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Preface
Tuina, also known as massage, is an
important component of traditional Chinese recovery therapy in which diseases
are cured by the operator's manipulations, on the patient's body to stimulate
the meridians, collaterals and points. The earliest record of tuina treatment in
China was seen in The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, a medical treatise
published in the fifth century B.C. "Blood, Qi, and Mental-Physical Conditions"
is a chapter relating to tuina treatment of diseases. It points out, "When a
person is in frequent shock and the passages of the meridians and collaterals
are blocked, disease attacks him mostly in the form of numbness, and it should
be treated by massage." This indicates that tuina therapy is able to promote the
circulation of qi and blood, remove the obstruction of the meridians and
collaterals, and benefit joint movement. The biophysical and biochemical changes
of the muscles resulting form massage are evident. These biological changes
invigorate lymphatic flow, facilitate blood circulation, and strengthen the
metabolism, thus reducing swelling, preventing hemorrhage and old bleeding (also
called "eliminating the stale and the stagnant" in the Internal Classic),
tonifying the tendons and bones, strengthening the contraction of the ligaments,
and playing a bilateral function in sedating the nerves and inhibiting
analgesia. All these facts have proved that tuina therapy is able to relieve
organic diseases and to eliminate functional disturbance. This Therapy is
simple, economical and free form side-effects. sparing not only infants form
the bitterness of medication and the pain of injections, but also their parents
from worry. Infants cooperate with and easily accept this therapy because the
manipulations produce comfortable sensations on their body surfaces.
I have
engaged in clinical and theoretical research on traditional Chinese recovery for
more than forty years. I was pleased to read the new book Infantile Tuina
Therapy written by Dr. Luan Changye and was deeply impressed by his concern for
the health of the people. The theories of the book are well grounded, the
methods of treatment numerous and the results effective. Dr. Luan Changye has
been working in tuina for thirty years. His clinical experience is abundant and
his academic achievement great. He has written Massage Therapy, Tuina Therapy
and The Illustrated Infantile Tuina Therapy. His Hanging Charts of Tuina Therapy
is the first coloured edition for adults in China, and fills a gap in the field
of tuina science in China. He has made a definite contribution o the development
of traditional Chinese recovery. I am pleased to have had this chance to
preface this book. I am confident that readers will gradually experience he
true essence of this book and will find it inspiring and instructive. I heartily
recommend this book in China and abroad, and I trust that is will benefit
infants all over he globe.
Professor Hu Bin
Member of the Specialist Information
Committee, China Academy of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
December3, 1985
Contents
I. Background and Introduction to
Infantile Tuina Therapy
1. A Sort History of Infantile Tuina
Therapy
2. Characteristics of Infantile Tuina
Therapy
3. How Tuina Therapy Works
4. Physiological and Pathological
Features of Infants
II. Diagnosis of Infantile Patients
1. Four Diagnostic Methods
2. Analysis and Differentiation of
Pathological Conditions in Accordance with the Eight Principal Syndromes
III. Commonly Used Manipulations in
Infantile Tuina Therapy
IV. Points Frequently Used in Infantile
Tuina Therapy
1. Points on the Head and Face
2. Points on the Back
3. Points in the Thoracic and Costal
Regions
4. Points in the Medial Aspect of the
Upper Limbs and Palm
5. Points Along the Lateral Aspect of
the Upper Limbs and the Dorsum of the Palm
6. Points of he Lower Limbs
V. Indications of the Commonly Used
Points and Prescriptions for Common Infantile Diseases
VI. Precautions
1. Mediums to Be Used
2. Reinforcing-Reducing Method and
Reinforcing-Reducing Intensity
3. Position
4. Tuina Sequence
5. The Principle of Treatment and
Prescriptions
VII. Classification Table for the
Commonly Used Tuina Points
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