In the past, people often thought that Tui Na was only applicable to adults, but they did not know that Tui Na is both a good form of health care for your baby and an effective way to prevent and treat diseases.
”Baby’s Partial Eating ……”
”Baby wakes up easily when sleeping and doesn’t sleep well ……”
”Baby, always crying day and night, and I don’t know why ……” Zhang Lei, Department of Acupuncture and Tuina, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University
”Baby, has a cold and cough ……”
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We can often hear mothers’ nagging of such and such, which often makes our parents and friends worried. The pain caused by injections and infusions to children needless to say, the strict control of drug dosage, in addition to the soup and tablets are not good to eat, then pediatric tui-na is particularly practical.
Pediatric Tui Na is a kind of Chinese medicine external treatment method, which can treat pediatric constipation, diarrhea, chancre, myxomatosis, post-polio, fever, cough, shock, vomiting and other diseases, characterized by no injection and medication, no side effects, easy for children to accept, and obvious curative effect. The treatment principle is that the doctor acts on specific parts of the human body with different tui na techniques according to the condition to regulate the physiological and pathological conditions of the body and achieve the purpose of treating diseases. The following is a brief introduction to mothers and fathers about the common health care techniques used in pediatric tui na.
1. Open the Gate of Heaven: Use the thumbs of both hands to push from the center of the eyebrows to the front hairline, pushing 24 times, often as the first step of each massage. It has the effect of generating sweat and relieving the symptoms, opening the body and awakening the mind. It can treat cold, fever, headache, wind, fatigue, etc.
2. Push Kangong: Use the thumbs of both hands to push along the upper edge of the eyebrows to both sides to the tip of the eyebrows, usually 24 times, often used as the second step of each massage. It is often used as the second step of each massage. It has the effect of generating sweat and relieving symptoms, opening the body and awakening the mind. It can treat cold, fever, headache and painful red eyes.
3. Run the sun: press the thumbs of both hands on the temporal temples on both sides, and move them in a gentle and slow circular motion, in the direction of the eyes as a tonic and in the direction of the ears as a diarrhea. -It is often used as the third step of each tui na treatment. It has the effect of generating sweat, stopping sweating, brightening the eyes and awakening the mind.
4. Pinch the total tendon: use the thumb to gently press the midpoint of the transverse wrist line and hold the child’s fingers with the other hand to gently shake the wrist joint, which is often used as the fourth step of each tui na treatment. It has the effect of clearing heart fire and stopping convulsions, and can also be used for sores on the mouth and tongue, hot flashes, cold and nasal congestion, and twitching of the limbs.
5. Push the large horizontal stripe: Use the thumb to push from the total tendon to both sides, often used as the fifth step of each massage. It has the effect of harmonizing qi and blood, stopping diarrhea and dysentery, removing cold and heat, removing abdominal distension and clearing the bowels. It can treat wind, epilepsy, coma, convulsions, diarrhea, dysentery, cough, etc.
6. push the large intestine: from the radial side of the end of the index finger, along the radial edge of the index finger pushed to the tiger’s mouth, can clear the actual heat, stop diarrhea, commonly used to treat diarrhea, indigestion and other diseases.
7. push small intestine: small intestine points in the ulnar margin of the little finger, the main treatment of short urine red, urine, high fever and other diseases. From the end of the finger to the root of the finger for tonic, from the root of the finger to the end of the finger for diarrhea.
8. knead the Panmun: press and knead the palm of the large fish interval, can strengthen the spleen to resolve stagnation, the main treatment of vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, gas attack and other diseases.
9. pushing Tianheshui: pushing the forearm flexor side of the midline has the effect of reducing fever, clearing the heart and removing annoyance, mainly treating fever and frightening wind, dry mouth and throat, night crying, sores on the tongue and other diseases.
10. Pinch the ten kings: pinch the tips of the ten fingers, has the effect of opening the body and awakening the mind, mainly for the treatment of fainting, wind and other symptoms.
11. Transport the high bone behind the ear: the high bone behind the ear refers to the mastoid process of the temporal bone, which can dispel wind and calm the mind.
12. Play the root of the mountain: Use the index finger to hit the root of the nose until the skin becomes red. It has a calming and opening effect, mainly treating wind, nasal congestion and fainting.
13. Mo abdomen: use the palm to move around the abdomen in a circular motion, focusing on the points of the middle epigastrium, umbilicus and Guan Yuan. It is often used to treat abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, food accumulation, constipation, urinary incontinence and urine loss.
14. Take the belly corner: take the two sides of the umbilicus. It has the effect of moving Qi and stopping diarrhea. Used to treat abdominal pain, diarrhea, abdominal distension and other diseases.
15. press diuretic points: diuretic points in the umbilicus and the pubic symphysis at the 1/2 fold of the line between the midpoint. Pressing this point can relieve urinary retention.
16. pushing the spine: from the top down in the spine on the median line push. It has an antipyretic and analgesic effect.
17. Press and rub the foot three miles: press and rub the foot three miles point 3 inches below the eye of the outer knee, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, support the correct qi. It treats abdominal pain, abdominal distension, diarrhea, false labor, loss of appetite, indigestion, and impotence and weakness of the lower limbs.
18. Rub Yongquan: Press and rub the recesses of the heart of the foot. Mainly for vomiting, diarrhea, fever and other diseases.
It is worth noting that: because the child’s skin is delicate and sensitive to stimulation, it can not be pinched too tight, as twisting forward, straight line, not skewed, not pinch put. When first pinched, the child is often easily frightened and crying, after a few more pinches, the child has been more accustomed to. In addition to local skin flushing, no adverse reactions, such as back skin damage should be contraindicated pinching. Skin diseases, acute diseases with bleeding tendency or not yet clearly diagnosed, especially when surgical diseases are suspected, should not be treated with the massage method.
In addition, attention should be paid to maintaining a certain temperature in the room before the massage, ventilation in summer, and warmth in winter. The practitioner should keep the nails short to avoid damaging the child’s skin and causing infection. Children’s skin is delicate, so you should prepare lubricants (such as talcum powder, turpentine powder, egg white, etc.) to avoid damaging the skin. When pushing, fix the child’s body position to avoid trauma when the child is agitated, and the operator should not be rough, but should be gentle and smooth to achieve the expected effect.