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What are the benefits of massaging the scalp? Correct way to massage scalp
Massage is a very good way to relieve fatigue. Our head is a gathering place for nerves. Regular massage of the head can promote the activity of brain nerves, improve the blood circulation of the brain and enhance memory. There are many acupoints on the head. If you want to achieve the effect of health preservation, you must find the right acupoints, so it is very important to master the correct massage techniques. What are the benefits of massaging the scalp?

1, help hair grow.

By repeatedly rubbing and massaging the scalp, it can stimulate capillaries and hair follicles, make blood vessels unobstructed, easily restore head fatigue, and contribute to hair growth.

2. Prevent hair loss

Repeated scalp massage can promote scalp blood circulation, improve hair follicle nutrition, easily make hair soft and shiny, prevent hair from falling off and turning white, and delay aging.

3, good for health

There are many meridians, acupoints and nerve endings on the scalp. Regular scalp massage can relax muscles and tendons, relax nerves and prolong life.

Step 4 relieve fatigue

If the pressure of work or study is too great, proper scalp massage can make people relax physically and mentally and eliminate fatigue.

5. How to massage the scalp?

If you don't have time to massage every day, you can massage for three or four days a week, and you can decide the number of scalp massages according to the frequency of shampooing.

When massaging the scalp, proper use of some massage cream, essential oil, or DIY scalp care products with massage can make the scalp better absorb nutrients and promote scalp health.

When massaging, you can use nutrient solution or anti-dandruff emulsion according to the needs of different hair and scalp. If the scalp is dry, it is generally suitable to use emulsion containing protein. Lemon lotion can be used for oily scalp.

6. What are the methods to massage the scalp?

(1) Spread out the five fingers of the right hand or left hand, massage from front to back, and then massage around for five minutes until the scalp is hot, once every morning and evening.

(2) Press your fingers on the scalp, press and rotate, and massage each part for 3 times. When moving, the fingers push the scalp first and then move the position, instead of sliding the fingers on the hair, otherwise the massage effect will be lost.

(3) Press your thumb down on the temple, open your other fingers, and massage on the scalp for three times, then press your forefinger and middle finger down on the temple for three times.

(4) Put your hand directly above your forehead, gently rub the scalp, and then gradually move backwards along the front hairline and temples, and move to the center of the scalp for 4 minutes.

7. Benefits of massaging various acupoints on the head

(1) scalp point

Generally, sit up straight, lean back and lie on your back. This point is located at the hairline on the side of the head. The hairline point is upward-the fingers are wide, and the muscles will move when the mouth moves (when the forehead is 0.5 inches above the hairline, it is 4.5 inches beside the middle line of the head).

Indications: Indications of head and tail points are: finger pressing head and tail can treat facial diseases such as facial spasm and pain.

(2) Bai Yang Point

When selecting acupoints, patients generally take the posture of sitting straight, leaning back and supine. Yangbai point is located on the face, just above the pupil, about 2 cm away from the upper edge of the eyebrow.

Main symptoms: The main symptoms of Bai Yang point are that it has obvious therapeutic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, eye fatigue and other symptoms.

③ Tang Yindian:

You can sit up straight, lean back or lie on your back when taking acupoints. Tang Yin acupoint is located on the face, and the midpoint of the line connecting the eyebrows is.

Indications: The indications of Tang Yin point are headache, headache, insomnia, hypertension, nasal congestion, runny nose, rhinitis, nasal diseases, dizziness, eye diseases, etc.

(4) store bamboo.

When selecting acupoints, the patient should be asked to sit up straight or supine, and the bamboo acupoints should be located in the depression of the face and the inner edge of the eyebrows (when the eyebrows are depressed, it is the supraorbital notch).

Indications: tears in the wind (commonly known as eye leakage), eye congestion, eye fatigue, common eye diseases, pseudomyopia, etc. In students' eye exercises, one of them is acupressure, which shows that its health care effect is extraordinary.

(5) Jingming point

When looking for this acupoint, the patient should sit up straight or lie on his back. Jingming point is located in the eye, slightly higher than the inner corner of the eye

Indications: The indications of Jingming point are: tears in the wind, migraine, conjunctivitis, blepharitis, eye fatigue, eye disease, trigeminal neuralgia, myopia and so on. This point is also one of the commonly used points for treating eye diseases. Especially those who often use their eyes, they should master the method of acupoint selection skillfully and accurately. As long as you massage for two minutes, you can obviously relieve eye fatigue. For students, it is one of the rare acupoints to prevent myopia. In addition, there are important acupoints such as Zuzhu, Sibai, Temple, Chengqi and Yuyao.

(6) Students _

When selecting acupoints, you can sit up straight or lie on your back. The pupil _ acupoint is located on the face, at -cm outside the eye (beside the lateral canthus, at the lateral edge of the orbit).

Indications for treatment: The main indications of Tongzi _ point are that pressing this point with fingers can promote eye blood circulation, treat common eye diseases and eliminate wrinkles around eyes.

(7) Bearing cavitation

When locating this point, you usually sit up straight, lean back or lie on your back. The tear point is located on the face, just below the pupil, between the eyeball and the edge of the lower orbit. See: map of human acupoints.

Indications: Cavitation is used to treat myopia, night blindness, nystagmus, blepharospasm, keratitis, optic atrophy, eye fatigue, tears in the wind, presbyopia, cataract and other common eye diseases. Of course, other related acupoints need to be used-the same treatment can achieve remarkable results. This point is one of the most important points in acupoint therapy for eye diseases.

(8) Sibai point

When selecting acupoints, you usually sit up straight, lean back or lie on your back, and the four white acupoints are on your face. When the eyes are flat, the pupil is about 2 cm below the center (or when the pupil is straight down and the suborbital foramen is depressed).

Indications: The indications of Sibai point are: pressing this point with fingers can improve eye function, which is very effective for eye diseases such as myopia and color blindness.

(9) Xiang Ying pt.

When acupoints are selected-generally in the sitting or supine position, Xiang Ying acupoint is located on the face, in a wrinkle about -cm beside the alar (near the midpoint of the alar outer edge, in the nasolabial groove).

Indications: The indications of Xiang Ying point are rhinitis, nasal congestion, sinusitis, runny nose, nasal disease, toothache and cold. Especially when your upper teeth have a toothache, pressing Xiang Ying with your fingers can quickly relieve the pain.