Foot massage has become a popular method of health preservation, and many people enjoy going to foot massage shops for a foot massage. The combination of pain and comfort makes it very enjoyable. In fact, you can also massage your feet at home. Below, we will introduce the specific techniques of Chinese foot massage.
Chinese Foot Massage Techniques
1. Touching Method: It is the first technique used. It uses touch to perceive the condition of the tissues in the area being massaged. At the same time, it can also observe the patient's psychological reaction to the technique.
2. Kneading Method: It is to pinch the muscles and skin hair in the hand and twist them back and forth with both hands.
3. Pushing Method: It is a non-twisting kneading method, only kneading on the surface of the skin.
4. Gentle Stroking Method: Using the palm or fingertips to slide on the epidermis.
5. Rubbing Method: Rubbing the skin and deep layers with the palm or fingertips of one or several fingers, causing displacement.
6. Pressing Method: Applying vertical pressure on the treatment area with fingertips or palms, which is a supplementary technique for rubbing.
7. Vibrating Method: It is also a kind of pressure technique. It is a rhythmic vibration performed with the palm or fingertips, producing deep mechanical vibrations transmitted to the patient's body.
8. Tapping Method: Its characteristic is to use fingers, palm roots, or palms to strike the reflex zone. The most commonly used method is to tap with the ulnar edge of the palm. When performing the treatment, the fingers are separated and naturally flexed, also known as chopping method.
Specific Techniques of Foot Massage
1. When massaging the excretory system of your body, start from the top and move downwards, specifically from the kidneys-ureters-bladder. Gently massage for about 5 minutes.
2. Press your thumb on your own feet for about 60 seconds, and then horizontally massage each of the five toes of each foot, which takes about 1 minute.
3. Repeat the massage at the junction of the sole and toes horizontally back and forth for about two minutes.
4. Then, massage the diaphragm and lung reflex zones in a horizontal direction, and then massage the bronchial reflex zone in a downward direction. These two activities total 2 minutes.
5. Then, massage the thyroid and esophagus reflex zones from bottom to top for 1 minute.
6. Press and massage the heart and spleen reflex zones on the left foot and the liver and gallbladder reflex zones on the right foot. Chinese medicine reminds you to understand the foot massage acupoint map clearly. These reflex zones should be massaged for 1 minute.
7. Circle around the kidney reflex zone of the foot to massage the abdominal nerve plexus for 1 minute.
8. Massage the stomach, pancreas, and duodenum reflex zones in a downward direction for 2 minutes.
9. The massage method for the small intestine reflex zone is mainly point pressure, from top to bottom, for about 1 minute.
Above, we have introduced the specific methods of Chinese foot massage. Friends who like health preservation can learn it and massage their feet before bedtime. It has a good health effect.
