Abstract
Thai massage was also influenced by the two- to three thousand years old traditional Chinese medicine. The comprehensive system of Chinese medicine includes treatment methods like acupuncture, breath practices, movement, healthy nutrition, meditation and meridian massage.
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The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) already for two- to three thousand years constitutes a comprehensive system that covers all aspects relevant to health and healing, reaching from nutrition science to prayers and meditation, from psychiatry to internal medicine.[1]
There are seven steps of healing. Besides acupuncture, these are acupressure, breath practices, movement, healthy nutrition, meditation and meridian massage.[2]
This broad scope of disciplines is serving the TCM well, as TCM is also using a comprehensive diagnostic system.[3] This diagnosis is based on eight categories and for methods of examination, which are: Viewing and seeing, asking, hearing and smelling as well as feeling and sensing.[4] The eight categories of diagnosis consist of four pairs of opposites, which are Yin and Yang, interior and exterior, cold and heat as well as emptiness and abundance.[5]
On the one hand TCM basically uses the same procedure of diagnosis as also does the western medicine, like exploring the patient's history (anamnesis) as well as a check-up of the body through the practitioner,1 but on the other hand the human being is considered a complete entity, which is harmonically embedded in the energy system of the macrocosm.[6]
© 2006 Thailin Thai Massage Berlin- Cf. Eckert (1996), p. 13
- Cf. Eckert (1996), p. 46
- Cf. Stux (1999), p. 1
- Cf. Eckert (1996), p. 46
- Cf. Stux (1999), p. 32
- Cf. Leibold (1994), p. 18
- Cf. Leibold (1994), p. 11
Bibliography
Eckert, E. (1996): Das Tao der Medizin. Grundlagen der Akupunktur und Akupressur. Heidelberg 1996.
Leibold, G. (1994): Akupressur zur Eigenbehandlung. 2. Ed. Niedernhausen (Taunus) 1994.
Stux, G. (1999): Einführung in die Akupunktur. 5. Ed. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1991.
