According to the theory of TCM health preservation, a cold is a disease caused by exogenous pathogenic factors and common cold invading the human body, and its symptoms are the manifestation of human yang resisting the invasion of diseases. If you have a cold, don't take medicine or injections at will. It is best to eliminate diseases through the body's own resistance, avoid the side effects of drugs and enhance immunity.
Stimulating acupoints to prevent and treat colds has a good effect in practice, and Dazhui is the most commonly used and important acupoint to prevent and treat colds.
Stimulating Dazhui point to stimulate human yang is an important point on the human Du meridian, and Ren Du meridian is the two major meridians of human qi and blood. Du meridian is located on the back of human body, which has the function of controlling and promoting the whole body yang. The yang meridians of the whole body will converge at Dazhui point, and the three yang of the hand and the three yang of the foot all have branches passing through Dazhui point, so Dazhui point is called the yang of the yang, which has the most powerful function of governing the yang.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that colds are caused by six evils in nature: stroke, heat, dryness, summer heat, dampness and cold. If the human body is full of yang, it will have a strong ability to resist external evils and is not easy to get sick. Even if the pathogen enters the body, it will be excreted. If the yang is weak, people will catch a cold easily. At this time, if you stimulate Dazhui point, you can mobilize the yang of the whole body's six yang veins, improve the human body's ability to resist external evils, and quickly eliminate evil spirits from the body, thus avoiding the occurrence of colds.
There are many ways to stimulate Dazhui point.
Dazhui point is located in the back neck of human body. When you bow your head, there is a protruding bone in the back neck, and the depression below this bone is Dazhui point. If it is to prevent colds, massage or moxibustion can be used to stimulate Dazhui point. When massaging, rub your hands hot, then cover Dazhui point while it is hot, and rub the parts near the point up, down, left and right to feel warm. When moxibustion, you can use a warm moxibustion box and put it at Dazhui point for more than half an hour. I usually feel feverish all over, which is a sign of active yang.
At the beginning of a cold, it is necessary to aggravate the stimulation of Dazhui point. You can wet it with hot water with a towel and cover it on the spot. Towels should be as hot as possible, and they should be cool before heat exchange, which will stimulate human yang. You can also use a hair dryer to adjust the hot air to a suitable temperature, pay attention to the distance from your neck, and don't burn your skin. If you continue to blow the Dazhui point with hot air, you will soon feel sweating all over and relieve the cold symptoms.