There are tips for massage, cupping, and gua sha, have you mastered it?

Massage, cupping, scraping and other TCM health care are becoming more and more popular, whether the massage techniques of TCM health care are correct will affect the health of the body, and the operation is not standardized, but it will damage the health.

【Massage】

Hot hands from the heart outward

Wrong: Cool hands and out of order
Pair: Hot hands from the heart outward  

Massages are often divided into 30 minutes, 60 minutes or longer. The longer it takes, the more areas you will massage. Hand massage is just part of the story. If the health care practitioner does not rub his hands before the massage to warm up, this is not standardized. The practitioner should first rub his hands so that the temperature of the hands is appropriate to the skin temperature of the recipient's hands. If your hands are too cold, rub your hands longer or soak them in warm water for 2-5 minutes.

According to the anatomical characteristics of the human hand, the order of hand massage is from the proximal end of the hand to the distal end of the hand, and then according to the operation sequence from top to bottom, first the outer side and then the inner side. If it's not in this order, then nine times out of ten the people who massage you are from a "wild road" background.

Whatever the type of massage, follow the principle of left first and then right. This is because Chinese medicine believes that the qi rises from the left and descends from the right, and starting from the left is to regulate the yang qi.

Experts remind: After massage, the recipient should not wash his hands immediately, otherwise it is easy to enter the cold and damp air. Many people tend to go for a massage after they have eaten a lot of wine or food, or when they are extremely tired, which is actually not advisable. Hand health massage is not suitable for drunkenness, hunger, fullness, thirst, extreme fatigue and other states.

【Gua Sha】

One-way scraping long distances

False: Back and forth to scrape out the sha
Pair: Scrape long distances in one direction

In many cases, red, purplish-red or dark cyan "sand" spots appear on the surface of the scraped skin, and this treatment is gradually called "gua sha therapy".

Since it is a gua sha, how can it be called a gua sha without a sha, so most gua sha institutions force a sha. Everyone's physique is different, people with cold and flu are prone to sha, people with stroke are not easy to get sha from gua sha, and if you force it, it is easy to damage the body surface.

Therefore, there is a time limit for gua sha, generally 15-30 times for each part, with 3-5 minutes as appropriate; Local lesions or local health care are generally between 20-30 minutes, and the overall body gua sha should be between 40-50 minutes.

In addition, gua sha should not be scraped back and forth, but from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, and should be scraped in one direction to lengthen the scraping distance as much as possible. In this way, it is scraped in the direction of arterial blood circulation to promote blood circulation.

There is also an order in the gua sha area, and the general principle is to first head and face and then hands and feet, back and waist first, chest and abdomen first, upper limbs and then lower limbs.

For those who are whole-body health care gua sha, the order is the head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, back and waist, chest and abdomen and lower limbs; The order of neck health gua sha is head, neck, shoulders, and upper limbs; The order of shoulder health gua sha is head, neck, shoulder, shoulder, and upper limbs; Back and waist health gua sha is the middle of the back and waist, both sides of the spine, and both lower limbs.

Experts remind: After gua sha is over, it is advisable to drink a glass of warm water and rest for 15 minutes. It is not advisable to eat raw and cold food, and it is not advisable to take a bath within 30 minutes after shaping. Gua sha tools made of rare items claim to be better than other gua sha tools, but in fact, the technique is more important than the tool. However, metal and plastic plates should not be used as tools.

【Walking】

Circulatory on both sides of the back

False: The soles of the feet can be used to prevent all diseases
Pair: Promote circulation on both sides of the back

In many health care facilities, staff will recommend cupping, which is a better method than cupping. In fact, it is also a kind of cupping, what we usually call cupping is actually keeping cupping, and walking cupping is more painful than keeping cupping. The solar walking tank is one that is often recommended by some health care people, claiming to be able to relieve fatigue, prevent various diseases, and so on.

In fact, cupping or cupping is more about walking on both sides of the back, with a large area and a large muscle. The soles of the feet are not abundant, and the soles of the feet are keratin, which is not suitable for canning. The purpose of walking the jar is to dispel wind and dampness, promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, and improve the function of internal organs, and it is not easy to achieve this purpose if the soles of the feet are thick. It is advisable to choose a jar with a larger diameter for canning therapy, and the mouth of the jar is required to be round, thick and smooth, and it is best to use a glass jar. Foot walking cans canister with a larger caliber canister cannot be used.

When someone cuppers, the whole back is a cup, but not the more pots, the better. During cupping, blood is concentrated under the skin. If there is too much cupping, it may cause dizziness and so on. Therefore, for those who are old, frail and receiving cupping for the first time, the number of cupping should not be too large, and the cupping time should not be too long. The canning time should not be too long.

Experts remind: people with skin allergies should use warm water for tank lubrication, rather than lubricants. Patients with edema and uremia should not go canning.

【Foot Massage】

Reflex tones the whole body

Wrong: Wherever it hurts, there is a disease
Right: Reflex tones the whole body

The feet correspond to the internal organs of the body. When doing a foot massage, when you press on a certain part and feel pain, it is said that the pain means that there is a disease. For example, it hurts to press the heel because it is not sleeping well, and it hurts to press the heart reflex area, which means that the heart is sick. In fact, this statement is unscientific. If you press a certain part hard, you will definitely feel pain when you press the acupuncture points, which is a reflex produced by massage, which can play a role in conditioning the whole body, and does not represent a certain disease.

In addition, the strength of the massage is crucial. For the first foot massage, the practitioner should first examine the heart reflex area (located between the 4th and 5th metatarsals of the left foot) and the left foot, and determine the strength of the full foot reflex area according to the pain level in this area.

Massage the feet should also follow the principle of the left foot first, then the right foot. In addition, when massaging the feet, it is necessary to massage the six basic reflex areas, namely the adrenal glands, celiac plexus, kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra, and then massage the reflex areas of the soles, medial feet, lateral feet, and dorsum of the feet in turn, and finally repeat the massage of the basic reflex areas. The massage time for the reflex area of the feet should be 40-45 minutes.

Experts remind: After massage, the practitioner is generally reminded to drink a glass of warm water, and many people don't care. It is advisable to drink a glass of warm water by all means. It is not advisable to wash your feet immediately after massage.