Our feet are like the roots of a big tree, and the lush roots of the tree are deep, which means that the feet are very important to human health. On the feet, there are many acupuncture points, if they can be scientifically and effectively stimulated, they can indeed play a role in regulating qi and blood and health care. Nowadays, the streets and alleys are full of various “foot bath shops”, “pedicure shops” and “foot massage shops”, but about foot massage, everyone still needs to pay attention to a few points in order to be safe and healthy.
Diseases suitable for TCM foot massage
Constipation, dry cough
Constipation is mainly related to insufficient peristalsis of the large intestine, when massaged, it mainly stimulates the reflex area of the large intestine of the foot, which is also effective in massaging the anal area about four fingers up the inner ankle of the left and right feet against the heel. Constipation is a real symptom, and it is actually drained, so the harder the massage, the better.
To treat cough, the first thing is to stimulate the lungs and bronchial reflex areas, the lymph glands of the upper body have anti-inflammatory effects, and the glucocorticoids secreted by the adrenal glands can relieve cough, anti-inflammatory, and anti-allergic, and dry kidneys play a regulating role in autumn.
Insomnia, neurasthenia
There is an insomnia point on both heels. The heart is the main gate, and the heart and the small intestine are on the surface, and the celiac nerve can also affect nerve tension, so the heart, small intestine, and abdominal reflex area should also be stimulated.
Fatigue, back pain
The kidneys and ureters and bladders promote the excretion of lactic acid, which is the main cause of fatigue. Abnormalities in the cervical, lumbar and thoracic spines directly cause back pain in people. The parathyroid gland regulates calcium metabolism and stimulates muscle and nerve excitement.
cold
Colds are mainly caused by damage to the lungs, nose, throat and other respiratory organs. As long as you wash your feet and massage your feet properly every day, you can effectively enhance your own immunity.
How to do it
When washing your feet, master the temperature of the water, keep it around 40°C~50°C, and the amount of water should be submerged in the ankles. After soaking for 5~10 minutes, massage the soles of the feet with your hands, and the movements should be slow, coherent, and appropriate.
Avoid washing your hands and feet with alkaline soap, which can dry out and crack your skin. After washing your feet, you should dry them and apply some non-thorny oil or skin care cream.
During the foot bath, add certain traditional Chinese medicines to the hot water that are conducive to conditioning and treating diseases or health care, which can prevent and treat athlete’s foot, excessive foot sweating, heel pain, chilblains, lower limb swelling and numbness, colds, rheumatoid arthritis and frequent nocturia.
Some people should not do foot massage
Women who are menstruating or pregnant
Women are in a special physiological period, and some changes will occur in all aspects of the body, and if you do a foot massage at this time, it may increase the amount of menstruation, and pregnant women will also cause uterine bleeding and affect fetal health, and even increase Risk of miscarriage.
Those with visceral diseases and active bleeding
Foot massage will speed up the blood circulation of the body, and patients with serious heart, brain, lungs and other internal organ diseases, especially severe hypertension, angina pectoris, etc., can easily cause severe pain and cause blood pressure to rise sharply. This leads to stroke and heart disease.
For people with active bleeding from internal organs, such as cerebral hemorrhage, peptic ulcer, kidney bleeding, uterine bleeding, etc., plantar massage can easily cause more bleeding and even pose a threat to life.
The skin on the feet is damaged or traumatized
For those with broken foot skin, trauma, blisters, scabies, inflammation, suppuration, ulcers, edema and severe varicose veins, foot massage is easy to causeWorsening of injury or infection.
It should be noted that people with foot trauma, whether open or closed, should not be performedFoot massage.
In addition, some diabetics are not suitable for foot massage, because sometimes too much massage force will cause skin damage, but diabetics becausePeripheral nerves are dull and cannot feel it at all, which is very dangerous.
Patients with infectious diseases
Patients with active tuberculosis, or various acute and chronic infectious diseases such as athlete’s foot and onychomycosis (nail fungus) should also not undergo foot massage to avoid the spread of germsInfect others or cause cross-infection.
High fever and extreme fatigue, weakness
The body of such people is in an abnormal and unhealthy state, and the stimulation of foot massage may cause a strong stress response within the body, further worsening the condition. Therefore, when you are unwell, it is still recommended to seek medical attention in time, or stay in bed to recuperate, rather than taking chances, in order to solve the disease through foot massage.
Those who are intolerant to pain
Foot massage mainly plays a role in relieving fatigue and promoting blood circulation, and for some diseases, there will be no obvious therapeutic effect, so there is no need to insist on foot massage for those who are intolerant of pain, and there is no need for the masseur to deliberately press harder.
Foot massage is not the more painful it is, the more effective it is
The intensity is too small to reach the minimum stimulation chamber with pain, unable to achieve the expected effect, and cannot cause appropriate response; Excessive force can cause strong pain, muscle damage, and nerve tension, which may also lead to it Self-inhibition or nerve numbness prevents the nerve transmission signals generated by massage from changing the disordered transmission signals emitted by pathological reactions.
The average force of general shiatsu massage is 3-5 kg, and it is necessary to achieve the best effect according to the individual’s tolerance, within his maximum limit, from light to heavy, slow and regular, giving people a safe and comfortable feeling.
patients with chronic diseases and weak constitutions should use gentle and soothing techniques to calm down and rest more patients; Strong stimulation can excite the sympathetic nerves of the human body, making people in an “emergency state” a hundred times more spiritual, but for the weak patient’s physical strength to cause a burden, if the patient is sad, or sweating profusely, dizziness, the massager should Immediately reduce the force and switch to soothing techniques, but do not need to stop the massage, the patient is required to endure the pain, the sympathetic nerve is overexcited, and the nerve tension for a long time will cause emotional restlessness, and the effect is not ideal.
Time limit for massage
In addition to first aid, overhunger, overfullness (40 minutes after meals), try to avoid it at noon (around 12 o’clock), in order to help digestion, you can also massage the digestive system reaction area after meals, and there is no time limit for first aid.
