If three or more massage exercises are recommended for one performance, a general deep breathing exercise can likewise be practiced between each of those.
Here may be noted, especially for the interest of physicians, the particular exercises which are most suitable for use in various diseases. There are other conditions than the ones mentioned below, in which the exercises might be used with benefit, but the following are the most important:
Anaemia
Headache
Disorders of the Digestive System
Disorders of the Liver
Diabetes
Affections of the Lungs
Disordered Conditions of the Heart
Insomnia
Muscular Disorders
Nervous Diseases
Obesity
Curvature of the Spine
ANAEMIA
All the massage exercises may be practiced once or twice daily. In addition, all the deep breathing exercises may be done separately, without strain, for five or ten minutes, twice daily.
HEADACHE
Here special reference is made to massage exercise No. 1, although all the exercises will prove of indirect benefit.
DISORDERS OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
(Constipation—Gas in the Stomach—Stasis—Dilatation of
the Stomach—Chronic Dyspepsia—Deficient
Peristaltic Action, etc.)
Reference is here made especially to massage exercise No.
