"Seeking Relief from Prolonged Sitting-Induced Swelling? Try These Massage-Based Weight Loss Techniques!"
Huantiao Acupoint
The stresses of work and the fast-paced life keep people's minds under constant tension and heavy pressure. Over time, the smooth flow of qi and blood within the body becomes obstructed, leading to poor blood circulation and edema in the lower body.
Location:
The Huantiao acupoint is located on the outer side of the buttocks, in the depression behind the greater trochanter of the femur. If you stand with your buttocks facing forward, the deepest point of the dimple, approximately 10 centimeters deep, on each side of your buttocks is the Huantiao acupoint.
Benefits:
The Huantiao acupoint is a meridian point of the Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, located close to the hip joint. Massaging this acupoint can improve blood circulation, promote the consumption of fat accumulations in the lower body, and eliminate edema in the lower half of the body.
Pressure Method:
Use your thumb or other knuckles to press down and perform circular massages for no less than one minute.
Chengfu Acupoint
Due to busy work schedules, more and more working women spend extended periods sitting. This leads to long-term relaxation and compression of the gluteal muscles. Moreover, a lack of exercise results in loss of muscle tone, causing once-tight buttocks to become loose and saggy.
Location:
Located at the center of the lower edge of the buttocks, with one on each side.
Benefits:
Stimulation of the Chengfu acupoint tightens the muscles, restoring elasticity and vitality to sagging muscles, and improving buttock sagging.
Pressure Method:
First, straighten your back, tighten your buttocks, and inhale slowly. Use the four fingers excluding the thumb to press on the Chengfu acupoint for 6 seconds, then exhale and repeat 10 times. Perform this 10 times daily, in the morning and evening. Take an appropriate amount of body lotion and warm it with your palm's temperature before applying it from the abdomen to the waist. Start with gentle pressure and increase if there is no discomfort. Rubbing and massaging with lotion is effective in improving fat.
Massage Techniques:
- Centering on the navel, massage the abdomen in the direction of a question mark, repeating 30 times on each side.
- Place both hands on your abdomen and use your fingers to massage down from below the sternum to the lower abdomen in a straight line, repeating this action 30 times.
