How many of the six major health points of acupuncture and massage do you know?

Acupuncture, also known as acupuncture therapy, is a method of slowly inserting needles into the patient's body at an appropriate angle, and using twisting, lifting and inserting movements to stimulate a specific part of the patient's body, thereby achieving the effect of regulating the body and treating diseases. So which five common acupuncture points do you know?

Tanzhong Point: "Beating the chest and stamping the feet" can prolong life

Location: The Danzhong point is located in the middle of our body, specifically at the fourth rib, midway between the two nipples.

Function: Stimulating this point can invigorate blood circulation, dredge meridians, relieve chest tightness, regulate qi, and stop coughing and asthma. In particular, it can effectively treat various "qi" diseases, including respiratory and digestive system diseases, such as asthma, chest tightness, palpitations, irritability, angina pectoris, etc. It can also treat postpartum milk deficiency, mastitis, intercostal neuralgia, gastric cardia spasm and other diseases.

Procedure: Cross your hands, make a hollow fist, and then tap this acupoint. You can also put the four fingers of one hand together, and use the fingertips to press and rub in clockwise circles or push and rub from top to bottom, at least 100 times a day, for 2 to 3 minutes. Modern medicine has proven that the human body begins to age from the thymus, and frequently "beating the chest and stamping the feet" can prolong life.

Sanyinjiao acupoint: effective for gynecological diseases

Location: Sanyinjiao point is located on the inner side of the calf, 3 inches above the tip of the inner ankle, in the depression behind the inner edge of the tibia (inner bone of the calf).

Function: Sanyinjiao acupoint belongs to the spleen meridian, where the liver, spleen and kidney meridians meet. It is also known as "Nü Sanli". It has the function of harmonizing qi and blood, and nourishing the kidney and liver.

Stimulating this point is effective for gynecological diseases, such as dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, menopausal syndrome, swollen soles of the feet, cold hands and feet, etc.

Operation: For those who suffer from dysmenorrhea or irregular menstruation, spend 1 minute every day stimulating this point starting from 5 to 6 days before the start of menstruation, which has a good health-care effect. For people suffering from menopausal syndrome and other diseases, regular stimulation of this point can improve their condition. But it is not suitable for pregnant women.

Zusanli acupoint: the most important acupoint for human health

Location: The Zusanli point is located 3 inches below the depression on the anterior and lateral side of the knee, one horizontal finger (middle finger) away from the anterior edge of the tibia.

Function: Zusanli is known as the most important acupoint for human health care. There is a saying among the people that "regular moxibustion of Zusanli is better than eating old hens." Stimulating the Zusanli point can make gastrointestinal motility strong and regular, enhance digestive function, and increase appetite; improve heart function and regulate heart rate; regular massage of the Zusanli point can prevent and alleviate many common diseases, such as gastric and duodenal ulcers, acute gastritis, gastroptosis, vomiting, enteritis, constipation, cholecystitis, gallstone colic, diabetes, hypertension, etc., and is effective in relieving acute stomach pain.

Procedure: Use your thumb to massage the Zusanli acupoint for 2 to 3 minutes every day, with the strength needed to feel local soreness and swelling. In an emergency, such as an acute attack of stomach pain and your pants are tight, you can use the tip of a pen to stimulate this point through the clothes until the symptoms are relieved.

Guanyuan acupoint: for yang deficiency, fear of cold, uterine cold and infertility

Location: Located in the lower abdomen, on the front midline of the body, 3 inches below the navel. There is an ancient saying that "it is the place where men store their sperm and women store their blood."

Function: This point has the function of nourishing the primordial energy, the kidney energy, and warming the lower abdomen. It can treat a wide range of diseases, including leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea, various gynecological inflammations in gynecology, and impotence, premature ejaculation, and prostate diseases in men. Pressing or moxibustioning acupoints for 15 minutes every day can help improve sexual function. It is more effective for people with cold waist, impotence, premature ejaculation and weak constitution. It can also treat sudden fainting.

Procedure: You can use the ginger moxibustion method. Poke some small holes on a thin piece of ginger slice, stick it on the Guanyuan acupoint, and then use moxa sticks to moxibustion for about 15 minutes at a time until you feel a flush at the acupoint. The effect is more significant for those with yang deficiency, fear of cold, and infertility due to cold uterus.

Yongquan acupoint: can make kidney essence sufficient, hearing and eyesight clear

Location: Located at the bottom of the foot, in the depression at the front of the foot when the toes bend downward, at the intersection of the front 1/3 and the back 2/3 of the line between the second and third toes and the heel. It is the first acupuncture point on the kidney meridian.

Function: Regularly massaging this point will lead to sufficient kidney essence, sharp hearing and eyesight, abundant energy, strong sexual function, strong waist and knees, and powerful walking. Pressing and rubbing this point can also improve the symptoms of acute angina pectoris. Yongquan acupoint is effective for sore throat, headache, insomnia, difficulty urinating, shock, heatstroke, epilepsy, infertility, irregular menstruation, fear of cold, impotence, spermatorrhea, and menopausal syndrome.

Procedure: After soaking your feet in warm water every night, first rub your palms to warm them up, then massage the left Yongquan point with your right palm and the right Yongquan point with your left palm until the soles of your feet become warm. Massaging this point before going to bed every day can achieve the effect of connecting the heart and kidney, and combining water and fire. You need to be calm and peaceful when massaging to get twice the result with half the effort.