In life, massage is commonly used to treat various diseases. Let's follow the editor to learn about the efficacy and massage of the Taodao acupoint to relieve neurasthenia.
【Causes of Neurasthenia】
Infection: Feverish diseases caused by cranial or systemic acute infections. Common infections that cause headaches include meningitis, encephalitis, brain abscess, intracranial parasitic infections (such as cysticercosis, echinococcosis), etc. Acute infections such as influenza, pneumonia, etc.
Vascular lesions: Subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism, hypertensive encephalopathy, cerebral hypoperfusion, cerebral vascular malformations, etc.
Space-occupying lesions: Intracranial tumors, intracranial metastatic cancers, inflammatory demyelinating pseudotumors that cause increased intracranial pressure and headaches.
Head and neck nerve lesions: Craniofacial neuralgia, such as trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, and occipital neuralgia. Head and neck diseases caused by ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and dental diseases. Cervical spondylosis and other cervical diseases causing headaches and neck pain.
Systemic diseases: Hypertension, anemia, cerebral lung disease, heat stroke, etc. causing headaches.
Craniocerebral trauma: Such as concussion, cerebral contusion, subdural hematoma, intracranial hematoma, sequelae after traumatic brain injury.
Toxic and drug poisoning: Alcohol, carbon monoxide, organophosphorus, drugs (such as jimsonweed, salicylic acid, etc.) poisoning.
Internal environmental disorders and mental factors: Headaches during menstrual and menopausal periods. Neurosis somatization disorders and psychogenic headaches.
【Location of Taodao Acupoint】
1. Standard positioning: The Taodao acupoint is located in the back spinal area, on the midline of the back, in the depression below the spinous process of the first thoracic vertebra.
2. Acupoint selection method: Prone or supine position, the Taodao acupoint is located between the first and second thoracic vertebrae in the back spinal area.
3. Acupoint anatomy: Below the Taodao acupoint are the skin, subcutaneous tissue, supraspinous ligament, and interspinous ligament. The superficial layer is mainly supplied by the medial cutaneous branch of the posterior branch of the first thoracic nerve and accompanying arteries and veins. The deep layer includes the posterior external (posterior) vertebral plexus between the spinous processes, branches of the posterior branch of the first thoracic nerve, and branches or collateral branches of the posterior branches of the first intercostal artery and vein.
【Efficacy and Function of Taodao Acupoint】
The significance of the Taodao acupoint: After the dispersal of the Du meridian's yang qi, it transforms into warm qi here.
Qi and blood characteristics: The material of qi and blood is the yang qi of the celestial region.
Operational rules: It ascends to the Dazhui acupoint along the Du meridian.
Efficacy of the Taodao acupoint: Tonifying lung qi, the Taodao acupoint has the functions of relieving surface and clearing heat, calming the mind and settling the will, relieving surface and clearing heat, and calming the mind and tranquilizing the nerves.
【Main Diseases Treated by Taodao Acupoint】
The Taodao acupoint is mainly used for external pathogenic factors and mental disorders, such as severe headaches, chills and fever, cough and asthma, chest pain, neurasthenia, hysteria, mental illness, bone steaming and hot flashes, night sweats, pulmonary tuberculosis, inability to sweat due to spinal stiffness, malaria, etc.
The Taodao acupoint is mainly used for fever, malaria, headaches, neck and back pain; as well as epilepsy, schizophrenia, etc.
Stiffness and urgency in the spine and neck, headaches, fever, neck and shoulder muscle spasms, malaria, colds, hysteria, cervical spondylosis.
【Moxibustion Method for Taodao Acupoint】
Treatment method: Tonify with moxibustion if there is cold, and disperse with needle if there is heat.
Acupuncture method: Generally, obliquely insert the needle upwards for 0.5-1.0 cun.
【Massage Therapy for Taodao Acupoint】
First, lower your head, hold your head with one hand, place the thumb of the other hand on the Taodao acupoint, and grip the neck with the remaining four fingers. Use the thumb to massage with force. Massage with a bit of strength each time, about 100 times, slowly, the lung function will improve significantly.
