Also known as * * *, it is a common clinical subject that uses the theory and clinical knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine to study the effect of manipulation on body surface and prevent and treat pediatric diseases, and it is an important part of medicine. Its functions can be summarized as: balancing yin and yang, harmonizing viscera, promoting qi and blood circulation, expelling wind and dispelling cold.
Children under 6 years old are the main treatment targets, especially infants. Massage therapy for children has a wide range of applications, and common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases can be treated. For example: anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, torticollis, stagnation, malnutrition, enuresis, aphtha, night crying, rectocele, myopia, muscular torticollis in children, cold, cough and so on.
Children's massage technology
1, push method. Push the selected acupoints into a straight line with the thumb surface (both sides can be used) or the food and middle finger surfaces, which is called direct push method; Push from the same acupoint to both ends with the thumb surface of both hands, which is called sub-push method.
2. Kneading method. Sticking the fingertip (food, middle finger or thumb) or palm root on the skin of the selected acupoint drives the muscles and veins of the skin to do circular motion and rotation, which is called kneading. Massage the small part with your fingertips and the large part with the root of your palm.
3. Chiropractic method. Hold the middle finger, ring finger and little finger in a semi-fist shape, bend the index finger half, straighten the thumb to the first half of the index finger, then press the skin of the child, and move the thumb and index finger forward to lift the flesh. From both sides of coccyx, hands alternately move forward and push to both sides of Dazhui, which is counted as chiropractic again. This method is mostly used for infantile malnutrition, so it is also called "pinch".
4. Push ridge method. Pushing food and middle finger (together) down from the fetal spine to the lumbar spine is called spinal pushing. This method is suitable for high fever.
Children massage acupoints
Common acupoints for children's massage
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Name, location, indications and operation of acupoints
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Spleen and soil points, thumb costal surface, diarrhea, vomiting and pushing for 200-500 times.
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Large intestine │ Radial edge of index finger to acupoint for food stagnation and diarrhea │ Push 100 times.
At the mouth of death, in a straight line
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Half-door point │ thenar eminence │ chest tightness, vomiting, indigestion, abdominal distension │ pushing or rubbing,
│ │, loss of appetite │ surgery 50 ~
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Three points │ radial edge of forearm, from wrist │ exogenous cold without sweat, │ from bottom to top, from wrist to top.
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A straight line
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Six fu-organs point │ ulnar edge of forearm, away from wrist │ fever and sweating. │ Push down from the elbow by pushing.
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A straight line
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Tianhe │ forearm palm, from wrist │ body heat and excitement, exogenous fever │ pushed, pushed upward from wrist.
Push 100 ~ 500 times from the midpoint of the horizontal bar to the elbow bend.
The midpoint is on a straight line.
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Seven points │ Fourth lumbar vertebra to coccygeal joint │ Diarrhea, dysentery and dyspepsia │ Push from top to bottom or bottom to top.
│ straight line │, intestinal heat constipation │ and can be pushed 200 ~ 500 times.
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Tortoise point │ coccygeal vertebra │ diarrhea, rectocele, constipation │ Knead for about 600 times.
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Dantian point │ 2 inches below umbilicus │ less abdominal pain, enuresis, rectocele │ kneading or pinching,
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