There are many acupuncture points on the head, and combing the head from time to time can stimulate many meridians and acupuncture points, improving local blood circulation and helping to unblock the meridians. Combing your hair is one of the easiest ways to maintain health, but you should master the correct way to comb your hair in order to achieve health benefits.
What are the benefits of combing your hair?
1, Unblock the blood and Qi
Chinese medicine believes that humans and nature are one. In the morning, Yang Qi rises upward and outward, and the head is where Yang Qi gathers, so insisting on combing the hair can reach Yang Qi and help unblock Qi and blood. For heavy brain workers, combing the head when feeling tired and dull; for patients with neurasthenia, arteriosclerosis and hypertension, combing the head can stimulate the head acupuncture points and assist in the treatment of related diseases.
2, Reduce headache symptoms
Combing can stimulate the scalp to relax the tense nerves and promote the relaxation of spasmodic blood vessels, helping to relieve neurasthenia and migraine, as well as reducing vascular neurological headaches.
3, Healthy brain and calm the mind
By massaging the scalp, the relevant points on the head can be benignly stimulated, slowing down the aging rate of brain cells, thus achieving brain health and anti-aging effect. Comb your head after a busy day at work to relax the nerves; comb your head before going to bed to improve the quality of sleep; comb your head for a few minutes after getting up in the morning to make your spirit more full.
4, Nourish hair
Combing your hair can stimulate the peripheral nerves of the scalp, improve blood circulation, provide enough nutrition for your hair, and speed up hair growth.
How to comb your hair to nourish your health?
1, Choose the right comb
Wooden comb is a good choice, especially for oily hair, and will not stick with sebum; dry hair can choose bristle comb, can reduce scalp friction, remove static electricity; after washing the hair can be used wide tooth comb to clean, and will not cause hair breakage; curly hair can choose plastic comb, hard texture, can easily unclog curly hair; with massage head comb is also a good choice, can massage the scalp, improve local Blood circulation, reduce hair loss.
2, Master the order of combing hair
Use your fingers to comb through the tangled hair, from the middle to the end of the hair, in order to comb out the knots; make sure that the hair is perpendicular to the scalp when combing the hair; comb from the left ear and above the right ear to the opposite direction respectively. Comb your hair up to 3 times a day, respectively in the morning, during lunch break and before going to bed, for 10~20 minutes each time, always let your scalp get warm and numb as well.
Warm tips
Combing should master the strength, the right strength can make the hair more resilient, improve hair gloss; too much strength can hurt the hair quality, resulting in scalp damage. Dry hair should be a little harder to promote blood circulation in the scalp, to provide adequate nutrition for the hair; oily hair should reduce the strength, otherwise it will over-stimulate sebum secretion.