Chinese-English Edition of Pediatric Tuina (English and Chinese Edition)

Description

As an important academic branch of Chinese Tuina, pediatric tuina has developed its own system due to its unique theries and principles and it is honored as a ‘magic therapy for nursing the children’ due to its significant efficacy. It is really an effective recipe for treating pediatric diseases and treasure of Chinese medicine as well. Classic of Pediatric Tuina records pediatric tuina as ‘a magic therapy that substitutes the acupuncture by hand manipulations’. This therapy originated from the instinctive and deep parental love of caring and hugging their children. There are oracle bone inscriptions about tuina as early as in the Yin and Shang periods (1766-1122 B.C.). Later, the application and development of pediatric tuina were documented in classics such as Recipes for 52 kinds of Disorders in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, as well as Inner Classic, Shennong’s Classic of Materia Medica, Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold, and Complete Record of Sacred Benevolence during and after the Qin and Han dynasties. To the middle time of Ming dynasty, the release of Classic of Pediatric Tuina and Complete Book of Secret Principles of Pediatric Tuina Recipes on Nurturing Infant declared the forming of academic system of pediatric tuina, which contributed greatly to the thriving of the Chinese nation. Since the reform and opening of China, many scholars of Western medicine and even some proficient foreign pediatric experts, no matter by meeting them when I was lecturing abroad or by receiving them domestically, knew little or nothing about pediatic tuina, but were all surprised to see the marvelous pediatric tuina. Pediatric tuina is really a great invention of Chinese medicine.