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Chinese traditional medicine generally refers to natural materials such as plants, animals and minerals, etc. that can have medicinal values. There are several thousand types. Most of these medicines have a long history of providing sufficient and reliable guarantee for the health and multiplication of the Chinese nation, and as a main weapon for disease prevention and cure. It is an important part of Chinese traditional medicine.
Chinese traditional medicine has a great variety with complicated names, which is related with the change of era and the difference in places. On the whole, the naming of Chinese traditional medicine mostly accord with place of origin, performance, growth character, shape, smell, the part used as medicine and the name of the discoverer, etc.
It is the processing of medication. The exertion of the efficiency of medication is, first of all, determined by the function of medication itself. Secondly, it also has a direct relationship with processing. The processed Chinese traditional medicine is better for the exertion of the efficiency of the medicine and can reduce the irritant and toxicity of the medicine. Sometimes it can also increase and change some performance and better meet clininal requirements. The way of processing can generally be divided into four categories, ordinary processing, water processing, fire processing and water and fire processing.
The history of Traditional Chinese Medicine can date back to millions years ago in the primitive society. Primitive people had have sampled most of the local plants in their search for food and found that some certain plants can cure diseases or ease pains. Through trial and error, a primitive form of Chinese herbal medicine took shape in China.
The basic theories of traditional Chinese medical science is the basis for Chinese medical prophylaxis and Chinese clinical medical science. It includes the philosophical base, the understanding of the healthy human body, and understanding of diseases, the principles of staying healthy and of treating diseases.
Massotherapy (massage) means to move the hands and fingers skillfully on human's skin and muscles. By doing this, tiredness will ease. This skill in China is called massotherapy.
According to history, a famous doctor named Bian Que used this method to treat a prince in Guo - an ancient Chinese nation. It is 2,000 years from Qin Dynasty to the present, so we can say that the massotherapy has a very long history. The earliest massotherapy in China is called Massotherapy Classics of Hunagdi, but unfortunately it had been lost. In the Medical Classics of Huangdi, the massotherapy method was mentioned several times. People in ancient times treated diseases like insensitive limbs, fainting etc by massotherapy.
There are two types of massotherapy. One is active massotherapy. It also called as Self-massaging. And the other type is passive massotherapy where the doctor massages the patients.There are 8 massaging manners. They are harmonized by the doctor, and do not function in isolation.
Dislocation of joints, strain of lumbar muscles, muscular dystrophy, hemicrania, headache, trigeminal neuralgia, ribs neuralgia, femur neuralgia, sciatica, back and waist neuralgia, limbs joints (include the joints of shoulder, elbow, wrist, knee, ankle, finger, toe) pains, convulsions of face, convulsion of intestines, muscle pains, arthritis, neurotic vomiting, dyspepsia, gastroptosis, constipation, gastritis, insomnia, dysmenorrheal, neurosis are all can be helped by massotherapy.
All kinds of acute infectious disease, acute myelitis, terbucle arthritis, infectious skin diseases, eczema, scald of hot water or fire, skin ulcer, tumor and so on. What is more, women in (menstrual) woman's period, pregnant above 5 months, acute peritonitis, acute appendicitis, or people who is too weak, too advanced age, or with cardiovascular system diseases can not be massaged.
Foot bath is one method in the foot treating system. Foot bath has very long history of about 3,000 years in the Chinese medical science. This is a combination of wisdom and experiences of Chinese people.
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