In massage, we should pay attention to choosing the right method, adopting the right means and scientific treatment according to the specific situation, so as to achieve the best effect.
Massage acts on meridians and acupoints through the intensity, duration, frequency and direction of stimulation, thus receiving the function of tonifying or purging.
Generally speaking, the strength of manipulation stimulation is diarrhea, and the strength is supplement; Short manipulation time will cause diarrhea, while long manipulation time will cause tonic; The fast manipulation frequency is diarrhea, and the slow manipulation frequency is tonic; Manual rotation in counterclockwise direction is diarrhea, and clockwise direction is supplement.
For example, when the stomach is full, it will attack, it will hurt, it will affect both sides, and chest tightness will lead to qi stagnation and stomach pain; Stomach fullness, pain refusal, sour smell, unwillingness to smell food, nausea and vomiting, food stagnation, stomachache and vomiting will be relieved; Heartburn pain, acute pain, refusal to press, aversion to cold and heat, heartburn and acid, dry mouth and bitter taste, and even vomiting and bitter water. Stomach pain, such as acupuncture or knife cutting, has a fixed position, and blood stasis that refuses to press is still the obstacle of stomach pain; And my stomach hurts badly, which can be relieved when I meet the temperature. The cold pathogen of being afraid of cold when you are in pain makes your stomach ache, and the symptoms are mostly true. The empirical treatment is diarrhea, and the massage should adopt diarrhea.
All dull and persistent pains in the stomach, such as pressing and warmth, acute pain when hungry, will be relieved after eating, cold stomachache aggravated by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold pain, as well as dull and burning pain in the stomach, noisy and hungry stomach yin deficiency and stomachache, are mostly virtual. For the treatment of deficiency syndrome, the method lies in supplementing its deficiency, supplemented by massage.
Massage therapy of hand reflex zone
Massage therapy of hand reflex zone is a method to treat diseases by rubbing in some specific reflex zones of human palm.
The palm of a person has a certain relationship with all parts of the body, just like a microcosm of the human body. Speaking of palm therapy, its origin is earlier than drug therapy. In ancient times, when the weather was cold, people instinctively rubbed their hands to prevent frostbite. Pressing the tiger's mouth when you have a toothache can relieve the pain and so on. People gradually found that some parts of the hand can play a certain therapeutic role by pressing, thus forming a "holographic view" of the hand. The holographic theory of palm coincides with the overall concept of traditional Chinese medicine. According to the holographic law of biology, it projects the miniature of internal tissues and organs on the hand, that is, the holographic reaction zone. These areas are large or small, and some of them reflect the shape of zang-fu organs. Although different, they are all small areas rather than a point. By stimulating the reflex zone, adjusting the corresponding viscera can not only protect health but also cure diseases. Modern scientific research further proves that stimulating reflex zone can regulate the corresponding viscera, but it needs persistence to achieve the expected curative effect. It should also be pointed out that acute stomach diseases or some acute diseases should be treated in hospital in time so as not to delay the illness.
Here are some hand reflexotherapy for common gastrointestinal diseases:
(1) chronic gastritis
Reflex zone: stomach, spleen, intestine, pancreas, liver and gallbladder.
Practice: press the corresponding reflection area with the thumb end, and try to exert force from light to heavy, so that there is obvious pain in the local area. Massage each reflection area for 3 ~ 5 minutes; Or repeat the operation for 3 ~ 5 times by acupuncturing, and then press and knead the digestive area with your thumb for 5 minutes.
(2) duodenitis
Reflex areas: stomach, spleen, intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and esophagus.
Practice: press the corresponding reflection area with the thumb end, and try to exert force from light to heavy, so that there is obvious pain in the local area. Massage each reflection area for 3 ~ 5 minutes; Or repeat the operation for 3 ~ 5 times with the nudge method.
(3) Gastric and duodenal ulcers
Reflex areas: stomach, spleen, intestine, liver and gallbladder, pancreas.
Practice: Massage the above points with your thumb for 2 minutes. Mild and powerful, and the stimulation intensity can be tolerated by patients. Every day 1 time. 2 ~ 3 weeks is 1 course of treatment.
(4) Gastrointestinal dysfunction
Reflex areas: stomach, spleen, intestine, liver and gallbladder, liver and gallbladder regulation, lower abdomen regulation, pancreas and brain.
Practice: Press and knead the corresponding reflection area with the thumb end, and exert force from light to heavy, so that there is obvious pain in the local area. Massage each reflection area for 3 ~ 5 minutes; Or repeat the operation for 3 ~ 5 times by acupuncturing, and then press and knead the digestive area with your thumb for 5 minutes. Then press the heart and pituitary reflex zones. Massage twice a day, 7 days is 1 course of treatment.
(5) Gastric cancer
Reflex areas: esophagus, stomach, spleen, pancreas, liver, waist and kidney, intestine, cancer area and lymphatic immune area.
Practice: press the corresponding reflection area with the thumb end, and try to exert force from light to heavy, so that there is obvious pain in the local area. Massage each reflection area for 3 ~ 5 minutes; Or repeat the operation for 3 ~ 5 times by acupuncturing, and then press and knead the digestive area with your thumb for 5 minutes.
