Combing Your Head has Many Great Benefits

Combing your head can help solving the following problems: gallbladder problems, mammary gland proliferation, chronicle headache, cardiovascular problems, stroke, hair loss, dizziness, susceptibility to catching cold.

Method: See the linked video clip below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJmXbN2bO4

First, let’s look at the sides of our head. Look at the meridian and acupuncture point chart, you’ll see gallbladder meridian runs through the sides of our head. There are over 20 acupuncture points on this meridian. By combing the sides of your head, all these acupuncture points will get massaged and the gallbladder meridian will be opened up. If the gallbladder meridian is unclogged, your gallbladder will be healthy and all problems related to gallbladder such as chronicle headache (only one type related to Gallbladder problem), mammary gland proliferation, neck & shoulder tension, muscle aches & fatigue, etc, will be solved.

Then, let’s look at the top of our head. You can see bladder meridian runs through this area. One of Bladder meridian’s roles is to protect us from catching cold. By combing and opening up this meridian, you’ll not be prone to catching cold any more. Also, if you have dizziness. This is caused by insufficient blood in your brain which in turn is caused by clogged governor’s meridian. The governor’s meridian starts from the Baihui point at the very top of our head to our tail bone. Combing this area will help opening up this meridian and get rid of the dizziness. In addition, combing the top of your head may solve your hair loss problem and help you grow new hairs. This is simply because combing brings blood and nutrition to this area.

Combing the head has other benefits. Since we humans have emotions like anger, fear, anxiety and excitement, our brain works very hard all the time to keep up with these emotions. This makes our Qi (energy) and blood rushes to our head actively. So, it’s very important to keep our head unclogged. How do we do that? Comb our head, all over the head - sides, top and the back. This is a very important way of keeping us healthy and ancient Chinese doctors asked us to do this every day. (Note: as we talked about in our previously blogs, the “Walking on Your knee” and “standing on One Leg” practice can help channel blood and Qi to our lower body and keep our head unclogged).

How many times should we comb our head each day? At least 300 times. This seems a lot but actually not. If you have more time, make it 600 times each day. Some people may ask: what if this will hurt my scalp? Use a comb with rounded tips, not sharp tips.

Note: This is a long term project and we cannot expect to see results tomorrow.  But how about after one year, two years? You’ll be definitely  reaping benefits.

Future Blog:

1.       How to stretch your legs to improve the health of your liver and kidney.

Trisha Han, M.S., L. Acu.