The history of this curative art is lost with the veil of the time, nevertheless, exist clear evidences good that recently but of 4.000 years, as old cultures as Egyptian and the Chinese, among others, already they used the Reflexology like a true discipline in which in that then ones was rising medical science.
People trained with experience, communicating their own experiences to each other, and through generations, were little by little discovering the existence of very specific points in which the operation of some organs, glands and parts of the body could be stimulated. With happening of the time, that knowledge was being extended in such measurement, that to the development of new curative techniques like Acupuncture was given rise, to mention some, and that had their origin in the First stage of the historical development of the Reflexology.
Papyruses in very good state of conservation, show like between Egyptian the era very common the practice of the Reflexology Podalics (in the feet) as well as the application of the Reflexology Las Palmas of the hands.
Giving a great jump in the time, locating to us or in the last century, in 1913 the William doctor Fitzgerald, been in Connecticut, after studying those old woman techniques began to apply what he himself called “Zone Therapy” or Zonal Therapy with which managed to sometimes reduce and to eliminate the pain in some parts of the body. Almost simultaneously, in the CD. of New York other two pioneers of the modern Reflexology in North America, doctors Edwin Bowers and George Starr White developed and applied the techniques of the Reflexology in their daily task; as much that one was worth the rejection to them of the medical community of then.
In our time, the Reflexology widely known and is practiced in many countries of the world, at the moment this recognized like means of effective treatment for many diseases; but not only that, but also is used like support in the treatment.