(Massage Therapy)
GENERAL EXPLANATION
Headache is a commonly-encountered symptom felt in many diseases and can be related to hypertension, infection, allergy, anxiety, stress, cerebrovascular disease or tumor. Clinically headaches can be in different locations of the forehead, vertex, temple and occiput. In terms of pain, there is areas of dull pain, distending pain, pricking pain, drilling pain and throbbing sometimes, accompanied by nausea, tinnitus and dizziness.
NOTES
1. Massage can relieve headache. The therapeutic effects are most noticeable for headaches related to neurasthenia, stress, anxiety, the common cold and hypertension.
2. For headaches with undiscovered cause that remain unrelieved for long periods of time, it advisable to see a physician for further examination in order to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other possibilities.
TREATMENT
1. Drag the forehead orbital and temporal regions divergently 30 times each.
2. Press and knead Taiyang(EX-HN5) 30 times.
3. Comb the head 30 times.
4. Press and knead the related acupoints 30 times each according to the location of the headache.
Frontal headache:
Press Yintang(EX-HN3) and Fengfu(DU-16) with both hands simultaneously. Knead Zanzhu(BL-2) and Yingxiang(LI-20).
Temporal headache:
Knead Fengchi(GB-20) and Youwei(ST-8). Dig and knead Zhongzhu(SJ-3), Neiguan(PC-6) and Waiguan(TE-5).
Occipital headache:
Knead Tianzhu(BL-10), Fengfu(DU-16), Shangxing and Houxi(SI-3).
Vertical headache:
Press and knead Baihui(DU-20), Neiguan(PC-6), Taichong(LR-3) and chafe Yongquan(KI-1).
Headache on the whole head:
Press and knead Baihui(DU-20), Fengchi(GB-20) and Zusanli(ST-36).
Accompanied by dizziness:
Press and knead Baihui(DU-20), Shuaigu(GB-8), Zhaohai(KI-6) and Neiguan(PC-6).
5. Grasp Jianjing(GB-21) 30 times.
6. Grasp Hegu(LI-4) 30 times.
