The medical establishment of the West has been slow to warm up to ancient medical techniques of Eastern Medicine. Acupuncture and Acupressure have been used for thousands of years, and have started to finally find a place amongst western medicine. Acupuncture is one of the most accepted alternative treatments recommended by Western doctors and other health practitioners today.

The Ancient Art of Acupressure

Acupressure (or in Japan, ‘shiatsu’) originated in China and is a non-invasive system of massage to pressure points to provide relief of various ailments or complaints. It’s invasive cousin, Acupuncture, involves placing needles into key places in the skin for the same purpose. The Chinese belief that energy flows in certain channels through the body is the basis of the idea of acupressure, furthermore, there is a belief that massaging key places with a hard, small bead will restore the proper flow of energy that has been disrupted by injury or disease.

Living With Chronic Pain

Anyone who has suffered chronic pain knows that living a normal life can become a challenge. Opiate pain medicines are widely prescribed to treat chronic pain, and have a multitude of severe side effects; patients quickly become physically addicted to them and suffer extreme agony when withdrawal symptoms set in after discontinued use of the drugs. They also cause other problems like severe constipation, sexual dysfunction, and are extremely sedating - making them unsafe to use if the patient needs to drive or operate any heavy machinery at home or at work. After experiencing the negative side of opiates, there are thousands of people who suffer from chronic pain looking for alternatives to prescription pain medication to quell their pain.

Don’t Like Needles? No Problem!

Acupuncture is the use of very small gauge needles that are placed on pressure points to help dispel areas of pain. This has been shown to be a very effective method of pain control, but unless you have a trained acupuncturist near your home, it is not something that most people want to try to practice by using themself as a test subject. Luckily, Acupressure is easily self-administered, using small crystals or small metal spheres. The spheres are placed on key pressure points in both ears and held with adhesive. They can be gently pressed into the skin to provide a massage to the key areas that are said to allow relief to various parts of the body. The equipment is affordable, and the treatment is non-invasive, so there is no broken skin and thus no way to lead to any skin inflammation or infection. 

Using Ancient Acupressure Techniques To Ease Your Pain

The use of affordable acupressure tools to treat chronic pain is now easily within your reach. 

Our full line of acupressure mats and ear seed instructional kits will put you well on your way to pain relief. Easy to learn, easy to use, and affordable: our acupressure kits may be the answer you are looking for to treat your chronic pain issues. 

Through the application of light pressure to a single point, it is possible to alleviate the nagging symptoms of disease. Through the use of a variety of pressure points in key areas, general well-being can be achieved. Certain studies have indicated that acupressure can possibly be helpful for the treatment of symptoms that have not been effectively treated through pharmaceutical or other means, such as fatigue, difficult to treat areas of discomfort, and post-CVA (stroke) neuromuscular weakness. When performed as directed, there is minimal or no chance of any ill effects from acupressure. With this positive data backing acupressure, the low cost of obtaining a kit to begin your journey into Eastern medicine leaves little reason not to try it for yourself.