Massage Therapy Cures All Illnesses - (2nd Edition)

Author: Cheng Juetang, Cheng Gongwen (editors)
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is a revised version of the first edition, divided into three parts. The first part briefly introduces the basic knowledge of massage therapy, including the history of massage therapy, its mechanism of action and functions, indications and contraindications, commonly used acupoints, manipulation techniques, advantages, and precautions. The second part covers medical massage, introducing more than 160 common diseases and some difficult conditions from the internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, orthopedics, surgery, dermatology, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology departments, with over 500 empirical formulae for treatment. The third part focuses on health maintenance massage, primarily introducing whole-body regional health maintenance massage techniques and the empirical experiences of health maintenance massage from past generations. This book summarizes the long-term clinical practices and inherited experiences from four generations of the authors, as well as the guidance of masters, and is compiled with reference to a large number of literature sources. It is rich in content, highly practical, and suitable for grassroots medical personnel and rural family self-treatment practitioners to read and refer to.