Always use your head and eyes. Is there a feeling that your eyes are tired and your head is groggy? Close your eyes and rest for a while, and the situation has not improved much. Come on, you need a simple head and face massage at this time. When a set of movements is finished, the leader will relax and the feeling of fatigue and drowsiness will be swept away.

"Lingshu" said: "the twelve meridians has 365 collaterals, and its qi and blood are all superficial but deficient." Chinese medicine believes that the essence and blood of the five internal organs and the qi of clearing yang are all injected into the head. The five senses of the head and face are closely related to the viscera, tissues and organs of the human body in physiology and pathology through meridians. Therefore, massaging the head, face and neck can dredge the channels and collaterals, regulate the process of nerve excitation and inhibition, enhance human metabolism, improve and promote local blood circulation, and thus achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.

Therefore, ancient doctors attached great importance to the exercise of the head, and also summarized many methods of head meridian massage, such as pushing bamboo, pressing eyes, pinching eyebrows, pressing Baihui and so on.

0 1 push bamboo

Pushing bamboo is also called "opening Tianmen". Chinese medicine believes that Tianmen is located on the midline of forehead and is the gate of vitality. Pushing Tianmen can nourish human essence.

The method of pushing is to push the thumb of both hands alternately from the brow to the hairline in front of the forehead; From light to heavy, 30 ~ 50 times each time, with slight redness of the forehead skin as the degree. Regular use of bamboo storage is helpful to soothe the liver and regulate qi, relieve eye and head fatigue and promote blood circulation.

According to the eyes

Jingming point of the human body is located on the face, slightly higher than the corner of the eye. The eye refers to the position of the point, and the main target of qi and blood in the point is the eye. Ming means light. You can know from the name, which can brighten your eyes.

Pressing the eye is to gently pinch the acupoint with the tip of the thumb nail, and gently scrape and rub it back and forth on the bone for 1.3 minutes each time. It can prevent and treat myopia and relieve redness.

Knead the sun

The temple is located in the depression between the brow tip and the outer corner of the eye. This point has the functions of expelling wind and relieving exterior syndrome, clearing away heat and improving eyesight, and stopping headache.

The way to rub the sun is to press the left and right temples with two thumbs clockwise, rubbing 16 times, and rubbing 16 times in the opposite direction. Rubbing the sun can relieve fatigue, cheer up, relieve pain and refresh oneself, and help to keep concentration.

04 roubaihui

Baihui point is located at the intersection of the midline of the head and the connecting line between the two ear tips. "Ai Cai Bian" records: "Three yang and five meetings, five meetings are words, and a hundred meetings are words", which means that hundreds of veins meet here. Baihui Club is the master of all diseases, so many diseases can be treated with Baihui Club in clinic. The method of rubbing Baihui point is to rub it with your fingertips. Move gently, not too hard, and repeat for 2 3 minutes. It can improve blood supply to the brain, strengthen the brain, improve intelligence, calm down and sleep.

Twist one's eyebrows

Pinch your eyebrows and massage Tang Yin. Tang Yin's position is between his eyebrows.

Tang Yin point has the functions of improving eyesight, clearing nose, calming the heart and calming the nerves. Stir up the skin between the eyebrows with your thumb and forefinger, and pull it up a little 100 times a day, and you will feel a feeling of bloating and spreading to both sides. This is the impact of yang, and then you will feel that your brain is particularly awake and your eyes are particularly bright.

Massage the scalp.

Put your hands and fingers on both sides of your head, massage the whole scalp in a small range, and move gradually until the whole head feels relaxed, usually for 2-3 minutes at a time.

Nawujing

Put the palm of one hand on the top of your head, put your middle finger on the Du meridian in the middle of your head, put your index finger and ring finger on the bladder meridian on both sides, and put your thumb and little finger on the gallbladder meridian on both sides of the bladder meridian (the middle line before and after the head is the Du meridian, so determine the position of the middle finger, and the other fingers will be slightly opened, that is, they will naturally fall on the corresponding bladder meridian and gallbladder meridian). At the top of your head, take five meridians from back to front with your fingers, each time12 minutes.

Comb your hair.

Open your hands and fingers, comb with your hands instead of your hands, and apply a little force. From the forehead, comb your hair repeatedly through the top of your head or temple to the pillow for about 3 minutes each time until your scalp is slightly hot.

Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, used to comb his hair as the secret of fitness. In a poem, he said: "A thousand combs of cold can quickly wake up the bones and muscles, and the wind can frost the lotus root", and he had the personal experience of "combing your hair a hundred times and sleeping until dawn".

In short, "the head is the meeting of all Yang". Regular massage on the head can also improve the blood circulation of the brain, increase the oxygen intake of the brain, help to regulate the function of the cerebral cortex, and make you smarter unconsciously.

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Exercise and you will be healthy. There are super simple and easy-to-use Chinese medicine exercises here, so that you can easily get healthy-

This book is divided into six chapters, which respectively discuss the "cheats" of China's four traditional sports, the good habits of keeping in good health, the exercise methods of becoming beautiful, the exercise methods of meridians, the exercise methods of treating all diseases and the exercise methods of the four seasons. The content in this paper is easy to understand, and it will be learned as soon as it is learned, so that readers can achieve the goal of keeping healthy through simple exercise.

Part of this article is selected from Super Simple Exercise Method of Traditional Chinese Medicine (published by China Traditional Chinese Medicine Publishing House, edited by Zhang Ming and Guo Yanxing). The final interpretation right belongs to the original author and is recommended by Du Yue TCM. Please do not reprint without authorization!