Foot San Li, the key point to enhance physical fitness

Many parents have this trouble, the baby always appetite is not good, the body is thin, the slightest breeze will be fever and cold. This kind of children suffering from stagnation, their own digestive function is poor, long-term weakness and disease, and young parents and love their children’s eagerness, indiscriminately cast to fat, sweet and thick taste, or indiscriminately take tonic drugs, but beyond the normal ability of the spleen and stomach transport, aggravate the child’s anorexia symptoms, thus affecting the normal growth and development of children. The Chinese medicine has since ancient times “if you want the child to be safe, three miles often do not dry”, the so-called “not dry” state, is a daily moxibustion foot three miles point once, the ancients believe that this is equivalent to the effect of a daily tonic an old hen. Parents personally to the child massage, through the intimate contact with the skin of parents, children are often happy to receive, both to enhance parent-child relationship, and can be carried out at home at any time. In Chinese medicine, the foot San Li point has been favored by generations of doctors. As a joint point of the foot Yangming Stomach meridian, it can harmonize Qi and blood and has the special function of tonifying deficiency and strengthening. Qi and blood are the basis of human life, and deficiency is the fundamental factor in causing disease in the body. Foot San Li can prevent and treat many diseases, so it can be said that it is the main treatment area from head to foot. The Internal Canon records that it can treat stomach pain, bloating, loss of appetite, etc.; the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Book records that it can treat stroke unconsciousness, diarrhea, etc. And Qin Chengzu put it better: all diseases are cured! Ancestral medicine is a practical medicine guided by the theories of yin and yang, the five elements, and the internal organs, etc. All these valuable experiences are derived from long-term medical practice, and they are all effective. A large number of real-life research has also confirmed that the foot three miles can two-way adjustment of human functions, on the circulation, digestion, respiration, immunity and other system diseases have a positive effect on the recovery. So, how to give children massage which? First, it is important to clarify the location of the foot San Li point. It is about four horizontal fingers (pediatrician’s own horizontal fingers) below the outer knee eye (lateral recess of the knee joint) and about one horizontal finger outside the anterior tibial crest. We can put our thumbs at the pediatric foot San Li, and we can press and rub it. The method can be selected from up and down, point pressure rubbing, rotational rubbing, etc. The strength of the rubbing should be moderate, not too light, not too heavy, generally 10 to 20 minutes each time can be. Because of the delicate skin of children, so when giving pediatric massage, be sure to use talcum powder or talcum powder to prevent rubbing the child’s skin. The object of pediatric massage therapy is generally children under 6 years old, but the effect of massage is better for children within 3 years of age, and the best effect is for infants within 1 year of age. Parents can tell stories to their children every night while massage with gentle movements, for about 10-20 minutes every night, for a long time, you can receive good results!