Pillow more due to sleep pillow is too high, too low or too hard, or lying posture and other factors, so that the neck side of the muscle is strained for a long time, or factor body deficiency, lack of blood, circulation is not smooth, Shu contraction activity dysfunction, to relieve the discomfort caused by the pillow, you can choose to use massage, hot compress, cupping, moxibustion and other methods to regulate, then the following to see, pillow moxibustion where good?
Falling pillow moxibustion points
Fengchi point: in the back of the neck, the back of the skull on both sides, the outer edge of the two large tendons, that is, the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the oblique muscle between the depression, flat earlobe.
Shoulder well point: this point is located on the shoulder, the point of the large vertebrae (after the median line of the seventh cervical vertebrae spine under the depression) and the midpoint of the shoulder peak line, take the point when the head is low, take the highest point of the back of the neck and the highest point of the shoulder line can be the midpoint.
Dazhi point: when sitting with the head down, the highest point of the lower end of the human neck, the seventh cervical vertebrae spinous process, its lower depression.
Falling pillow point: on the dorsal side of the hand, between the second and third metacarpal bones, 0.5 inch after the metacarpophalangeal joint.
Tianzhu point: in the neck, after the outer edge of the large tendon (oblique muscle) in the intertriginous depression, take the point when you feel the back of the skull directly below the concave, that is, the neck at the protruding muscle, namely the oblique muscle, the outer concave of this muscle, the back of the intertriginous hair is open about 2 cm next to this point.
Pillow moxibustion treatment method
Qi stagnation blood stagnation type pillow
Main symptoms: morning neck pain, unfavorable activity, head tilted to the affected side, activity room pain increased, local pressure pain is obvious, sometimes can be touched hard nodes, tongue dark.
Moxibustion therapy: the patient to take a lying or sitting position, take Yanglingquan, Sanyinjiao, the large vertebrae point and the affected area of the A is point moxibustion.
Moxibustion efficacy: activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and relieving pain.
Wind-cold blocking type pillow
Main symptoms: sore neck, back and shoulders, numbness, headache, cold and other wind-cold symptoms, light tongue with white fur.
Moxibustion therapy: 1. the patient to take a lying or sitting position, take the Fengmen, Liji, the affected side of the Fengchi, shoulder well, the large vertebrae, fallen pillow and the affected A is point moxibustion. If the pain involves the scapula and axilla, add moxibustion for Tianzong and Houxi points in the prone position; if the pain involves the shoulder and upper arm, add moxibustion for Waiguan and Zhongzhu points. 2. Patients in sitting or prone position, take Tianzhu, Dazhi, Fengchi and Aye points. 3. Patients in sitting position, take Fengchi points on both sides and apply moxibustion.
Efficacy of moxibustion: relieves pain by relaxing the tendons and activating the channels.
How to operate moxibustion for cold pillow
Moxa moxibustion: the moxa stick will be lit, the moxa stick is held vertically suspended above the acupuncture points, 3-4 cm from the skin, direct irradiation, to the patient feel warm and comfortable, to a slight feeling of heat pain for the degree, so that the warmth continuous stimulation, each point moxibustion 5 minutes.
The moxibustion cone is a piece of fresh ginger, longitudinally cut along the ginger fiber, cut into slices of ginger 0.2-0.5 inside, the size of the acupuncture point area and the size of the selected moxa cone, the middle with a trigeminal needle piercing several holes, moxibustion put the ginger slices on the skin of the selected acupuncture point, set a large or medium moxa cone on the ginger slices, ignite the moxibustion cone, when the patient feels a local burning pain, slightly lift the ginger slices, or replace the When the patient feels local burning pain, lift the moxibustion cone slightly, or change the cone and moxibustion again, 3-5 strokes per point.
When moxibustion, pay attention to the concentration of thought, do not distracted in the application of moxibustion, so as not to move the moxa burn flesh, and to adhere to the treatment.
How long does it take to get well from moxibustion for a pillow?
Generally speaking, patients with lighter symptoms of the pillow only need to moxibustion 1-2 times a day, patients with heavy symptoms, patients who do not heal for a long time, moxibustion 3-4 times a day, until the symptoms improve.
How to prevent the pillow
1. neck often blowing fans or in the outdoor cold, local blood vessels and muscles are prone to reflexive spasm, affecting local blood circulation, causing degeneration and degeneration of neck tissue, resulting in the pillow, so pay attention to the neck to keep warm, avoid wind and cold invasion.
2. Reasonable neck health care, especially for a long time ambulatory work people, often keep a posture work, easy to make the neck muscles and ligaments overstretched and in a state of ischemic strain, so to often move the neck, so that the neck muscles and ligaments to get rest, to prevent the pillow.
3. sleeping pillow should be suitable for cervical spine physiological bending, it is best to sleep 8-10 cm high pillow, pay attention to moderate hardness, do not sleep high pillow, because the pillow is too high, easy to cause the neck muscles in a state of tension, can not rest, and the pillow is too low, or do not sleep on the pillow, will also lead to tension in the neck muscles, causing neck pain.
