Su Jok acupressure therapy	A self help cure-all Acupressure is known to the Eastern world since centuries. The World Health Organization as per their letter has also recognized it in 1980. One has to remember that at least 150 points out of a total of 950 points all over the body are needed to administer acupressure. This can be extremely difficult for most of us to do so. Hence, acupressure is usually left to the experts. Prof. Park Jae Woo realized this and wanted to create a system that could be practiced by one and all. He conducted extensive research and modified and simplified acupressure to such an extent that there is no necessity to remember any points at all. He found that the hands and feet are the replicas of our body. So he named the system Su Jok Acupressure. SU means hand and JOK means Foot in Korean language. It is so easy to learn that even children can pick up the technique in an hour. We give below a Short Note on Su Jok Acupressure Therapy. There are five parts to the body protruding from our trunk. Two arms, two legs and a head. From our palm and sole of the foot, four fingers and the thumb are jutting out. The legs are in the center and arms outside. The index and the little finger are outside and are found to correspond to our arms. The inner two fingers correspond to the legs. Looking at the left-hand palm, the index finger corresponds to the left hand and the little finger to the right hand. If you look at the palm of your right hand your little finger will correspond to the left hand. Our legs have three joints -hip, knee and the ankle or heel. The middle and ring fingers also have three joints- the one connected to the palm will correspond to the hip, the next one to the knee and the third to the ankle or heel. Similarly the arms are connected to the trunk at the shoulders. The joints connecting the index and little finger to the palm correspond to the shoulders. The next is joined to the elbow, the one after the wrist. Our head has two joints, so also the thumb. The lower portion of the thumb corresponds to the neck and the upper part to the face. If you know acupressure and you want to treat your headache you will have to recollect which point to press for the headache. But Su Jok is simple. Hold the back of your thumb facing you, take a ball pen, hexagonal stem pencil or a match stick. The refill part of the ball pen has to be removed, or the sharp lead of the pencil has to be made blunt. Consider the tip of the thumb as your head; if the pain is on the right side try to probe the point that is paining with the blunt tip of pencil or ball pen or any kind of probe. You will find one or two points that are really painful but if you were to press the tip with the other thumb you will feel nothing. Now keeping the probe on the pain, point just move it clockwise and anti-clockwise. You will find it painful, but doing it for a minute or so you will be surprised to find your pain reducing. The portion between the tip of the thumb and the first joint on it corresponds to the face. Divide it in approximately four parts. The first part from the tip corresponds to the head, the second to the forehead, the third to the eyes, nose and ears and fourth to the mouth and chin. The lifeline on the mount of the palm corresponds to the diaphragm therefore above that is the heart and lungs. The rest of the palm corresponds to the abdomen. If we draw an imaginary straight line from the middle of the two middle fingers up to the wrist on the back of the palm, it corresponds to the lower portion of our spinal chord. Similarly the line drawn on the middle of the back of our thumb to the wrist corresponds to the cervical portion of our spinal chord. For lower backache, take the probe as described above and try to find points along the imaginary line i.e. from the middle of the two fingers to the wrist, in the valley formed by the bones of these middle fingers, you will find some painful points. On each painful point, hold the probe and rotate clockwise and anti- clockwise for a few seconds. You will find the pressure painful, but at the same time, you will experience relief from your backache. You will have to repeat the treatment four times a day. Su Jok Therapy is not only limited to pain. It can be used in health problems like Arthritis, Spondylitis, Blood Pressure, Lumbago, Backache, Knee and other joint pains, Frozen Shoulder, Sciatica, Migraine, Diabetes, Ear Pain, Eye problems, Deafness (partial), Allergy, Anemia, Constipation, Sinus, Stomach problems, Cough & Cold, Depression, Fatigue, Hernia, Slip Disc, Urine Bladder & Kidney Stone, Tonsillitis, Polyps, Heel pain, Pimples and other Ladies problems etc. (Please note no surgery is required for Polyps, heel pain by Su Jok) For chronic problems one has to apply “akkha mung” (whole mung beans) on the affected point with micro surgical tape and in a few days you are certain to experience a marked reduction in the symptoms. Further details about the therapy are given on our web site www.lionsclubsujok.org. gbluthria@lionsclubsujok.org, gbluthria@yahoo.com. Please contact The Lions Club Su Jok Mumbai by post at this address: Post Office Box No. 282 62, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049. Please NOTE: Su Jok is a COMPLEMENTARY Treatment and is not a substitute for any treatment advised by your doctor. We are members of the Lions Clubs International, a world wide SERVICE ORGANISATION. We are teaching the public about the use of home articles like pencil, ball pen, tooth brush to take care of pain problems. We have tried it out on over 600,000 patients, it works. We are a service organization and we aim to inform the public about this simple and easy way of treatment. Even the Police and the Army has appreciated it. We can give a demonstration if your office is based in Mumbai. Lions Club of Mumbai Mayur Villa, Anandrao Devale Road, Juhu, Mumbai 400049. Tel 022-26206243, Fax 26254476 Cell. 93231 78565. http://www.geocities.com//sujok-healing/sujok-info1, http://www.geocities.com/gbluthria/Lionsclub_SuJok.h tml or www.lionsclubsujok.org