{"id":115,"date":"2013-06-04T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/?p=115"},"modified":"2013-09-20T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:36:36","slug":"originereflexologie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/originereflexologie\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the origins of Reflexology?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This question remains to this day.\u00a0 Could it be an archetypal form of therapy found everywhere in the world?\u00a0 That is what I think.\u00a0 As Christine Issel writes in her very interesting book:\u00a0 Reflexology: Art, Science & History \u00ab no one culture can claim to have \u201cdiscovered\u201d reflexology because different forms of working on the feet to effect health have been used by people all over the world since the beginning of time. \u00bb\u00a0 Examples of foot work in the form of pictures or statues have been found in India, Japan, China and Europe but no written documentation has yet been discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n

The oldest documentation that could be interpreted as depicting the use of reflexology is found in Egypt, in the towns of Giza and Saqqara.\u00a0 In Saqqara, in the tomb of the highest official after the Pharaoh, the physician Ankhmahor, we find carved on one of the six walls, a scene representing a practice of reflexology<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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According to the Papyrus Institute in Cairo and A. Badawy\u2019s book: The Tomb of Nyhetep-Ptah at Giza and the Tomb of Ankhamahor at Saqqara 1975, p.19, the hieroglyphs carved above the scene of a foot and hand treatment read as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Lignes-Hieroglyphe-p1\"<\/h3>\n

\u201c\u00a0Do so it will give strength anew \u201d.
\n<\/strong><\/span>Comment:\u00a0 this sentence comes from the patient who complains of his weakened hand, wishing that care provided by the doctor will bring his strength back.<\/span><\/h5>\n

\"Lignes-Hieroglyphe-p2\"<\/p>\n

\u201c\u00a0I do as you please, (\u00f4) Lord \u201d.
\n<\/span><\/strong>Comment:\u00a0 practitioner’s response according to a common formula.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"Lignes-Hieroglyphe-p3\"<\/h4>\n

\u201c Do not let it be painful \u201d.
\n<\/span><\/strong>Comment:\u00a0 the patient seems to be afraid that the doctor hurts his toes.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This question remains to this day.\u00a0 Could it be an archetypal form of therapy found everywhere in the world?\u00a0 That is what I think.\u00a0 As Christine Issel writes in her very interesting book:\u00a0 Reflexology: Art, Science & History \u00ab no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/EgyptReflexologyLarge-e1465840312147.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}