What are the health functions of massage?
Massage is used to massage some parts or acupoints of the human body with the skills of hands and fingers, so as to achieve the purpose of prevention and health care, which is called massage health care. The health-preserving function of massage is to promote the whole metabolism by stimulating the local part of the body, so as to adjust the coordination and unity of the functions of various parts of the human body, maintain the relative balance of yin and yang, and enhance the natural disease resistance of the body. Achieve the effects of relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, strengthening body and preventing diseases. (A) dredge meridians, promote qi and blood circulation "Su Wen?" "Blood-gas-like Records" says: The meridians are blocked, and the disease is born in non-human, so massage is used to treat it. The Theory of Regulating Classics also points out that those who are deficient in God should be treated as virtual collaterals and pressed. It shows that massage has the function of dredging meridians. Because massage often takes acupoints along the meridians, massage stimulates the corresponding acupoints. Therefore, it can make qi and blood run along the meridian, prevent qi and blood from staying, and achieve the purpose of dredging meridians and smoothing qi and blood. From the point of view of modern medicine, massage mainly stimulates peripheral nerves, promotes blood and lymph circulation and the metabolic process between tissues, coordinates the functions between tissues and organs, and improves the metabolic level of the body. The role of massage in health preservation (2) reconcile the camp and the guard, balance the qi and blood operation of the camp and the guard, and make the whole body become a harmonious and unified whole. Ying and Wei are connected, qi and blood are harmonious, and the body is nourished, so the internal and external harmony is secret. Luo Hong, a health care practitioner in the Ming Dynasty, said in the book Immortal Immortal Immortality: Massage can dredge the orifices and spin Wei Rong. Massage is based on the theoretical principles of traditional Chinese medicine, combined with the specific situation, using different techniques, with the strength of softness and rigidity, along the meridians, according to acupoints, and through the conduction of meridians to regulate the whole body, so as to reconcile the qi and blood of the camp and guard and enhance the health of the body. (3) Spleen-invigorating and stomach-nourishing and blood-generating massage can not only promote the generation of qi and blood through spleen-invigorating and stomach-nourishing, but also dredge meridians, strengthen the excretion function of the liver and promote the smoothness of qi and blood.