Reflexology has a positive affect on urticaria

This is an allergic skin disease caused by eating shrimp or crab, administration of drugs or parasite in the body. Symptoms include the sudden appearance of skin lesions all over the body, and even over the mucosa. The lesions may disappear without a trace left on the skin after a few hours. Later, the skin lesions may reappear again, group by group. In chronic patients the skin lesions may relapse in several weeks, months, or even over several years. The skin lesions are slightly bulged papules warying in size from the sesames to beans, or even as large as walnutts, and they may increase in size after scratching. Besides the local burning sensation and severe itching, patients may also suffer from nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other digestive tract symptoms if the lesions appear on the mucosa of the stomach and intestines, and severe cases may develop edema of the throat with dyspnea and syncope.
   
Treatment:
Foot massage: The massage is applied to lung (14), parathyroid gland (13), kidney (22), transverse colon (29), liver (18), gallbladder (19), adrenal gland (21) and lymph nodes (upper body, chest and abdomen, 39, 41 and 40) reflecting areas (Fig. 106)
   
Foot acupuncture:
1) Meridianal acupoints: A reducing acupuncture technique is applied to Yongquan (KI 1) and Neiting (ST 44) acupoints for acute type, and a balanced reinforce-reducing technique is applied to chronic patients. Moxibustion with ginger at Xingjian (LR2) and Jiexi (ST 41) as well as Hegu (LI 4) and Yangchi (TE4) acupoints on the hand can also produce a good therapeutic effect.

2) Foot acupoints: A strong acupuncture stimulation is applied to Lung (FA-P 6) and Ischium (FA-P 18) acupoints for acute type, and a gentle stimulation is applied for chronic patients. The needles are retained for 20 minutes.