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So how to relieve asthma using some foot reflexology techniques. Certainly you're gonna wanna focus
on the lung reflexes. The lung reflexes are housed in the ball of the foot and also on
the dorsum so they're all up here as well so we're gonna want to really detail that
area. Certainly if you are having an asthmatic attack definitely call 911 and get to the
doctor; have something in place. Reflexology is a great complimentary practice, but it's
certainly a complimentary practice. You're gonna want to seek professionals should you
be having an attack. So we'll start with the lung reflexes. For the lungs we could do the
thumb walking and we'll just come up here on the plantar aspect of the foot all the
way up to the base of the toes and then we'll come back down. So the other thumb will come
down, and I'm really supporting with the other hand, with my fingers and my whole hand, and
then you come up again, and if someone has asthma you want to really detail that area,
so in addition to walking, thumb walking up and down, you could also thumb walk across.
So you'll finish there, all the way across, and then you can go across from the lateral
aspect to the medial aspect, so the outside of the foot to the inside, you go across,
so you're thumb walking across. And you'll go all the way up; you'll finish right up
there. To do the dorsal aspect, or the top of the foot, I use finger walking. So with
finger walking you'll just come up through here and you're just gonna come down. So again
it's just little bites. And I come up. And I'm going between the metatarsals so if you
want to be a little bit more detailed you could go towards, for instance, the second
metatarsal here and then you could do it again and detail towards the third just to have
more detailed work. Another thing, you know, if someone is having an asthma attack a doctor
will administer adrenaline. The adrenal gland naturally produces adrenaline so you could
give some attention to the adrenal gland reflex and that's right in here on the plantar, the
bottom of the foot, the plantar aspect. So from here you just go right in there. You
could thumb walk to find it but generally it's going to be around mid-foot in between
this first and second metatarsal, a little bit leaning towards that first. And then lastly
you could come along here and you could end with the solar plexus reflex to ease the tension
and relax the body. So you come up through here, your thumbs meet at the center, and
then you just lean a little forward to meet the point. And that will be it. Those will
be the reflexes you detail for attention to asthma.