Try these 2 methods for stuffy nose. They instantly clear up your nose.
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When you have tightness in your neck and shoulders, you might massage or tap the tight area and feel better and you could raise your shoulder higher right after that. Check a minute later how high you can raise your shoulder. It should back to the same height as before massaging or tapping or you can only raise your shoulder lower than before. So please try the following self-care method. But the most important thing is do it gently. If you can do this self-care gently, you should feel the improvement, but if you do it with strong stimulation, the same thing I talked above happens. If you already learned this self-care at the clinic, please review where to hold and how gentle you have to apply the stimulation to make better results. Gentle twisting of your hand loosens and strengthens the neck, shoulder and arm I often teach my patients this self-care for their homework. This self-care is easy and effective, but if you can't do it gently, it doesn't work. It is important to do this as gentle as you think it seems like not working. It is interesting to check which makes your body better, strong stimulation or light stimulation. This self-care focuses on more neck and shoulder area, but can change the tightness in your low back if you can do it gently. I have introduced this method to some patients who have had sinus problems. The self-care method is rubbing the frontal suture, which is a ditch on the frontal bone (Fig. 1). The length is about a inch. Rubbing this area loosens your neck and opens your nose, and also loosens your chest and abdomen. So if you have stiffness in your neck or sinus problems, or if you feel your abdomen is tight, try rubbing this ditch. 1. Rub the ditch-like-frontal suture with your fingers of one had like rubbing not the skin but the bone. 2. Open the frontal suture with your fingers of both hands. To get more strong contact, it is better to push your head toward your fingers. If your fingers are slippery on the skin, it is more effective to place a piece of cloth underneath and rub and open the suture. Watch the video for the detail of the method.
I think a lot of people feel tight on their neck when they tilt their neck to either side because of desk work or other reasons.
This is caused by the tightness of the muscle on the sides of your neck, which is called SCM (Fig. 1). There might be a lot of people who massage the muscle of the neck, but you couldn’t quite loosen it up. So I want to share where to rub to loosen up the muscle. When you rub a part of your head, you can make this SCM softer and it gets easier to tilt to the side. Where you need to rub is the coronal suture shown in Fig. 2 as yellow lines. The location of the coronal suture is 4 fingers from the top of the head where is the center of the tips of the ears. When you slide your fingers back and forth on the suture, you feel slight bumps. That is the coronal suture. If you feel tight on your left side of your neck when you tilt your neck to the right, rub the left side of the coronal suture, moving the tips of your fingers over the suture back and forth. You don’t need to press too much. The good pressure is as strong as your nails don’t become white. This is also good if you feel tightness on the area between the neck and the shoulder. Due to the stress from the surrounded situation caused by COVID-19, there are a lot of people whose breathing become shallow.
Related to the article posted in my blog: Let’s Relieve Broken Heart Syndrome caused by Stress due to COVID-19, it is also important that your nose is not stuffy to breathe smoothly. We can only breathe deeply when you breathe in from your nose. Please compare when you breathe in from your nose to when you breathe in from your mouth. How did you feel? You should not be able to breathe deeply from your mouth. That is because in the nose, the air is mixed with NO which opens the lung and softens the capillaries, but when you breathe in from your mouth, that process doesn’t happen so the lung doesn’t accept the air from the mouth. For easier breathing, I want to introduce the acupuncture points that open your nasal passage. 1. Above the nose and about a half inch below the hair line, there is the bulge of the bone. Please massage the point (Fig. 1). 2. A half inch above the eyebrow, there may be tender points. Please massage these points (Fig. 1). 3. Please massage the base of the arms (Fig. 2). Please massage these acupuncture points when you have a stuffy nose. If you feel tightness of chest or difficulty of breathing, please also read the following article: Let’s Relieve Broken Heart Syndrome caused by Stress due to COVID-19 According to CNN news, since the outbreak of COVID-19, a condition called “broken heart syndrome” significantly increases.
