Traditional Chinese Medicine Health SPA

TCM health SPA is neither a "health magic" that can cure all diseases, nor is it a pure marketing gimmick to harvest IQ taxes - it is essentially a compound care method that combines TCM meridian and acupuncture theory, syndrome differentiation and care logic with the soothing and relaxing technology of modern SPA. It has a clear effect on improving sub-health conditions, but it is greatly affected by the professionalism of the practitioner. There is no unified "valid standard", so you can choose based on your needs.

Last week, I accompanied my best friend, who is a planner, to a nursing center affiliated with a traditional Chinese medicine hospital near her home for a project. She always thought that such projects were charged IQ taxes. She has been suffering from shoulder and neck pain for almost half a year. Ordinary SPA massages only last for two hours, and she is so stiff that she cannot lift her arms when she turns around. This time, the teacher felt her pulse and looked at her tongue. She said that not only was she suffering from muscle strain, but she also had cold and dampness blocked in the meridians of her shoulders and neck. She also always suffers from edema and diarrhea, right? She was shocked at that time and said how do you know. Then I gave her not ordinary SPA aromatherapy essential oils, but dried ginger and atractylodes medicated oil that had been boiled in advance. The scraping only touched the bladder meridian on both sides of the shoulders and the Jianjing points. I didn’t insist on curing the sha by using the cup. She said that she was weak in qi and blood, and too much excretion would cause a waste of energy. The whole process took 45 minutes. After the treatment, she felt no pain at all when raising her arms. She went home and fell asleep with a pillow on her head that night. Even the insomnia she had endured for half a month was mostly cured. Her face was not swollen when she woke up the next day, and she asked me for the address she had been asking for for a long time.

But I also completely understand that many people think it is an IQ tax - two years ago, I opened a small health center downstairs, and the glass door was covered with the promotion "TCM SPA can remove dampness in one time and lose weight in three times." I tried it once for a cheap price, and the technician even tried Sanyin. It was confused with the position of Zusanli, so I used a whole bottle of ginger essential oil for a person who has always had a deficiency of yin and a strong fire, and scraped out a large purple rash on my back, saying that I was "too damp". As a result, I had a nosebleed when I got home, suffered from insomnia for three days in a row, and had several big blisters on my mouth. To put it bluntly, these chaos are not the problem of TCM health spa itself at all. It is the practitioners who do not even have the most basic knowledge of TCM, so they dare to make quick money under the banner of TCM.

Nowadays, TCM health spas on the market are actually following two completely different paths. There is no one who is better than the other, but they are suitable for different groups of people. One type is the nursing care program offered by public Chinese medicine hospitals and regular Chinese medicine clinics. The core logic is "syndrome differentiation" and there is no fixed process at all. If you have a weak spleen and stomach, we will focus on the spleen and stomach meridian and moxibustion on the Zhongwan. If you have liver qi stagnation, we will give you taichong, push the ribs, or even the same method. The items I do each time are different. I avoid acupuncture points on the waist and abdomen when I am on my period. I won’t use warm medicated oil if I get angry recently. It is more suitable for people who have clear minor ailments in daily life, such as perennial dysmenorrhea, shoulder and neck pain, and poor sleep, but are not enough to take medicine for treatment. The other type is the fusion SPA introduced from Southeast Asia in the past few years. It combines the acupuncture points of traditional Chinese medicine, mugwort incense, Thai stretching and Balinese massage techniques. It will not give you too complicated syndrome differentiation. It is mainly relaxing and comfortable. It is not irritating to any body type. It is suitable for people who usually have no big problems but are tired from work and want to find a place to lie down for an hour to relax. The effect is not bad, at least it is better than shouldering back pain.

I have been practicing Chinese medicine health spa for almost three years, and I have encountered a long list of pitfalls, and I have also accumulated some skills of my own. Don't believe in "unified treatment courses". If they sell you a "ten dehumidification package" or "twenty menstrual regulating treatment courses" as soon as you enter the store, they will just turn around and leave without asking you about your usual physical condition. The most important thing about traditional Chinese medicine is that one person can treat each other, and they will prescribe a treatment course for you without even knowing whether you are cold or hot. It is pure nonsense. Don't pursue "the greater the response, the better the effect." Having more sha does not mean you have a lot of moisture, it only means that the technician is ruthless. Moxibustion that makes you hide does not mean "good penetration". After a truly professional operation, your whole body should be relaxed and warm, and there will be no pain that you dare not touch the next day.

In fact, to put it bluntly, TCM health SPA is just like the health tea you usually drink. It is also called chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea. Drinking it for people with strong liver fire can reduce fire, while drinking it for people with weak spleen and stomach can cause diarrhea. There is no absolute good or bad, it all depends on whether it is suitable. If you've been feeling tired recently, have sore shoulders and neck, and haven't slept well, there's nothing wrong with giving it a try. Just be careful, don't listen to salesmen, and choose a place with formal qualifications, which is better than anything else.