What is Sho-Tai®?
by Wayne Fullawka

The art of Sho-Tai® is a method where practitioners touch acupuncture points on the body to determine where the body is weak. For instance, every organ or gland needs nutrition from the bowel and electricity from the brain to exist. When an organ or gland gets sick or worn out, it loses its electrical charge.

When a practitioner touches the organ or gland reflex point and presses on the outstretched arm, the arm will go weak if the organ or gland is weak. The arm will stay strong if the organ or gland is strong. So, if you extend your arm and they press on it and touch the reflex of your heart, if your heart is weak the arm will drop; if your heart is strong, then the arm will stay strong.

When tested by a certified Sho-Tai practitioner, do not tell them anything about your condition concerns. They will be able to tell you how you feel, where your pain is, and what herbs are suggested. The practitioner will go over 100+ acupuncture points.

What Does a Practitioner Test?

Sho-Tai practitioners test using a specific muscle testing protocol to gather more information about your ailments and weaknesses. They supplement this by reading shapes, dots, lines, and colours on the eyes, tongue, teeth, hands, feet, ears, and fingernails.

The practitioners are proficient in analyzing the organs, glands, and systems of the body and how they work together. These include the urinary, respiratory, intestinal, immune, lymphatic, endocrine (hormone), hepatic (liver and gallbladder), skin, reproductive, circulatory, digestive, nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems. They are also trained in nutrition supplementation, herbal remedies, and can non-invasively test for what food or food combination is causing your system to be sick.

At the end of the test, they will show you on your arm a strong organ and a week organ. By this point, you will recognize how Sho-Tai works. You will be surprised!

Learn What Herbs are Right for You

A large number of people take herbs today. That’s a good thing. Herbs can help the body to heal itself. The two biggest issues with this is that people are often either taking far too many different herbs at the same time or they are taking the wrong herbs altogether.

The body can only heal itself in a few ways at one time, especially if it is very sick. What can happen is that the body will only use the weakest herb first and throw the rest of the herbs out through the bowel. This basically is enriching the toilet instead of the body.

Taking too many different herbs at one time can also force the body into an auto intoxication. This means the body is trying to purge or detox too many organs and glands at once. A Sho-Tai practitioner will test which herbs are best for you.

In combination with muscle testing and reading visual signs from the body, a practitioner may also provide some of the following services that address your posture, bone and muscle alignment, and high acid levels:

Muscle Therapy (M.T.)—Muscle and bone alignment using a combination of resistance and pressure techniques which return the muscles and bones back to proper function and normal range or movement.

Magnet Therapy—When a magnet is used on any area of the body, more electricity runs through that area. More electricity leads to more nutrition reaching the area, which leads to faster healing and repair of the body. In this way, magnets are effective in promoting healing by increasing the body’s natural electricity to the area affected.

Emotional Therapy—Different emotions can affect different organs and glands, just as different organs and glands can affect the emotions. Here are a few samples: anger affects the liver, love affects the heart, resentment affects the pancreas, and feeling smothered or controlled affects the lungs. Sho-Tai practitioners test people on their arm and find immediately “if they are weak because of an emotion.” This therapy works out tension in muscles, knots, and nodes that are caused by an emotional event.

Foot Detox Therapy—This therapy opens up room in your system for cellular rejuvenation. It purges heavy metals and toxins from your system. It also reduces high acid levels that may be caused by poor digestion, eating wrong combinations of foods, scar tissue, injuries, etc. It reduces acids in your body, promoting an alkaline state which assists healing from the inside.

If you would like to find out if some of your problems are caused by a specific organ or gland, or an excess of one food or herb or deficiency of another, please visit www.sho-tai.ca and visit a Sho-Tai practitioner near you, or go to Natural Good Choices on Facebook. For more information also see Wayne Fullawka’s Directory of Services ad on page 18 of the 27.1 May/June issue of the WHOLifE Journal.