What health care methods are good for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)
patients? Now we have summarized two kinds of healthy Massage for PKD patients
according to many years’ clinical practice and the specific practices are as
following:
First, massage the top of head
Practices: open your five fingers slightly and put on the forehead, then
massage the top of head from forehead to back, just like comb your hairs.
Function: the open fingers just can act on the five channels on the top of
the head. The two sides of head temporal are just are dividing lines of
gallbladder channel, so massaging the top of head possesses the functions of
promoting flow of qi and blood, eliminating rheumatism, discharging liver-fire
and gallbladder-fire and etc. this method can be used to treat the symptoms of
PKD, including hypertension, insomnia, headache and neurasthenia and so on.
Second, “washing”the face
Practices:
1, Warm up your two hands by rubbing each other, and then put them on your
face with fingers closed and palms open. With the long fingers flats as guide,
push upward from the Yingxiang acupoints which are beside the wings of nose and
along two sides of nasal septum, passing inner canthus and brows toward the
forehead.
2, Then separate your two hands and push them to sideburns with two palms
covering your two eyes. Then push your hands downward from the two sideburns,
passing temples, fore ear and cheek, and back to the beginning points beside the
wings of nose.
3, Once again: follow above practices.
Functions: this method has functions of promoting flow of qi and blood,
eliminating cold, lighting eyes and blood-letting, refreshment and cosmetology
and etc. it can be used to treat the symptoms of cold, headache, neurasthenia
and so on.