• Maps of the correspondence zones in the two sys­tems – the Main and the “Insect” correspondence system.
• Traditional acupuncture prescriptions with maps of the location of the prescription’s acupoints.

To treat yourself using the guide, you have to specify the contents of the healing procedure and to accomplish it using the correspondence zones maps of the affected organ, and when necessary you will also have to include the traditional acupuncture prescription published on the same page.

In this particular case you have two choices:

The first choice is to build the contents of the healing procedure by yourself, based on the information presented so far, the correspondence zones maps, the traditional acupuncture prescriptions and using your own intelligence.

The second one is to use the standard healing proce­dure.

BUILDING THE HEALING PROCEDURE

Let’s remind in brief what you have to do in case you decide to build the contents of the healing procedure by yourself (for details refer to the corresponding section).

1. You have to select one to four correspondence zones of the diseased organ in which you have to look for pain points or areas.

Make the choice considering the basic principles used for selection of correspondence zones.

It is necessary to notice that despite the great effec­tiveness of those zones located on the feet, due to the bet­ter comfort and the easier definition of the correspondence zones the hands are used more often in the real practice. Primary and secondary correspondence zones are com­bined on both of the hands.

Besides, sometimes the use of secondary instead of the primary zones is more comfortable. Such an example is the case with the zones of the blade-bones in the Main cor­respondence system. The secondary zones of the blade- bones are located over a bone thus the pain points there are easier to find. That is why they are used more fre­quently.

2. In case of more serious and refractory chronic dis­eases you have to include pain points in additional cor­respondence zones.

These are the correspondence zones of the spinal col­umn, the brain and internal organs, directly related to the diseased organ.

3. You have to take a decision whether you will use mirrored pain points or not.

Here you have to decide whether you will use mirrored points, besides the main su jok points and if yes, which one – horizontal or vertical. You won’t make a mistake if you include them.

4. You have to select a stimulation method of the pain points and areas.

The stimulation methods are divided conditionally in two categories:

• Methods of relatively short but powerful stimula­tion.

These are diagnostic probe massage, moxa (or ice), needles, hot needles.

• Methods of long and soft stimulation.

These are seeds, magnetic stars, magnets.

You’d better combine methods of stimulation from both of the categories.

5. According to the seriousness of the disease, use your own judgment to decide whether to include the tra­ditional acupuncture prescription.

At this point don’t forget that the traditional acupuncture prescriptions might also be used independently.

If the making up of the healing procedure hampers you, use the standard healing procedure which we suggest in the “Prescriptions” section in the images below.  It has been tested many times and the results have been excellent, including the cases of serious chronic diseases.

GENERAL ADVICES AND NOTES

• It is recommended to treat one diseased organ or part of the body. If you have several diseases, then you have to select the one that concerns you the most. The dis­tribution of healing impulses among many organs decreas­es their effectiveness.
• It is possible to treat two diseased organs simulta­neously by alternating the healing procedures. For example: on the first day – kidneys, on the second day – bladder etc.
• If symmetric organs or parts of the body are diseased, for example the two kidneys or the two knees, you can heal them by alternating procedures for the left and for the right side.
• In case of acute illnesses expect the healing effect to show itself by the third-fifth procedure, although often with the very first procedure and even in the first seconds of the stimulation a clearly expressed healing effect and sometimes even a complete fade away of the disease’s symptoms might be observed. In the cases of chronic diseases the healing effect might be felt for a first time by the seventh-eighth pro­cedure.

In some cases it is possible to feel no improvement at the time of the healing course and the disease can fade away suddenly, several days or weeks after its finish. The reason is that the stimulation upon the correspondence zones gives a push for the healing changes, which some­times accelerate very slowly and can not be felt in the term of ten days which are needed for the procedures.

• In the course of the healing procedures you might get a disease aggravation. That is the so called “healing cri­sis”. This shouldn’t worry you. Remember, the su jok ther­apy can’t do any harm to you!
• When you stimulate the pain points you must also stimulate the secondary pain points, which sometimes appear near to the main, most painful point.

NOTES AND ADVICES ON THE CORRESPONDENCE ZONES MAPS

• We have developed maps of the correspondence zones for almost every organ and part of the body.

For each correspondence zone in the Main system we’ve developed a separate map.

We have shown the correspondence zones in the “Insect” system summarized on a single finger, as they are located in the same way on all fingers and toes. Slightly dif­ferent is the case with the thumbs in the “Insect” system. In contrast to the other fingers, the thumbs have two phalanges – distal (first) and proximal (second). The system is project­ed over the first phalanx (the head and neck zone) and the second phalanx (thorax zone). The role of the third phalanx is performed by the first bone before the wrist for the hands, and the first bone before the foot for the feet (stomach zone).

The determination of the correspondence zones by the “Insect” system might hamper and confuse you. For that reason use the remaining four fingers and toes. They are fairly enough.

We have marked the correspondence zone in the fol­lowing manner:

• We have marked the areas where the skin and bone correspondence coincide with blue outline.
• In the places where the skin and bone correspon­dence don’t coincide we have used blue outline for the skin and black outline for the bone correspondence.
• In some of the correspondence zones in which the skin correspondence is not clearly expressed – for example on the bottom of the toes, we have outlined only the bone correspondence with black contour.

