What are the benefits of putting your hands around your waist?

Yao Yan point is located in a depression 3-4 inches around the spinous process of the fourth lumbar vertebra. According to Chinese medicine, Yao Yan acupoint is located in the meridian with veins at the waist, which is where the kidney lies. The kidney likes warm and hates cold, and often massages the waist and eyes, which can warm the kidney and strengthen yang, and make the blood flow smoothly. Rubbing the waist and the tail of eyes with the palm of your hand can not only dredge the meridians, strengthen your back, but also strengthen your kidney and prolong your life.

This is more important for middle-aged men. Because kidney qi is insufficient after middle age, most people's methods of tonifying kidney are food supplements, while some massage techniques are ignored. Chinese medicine believes that "the waist is the house of the kidney", and massaging the waist and abdomen can also play a role in tonifying the kidney.

The following methods can be used in massage: 1 waist rubbing: clench your fists with both hands, press the waist eye tightly with the metacarpophalangeal joints of your thumb, and rub hard for 30-50 times, which is suitable for waist pain; 2 rub your waist, press your palms tightly against your waist, and rub hard up and down. The action should be fast and powerful until it is hot; 3-point rubbing method: press the middle finger on the spine of the back of the hand, and press the other fingers on the upper and lower middle fingers to assist rubbing force. Put your hand on your back as far as possible, and rub each point in the spinous process and the depression that the hand can touch one by one until the point below Yangguan (the spinous process of the fifth lumbar vertebra), and repeat it for about 30 times; 4 Pinch the waist muscles and pinch the sacrospinous muscles on both sides of the spine with your thumb and forefinger. Pinch the waist muscles from top to bottom to the sacrum. So pinch it 4 times from top to bottom; 5 Shake the waist muscles: press the waist with the palms of both hands and shake it up and down quickly 1520 times; 6 lumbosacral percussion: hands holding empty fists, fists and eyes alternately hitting lumbosacral parts, with rhythm. Pay attention to wrist force, tap, top-down, repeat 15-30 times.

Rubbing your waist and eyes often in summer can also prevent low back pain caused by moisture.