Six Steps for Pediatric Massage to Reduce Fever

  After giving birth to a baby, women not only learn to make complementary foods, but also learn to cope with various situations of the baby. In addition to medication, babies with fever can also be treated with massage to reduce the fever. With just six simple steps, it is easy to reduce the fever in children. Next, the encyclopedia will introduce how to do six steps of pediatric massage to reduce fever?

  

Six Steps for Pediatric Massage to Reduce Fever1

  1. Kaitianmen: located in a straight line between the eyebrows and the hairline. Use your thumb to push in a straight line on the acupoint. Use both thumbs to push alternately from bottom to top, pushing 50-100 times.

  2. Tukan Palace: located along a horizontal line from the center of the eyebrows to the tip of the eyebrows. Push the acupoints in a straight line using the side or belly of the thumb. Use both thumbs to push from the center of the eyebrows to the tip of the eyebrows, known as the "Pushing Kan Palace", and push 50-100 times.

  3. Yunsun: located at the intersection of the eyebrow tip and the extension line of the eye corner, and the depression behind the eyebrow. Using the thumb or middle finger to point at a certain acupoint, and then pushing it in an arc or circular motion towards that point, is called the method of movement. This method uses clockwise movement as nourishment and counterclockwise movement as diarrhea. Using the middle finger to move, it is called "moving the sun" and moves 50 to 100 times.

  4. Qingfei Jing: located on the ribbed surface of the distal end of the ring finger. Push the acupoints in a straight line using the side or belly of the thumb. Spiral pushing is called "supplementing the lung meridian"; Pushing straight from the tip of the finger towards the root of the finger is called the 'Clear Lung Meridian', while the 'Supplementary Lung Meridian' and 'Clear Lung Meridian' are collectively referred to as the 'Push Lung Meridian'. Select the Clear Lung Meridian here and push it 100-300 times. Using the clearing method can clear heat and relieve symptoms, relieve cough and phlegm, and use the tonifying method to nourish the lungs and qi.

  5. Qingtian River water: located in the middle of the inner side of the forearm, forming a straight line from the wrist crease to the elbow crease. Use food and middle finger to push in a straight line on the acupoint. Push your fingertips from your wrist to your elbow, using your food and middle fingers, and call it "Tutian River Water" or "Qingtian River Water". Push it 100-200 times. This acupoint is warm, cool, and peaceful in nature. It can clear heat, relieve external heat, and relieve irritability. It is used to treat heat related diseases, clearing heat without harming yin.

  6. Tui Liu Fu: located on the ulnar side of the forearm (little finger side), forming a straight line from the elbow joint to the wrist crease. Use food and middle finger to push in a straight line on the acupoint. Push the thumb or middle finger from the elbow to the wrist, known as "retreating the six viscera", for 100-200 times.

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