What are the benefits of belly rubbing

March 22, 2023
More than 800 years ago, Lu You, a famous lyricist in the Southern Song Dynasty, was very fond of abdominal massage and called himself "doing abdominal massage after meals" and believed that frequent abdominal massage after meals would help digestion.

Tummy rubbing must master the correct time

In fact, belly rubbing has many benefits, but it is not suitable when you are too saturated and hungry, especially not when you have gastrointestinal perforation and acute inflammation of the abdomen or malignant tumors.

Tummy rubs are effective

For people who do not have these conditions, belly rubbing can not only maintain the large and small intestine, but also have good auxiliary effects on many diseases, such as coronary heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, nephritis and constipation. Abdominal massage specific methods are as follows.

The correct time to rub the stomach

Both can be done at night before going to bed or in the morning when you wake up. Usually after urination, lie on your back, bend your knees, relax your whole body, fold your left and right hands together and press on your abdomen, aligning your palms with your belly button, first clockwise and then counterclockwise for 50 times in each direction. In the process of rubbing the belly if there is a sense of warmth in the abdomen, hunger, want to go to the toilet, stomach ringing or farting are normal, do not worry. This set of movements must be insisted on often to do, in order to play the effect of strengthening the body.

Chinese Medicine Analysis

Chinese medicine believes that rubbing the stomach can harmonize the qi and blood, smooth the meridians, make the intestinal smooth muscle and abdominal muscle richer oxygen supply, increase the elasticity of the gastrointestinal lining and the immune function of the lymphatic system, promote the gastrointestinal and other digestive organs to secrete more digestive juices, greatly improve the peristaltic function of the large and small intestines, thus producing the effect of promoting absorption, digestion and excretion, and therefore constipation can also be eliminated.
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