How to Relieve Digestive Issues | Reflexology
Learn reflexology thumb-walking techniques on foot reflex points to address digestive issues by stimulating the colon and intestine pathways.
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[Music] the main thing we're going to want to focus on is the colon reflex the large and the small intestines so we're going to start over here on her right foot my left the Elio SQL valve right there we're just going to begin to thumb walk up through the belly of the foot about Midway through b switch that was the ascending colon and now we're going to go across here transverse colon go across to the other foot some people do one foot at the time that's completely fine um when it's a digestive issue I like to do it in this way cuz I'm starting at the very beginning and then going out through the end now we're we've just made the bend and we're going down the descending colon you might want to really support the ankle or the heel here so you have more support when you're uh thumb walking down the foot so you come through here to the midpoint of the heel that's a sigmoid colon you're just going to walk thumb walk out the rectum reflex that's the whole large intestine the small intestine is just inside that area right through here so you could do that also with thumb walking thumb walk up thumb walk up again and you could do this from any angle you could take it across through here you could also you know if you have no one to do this for you there's you know a back of a chair that might have a pole there you could certainly always roll this area of your foot over something that can give it some kind of relief the other thing you want to be mindful of is there's so many different uh conditions that affect the digestive system you have constipation colitis um diverticulitis uh gallstone so many things that you want to be mindful if there's something you want to give more attention to please do like get that foot reflexology Map and find out where the gallbladder reflex is for example so if you want to be more specific or if there's something you're really trying to to um get in and and nurture a little bit more just get your map out and find those points
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