With the improvement of women's attention to the problems that are easy to occur in their menstrual period, nowadays, female friends also have a certain grasp of methods to relieve menstrual dysmenorrhea symptoms. Among various methods to relieve menstrual dysmenorrhea, massage method should be a good one.
1. Press Taichong Point
Location:
The point of Taichong is measured upward from the toe seam of the first and second toes.
method:
Press the Taichong acupoint of one foot with the thumb of one hand whenever there is time every day. When pressing each time, use a little force, and then hold for 5 seconds, then release and repeat. Press repeatedly for 3 minutes.
Daily adherence can effectively relieve the restlessness during MC.
2. Hot compress Guanyuan point
Location:
Three inches below the navel.
Put the other four fingers of the right hand together except the thumb, and then take the middle joint of the middle finger as the standard. The transverse width is 3 inches.
According to it, find Guanyuan point at the four fingers under the navel.
method:
Drop a few drops of lavender essential oil into the hot water, then wet the towel, wring it up a little, and then apply the hot towel to Guanyuan acupoint. After the temperature of the towel decreases, wet it again, wring it out, and apply the hot compress. In this way, repeat the hot compress for 10 minutes every day, which can activate the Yang Qi in the human body, promote the circulation of Qi and blood in the whole body, and effectively improve the MC uncomfortable symptoms such as menstruation disharmony and dysmenorrhea.
3. Press Hegu acupoint
Location:
Close the index finger and thumb together, you can see a protruding muscle. The highest point of the protruding muscle is Hegu Point.
method:
Every day when you have time, use the thumb of one hand to press the Hegu acupoint of the other hand.
Press each time with a little force, then hold for 5 seconds, then release and repeat again, and press repeatedly for 3 minutes.
Pressing Hegu Point every day can effectively relieve migraine and symptoms during MC.
4. Moxibustion on Sanyinjiao
Location:
The position of Sanyinjiao is easy to find. It's three inches up the tip of your inner ankle.
Put the other four fingers of the right hand together except the thumb, and then take the middle joint of the middle finger as the standard. The transverse width is 3 inches.
Take it as the criterion, and find the Sanyinjiao with the tip of the inner ankle pointing up four fingers.
method:
Once a day, every time moxibustion for 30 minutes, the three foot yin meridians, foot Taiyin spleen meridians, foot Shaoyin kidney meridians and foot que Yin liver meridians, can be activated, and the symptoms of menstrual cycle disorder and irregular menstrual volume can be improved.
5. Hot compress Mingmen acupoint
Location:
Mingmen acupoint is opposite to Shenque acupoint (navel) in your abdomen.
So, as long as you take your navel as the standard and make a circle around the waist, the intersection with the midline of your back is Mingmen acupoint.
method:
Drop a few drops of lavender essential oil into the hot water, then wet the towel, wring it out a little, and then apply the hot towel to the Mingmen acupoint.
You can also directly stick a warm treasure paste on the Mingmen point, which can alleviate the symptoms of MC and low back pain.
For female friends, the way of massage is to find the right acupoints. Among the numerous acupoints in the human body, the five acupoints mentioned in this paper, Mingmen, Sanyinjiao, Hegu, Guanyuan and Taichong, are the common acupoints that can effectively relieve the symptoms of dysmenorrhea.