Using the skills of hands and fingers to treat diseases through continuous movement on human skin and muscle tissue is called massage therapy.

According to Chinese historical records, famous doctors in the pre-Qin period used massage therapy to treat the corpse of Prince Guo. It has been more than 2,000 years, which shows that massage has a long history in China. The earliest massage book in China is The Yellow Emperor Massage Sutra (ten volumes, see Hanshu). Yi "",but it's a pity that it is dead. However, in the existing classic medical book Huangdi Neijing, there are many references to massage. For example, "blood gas-shape-spirit" is frightening, the meridians are blocked, and the patients are inhuman. Treat with massage mashing medicine. "On the Appropriate Prescriptions of Different Laws": "The people in the Central Committee are flat and wet, and everything in the world is omnivorous, so they are sick and weak, cold and hot. It is appropriate to guide the press. " It can be seen that massage therapy has been used for a long time in ancient times to treat numbness, flaccidity, syncope, dampness and cold and heat of limbs.