TCM Bone-setting Therapy

Ⅸ-6Traditional MedicineShanghaiBatch 4 (2014)Extension ItemFeatured

01 · Historical Records

In medication, it emphasizes that prescriptions change with the syndrome and medicines differ with the disease. Through long-term practice and accumulation, it has summarized a series of celebrated formulas and proven prescriptions, including the Three-Color Paste, the Burdock Seed Decoction, the Dissipating Paste, Qilin Powder, and the Fresh-Injury Sinew-Rejoining Decoction, as well as preparations evolved from the above prescriptions, such as Qigu Capsules, the Anti-Bone-Hyperplasia Mixture, Nourishing-Blood-and-Softening-Hardness Capsules, and Ginseng-and-Scorpion Analgesic Capsules. The Shi family's traumatology has a history of more than a century since its founding in the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty.

02 · Core Techniques & Process

The Shanghai Shi family's traumatology is a bone-setting therapy formed by the Shi family through integrating the postures of traditional Chinese martial arts, traditional Chinese bone-setting manipulation, and internal treatment and regulation methods in daily life and labor. The Shanghai Shi family's traumatology advocates the concept of "one principle running through the thirteen medical specialties." Grounded in the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it draws on the clinical essence of all medical specialties, integrating and assimilating them and broadly collecting and storing knowledge. It has formed an academic system encompassing Shi-family characteristic theory, diagnosis and treatment, manipulation, and medication. In theory, the Shi family's traumatology emphasizes the holistic concept, attends to both qi and blood, and combines internal and external treatment. It established the therapeutic thought of "examine the constitution, assess yin and yang, and regulate concurrent pathogens; take qi and blood as the first priority and pay attention to phlegm-dampness; give equal weight to sinews and bones and treat injuries comprehensively." In diagnosis and treatment, it emphasizes "know the person before treating the disease." Whether the disease lies in the sinews or the bones, it attaches importance not only to the bones but also to the role of soft tissues such as muscles and tendons in the joints. It stresses three-stage treatment for sinew and bone injuries, differentiation of organ and bowel qi and blood in treating internal injuries, and assessment of causes and circumstances for old injuries and strain injuries. In manipulation, it emphasizes the criteria of "steady yet forceful, supple yet agile, and fine yet correct," reflecting the traditional Chinese concepts of "sinews serving the bones, equal weight to sinews and bones, and bones set straight with sinews supple." The therapy has relieved the pain of many patients. With flexible service methods, relatively low prices, and relatively safe medication, it has been welcomed by the people.

One principle running through thirteen departments

One principle is carried through all thirteen departments, uniting theory, diagnosis, manipulation and prescribing into a single system.

Know the person before treating

The patient is assessed before the injury is, since soft tissue and constitution decide how the same fracture is managed.

Firm with force, flexible, precise and correct

Steady yet forceful, flexible, fine and correct — the three criteria behind the ideal handling.

The internal formulas for new injury

Old decoctions and plaster formulas sit alongside modern capsules developed from the same prescriptions.

Assessing constitution, yin and yang, and concomitant evil

Constitution, yin-yang and phlegm-dampness are assessed together, reflecting the damp climate of the lower Yangtze.

03 · Regional Records & Related Items

The Shanghai Shi family's traumatology was formed on the basis of the diagnostic and therapeutic experience accumulated by the Shi family in daily life and labor, integrating the postures of traditional Chinese martial arts, traditional Chinese bone-setting manipulation, and internal treatment and regulation methods. Founded in the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty, it has a history of more than a century and has been transmitted to the sixth generation through family inheritance and master-apprentice transmission. The therapy is transmitted and developed with Shanghai as its center, and has also spread to Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces, influencing the whole country and even overseas, with Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as its main transmission base.

04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding

The Shi family's traumatology is transmitted and developed with Shanghai as its center, and has also spread to Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces, influencing the whole country and even overseas. Through family inheritance and master-apprentice transmission, it has been passed down to the sixth generation. The therapy has maintained a tenacious vitality in transmission and has been widely recognized. It achieves good therapeutic effects for sinew and bone injuries, internal injury treatment, old and strain injuries, and various degenerative conditions. Through long-term practice, it has formed a systematic body of basic theory in traditional Chinese orthopedics and traumatology, as well as clinical diagnosis and scientific research systems. The Shi family's traumatology has a long history; it applies traditional Chinese medical concepts to traditional Chinese orthopedics and traumatology and possesses academic research and historical cultural value. Shi Yinyu (recorded in the official file of the associated inheritor): Male, of the Han ethnicity, born in November 1942, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu. Professor. For more than fifty years in medicine, he has actively conducted theoretical and clinical research on degenerative bone and joint diseases represented by osteoarthropathy and osteoporosis. He has proposed academic views such as "treating injury and disease through syndrome differentiation and knowing the person," "viewing the whole body and regulating concurrent pathogens," and "root deficiency and branch impediment in sinew-and-bone diseases," and developed several new drugs and hospital preparations with independent intellectual property rights, including Qigu Capsules, Nourishing-Blood-and-Softening-Hardness Capsules, Huaizhen Liver-Nourishing Capsules, and the Anti-Bone-Hyperplasia Decoction. He has compiled works such as "Shi Xiaoshan and Shi Youshan's Experience in Treating Injuries and Selected Proven Formulas," published more than sixty academic papers, and supervised and trained more than twenty students, who have become the backbone of the transmission of the Shi family's traumatology. He is a representative inheritor of Bone-Setting Therapy (Shanghai Shi Family Traumatology), a fifth-batch national-level intangible cultural heritage item. He has received multiple awards, including the First Prize in Natural Science of the National Science and Technology Award nominated by the Ministry of Education, the Third China Pharmacy Development Award (Kangchen Osteoporosis Medical Research Award) of the Pharmacy Development Fund Committee of the China Science and Technology Development Foundation, and the Academic Achievement Award, and has applied for three invention patents.

05 · Associated Representative Bearers

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06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography

Sources

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