TCM Bone-setting Therapy
01 · Historical Records
The Shanxi Wu family bone-setting therapy is one of the traditional orthopedic and traumatic therapies of Chinese medicine; it originated in the late Qing dynasty and has a history of one hundred years to the present day. After the liberation of Gaoping in 1945, he was once engaged as a member of the Gaoping County Third District Physicians' Research Institute. After the founder died in 1957, the second-generation heir Wu Chengmou inherited the family tradition; in June 1969 he founded the Orthopedics Department of the Zhangwo Village Health Clinic of Macun Town in Zhangwo Village, Macun; in January 1976 the Macun Town Zhangwo Village Bone-Setting Hospital was established; in March 1993 it was renamed the Gaoping City Wu Family Bone-Setting Hospital; in July 1994 the third-generation heir Wu Tianbao opened the Friendship Street Branch of the Gaoping City Wu Family Bone-Setting Hospital within Gaoping City; and in December 2000 it was renamed the Gaoping City Wu Chengmou Bone-Injury Specialist Hospital.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
The founder Wu Gending (1886-1957), at the age of 12, while herding sheep at Baiyun Temple in Qinshui County, Shanxi Province, took an old monk as his teacher and learned bone-setting technique and the spit-bone bone-setting method. Through the unremitting efforts and continuous development of several generations, Wu family bone-setting has formed its own distinctive bone-setting techniques and academic specialties. The general principle of Wu family bone-setting is "single comprehensive repositioning, repeated correction, continuous traction, and regular adjustment". Its characteristics are "manipulative repositioning, with traction plus small splint fixation as the mainstay; oral administration of Chinese medicine in three stages as the auxiliary; and tendon-relaxing tuina massage manipulations for late-stage functional recovery". The Wu family's mnemonic formula for bone-setting manipulation: "When palpating, the mind must be precise; when pressing, the hand must be like a steelyard; when pulling, the force must be appropriate; when grasping, the hand must be steady; when rotating, be loose and skillful; when bringing the bones together, the work must be genuine." Depending on the specific condition of the bone-injury patient, Wu family bone-setting employs repositioning manipulations such as the question-mark method, the lifting-pulling method, the neck-knee traction method, the seated traction method, and the double-thumb pressing method. Orally administered Chinese medicine: the Wu Family Bone-Rejoining Formula. The mnemonic formula of Wu family bone-setting manipulation is: when palpating, the mind must be precise; when pressing, the hand must be like a steelyard; when pulling, the force must be appropriate; when grasping, the hand must be steady; when rotating, be loose (nimble) and skillful; when bringing the bones together, the work must be genuine. The six-line formula breaks the hand feel during repositioning into six lines that can be memorized and verified; "the hand like a steelyard when pressing" means that the weight applied must be commensurate with the patient's condition, neither too light nor too heavy. The founder Wu Gending (1886-1957), at the age of 12, while herding sheep at Baiyun Temple in Qinshui County, Shanxi Province, took an old monk as his teacher and learned bone-setting technique and the spit-bone bone-setting method.
One reduction, repeated adjustment
The school's motto: reduce once, correct many times, keep traction on, adjust at intervals.
Feel, press, pull, pinch, turn, close
A six-character mnemonic covering feeling, pressing, pulling, pinching, turning and closing, with turning required to stay loose and skilful.
The question-mark and lifting-pulling methods
Manipulations include a question-mark flexion-rotation, lifting and pulling, cervical-knee traction, seated traction and a two-thumb press.
Leg-crossed and face-to-face traction
Specific traction set-ups for hip and shoulder dislocation that use the patient's own limb and a facing partner instead of instruments.
The Wushi bone-joining formula
Reduction and splinting lead, an internal formula assists, and massage closes the case by restoring function.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Wu family bone-setting is a branch of the orthopedics and traumatology discipline of Chinese medicine; from its emergence to the present it has consistently played an important role in the local area. Wu family bone-setting is a branch of the orthopedics and traumatology discipline of Chinese medicine; from its emergence to the present it has consistently played an important role in the local area, and its transmission is closely tied to the evolution of its institutions: after the founder died in 1957, the second-generation heir Wu Chengmou inherited the family tradition; in June 1969 he founded the Orthopedics Department of the Zhangwo Village Health Clinic of Macun Town in Zhangwo Village, Macun; in January 1976 the Macun Town Zhangwo Village Bone-Setting Hospital was established; in March 1993 it was renamed the Gaoping City Wu Family Bone-Setting Hospital; in July 1994 the third-generation heir Wu Tianbao opened the Friendship Street Branch of the Gaoping City Wu Family Bone-Setting Hospital within Gaoping City; and in December 2000 it was renamed the Gaoping City Wu Chengmou Bone-Injury Specialist Hospital.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
At present, the tradition faces difficulties in transmission and urgently needs protection. Wu Chengmou (recorded in the official file of the associated inheritor): male, of the Han ethnic group, born in June 1936, from Gaoping City, Shanxi Province. Through long-term clinical practice, he summarized the cross-legged traction repositioning method for treating hip dislocation, the opposite-seated traction method for treating anterior shoulder dislocation, the double-thumb pressing method for treating lumbar vertebral fractures, and the supine axillary traction method for treating clavicle fractures. He devoted his life to the study of bone-setting, participated in various orthopedic academic seminars, published more than ten papers, and passed on all of his bone-setting manipulations and insights to his children, carrying forward the family tradition of traditional Chinese bone-setting. He is a representative inheritor of the fourth national-level batch of the intangible cultural heritage project "Traditional Chinese Medicine Bone-Setting Therapy (Wu Family Bone-Setting Therapy)".
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Guo Weihuai 01-0212
- Sun Shuchun 01-0213
- Shi Qi 01-0214
- Liu Gang 03-1446
- Luo Jindian 03-1447
- Shi Yangshan 03-1448
- Guo Yanjin 03-1449
- Wu Chengmou 04-1945
- Zhang Yuzhu 04-1946
- Luo Sulan 05-2951
- Su Jicheng 05-2952
- Shi Yinyu 05-2953
- Zhang Yanyou 05-2954
- Guo Yanxing 05-2955
- Liao Huaizhang 05-2956
- Li Feiyue
- Zhan Hongsheng
- Lin Zishun
- Zhu Liguo
- Li Tao
- Zhang Yunzhi
- Guo Jiayi
- Zhu Huaiyu
- Xu Zesan
- Zhu Long
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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