What are the acupuncture points for reducing fever in children?

What should I do if my child has a fever? In daily life, children have relatively poor immunity and often have fever. Giving them medicine or saline drips will have side effects, and not taking the medicine won’t make them better. It’s really a headache... Is there no better way? The editor tells you that some acupoints can reduce children’s fever, but what are those acupoints? The editor shares it with you here!

1. Push Zanzhu (Open the Heaven Gate) Position: From the middle of the two eyebrows to the front hairline in a straight line.

Procedure: Use your two thumbs to push alternately from the center of the eyebrows to the forehead to the hairline, about 10 to 20 times.

Indications: fever and headache caused by exogenous factors.

2. Stroke the eyebrows (Tui Kan Palace) Position: Start from the eyebrow and draw a straight line along the eyebrows.

Procedure: Use your two thumbs to push from the eyebrows to the ends of the eyebrows, about 10 to 20 times.

Indications: fever caused by exogenous factors, headache, red and painful eyes. Location: The depression behind the eyebrows on both sides.

Procedure: Rub the point or move Taiyang with the tip of the middle finger. When moving the Taiyang meridian, rub towards the ears for draining, and rub towards the eyes for tonifying. About 10 to 20 times.

Indications: fever caused by exogenous factors, headache, red and painful eyes (purgation should be the main method).

3. Press and rub the Yingxiang point: the outer edge of the nose wing, in the depression of the nasolabial groove.

Procedure: Use the index and middle fingers of your right hand to massage Yingxiang at the same time, about 10 to 20 times.

Indications: nasal congestion, runny nose, loss of smell, and crooked mouth and eyes.

4. Rub the Dazhui point: below the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra (the protruding vertebra on the spine approximately parallel to the shoulders). Procedure: Rub the Dazhui point with the tip of your right middle finger about 10 to 20 times.

Indications: fever, stiff neck, cough.

5. Push Tianhe Water position: the middle of the side of the forearm, in a straight line from the transverse line of the wrist to the transverse line of the elbow.

Operation: Hold the child's hand with your left hand, with the palm facing up. Then use the radial side of your right thumb or the index and middle fingers together to push from the wrist crease to the elbow crease. Alternate hands and repeat about 10 to 20 times.

Indications: exogenous fever, hot flashes, internal heat, irritability, thirst, etc.

6. Position of pushing the six internal organs: On the ulnar side of the forearm, there is a straight line from the Yinchi point (at the transverse line of the wrist) to the tip of the elbow.

Operation: Hold the child's left hand with your left hand, and use the thumb, index and middle fingers of your right hand to push from the elbow to the wrist; then switch hands and do the other arm. Repeat about 10 to 20 times.

Indications: All fever symptoms, such as high fever, thirst, sore throat, convulsions, mumps and dry stool, etc. The above massage methods for treating children's fever should decide which acupoints and techniques to use based on the development of the child's condition.

The editor has shown you how to find so many fever-reducing acupoints. Have you benefited a lot from them? These acupoints are not difficult to find and are very helpful in reducing children's fever. We must use them correctly. A child's fever is a big deal and we must take it seriously. Children's fever can be reduced easily and adults can rest assured. Let's learn and put it into practice quickly!