In summer, the weather is hot, and if babies blow fans or use excessive air conditioning, they are prone to catching a cold due to wind heat. This can be slowly restored through diet therapy or traditional Chinese medicine massage without taking medicine. Our body has many acupoints, and treatment can be achieved through massage. Below, we will introduce massage therapy for wind heat colds.
1、 Where is the massage for wind heat and cold
1. Fengchi (Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian)
Location: In the neck, below the occipital bone, at the depression between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the upper end of the trapezius muscle.
Indications: Headache, dizziness, strong neck pain, red eye pain, fever, cold.
2. Dazhui acupoint (Du meridian)
Location: When selecting the acupoint, sit and lower your head. The acupoint is located at the lower end of the neck of the human body, in the depression below the spinous process of the seventh cervical spine. If the protruding bone is not very obvious, let the patient move the neck, and the immovable joint is the first thoracic vertebra, about level with the shoulder.
Indications: Fever, cough, wheezing, hyperalgesia, shoulder and back pain, lumbar spine weakness, five fatigue deficiency, seven injury fatigue, heatstroke, cholera, vomiting.
3. Hegu (Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian: Original Acupoint)
Location: Between the 1st and 2nd metacarpal bones on the back of the hand, at the midpoint of the radial side of the 2nd metacarpal bone.
Indications: Treat headaches, sore throat caused by colds, etc. It can also treat symptoms such as toothache, abdominal pain, constipation, etc.
4. Quchi (Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian: Hexue)
Location: lateral end of the elbow crease, elbow flexion, midpoint of the line connecting the Qize acupoint and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus.
Indications: Fever, hypertension, fever, sore throat, abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea, toothache.
5. Chi Ze
Location: In the transverse crease of the elbow, at the radial depression of the biceps tendon.
Indications: Treat cough and sore throat caused by a cold, as well as asthma, hemoptysis, elbow and arm spasms.
6. Column deficiency
Location: On the radial edge of the forearm, above the radial styloid process, 1.5 inches above the wrist crease.
Indications: Treatment of external headaches, hyperalgesia, cough, asthma, sore throat, and other symptoms. It can also treat symptoms such as toothache.
Based on the above content, there are still many acupuncture points related to the massage of wind heat and cold. As long as you choose one or two of them, it is enough. It needs to be persisted for a few days, and the effect will gradually take effect. Don't stop doing it for a day, as it is useless. If the condition is serious, it is better to go to the hospital for medical treatment, take medicine or drip water.
