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Excellent--I was pleasantly surprised
After struggling for years with chronic migraines and vertigo, I found this book at my local library while looking for acupressure books on a lark (it was the only acupressure book they had, so I couldn't fail to notice it). Although it focuses on the hands, it does include a few acupressure points for the head in the migraine section. All of the methods in the book that I tried produced really good results. As best I can explain it, the techniques exploit the connection between the nerves and the brain by overstimulating the nerves in the hands with certain pressures, and that overstimulation causes the brain to function in a more elevated state, kind of like how when you pay hyper-close attention to holding a pencil while learning to write, you learn to write better and faster because your brain is so turned on. This then causes the brain, and consequently the body, to try harder in this elevated state to achieve proper functioning, and with repeated use can retrain your body to health. Another reviewer disliked the diagrams and said the pressure points were not illustrated well--I completely disagree. This book was written by professionals who were trying to make the information accessible to layfolk like homemakers so they can help themselves and their families (as stated in the introduction), and so the diagrams are simple rather than hyper-complicated like what you'd find in a medical textbook. It works better that way for us normal people because hand sizes and proportions vary so much from children to adults that just experimenting with a decent idea of where the pressure point is and watching for what works is invariably more practical. This requires self-experimentation before you use it on anyone else because it really helps to "feel" it to know if you're getting it right. I highly recommend this book as complementary medicine that can be really beneficial when combined with dietary, herbal, lifestyle, and exercise treatments. (The reflexology parts of the book I haven't used as much, but what I tried reminded me of yoga--it focuses on holding the body in a posture that improves proper alignment and function; I recommend that, too.)**Update: The copy I got has a printing error in it where some content is repeated several times. After page 40, it loops back to 33 and continues normally until page 48, where it loops back to 41 and continues through the end of the book without error. I just folded the looped pages inward into the book and creased them (rather than tear them out for fear of damaging the binding) because that made it easier to go from page 40 straight to page 41 with no errors on either side of those pages.**
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