Order of foot scraping

People who pay attention to health care know that there are many acupoints on the feet, which are parts that cannot be ignored in our daily health care. There are many ways to scrape the feet. Foot scraping is also a common way to maintain health. It can be achieved by simply massaging the soles of the feet with your hands or a massage board. Foot scraping can promote blood circulation and blood stasis, and has many benefits for the body. So what is the order of foot scraping?

First, clean the skin of your feet and trim your nails to avoid cross infection or injury. Warming up your feet can be done by using warm Chinese medicine or warm water to soak your feet. Generally, you can soak your feet for about 15 minutes, which can promote blood circulation in your feet and keep your meridians unblocked.

Secondly, accurate positioning. In order to achieve satisfactory results in scraping the reflex zones of the soles of the feet, the operator is first required to master and be familiar with the exact locations of each reflex zone of the foot. Find the sensitive points or qi points accurately, even if the patient feels sore, numb, swollen or painful locally.

Furthermore, the strength should be appropriate. The strength varies from person to person and from disease to disease, and it should be kept even, smooth and rhythmic. That is, press slowly and lift slowly during massage, smoothly and rhythmically, and avoid speeding up or slowing down, or light or heavy. At the same time, one should also master the techniques of tonifying and purging. According to the TCM treatment principle of "tonifying the deficient and purging the excess", for patients with excess symptoms and good constitutions, stronger techniques can be used, while for patients with deficiency symptoms and weak constitutions, gentler techniques can be used.

Finally, the operation sequence: if you use scraping therapy on the entire foot for health care, generally start with the left foot, then the right foot, and proceed in the order of sole → inner side of the foot → outer side of the foot → instep. Generally, we press the heart reflex area of ​​the left foot first, with the technique gradually increasing from light to heavy. If the patient feels unbearable pain with the light technique, it indicates that he may have serious heart problems. In this case, the technique can be stopped to avoid any problems.

Scraping the soles of your feet before going to bed can promote sleep, relieve headaches and other health benefits. The foot is the "second heart" of the human body, and has reflex areas of many internal organs. People with insomnia can scrape the Zuqiaoyin point on the outside of the fourth toe and the Xingjian point between the first and second toes on the dorsum of the foot. The effect is very good.