Posts tagged: Zheng Gu Tui Na
“Dead Blood” is a complicating factor in the treatment of martial arts and sports injuries and trauma in general. In sports and martial arts injuries, dead blood is often a result of improper treatment or lack of treatment at the time of the injury. This second installment on treating dead blood explores more in-depth strategies for treatment, offers informative case studies and talks about snake medicine in Taiwan… Read More…
“Dead Blood” or Si Xue (死 血) is a complicating factor in the treatment of martial arts and sports injuries and trauma in general. The first difficulty we encounter is the Chinese language itself and the flexible employment of the term “dead blood.” Dead blood is one of three terms that are sometimes used interchangeably to describe some kind of blood stasis. A standard interpretation is that when there is some kind of impairment of the movement of blood through the channels and collaterals, but the blood is not fully stopped, the condition is termed Blood Stagnation or Xue Zhi (血 滞).
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Students of the internal arts and participants in the Tui Na classes who don’t have an acupuncture background often ask if I know of a good basic book on acupuncture points and meridians. The big acupuncture textbooks don’t fit the bill as they are expensive, hard to lug around and unwieldy to use because they try and cover too much information. Read More…
Just back from Teaching in France. Mohammed Saiah and Emmanuel Potevin organized Zheng Gu Tui Na (ZGTN) Level 3 seminar which was held at the Maison du Tai Ji in Bagnolet. Teaching the Paris group – which incidentally includes participants from Ireland, the UK, Lyon, Montpelier and Belgium Read More…
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