Massage can relieve muscle aches and pains, slow down aging, 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 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 in the morning can wake up your brain

　　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 regulate 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 both hands rubbed against each other and massaged, can also play a role in refreshing 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, take off 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 rubbing, each rubbing more than ten times.

　　In fact, the best time to do the 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 this time to do the massage, it will be twice the result with half the effort! Bathing time by the way massage our abdomen and limbs, you can dredge the whole body meridians, so that the blood flow, the body's natural health!

　　How long is the best massage time

　　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 acupuncture 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 to 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 counterclockwise?

　　Acupressure point massage, is clockwise or counterclockwise good, do not laugh, this is a serious question.

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

　　(1) massage direction should be consistent with the direction of muscle: along the direction of muscle growth, gently, rhythmically and patiently, wrinkles with the direction of the muscle is at right angles, hands 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, avoid excessive friction epidermis.

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

　　In traditional Chinese medicine, acupressure follow is "not away from the acupuncture points," such an idea, the human body is not a point of acupuncture points, but the surface, is an acupuncture point area, both a little bit off as long as it does not deviate from this meridian on the line, like we are looking for acupressure points when we massage, pressed on an acupuncture point when it does not hurt, but a little bit forward 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, the body's acupoints are linked together by 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 human immunity, dredge the meridians, balance the 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 hematological diseases, such as purpura, thrombocytopenia and other aplastic anemia;

　　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, tumors, and a variety of sores and sores;

　　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.