Cantonese massage

Author: Ren Quan, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Massage therapy is a valuable heritage of traditional Chinese medicine and an important component of TCM. Throughout the long history of TCM development, massage has played a significant role as a therapeutic method, contributing to human health. Particularly in recent years, with the global trend of returning to nature, massage therapy has entered a period of vigorous growth. The medical community has continuously conducted research, making its mechanisms clearer. Currently, this therapy is used worldwide, including in China, to treat various conditions. In terms of health maintenance massage, its benefits in restoring fatigue, relieving stress, and improving quality of life have gained increasing attention, leading to more people learning and applying health maintenance massage techniques.
However, as a unique form of medical practice in the massage field, health maintenance massage combines the functions of promoting health, preventing illness, and extending longevity. Practitioners must not only possess basic medical anatomy and acupoint knowledge but also master various massage techniques and principles. This series of books includes six titles: Hong Kong-style Massage, Thai Massage, Korean Bone Relaxation, Japanese Pressure Points, New-style Foot Massage, and Health Maintenance Massage Techniques. Each book is divided into two parts: an overview and a procedure. The overview introduces the characteristics, effects, indications, contraindications, precautions, technique classification, and commonly used acupoints of the respective massage style. The procedure presents the techniques in a diagrammatic form, accompanied by detailed textual explanations, achieving a (diagram-text comparison) that is clear, easy to learn, and practical for operation.
Currently, the service industry has seen the emergence of numerous massage programs, and various massage classes have sprung up accordingly, with participants ranging in age and experience. Most of these classes are short-term and last only 1–3 months, which is far too brief to master standard massage techniques and acupoint knowledge. Therefore, we have organized experts to compile the "Standard Health and Wellness Massage Tutorial Series" to provide standardized, practical skills for readers with some foundation but unable to operate independently.
This series is a highly professional textbook-style publication, catering to readers with high school education or higher. It can serve as teaching material for various massage classes, technical guidance for massage therapists and beauticians, as well as a reference book for household health maintenance.