The fastest massage technique for children's abdominal pain

It is quite common for children to experience abdominal pain in daily life. For example, if a child has gastroenteritis or a cold, it may cause abdominal pain. At this time, we should understand the specific cause and then treat it accordingly. You can also use massage to relieve abdominal pain. This is also a common treatment method in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It can effectively relieve abdominal pain. Let’s take a look at this aspect.

The fastest massage technique for children's abdominal pain

1. Clear the stomach meridian 300 times

Location: Located on the palmar surface of the first phalanx of the child's thumb.

Technique: Use the spiral surface of your thumb to push back and forth on the stomach meridians of both hands of the child 300 times each.

Effects: intestinal rumbling, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, stomach pain, ascites, vomiting or hunger relief.

2. Rub Zhongwan and push Yin and Yang points of the abdomen 300 times each

Location: Zhongwan point and the soft flesh under the ribs.

Technique: Use the thumbs of both hands to push along the edge of the costal arch, or from the Zhongwan to the navel, and push to both sides.

Effects: abdominal pain, bloating, indigestion, nausea, vomiting.

Causes of abdominal pain in children

1. Exogenous factors: Exogenous wind and cold: Exogenous wind, cold, heat and humidity can all cause abdominal pain.

Exogenous wind-cold: due to improper care, thin clothing, and cold wind evil invading the navel and abdomen, or due to excessive consumption of raw and cold fruits and vegetables, the cold damages the middle yang. Cold causes contraction, and cold stagnation of qi will lead to blocked meridians. If qi and blood are blocked, abdominal pain will occur. Because children's yang is not yet fully developed, cold stagnation and qi stagnation are common.

Internal invasion of heat and dampness: Externally contracted heat and dampness invade the stomach and intestines, and the foul air of heat and dampness mixes with the water and food in the stomach and intestines, causing qi stagnation and imbalance in ascending and descending, inability to dissipate upwards, inability to transport and transform in the middle, and inability to transmit downwards, resulting in vomiting and diarrhea, and abdominal cramps.

2. Factors that cause injury due to food: Children’s spleen is often insufficient, their transportation and transformation abilities are poor, and they cannot control their intake of milk and food, so they are easily injured by food. For example, if you eat too much greasy food, or eat too much, or eat unclean food by mistake, it will cause food stagnation, gastrointestinal stagnation, and obstruction of Qi, resulting in fullness and pain in the abdomen; or if you eat too much spicy, dry and greasy food, gastrointestinal stagnation or the stagnation turns into heat over time, insufficient fluid in the intestines will cause dryness and heat, which will hinder Qi and cause abdominal pain; or if you like to eat raw and cold fruits and unclean food, it will cause worm eggs, especially roundworms, to be disturbed in the abdomen, which can lead to roundworm abdominal pain.

3. Factors of deficiency of vital energy: Yang deficiency of the body or physical weakness after illness, cold and deficiency of the spleen and stomach, inability of spleen yang to function, resulting in internal retention of cold and dampness, poor flow of qi, insufficient qi and blood, lack of warmth and nourishment, and persistent abdominal pain.

4. Emotional factors: Children's emotions are depressed, the liver loses its normal function, the liver qi attacks the stomach, and the qi is blocked, resulting in poor circulation of qi and blood and abdominal distension and pain.

There are many reasons for abdominal pain in children. General abdominal pain may be caused by gastrointestinal discomfort or poor hygiene. At this time, massage can be used to treat it. However, sometimes a child’s abdominal pain is not just abdominal pain. If the child’s abdominal pain is severe and accompanied by other symptoms, he or she needs to be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.