So what kind of important role does the spleen play? Spleen has three functions.
First of all, it is the main means of transportation in Shui Gu. Transporting Shui Gu can be understood as digesting and absorbing subtle nutrients and absorbing and utilizing good things.
Second, it is the process of transporting water and getting wet, that is, removing things that can't be absorbed and utilized in your body, garbage and metabolites. One is absorption, the other is elimination, and the two are combined into one, that is, the spleen governs transportation and utilization, and absorbs and utilizes very good nutrients in the body and transports them to places where the body can need them; Bad things are excreted. If something goes wrong in this process, it will lead to the body being deprived of nutrition, so it will be very sleepy and tired, and the excessive accumulation of metabolites or nutrients in the body will form a lot of garbage. Therefore, it is often described as spleen deficiency, spleen deficiency leading to dampness, dampness leading to phlegm and blood stasis, which is a development process from shallow to deep and from light to heavy. So the spleen plays an important role in it.
The spleen also has a third function, which is to control the blood. Control the normal flow of blood in veins.
Today, the acupoints for strengthening the spleen, or the principle of strengthening the spleen, focus on the former category, that is, the category of spleen governing transport and transformation, including two branch functions of spleen governing transport and transformation of Shui Gu and spleen governing transport and transformation of water and dampness. In a word, spleen governs transport and transformation.
If you mention acupuncture points that have the function of strengthening the spleen in the body, you may be familiar with them, and you can mention them at once, such as Zusanli, Yinlingquan, Qihai and so on. However, these acupoints did not become spleen-strengthening acupoints, so they were not given the name of spleen-strengthening acupoints. So what are the spleen-strengthening acupoints in the body?
As mentioned in previous programs, it is Zhangmen point. Zhangmen point is called Mu-point of spleen, and Mu-point is a special point for collecting the qi of viscera. All the acupoints are distributed in the chest and abdomen of human body, which brings together the viscera qi of each viscera, so the viscera qi of the spleen will gather at the positions of the acupoints and Zhangmen of the spleen.
First, let's see how to find Zhangmen point.
As soon as you inhale, touch your rib arch and look down along the lower edge of the rib arch. There are 12 ribs in total. Five ribs and sternum form a sternoclavicular joint, and five ribs are fused by six to ten ribs to form a rib arch. However, the eleventh and twelfth ribs will form free ribs. Free rib means that no rib arch is formed, that is, a rib cartilage comes out of a rib, which can bounce here and move here.
So, when you inhale and tuck in, you will run down the rib arch, and on your side abdomen, you will encounter a piece of cartilage that can bounce. This position is the eleventh rib end, called Zhangmen point. Some friends will say that it is difficult to find a pit. First, I don't bounce back when I touch a wimp. Why do I feel less obvious? Second, my figure is relatively fat. Why do I like listening to invigorating the spleen? Because I'm fat. Does invigorating the spleen help me to get rid of dampness? Is it helpful for me to get rid of phlegm? Does it help me excrete more metabolites from the human body? Then, whether the body's weight and its own metabolic level have changed is also a starting point for learning. So find the right acupoints.
So I'll teach you a simpler way to find Zhangmen point, that is, bend your elbow. When you do extreme elbow flexion, the tip of your elbow is under your arm, and the rib arch is right on your chest. Draw a line along the rib arch and intersect with the elbow tip. This position is the head hole.
When you find this position, put your finger up and push it down hard, you will feel obvious pain. This kind of pain is a little unbearable, and it is a point-like pain. What is it like? On the bone surface, if the fascia is slightly inflamed, it is usually this type of pain. For example, the scapula of the neck, shoulders and shoulders will hurt, even a little sore and tingling, when you touch it along the bone edge of some parts, which is this type of pain.
Why is there such obvious pain here?
Find out the reason, and find out why acupuncture points can regulate the function of the spleen and have the effect of strengthening the spleen. Before explaining this point, let's talk about the understanding of spleen in the abdomen in traditional Chinese medicine. The spleen meridian of Foot Taiyin, that is, the meridian of Lingshu meridian, is recorded in the original text. When it reaches the groin position, it enters the groin, which is called "entering the abdomen belongs to the spleen and winding the stomach", and the genus belongs to it, that is, it belongs to the spleen and then touches the stomach.
