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How to Relieve Constipation | Reflexology

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Learn reflexology thumb-walking techniques to stimulate colon reflex points on the feet for constipation relief.

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[Music] so the main point we're going to want to focus on is the colon reflex so with the colon reflex it's going to be starting with the ilocal valve which will be right down here we're going to travel up the ascending colon transverse colon cut across to the other foot course down and this will be the descending colon the sigmoid colon and then out to the rectum reflex in addition we'll focus on some other points as well that'll help uh but let's begin there and we'll be using thumb walking so you're going to start with the ILO SQL valve you're going to thumb walk in and you're just going to come out a little bit and press down again so you're going to walk up that you don't want to go beyond your joint point or you can start to get a little bit of your nail into their foot and that'll hurt so just do little bites all the way up and then right about midfoot you have the the bend and the colon reflex and you're going to transverse across [Music] here then you're to come across uh I liked if somebody is experiencing constipation I think it's advantageous to actually do it in this direction uh you could do one foot entirely first and then go to the other foot but it's actually nice to follow the whole C all the way through so I just thumb walked down the descending colon and then we're going inward to the center of the heel which is the sigmoid colon and then we're going to go back out [Music]

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