TCM Diagnostic and Therapeutic Methods

Ⅸ-2Traditional MedicineShenzhen, GuangdongBatch 4 (2014)Extension Item

01 · Historical Records

The qigong acupoint-pressing method was founded by Li Cangshan, who was born in the Qing dynasty into a family of daoyin (guiding-and-pulling) acupressure and martial arts practitioners in Laoshan, Shandong.

02 · Core Techniques & Process

Laoshan, Shandong, is the birthplace of the Jia family acupoint-pressing therapy; the Laoshan Acupoint Hospital laid the foundation for the growth and expansion of the therapy. After several generations of continuous exploration, accumulation and innovation, its center of development shifted from the north southward to Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. The theory of the Jia family acupoint-pressing therapy is rooted in the traditional Chinese medical doctrines of the zang-fu organs, the channels and collaterals, and qi and blood. Depending on the disease and the patient's condition, the practitioner stimulates appropriate acupoints or specific stimulation lines on the body surface with manual manipulations of different kinds; acting through the channels and collaterals, this promotes the free flow of qi and blood within the body so that already impaired functional activities can be restored. The therapy's acupoint-pressing manipulations comprise basic and auxiliary manipulations. The basic manipulations include the pressing method (dian fa: one-finger, three-finger and five-finger pressing, subdivided by force into light, medium and heavy pressing), the an (pressing) method, the qia (pinching) method, the pai (patting) method and the kou (tapping) method. The auxiliary manipulations include the gun (rolling) method, the rou (kneading) method, the nian (holding-twisting) method, the kouya (pressing-and-pushing) method, the niezheng (pinching-and-pulling) method, the zhuana (grasping) method, the chuida (pounding) method, the lijin (sinew-ordering) method and the jiaoxing (correcting) method. Jia's acupoint pressing has special efficacy for common diseases, and especially for difficult-to-treat conditions such as hemiplegia from stroke, cerebral palsy, facial paralysis, and cervical and lumbar disc herniation. Later, Jia Lihui learned martial-arts acupoint pressing from a national martial arts master and studied acupoint therapy for disease under Li Cangshan; he is the founder and leading figure of Jia's acupoint pressing. The Jia family acupoint-pressing therapy is rooted in the traditional Chinese medical theories of yin-yang, the five phases, the zang-fu organs, the channels and collaterals, and qi and blood, and incorporates ancient Chinese naive materialist ideas such as Taiji and the Bagua (eight trigrams), bearing a distinct imprint of traditional Chinese culture.

One, three and five finger pressure

The basic method, graded by number of fingers and by force, is the unit from which the whole system is built.

Spring-loaded striking

A modernised form of pressure delivery — fast, strong, carrying sensation through muscle to bone.

Five fingers on one line

Five fingers working along a single line, extending point stimulation from isolated points into continuous tracks.

Sixteen treatment lines

Over a hundred and forty points organised into sixteen lines, so treatment proceeds by line rather than by hunting for single points.

Treat paralysis at the joints

A central tenet: for stroke and cerebral palsy, attention belongs on restoring joint rhythm rather than simply loosening muscle.

The Laoshan tradition

Rooted in the martial and therapeutic point-work of the Laoshan school, which joined martial training with medical pressing in the hands of the founder.

03 · Regional Records & Related Items

As a traditional Chinese medical therapeutic method, the Jia family acupoint-pressing therapy is one of the few surviving acupoint-pressing schools; its area of transmission includes Shandong and Guangdong. The Jia acupoint-pressing school attaches importance to development and innovation on the basis of inheritance.

04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding

On the foundation of traditional finger-pressing acupoint therapy, and in accordance with modern principles of mechanics, it switched to spring-striking acupoint pressing, which is fast, forceful, strong in qi sensation and penetrating through sinew and bone, with markedly better efficacy; it also created the “five fingers, one line” acupoint-pressing method and the “both-hands synchronous” acupoint-pressing method. The number of acupoints has grown from a few dozen to more than 140, and 16 therapeutic lines have been summarized. It pioneered academic theories such as “treat paralysis by treating the joints first,” “treating infantile paralysis by startling to cure startling” and the “lip and eyelid stimulation method for facial paralysis.” It has published monographs including Dianxue Liaofa (Acupoint Therapy), Zhongguo Chuantong Dianxue Liaofa (Traditional Chinese Acupoint Therapy) and Dianxue yu Linchuang (Acupoint Therapy and Clinical Practice), together with educational VCDs; numerous academic papers have been published in national-level journals, and it has carried out a series of research projects on “acupoint therapy for difficult diseases.” The therapy has continued to the present mainly through family and master-disciple transmission. Acupoint therapy is simple, convenient, inexpensive and effective; it has drawn the attention of peers at home and abroad, patients seeking treatment come from across China and overseas, it has achieved good social and economic benefits, and it has value for wider application. Chen Rongzhong (per official records of associated inheritors): Male, Han ethnicity, born in November 1948, from Chaozhou, Guangdong. Chief physician. In 1968 he studied medicine under Shen Zhuoran at the Jinshan Subdistrict Health Center of Chaozhou, and later entered the traditional Chinese medicine program at Shantou Health School and studied at Guangzhou College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1985 he undertook advanced training in the acupoint-pressing department of Laoshan Hospital, Shandong. Using the acupoint-pressing method to treat diseases such as headache, shoulder and arm pain, lower back and leg pain, poliomyelitis and lumbar disc herniation, his treatments act quickly with low recurrence rates and are welcomed by the broad masses of patients. He is a representative inheritor of the fifth national-level batch of the intangible cultural heritage project “Therapeutic Methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Jia Family Acupoint-Pressing Therapy).” With a solid foundation in traditional Chinese medicine and rich clinical experience, he established an acupoint diagnosis and treatment center, ran acupoint-therapy training classes, and trained a number of graduate students and apprentices.

05 · Associated Representative Bearers

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06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography

Sources

China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)

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