Massage is an ancient and emerging medical and health care discipline. Medical scientists in China have attached great importance to this method and accumulated rich practical experience, which has been passed down to the world through continuous summarization, arrangement and development. Modern medicine has conducted multi-faceted and multi-level research from different angles, which proves that massage therapy has sufficient scientific basis and its positive therapeutic effect has been widely recognized by medical staff and patients in many countries. Massage is different from taking medicine or other treatments. It exerts force on some parts of the human body or acupuncture points by manual operation, thus playing a therapeutic role.

Chinese medicine believes that massage can improve the ventilation function of the lungs; Massage can adjust bladder tension and sphincter function; Promote human blood circulation and relax body and mind. Massage can not only treat surgical trauma, but also treat visceral diseases. Diabetes belongs to diabetes, which can be divided into upper digestion, middle digestion and lower digestion. Upper digestion is mainly manifested as lung heat (polydipsia leads to stomach heat (eliminating hunger), while lower digestion belongs to kidney (excessive urination), which is what western medicine calls more than three symptoms. Massage for diabetic patients can achieve the purposes of regulating yin and yang, regulating qi and blood, dredging meridians, tonifying kidney, tonifying deficiency and clearing away heat.

Common massage methods for treating diabetes.

1. Pressing method: the method of repeatedly pressing the treated part with fingertips, palms, palm roots or elbow tips from shallow to deep is called pressing method. It can also be divided into thumb pressing, middle finger pressing, knuckle pressing, palm root pressing, palm pressing and elbow pressing.

2. Moxibustion: Moxibustion is a technique of sticking the palm or forefinger, middle finger, ring finger (ring finger) and little finger on the treatment site and performing circular massage at a certain rhythm. Among them, palm-centered massage is called palm massage, and four-fingered operator is called finger massage.

3. Push method: The method of applying force to the treated part with the tip of thumb or thread surface and pushing in the direction parallel to the skin is called push method. There is also a push method called one-finger Zen push method, that is, sinking shoulders, hanging elbows and hanging wrists, with periodic elbow flexion and extension, driving forearm and wrist joint to do the joint action of internal and external swing and thumb joint flexion and extension.

4. Kneading method: pinch and lift the treated part slowly and symmetrically with the thumb, food, middle finger or other four fingers, and knead at the same time, which is called kneading method. It is divided into three-finger grip and five-finger grip.

5. Kneading method: The method of doing gentle gyration at the treatment site with finger, palm root, thenar or elbow tip as the focus is called kneading method. It can also be divided into middle finger kneading, thumb kneading, palm root kneading, thenar kneading and elbow kneading.