Keep in mind that in some cases the contour on the map doesn’t outline the exact borders of the correspon­dence zone. For example the stomach zone may be smaller for some people and larger for others according to the size of the stomach itself. That is why you must also search for the pain points around the borders outlined on the map.

• We haven’t developed maps of the primary and sec­ondary correspondence zones for some unpaired organs located on the body axis. We’ve only shown their location on the both hands and feet. The correspondence zones of the spinal column or the thymus are such an example. In theory, their halves have primary and secondary correspondence, and you can guess by yourself how to determine and use it.
• In the process of location of the correspondence zones on your own hands and feet, the best way to keep yourself from making a mistake with left and right is to use your imagination and to lay your hand or foot on the place of the illustration.

NOTES AND ADVICES ON THE TRADITIONAL ACUPUNCTURE PRESCRIPTIONS

We have included mostly ancient Chinese prescrip­tions from traditional acupoints as well as some popu­lar contemporary prescriptions recommended by com­petent acupuncture specialists. These prescriptions can be used in parallel with the su jok therapy or inde­pendently.

We’ve made our best to collect combinations, consisting of acupoints whose location can be determined easily by inexperienced people.

Keep in mind that our manual is for self-treatment, so we haven’t included points on the back which can not be stimulated independently, without someone’s help (despite their high effectiveness).

The basic measuring units by the location of the acu­points are:

• The width of YOUR hand’s thumb in the place of the knuckle between the first and the second phalanx. In the traditional acupuncture this width is called individual tsun.
• The width of YOUR gathered four fingers of the hand (without the thumb) in the place of the knuckle between the middle and the third phalanx of the middle fin­ger. The width there equals to three individual tsuns.

In the illustrations these measuring units are shown by graphical pictograms.

When you use traditional acupuncture prescriptions don’t forget the following:

• If you’ve located the place of the acupoint correctly, by strong vertical pressure with the thumb’s tip or with the thicker end of the diagnostic probe you must experience “the expected sensations” – pain, tingle, twitch etc. Be sure to do this check.
• Stimulate the acupoints with moxa for 10-12 min­utes. If you clearly feel that a longer heat treatment will have a positive effect on you, you may prolong it up to 20 minutes.
• In some cases when the acupoints are on the face, in the hair or the warming up is not allowed, the recom­mended action is massage stimulation on these points.

• Warm up the acupoints in the sequence specified in the prescriptions. Usually the points on the axis of the body are warmed up at first, then all the other – from above downwards.

A STANDARD HEALING PROCEDURE

The standard healing procedure consists of two parts. The first one is performed in the case of the most usual diseases. The second part is added to the first one in cases of more acute or chronic diseases.

IN CASE OF USUAL DISEASES

1. Locate the pain points in two correspondence zones of the diseased organ in the Main correspon­dence system and warm up them with moxa for 20-30 minutes.

To do this it is necessary to open the prescription guide on the corresponding page so you can become acquainted how the diseased organ’s correspondence zones are located on your hands and feet. You will have an exact idea of their location if you get a mental picture of your hand or foot in the place of the illus­tration.

After that outline the zones using a marker and go over them with the diagnostic probe. Mark the open pain points and warm them up with moxa.

It is advisable to use the primary correspondence zones – one on hand and one on foot (at the diseased organ’s side).

When the organ is located on the body axis, alternate the hands and feet in the separate procedures. For example: left hand – right foot in one procedure and right hand – left foot in the next one.

If it’s difficult for you to use the feet then use your both hands in each procedure.

Depending on the seriousness of the disease you may stimulate the su jok points with massage, needles or hot needles instead with moxa.

2. Perform the traditional acupuncture prescription by heating the traditional acupoints for 10-12 minutes with moxa.

You will find the traditional acupuncture prescription on the page with the correspondence zones of the dis­eased organ. The location of one of the acupoints used in the prescription is shown there. You’ll find the other with the help of the references to other pages.

3. Locate the pain points in two correspondence zones of the diseased organ in the “Insect” system (on two fingers) and put magnetic stars or seeds on them. Massage the points for 1-2 minutes on every 3-4 hours, using the magnetic stars or the seeds.

The “Insect” system is located likewise on all fingers and toes. For that reason there is a map of only one finger on the page containing the diseased organ’s correspon­dence zones. You will get an exact idea of the diseased organ’s correspondence zone location if you form a mental picture of the finger you want to use in the place of the illustration.

The magnetic stars (seeds) are put for 24 hours, till the next procedure with moxa when they are relocated on other two fingers.

Yet again it is advisable to use the primary correspon­dence zones of the diseased organ (one finger and a toe from the side of the diseased organ).

When the organ is located on the body axis alternate the fingers and the toes in the separate procedures. Left hand – right foot in one procedure, right hand – left foot in the next.

If you feel it’s difficult for you to use the toes, use only the fingers.

We strongly advise you not to ignore the magnetic stars (seeds). Their inclusion in the procedure is often a key to the fast overcoming of the disease.

