Tips for Diabetes Massage

Traditional Chinese medicine calls diabetes "xiaoke" and believes that its main cause is yin deficiency and dryness and heat, and the affected organs mainly involve the lungs, spleen, and kidneys, especially the kidneys. As diabetes progresses, various complications will occur, seriously affecting the patient's quality of life and bringing multiple blows to the patient financially, physically, and mentally.

People often ask what simple and easy-to-learn movements can prevent and treat diabetes. Here is a massage method recommended to everyone. Doing this movement regularly can benefit the kidneys and strengthen qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and promote blood circulation, thereby increasing insulin secretion, accelerating the use of glucose, and improving microcirculation. It has a positive effect on preventing complications of diabetes and alleviating symptoms such as numbness and coldness of the hands and feet, fatigue, back pain, abdominal distension and difficulty in digestion after eating. It is also suitable for prevention in high-risk groups of diabetes with a family history of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance. The specific operation method is as follows:

Tonifies Qi and strengthens the eyes:

Turn your thumbs inward, clench your fists with your other limbs, hold your thumbs, and place them on your ribs. Grasp the ground with your five toes, and at the same time rotate your eyeballs clockwise and counterclockwise 20 times each.

Push the pancreas horizontally:

Use your palms to push the projection area of ​​the pancreas on the abdomen from the outside to the inside, alternating between pushing and pulling 20 times.

Abdominal rub:

With Shenque (the center of the navel) as the center, rub the abdomen 20 times in clockwise and counterclockwise directions respectively.

Massage back and waist:

Make fists with both hands, and use the metacarpophalangeal joints of the index fingers to rub the spleen point, stomach point, triple burner point, and kidney point (located 1.5 inches below the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth vertebrae respectively, away from the spine), for 30 seconds each point.

Massage the lumbar spine:

Push both palms from the spleen point to the Bladder Meridian point from top to bottom 10 times.

Regulates the spleen and kidneys:

Rub Xuehai, Diji, and Sanyinjiao of the spleen meridian, and Taixi acupoint of the kidney meridian. Push the thumbs of both hands along the inner edge of the tibia from Yinlingquan to Taixi acupoint 5 times. (Xuehai: bend the knee 90 degrees, with the fingers of the left hand facing up, the palm facing the center of the right patella, and the palm covering the knee. The thumb and the other four fingers are at a 45-degree angle. The point where the thumb tip points is this point. Yinlingquan: A depression can be touched at the upward bend of the inner ankle of the tibia. Diji: 4 horizontal fingers directly below Yinlingquan, on the inner edge of the tibia. Sanyinjiao: 4 horizontal fingers directly above the tip of the inner ankle, behind the inner edge of the tibia. Taixi: The depression between the tip of the inner ankle and the Achilles tendon.)

Stomach meridian:

Make empty fists with both hands and tap the stomach meridian area on the outside of the calf from top to bottom 5 times, until you feel soreness and swelling.

Rub Yongquan acupoint:

Rub the Yongquan point (the depression in the front 1/3 of the sole of the foot) with your palm until it feels warm.

Note: Please follow your doctor’s advice on specific treatment and medication!

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