It's very hot, and my right hand is swollen.
Xu Youjia, Director of Pediatrics, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Gao Shan, Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Massage, First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Pediatric massage is a very good external therapy for children aged 0~7, especially for younger children who are not suitable for dietotherapy.
Many common ailments in summer can be solved by massage.
1. There is food accumulation: clearing spleen meridian.
Xu Youjia, director of pediatrics department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that children's spleen and stomach function is poor in summer, especially those with weak spleen and stomach. If there is food stagnation, the family can give him a push on the spleen meridian when he has bad breath, abdominal distension and sour stool.
Pushing spleen meridian can be divided into three types: tonifying spleen meridian, clearing spleen meridian and pushing spleen meridian. There are two ways to tonify spleen meridian. The first method is to let the child's thumb straighten naturally and push it straight from the distal end to the palm root along the radial edge of the thumb, which is called invigorating the spleen meridian (pushing it straight from the palm root to the fingertip in the opposite direction, that is, clearing the spleen meridian). The second is to push the last rib surface of the thumb, that is, the "spleen meridian point". You can hold the child's little hand and push 150~300 times with your thumb.
If the child has spleen deficiency, manifested as sallow complexion, fatigue, emaciation, anorexia or refusal to eat, or if the stool is eaten a little more, there is indigestible residue, the stool is not shaped, it is easy to sweat, and it is easy to catch a cold repeatedly. You can give the child "spleen meridian" 300 times a day.
2. Fever: Qingtian River
Xu Youjia, director of pediatrics department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that in summer, many children will have wind-heat colds. There are many ways to reduce the fever of children. I recommend Qingtianhe, which is the trump card of children's massage. It can be used for reducing fever of various heat syndromes such as excess heat and deficiency heat, and clearing away heat without hurting yin.
Pushing from the midpoint of the wrist stripes on the palm of the child to the midpoint of the elbow stripes is 1 time. 1 0/00 times for infants under 3 years old, 300~500 times for infants under 3 years old, and 800~ 1000 times for infants over 3 years old.
Usually operated with the left hand. When the body temperature is high, you can operate with both hands at the same time or alternately. Young children may not be quiet for that long. It is recommended to operate for 3~5 minutes, and then operate after rest until the body temperature drops to a safe range. According to the fever, they can operate 1~3 times a day.
In the massage operation, mother can dip in water as a medium to improve the antipyretic effect; Pay attention to manicure before massage operation, and don't wear jewelry; Don't massage the baby half an hour ago.
3. indigestion: rubbing your stomach
Xu Youjia, director of pediatrics department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that children's constipation is something that parents often encounter. Traditional Chinese medicine has many good ways to deal with constipation in children. In addition to Chinese medicine and dietotherapy, I also recommend giving children a massage, such as rubbing the abdomen, which has a good effect of promoting digestion and relaxing bowels.
However, constipation is divided into virtual reality and massage techniques are also divided into virtual reality, so parents must distinguish between them. Empirical constipation is mostly caused by accumulated food and stagnation of heat, with short course and mild illness. Children with dry stool often have abdominal distension and refusal to press, accompanied by symptoms such as not wanting to eat or nausea and vomiting. Constipation of deficiency syndrome is mostly caused by qi deficiency and blood deficiency, intestinal tract moistening and inability to defecate. Generally, the course of disease is long, and constipation is easy to recur for a long time. The child has a dry stool, but he always wants to defecate or can't defecate.
When rubbing the abdomen, press and massage the navel with your palm or four fingers for 3 minutes, and rubbing the abdomen clockwise is a diarrhea method, which is suitable for empirical constipation caused by hot air; Anti-clockwise abdominal rubbing is a tonic method, which is suitable for deficiency constipation caused by insufficient middle qi (that is, insufficient intestinal motility).
4. Can't sleep well: Rub my little heavenly heart.
Gao Shan, deputy director of the Department of Tuina, the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that summer is the mind. Children get angry easily in summer, and they will be more irritable than usual. It is also easy to sleep restlessly when sleeping at night, and can't sleep over and over again. At this time, you can use the method of rubbing your little heavenly heart to recuperate your child, clear away heat and fire, and calm your mind. Xiaotianxin point is easy to find, just in the depression where the thenar of the palm meets the thenar. Knead 150 times is appropriate.
You can also rub the Neilaogong point for your child, just in the palm of your child's hand. Hold the four fingers of the hand firmly in the palm except the thumb, and the point where the middle finger abuts is Neilaogong point. Neilaogong point is the point on pericardium meridian, which can clear the heart, purge the liver, cool the blood and moisten dryness, soothe the nerves and regulate the stomach. If your child gets angry because of a cold, or is upset, you can rub it once a day, 300 times each time.
Children who don't like sleeping are mostly related to heart and kidney failure. Heart governs fire and kidney governs water. If you don't warm the kidney yin under the heart fire and nourish the heart yang on the kidney water, it will be difficult for people to fall asleep.
5. Dry mouth and bitter taste: clearing liver essence
Gao Shan, deputy director of the Department of Massage, the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that in summer, liver fire and heart fire often appear at the same time. Children with liver fire will show dry mouth and bitter taste, dry eyes and impatience and irritability. Faced with this situation, the method of clearing the liver meridian can play the role of calming the liver and purging fire, calming the wind and calming the nerves, and can play a certain role in the symptoms of night terrors, irritability and bitter taste that are easy to appear in children in summer.
This acupoint is located in the palm of the child's index finger, from the base of the finger to the fingertip. When doing massage, parents can put the baby's palm up, put the baby's index finger on the mouth of the left hand, and then push the fingertip with the right hand from the end of the child's index finger with appropriate strength, and the time is also 3 to 5 minutes.
Such children are often accompanied by dry stools, constipation and other problems, so it is necessary to clear the intestines, along the radial side of the index finger, from the root of the finger to the fingertip, that is, clear the intestines. You can also push down seven joints, and the straight line from the fourth lumbar vertebra to the tail vertebra is. Pushing from top to bottom is diarrhea, which can relieve constipation; Pushing from bottom to top is a tonic and can treat diarrhea.
6. Cold hands and feet: chiropractic therapy
Xu Youjia, director of pediatrics department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that the weather is hot in summer, and children are sometimes mentally deficient, easily tired and want to sleep. It is easy to sweat a lot when you move a little, and your face is white or yellow, which are all manifestations of qi deficiency.
Children with yang deficiency are prone to repeated colds and coughs. They are usually afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, loss of appetite, loose stools and easy diarrhea. When they eat raw cold, they have more serious diarrhea, nocturia and even enuresis. At this time, Yang can be supplemented by chiropractic.
The direction of chiropractic is generally upper chiropractic and lower chiropractic, and their effects are different. It is generally used for tonifying yang and benefiting qi for children and improving immunity. Upper chiropractic, that is, kneading from bottom to top: its main function is to raise yang, warm kidney and strengthen spleen, and it is suitable for deficiency-cold dyspepsia, constipation, diarrhea, cold and other symptoms, and can be used for treatment or daily health care.
In addition, if the child has evidence or fever, it is not suitable for chiropractic, parents should pay attention. (The picture is based on "Massage for Children with All Diseases", China Traditional Chinese Medicine Publishing House, Author: He Shizhen)
This article first appeared in the Health Times "Massage for Children to Treat Minor Diseases" (2021June 25th, 803).