Hand Reflexology — Bilateral Zone Map
Hand Reflexology — Bilateral Zone Map is a Modern / Somatic bodywork — Ingham-lineage reflexology body system as transmitted through the lineage Modern reflexology descends from Eunice D. Ingham's Zone Therapy manuals, which present body correspondences as longitudinal zones rather than as anatomical nerves or vessels. Later Kunz hand-reflexology manuals adapt this zone model to palmar hand charts; this system records a compact bilateral selection of those modern correspondences.. This page lists every point in the system with sourced placements and links to cross-tradition correspondences curated for The Body Spiritual.
Open in interactive explorerPrimary sources
- Eunice D. Ingham, Stories the Feet Can Tell Thru Reflexology (1938) — Foundational Zone Therapy manual for the Ingham lineage; its original map is chiefly a foot map, so hand correspondences are a later adaptation.
- Kevin Kunz, Hand Reflexology Workbook: How to Work on Someone's Hands (1985) — Kunz hand-reflexology charting and practice manual; used here as the secondary source for the hand-zone correspondences.
- Barbara Kunz and Kevin Kunz, Hand Reflexology: Simple Routines for Health and Relaxation (2006) — Later Kunz presentation of hand reflexology for self-care and chart-based practice.
Known lineage variants
- Ingham's foundational publications describe Zone Therapy principally through the feet; the hand map is a modern extension in the Kunz teaching family rather than a single canonical historical diagram.
- Hand-reflexology schools vary in the exact borders of head, thorax, abdominal, pelvic, and spinal zones and in whether a palmar map is paired with a separate dorsal map. The five bands per hand here are a deliberately coarse synthesis and should not be read as a universal chart.
- The requested front-view body diagram places each palmar schematic beside the corresponding hip (image-left x approximately 0.39–0.45 for anatomical right and image-right x approximately 0.55–0.61 for anatomical left, y approximately 0.54–0.67). This inset projection is an editorial rendering convention, not a claim that the hands are anatomically located at the hips; anatomical-right follows the corpus convention x < 0.5.
- The labels 'head/sinus', 'chest/lung', 'solar plexus/kidney', 'pelvis/lower back', and 'thumb/spine' preserve common chart shorthand. They describe reflexology correspondences, not established physiological pathways or diagnostic claims.
Related systems
No other systems share this tradition label.