Liu Guangrui
Lineage & School of Heritage
Liu Guangrui is the fifth-generation inheritor of the Liu family's pricking and ironing therapy. He accompanied his father in medical practice from childhood and accumulated extensive experience; he is skilled in abdominal diagnosis and pulse examination, and is adept at using the family's secret formulas to treat asthma, vertigo, gynaecological and paediatric diseases, as well as infantile malnutrition and paediatric tuina massage.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He is male, of the Han ethnic group, born in May 1956 in Chongqing Municipality. He employs the three-needle, one-cup bloodletting technique in combination with extraordinary acupoints, which is highly effective for various traumatic pain syndromes, post-stroke hemiplegia and cerebral disorders; he is adept at medicinal moxibustion and application therapy, applying medicated moxibustion at paired acupoints together with topical application for gynaecological disorders, stomach pain and liver and kidney diseases, thus treating internally and externally at the same time; and he has pioneered an extraordinary method for regulating qi, relieving stagnation and resolving blood stasis, and has distinctive research and experience in visceral tuina and in tuina on acupoints and orifices.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (the Liu family pricking and ironing therapy), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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