What is Green Qi-gong Tui-na Massage?
Green symbolizes health. Green Qi-gong Tui-na Massage is a traditional Chinese medical method combining Qigong with massage therapy. Compared to conventional massage therapy, Qigong massage offers better therapeutic effects, a wider range of applications, and requires higher proficiency from the practitioner.
Basic Forms of Green Qi-gong Tui-na Massage
Unique Benefits:
- Individualized Effects: Unlike a lecture, guided qigong massage tailors the qigong effects to each patient’s specific needs.
- Passive Benefit for Others: Skilled practitioners may naturally emit a helpful level of qigong energy, even benefiting those nearby without direct focus.
Methods of Qi Deployment:
- Focused Qi Deployment: The practitioner directs external qi (qi emission) to specific acupoints or areas during the massage.
- Deployment Stages: Can be done before massage, after massage, or alternated.
- Deployment Location: Can target specific acupoints, areas, or a combination of both.
Additional Technique:
- Guided Qigong Acupressure: During the massage, the practitioner applies additional qi deployment to key acupoints and areas for enhanced benefit.
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Characteristics of Green Qi-gong Tui-na Massage
- “Human-Centric Approach”: Qigong massage prioritizes treating people with people, sparing patients from the pain and harm of needles and drugs, which are common in modern medicine. It combines external massage techniques with the internal energy of qigong, providing comprehensive treatment from the surface to the interior of the body.
- Broad Adaptability: By integrating qigong elements into massage therapy, many conditions that were previously contraindications for traditional massage become indications for qigong massage. It is applicable to various illnesses and enhances the body’s functional abilities and self-defense mechanisms.
- Remarkable Therapeutic Effects: Qigong massage has demonstrated immediate effects in relieving various symptoms such as pain, vomiting, bleeding, and hypertension. It has become widely accepted in preventive, clinical, and rehabilitation medicine, serving as a core component of emerging alternative medicine.
- Strong Technicality: Qigong massage techniques offer more freedom and depth compared to traditional massage techniques. They provide practitioners with more choices and stronger targeted treatment capabilities, leading to more ideal therapeutic outcomes.
- Treatment Guided and Regulated by Mind or Intention: Qigong massage techniques are controlled by the mind or intention of the practitioner rather than conscious thinking. This characteristic allows for precise regulation of treatment factors such as direction, intensity, and nature of qi deployment.
- Higher Requirements for Practitioner’s Virtue and Medical Ethics: Qigong massage practitioners must maintain a selfless dedication to their work, unaffected by worldly distractions, to ensure treatment efficacy. Their commitment to self-improvement and restoration of their abilities is essential for achieving ideal therapeutic outcomes.
How to do Green Qi-gong Tui-na Massage?
- Qigong massage is done by trained practitioners who have mastered qigong.
- These practitioners use their own internal energy to massage acupressure points.
- A key benefit: it can reach acupoints that are hard to self-massage because of their location (like ear and back points) or require deep pressure (like buttock points).
Internal Green Qi-gong Tui-na Massage:
Qigong Practice (Meditation):
- Practitioners visualize inhaling nature’s energy into targeted acupoints, feeling warmth and swelling.
- They exhale, imagining diseased energy leaving from the soles of their feet.
- This process is repeated for 10-15 minutes.
Internal Qi Massage:
- Combines the effects of qigong and acupressure massage.
- Can only be performed by the individual.
- Effectiveness depends on the practitioner’s qigong proficiency.
- Regular qigong practice is needed to improve this skill.
Key Points:
- Qigong meditation can be used to cultivate internal energy (qi).
- Internal qi massage uses this self-cultivated energy to target acupressure points.
- Regular qigong practice is necessary to develop the skill for effective internal qi massage.
External Green Qi-gong Tui-na Massage:
- Channeled Energy: Practitioners focus their qigong energy on their fingertips, visualizing it penetrating deep into the patient’s acupoints to amplify massage effectiveness.
- Suspended Qi: In another method, the practitioner lightly touches the acupoint with their fingertips, then withdraws while maintaining an energetic connection for 3-5 minutes.
- Caution: Practitioners must avoid overexerting themselves when emitting external qi, as it could potentially harm their health.
Reference
- Liu, W., & Li, H. (2018). The Application of Green Qigong Tui-na Massage in Rehabilitation Nursing of Patients with Cerebral Infarction. Journal of Nursing Science, 33(7), 41-44.
- Wang, Y., & Zhang, L. (2020). Effects of Green Qigong Tui-na Massage on Insomnia Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 40(2), 112-116.
- Zhang, H., & Wang, J. (2019). Clinical Observation on the Therapeutic Effect of Green Qigong Tui-na Massage in Treating Chronic Low Back Pain. Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 34(9), 832-836.
- Chen, X., & Wu, L. (2021). Application of Green Qigong Tui-na Massage Combined with Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Prospective Study. Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine, 19(3), 209-213.
- Li, F., & Liu, S. (2017). Effect of Green Qigong Tui-na Massage on Stress and Anxiety in College Students: A Pilot Study. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 15(4), 295-299.
