Eastern Medical Massage Therapy Intro



Eastern massage styles have been a part of everyday life for thousands of years, passing down the generations, people sometimes learning from each other at the parent’s knee, and these were seen as an important and integral part of health care. Some London home massage therapists know this type of massage.

In China we have the first documented descriptions of massage, dating back around 5000 years to 3000 years BCE (before the Common Era). Chinese Taoist priests practiced “qigong,” a meditative movement revealing and cultivating the vital life force. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is based on the principle that every illness, ailment, or discomfort in the body is due to an imbalance of “qi,” or “ch’i.”

Records in India also date back to at least 5000 years ago, and the unique form of medicine known as Ayurveda (the “art of living”), which, amongst other things, describes massage and herbal treatment for various conditions.

3000 years ago, around 1000 BCE, Japanese monks began to study Buddhism in China. They witnessed the healing methods of TCM and took them back to Japan. The Japanese not only adopted the Chinese style, but also began to add to it by introducing new combinations, eventually reaching a unique form called Shiatsu—“shi” meaning finger and “atsu” meaning pressure.

Traditional Thai massage, also called Thai yoga therapy, is a therapeutic style of massage therapy that dates back thousands of years. Its origins are unknown, but practitioners traditionally trace their lineage to Jivaka Komalaboat, also known as Shivago, who was a personal physician to the Sangha, a friend and physician to the Buddha and renowned as a healer in Buddhist tradition. Thai massage, like most oriental forms of massage, combines massage, stretching, and what we now refer to as chiropractic manipulations into one treatment. This is just a small sample of the longer-standing Eastern massage techniques, but massage has also had a long history in the West.

Massage for serious medical conditions should be carried out in conjunction with conventional medicine and in collaboration with the client’s doctor. Even if the massage makes a huge difference to the person’s life and they want to start reducing medication that must be under the supervision of the client’s medical practitioner.

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