What are the benefits of massaging Huantiao?

Huantiao acupoint is a very important acupoint on the human body. This acupoint is located in the human hip joint, so it is also called hip bone. In life, you can massage or acupuncture this acupoint to help prevent and treat diseases. For example, massaging the Huantiao acupoint can promote blood circulation and relieve pain, especially for the treatment of sciatica. In addition, massaging the Huantiao acupoint also has the following many functions.

What are the benefits of massaging Huantiao?

[Main indications] Pain in the waist and legs, paralysis of the lower limbs, hemiplegia, rubella, athlete's foot, sciatica, hip joint diseases, etc.

[Functions and effects] Huantiao acupoint strengthens the waist and knees, replenishes qi and strengthens yang, relaxes meridians and activates collaterals, promotes blood circulation and relieves pain.

[Clinical Application] It is commonly used in modern times to treat sciatica, lower limb paralysis, lumbar and hip joint and surrounding soft tissue diseases, etc.

【Acupoint Combination】

(1) Huantiao acupoint combined with Zusanli acupoint, Yanglingquan acupoint, Feiyang acupoint, Fenglong acupoint, and Taibai acupoint is used to treat phlebitis and water retention in the lower limbs;

(2) Huantiao acupoint combined with Juliao acupoint, Zhongdu acupoint, and Fengshi acupoint is used to treat lateral femoral cutaneous neuritis;

(3) Huantiao acupoint combined with Fengshi acupoint, Biguan acupoint, Dubi acupoint, Futu acupoint, Taichong acupoint, Zusanli acupoint, Taixi acupoint, and Yanglingquan acupoint can be used to treat polio, muscular atrophy, hemiplegia caused by stroke, etc.

(4) Huantiao acupoint combined with Fengshi acupoint can treat rheumatoid arthritis. Combined with Yinmen, Yanglingquan, Weizhong and Kunlun, it is mainly used to treat pain in the lower limbs;

(5) Combined with Fengchi and Quchi, it is mainly used to treat rubella.

(6) Combined with Yinmen, Yanglingquan, Weizhong and Kunlun points, it has the effect of dredging the meridians, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, and is used to treat sciatica.

(7) When combined with Juliao, Weizhong, and Xuanzhong, it has the effect of dispelling wind, removing heat, and relieving cold, and is mainly used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia.

(8) Combined with Fengchi acupoint and Quchi acupoint, it has the effect of dispelling wind, activating blood circulation and relieving itching. It is mainly used to treat urticaria all over the body.

Acupoint therapy and precautions

[Treatment principles] If it is cold, it should be supplemented with moxibustion. If it is hot, it should be drained with acupuncture or water injection.

[Acupuncture therapy] The needle tip is inserted slightly downward and obliquely into the Huantiao point 2.0-3.0 inches. Local soreness and swelling, and numbness and electric sensation radiate to the lower limbs. It can treat sciatic nerve and lower limb diseases. The needle tip is inserted obliquely toward the external genitalia and lower abdomen 2.0-3.0 inches. The numbness and swelling can reach the external genitalia. It can treat external genitalia and lower abdominal diseases.

[Moxibustion Therapy] Moxibustion on Huantiao acupoint with moxa stick for 10-20 minutes, and moxibustion on Huantiao acupoint with moxa stick 5-10 times.

[Massage therapy] Make fists with your palms facing inwards, and punch the Huantiao acupoints on both sides with both fists 50 times each, or hug your knees and then straighten them, and repeat this for a total of 50 times, one stretch and one flexion.