Pediatric night crying is mainly characterized by loud crying at night, intermittent crying, continuous crying, or even crying throughout the night. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this phenomenon is often caused by spleen cold, heart heat, shock, and stagnation. So, in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, is pediatric massage effective for night crying?
Is pediatric massage effective for night crying?
Pediatric massage is effective for night crying.
According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, cold causes pain and crying, heat causes restlessness and crying, shock causes restlessness and crying, and stagnation causes stomach disharmony and crying. Suitable cold, heat, shock, and stagnation are the main pathological mechanisms of this disease. By massaging the relevant acupoints or areas, it can strengthen the spleen, calm the mind, clear the heart, promote blood circulation, and nourish the liver, thereby relieving the symptoms of pediatric night crying.
Pediatric massage for night crying due to spleen deficiency and cold type
Clinical symptoms: prefers to lie prone while sleeping, abdominal pain, crying with a curved waist, limbs are not warm, poor appetite and loose stools, pale complexion, pale lips and tongue, thin white coating on the tongue, thin and fine pulse, green and red fingerprints.
Treatment principle: warm the middle and strengthen the spleen, nourish the heart and calm the mind.
Massage prescription: strengthen the spleen meridian, massage the tiger's mouth and three gates, rub the abdomen, knead the spleen shu points, rub the gao huang shu points, massage the spirit palace, yi she, rub the zhong wan, and rub the shi dou.
Massage explanation: massaging the tiger's mouth and three gates can warm and circulate the body's yang energy to eliminate spleen cold, which is the application of "heat to dispel cold"; strengthening the spleen meridian, rubbing the abdomen, spleen shu points, gao huang shu points, rubbing the zhong wan, and rubbing the shi dou can strengthen the spleen and invigorate the middle, which is the treatment of "nourishing the weak". Massaging the spirit palace and yi she can nourish the heart and calm the mind.
Pediatric massage for night crying due to heart meridian heat accumulation type
Clinical symptoms: prefers to lie supine while sleeping, cries more intensely when seeing light, restless and irritable, short and red urine, constipation or dry stools, red face and lips, red tip of the tongue, white coating on the tongue, string pulse, blue-purple fingerprints.
Treatment principle: clear the heart and promote circulation, calm the mind and nourish the heart.
Massage prescription: clear the heart meridian, massage the small intestine meridian, tian he shui, rub xiao tian xin, zong jin, nei lao gong.
Massage explanation: clearing the heart meridian and clearing tian he shui can eliminate the stagnant heat in the heart meridian; clearing the small intestine meridian can promote the circulation of blood and clear the heat in the heart meridian; massaging xiao tian xin, zong jin, nei lao gong can enhance the effect of clearing and draining the heat in the heart meridian, calming the mind and nourishing the heart.
Pediatric massage for night crying due to shock and fear type
Clinical symptoms: sudden alertness during sleep, lips and face turn pale and then white, clinging to mother, blue fingerprints, normal pulse and tongue.
Treatment principle: nourish the blood and nourish the liver, calm the mind and relieve shock.
Massage prescription: massage zuan zhu, clear the liver meridian, rub xiao tian xin, five finger joints, rub gan shu, gao huang shu, hun men, spirit palace.
Massage explanation: for infants who cry at night due to shock and fear, massaging zuan zhu, clearing the liver meridian, rubbing xiao tian xin, rubbing the five finger joints can relieve shock and eliminate restlessness; when there is liver qi deficiency and inadequate liver blood, leading to the loss of the soul, massaging gan shu, gao huang shu, hun men, and spirit palace can nourish the liver and blood, stabilize the soul, calm the mind, and relieve the symptoms of night crying due to fear.
Pediatric massage for night crying due to milk and food stagnation type
Clinical symptoms: sudden crying at night, abdominal distension, vomiting milk clots, sour and foul-smelling stools, thick tongue coating, purple fingerprints.
Treatment principle: invigorate the spleen and harmonize the stomach, promote digestion and relieve stagnation.
Massage prescription: clear and tonify the spleen meridian (clear first, then tonify), clear the stomach meridian, large intestine meridian, massage the tiger's mouth and three gates, rub the abdomen, rub the navel, knead zhong wan, tian shu, shi dou, zhang men, gao huang shu, spleen shu, wei wei, push down the seven joints.
Massage explanation: clearing and tonifying the spleen meridian, rubbing shi dou can invigorate the spleen, remove dampness, and retreat the tiger's mouth and three gates; clearing the large intestine meridian, pushing down the seven joints can clear and aid the intestines to relieve heat; rubbing the abdomen, rubbing the navel, kneading zhong wan, tian shu, gao huang shu, spleen shu, stomach shu can invigorate the spleen, harmonize the stomach, promote digestion, and relieve stagnation. Zhang men is the luo point of the liver meridian, which can nourish the liver and blood, regulate liver qi, and by massaging it, the liver qi is sufficient, the liver blood is sufficient, the soul is kept, the mind is calm, and there are no symptoms of fear and night crying.
