Leg Massage and Acupressure Points For Constipation: My psychic friend Bernhard Petersen uses leg massage treatment to help a great variation of health complaints. His method is to divine the specific acupressure points for individual cases, which are usually to be massaged in a definite order, once, or sometimes, twice, a day.
Here is a simple general treatment for leg massage which may be effective for helping constipation, especially if 8 glasses or more of water are taken each day. It is an exceedingly easy thing to do, and is no bother at all, because you can do it in bed at night.
This leg massage technique will be good for the general health, as well as for stimulating the bowels. It will help lymph flow, and also increase circulation to the legs. It could be used to help varicose veins, so long as you do not have swollen veins on your thighs. It could be done to help migraine sufferers also. Leg massage is helpful for getting a good night’s sleep.
What You Do: Simply lie sideways in your bed, without the pillow, so that the head is on the mattress. Lying on the left side, bend your legs up a little towards the trunk of the body. Put the bent right leg forward of the bent left knee underneath. Now make a fist with your right hand. Using the clenched knuckles, start at the right knee. Press the knuckles in just above the kneecap, and slowly slide the knuckles up outside of the thigh, until you get to the hip. Repeat, going back to the area above the kneecap, and massage up the thigh. Cover all the area, going from knee to buttocks, and from knee up the front of the thigh also. Keep the massage up for about two or three minutes.
The Mind Power of Elimination: Finish off with massaging the hip area for a minute. This area is important, because it is supposed to be the location of ‘The Mind Power of Elimination’. Negative, sad, or unhappy emotions are often held in this area, which can cause constipation. Press the knuckles into the groove, the hollow just below the hip, at the beginning of the buttock. Staying in the one spot, press the knuckles in deeply, and gently move the flesh around clockwise.
Massaging this upper thigh area, by the hip and buttock, will help to release tension and negative thoughts, especially worries about money, material possessions and security. Massage to the ‘Mind Power of Elimination’ point is a help for kidney trouble, the liver, diabetic conditions, and the intestines.
That is all there is to it. Now, turn over onto your right side, and repeat the same thing. Bend the knees, and put the bent left leg forward of the bent right leg. Clench the left fist, and use the knuckles to massage the thigh from the knee upwards to the buttocks and hips.
This constipation treatment should be practiced every night in bed before you turn out the light. Remember to drink at least 8 glasses of water during the day as well.
Note: Catherine Ponder, who wrote ‘The Healing Secret Of The Ages”, A. Thomas and Company, North Hamptonshire, U.K., 1967, has a chapter on elimination problems, and ‘The Mind Power of Elimination”.