With more than 400 illustrations, this book is a systematic summing-up of the achievements of Chinese massotherapy and a comprehensive and detailed introduction to its academic origin and development, basic theories, fundamental knowledge, basic manipulations, physical exercises, and its concrete application in clinical practice and health maintenance. It includes the main massotherapic works and other documents of the various periods in China, brings together the fruits of modern massotherapic research carried out at home and abroad in the past five decades, summarizes the clinical experience of massotherapists of various periods, and includes hundreds of methods of treatment that were almost lost. This is a companion book to Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Essentials of Contemporary Chinese Acupuncturists' Clinical Experiences, Chinese Tuina Therapy and An Outline of Chinese Acupuncture published by the Foreign Languages Press in recent years.
367 pages