Massage can relieve muscle aches and pains, slow down the aging process, strengthen the body, and the list of benefits goes on and on. But to achieve the benefits of massage, to know the precautions are also quite a lot.

　　Massage benefits:

　　Massage is a different technique skills on the surface of the human body in some special parts to eliminate fatigue, regulate the body information, enhance physical fitness, to overcome some dysfunctions to accelerate blood circulation in the body.

　　Massage relaxes and relaxes the muscles that cause pain due to poor posture, allowing your body itself to position itself in its natural and pain free posture. With the ongoing massage the muscles are relaxed, relaxing the joints have greater freedom and pressure points. This allows the body itself to position itself in a healthy and natural posture, thus avoiding movement over time and reacting to painful positions.

　　Massage therapy is a beneficial treatment for maintaining and improving flexibility and movement. By working on the muscles, connective tissues, tendons, ligaments and joints, regular massage can improve your flexibility and range of motion, making your joints more fluid and making them less prone to injury.

　　When is the best time to get a massage

　　Rubbing your hands early in the morning can wake you up

　　After waking up in the morning, with the increase in human activity, the heart rate will accelerate, so in the morning to pay attention to temper the heart and lungs. Can be taken to rub the heart of the hand, knead fingers, etc., through the stimulation of the heart of the Laogong point, so that the heart is excited, and enhance the function of the respiratory system, play a role in health care. When rubbing the palms of the hands, merge the two palms, back and forth against the rub, rubbing the palms as much as possible. In addition, in the morning, the fingers of the two pairs of hands rubbed against each other and massaged, but also can play a refreshing role in waking up the brain.

　　Afternoon sun back to protect Yang Qi

　　Noon (11:00 ~ 13:00) this time, is more sunny hours, often sunbathing back, can play a role in supplementing the body's Yang Qi. In the sun, remove the hat, so that the sun from the top of the head of the Hundred Points into the human body.

　　Soak your feet at night to protect your liver

　　After a day of activity, the body will be more tired at night, especially the liver and kidneys are in urgent need of rest and recuperation. The best way to recuperate at this time is to soak your feet. When you soak your feet, the heat of the water can enter the body through the soles of the feet, so that the body of the kidney meridian, liver meridian are maintained. Especially the bottom of the feet of the Yongquan point, is the first point of the kidney meridian, the evening in the hot water stimulation, can be very good to eliminate the fatigue of the day, replenishment of kidney energy. After soaking your feet, go to bed ready to sleep, you can use the palms of your hands to rotate the foot massage rub, each time kneading more than ten times.

　　In fact, the best time to do massage effect is the time of bathing, through the heat of the water to open every pore of the skin, at this time the body's blood circulation will be accelerated, if at this time to do massage, it will be twice the result with half the effort! Bathing time by the way to massage our abdomen and limbs, you can dredge the whole body meridians, so that the blood flow, the body's natural health!

　　Massage time how long is the best

　　First, health points can be massaged from time to time. For example, Hegu, foot Sanli, Guanyuan, Sanyinjiao and other acupuncture points, from time to time press can play a health care effect.

　　Second, massage after bathing or foot bath, will play a role in promoting internal circulation, this time is also the best time to massage.

　　Third, massage before going to bed, conducive to sleep, press the appropriate points can sleep well.

　　Fourth, early morning massage is conducive to the recovery of the spirit, female friends massage the eyes every morning is conducive to the elimination of bags under the eyes, but also can promote the absorption of cosmetics.

　　Fifth, different parts of the allocation of different time. Key parts of the time longer, secondary or auxiliary parts of the time shorter.

　　Sixth, in general, no daily massage (here is the pathological class is not health care class). Generally 2-3 times a week, acute diseases to the degree of cure, chronic diseases are generally 10-15 times for a course of treatment, rest a few days or a week between courses.

　　Should massage be done clockwise or anti-clockwise?

　　Acupressure point massage, is it better to go clockwise or anti-clockwise, don't laugh, this is a serious question.

　　Acupuncture point massage direction is different effect is also different, Chinese medicine massage acupuncture point principle is real evidence should be clockwise massage, is to diarrhoea, false evidence should be counterclockwise massage, is to complement.

　　(1) massage direction should be consistent with the muscle direction: along the direction of muscle growth, gently, rhythmically and patiently, wrinkles with the muscle direction is at right angles to the hand and wrinkles at right angles to the movement, that is, along the direction of the muscle. If the wrinkles are horizontal, massage vertically; wrinkles are vertical, massage horizontally.

　　(2) massage fingers: massage with the middle finger and ring finger in the skin gently drawing circles, light to the extent that the light can not be touched, finger movement to have a sense of rhythm, do not overly friction epidermis.

　　Didn't find the right acupoints will have side effects?

　　In traditional Chinese medicine, acupressure follow is "away from the point is not away from the meridian" so an idea, the human body's acupuncture points is not a point, but the surface, is an acupuncture point area, both deviated a little as long as it does not deviate from this meridian on the line, like we are looking for acupressure points massage, pressed in an acupuncture point when no pain, but a little further ahead and then press will be There is a sense of pain, this is to do a moderate adjustment, that is, what Chinese medicine said "away from the point is not away from the meridian".

　　In Chinese medicine, the relationship between acupoints and meridians is like threading beads, and the acupoints of the body are connected by the meridians. The massage we are talking about is actually massaging the meridians. The technique of strong penetration, can relax the muscles, relieve fatigue, regulate body functions, with the enhancement of the body's immune system, unclogging the meridians, balancing yin and yang, prolonging the efficacy of life.

　　Who is not suitable for massage

　　1, the physical signs of stability, such as some of the long illness excessively weak, have serious cardiovascular disease or elderly frail patients;

　　2, female physiological period, the waist can not be pressed, pregnant women more than five months pregnant;

　　3, no serious haematological diseases, such as purpura, thrombocytopenia and other aplastic anaemia;

　　4, massage places without infection, serious skin diseases, such as various acute infectious diseases, acute osteomyelitis, tuberculous arthritis, infectious skin diseases, skin eczema, water and fire burns, skin ulcers, tumours, and a variety of sores and ulcers;

　　5, fever and high fever, also not massage;

　　6, dislocation, strain patients;

　　7, patients with acute peritonitis, acute purulent peritonitis, acute appendicitis.

　　The above is a massage in which we often encounter some small problems, massage has a hundred good, we should also pay attention to the method.