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What is a gentle massage?
Flexible health massage is a massage technique. Specifically, soft massage is to drive the first line through a point, and the first line drives the whole body; Relax the whole body, stretch muscles, relax tendons and activate collaterals, and smooth qi and blood; It can not only cure diseases, but also achieve the effects of health care and body building. It is very popular in the coastal areas of China.

Ordinary operation

1. Pressing: Pressing the skin or acupoints rhythmically with fingers or palms.

2. Rub: Gently rub your fingers or palms on the skin or acupoints.

3. Push: Push the skin muscles forward, upward or outward with your fingers or palms.

4. Take: Hold the skin, muscle or intervertebral disc membrane with one hand or both hands, lift it up and then put it down.

5. Knead: Rotate the skin or acupoints with your fingers or palms.

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Matters needing attention

Keep your hands clean all the time when you massage, and don't wear any decorations when you massage, so as not to hurt the skin of the massager. Before massage, in order to achieve good results, the massager should relax all over, pay attention to the direction of massage, and massage along the direction of blood and lymph reflux, and the intensity should be from light to heavy.

Generally speaking, there are acute infectious diseases, acute osteomyelitis, tuberculous arthritis, infectious skin diseases, skin eczema, fire and water burns, skin ulcers, tumors and various sores.

In addition, women's menstrual period, pregnant women who are pregnant for more than five months, patients with acute peritonitis, acute suppurative peritonitis and acute appendicitis. Some are too weak after a long illness, have serious cardiovascular diseases, or are old and weak. These people are forbidden to massage.

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