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  • Ashiatsu, as the spa menu tells me, comes from the Japanese word "ashi" which means feet, and shiatsu, which means "massage."

    Alison Stein Wellner: Massaging Away Creationism? 2008

  • Yes, Japanese also has the same word, 'ashi' 足 for leg/foot.

    Foot Fingers and Other Body Part Naming Curiosities mj 2009

  • Local pain is treated by needling the tender "ashi" points where qi or Blood is believed to have stagnated.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • * Palpation includes feeling the body for tender "ashi" points, and palpation of the left and right radial pulses at two levels of pressure (superficial and deep) and three positions Cun, Guan, Chi (immediately proximal to the wrist crease, and one and two fingers 'breadth proximally, usually palpated with the index, middle and ring fingers).

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • * Palpation includes feeling the body for tender "ashi" points, and palpation of the left and right radial pulses at two levels of pressure (superficial and deep) and three positions Cun, Guan, Chi (immediately proximal to the wrist crease, and one and two fingers 'breadth proximally, usually palpated with the index, middle and ring fingers).

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • * Palpation includes feeling the body for tender "ashi" points, and palpation of the left and right radial pulses at two levels of pressure (superficial and deep) and three positions Cun, Guan, Chi (immediately proximal to the wrist crease, and one and two fingers 'breadth proximally, usually palpated with the index, middle and ring fingers).

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Local pain is treated by needling the tender "ashi" points where qi or Blood is believed to have stagnated.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Local pain is treated by needling the tender "ashi" points where qi or Blood is believed to have stagnated.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • And Hisanori Takah ashi sure would deliver some necessary depth to the bullpen if the Mets could afford to move him back there.

    A World-Class Wheeler Dealer? 2010

  • Leaving an access history trail (ashi-ato) became troublesome

    mixi and other SNS still all the rage 2007

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