It is generally understood that the spleen is the middle jiao. Then the pelvic cavity, above the line between the two anterior superior iliac spines, and below the diaphragm is the intermediate lesion. Then why enter the abdomen directly from the groin and lower pelvic cavity? The reason is that in the abdomen, the main metabolism and transportation function of the spleen actually refers to the abdominal wall, which is composed of abdominal muscles, inferior peritoneum, dirty peritoneum and some omentum of deep abdominal cavity.
Take muscles for example. The muscles outside the abdominal cavity, superficial and deep, walk horizontally and vertically, so this structure makes the abdominal wall have a kind of abdominal pressure, which is very important for the visceral function of the human body. The peristalsis of gastrointestinal tract and the secretion of glands depend on the adjustment of abdominal pressure to make him have physiological rhythm. As soon as the rhythm changes, your metabolic function and ability change. Therefore, too high or too low abdominal pressure will affect your digestion, absorption and metabolic function. Spleen refers to this ability to adjust abdominal pressure, that is, to adjust abdominal pressure through the change of abdominal wall contraction tension.
At this time, think about it, whether you walk sideways or sideways, do these muscles have to stick to the bone to produce the force involved in contraction? Below is the ilium and pelvis; Above it are ribs, sternum and rib arch. Then the pelvis is fixed, its stability is very strong, the rib arch is almost motionless, only the free ribs, the eleventh and twelfth rib ends, is a flexible soft bone. So the muscle is attached here, and this position can move. In the depth of this position, the inner edge of the rib is also the attachment area of the diaphragm.
Therefore, this position is the core position to adjust abdominal pressure and diaphragm movement up and down. I still remember that in the explanation of the gallbladder meridian of foot shaoyang, it was specifically said that many points of the gallbladder meridian have this regulating effect. Therefore, the shaoyang meridian of human body is the hub of human qi, and Zhangmen point has such a unique anatomical structure, so the transport ability of body and spleen can be adjusted by adjusting abdominal pressure. Therefore, the ancients realized this, how wise, and realized that modern medicine realized such a functional feature, so they set the acupoint on the 1 1 costal cartilage.
In short, in clinical practice, in order to strengthen the spleen, it is necessary to stimulate the costal cartilage to produce elastic movement through various stimulation methods, and adjust the abdominal pressure through this elastic movement, and adjust the transportation function of the spleen through adjusting the abdominal pressure. Spleen covers stomach, which is dominated by spleen, and stomach can also dominate large intestine and small intestine, so spleen includes glands of stomach, large intestine, small intestine and related digestive tract.
So, how can we play such a regulatory role?
Introduce a health preserving method that you can operate; First of all, you still need to find the head point of the eleventh costal cartilage, and find the costal end of the eleventh rib by combining elbow flexion, elbow tip and costal arch. When you find the position, put your thumb in this position. Put your thumb on the cartilage of eleven ribs, and then put the other four fingers on your waist. If you squeeze hard, you can pinch the muscles on your abdomen and play the first role. Is that you can catch acupuncture points. This is one side, and at the same time, the other hand is placed at the Zhangmen point on the other side, and the same four fingers are also placed at the back. That is, hands akimbo, so put.
When you put it like this, do a particularly simple action, that is, pinch left and right, alternately. The speed of this action depends on the strength of your hand, and you can control it yourself. If your hands are weak, you can pinch them together and then pinch the other side.
Through such pinching stimulation, costal cartilage bounces. As soon as the costal cartilage bounces, the abdominal pressure changes immediately. So if you insist on doing it for three to five minutes, you will feel, first, refreshed and refreshed, and the qi machine can improve. Second, the bloated, full belly and full abdomen began to relax.
If you are particularly supportive and you do this, you will immediately feel more open and even hungry. If the sides are slack, repeat it every day for a period of time after that. After a week or two, you will find that your loose stomach has started to tighten slightly.
Therefore, it can not only help reduce abdominal pressure, but also increase abdominal pressure, which can not only relieve the fullness of the spleen and stomach, but also relax and relieve it. Secondly, it can also improve the abdomen, which is soft, which can promote the weakness of the spleen and stomach, so different people have different effects after doing it.