Massage: Chinese medicine treats the human body by pushing, holding, lifting and kneading according to the meridian points. Massage is a non-drug natural therapy and physical therapy.
Usually, it means that doctors use their own hands to act on the patient's body surface, injured parts, uncomfortable places, specific acupoints and painful places, and use various methods and forces such as pushing, taking, pressing, rubbing, pointing and patting to achieve the effects of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, healing and relieving pain, eliminating pathogenic factors and strengthening the body resistance, harmonizing yin and yang, and prolonging life.
Massage, also known as "massage", is based on the theory of zang-fu organs and meridians of traditional Chinese medicine, combined with the anatomy and pathological diagnosis of western medicine, and acts on specific parts of human body surface through manipulation to adjust the physiological and pathological state of the body to achieve the purpose of physical therapy. In nature, it is a physical therapy. From the treatment of massage, it can be divided into health massage, sports massage and medical massage.
Huangdi Neijing said: "The meridians are impassable; The disease was born in non-human, and the treatment method is massage, which shows that massage has the function of dredging meridians. For example, pressing Zusanli and pushing spleen meridian can increase the secretion function of digestive juice. From the point of view of modern medicine, massage mainly stimulates peripheral nerves, promotes blood and lymph circulation and the metabolic process between tissues, thus coordinating the functions between tissues and organs and improving the metabolic level of functions.
Refer to the above information: Baidu Encyclopedia-Massage