Research has revealed that asthmatic children have benefited from reflexology treatment. (1) Reflexology is certainly an appropriate non-invasive therapy to help this condition and there are many reports from therapists of asthmatic patients being helped through reflexology. This may be because reflexology helps ‘balance’ organs and tissues throughout the body and, acting through the nervous system, it can actually help strengthen and normalize the circulatory and respiratory system. In this way, it can help activate the body’s own healing force to strengthen lung and bronchial tissue.
(1) [Foot zone therapy and bronchial asthma–a controlled clinical trial]
Fodzoneterapi og asthma bronchiale–en klinisk kontrolleret undersogelse.
Petersen LN; Faurschou P; Olsen OT; Svendsen UG
Lungemedicinsk/allergologisk afdeling Y, Kobenhavns Amts Sygehus i Gentofte. Ugeskr Laeger Jul 20 1992, 154 (30) p2065-8