Any advise

[Jim J]

I have given reflexology to a client who has dry cracked skin on her diaphragm line, it isn't around the rest of that area but she does have an extreme amount on her heels. Can anyone advise me on what could be possibly causing this.
Thanks

 

[immedsime]

Hi Victoria.

Have never come across hard skin around the diaphragm area, but hard skin around the heel may be a sign of digestive problems. Some problems within the digestive tract are caused by stress (which would show up in your Diaphragm reflex) so there may be a connection here(?). Also, hard skin on the ball and heel of the foot may be caused by not wearing socks or tights with shoes and this may, in turn, affect the body! Hope this is of some help.

Good luck.

Jane

 

[acerwrorcen]

Hi Victoria

Just yesterday I treated a client who has cracked skin on the diaphragm line and on the solar plexus point.

I believe this lady is carrying a lot of sorrow locked into the solar plexus area. She gets a sharp pain in her actual solar plexus when I perform a treatment, which dissipates after a few minutes. She lost a child a few years ago and could be carrying this in the solar plexus/diaphragm area as she spoke about this as I worked this area very gently. The cracked skin is healing, I have given her six treatments so far.

It may not be the same thing with your client - but I hope my experience may give you food for thought

Love and Light
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[Littlelune]

It's often difficult to tell whether dry skin is reflecting a problem in the body, or is just from a client who does not look after their feet! When the feet are dry all over, I think this is usually poor circulation and hopefully the reflexology will improve it. Of course, a lot depends upon the client's age, and you would not expect an older client to have such good skin - the hands and feet are some of the first parts of the body to show signs of ageing.

Matt x

 

[Cass]

Athlete's foot has a number of guises and can show up as extremely dry looking skin. Could be one to rule out... I had a lady who didn't have it around her toes but rather on the sole of her foot and mainly around and above the diaphragm line.

 

[K M]

Cracked skin around the heel is also a sign of Thyroid issues particularly if it goes with some of the other signs ( tiredness, outer third of eybrows missing etc.)

 

[Beckster]

Sorry, I haven't been on here for a while---So busy.. Anyhow. Which foot has the dry cracked skin, left, right or both? Could it be that this person has had their feeling deeply hurt and is trying to cover them up, but is cracking (so to speak) and the heel area. Left or right inside or out or allover? Generally a feeling of security that is the problem be it home life or financial.

Has that helped?

Cath

 

[Girl dreamer]

Hi. I am a little confused. [&:] Why does dry skin on the heel reflect either digestive or thyroid problems? I thought that the problem lay in the reflex point. ie. if there is dry cracked skin over the thyroid point or the digestive point and not over the heel? Am I mad? Tell me if I am, I can take it! Always willing to learn!

 

[Brendan L]

I agree with Jane, the hard skin around the heel does signal digestive problems. It is seen in people with OBS, Chrons, Cealiac Disease, or constipations and impacted fecal matter. Also when someone has their gall bladder removed, the area turns yellow and cracks. If the heel is yellowish and cracked and dry and the liver area is tender, and crunchy, it signals a sluggish liver too.

Way way back, at college, my lovely tutor told me is was the 'draining' area, where problems with the digestive system in general would be indicated, and if so, then the actual organ or place suffering, i.e. digestive tract, gall bladder, liver, intestines, etc., would be hard, lumpy, painful and crunchy.

I can honestly say if I spot this on a client, after one foot I then tell them what I have found and it is always correct, there is always some kind of digestive problem.

Love Gillyxxx

 

[AnnaXOX]

Thank you! I didn't know that, but I do now!

 

[Mary Funez]

With the heel being cracked indicating possible digestive problems (can also be repro probs, lower back) perhaps as the diaphram line is also cracked she might have a hiatus hernia or reflux problem.

The thyroid is at the edge of that line (medial) as well and I often notice that there is a crack or line under that part of the ball if there is a tendency to thyroid probs.

Also heart may be implicated?

Jan x

 

[Vagred]

we were taught , and I did experience this on one of my case studies, that the following are signs of underactice thyroid/myxoedema:

Callousy and Crcked skin around the rim of the heel
Fluid retention around ankles and on the dorsal surface.
bunions
a ridge on the plantar surface around the 1st metatarsal
blueish ,puffy area at the top of the hip/back/knee triangle (lateral side)
an enlarged "scalloped" tongue ( you know one when you see it!!)
outer 3rd of eyebrow missing

but check the pituary and ovaries for sensitivity too as will probably be working extra hard

and low pack pain /elimation issues as Thyroid controls ligament tension.