It is a wonderful referral basis in working with patients and clients, or even people you are talking with. If they have something that is troubling them at the second toe you can draw that line right up through the inside of the shin bone through the knee and the thigh, which comes up through the inner groin area as well as up into the lungs and down through the arm into the hand.

Also, there are referral areas–basically, the palm means the bottom of the foot; the inside of the forearm can refer to the calf of the through the body. The outer side of the arm can refer to the front of the shinbone.  The front of the upper arm refers to the back of the thigh, etc.

So in zone therapy that’s a very powerful way to teach people who have these different tweeks of pain or even concentrated areas of pain that it may not necessarily be coming from that area. That is what referral pain is.

Reflexology charts show the points of the hands and the feet. There are also auricular charts, which show the points on the ears that cover all of the organs, just as in our hands and feet. We also have emotional
body points in our ears as well.

Do you recall ever having little twinges or pings in your body and you wonder what it is? You apply this also to the meridians because we are a layered effect of many subtle systems. You may have a tweek over
here–and oddly enough, it’s your gall bladder. You may have one of those little bites in the back of the calf, your gastrocnemius muscle–and it may be your spleen meridian. We are a very complicated being and these charts are very valuable tools. We are electrical beings–we have an emittance of frequency.

Each zone can be considered a channel for the intangible life energy, called Chi in oriental medicine. Stimulating or “working” any zone in the foot by applying pressure with the thumbs and fingers affects
the entire zone throughout the body.

For example, working a zone on the foot along which the kidneys lie will release vital energy that may be blocked somewhere else in that zone, such as in the eyes. Working the kidney reflex are on the foot will therefore revitalize and balance the entire zone and improve functioning of the organ.