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\"Thurman-reflexology-Cover\"<\/a>In this post, we’ll begin to explore the roots of this age old modality.<\/p>\n

What we do know is that early history\u00a0 refers to reflexology in China, India, Japan, Egypt, Greece, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, South America and North America.<\/p>\n

Historians tell us that Egyptians practiced both hand and foot reflexology as early as 2500 BC.\u00a0 If you ever travel to Egypt, please visit the burial ground at Saqqara.\u00a0 The\u00a0Physician’s Tomb there has a famous wall painting showing two people receiving reflexology.\u00a0 One is receiving hand reflexology and the other is receiving foot reflexology.\u00a0 This painting dates back to 2300 BCE.<\/p>\n

If you ever visit Japan, be sure to visit the Medicine Teacher Temple in Nara.\u00a0 There you’ll find a stone carving depicting the soles of Buddha’s feet in a carving dating to 790 AD.\u00a0 In Buddhist tradition, the feet (or foot prints) represent his entire being.\u00a0 For centuries after the Buddha’s death, people did not recreate images of the great teacher’s face or body.\u00a0 But, eventually artists began producing images of his feet – representing the whole spiritual being to be revered.<\/p>\n

Also, in India there are paintings of Vishnu, the Hindu god’s feet with symbols corresponding to several reflexology points.<\/p>\n

By the time these famous wall paintings and carvings came to be a reality, reflexology was already an accepted healing modality in much of the world.<\/p>\n

Reflexology has been recorded in ancient Chinese writings describing pressure being applied to fingers and thumbs.<\/p>\n

Ayurveda is an ancient Indian form of medicine which is becoming popular in our country.\u00a0 Reflexology is incorporated in Ayurvedic medicine.<\/p>\n

In the next blog, I’ll relate recent reflexology history and bring us up to the present.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this post.\u00a0 Please comment with any questions you have, etc.<\/p>\n

Peace and food for all.<\/p>\n

Thurman Greco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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