Eighty-two women diagnosed with menopause were randomly divided into two groups. Forty-two women received foot reflexology and forty received foot reflexology with auricular point magnet adhesion. Thirty minute sessions were provided daily for 60 days.

The women provided with foot reflexology had the following results at the conclusion of the study:
17 (40.48%) had fully recovered
20 (47.62%) had significantly recovered
4 ( 9.25%) had effective results 
1 had ineffective results

The women provided with foot reflexology and auricular magnet adhesion had the following results at the conclusion of the study:
9 (22.5%) had fully recovered
16 (40%) had significantly recovered
 9 (22.5%) had effective results
6 (15%) had ineffective results

Sun Jianhua, “Observation on the Therapeutic Effect of 82 Cases of Climacterium Syndrome (menopause) Treated withReflexology,: 1998 China Reflexology Symposium Report, China Reflexology Association, Beijing, pp. 60-61

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