The healing effect can increase vastly if you also put magnetic stars (seeds) on the mirrored pain points.

IN CASE OF MORE REFRACTORY, ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES

1. By using the “Insect” system, locate on two of your fingers pain points in the correspondence zones of the spinal column and brain, which are connected to the diseased organ.  Massage them using a massage ring 2-3 times a day for 2-3 minutes.

Massage intensively the fingers with a massage ring by concentrating the massage in the areas in which you’ve found pain points. Massage each area on the two fingers 2­3 times a day for 2-3 minutes. On the next day use other two fingers.

If you experience difficulties with the location of the points just do a general massage of the fingers with the ring emphasizing on the areas in which you feel pain.

For more intensive stimulation instead with the massage ring you might influence on the open pain points with the magnetic stars or seeds.

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This is a standard procedure which is effective for most of the diseases. However, you might “customize” it in accordance with the particular disease’s characteristics.

• You can use the separate elements of the procedure independently or in combination.
• You can also use less or more correspondence zones.
• You can choose other stimulation methods.

For example; if you want a cyst to disappear, it is good to use a hot needle. You can also include ring-shaped mag­nets or magnetic pointers, which are very effective.

For the number and frequency of the procedures, which you have to perform, read above.

CORRESPONDENCE SYSTEMS AND ZONES

The human body is a complex mechanism where all the parts work in constant close interrelation. To func­tion correctly they continuously interchange information. In every part of the body, without interruption, comes in information about all other parts and at the same time information about each part’s condition is emitted. This interchange of information, as well as the storage of the received information, is carried out by the so-called cor­respondence systems.

The correspondence systems are informative, power producing projections of the organism located on all independent parts of the body. They look like reduced images of the human body, so deformed that to build in the form of the appropriate body part. Correspondence systems are built in the ears, head, feet, hands, internal organs, tongue, eyebrows and all other parts of the body, even in each cell.

Since each correspondence system is a reduced image of the organism, all the organs, all parts of the body are represented in it. The zones (the areas) of the correspondence systems, which correspond to the par­ticular body organs, are called correspondence zones. Each organ and part of the body has their own corre­spondence zone in all correspondence systems. For example, the stomach has a zone of correspondence in the systems of correspondence, located on the ears, eyes, feet and in all other correspondence systems.

The correspondence systems are in continuous information interchange. They contain full information about the organism, about its present condition. Save for the fact that they have information about the human organism, they actively stimulate its state of health. The mechanism for this stimulation is the following:

When an organ gets diseased, in all other corre­spondence systems a signal concerning this is received. The correspondence systems react as one or more miniature spherical formations in the correspondence zone tissue of the diseased organ, are formed in them. When pressed they are painful and are subjectively felt as pain points. Further,  we will refer to them in the same way.

If the kidney gets diseased, pain points appear in its correspondence zones, located on the ears, hands, feet, tongue, nose, fingers and all other independent parts of the body. The same happens with a disease of the stom­ach, eyes, liver and every other organ or part of the body.

In everyday life man continuously stimulates, acci­dentally and chaotically, one or another correspondence system and the pain points that have appeared there as a result of disease. When you put a hat, you press part of the correspondence zones, located on the head. When you walk, you massage the correspondence zones on the feet. When you work, you stimulate the correspon­dence zones on the hands etc.

As a result of this stimulation, the pain points in the correspondence zones generate healing impulses, directed to the diseased organ. In this way,  healing impulses flow from different parts of the body, from dif­ferent correspondence systems, to the diseased organ. They activate complex regulating mechanisms, which fight against the disease.

The healing impulses, created in consequence of the human everyday activity, are formed accidentally and chaotically. They are sufficient for the preventive keeping fit when there are some slight deviations in the state of health. But these impulses may not exist by sedentary way of living or may not be sufficient by more severe disorder. Then the disease gets worse. Therefore to heal ourselves, when we are seriously ill, it is necessary to create powerful enough healing impulses through an intentional and directed stimulation of the pain points in some of the correspondence systems.

This question emerges immediately – which of the numerous correspondence systems are most efficient and can be used most successfully for that purpose? Which of them include the organism reserves most effectively? The experience gained till now, indicated that these are the correspondence systems located on independent parts, which have the strongest resem­blance to the human body and create healing impulses most often. Such independent parts are the hands and the feet. They have an amazing structural resemblance, a similarity to the human body structure. In addition,  they get most often into contact with the environment thus creating healing impulses most often. Nature wisely took care of things and the most often created impulses are the most powerful and effective ones. Because of that, the healing impulses generated in the correspondence systems located on the hands and feet are far more powerful and effective than the impulses generated in the most of the other correspondence sys­tems.

The sujok therapy has entirely been created on the basis of the correspondence systems located on the hands and feet. It consists of two levels. The first level is easy to use by people without medical education and includes several healing correspondence systems. From practical point of view the most important are two of them:

Main correspondence system;

“Insect” correspondence system.

Here we will confine ourselves to the presentation of these two correspondence systems that are suitable and sufficient for unaided practice.

The second high level of sujok is a healing method based on metaphysical ground. It is more complicated and for its learning more careful preparation in the acupuncture sphere is needed.