Foot reflex massage therapy
Foot reflex zone therapy is a precious heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, and there are records of "one toe observation method" and "foot heart method" in ancient books in China. As the saying goes, "the roots of trees die first, and the old feet die first." It can be seen that the ancient and modern health-keeping and fitness methods in China attached importance to pedicure. The health care mechanism of foot massage is to regulate the physiological functions of tissues and organs by stimulating the reflex zone, thus generating self-healing power in the body. Therefore, for most reflex zones, the stronger the stimulus, the heavier the pain and the better the effect, and there is no effect without pain. For the treatment of diseases of skeletal system, it is necessary to use strong stimulation to achieve obvious results, while the cardiac reflex area of patients with severe heart disease, the hepatic reflex area of patients with liver disease and the lymphatic and sciatic nerve reflex areas should be weakened, as long as there is slight pain in the massage area.
There are two methods of massage: strengthening and cleaning. According to the principle of "purging excess and tonifying deficiency", patients with good constitution can increase their intensity appropriately and adopt strong stimulation method. For heart disease and deficiency syndromes such as the elderly, children, women and the infirm, weak stimulation is used to extend the course of treatment, so that the patient's internal function can be gradually restored. In addition, the intensity of the reflection area with strong sensitivity should not be too large, while the intensity of those with weak sensitivity should be appropriately increased. In short, we should treat them differently.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the pathological changes of chronic gastropathy are in the stomach and closely related to the liver and spleen. If you use foot reflex therapy to treat chronic gastritis, the methods are as follows:
(1) Effective reflection area
Kidney, ureter, bladder, stomach, spleen, liver, duodenum, brain, esophagus, small intestine and other reflex areas.
(2) Massage technique
Knead the reflex zone of stomach, duodenum, brain, liver and spleen for 30 ~ 50 times; Scrape the ureter, rectum and small intestine with your fingers for 30 ~ 50 times with moderate strength.
(3) Massage time
Every morning and evening 1 time, 20 days for 1 course of treatment.
Abdominal massage therapy
Rubbing the abdomen is to apply force to the abdomen, wrist joint and forearm with fingers or palms, and cooperate with each other to do circular rotation rubbing. You can rub it with the pulp of one finger or the middle three fingers, or you can rub it with your palm. Finger rubbing is called finger rubbing, and palm rubbing is called palm rubbing.
When rubbing the abdomen, the elbow bends naturally, the wrist is relaxed, the fingers and palms are straight, and the fingers or palms are rubbed hard at the rubbing part. Massage movements should not be too urgent or too slow, and attention should be paid to proper weight, gentle and coordinated movements, and free exertion.
(1) acupoint massage
Stimulate a certain point when rubbing the abdomen, that is, the fingertips are rubbed at a certain point, such as Shu, and the fingertips are rubbed at Tianshu point, which is 2 inches beside the navel (this is an acupuncture term, not a general length unit, see related professional books for details, the same below), so as to achieve the effect that acupuncture at Tianshu point can achieve.
(2) Total abdominal massage
Total abdominal massage is to rub the whole abdomen with the palm of your finger, usually rubbing it several times at the navel, and then expanding outward while rubbing; Then massage in the opposite direction, from outside to inside, kneading inward until the navel.
At the same time, pressing, kneading, pushing, grasping and vibrating are usually used to enhance and strengthen the effect of abdomen rubbing.
Rubbing the abdomen to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract can make the stool unobstructed and the stagnation in the intestine can be discharged in time. It can remove toxins that cause diseases, affect health and promote aging, which is beneficial to fitness and longevity. The ancients said well: the intestines are always clear, so you can live forever.
Rubbing the abdomen also helps to eliminate stagnation and eliminate toxins in the body. In the process of human evolution, from crawling on all fours to walking upright, from a mechanical point of view, internal organs are prone to droop. With the increase of age, the large intestine and small intestine gradually lose their elasticity, or form folds, or twist and relax. When the large intestine becomes slack, a large number of folds will be formed on the intestinal wall, and the folds will become pocket-shaped nests (diverticula), where feces will accumulate and often form stools. Because the stool is in the diverticulum, it is not easy to be discharged under normal circumstances, and it accumulates in the intestine, causing spoilage and fermentation. Harmful substances are absorbed into the blood through the large intestine wall, which will cause various diseases. Therefore, even in the case of normal defecation, attention should still be paid to eliminating defecation and stagnation.
Zhu Danxi, a famous doctor in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, made great contributions to health care medicine. One of his famous viewpoints is "dumping position theory". The key point of "warehouse inverse theory" is to get rid of intestinal stagnation. Rubbing the abdomen stimulates the abdomen through various techniques, which can promote innovation and not make it stay. Removing toxins accumulated in the body will make the metabolism more vigorous and the body more energetic, which is of great benefit to preventing and treating diseases and prolonging life.
There are spleen, stomach, liver, gallbladder, kidney, bladder, large intestine, small intestine, appendix, uterus, ovary and other organs in the abdomen. These zang-fu organs have established close relations in the body, which are related to each other in physiological functions and affect each other in pathological changes, especially the spleen and stomach, liver and gallbladder, kidney and bladder. Rubbing the abdomen can regulate the function of viscera and prevent diseases by stimulating these organs.