Can Massage Help with Weight Loss?
Losing weight is a goal for many people, but not many are successful in achieving it. How can we effectively lose weight? One option to consider is traditional Chinese medicine massage. How does Chinese medicine massage help with weight loss? Let's take a look at the key points of self-massage in Chinese medicine.
Looking for a good weight loss method without exercise or dieting? Try the meridian massage technique in Chinese medicine. By stimulating acupuncture points, you can achieve your weight loss goals. It is especially suitable for those who are lazy.
Meridian Massage: A Lazy Person's Weight Loss Secret
"Meridian massage for weight loss" is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that uses massage to stimulate the meridians in obese patients and focuses on specific acupuncture points to achieve weight loss goals. It can be considered a lazy person's weight loss massage technique.
Characteristics of Meridian Massage
This natural therapy, which does not rely on medication, can regulate and promote the function of the meridian system and organs, effectively dissolve accumulated fat by clearing heat in the stomach, promoting water metabolism, assisting spleen function, and activating blood and qi circulation. Its main feature is that it can effectively reduce abnormal hunger and fatigue in obese patients, enhance their ability to control food intake, encourage physical activity, and ultimately achieve weight loss goals.
"Meridian massage for weight loss" focuses on stimulating the meridians and specific acupuncture points along the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, lung meridian, bladder meridian, and other meridians. Techniques such as pushing, grabbing, pressing, kneading, rubbing, and rolling are used to create a negative energy balance in obese patients, in order to consume excess fat. Patients also need to restrict their diet, especially high-calorie foods.
Self-Massage Tips
Obese patients can perform self-massage for weight loss at home using the following methods:
1. Grab and rub the front of the neck: Hold the front of the neck on both sides with the thumb and index finger, and rub from top to bottom, alternating between the left and right hands, 30 times each. Then, rub the back of the neck at the Fengchi acupoint with four fingers together, 30 times each on both sides.
2. Horizontal rubbing below the collarbone: Rub horizontally below the collarbone on the opposite side using the fingertips, alternating between the left and right hands, 30 times each.
3. Push the abdomen: Extend both palms and push along the rectus abdominis from the upper abdomen to the lower abdomen, alternating between the left and right hands, 30 times each.
4. Rub the abdomen: Stack both palms and rotate them clockwise on the abdomen, then switch to counterclockwise, massaging 30 times in each direction.
5. Rub the waist eyes: Make fists and rub the waist eyes up and down, 30 times each on the left and right sides.
6. Rub the thigh triangle: Use the base of the palms to rub the inner side of the upper thigh, up and down, 30 times each.
By performing the above techniques once in the morning and once in the evening, or whenever there is free time, it can promote lymph and blood circulation throughout the body, relieve muscle tension, improve metabolism of body fat, eliminate abnormal hunger and excessive fatigue, and achieve good weight loss results.
In addition to weight loss, massage also has the following benefits:
1. Harmonizes Qi and Blood
Luohong, a health expert in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in his book "Wanshou Xianshu": "Massage can dredge the pores and regulate the circulation of vital energy." The circulation of vital energy refers to the harmonization of Qi and Blood. Massage uses gentle and soothing force to stimulate the meridians and acupoints, adjusting the whole body through the conduction of meridians, so as to harmonize the circulation of nutrients and defensive energy, and enhance overall health. Modern medicine believes that the mechanical stimulation of massage techniques can improve local tissue temperature, promote blood and lymph circulation by dilating blood vessels, reduce blood viscosity, lower peripheral vascular resistance, and alleviate the burden on the heart. Therefore, it can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases.
2. Boosts Immune System
For example, in children with diarrhea, their symptoms can be reduced or eliminated through massage. When children have dry or wet rales in their lungs, rubbing along the palm creases can be effective. A study compared a group of children who received health massage with a control group. The group that received massage had a lower incidence of illness and higher height, weight, and appetite compared to the control group. Clinical practice and other animal experiments have proven that massage has anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and immune-enhancing effects, and can enhance the body's ability to resist diseases.
Because massage can dredge the meridians and promote the circulation of Qi and Blood, maintaining the balance of Yin and Yang in the body, it can provide a sense of muscle relaxation, joint flexibility, mental invigoration, and fatigue relief, all of which are essential for maintaining good health.
