Among the five fingers, the pinky finger is often to be overlooked. It’s the smallest in size and the lowest in ranking. When you praise someone, you give them a thumbs up. When you disprove someone, you give them a little finger. But in fact, your little fingers have a more significant effect on your health than your other fingers. It is closely related to the heart, kidney, uterus, and testes as the meridians connected to the heart and the small intestine pass through little fingers.
Do you want to keep your heart healthy, sleep well, reduce gray hair, prevent kidney disease and cancer? then, you may want to try to move or massage your little fingers regularly.
The following are a couple of little finger exercises that can help you to nourish your heart and calm the nerves. It can also nourish your kidneys and help you fall asleep quickly.
The first exercises:
Stretch your arms out and make a fist with both hands. Then extend your little finger of your left and right hand to make a move of retracting and releasing while keeping the rest of the fingers tightly gripped. Repeat this exercise 50 or more times.
The second exercise:
Interlock your left and right little fingers, then pull each little finger to the opposite direction, and then stop the pull, and then pull again. repeat for 30 or more times.
Why can such simple exercises bring so many health benefits? Because repeatedly moving the little finger in a given period of time is equivalent to stretching and massaging the heart meridian, which has the effect of nourishing the mind and soothing the nerves. In TCM meridian science, there are 12 serious meridians in the whole body, and 6 of them go from the fingers to the entire body, which is important for the circulation of “Qi” (life energy) and blood throughout the body. The hands have a close connection to the cerebral nerves as well. Therefore, the movement of the hand muscles has a great effect on the cerebral cortex.
Besides the simple exercises introduced above, you can also consciously use your little finger in your daily life to get a similar exercises effect. Such as using your little fingers to lift a bag with some weight or object in it, or turning the book with little fingers.
In short, regular stimulation of the little finger can more or less prevent and treat about 28 kinds of diseases including cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, headache, insomnia, lumbar disc herniation, waist Acid, limb numbness, tumor, palpitations, high blood pressure, sexual dysfunction, energy decline, endometriosis, uterine muscle Tumors, menopausal disorders, constipation, depression, amnesia, neuroticism, anxiety, vision loss, obesity, diabetes Diseases, kidney disease, frequent urination, obliteration, prostatic hypertrophy, hepatitis, etc.