How Reflexology Helps the Body Heal: The Nervous System Is the Part Most People Miss Your foot does not need to contain a miniature liver, kidney, or brain for pressure on it to affect the rest of you. Pressure on skin is a biological event. Mechanical force is detected by sensory receptors, converted into electrical … Read more
Sound Never Touches You Without Moving Matter Before sound is music, it is mechanical force. A human voice, drum, piano string, singing bowl, tuning fork, or loudspeaker launches organized changes in pressure through air; those oscillations move the tympanic membrane, transfer force through the middle-ear bones, displace fluid inside the cochlea, bend microscopic hair bundles, … Read more
The First Prescription Was Written in Clay More than four thousand years ago, somebody in Sumer sat down with a stylus and pressed medical instructions into wet clay. Not a hymn about health. Not a philosophical speculation about disease. A prescription tablet: substances to gather, materials to grind, liquids to add, preparations to boil, wash, … Read more