Tips & Ideas

I like to share my quick fixes and easy tips that are designed to improve and maintain your health. Most are based on Reflexology, and I always add a few concepts from other modalities. Use them, enjoy them, share them with your friends and check the archives for other "band-aids" from my blended medicine basket.

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*None of these techniques can replace a medical doctor's care. If you have a medical concern, please visit your health care practitioner. The methods below are strictly for educational purposes.

Reflexology for Buddy's Eye Infection

Yvette Eastman, Recently a friend of mine called me in a panic. "My dog, Buddy, is bumping into things. I think he is going blind. It happened so suddenly. He's only seven years old! He is grumpy and growls at other dogs and he never used to." What can I do?"

My immediate reaction was to do a body scan using muscle checking. The answers were indefinite. I got answers but they led nowhere. No, it was not a stroke, nor glaucoma, nor cataracts. It was not an allergy. My suggestion was that she take him to an eye specialist for dogs, which she did. She found out that Buddy had an inflammation and infection of the eye. She was given medication to reduce the inflammation and the infection. Little by little, over 4 days, Buddy's eyes improved. He knocked into objects less and he once again reclaimed his good mood. Even before he was diagnosed, I gave my friend A variety of things to do to help her dog. "Use the meds," I counselled, and use the following techniques as well!" To my delight, she began to use the following corrections immediately. She did everything several times per day, noticing improvement every time she did them.

The first was Rescue Remedy, (a Bach Flower Remedy) which I had suggested from the beginning. "Put some in Buddy's water. Put some in a spray bottle and spray around him." This is my suggestion for any trauma whether for an animal or a human. It helped Buddy's mood and his discomfort immediately. He relaxed.

"Now do the figure 8 energy, just using your hand along his eyes in a figure 8 that is "lying down" (called a Lazy 8). That will help with the inflammation, the swelling as well as starting the healing. Do this in the air, across both eyes, without touching the skin. You can be up to 3 inches away"

Next I told her to work on his toe pads, gently and often. "Work on the dew-claw," I told her, "just in case we are dealing with the brain and nerve damage. Work at the base of the dew-claw for his neck. It could be that he sustained an injury and that there is vertebral compression. Since you don't know for sure, work it anyway. For dogs without dewclaws, either because they are missing or were removed, work on the little bump where the dewclaw would be if he had one. Since so much of our work deals with energy, the body/mind will understand!

Work on the Solar plexus, to release stress and improve his blood pressure. Work along the diaphragm to release it and induce deep breathing and therefore good oxygenation to the eyes. Work on the Solar Plexus reflex for ANY problem as its purpose is to calm and to promote good circulation.

Pinch gently on both sides of the webbing, just below (and between) the pads. This is for the lymph vessels, to help clear any toxins. And work between the toes, along the sides of each toe to assist the Eustachian tube in moving toxins away from the eyes. This will also help the tear ducts.

Two more important areas. Work the reflex to the Liver to filter out toxins from the blood, and work the entire Large Intestine to improve elimination. The picture is shown with your animal standing. Imagine the picture upside down if your friend is on his back with his legs up in the air. Notice how high up you are on the hand or leg.



Imagine the picture upside down if your friend is on his back with his legs up in the air. Notice how high up you are on the hand or leg. This part of the extremities does not get walked upon. Unless the dog or cat is sitting or lying down, there is no contact with the ground. And then, the contact is gentle, non-moving, and does not receive energy from movement. So working on this area will be a great benefit.

If you know Reflexology, you will know that working means using a "hooking" motion, with thumbs or fingers, a bit like an inchworm. However, any gentle holding, stroking, tapping, or gentle rubbing will be preferable to nothing, so touch, pet, stroke, rub – whatever feels right to you AND your companion. Buy some little bells and wear them at all times. When you are at home, your dog will hear you move as you walk to different rooms. It will be a comfort foe him to know where you are. When you take your dog for a walk, if he is off leash, keep your bells with you and let them jingle so he can locate you. He won't feel lost and he will keep his pride!

Now do the quick meridian repair to insure that all the meridian energies are flowing as they should.

1. Stoke from cheeks over the back, to the outside of the hind feet.
2. Stroke from the inside back feet under the belly to the chest.
3. Stroke from the chest down the inside of the arms to the "hands".
4. Stroke from the outside of the "hands" to the cheek.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 three times.
6. Lastly, stroke from base of tail to upper lip over the back, & from under the tail up the centre of the belly to the lower lip. Repeat three times.



Buddy's story bespeaks the need for "blended medicine" for our animals and ourselves. It is not a good idea to eliminate allopathic medicine. Vets and doctors give you diagnoses and useful medication. And, once you have that, you can go on your personal warpath against toxins and do what is needed to rebuild the terrain.

The result? Buddy's right eye is totally healed, the left eye is vastly improved and still healing. The original prognosis? "We are so sorry, but this is a grave situation and he will shortly be totally blind in both eyes." It really pays to use blended medicine – to use appropriate chemicals and to complement them with every bit of energy work and bodywork you know!