Rubbing the abdomen for health preservation is one of the traditional health preservation methods in China, which has a history of nearly a thousand years. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, during the Qi and Liang Dynasties, there were three methods of rubbing the abdomen in the Yijinjing translated by Dharma. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao also took "walking at a hundred paces after meals, often rubbing his abdomen with his hands" as his way of keeping in good health. There are many ways for Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, to keep fit. One of them is rubbing his stomach several times a day. He once wrote poems such as "Take off your clothes and rub your stomach under the west window, don't blame others for being a rice bag" and "Take off your clothes and rub your stomach for me, and dream in a secluded window". Not only does he put down chopsticks to rub his stomach after dinner, but he often rubs his stomach while walking. Such as "cloister rubbing belly" and "crawling out of Fei Jing". Because Lu You knows how to rub his belly, he can still die at an advanced age despite his bumpy life.

During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Suo introduced the method of rubbing the abdomen in detail in the book Nine Methods of Extending the Year. The common method of rubbing the abdomen is to rub the thenar clockwise for about 120 times, then move down to the navel for about 120 times, then rub the whole abdomen clockwise for about 120 times with the whole palm of the right hand, and then rub it counterclockwise for 120 times. When rubbing the abdomen, you can also overlap your left hand on the back of your right hand and move your hands together to strengthen the massage and rubbing power. In Treatise on Febrile Diseases, it is said that "rubbing your hands with heat and then rubbing your abdomen will reduce your qi" and "rubbing your navel up and down and breathing the sea for unlimited times, the more the better". In "A Thousand Daughters Should Be Prescribed", it says, "Take a walk after dinner and count miles back and forth. Rubbing the abdomen hundreds of times can avoid all diseases. "

Modern medicine believes that rubbing the abdomen can strengthen the muscles of gastrointestinal tract and abdomen, promote the circulation of blood and lymph, strengthen the peristalsis of gastrointestinal tract, increase the secretion of digestive juice and improve digestive function. Only in this way can food be fully digested and absorbed, and the human body can be strong, healthy and live long. Clinical practice has proved that rubbing abdomen has a good auxiliary treatment effect on chronic diseases such as pulmonary heart disease, emphysema, hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, nephritis and constipation. Because rubbing the abdomen can stimulate peripheral nerves, make capillaries open, and the waste in the skin tissue gap is eliminated, thus promoting the metabolism of the body and playing the role of reducing fat, losing weight and bodybuilding.

It must be noted that when rubbing the abdomen, the technique should be natural, straight and gentle, and the number and time need not be too rigid, which can be decided by self-feeling. Rubbing the abdomen should not be carried out when you are hungry or full, and you should empty your urine. Visceral prolapse should be gently pressed, and patients with liver cirrhosis should not rub their abdomen. When you have malignant tumor or gastrointestinal dysfunction, visceral bleeding, appendicitis, peritonitis, it is absolutely forbidden to rub your abdomen. Because the physiological anatomy of the abdomen of men and women is slightly different, the abdomen of women is soft, the fat layer is thick, the muscle layer is weak, and there are female reproductive organs in the pelvic cavity, so the force should be light when massaging. Pregnant women should not rub their stomachs to avoid miscarriage. There may be some reactions after abdominal rubbing operation, such as abdominal murmur (hyperactivity of bowel sounds), warm breathing, fart, defecation or urination, warm feeling in abdominal cavity, and easy hunger. These are normal phenomena.