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Can you touch your toes? According to Chinese Medicine there is a connection to Endometriosis….

So, according to the Chinese Medicine there may be a reason why we can’t touch our toes or what they describe as an inability to bend due to qi stagnation. They describe it as blood conglomoration in the abdominal cavity due to poor movement or qi accummulation. It also explains why we experience lower back pain, upper back spine pain and tension in the lower abdominal cavity.

I don’t know about you but I have never been able to touch my toes – maybe when I was a kid! My sister is a total gym fanatic and said that if I stretch everyday, that eventually I will become limber enough to be able to touch my toes. Well, it has been a year and I am still at least a hand away from touching my toes!

Essentially, it is a blockage in our lower abdominal area or poor qi/flow in the area. According to the Chinese Medicine, we therefore need to simply improve blood flow in the abdominal area and the natural qi/flow will alleviate and thereby alleviate the blood stagnation in the area. Makes sense really…..

We can stimulate this natural flow through a series of methods:

  1. Exercise and movement in the area – I love the Yoga poses for this as they stimulate the abdominal cavity perfectly. Lie on your back, bend your knees and then gently lift your bum off the ground only mildly and slowly. It is kinda like thrusting (sorry, best way I could describe it!) It stimulates the lower back too. Reaching up and aiming for the sky and then bending over – in an attempt to touch your toes 🙂 is another great way to get the blood flowing.
  2. Use Chinese herbs to natural blood flow in the abdominal cavity. I love my new discovery of Bupleurum and Peony Formula. It works by stimulating the liver qi (one associated with lower abdominal pain).
  3. Heal the liver emotionally. Essentially, the abdominal blockage is linked to the meridian line of the liver. According to the Chinese, the liver is directly attributed to anger and strong emotions. We can heal these emotions in our bodies and release them, thereby allowing the liver to heal.
  4. Heal the liver physically. This involves looking after our liver with the right diet and adding some supplements to help it heal. I love Dandelion Root tea and supplements. Other alternatives include Liver Tonics, supplements or just doing a general liver detox.
It is great to know that so many of our side-effects can all be attributed to the one thing!
Do you also share tension in the lower back? Struggle to touch your toes?
Hugs, Melissa x
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  1. Melissa

    It will get better Shaz. Just keep going and the answers will come. Hope you are feeling okay 🙂

  2. shaz

    I am curious about this too because I can touch my toes…I have bad endo too?Can anyone else touch there toes?Does that mean that something is right inside?I hope so.Becuase so much is wrong right now.

  3. Melissa

    Hi Helen. That makes me feel so much better! Glad I am not the only “no-touch-my-toes” girls out there and especially since you practice Yoga! The pose I was thinking of is called The Bridge – but I don’t go all the way up like that – just really brief movements….. only lift my bum off the ground by about a hand. http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/thebridge.asp
    Cool website for poses 🙂 I also read that we can stimulate the meridian lines with pressure points in the feet and legs. Check out this article: http://endoempowered.com/endometriosis-healing-with-traditional-chinese-medicine/

  4. Helen

    Hi Mel!
    I got some news for you! I don´t reach my toes either! And – I am a yogateacher! I´m the only one in the yogastudio that can´t reach my toes! All my students can! 🙂 I have tried to do yoga-exercises regurlary for this, and have improved, but when I stop in a period of time, then I get very stiff again. I have noticed it´s easier when it´s hot, but I live in cold Sweden so.. I´ll try again when i go to hot Brazil in a couple of weeks.
    I have actually heard kinda the same from Indians, that it´s connected to the abdominal area. But then it´s connected to the navelchakra, lack of energy in that area. Interesting!
    Is it this yogapose you mean?: http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/yogapractice/theplough.asp I´ll will add it to my yogaset, see what will happen. I´ll research a little bit and see if there are more yogaposes that are good for the liver.
    Thanks alot for your wonderful work, Mel!

  5. Melissa

    Cool! Glad it is not just me then!
    Yeah the liver is massive! I am exploring some other liver supplements and anti-inflammatory supplements too 🙂

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