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The Acupressure Atlas

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This book is well organized and gives a good introduction to the background and philosophy of Chinese medicine if you are interested. The photos are clear and easy to follow. The large format of the book helps beginners to learn. I used some of the techniques for headaches and it worked-- no aspirin necessary. I also tried it for my teenage son to calm him when he could not fall asleep; he fell asleep within minutes. Keep this reference book near your medicine cabinet and reach for it instead of the usual drugs. You will be pleasantly surprised.

An oversized format to this title might prove a shelving challenge to some collections but compensates by making for a great display item in THE ACUPRESSURE ATLAS, pairing step-by-step color photos of technique with anatomy pointers and therapy keys. From massage points to healing pressure potentials, THE ACUPRESSURE ATLAS offers far more insights on home how-to basic health care than most titles and an emphasis on visuals which makes for infallible applications.

This book was bought in conjunction with one on Trigger Points and both have been helpful in managing back and leg pain. This book has great illustrations, so you know you are doing it right. I am a little leary of the heavy duty pain medications the doctors prescribe so I tried this method and it does work, or it did for me.

To give a little background, my brother has been trained in acupressure and shiatsu massage. While he was visiting for Christmas this year, we got to talking about that (among other things) and I wondered if acupressure might help the continual stiffness and soreness in my shoulders and upper arms. I tried it, and it helped a lot. I wanted to know more, so I bought this book and have been using it.

I've also used acupressure to relieve a tension headache. Though I've never had really bad PMS cramps, I used the PMS cramps routine just hours before the cramps would normally start, and I didn't have cramps at all. Very nice. So acupressure does work, though I don't accept the eastern philosophy behind it. The information given in the book about the western medicine ideas about why it works make more sense to me.

"The Acupressure Atlas" is a layman's guide to acupressure. It tells you how much pressure to use, for how long, and how to find the points and what the various points help with. Full-color pictures showed where the points were and were very useful and easy to use. A woman was used in most of the photographs showing where the various points were, but they also had a naked computer-generated male model (which included a few full frontal nudity shots) showing these points.

This book didn't contain every last acupressure point, but it did contain the great majority of them. In general, the instructions on how to find the points were very clear and finding the points wasn't difficult. However, a few times the instructions would say to massage the points in a certain order yet they gave the directions to find the next point as a certain distance from the point after that one rather than from the point just left. It wasn't difficult to convert the directions using information given elsewhere, but I thought that odd.

The book started with information about acupressure and the eastern philosophy behind it. It then taught the basic techniques of acupressure and went over the main acupressure points on each body section (on the face, top of the head, the neck, the back, etc.). It then covered various routines to use for health issues (sleep problems, headaches & migraines, fatigue, bronchitis & bronchial asthma, sinus ailments, colds & flu, menstrual problems & PMS, urinary tract infections, digestive problems, gastrointestinal problems, motion sickness & nausea, neck pain, back pain/lumbago, tennis elbow, head & neck massage, relaxation exercises, whole-body massage). These were given step-by-step and illustrated so you didn't have to flip around in the book.

In the appendix, the points were listed in sequence by meridian (with information on how to locate them and what they did). There were also skeletal diagrams, meridian diagrams (with all of the points shown on the full, computer-generated male model), and a glossary.

Overall, I'd recommend this book as an excellent guide to acupressure.

Having targeted, seemingly unreachable back pain is unforgiving! I purchased this atlas in the hopes of being pain free w/out prescription or over the counter drugs. To my anticipation this book saved me from my pain. It only took a couple of minutes to apply the techniques and I have been consistently getting better and better with the help of the pictures! For anyone interesting in the power of intuition in natural healing check out The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a massage Therapist by Meagan R. Holub. Her chapters on how she uses intuition to heal are very relatable and provide motivation to all intuitive body workers to perfect their gifts.

Very good book, very helpfull and precise illustrations. The book covers three areas: feet, hands, and ears.

I bought this book to help my husband relax with accupressure. It really helped and brought us closer together. The pictures and diagrams are great.

Basically this is a well illustrated and clearly written book. However, like most books of this type it suffers from the lack of a comprehensive index of symptoms. Some common complaints are listed, but if you are looking for relief from shoulder pain for example, you have to review most of the text to find it. This held true for many of the symptoms I was looking for.
Other than this glaring omission, it is an excellent book.

Great, simple introduction to the art of acupuncture/acupressure. Great explanations and diagrams. I use the guide at the back to quickly find points to work on. Great resource!!!

I found the Acupressure Atlas very thorough and informative. It gives step by step directions for accupressure for every part of the body. It targets many ailments and takes our well being into our own hands and looking after our own health. It alleviates ailments and accelerates the healing process. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.