Abstract
Clinical holistic medicine: Pilot Study on the Effect of Vaginal Acupressure (Hippocratic pelvic massage)
Highlights
Hippocrates (460–377 BCE), the “father of medicine”, and the physicians of his time were aware of female sexual disease and treatments included different physical procedures focused on the female pelvis, like smoking the vagina and massaging the pelvis[1]
Twenty female patients received vaginal acupressure (VA) treatment for different sexual problems: chronic pain in the genitals, pain or discomfort during sexual intercourse, problems with sexual desire, orgasmic malfunctioning, and other sexual inadequacy often combined with low self-esteem and mental problems related to gender and sexuality
It is important to notice that we introduced a slow pelvic examination with a therapeutic element, relevant for a wide range of psychosomatic disturbances related to gender and sexuality, from infertility to gynecological and sexual psychosomatic problems and the long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse[13]
Summary
Hippocrates (460–377 BCE), the “father of medicine”, and the physicians of his time were aware of female sexual disease and treatments included different physical procedures focused on the female pelvis, like smoking the vagina and massaging the pelvis[1]. For various reasons, these treatments were later abandoned and some authors even found it a form of abuse by a medical profession with insufficient ethics[2]. (2006) Clinical holistic medicine: pilot study on the effect of vaginal acupressure (Hippocratic pelvic massage).
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