Tui na

Well,

you know, I had to look it up, Nancy, because when we found out that it was a very specific Chinese massage, it's called tui na.

Tui na is a massage that applies rhythmic pressure with the fingers and palm or the thumb.

helping to promote blood flow okay grasping gently grasping blood flow to what well excuse me Dave blood

flow

When you palpate the shoulder, the muscles and tendons around the shoulder feel very tight and restricted.

This person definitely needs a Tui Na massage.

[laughs] Your diagnosis is liver qi stagnation affecting specifically the shoulder area, right? Now we ask the question: Do we choose Liver 3 or Gallbladder 34? Why we choose Gallbladder 34 is because in this case it is the better point because it is the influential point of the tendons, it is excellent for musculoskeletal tension, plus the gallbladder meridian goes to the upper shoulder area.

It also helps move liver qi, and specifically when it's affecting muscle and tendons.

The emperor's classic of internal massage, it compiled over 2,000 years ago, and it describes massage as a treatment alongside herbs and acupuncture.

Over time, Chinese massage developed into a discipline called Tui na.

Tui means to push and na means to grasp or lift.

Tui na is still taught in Chinese medical schools today.

In fact, they use it in medicine.

It works along the same meridians that we're going to talk about later when we talk about acupuncture on our next episode.

Can't get enough of them, right? It says four anonymous men who spent time in the same unit as him, as he, claimed he has people who cook and clean for him.

Excuse me? Excuse me? And even give him [laughs] Chinese-style massages.

Uh, sorry? Come again? Chinese, literally Chinese-style massages.

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Let's watch it.

It's a, a couple minutes long, and then we'll talk about his Chinese-style massages.

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Um, and I'd done massage also.

I'd studied Tui Na and, and many types of massage, uh, throughout my life.

And, uh, I knew about tissue adhesions fr- on the surface.

Um, but this was that deep inside her belly, you know, in the uterus and, and then the spine was back here and, uh- So I, I looked around, and I found a technique called the Werne technique from, uh, Dr. Werne developed down in Florida, where the person lays on their back, but, uh, you put your hands on their belly, and you start rocking them, getting their whole body sloshing, and you end up going about four times a second, and you do it for about twenty minutes, just sloshing the...