Reflexology treatment during menses and pregnancy - The added value
By Shmuel Zaidel

The common opinion between the natural medicine care givers is that pregnancy and menses are natural processes and their course should not be interfered. Other common opinions claim that interfering during pregnancy might danger the pregnancy and cause abortion – god forbid. Treatment during menses period is widely objected for esthetical, physiological and religious and many more reasons and points of view. This article deals with the physiological aspects of the menses and pregnancy periods and draws the attention to aspects that obligate reflexology treatment during these two periods. The sequence of life is characterized by the human being's bodysoulish constant changes that occur within the constant balance processes. These changes are spread upon a long period of time measured maybe by the hours' small pointer – its current movement cannot be noticed but can be felt as time goes by. A major part of the factors that withhold the body's self healing processes are products of it's inability to overcome, inability to change and let go of problems it is used to live with in spite of the inconvenience and suffering. Periods such as menses and pregnancy are, theoretically and practically, times in which the body gets the chance to let go of problems it carries, especially chronic problems.

The menses cycle

When treating a woman during her menses, it should be considered that, usually, her foot will react with extra-pain in all points. When the body lets go of the products that are involved with the physiological preparations of getting pregnant, it is a fine time to accompany it with treatment in order to help the body get released of fixations in which it is tied-in. Fixations can be found in digestion, breathing, urine and all other systems and functions. These fixations can also be accumulated tenses, accumulated toxics and emotional burdens that do not find their way out. The cleaning process produces improved reception situations, in the sense of new replacing the old. Reflexology treatment during menses can often be a turning point in a series of treatments that promotes the body's healing processes. For women having difficulties to get pregnant, treatment during menses period might support and promote the processes of getting pregnant.

Pregnancy

The pregnancy period is remarkably characterized by the fact that upon a short period of time the dynamics is such that no minute resembles the previous one. The hormonal balance is violated and changed, the woman's heart output is much higher, the hemoglobin levels are changed, structural changes of the pelvis' bones as well as many other changes, which will not be dealt in this article. During pregnancy period the woman experiences various problems that require the care giver's attention. Problems such as: high blood pressure, back ache, heartburn, sleeping problems, anemia, veins, adema, varicose veins, constipation, nausea, vomiting and so forth. Each of these problems should be treated to the crux of the matter also during pregnancy period and a skilled reflexologist can do it. It should be taken into consideration that due to the meaningful body changes, the pregnancy period is often easy to assist separation processes from chronic diseases that body suffers of but, with time, become to be second nature. During pregnancy, the body is less insistent in “keeping” its familiar and enables departure. This is where the treatment's techniques and dynamics should be aimed to. When treating during pregnancy, the treatment's rhythm is slower. The care giver avoids treating the areas that represent the endocrine system and reproduction areas or he alternatively uses the caressing techniques in these areas. Towards the end of the pregnancy period, during the last week or two, the coming delivery processes should be encouraged with more vigorous techniques. The treating approach is basically similar to the treatment during menses period.