Text Box: The first medical account of Tuina is in The Records of the Historian by Sima Qian. He recounts the story of the doctor Yu Fu (1300BC) who used massage to cure King Wuding and his wife of arthralgia and abdominal complaints. King Wuding lived during the Yin dynasty whose character ‘Yin’ is a pictograph denoting ‘a man holding a shaped tool administering massage to another man with a naked abdomen’. This suggests the importance of massage at this time. Tuina has been developed throughout time and in China today is offered in hospitals next to western style medicine.

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