Massage techniques for children with indigestion

Many parents are afraid that their babies are not getting enough nutrition, so they often feed their babies a lot of things. However, since the baby's digestive system is relatively weak, it is easy to cause indigestion in the baby, resulting in food accumulation. When a baby has overeating, it will not only affect the baby's physical health, but also make parents very worried. Babies’ indigestion does not necessarily have to be treated with medication. In fact, it can also be treated with some massage techniques to help digestion. So what are the massage techniques for children with indigestion?

Rub the abdomen: Apply massage oil on the abdomen, and gently rub the abdomen 100 times in a clockwise direction. Use gentle techniques and do not use force.

Pinch the spine: Pinch the skin on both sides of the spine with both hands, and pinch from bottom to top. Pinch gently, to the child's comfort, 30 times.

Massage Zusanli: Zusanli is a major acupuncture point on the stomach meridian. Regular massaging of it has the effect of health care and promoting digestion. Massage it 100 times.

Move the inner Bagua: Use your thumb or middle finger to push gently in a clockwise direction around the Laogong point in the palm of your hand. Effectively relieve symptoms such as loss of appetite and abdominal bloating, push 100 times.

Clear the stomach meridian: Push straight along the palm surface of the thumb toward the base of the finger 100 times. It has the effect of harmonizing the stomach and relieving reflux.

Clear the lung meridian: Push straight toward the base of the ring finger 200-300 times. It has a good effect in relieving cough.

Precautions

Children's skin is delicate and needs to be massaged with massage oil.

Indigestion syndromes in TCM are divided into:

1. Food injury type

Symptoms include abdominal distension and pain, bad breath, and constipation.

Treatment prescription: Baohe Pills with modifications.

2. Damp-heat type

Symptoms include abdominal distension, easy sweating, hot feeling in the palms and soles of feet (the so-called five-heart heat), irritability, restlessness, dry mouth and tongue, and dry stools.

Treatment prescription: Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang with modifications.

3. Cold and damp type

Symptoms include loose and soft stools, loss of appetite, preference for hot water, and fatigue.

Treatment prescription: Lizhong Decoction with modifications.

Acupuncture treatment: select acupoints such as Zusanli, Zhongwan, Hegu, Pishu, Weishu, and Dachangshu, twice a week, six times as a course of treatment. Or you can use navel fumigation therapy, which also has good therapeutic effect.

Pediatric massage mostly uses one finger, two fingers or the palm, and its techniques include pushing, pinching, kneading, holding, pressing, rubbing, rubbing, scraping, and shaking. Among them, kneading, pinching, rubbing and scraping are more likely to cause pain and discomfort, so they should be used according to the situation.

For massage to treat pediatric indigestion, the selected acupoints include Zhongwan, Tianshu, Shenque, Hegu, and thumb.

Rub Zhongwan: Use your middle finger to rub the midpoint between the two nipples and the navel for five minutes.

Massage Tianshu: Use your middle or index finger to massage two points two inches away from the navel at the same time for five minutes.

Massage Shenque: Use your palm to rub the navel 50 times in a clockwise direction.

Press Hegu: Press the point 100 times with one finger at the junction of the metacarpal bones of the thumb and index finger.

Pushing the thumb: The practitioner uses the tip of the thumb to push the palm of the child's thumb 100 times, from the palm to the fingertip.

Baby oil can be used with the above method to prevent skin damage. At the same time, attention should be paid to strength so as to achieve both therapeutic effect and avoid discomfort or injury to children.

Mothers need to pay attention to their eating habits and diet content on a daily basis. If your child has indigestion, you may try the above pediatric massage method, which will have a good therapeutic effect.