Broken heart syndrome is a temporary heart condition that's often brought on by stressful situations and extreme emotions. The condition can also be triggered by a serious physical illness or surgery. Broken heart syndrome symptoms can mimic a heart attack. Common symptoms include: Chest pain Shortness of breath I want to introduce a self-care method for this condition. If they are caused by stressful situations due to COVID-19, the following self-care can treat the condition, which is introduced by Mr. Niki, an acupuncturist in Japan. 1. Find a tender point on the bone in the center of the chest at the level of your nipples, which is an acupuncture point CV-17 (Fig. 1). 2. Touch the tender point with the edge of a penny gently (Don’t press it hard into the skin) (Fig. 2). 3. Hold the penny for 5 seconds. After doing this, instantly you could feel that your chest opens or you feel relaxed, and you could breathe deeply. Whenever you feel stressed or can’t breathe deeply, please try this method. What you need is just a penny! CNN news article for reference Edema
In summer, we drink a lot of water without sweating in an airconditioned room so that excess water is easily accumulated in the body, but we have to be careful about edema that could be a sign of serious diseases. Edema is the condition that when you press the skin with your finger, the water where is pressed is lost and a dimple is retained for about 10 seconds, while fat is the condition that the pressed area returns very quickly. Edema caused by normal excess water can be improved by sweating a lot by taking a relaxing bath or exercises. But if edema is not improved by sweating, there is a possibility of kidney diseases. When you have kidney diseases, water can be discharged from your body and is accumulated in your body, resulting in edema of the whole body. Dangerous edema Edema in the leg in the morning (Fig. 1) and edema in the face in the evening (Fig. 2) are dangerous. Edema in the leg in the evening is okay because water tends to be accumulate in the leg that is locate in the lower part of the body during the daytime. But if you have edema in the leg in the morning, it could be caused by kidney diseases because the leg is not located in the lower part of the body while sleeping. Excessive water retention could be caused by some problems in the kidney. On the contrary, edema in the face in the evening means that there is a possibility that water could be discharged sufficiently from the kidney as urine. Wrinkles
One of the causes of wrinkles is UV. The stratum corneum gets thicker to block UV. The thickened stratum corneum gets dry and becomes wrinkles. But if you avoid UV too much, there is a possibility that the bone could be weakened. Our body makes the bone from vitamin D and calcium. Vitamin D is made by soaking in the sun. That is why if you avoid the sun light, you can’t make the bone in your body. You can prevent wrinkles and spots and also protect the bone by absorbing UV from the palms of your hands because the palms don’t have melanin pigments that block the UV so that vitamin D can be made efficiently in a short time. Sufficient UV can be absorbed by soaking your palms in the sun for 15 minutes a day. Wrinkles that could be a sign of dangerous diseases Wrinkles made in the ear lobe could be a sign of heart diseases (Fig. 1). The ear lobe doesn’t have many blood vessels so that the ear lobe is easily affected by hardening of the artery (arteriosclerosis) and wrinkles are made by poor blood circulation due to hardening of the artery. The ear lobe is one of rare spots in our body where we can check the condition of our blood vessel. It is said that wrinkles on the forehead are also made by hardening of the artery, but they are made by UV as well, so the ear lobe that is not easily affected by UV is more useful to check the condition of the blood vessel. According to a survey conducted on 108 people whose ages were 54-74 year old for 8 years in Chicago University, people who had wrinkles in the ear lobe tripled the risk of heart diseases. Eating blue back fishes is recommended to prevent hardening of the artery because EPA contained in blue back fishes improves the blood flow and helps prevent hardening of the artery. Heat Stroke
Which is better to prevent heat stroke, coffee or green tea? Green tea is good to prevent heat stroke. One of the causes of heat stroke is that the water in the body is lost by the raise of the body temperature. According to a recent research, when drinking green tea, the amount of sweat was more than when drinking water in the heat, resulting in suppressing the raise of the body temperature. However, barley tea is recommended to prevent heat stroke because barley tea is rich in minerals and doesn’t contain caffeine that promotes urination, so you can drink barley tea as much as you like. |
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