We
have three massage of TCM doctors in the Tongren Hospital at present .All of us
have long time in doing massage therapy, sometimes we will give patients Herbs,
Acupuncture or jar if needed. Attracting many of people who are interesting
in massage to come to study, most of their are come from America,
English, Australia, Japan, Korea, Belgium, Portugal and so on.
Chinese massage has a long history and dates back to the ancient times.
Archaeological studies in recent years have shown that as early as the late
period of the New Stone Age around 2700 B.C., the Chinese ancestors in the
Yellow River valley primarily summed up the primitive experiences in massage
which had been gradually accumulated by their forefathers in their struggle for
life and fight against nature. This turned the spontaneous medical behavior that
originated from self-defence instinct into a medical mode for the early human
race. It was recorded in the reign of Emperor Huang(equating the period of
Longshan Culture )Yu Fu had applied the antient massage technique“anwu”to
his clinical practice.
Influenced by its different academic sources, lineages, indications and
complicated backgrounds of society, provincialism and mores, Chinese massage
grew gradually into many academic schools and branches in its long and tortuous
history of development.
The present chief schools and academic branches of massage in China are: one finger meditation massage , rolling massage , internal exercise massage , digital acupoint pressure massage , bone-setting massage , traumatic pressing-rubbing therapy , massotherapy ,child massage , viscera and channels massage ,keep-fit massage , health-preserving massage , gastopathy massage , tendon-pinching and patting-beating therapy , finger-pressing massage , finger-pressure therapy , finger-plucking therapy , chiropractic therapy , self-massage , massage with ointment , physical exercise massage , sports massage ,beauty massage , extra-ordinary points massage , midnight-noon ebb-flow massage , channel points massage , Qiao-point massage ,ect. Now here is a brief introduction to some of the schools with greater influence.
1)One-finger meditation massage serves as its chief treatment
manipulation accompanied by other eleven methods : grasping , pressing , rubbing
, rolling , holding and twisting , sweeping , foulage , quick pushing , kneading
, rotating and snaking. It requires that manipulations be soft and penetrating,
soft but powerful, with softness being coordinated with strength; it emphasizes
that softness is the most valuable. Just because its chief manipulations are
extremely difficult, great attention is always paid to its basic training while
a series of scientific methods are used for special function training.
2)rolling massage developed on the basis of single-finger massage in the
40’s of the current century . Its chief manipulation is rolling, and the other
commonly used manipulations are kneading , pressing , grasping , holding and
twisting and foulage . In the process of massage , it often coordinates with the
passive movement of the limbs and guides the patients in their initiative
movement after massage so as to enhance and consolidate the curative effect .
Rolling massage is, in the main, applied to hemiparalysis, infantile paralysis,
peripheral paralysis, deviation of mouth and eyes, various kinds of chronic
joint diseases, sprain of the joints of waist and the four limbs,
tenontothecitis, scapulohumeral
periarthritis, cervical spondylopathy, prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc,
headache and sternocostal pain, etc.
3)Internal exercise massage is chiefly based on palm-pushing. Its
clinical manipulations follow these procedures: pushing Qiao gong , separating
Yingtang and supra-orbital, sweeping across Taiyang, fice-finger grasping the
top of the head, tri-finger grasping the big tendons at the neck, flat-pushing
or thenareminence pushing against the chest and back, flat-pushing against the
hypochondriac regions, pushing-scrubbing and lifting-grasping at the upper
limbs, foulaging the upper limbs, arc-pushing the shoulder joints,
pressing-gripping the five fingers, splitting the finger seam, palm-striking on
the first, foulaging and shaking the upper limbs, patting on Jianjing points of
both shoulders, patting on the two legs, then again five-finger grasping the top
of the head, and finally tripart striking, i.e., fist-striking Dazhui,
fist-striking Mingmen and the Baliao to invigorate the kidney-yang and
premordial qi and conduct the fire back its origin, palm-striking Fengan point
on top of the head for tranquilization. The entire regular practice covers the
head, face, waist, chest, abdomen and the lower limbs, involving twelve channels
and eight extra-channels. It is effective in dredging the channels and
collaterals, regulating qi and blood, strengthening the body resistance and
nourishing the viscera. Based on this regular practice, massagers take different
diseases and consequences into full consideration, increase or reduce their
manipulations to form prescriptions. Internal exercise massage is good for the
treatment of internal disease due to deficiency and overwork and disease of the
departments of surgery and gynecology.
4)Finger-pressing massage is also called “digital point pressing
massage” or “finger-pressure therapy”—a massage therapy used in clinical
practice to prevent and treat diseases chiefly with digital pressing, pressure
massage or nipping on the channel and collateral points. Its basic manipulation
is “finger-pressing” which mainly uses the finger tip to press the points.
Many, many years ago, The Yellow Emperor’ Internal Classic described the
curative effect of pressing as “pressing can resolve blood stasis, dispel qi
and relieve pain”. Therefore, this therapy is effective in regulating qi and
blood, dredging the channel, adjusting the viscera function and dispersing cold
and relieving pain. It can cure all the commonly encountered diseases in the
departments of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics and eyes, ear,
nose and throat.
5)Digital point pressure
therapy, which is evoluted from digital acupoint preesing, point-hitting,
point-kicking, point-opening and other actions of the traditional Chinese
martial arts. All the digital point pressing methods mentioned above are taken
both as means for attack in striking and as therapy for injury treatment. Taking
for reference the technical actions of striking and point-hitting, and based on
the summarized practical experiences of its own in treatment, digital point
therapy has become a well-known school of massage in preventing and treating
diseases under the guidance of the theoretical principles of channels and
collaterals, qi and blood of traditional Chinese medicine. Its chief
manipulation is digital-hitting therapy. The other important manipulations are
patting, tapping, pressing, nipping, clutching-grasping, thumping and
orthotherapy. Digital point pressing therapy plays a curative role in dredging
the channel, promoting the flow of qi and blood circulation, regulating ying and
wei strengthening the vital qi to expel external pathogenic factors. Digital
acupoint pressing therapy has obtained remarkable curative effect in its
clinical treatment for various types of paralysis ,numbness and obstinate
rheumatalgia.
Acting Principles of Massage
1.
Regulating yin and yang
2.
Regulating the Function of Channels and Collaterals, Qi and Blood, ,and
Viscera
3.
Recovery of the Function of Tendons,Bones and Joints
4.
The Tonifying and Purging Function of Massage manipulation
5.
The Studies on the Mechanical Principles of Massage Manipulation
Massage Treatment of Common Diseases
Stiff neck, cervical spondylopathy, acute lumbar sprain, semi-dislocation
of sacro-iliac joint, chronic lumbar muscle strain, syndrome of the fibrous
rings of the lumbar intervertebral disc, syndrome of the third lumbar vertebra
transverse process, scapulohumeral periarthritis, chronic gastritis, oppilation,
headache, common cold, dysmenorrhea and soon.
coming from Chinese massage