Facial Massage and acumox

Facial health care, called “Zhu yan”, means cosmetic health care. The face is rich in blood vessels and serves as a window to reflect the health status of the organism. The important sign of the ageing of the human body is the appearance of wrinkles on the face.

1. Massage

Cosmetological massage can be divided into two types. The first refers to the direct massage on the face; the second one means achieving cosmethlogical effects by massaging the meridians and collaterals that are away from the face. For instance, Peng Zhu’s Face Rubbing Method is the representative method of cosmetological massage. The method is as follows. After getting up in the early morning, rub the ears with both hands. Then, pull the ears gently. Afterwards, rub the scalp and comb the hair with the fingers. Finally, rub the hands against each other to get them warm and rub the face with the warm hands upwards and downwards for 14 times. The method can promote facial blood circulation, make the face lustrous, the hair free from grey hair and prevent cephalic diseases.

2. Acumox

Severn meridians have good cosmetological effects: the bladder meridian of foot-taiyang, the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin, the liver meridian of foot-jueyin, the stomach meridian of foot-yangming, the triple energizer meridian of hand-shaoyang, the small intestine meridian of hand-taiyang and the large intestine of hand-yangming. These meridians may be selected to form a prescription for the cosmetic purpose on the basis of syndrome differentiation according to the specific conditions. For instance, removing and preventing wrinkles may be realized by needling TE23, BL2, EX-HN5, LI20, ST6, and TE17; ST23, ST6 and TE17; ST36, BL21, CV4 and SP7 may possibly be added to supplement qi, regulate blood, increase skin elasticity, remove and prevent wrinkles. Moxibustion has very marked cosmetic effects, too. The commonly used acupoints for moxibustion are CV8, CV4, CV6, CV12, GV4, GV14, GV12, BL43, BL23, BL20, BL21, BL23, BL20, BL21, ST36, SP6, LI11 and LI8. Moxibustion can be easy and simple in application.

Written by Wang Xudong