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Reflexologies are the
complete ancestral projection of the entire body on only one part of it.
Let's imagine taking a photograph of a person, making the photo smaller and
projecting it only on a part of the body. The nerve endings through afferent
and efferent processes transmit discomforts and problems of the inner organs
from the inside towards the outside and vice-versa . Through these
mechanisms it is possible to reach the different organs with stimulus aimed
for the obtainment of the oxygenation of the tissues through the
vascularization of them. The experienced efficacy of these methods is
established by the fact that they interpret the signals our organism send
through the most peripheral areas, hands, feet, ears, tongue, nose, eyes,
which are the areas with main concentration of the nerve endings.
The Zu Method has been affirmed due to the close and analytic
research of the identification of the reflex points on the foot. The
sensitive areas have been identified localising the epicentre of the pain
according to the bones and the muscles. The reflex areas are those
particular parts of our body, which when correctly pressed, establish an
analgesic reaction (disappearing of the pain) or a functional recovery of
the organ in a zone different and far from the stimulated point. We find the
entire system in an organic, precise, logic way in all its proportions in
every part of the body projected.
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How do the
reflex points act
The neurones are a hundred of
billion in a microscopic central unit of the thought (diameter between five
and one hundred thousandth of millimetres), contained in this box of modest
dimensions which is our head.
They have the task to elaborate the messages
and to transfer them along the nerve paths. Every neuron is equipped to
receive nerve information from their equals by means of dendrites; thin
branched filaments which make it look like an octopus in order to transmit
on its turn the proper messages by means of another tubular prolongation
called axon.
The connection point between the axon of a cell and the
dendrite of another one is called synapse and it is the turn-key of the
entire neuronal communication system.
It has been discovered that the nerve
cells can be self-repairing of possible damaging in a way that isn't
still well-known emitting new terminals of axons, establishing other
synapses thus reshaping the lost connections.
The first demonstration in
this sense obtained the Nobel Prize for Rita Levi Montalcini, because she
managed to isolate the Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) in 1954, that is to say the
natural factor able to stimulate the growth of the neurons. All the entering
and outgoing nerve signals are of electric nature. The balance situation of
the electric field is modified when a nerve impulse is developed, which can
have different origins: luminous, acoustic, taste, olfactory, tactile but
also retrieved by our memory.
The acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter
which moves the muscles, progressing the electric signal from the cortex to
the driving end plate.
The signals are transformed in chemical and
electrical ones, once they reach the occipital seat, the brain provides with
their decoding.
We generate some short waves with a quick and light massage,
therefore of high frequency, quick, penetrating, when we reach a target
organ we establish an acid chemical reaction which on its turn establishes a
relaxation of the tissues or of the most contracted and stiffening organs. A
swollen, hardened organ due to acute or chronic problems is incited with a
kind of activity equal to a chisel against a rock when bombarded quickly:
not few big beats, but many small ones. Opposite situation, a slow, deep,
heavy massage has a transmission by means of long, low, slow waves according
to the physics law "pressure generates warmth".
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When this impulse reaches
the target organ, generates a basic reaction which establishes on its turn a
toning up of the tissues due to the sugars which are synthesized and
therefore if an organ is tired, prolapsed, then a slow and deep massage is
tonic, energizing. For example it is possible to recover the physiological
peristaltic capacity to the gall bladder or to the stomach.
The massage we
practise is a mechanical action which is transformed in our organism in a
chemical - electric reaction.
Our body reacts at two fundamental stimulus:
contraction and relaxation which we can put into hot-cold stimulus, a
caress/pinch, cut/point, pulling/releasing, soft and acid and so on till
infinite.
The universal laws of the yin/yang Tao remain immutable.
Alfredo Esposito
Baldassarre
Director of Zu Center
Specialistic Centre for the Research and Application of Foot
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