Acupressure -- a medicine without drug.

Acupressure is a treatment therapy of various diseases of the body carried out by applying required amount of pressure to specific point of the body. Human body has numbers of Acupressure meridian points where vital energy flows. By stimulating these Acupressure points, we relieve body pain and spasm by releasing of natural pain killer endrophine through sensory receptors lying deep in the muscle. Acupressure helps to improve immune system of the body.

Acupressure is comprised of Latin word Acus-- means pin pointing or needle and Pressure -- means thrust or applies force to specific point of the body. The human body possesses self curative forces to fight diseases and the role of Acupressure is to assist the body restore the balance and to strengthen the inbuilt defence mechanism. Human body has numbers of Acupressure points. When we stimulate these Acupressure points, we bring about the relief to the person. The pressure can be applied by hands or by electric vibrator. While heating is done on some Acupressure points by burning a kind of herb Artemisia Vulgaris and the technique is called Moxibustion.

Acupuncture is also a very old therapy and was developed, practiced in China. It has also same fundamentals and principles as Acupressure, except needling. In Acupressure body point is stimulated by pressure, where as in Acupuncture needles are used to stimulate. In comparison with Acupuncture, Acupressure is more safer.

Samvedna (Acupressure) is an ancient Indian art of healing. As earlier as 5000 years ago Great Indian Rishies have discovered Yoga Posturing Technique that uses full-body postures to stretch the meridians and stimulate the Acupressure points on our own. By the time when Buddhism was spread upto China from India this technique of Acupressure was also been spread by Buddhist Monks. From then Acupressure have been developed by Chinese peoples. In these recent years Acupressure has gained wide acceptance all over the world as an alternative medicinal treatment therapy.

In many parts of world one can find methods of stimulating the body points with hand, and one of these is called Shietsu, a Japanese system of giving pressure and massage.