Methods and essentials of health-care exercise of meridians in traditional Chinese medicine

The five spring exercises in Green Valley are divided into five parts. This paper introduces the position, action essentials and functions of the meridians corresponding to each movement: abdominal movement. Key points: abdominal breathing, patting the lower abdomen.

(1) Abdominal breathing. Breathe with your stomach, inhale with your stomach in, and exhale with your stomach flat. Breathe through the nose or mouth.

1. essentials: fold your hands up and down in front of your lower abdomen, close your eyes slightly, keep your chest still, stop, hold your breath and lift your breath. 3 times a day, 5-20 minutes each time, 4-6 breaths per minute. It is easier to sleep in bed.

(2) pat the small abdomen. Pat the abdomen, ninety-nine. Can help burn abdominal fat and achieve the effect of losing weight.

1. Essentials: Fingers together, palms empty, slapping clockwise from the left side of abdomen in circles, accompanied by squatting. Do it twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, with 1 1 9 calls each time.

2. Function: There are nine important meridians passing through the human abdomen, as well as important acupoints such as Guanyuan and Qihai. It can be said that the abdomen is the sea of human vitality and the treasure of life force. Abdominal exercise can enhance human vitality and improve immunity, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, constipation, insomnia and low immunity. Squat exercise. Key points: High squat, half squat, full squat and straight squat are the best aerobic exercises.

1. Essentials: Keep your upper body upright, straighten your hands forward, bend your legs and squat down, then stand up. Make 2-4-8 calls for each action. Twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, with 20-50 strokes each time.

2. Function: Squatting exercise is a whole-body exercise, which can activate the qi and blood of all meridians in the whole body, enhance the vitality of the six meridians of the foot and the du meridian, strengthen kidney essence, strengthen waist strength and store yang qi, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on coronary heart disease, diabetes, constipation, hypoimmunity and other diseases. Hit the gallbladder. Located on the outer thigh, the center line of trousers, from waist to ankle.

1. essentials: straighten your hands to both sides, and use your big arm to drive your forearm and wrist to beat your ankle hard, accompanied by squatting. Do it twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, with 6 8 calls each time.

2. Function: "Huangdi Neijing" records that "all eleven viscera depend on gallbladder", which means that all zang-fu organs function on gallbladder. The gallbladder meridian is the beginning of the twelve meridians's circulation and the key to ensure the smooth flow of qi and blood. Therefore, tapping the gallbladder meridian often can make the whole body full of qi and blood, thus conditioning the whole body's viscera, which has a good therapeutic effect on people with qi and blood loss, long-term insomnia and physical weakness. Hand grasping exercise. There are four movements: cat scratch, baby scratch, eagle scratch and hand count. Let's do it together.

1. essentials: the upper body is upright, and you can't lean forward, and your fingers are hard, accompanied by squatting. Cat scratch, baby scratch and eagle scratch each make 2-4 8 calls; Count your hands, do each movement 3 times, 8- 18 9-calls. Twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening.

2. Function: Huangdi Neijing pointed out: "The heart governs the gods and the blood vessels". As the saying goes, "ten fingers are connected to one heart." Hand grasping exercises can improve the functions of brain, heart and brain by exercising the six meridians of the hand, and play a great role in preventing and regulating Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In addition, it also has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on various diseases of shoulders, elbows and joints. Tap six points. From more than 400 acupoints in 14 meridians of human body, six most important health-care acupoints are selected. Each acupoint has 6-8 barks at a time. Shoot twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening.

Point 1: Hanzhong point. Located at the midpoint of the connecting line between the two nipples, right in the center of the heart socket. Renmai Yaoxue.

1. essentials: put your hands together and straighten forward, and use the big arm to drive the inertia of the forearm and wrist, accompanied by squatting;

2. Function: It has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on lung and heart diseases such as cold, asthma, shortness of breath and palpitation.

The second point: Dazhui. Located in the middle of the back of the neck, at the seventh cervical vertebra, the protruding part when lowering the head. Important acupoints on the Du meridian.

1. Essentials: Cross and straighten your hands, and use the big arm to drive the inertia of the forearm and wrist, accompanied by squatting;

2. Function: It has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as cervical spondylosis and shoulder pain, and is the first choice for treating cervical spondylosis.

Acupoint 3: Neiguan point. It is located between three fingers and two tendons under the wrist striation. Essential points of pericardium meridian. (The following acupoints are all slapped with empty palms. )

1. main point: along the pericardium meridian of the inner line of the arm, pat the shoulder all the time, accompanied by squatting;

2. Function: It has been the first choice to treat heart disease since ancient times to prevent and treat various heart diseases and enhance cardiopulmonary function.

Acupoint 4: Hegu point. Located between the thumb root and the index finger root. Important points on the large intestine meridian.

1. main point: the shoulder is shot along the large intestine meridian of the lateral midline of the arm, accompanied by squatting;

2. Function: It has a good effect on preventing and treating cerebral apoplexy and Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, and it is the first key to treat head and face diseases. Can be used for preventing and treating various gastrointestinal diseases, colitis and colorectal cancer.

The fifth point: the sacred tree. The last rib at the waist is the same height, and two fingers are open next to the lumbar spine. Important points on the bladder meridian.

1. essentials: straighten your hands to both sides, and use the big arm to drive the forearm to beat with the inertia empty palm, accompanied by squatting;

2. Function: It has a good effect on preventing and treating kidney deficiency, impotence, sexual hypofunction, frigidity, prostate, diabetes, alopecia, tinnitus and deafness. Nursing the kidneys is the first point.

Sixth point: Zusanli. It is located at the position of four fingers below the kneecap and one finger next to the outside line of tibia. The first point of stomach meridian.

1. essentials: beat the ankle along the stomach meridian on the outside of the calf, accompanied by squatting below;

2. Function: regulate the acquired spleen and stomach, treat all diseases related to the spleen and stomach, and prevent gastritis and gastric cancer. It is one of the two longevity points and has been an important point for health preservation since ancient times. Take off. Chinese medicine says: "The general principle is painless, but pain will not work." . Once in the morning and four times in the evening.

1. main point: jump with both feet, swing your hands from front to top at both sides of your body, and shout "pass" at the same time.

2. Function: Ending the action can achieve the effects of smooth qi and blood, harmony of five internal organs and balance of yin and yang.