Acupuncture point switch for freckle removal - ground machine, sea of blood!

Facial pigmentation is a common skin disease with brown or melaninated pigmentation formed due to the increase of melanin in the skin, which mostly occurs on the cheeks and forehead, and the symptoms are aggravated by sun exposure, among which common facial pigmentation includes freckles, melasma and age spots.

Freckles are mostly genetic, and dark brown spots the size of pinheads to sesame seeds appear on the nasal and facial skin, scattered or clustered, with clear borders.

Melasma, which is more common in young and middle-aged women, can be seen with light brown skin pigment changes on the face, which is symmetrically distributed near the eyes, cheeks, cheeks, forehead and other positions, caressing it without hindering the hands, pressing it without fading, smooth surface, no scaling, no pain and itching.

Age spots are one of the signs of aging when the antioxidant capacity of the human body decreases with age, and brown or black spots and plaques appear on the skin of the face, back of hands, arms, etc.

There are many factors that induce facial pigmentation, such as sunlight in the environment, changes in sex hormone levels, mental factors, post-traumatic inflammatory stimuli, some inferior cosmetics, medicines, chemicals and other stimuli that can easily promote or deepen the formation of spots.

01. The sea of blood of the ground machine, press and knead + moxibustion

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of spots is closely related to the weakness of congenital endowments, the lack of kidney water and the loss of qi and blood in the human body. The endowment is weak, the kidney water is insufficient, and it cannot be honored in the face, and the deficiency fire stagnates the blood and becomes a spot; or the body with blood heat and internal stagnation, violates the wind evil, and the blood heat and wind evil fight against Sun Luo, and cannot moisten the skin, then it will have spots; Liver stagnation, loss of spleen health, poor blood flow, disharmony of qi and blood, stagnation and spots over time.

Acupuncture: Ground machine, sea of blood.

Ground machine: On the line between the tip of the inner ankle and the Yinling Spring, 3 inches below the Yinling Spring.

Sea of Blood: Bend the knees, 2 inches above the inner thighs and medial patellar base, when the bulge of the head on the medial side of the quadriceps muscles. (Simple acupuncture point: the patient bends the knee, the doctor presses the palm of the left hand on the upper edge of the patella of the patient's right knee, the 2nd to 5th fingers are straightened upward, the thumb is about 45° oblique, and the thumb tip is the acupoint.) The contralateral method is modeled on this. ）

Efficacy: Blood stasis, spleen and dampness, spleen and blood.

Massage: 9:00-11:00 a.m. every day, is the most vigorous time for the spleen meridian and qi, the body's yang qi is also on the rise, directly press the ground machine acupoint and around the blood sea acupoint, find the most sensitive point, use the thumb and fingertips to press the sensitive point from light to heavy, to be able to tolerate the degree, insist on pressing each side for about 3 minutes, master the strength, as long as you can feel the acupuncture points have a slight feeling of soreness.

Moxibustion: Separate the index finger (index finger) and middle finger of the left hand and place them on both sides of the Xuehai acupoint and the Diji acupoint respectively, hold the lit moxa sticks in the right hand, and perform moxibustion on the acupuncture points, the moxa sticks are 2~3 cm away from the skin of the acupuncture points, or appropriately adjusted according to the skin temperature. The duration of moxibustion is about 15 minutes, or the patient's legs have a noticeable feeling of warmth. During the moxibustion process, the ashes should be dusted off in time, and do not blow the moxa sticks with your mouth, but let them burn naturally.

Treatment: 1 or 2 times a day.

Precautions: When massage, pay attention to grasp the operation time, and the force should not be too strong.

02. Treatment principles and application cases

In a word, the spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and the earth machine is the acupoint of the spleen meridian; Xuehai Acupoint, mainly for the treatment of blood syndrome and skin diseases related to blood and moisture. Stimulating these two acupuncture points has the effects of cultivating and replenishing the acquired, nourishing qi and blood, invigorating blood and removing stasis, and moisturizing and eliminating spots.

Instant use: Patient, female, 45 years old. In the diagnosis, facial pigmentation, pale complexion, light menstrual flow, light color, blood clots, low back pain, backache, sensitivity to cold, fatigue, thin yellow tongue coating, and stringy pulse. The syndrome differentiation is kidney yang deficiency, blood deficiency and blood stasis, and the treatment is to add or subtract Angelica tonifying blood decoction, combined with acupuncture treatment. Selected facial pigmentation points, such as Diji, Xuehai, Hegu, etc., were treated with acupuncture for 1 month, and the facial pigmentation began to gradually fade. After 1 month, the patient was instructed to massage the ground machine and Xuehai acupoint 3 or 4 times a week for half a year, and pay attention to sun protection to keep the mood happy, and the pigmentation faded significantly.

From this, we can see that insisting on pressing the kneading machine and the blood sea acupoint, while paying attention to sun protection, helps to keep the skin moisturized and reduce the occurrence of dark spots.