Tui na treatment for allergic cough is suitable for children, and the techniques include tonifying the spleen meridian, clearing the lung meridian, tonifying the kidney meridian, transporting the internal eight trigrams, kneading the tian tu and lung yu points as well as the asthma points, pushing the dan zhong and lung yu points, and kneading the chiropractic.
Chinese medicine believes that allergic cough is mainly caused by the loss of lung purging and lowering, the spleen’s lack of healthy transportation, and kidney deficiency and yin deficiency. Treatment should promote lung qi to lower qi and calm asthma; tonify qi and strengthen the spleen to dispel dampness and resolve phlegm; and tonify the kidney and lower qi to treat the root cause.
By stimulating specific acupoints on the hands of children, lung meridian, spleen meridian and kidney meridian, the effect of tonifying the spleen and kidney and regulating the lung qi can be achieved; and transporting the internal eight trigrams can dissolve phlegm, calm asthma and stop coughing.
By pressing, kneading, pushing and other stimulation of the chest, danzhong points, and the back of the lung Yu, fixed wheezing points can play a role in regulating the qi, wide in the lungs; pinching to stimulate the dushi chakra yang qi to enhance the child’s own resistance.
The above techniques should be operated by a professional physician and should not be used on your own.