Falling pillow is a common situation that we often encounter, sleep and wake up, found that the neck pain, left and right can not rotate, after hot compresses did not significantly improve.

However, after the doctor pressed and kneaded the Chengshan point, while slowly rotating the neck, about ten minutes later, the pain was significantly reduced, and the neck can be turned.

What is the mystery here? The following take this to tell you about the principle of rubbing the Chengshan point to cure sleeplessness.

What is a pillow

Falling asleep, also known as loss of sleep, is a common disease that occurs in young adults, winter and spring.

The clinical symptoms of this disease are often manifested as no symptoms before going to bed, wake up in the morning, the back of the neck feel obvious pain, neck activity is limited.

Because the onset of this disease is closely related to the sleeping position, the name of the disease is related to the pillow.

Common Causes

First, long hours of work lead to neck muscle tension, coupled with improper sleep posture at night, or pillow is too high, too low, too hard, resulting in a long time in the head and neck in the position of excessive deflection, the neck and neck of the qi and blood run poorly, the local pain, rotation is limited.

Secondly, if the neck feels the wind and cold, the cold collects and attracts, paralyzes the meridians, qi and blood stagnation, not through the pain, so the neck and shoulder stiffness and discomfort.

The neck and shoulder muscle strain, such as encountering the above two reasons, more likely to develop into this disease. If the pillow falls repeatedly over a period of time, it suggests that the possibility of cervical spondylosis is greater.

Therapeutic principle

Chengshan point is the acupoint of the foot solar bladder meridian, located in the middle of the back of the calf, when straightening the calf or heel lifting, the gastrocnemius muscle belly of the sharp angle of the depression is.

Simple access point can be taken from the midpoint of the popliteal transverse stripe and the midpoint of the line connecting the tip of the ankle.

Cheng, bear, support also. Mountain, a large pile of earth and stone, this refers to the material in the point for the spleen earth.

The human meridians are like rivers in nature, acupuncture points are like rivers on the "dam", is the viscera meridian blood infusion in the external body of the special parts. The river water through the role of the dam can be adjusted upstream and downstream of the amount of water.

Similarly, the stimulation of acupoints can prevent and control the corresponding diseases, not only close treatment, but also according to its meridian routes and distant treatment.

So, rubbing the Chengshan point with the activity of the neck, in fact, is to make the stagnation of the foot solar bladder meridian to be unblocked, so that the meridian carries the qi and blood to return to the state of smoothness, through the pain, the pain caused by the fall of the pillow naturally also disappeared.

Information: China Traditional Chinese Medicine Newspaper