May I shave my neck?
Scraping can play a role in harmonizing yin and yang, dredging meridians, relieving fatigue and increasing immune function. Stiff neck can be scraped, but care should be taken to protect the skin, prevent skin damage, and keep the neck warm at ordinary times.
Modern people can't live without words and computer operation. Their upper limbs keep the same posture or repeat the same movements for a long time, riding cars and sitting on soft sofas for a long time. Coupled with air conditioning, their necks and shoulders are prone to cold, and many people unconsciously suffer from neck and shoulder pain, stiffness, muscle strain and other diseases. Scraping along the five elements behind the neck with a scraping plate can play a good therapeutic role.
The specific method is: evenly apply scraping oil on the neck, shoulder and back, and scrape the first line first, that is, from Fengfu point to Dazhui point from top to bottom to the middle of Du meridian (as shown in the figure); Then scrape Tianzhu to rafters on the bladder meridian, one on the left and one on the right; Finally, from Fengchi point to Jianjing point, one left and one right, from Fengchi point to cervical root from top to bottom, and from inside to outside.
There are two points to pay attention to when scraping the back of the neck: first, each line should be scraped in sections, and the length of each scraping is 3-5 cm; Second, at the same time of scraping, deeply press the skin, focusing on scraping 10-20 times at the painful, stiff and unsmooth parts. It is suggested that patients with neck and shoulder pain scrape 1 time per week; After the pain is relieved, shave once every 2-3 weeks to consolidate the curative effect.
What are the advantages of neck cupping?
Cupping is a physical therapy of traditional Chinese medicine. There are many manipulations, which can be fixed or walked on the body. This neck is ok, and even some people with sore throat will have throat scraping and cupping.
First, cupping can dispel cold and dampness, dredge channels and collaterals, dispel blood stasis and dissipate stagnation, promote qi and blood circulation, relieve swelling and pain, pull out toxin and purge heat. It has the functions of regulating the balance of yin and yang, eliminating fatigue and strengthening the body, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body resistance, eliminating pathogenic factors and treating diseases.
So many diseases can be treated by cupping therapy. At the same time, it can promote local blood circulation, achieve the purpose of relieving pain and restoring function, so as to treat rheumatism, such as joint pain and muscle soreness.
Second: Negative pressure effect When the human body is cupped and sucked under negative pressure, a large number of bubbles overflow on the skin surface, thus strengthening the gas exchange of local tissues.
Negative pressure changes the permeability of local capillaries, capillaries rupture, and a small amount of blood enters the gap, resulting in blood stasis, destruction of red blood cells, release of hemoglobin, and self-hemolysis. In the body's self-regulation, it has the effects of promoting qi and blood circulation, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, relieving swelling and pain, expelling wind and removing dampness. , and play a positive role in stimulating it, prompting it to return to normal function.
Three: Warming effect Local skin has a warm stimulation effect, which is most obvious in big cupping, water pot and medicine pot.
Warm stimulation can dilate blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, improve congestion, strengthen metabolism, accelerate the discharge of wastes and toxins in the body, change the nutritional status of local tissues, enhance the permeability of blood vessel walls, enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells and reticular cells, enhance local tolerance and body resistance, and play the role of warming meridians, dispelling cold, clearing heat and detoxifying, thus achieving the purpose of promoting disease improvement.
Four: the adjustment of cupping is based on negative pressure or warm action.
What parts can't be pulled out when cupping?
Some people have wounds and skin diseases, or lose weight and muscle elasticity.
Second, bone protrusions, varicose veins, eyes, heart, nipple hair, etc.
(3) A person who has severe cramps all over his body and suddenly loses consciousness,
Fourth, pregnant women's abdomen, tumors and carbuncle are locally prohibited, and patients with edema should use them with caution.