The harm of pediatric massage and spinal massage

Many children rarely go to the hospital when they have a cold or are sick. After their family's help, their fever will go down quickly and their cold will be mostly recovered. This magical effect is caused by spinal massage, which is a part of massage. By using this method, children can stay away from colds and illnesses.

Pinching the spine for children is not something you can do casually, most people have misunderstandings!

All pediatric massage teaching materials and health books, as well as all kinds of pediatric massage experts and health experts, when discussing pediatric massage health care, pinching the spine is definitely indispensable, and they only talk about the benefits of pinching the spine, such as dredging meridians, raising yang and stimulating appetite, promoting the circulation of qi and blood, improving organ function, and enhancing the body's disease resistance.

However, the side effects caused by inappropriate spinal manipulation are often only mentioned in a few words or not at all, which gives parents the illusion that every child is suitable for spinal manipulation health care. But what is the reality?

First of all, the pinching of the spine mentioned in general pediatric massage teaching materials and health books refers to upper pinching of the spine (that is, pinching from the bottom to the top), but in actual application, there is also lower pinching of the spine. However, because the lower pinching of the spine is less used in daily health care, most parents only know about upper pinching of the spine.

To understand the applicable symptoms of spinal massage, you must know the principles of spinal massage.

Pinching the spine is performed on the bladder meridian and governing vessel on the back. Upper pinching the spine is performed from the Changqiang point (near the tip of the coccyx) upwards to the Dazhui point.

The Du meridian controls the body's yang energy, and several main acupoints on the Du meridian are yang-raising points. According to the principle of meridian massage "following the meridian is tonifying, going against the meridian is purging", the purpose of pinching the spine from bottom to top along the Du meridian is to raise yang, which is a tonifying method.

The order of pinching the spine downward is opposite to that of pinching the spine upward. It goes against the flow of the Du meridian and has the effect of clearing away heat, purging fire and relieving constipation. It belongs to the purgation method and is usually used to treat excess heat syndrome such as fever or constipation, and is rarely used for daily health care.

In actual use, lower spine pinching is often done without lifting, or it may be replaced by pushing the back alone. For example, if a child has a fever due to excess heat syndrome, after massaging the acupoints on the hands, push the back (from the Dazhui point to the Changqiang point) until the skin turns red and hot, which can effectively speed up the process of reducing the fever.

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