a Reflexogenic Massage?

Reflexotherapy is a self-contained treatment system. It is usually very effective and gets the wind of the other treatment systems. It is also, quite pleasant by virtue of the fact that it is founded on massage techniques. When someone massages you or you do it yourself, it is a good way to relax and get a charge out of the process.

By the same token, reflexotherapy improves your health. Reflexotherapy is very informative, because this method is a perfect diagnostic agent.

Reflexotherapy can increase results of other types of therapy, simultaneously. It is safe and useful apart from some special cases.

Reflexotherapy contra-indications:
• Growth or danger of metastasis;
• The inflamed places on the body;
• Infectious diseases and high temperature;
• Hypodermic condensations;
• Phlebeurysma;
• Warts and birthmarks.

If you are going to use self-massage as a disease treatment, consult your physician first and look for a good trained book for reflexogenic massage beginners. Always control your health status and well-being. At the same time remember that any abolition of disease comes through exacerbation. It is natural; don’t worry about it too much.

Self-massage as a Natural Way to Support Your Health and Beauty

Our body is not a combination of organs with cutaneous covering, muscular system and skeleton. Human body is much more complex organization we can imagine. All systems of our body work in close relationship and markedly affect each other.

All human organs and systems may be cured or touch not only directly, but mediated. Have you ever heard about reflexogenic zones of human body? The point is that all organs and systems can be influenced by action on the reflexogenic zones. We have different zones on our bodies those correspond to each organs and systems.

Reflexogenic zones are located in cone parts of the body. The accumulation of them is in the arms (palms and fingers), legs (footsteps and shanks) and ears. Ears fit the shape of embryo, so there are zones corresponding to each organs and systems of the human body.

Self-massage or massage of the reflexogenic zones is used in traditional folk-medicine techniques as a supplement or a general treatment. It should be repeated daily and for a long enough period of time and can be very effective subject to this proviso. This massage is sometimes used as a type of diagnostics. If it is difficult to diagnose the case, doctors usually recommend massaging some zones to find the most painful one; it helps to find a problem.

Make Your Favorite Perfume by Yourself

You have no need to buy expensive French perfume, especially in our crisis times. You can make a delicate flavor by your own hands. To do this you will need 15 ml of alcohol, 5 ml of purified water, for oil basis take jojoba oil again, total 10 drops.

Well, the aromatic component of our "perfume" can be varied to your taste. Female fragrances are considered fragrances of rose, lemon balm, sandal, rosewood, bergamot, ylang-ylang, geranium, fennel, jasmine, chamomile, lavender, lime, nutmeg, myrrh, clove, orange, palmaroza, rosemary, thyme, vanilla, verbena, neroli. By the way, bergamot and rose wood are usedin the famous aroma "Beautiful", and in "Chanel № 5" - neroli, ylang-ylang and jasmine.

Mixtures of various essential oils even have their own names. For example, if you take three drops of ylang-ylang oil, in two drops of sandal, rosewood, or oil of rose and clary, you can get the "mixture of Aphrodite". This name comes from the name of the Greek goddess of beauty Aphrodite. According to legend she had a beautiful belt that exhaled a magical flavor (which I described above). Thanks to flavor she could seduce not only mortal man, but god also.

"Mixture of Cleopatra" is also very popular. Take four drops of neroli (oil of bitter orange flowers) and mix with three drops of sandal, and then add in two drops of bergamot and mint. Using this mixture, you can normalize the nervous and psychological systems, change the energy potential of the body, restore the aura and influence the endocrine system positively.

Essential Oils against Cellulite

Essential oils provide invaluable assistance in the fight against cellulite. Especially effective ones are oils of grapefruit, rosemary, chamomile, juniper, lemon and cypress. The common rule for all oil combinations is to mix in three drops of any four oils from the list above with 50 ml of oil basis. Ideal oil basis is jojoba oil!

Jojoba is branchy evergreen shrub, growing in arid regions of North America and Tibet. It has a beautiful name "simmondsia chinensis". Triquetrous nuts of this plant are treated with the method of cold pressing, receiving the magic oil from them, more like a liquid wax. The magical effect on the skin due to the fact that jojoba oil contains waxy amino acids, similar to waxy esters of sebum. Cosmetic effectiveness of jojoba is proven by many studies.

But, if you have no jojoba oil, you can use oil of peach or almond oil as an oil basis. Rub the mixture of oil basis and essential oils into prepared skin (cleaned and scrubbed) every day. Make a break for seven days in two weeks. And then begin the procedure of rubbing oils again. It looks like a course of anti-cellulite massage.

Anti-cellulite baths have a good effect too. Here you can find some recipes for great aromatic baths.

• Recipe 1: mix in 2 drops cypress oil, lemon and juniper, dissolved in a tablespoon of any oil basis and pour into the bath.

• Recipe 2: take 2 drops juniper, 4 drops grapefruit, 4 drops manuka and 2 drops rosemary. Mix everything, add two tablespoons of sea salt and pour into the bath.

• Recipe 3: mix in 2 drops of rosemary, carrot seeds and orange with a tablespoon of almond oil and add three tablespoons of blue clay. Dissolve the mixture in the bath.