How can massage during menstruation promote menstrual blood discharge?

During menstruation, women's body sensitivity is 15% higher than usual. Gently pressing a few specific acupoints can stimulate the body's metabolism and promote the excretion of toxins from the body. However, experts also emphasize that you must press gently rather than use force. So how can massage during menstruation promote menstruation?

1. Yongquan Point

If you bend your toes hard, the depression that appears on the front side of the sole of your foot is the Yongquan point. Gently pressing the Yongquan point can regulate your plant nervous system through the meridian transmission function, help you soften blood vessels, promote blood circulation, thereby reducing blood viscosity and accelerating menstrual discharge.

2. Zusanli

Press the top of the left knee joint with the palm of your left hand, with five fingers facing downward. The area where the top of the middle thumb points outward is the Zusanli acupoint on the left leg. Use the same method with your right hand to find the Zusanli acupoint on the right leg. Gently pressing this acupoint can promote digestive function, accelerate the excretion of toxins, and enhance the body's immune ability.

3. Zhongfu Point

Stand straight with your hands on your hips, and you can touch the triangular fossa at the lower end of your neck with your hands. The center of the fossa is the Yunmen point, and the area that is one rib vertically downward from the center of the fossa is the Zhongfu point.

Zhongfu point is a major point on the lung meridian. Regular massage can unclog the pulmonary veins, enhance blood circulation, and treat diseases of the spleen and lungs, deficiency of qi and blood, abdominal distension, etc. It is a key acupoint for regulating the internal breath and meridians.

4. Tianzhu Point

The Tianzhu point is located in the depression below the back of our neck, that is, about 2 cm above the middle half inch of the back hairline. There is an acupoint 1.3 inches on each side.

Massaging this area when you feel tired and sleepy can help relieve fatigue and eliminate exhaustion. It can also relieve stress, warm the spleen and stomach, regulate the meridians, help the blood flow smoothly, and is beneficial to improving discomfort such as low back pain and soreness during menstruation.

5. Mingmen Point

Located on the waist, on the posterior middle web, in the depression below the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra, approximately at the same level as the belly button. When you press lightly with your fingers, you will feel obvious pressure pain.

Massaging this acupoint is beneficial to improving the depressed mood, relieving muscle pain, and can also effectively prevent aging, nourish yin and protect the uterus, improve irregular menstruation, delay menopause, and restore vitality.

6. Chengfu Point

Directly below the center of the vertical line of the buttocks, it is located at the gluteal groove positioning point below the upper and lower buttocks. This is where the nerves are more concentrated, so you can apply more force during acupressure massage.

The nerves of the genitals pass through this acupoint. Regular pressing can effectively and directly stimulate the nerves of the cervical wall, help the abdominal muscles and pelvic muscles to contract and relax, help menstruation to flow more smoothly, and can also play a certain role in relieving dysmenorrhea.

7. Shenshu Point

It is located in a similar position to the Mingmen acupoint, that is, one above and one below, 1.5 inches lateral to the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra in the waist.

This is the main acupoint of the spleen meridian. Regular pressing can strengthen kidney essence and improve kidney function. It is especially helpful for irregular menstruation, cold hands and feet, and abdominal distension and pain.

8. Shangyang Point

This acupoint is on the hand. Stretch out your hand, on the thumb side of the ring finger, 2mm behind the corner of the fingernail.

These are all acupuncture points for regulating internal breath and the gastrointestinal tract. This acupoint is located on the intestinal meridian. Pinching it frequently can replenish the blood and qi of the small intestine meridian, regulate digestive function, accelerate body metabolism, and relieve menstrual discomfort.

9. Geshu Point

If you turn your hand over, you can feel the indentation between the clavicle and the spinal vertebrae. This is the area. And there is one above and below.

Acupressure massage can promote blood circulation, stimulate the lymphatic system, effectively relieve shoulder periarthritis and cervical spondylosis, and help regulate the excitement and inhibition process of the cerebral cortex, improve body function, and help to successfully pass the menstrual cycle.