Modern medicine believes that rubbing the abdomen can increase the blood flow of abdominal muscles and intestinal smooth muscles, increase the tension of muscles in the inner wall of gastrointestinal tract and the function of lymphatic system, and activate the secretion function of gastrointestinal tract and other organs, thus enhancing the digestion, absorption and excretion of food, obviously improving the crawling function of large and small intestine, and playing a role in excretion, avoiding and eliminating constipation, which is especially needed by the elderly.
Regular and ingenious massage of the abdomen can also make the gastrointestinal mucosa produce enough prostaglandin, which can effectively avoid excessive gastric acid secretion and prevent the onset of peptic ulcer. Rubbing the abdomen can also reduce the accumulation of abdominal fat. This is because massage can stimulate the peripheral nerves, and after different massage, the capillaries in the abdominal wall are unblocked, fat consumption is promoted, and the brain is prevented from being full of fat, thus achieving satisfactory weight loss effect.
Rubbing the abdomen often is also beneficial to the human body's insistence on physical pleasure. Rubbing the abdomen before going to bed will help you fall asleep and avoid insomnia. For patients with arteriosclerosis, hypertension and cerebrovascular diseases, pressing the abdomen can calm the liver fire, make people calm down, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and play a good auxiliary treatment role. Detailed operation method of abdominal massage: generally choose to do it before going to bed and getting up at night, empty urine, wash hands, take a supine position, bend your knees, relax your whole body, press your left hand on your abdomen, point your palm at your navel, and put your right hand on your left hand. Massage the abdomen around the navel 50 times clockwise, and then 50 times counterclockwise. Press and knead with moderate force, concentrate, breathe naturally and persevere, and you will certainly receive obvious fitness effects. It is worth noting that when there is purulent infection of abdominal skin or acute inflammation of abdomen (such as enteritis, dysentery, appendicitis, etc.). ), should not be pressed, in order to avoid the spread of inflammation; There is cancer in the abdomen, so it is not advisable to press it to prevent cancer from spreading or bleeding. When rubbing your abdomen, you will feel warm and hungry, or have bowel sounds and exhaust, which is a normal reaction, so don't worry.