How to massage a baby when he coughs

Since babies have relatively weak resistance, it is normal for them to catch colds and cough. In fact, the cough hurts the children and the parents feel pain in their hearts. Some children with severe coughs may not see any effect after taking a lot of medicine. At this time, you might as well try massage. So how do you massage a baby when he has a cough? Let’s hear what Chinese medicine experts say about the specific method of pressing. I hope everyone can gain something from the following introduction.

You can also do manual massage at home

Experts introduced several basic methods that parents can use to massage their children at home:

Head, face and neck: Open Tianmen and divide Yin and Yang 100 to 200 times each; massage Fengchi, Fengfu and Baihui 30 to 50 times each; massage eyebrows from eyebrows to temples 5 to 10 times;

Drain the lung meridian: push from the first joint to the last joint of the ring finger.

Drain the lung meridian: push from the first joint to the last joint of the ring finger.

To tonify the spleen meridian: Place the tip of your thumb on your palm and rotate it in a clockwise direction.

To tonify the spleen meridian: Place the tip of your thumb on your palm and rotate it in a clockwise direction.

Cough and asthma points: Press between the index finger and middle finger, and between the middle finger and ring finger.

Cough and asthma points: Press between the index finger and middle finger, and between the middle finger and ring finger.

Press the Hegu point: This is a commonly used acupoint for treating cough.

Press the Hegu point: This is a commonly used acupoint for treating cough.

Upper limbs: Clear Tianhe water 300 times. Drain the heart meridian, liver meridian, lung meridian, spleen meridian, and kidney meridian 100 to 200 times each;

Press Quchi, Neiguan, Lieque, Chize and Kechuan points 50 to 100 times each;

Press the Tanzhong point.

Press the Tanzhong point.

Chest: Press Tiantu, Tanzhong, Rubian, and Rugen 50 to 100 times each;

Lower limbs: press Fenglong, Taichong, Zusanli, Sanyinjiao 50 to 100 times each;

Press the bladder meridian.

Press the bladder meridian.

Back: Rub the back downwards to open the bladder meridian, focus on pressing the Dazhui, Feishu, Pishu, Ganshu, Xinshu, and Asthma points; pinch the spine from top to bottom; push the Tianzhu bone downwards until the skin turns slightly red and hot.

Several types of cough in traditional Chinese medicine

There are several types of cough in traditional Chinese medicine. Doctors remind us that we must treat them according to the different types:

1. Exogenous cough

Wind-cold attack on lungs

Symptoms: heavy and hoarse cough, shortness of breath, itchy throat, thin and white sputum, often accompanied by nasal congestion, clear runny nose, headache, limb aches, chills and fever, no sweating and other external symptoms, thin white tongue coating, floating or floating-tight pulse.

Wind-heat attacking the lungs

Symptoms: coughing and expectoration with yellow or thick phlegm, dry throat and sore throat, often accompanied by aversion to wind, fever, headache, limb aches, runny nose with yellow mucus, thirst and other symptoms of superficial heat, thin yellow tongue coating, and rapid or slippery pulse.

2. Internal injury cough

Phlegm-dampness in the lungs

Symptoms: Recurrent coughing, especially in the morning, with heavy and muggy cough, lots of sputum, which is sticky or thick and lumpy, white or gray in color, and chest tightness and shortness of breath. Coughing and shortness of breath are relieved when sputum is discharged. It is often accompanied by fatigue, abdominal distension, loose stools, greasy white tongue coating, and slippery pulse.

Phlegm-heat in the lungs

Symptoms: Coughing and shortness of breath, or phlegm in the throat, thick and sticky phlegm or yellow phlegm, uncomfortable coughing and spitting, or phlegm with hot and fishy smell, or coughing and spitting bloody phlegm, chest and flank distension, or chest pain caused by coughing, red face, or body fever, dry mouth and thirst, thin yellow and greasy tongue coating, red tongue, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Lung Yin deficiency

Symptoms: dry cough, short cough, little sticky white sputum, or blood in the sputum, or gradually hoarse voice, dry mouth and throat, often accompanied by hot flashes in the afternoon, hot hands and feet, night sweats, dry mouth, red tongue with little coating, or little saliva on the tongue, and a thin and rapid pulse.

Yin deficiency dry cough

Symptoms: dry cough without sputum, or little and sticky sputum. It is often accompanied by afternoon hot flashes, hot hands and feet, night sweats, dry mouth, red tongue with little coating, or little fluid on the tongue, and a thin and rapid pulse.

Cough Massage Addition and Subtraction

If it is wind-heat or phlegm-heat, massage Neilaogong and Xinshu 50 to 100 times; and Tui Liufu 300 times.

If you have a cold, massage Wailaogong; press the spleen point and lung point on the back 50 to 100 times each.

If the patient has phlegm and dampness, add Tui Liu Fu 300 times; rub Banmen and Yun Nei Bagua 100 to 200 times each.

If the patient has yin deficiency and internal heat, supplement Sanguan 300 times; clear Tianhe water 300 times; massage Neilaogong 50 to 100 times each.

If you have a long-term cough, add Sanguan 300 times; and massage the spleen point, lung point, kidney point, and life gate on the back.

Press the bladder meridian.

To tonify the spleen meridian: Place the tip of your thumb on your palm and rotate it in a clockwise direction.

Drain the lung meridian: push from the first joint to the last joint of the ring finger.

Press the Hegu point: This is a commonly used acupoint for treating cough.

Press the Tanzhong point.

Cough and asthma points: Press between the index finger and middle finger, and between the middle finger and ring finger.

Parents must learn the above massage methods carefully and use them when their children cough. This is very practical. After the massage, you will find that the effect of baby cough massage is so obvious, and it has relatively few side effects on the child's body. This is the result that parents most want to see. It can cure the disease with few side effects.