Periumbilical cold pain is mainly caused by cold guest's small intestine. The deficiency of yang in the small intestine, which can't melt away the cold, condenses into blocks in the abdomen, which is the chief culprit of periumbilical pain. From overeating cold fruits and vegetables, or daily abdominal cold, or physical deficiency cold. Children and young women are the most common. Deficiency of cold in middle energizer and disharmony between liver and spleen.
Some girls keep fruit at home all the year round, and even change the staple food into fruit in order to keep slim. Some girls like to drink "the first cup of iced milk tea in summer" or wear navel-revealing clothes. If the spleen and stomach are weak, it is easier to cause cold pain around the navel.
Other children often eat cold drinks, ice cream, abnormal stools, recurrent diarrhea, constipation, yellowish complexion with white spots, fat tongue, white tongue coating, and teeth marks on the edge. The cold food they usually eat accumulates in the abdomen, which often causes pain and even induration around the umbilicus.
Massage around the navel with your fingertips and gently rub. If the pain is tolerable, you can put your other hand on it to increase your strength. Press by gravity with both hands. Press it again until the pain is diarrhea, and gently press it to make up for the pain. Massage around navel counterclockwise and clockwise. When the abdominal qi pulse is comfortable, you can feel the pleasure of discharging silt. Deficiency of stomach yang can lead to indigestion. Such people will not gain meat no matter how they eat, and they will have diarrhea if they eat something cold and spicy.
Moxibustion can warm the abdomen and drive away the cold. Periumbilical cold pain can choose Tianshu point and Guanyuan point, which are close to the navel, one next to the navel and the other below the navel, forming a surrounding trend. Umbilical warming can also solve the problems of dim menstrual blood color and long-term dysmenorrhea caused by uterine cold in women.
Tianshu point is a large intestine recruitment point. Located in the horizontal plane of abdomen and navel, 2 inches away from the anterior midline. Moxibustion at Tianshu point can warm the middle and harmonize the stomach and intestines.
Guanyuan point is the point of small intestine. In the lower abdomen, 3 inches below the umbilicus, on the anterior midline. Guanyuan is where the abdomen is. The qi of the small intestine gathers here. Guanyuan point is an important point for tonifying and nourishing yang.