Abdominal rubbing has a history of thousands of years in China. After waking up before going to bed, lie on your back and think about your navel. First, the right hand rubs clockwise around the navel. When you are tired, change your left hand in the opposite direction as many times as you want. This is called "rubbing the belly". Moxibustion health care has been highly praised by health care workers in past dynasties. As early as the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a method of rubbing the abdomen in the Yijinjing translated and written by Dharma. Leng Qian, a health care expert in the Ming Dynasty, also recorded in the book Health Care 16 that "the abdomen should be rubbed frequently". Health experts believe that rubbing the abdomen can prevent and treat chronic diseases such as constipation.

Mechanism of treating constipation by rubbing abdomen. Abdomen is an important part of human body, including stomach, intestine, liver, spleen, kidney, bladder and other important organs. The normal function of these organs will directly affect people's health and longevity. Therefore, rubbing the abdomen can reconcile up and down, separate yin and yang, remove the old and introduce the new, enrich the five internal organs, drive away external evils and eliminate endogenous diseases. The function of rubbing the abdomen lies in:

(1) midline, the upper part is on the top of the head, and the lower part is in the perineum. The two veins are connected and dominate the whole body yin and yang; The navel connects all meridians and hundreds of veins, so by rubbing the navel and abdomen, you can adjust the yin and yang of the human body and balance it, so as to make the spleen and stomach harmonious and smooth up and down.

(2) Kneading the abdomen can dredge the meridians, make the blood flow unobstructed, increase the blood flow of abdominal muscles and intestinal smooth muscles, improve their blood circulation and regulate gastrointestinal function.

(3) It can enhance the tension of abdominal muscle and intestinal smooth muscle, promote gastrointestinal movement and facilitate defecation.

(4) it can strengthen the spleen, promote the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juice, strengthen the digestion and absorption of diet and the discharge of waste feces, and reduce gastrointestinal stagnation.