How to open up the meridians throughout the body at home

Blocked meridians in the body are very harmful to health. If you experience some symptoms of blocked meridians in your daily life, such as feeling cold, swelling and pain all over the body, you can treat them through certain massage methods. Especially at home, these methods can be used to promote the unblocked meridians, which can play a good role in improving immunity and preventing diseases.

How to open up the meridians of the whole body at home

1. Heating

When there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body, it is like facing a piece of land that is frozen due to the cold. It is necessary to warm up to solve the fundamental problem. Only when the "earth" warms up, the rivers melt and the land thaws, will the rivers become unobstructed and the land become soft and breathable.

The same is true for our body. As long as there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body, all the pipes in the body will contract due to the cold, and the muscles and tissues in the body will also become hardened due to the cold. When encountering such a situation, you must learn to warm up your body through proper physical exercise to expel the cold and dampness, so that the body can be completely thawed and various channels can be naturally unblocked.

2. Gently rub the earlobe

Make empty fists with both hands, and use your thumb and index finger to rub the earlobe up and down for 1 minute until the earlobe becomes engorged and warm. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "kidneys control bones and produce marrow". The body's essence is collected by various organs and then handed over to the kidneys for storage. The kidneys open up to the ears, and the ears are covered with acupuncture points throughout the body. Therefore, massaging the ears can not only strengthen the kidneys, but also open up acupuncture points throughout the body.

3. Beat your back often

A study found that beating the back once or twice a day can help improve work efficiency and skin health, among other things. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, stomach, gallbladder, large intestine, small intestine, bladder, triple burner, and twelve acupoints are all connected to the back. Moderately beating the back can invigorate the yang energy, dredge the meridians, promote the circulation of qi and blood, and harmonize the internal organs, thereby eliminating fatigue, calming the mind, etc.; it can also stimulate the skin and subcutaneous tissue of the back, conduct through the nervous system and meridians, strengthen the endocrine and nervous system functions of the human body, and improve the body's immunity and disease resistance.

Back pounding is simple and easy to do and is not subject to time constraints. It usually includes patting (patting with empty palms) and tapping (tapping with empty fists). Both methods should be light rather than heavy, and strive to achieve coordinated movements, even rhythm, and flexible force.

When beating the back, use your hands to lightly tap and pat both sides of the spine from top to bottom or from bottom to top. The strength of the beating should be enough to make the body vibrate without feeling pain. You can beat yourself or have others beat you, and the person being beaten can be sitting or lying down. Generally, the frequency of back beating should be 60 to 100 times per minute. You can do it 1 to 2 times a day, and the duration of each back beating should be limited to 20 minutes.

There are a few things to note when massaging your back: 1. When using the knocking method to hit the back, you should clench your fists into hollow fists. Do not use too much strength in clenching your fists. The force should be light at first and then heavy so that you can gradually adapt to it. 2. Change the frequency of beating according to the situation. If the person being massaged is nervous or emotionally agitated, it is better to use a light and slow technique; if the person being massaged is depressed or tired, it is better to use a strong and fast technique. 3. Patients with cardiopulmonary diseases, undiagnosed spinal lesions and tumors, and severe osteoporosis should not be pounded on the back to avoid aggravating their condition or causing accidents.

4. Sitting in Lotus Pose

When sitting, bend your left leg, place the instep of your left foot on the groin of your right thigh, place your hands on your left knee, and gently make elastic movements up and down several times to make it touch the ground; then change to your right foot. Persistent exercise can help to activate various ligaments in the human body, fully stretch the muscles of the legs, abdomen, chest, neck, etc., and keep the meridians unobstructed.

5. Comb your hair

Use your fingers or a wooden comb to comb your hair from the front of your forehead to the back of your pillow, and from the temples on both sides to the top of your head, 50 to 100 times each time. It is best to comb your hair in the morning. All the meridians of the human body converge at the head. When combing your hair, you will pass through nearly 50 acupoints, including Mei Chong, Tong Tian, ​​Bai Hui, Yin Tang, Yu Zhen, Feng Chi, etc. Stimulating these acupoints like acupuncture can promote blood flow in the head and dredge the meridians.