The navel is the concentrated place of human vitality, which is connected with the human the twelve meridians and communicates with the internal organs. Pressing the navel frequently can strengthen the brain and kidney, help digestion, soothe the nerves and reduce qi, induce diuresis and relax bowels, strengthen the metabolism of liver and kidney, make the human body full of qi and blood, and promote and adjust the functions of internal organs.
Huiyuan Acupuncture has a profound description of Shenque point: "Shenque is abandoned by God. The upper part is the sky, the lower part is the earth, and the middle part is the people. There is depression on both sides, water on the top, vaginal intercourse and qi sea on the bottom, and the navel lives in it, such as a door. Supernatural forces are innate. When parents intersect to form a fetus, the innate umbilical cord is like a lotus stem, tied to the mother's life door. Born with water and kidney, it looks like an unopened lotus. It follows the five elements and is passed from mother to mother. When the fetus is full in October, God pays attention to the navel, and the adult name is sacred. "
Shenque is the key point of ren meridian, which always leads people to a yin meridian, running in the middle of the chest and abdomen, connecting the heart and lungs, dredging the spleen and stomach, and dredging the kidney. Therefore, Shenque is the confluence of meridians and qi and blood, and it is the center of human body intersection. The ancients always attached great importance to the navel, known as "the navel is the foundation of the internal organs and the vitality is the root of the dirty". The navel is the gateway to the internal organs, and the exterior is the gateway to cold and evil. It has the functions of distributing qi and blood around and all over the body, strengthening spleen and kidney, restoring yang and rescuing adverse flow, regulating stomach and intestines, promoting qi circulation and promoting diuresis, dispersing stagnation and regulating menstruation. This shows the importance of navel in human body.
1, press navel
Every morning before getting up and going to bed at night, you should defecate, take off your clothes and expose your stomach. When it's cold, you can cover yourself with a quilt, relax yourself, lie on your back, put your palm on your navel, rotate counterclockwise for 108 turn, then clockwise for 108 turn, and press your navel all the time, which can strengthen your brain and kidney, help digestion, soothe your nerves and reduce qi, and benefit your body size. It can also improve the human body's resistance to diseases and prevent the invasion of cold and six evils.
2, moxibustion navel
Light one end of the moxa stick and smoke it at a height of about 3-4 cm from the navel. When the moxibustion site feels warm and comfortable, keep still and moxibustion for 20-30 minutes, with local warm flushing as the degree. No matter what kind of chronic disease, moxibustion should be used to help vitality. Moxibustion on this point can improve the activity of nk cells (natural killer cells), thus achieving the effect of resisting diseases and strengthening health care, and can awaken patients with cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral thrombosis coma. Moxibustion at this point for more than half an hour has the effects of warming yang, relieving depression, tonifying middle energizer and regulating qi. "Introduction to Medicine" says: "If medicine fails to reach the needle, it must be moxibustion". Moxibustion can improve the indexes of blood changes in the elderly and increase bone mineral density.
Step 3 apply medicine to the navel
Treatment of wind-cold cold: grind 3 grams of white mustard seed into fine powder, put the powder into the navel, iron it outside the navel with a warm water bag and sweat it out.
Treatment of infantile diarrhea, dyspepsia and abdominal pain: the powder can be mixed with yellow wine or tea and pasted on navel 1-2 days, and some even get better within a few hours. Children with enuresis can also apply medicine at navel and Guanyuan point at the same time, which can reduce the number of enuresis. Children who often catch a cold can improve their resistance and reduce the occurrence of colds by bagging them on their navel for a period of time.
Treatment of five diarrhea: Fructus Psoraleae, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Semen Myristicae, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis and other medicinal materials can be mixed, ground into fine powder, made into paste with vinegar, and applied to navel for 7 days as a course of treatment, which can be repeated for 2-3 courses.
Treatment of hiccups: orange peel, Pinellia ternata, clove, etc. , grinding into fine powder, concocting with ginger juice into paste, and applying it to umbilical foramen for 2-7 days.
Treatment of stomach pain due to deficiency of spleen and stomach: Zanthoxylum bungeanum, dried ginger, Cyperus tuber, etc. It can be made into paste with yellow wine and can be used for 2-7 days.
Treat hypertension. Crushing equal parts of Evodia rutaecarpa and Ligusticum chuanxiong into fine powder, sterilizing with 75% alcohol cotton ball, putting 5- 10g powder into navel, and sealing with musk bone-strengthening ointment. Change the medicine for 3 days 1 time, 1 month 1 course.
Matters needing attention in umbilical application of traditional Chinese medicine
It is very simple to apply traditional Chinese medicine to navel. After cleaning the navel, lie on your back, take a proper amount of prepared powder, mix it with ginger juice or yellow wine, honey and vinegar, put it into the navel hole, cover it with gauze and fix it with breathable adhesive tape. Generally keep 6- 12 hours.
Skin sensitive person can shorten the time, and those with good skin tolerance can extend it appropriately, but it is best not to exceed 24 hours, and generally lasts for 2-7 days. People with acute pathological changes, damp heat in the body, navel inflammation or severe skin allergy should not be treated with this method. In addition, it is not advisable to apply Chinese medicine to the navel immediately after an empty stomach or meal.
4, navel cupping
Choose a big cupping, apply the flash fire method, cupping on the navel, and take cupping 15-20 minutes. Navel cupping can treat asthma, dysentery, chronic diarrhea, urticaria, allergic rhinitis, etc.
The navel combined with cupping at Zusanli, Zhongshan and Dazhui points once a day or once every other day for 20 minutes can enhance the body's immune function, stimulate appetite and eliminate fatigue.
5. Gathering qi and umbilical cord
You can stand, sit or lie down, relax your whole body, overlap your hands and palms on your navel, and slowly bulge your abdomen with abdominal breathing when inhaling through your nose, hoping that high-energy substances in nature will enter your navel and gather here; When the mouth exhales, the abdomen sinks, and high-energy substances intentionally spread throughout the body. Breathe in once and practice 24 times. Long-term practice can warm yang, replenish deficiency, restore yang to harmony, promote digestion and guide stagnation, and is effective for yin and yang deficiency, physical weakness, shortness of breath and mental decline.
Everyone should pay attention to the warmth of the navel. Nowadays, many young women like to wear navel-revealing clothes, which is actually harmful to their health. Although beautiful for a while, over time, it will not only affect menstruation, but also easily lead to dysmenorrhea, affecting the structure and function of the uterus.