Publisher's Synopsis
Teens with piercings have become an increasingly common sight in the last decade. Piercings have gone from a rite of passage for teen girls who wanted to wear earrings, to a mass culture phenomenon. Certain piercings -- eyebrows, tongue -- are regarded by some as the ultimate in contemporary expression. Yet when acupressure expert Jeanne Blum, began investigating the history of piercing in the early nineteen nineties, she discovered that piercing has had medicinal and historical roots in cultures ranging from the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, and Romans, to Pacific Islanders and Mayans. Blum, an intuitive diagnostician trained by best-selling authors Norm Shealy, MD and Caroline Myss Ph. D. discovered that some these ancient cultures were aware of the potent effects of piercing certain acupuncture points, and the effects of various metals and gemstones when worn in piercings. Piercings wrongly placed can have adverse effects on emotional and physical health; only a handful of the thousands of people doing piercing have any idea of the correct points.
