Reflexology is not the invention of any single
person or culture. For nearly 5000 years people
have been treated through their feet. It is believed
that Reflexology originated in China some 5,000
years ago. It is also believed to have been practiced
in Persia, Tibet and India. Drawings showing the
feet and hands being massaged and treated in a
way that resembles Reflexology were discovered
in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian physician
Ankahor at Saqqara.
More recently, Reflexology was described in the
form in which it is now known by the late Eunice
Ingham, an American lady, who based her method
of treatment on work called 'Zone Therapy' which
had been described some years earlier in the 1920's
by an American, Dr. William Fitzgerald.
The main pioneer of Reflexology in Great Britain
was the late Doreen Bayly who introduced the method
in the early 1960's.
