The origins of Reflexology date back at least 5,000 years when the Chinese were known to have practised a form of pressure therapy and from which accupuncture emerged as the stronger growth from the same root. Similar therapy was also carried out in India and Japan.

The earliest pictorial evidence of reflexology was found in Egypt around 2330 BCE in the tomb of Ankmaher, the highest official after the king, at Saggard and is known as the physicians tomb.