Pathology and massage treatment of children's cough

There are many pediatric diseases, the most common one is pediatric cough. Parents should pay attention to this problem. If a child coughs for a long time, it will cause other diseases, which will pose a serious threat to the child's health. What is the traditional Chinese medicine pathology of pediatric cough? There are many aspects, so parents should always keep track of their children's physical condition, especially the child's diet should be reasonably matched.

What are the specific TCM pathologies of children's cough? The following is a detailed introduction so that parents can have some understanding of such issues and help their children avoid such situations, thus reducing the chances of their children getting sick.

TCM pathology of children's cough:

Children's internal organs are delicate, and external and internal injuries can easily damage the lungs and cause coughing. Exogenous evils such as cold, heat, and dryness invade the lungs, causing the lung qi to rise against the flow; internally there is food stagnation, and the spleen is congested, causing dampness and phlegm, which accumulate and cause the lung qi to fail to circulate; if the body is weak, long-term cough damages the body fluids, and virtual fire rises, further burning the lung yin, causing the kidney to be unable to receive qi. Clinically, it can be divided into two categories: external injury and internal injury. Exogenous coughs: such as cold cough, hot cough, sudden cough due to typhoid fever, lung congestion cough, lung heat cough, phlegm-heat cough, and autumn dryness cough; internal injury coughs: such as food accumulation cough, gurgling cough, saliva cough, phlegm and blood cough, chronic cough due to lung dryness, chronic cough due to spleen deficiency, and chronic cough due to kidney deficiency.

Massage therapy

1. Use your thumb to push the spleen meridian and lung meridian 100 times each.

2. Use the ribbed surface of your thumb to massage the inner Bagua area of ​​the child's palm in a circular motion, for 1 minute on each hand.

3. Use your middle finger to massage the Tiantu and Tanzhong points in a clockwise direction for 2 minutes each.

4. Use your fingers to massage the lung points, cough and asthma points, and chest respiratory area, each point for 2 minutes.

5. Use your thumb to push the thenar area 100 times.

Repeat the above method twice each time, twice a day.

Through the above explanation, we have some understanding of the traditional Chinese medicine pathology of children's cough. There are also some methods to treat it. The above method is a good choice. Parents can alleviate the children's condition by following this method. If the condition is very serious, they should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.