Massage methods to relieve pediatric bronchitis

  Pediatric bronchitis falls under the scope of wind-warm disease in Chinese medicine, mainly due to wind and cold in the lungs, resulting in fever, cough, chest pain, sputum production, vomiting, and difficulty in breathing in children. The following are several massage methods that can relieve the symptoms of pediatric bronchitis and thus treat bronchitis.
  Massage method one
  1.Commonly used techniques
  (1) the child hold or supine, parents fixed the upper limbs of the child, clear the lung meridian, push (back) six internal organs 300 times, push the three Guan 100 times.
  (2) With the child in prone position, push the scapula 100 times, and press and rub the lung meridian and the large vertebrae for 1 minute each.
  (3) Press and rub Tanzhong and Fenglong points for 2 minutes each.
  2.Add and reduce with the evidence
  (1) Wind-heat offending the lung type: fever, vicious chill, little sweat, headache, slight thirst, cough with shortness of breath, sticky white sputum, vague pain in the chest, red tongue, thin yellow coating. Commonly used techniques.
  ① Push the sun 30 times, push the three gates 300 times.
  ②Take Fengchi and shoulder well points 10 times each.
  (2) Phlegm-heat congestion of lung type: high fever, red face, thirst, cough with yellow and sticky phlegm, or blood, or rust-colored phlegm, chest tightness, chest pain, red tongue, yellow and greasy moss. Commonly used techniques.
  ①retreat the six internal organs 300 times and clear the heart meridian 100 times.
  ②Add 50 times of rubbing Fenglong and 3 minutes of rubbing Zhonggui.
  (3) Heat entering the heart: fever that does not subside, aggravated at night, restlessness, sometimes delirium, even confusion, shortness of breath, phlegm whining in the throat, blood in the phlegm, twitching of the hands and feet, dry lips and mouth, scorched yellow tongue. Commonly used techniques.
  ①Pushing the six internal organs and clearing Tianheshui 500 times each, clearing the heart meridian and liver meridian 300 times each.
  ② press and knead Qu Chi for 1 minute, push Chung Quan 300 times.
  Massage method two
  1, commonly used techniques
  (1) press and knead the small transverse palm line 200 times, clear the lung meridian 300 times.
  (2) 300 times to clear the liver meridian, reverse the internal bagua 100 times.
  (3) Rub the Tiantu, Tanzhong and Fenglong points for 1 minute each.
  2.Add and reduce with the evidence
  (1) Headache and nasal congestion plus 50 times of rubbing shoulder Yangchi.
  (2) For high fever that does not subside, squeeze and knead Tiantu to Jiantu and both sides and Dazhi to the 1st lumbar vertebra and both sides until there is mild subcutaneous blood stasis.