Children massage common questions answer, children common diseases basic point reference!

Children massage frequently asked questions

1. At what age does child massage suit children?

Traditional child massage is mainly applied to preschool children, that is, 0 to 7 years old. When the child of 7 years old above USES child massage, should increase time and strength appropriately, general to the child of 12 years old below, child massage has certain effect.

Can I do it every day?

Different diseases, different operation time, for acute diseases, such as fever, daily operation, can be twice a day when necessary, generally 1 to 5 days for a course of treatment; For chronic diseases, once a day, or 2-3 times a week, weekly treatment.

Some parents asked about some acupoints, such as pinching ridge, plate door, stomach meridian and so on can be done every day? What I want to say is that different acupoints have different functions, and the specific application should be based on the child's physical condition. Some acupoints may not be suitable for their children. Take knead ridge for example, the body is deficient easy catch a cold, viscera false disease and so on, can often knead ridge, and daily health care is not to say to knead ridge every day, want to see the child's specific condition, can lie between one, two days or every few days. Knead board door, four cross grain can increase appetite; Kneading the spine promotes growth and strengthens the body. Night dream easy to startle can be used to pound the small heart.

3. Do children press both left and right hands in massage? Or just one hand?

Children massage, in ancient times there were men left women right division, but now, regardless of men and women, more used to push left hand, some acupoints, such as five meridians regulation, kneading the door, such as small heart can operate both left and right hand, the rest of the acupoints, such as chest and abdomen, waist back, more at the same time around acupoints operation.

4. When is the massage suitable for children?

This does not have strict requirement, it is advisable to be in the morning commonly, but, to the child falls asleep difficulty or is easy to wake, can be operated before sleeping, can have the effect that promotes sleep. Because some parents want to go to work in the daytime, do not have time, massage to the child also can be in the evening, but do not use a few before going to bed the technique that hearten yangqi, lest affect the child sleep.

5. How to master the strength of massage? Does the bigger the bigger the effect?

The strength that massages is not bigger the better, because the skin of infantile is delicate, strength is too big instead the skin that is easy to injure to infantile, when massaging, should be light, downy, powerful.

6. What should I do after the massage?

After the massage, you should have a proper rest, and pay attention to keeping warm, avoiding the wind and cold.

7. What is the difference between kneading the ridge from top to bottom and kneading the ridge from bottom to top?

The upper spine is pinched from bottom to top, which belongs to filling method and is also the common direction of pinching ridge. The direction of the next pinching ridge is opposite to it, and has the role of clearing heat, purging fire, purging.

8. How to operate the commonly used operation, pinching, pushing, kneading and pinching in children's massage?

Method of transport: push from here to there in an arc or a circle, and use the thumb to the belly, or three fingers to the belly of food, medium or nameless, such as carrying soil into water and carrying water into soil.

Pinch method: pinch skin with fingernail, this method stimulation is stronger, more use at urgent disease, in ill namely stop, want to control number strictly, should not be used as conventional gimmick, pinch hind much auxiliary USES rub method, child skin is delicate, pay attention to do not pinch broken skin.

Push method: straight push method, from a point, along a straight line to another point, often used in the linear point. Divide and combine push method, namely from the center to push both sides and both sides to push to the center at the same time, such as divide push hand Yin and Yang, join push hand Yin and Yang.

Kneading method: refer to the circular motion of absorption and fixation, which includes thumb kneading, finger rubbing, palm root kneading and so on.

Pinching method: using both thumb and forefinger, place it symmetrically around the acupoint, and push it towards the center of the acupoint.

9. Do children need lubricant for massage? Which one should you use if needed?

Child massage is to use the medium, the child's skin is not like the adult, very delicate, if do not use the medium, can damage the child's skin very easily. Protect skin lubrication, starch, talcum powder, vaseline, etc.

10, self-taught children massage, read what books better?

I personally think Li Dexiu embedded genre is suitable for just contact the parents of children massage, because many schools use acupuncture point, each hole operation time is long, and there are some specific acupuncture point, and other records of positioning is slightly different, but the effect is very obvious, of course, if elected to dialectical point, further study of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge and pediatric related knowledge.

Children common diseases massage point reference

1. Strengthen the spleen and stomach: fill the spleen after 500 times, rub the abdomen for 3-5 minutes (clockwise, counterclockwise half), knead the feet for 50-100 times (on both sides), and knead the spine for 3-5 times.

2. Elimination of accumulated food: 150~200 times for reinforcing spleen, 100 times for transporting plate door, 50~100 times for pushing four horizontal lines, 100~200 times for moving inner bagua, 100 times for dividing pushing and Yang of abdomen, and 200 times for kneading feet.

3. During fever: clear the lung 200 times, level liver 200 times, clear the sky river 200~300 times, push the tiangzhu bone local flushing is degree, push the ji gate local flushing is degree, moyongquan 150 times

4. Cough: 200 times of lung cleaning, 200 times of liver cleaning, 300 times of inner eight trigrams, 150 times of daily rubs, 200 times of lung shu, 5~10 times of rubbing rib.

5. Diarrhea: the four methods for stopping diarrhea (rubbing navel of turtle tail, rubbing abdomen seven joints), pushing large intestine (clear and repair or adjust large intestine according to the condition) 300 times, and filling spleen 300 times.

The above is the basic use of some common diseases, as a basis in accordance with the cold and heat of the different addition and subtraction. Here is to introduce the basic points to you.