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The contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to pediatrics: the work of Luan Changy



The work Massotherapy pediatric (1) is perhaps the most significant contribution of a Chinese therapist conduct the ceremony at home, Dr. Luan Changyi, Division of Medicine traditional therapy center of Weihai, in Shandong province. The objective of the publication is to raise awareness of important theories and techniques of Chinese massage applied to children, as taught today in some of the major schools of traditional Chinese medicine. The text, which we report, except for some tables of correspondence, in its entirety, presents an important innovation compared to the editions translated into other languages to it are in fact some significant steps work side by side massage in early childhood, published in Beijing in the mid-'90s, the researchers and therapists Wenlong Jin, Lin Huifang, Wang Shucui, with the aim of integrating the above author with additional technical and further study of theoretical and practical. In particular, we report the observations (quotation marks in italics in the text) for the preparation of the massage, the management of the young child and those relating to the environment surroundings. Particularly valuable are the brief introductions, simple and clear, to diseases, clarifying some of the more technical steps Changyi, and the description of manipulation for some conditions not covered by the author, but of great use in pediatric massage.

The work of Luan Changy between tradition and modernity

Dr. Luan Changy is a specialist in massage therapy and exercises in the traditional medicine related to the treatment center of Weihai, Shandong. Born in 1937 in Gaixian in Liaoning Province, has devoted himself to the study of medicine Chinese at a very young age. After following the teachings of at least a dozen massage specialists, dedicated to theoretical research and clinical practice most of his life. The results of over thirty years of experience in this field are summarized in a number of relevant articles, published in the medical press, in some theoretical treatises of massage (Tuina from the pediatric massage therapy) and a series of pictorial .. The importance of

Changy lies mainly in the attempt, in our view able to present in a unified way and manipulation techniques originally very different from each other, and combine the traditional methods of massage traditional service with a series of observations the result of the modern practice of Chinese medicine, which does not hesitate, when appropriate, using the latest technology of the Western tradition, particularly in the diagnostic phase.

The author, in addition to managing a private school of massage, which he founded, he served as vice president of the Shandong Province of massage therapy, massage therapy for the President of the association of the city of Yantai and the Secretary-General Association study of manual treatments in traditional medicine in the city of Weihai.

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Evidence

medicine is practiced in China since ancient times: Some of acupuncture indicate how this discipline was in use in the Stone Age. The Chinese term bian is in fact defined in a dictionary of the Han period (206 BC - 220 AD) as a technique for using the stones for the cure of diseases. " It can therefore be assumed that they were sharp stones, applied to what we now call acupuncture points. Recent excavations at archaeological sites have brought to light substitutes for white stones of a later period, like needles made of different materials, the first bone and bamboo, then, from the Shang dynasty (sixteenth to eleventh century BC) bronze, finally, from the Han on, silver and gold. The work perhaps most important of Chinese medicine before our era is the Huangdi Nei Jing (Cannon of Internal Medicine), which deals in detail both the acupuncture and moxibustion. The Nej Jing, presumably composed in the late Warring States period (475-221 BC) already distinguishes nine different needles for different therapeutic results.

dynamic perception of the existence

Physiology Chinese studies the movement of energy in our body and the medicine is intended as an objective to act before the onset of the disease. It is based on the principle of qi (vital energy), the interpretation of existence in terms of double dynamic polarity (Yin - Yang) and the interaction between so-called Five Elements. The fundamental laws to consider are: 1. The change is continuous, 2. The various components are related.

Thus we see that it is only important what is happening and what is transformed: the reality is seen as a constant transformation of a situation to another, so you can determine just what one thing is at a given time, and whether or not it is changing, and not its absolute state.

Qi

Chinese medicine can not be understood without a definition of the concept of Qi. In modern language we define Qi as a field of highly ordered energy negative entropy is present everywhere in the universe and especially in more biological beings, capable of supporting the body's vital functions. Higher or lower concentrations of Qi, as well as his movements, according to Oriental medicine in general, can affect the health of biological beings. In a broad sense, the Qi is also the basic material of the universe, and each Everything that exists is the result of its transformations. You tried to approach the concept of Qi to that of dynamic ether, orgone energy (see Reich) or tachyonic field. The latter, in particular, currently at the level of scientific hypothesis, it would be a field consists of particles with velocities exceeding that of light and that would operate in one quadrant theory characterized by time and space to be negative and negative entropy: a field in practice where everything tries to compose himself in accordance with principles of order, to repair themselves, as is generally biological beings.

The traditional definition of Qi is very suggestive: vital warmth, nourishment life itself, moving between the earth and the sky. If you consider that the Chinese thought believes that man is in direct contact with the earth at the same time (on which lay the feet) and with the sky (which tends toward the head), it is not difficult to understand how energies of the cosmos, moving from heaven to earth and vice versa, pass through every person who thus becomes an integral part of various forms of energy.

This energy circulation, which occurs through specific channels (in particular, the main meridians and their collaterals) may be affected and influenced by appropriate techniques, such as, for example, the massage.

Polarities

Universe The universe is based on the interaction dynamics of two fundamental principles: the yin, or passive principle, female, negative polarity, and Yang, the active, masculine, positive polarity. The continuous movement of these two principles can be represented by the transition from day to night and vice versa: Yang gradually increases as the day progresses, and then decrease as the day falls; Yin, at the same time, it reduces more and more, and then increase again as the day goes down, resulting in a reduction of the Yang. The same goes for the season, switching from maximum period of rest (Yin) to a maximum of activity (Yang).

At the same time must be considered that nothing is totally Yin or totally Yang in the Yin Yang is a percentage, as well as in the Yang Yin is a percentage of these seeds and could be opposed, in each principle , to be the engine of the movement and transformation. The Chinese doctor aims to pay close attention to the relationships that exist between the two principles to be able to restore the balance between them using appropriate techniques. The characteristics that are evaluated by the therapist of Chinese medicine are, for the Yang Fire, Heat, dryness, hyperactivity, for the Yin Water, cold, humidity, hypoactivity. The disease occurs when the body creates an imbalance between the two principles in practice, when one consumes the other, as pointed out by the Nei Jing, "The excess of Yin Yang compromises, compromises the excess Yang Yin. Where "Yang, there will be demonstrations of heat, if it prevails the Yin, it highlights the Cold."

The theory of Five Elements

The ancient Chinese have traced precise correlation between the seasons of life and human life: how the life of nature is conditioned by the passing of the seasons, so man is conditioned by different states of his being, and called elements associated with particular elements of nature and the seasons themselves: Wood (Spring), Fire (summer), Earth (late summer ), Metal (autumn), water (winter). These phases are characterized by the dominance of Yang (Wood and Fire), by an intermediate situation (Earth, corresponding to the period of August and September), where the two principles are in balance, and the predominance of Yin (Metal and Water). The individual elements are constantly changing, transforming itself into one another, according to a cyclical pattern: this leads to a complete interdependence of an element second, that the following conditions and is conditioned by the former. The imbalance between the elements this produces an imbalance of Qi in the various levels of organization (physical, psychological, spiritual) with serious consequences for the health. It will thus be necessary, after an accurate diagnosis, to rebalance each element. The traditional Chinese massage, in its various forms, it is proposed to restore this balance right.



Notes (1) Luan Changyi, Massotherapy pediatric, Luni Editrice, Milano 2005.