Traditional massage health benefit

MaYouDu Chongqing medical university

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Traditional massage, has a long history, and said to the ancient times, people somewhere discomfort, with the hand to rub up and few, soon feel some easily. People feel the wind chill ShiXie, or somewhere chronic strain that acid bilges pain, and the activity of inconvenience, as long as the hand on the pinch knead for a while, acid bilges pain can reduce, inconvenience is then better activities. People from the accidental discovery, and gradually developed into the use of conscious, strengthen the cure massages in folk and popular.

        Then, the doctor also gradually the traditional massage to prevent and cure diseases, or perhaps even to treatment for emergency and severe cases. "The historical records" history of the warring states period in the rescue Guo que famous doctors a prince of the corpse jue disease, cooperate to use massage, massage, and received "back" remarkable effect.

        The wei, jin, sui and tang dynasty, the massage cure and self care massage are already quite popular, and successively descendant north Korea, Japan, India and Europe. The song, gold, and yuan period, the massage massage the scope of the disease prevention and control more expanded, internal medicine, surgery and performed a gynecologic involved. But when the Ming and qing dynasties, and expanded to treating pediatric disease, featured in children, massage.

        After new China was founded, the massage massage more attention, the special research organization established, the special medical unit is growing and the practice of preventing and treating illnesses are more rich and colorful.

        Massage the biggest characteristic, is the Chinese medicine meridian theory as the guide, in human skin or points of technique and, and thereby achieve physical health care and treatment of diseases purpose.

        Why can massage health care, cure? Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, want to maintain the human body health, must meridian dredge, blood is fluent, Yin and Yang mediate, and through the massage, can clear the meridians, fluent and blood, to reconcile Yin and Yang. As the yellow emperor said: "massage can make JinJie, comfortable and blood circulation"; Renowned medical wang2 bing also said: "the massage, open the out-of-the-way, guiding Yin and Yang." So, as appropriate, massage, often can get good health care effect.

        Once sicken, often affect blood meridian, and smooth; Especially the bones and muscles, muscle injury caused more meridian block, blood stasis ". And massage and longer than clear the meridians, fluent blood, so often can obtain good results. The qing dynasty as the YiZong JinJian "on the analysis on the reason massage said:" according to the main and collateral channels, to the canopy closure of the gas, together with the warm, the scattered stasis ", the lower the swollen can be more."

        Massage through various technique, stimulate human body skin, muscles, joints, nerve, blood vessels, and lymph and other place, can promote local blood circulation, improve metabolism, so as to promote the body's natural resistance capacity. Massage and can enhance the elasticity of the skin, muscle, relieve muscle spasm, improve local blood circulation, massage acupuncture points to stimulate, still can adjust the cerebral cortex of excitement and inhibit process and reduce the cerebral cortex sensitivity to pain, thus has the analgesic effect.

        In sum, because can have these good massage function, so to normal person, it can enhance the body's natural disease-resistant ability, get health care effect; For individuals, but the general condition improved, so as to obtain good results. This shows, with massage to health care, cure, have scientific reason.

        Massage is longer than the shu, fluent, dredging, promoting blood stasis, scattered acetanilide detumescence, so often used in all kinds of pain syndrome, chronic disease and go strain. Muscles, ligaments and fascia of various damage, including sprains, injury, strain, use massage treatment can be obtained a certain result, some still can obtain good effects, such as "felt", acute lumbar sprain, etc. Neuralgia, rheumatism pain, stomach pain leukoencephalopathy, use massage, also can obtain certain effect. Each place of pain, including headaches, toothache, neck pain, chest pain, a threat to shoulder pain, waist pain, limb pain, abdominal pain, generally speaking, most can cooperate to use massage treatment. Some chronic strain, and appropriate use of massage treatment, such as lumbar muscle strain, shoulder muscle strain, wrist joints strain.

        Massage can cure disease although many, but not "massage talks, BaoYi all ills, and some disease can depend mainly on massage treatment, some disease can only use massage as auxiliary treatment, and some disease is simply can't massage. As with influenza acute infectious disease, such as with acute inflammation, limb joint chronic inflammation, large area such as tuberculosis skin disease patients were not the massage massage.