How to make acupressure correctly
After a working day, when the muscles of the neck reduce from the many hours of sitting in front of the computer, and the head splits with pain, the best way to help yourself and your loved ones is self-massage. We will tell you how to correctly do acupressure at home, so that your efforts will bring you ease and satisfaction.
Acupressure has contraindications, it is forbidden:
- at high temperature;
- for serious liver disease;
- for severe kidney and heart disease;
- with peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum;
- with active forms of tuberculosis;
- for benign and malignant tumors.
Acupressure is a very complicated procedure. Reflex points are located throughout the body to study their location, this will take a lot of time and practice. This massage is not for amateurs. Influence on reflex points is necessary when you master the technique of massage, accurately and in detail study the location of points. When you look at the picture of a massage in a book, everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance. It is not at all easy to find the right points on the body of a particular person. Therefore it is better if you visit a couple of sessions with a professional, and do not yourself study active points.
Acupressure massage is used with different purposes to stimulate physical performance, treatment, to increase muscle tone, to relieve fatigue.
Principles of acupressure
Knowing some principles of acupressure, you can massage at home. If from time to time you are worried about an organ, then try to find out where the corresponding point is located. There are visual diagrams with dots, and, acting on them, it is possible to have a beneficial effect on this organ. On these schemes, there are points with which even a beginner can work.
For example, the points that are responsible for the condition of the eyes and for the vision are at the feet 'feet, in the middle between the pads of the middle and index fingers. For the state of the ears and for the hearing, there are points that are located next to the little finger pads and the ring finger.
For pains and disorders, you need to calm down the point. To do this, you find the corresponding point, then clockwise it is stimulated with rotational movements for 5 seconds. Then fix the pressure for 2 seconds and rotate 5 seconds counter-clockwise, so you reduce the pressure. Then, without lifting your finger from the point, repeat the cycle for 2 minutes.
With atrophies and reduced tone, the point needs to be awakened, for 4 seconds you do rotational movements clockwise, then sharply you need to tear off your finger from the skin. Repeat the cycle for a minute.
The possibilities of acupressure at home are very great. You can calm the pain with the help of an anesthetic medication, for this you need to find a painful point on the head or neck and work. To remove fatigue and improve attention will help the point between the eyebrows, and to lift the mood will help the earlobes.
