Ancient Greeks and Persians found cure for various illnesses just by touching the patient's hands. This art of healing, known as Acupressure is done by gradually stimulating the body's self curative abilities. Acupuncture and Acupressure use the same pressure points and meridians, but acupuncture employs needles whereas acupressure uses gentle to firm finger pressure.

Acupuncture is a technique hailed from China and Taiwan in which practitioners stimulate specific points in the body, most often by inserting very fine thin needles through the skin. A number of studies suggest that acupuncture may help ease various types of chronic pain such as low back pain, neck pain, etc as well as osteoarthritis of the knees.

Guasha is a healing technique of traditional East Asian medicine. Sometimes called coining, spooning or scraping, Gua sha is defined as instrument-assisted unidirectional press-stroking of a lubricated area of the body surface to intentionally create transitory therapeutic petechiae called sha representing extravasation of blood in the subcutis.