K.H.T. Systems was founded by Dr. Dan Lobash, Ph.D., L.Ac. to promote the teaching and clinical applications of K.H.T. throughout the United States and Canada.

Since 1993 K.H.T. Systems has developed and sponsored seminars by the founder of KHT, Dr. Tae Woo Yoo, O.M.D., Ph.D. and others.

In 1996 K.H.T. Systems initiated the first "KHT Professional and Teacher Certificate", 2 year training program in the United States. They also provide materials needed to learn and apply Korean Hand Therapy, as well as other health products.

K.H.T. Systems is currently establishing the certification standards for practitioners and teachers of K.H.T., in close cooperation with the American Institute of Koryo Hand Therapy.

WHAT IT IS: Korean Hand Therapy is a system for awakening the body to health and wellness through your hands. By stimulating specific points on your hands, you can resolve pain and balance internal organ function.

K.H.T. includes the reflexology level of treatment, similar in concept to the reflexology of the foot. The K.H.T. reflex map of the hand was discovered in 1971 by Dr. Tae-Woo Yoo, O.M.D., Ph.D. in Korea and has been clinically and experimentally tested for accuracy.

K.H.T. also includes the entire acupuncture meridian energy system, but in miniature, on the hands. This addition to the reflex system gives hand therapy many treatment options, as explained below.

STIMULATING POINTS in K.H.T. is done with point massage, tiny tape-on metal acu-pressure pellets, heat through tiny heat stimulators, miniature acupuncture needles, and an electrical device.

GREATER HEALING EFFECTIVENESS in the K.H.T. system is possible because the entire acupuncture system found on the whole body is also found in miniature on the hands.

This means that you can add the healing power of acupuncture principles to the basic K.H.T. hand reflexology system.

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS OF ALL DISCIPLINES can add the power of K.H.T. to their present methods of working with clients.

K.H.T. is practiced by a diverse group of health care professionals throughout the world. Current practitioners include acupuncturists, medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, nurses, nurse practitioners, massage therapists, and laypersons. Text books are available in English; German; French; Spanish; Japanese; and Russian (soon). Each of the professions finds their unique way to combine K.H.T. within the scope of their practice and style of working.

SELF AND FAMILY TREATMENT

Laypersons usually confine their study to the beginning levels of K.H.T. This level of knowledge allows them to treat themselves and their family members in order to remedy simpler problems and to maintain good health. Several hundred thousand lay persons in Korea and elsewhere practice self and family treatment.

More complex, chronic problems often requires the assistance of practitioners with advanced K.H.T. knowledge and clinical experience.

HOW TO LEARN KHT

Attend Seminars: Public seminars are increasingly available in the U.S. from certified practitioners.

Contact K.H.T. Systems to arrange a seminar for your group or organization.

Complete the K.H.T. Correspondence Therapy Home Study Course and other Video Learning Tools.

Join the next K.H.T. Professional Training Program!

Correspondence Therapy

In this level you learn to treat physical problems by simple stimulating points on the hands that correspond to specific areas and structures in the body.

You learn how to search for the right points to stimulate and then how to apply the stimulation. Also included in this level of training is "Basic Therapy" and "Organ-Meridian Therapy".

Anybody can easily learn to successfully apply K.H.T. Correspondence Therapy.

It is ideal for those who want a quick and effective method to treat simple problems such as the common cold, aches and pains, fatigue, PMS, stomach upset, etc.

It can be used on anybody, of any age and is ideal for children.

K.H.T. at this basic level is non-invasive, that means you can get good results without using needles that puncture the skin.

Correspondence Therapy by itself can foster wonderful healing of your body-mind-emotions.

Some problems of a severe and long standing nature often requires the more powerful techniques used by certified K.H.T. PRACTITIONERS

Meridian Therapy

This level of training covers in detail each of the hand micro-meridians and their special clinical uses. These 12 energy micro-meridians (pathways) are analogous to their body counterparts, but they are a separate, but parallel, system. Application of the special functions of the hand meridians and acu-points adds another level of power and treatment options to enhance Correspondence Therapy.

Three Constitutions Therapy

The next level of healing strategies is possible through learning determine which of the 12 organ-meridian systems are most unbalanced.

Students learn how to read and compare the radial and carotid pulses and how to palpate the abdomen. The combination of this information leads to the most appropriate organ to treat. With this information, and knowledge of the meridians, the energies of the organ can be either tonified (enhanced) or where there is excess, sedated. This healing strategy has a powerful effect on balancing the function of the internal organs.

Five Element Therapy

In this level of training the student learns to apply the principles of the balance of Yin and Yang as they manifest in the Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The theory of the Five Elements is applied to the K.H.T. hand meridians in a manner similar to that used in whole body acupuncture. Application of the five Element principles to the hands gives even more power to bring internal organ balance and harmony.

Eight Extra Meridian Therapy

The eight extra meridians have particular power to align the skeletal structure. Without balanced alignment of the skeletal system, the internal organs cannot function in a balanced manner.

In this level the student learns to apply the hand corresponding points to the Master and Coupled Points of the body system.

Birth Constitution Therapy

The most profound level of treatment occurs here. Each person is born with certain strengths and weaknesses of organ system functioning. Based on the ancient Chinese concept of the "stems and branches" these constitutional tendencies can be plotted based on the date of birth of the person. With this knowledge, treatments can work at the deepest level of the persons energetic-being. Proper application of these principles can foster good health in most circumstances.

Special Syndrome Therapy

Years of clinical therapy across thousands of clients has produced excellent strategies for treating certain common, and difficult to change medical syndromes; for example post stroke recovery.

In this level of education, students will learn successful therapy strategies from the vast experience of senior clinicians worldwide.

See this page to browse all products available online through KRT

* Pellets * Hand Moxa * Moxa Warmers

* Acupuncture Needles * Automatic Inserters

* Clinic Rings * Hand Massagers

* Energy Medicine Tools

* Hand Charts * Books

* DVDs * CDs