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Tuina Flashcards

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Name the Technique: Gun fa

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Rolling

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Name the Technique: Yi zhi chan tui fa

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One-finger meditation

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Name the Technique: Tui fa

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Pushing

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Name the Technique: Rou fa

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Kneading

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Name the Technique: An fa

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Pressing

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Name the Technique: Ya fa

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Suppressing

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Name the Technique: Mou Fa

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Round Rubbing

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Name the Technique: Ma Fa

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Wiping

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Name the Technique: Na Fa

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Grasping

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Name the Technique: Nian Fa

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Holding Twisting

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Name the Technique:

Relaxes muscles and tendon, relieves muscle spasm and pain, dredges the channels, expels Wind and disipates Cold and promotes circulation of Qi and Blood.

Can be applied during any three leves of treatment.

Can be used repeatedly to one area to activate major points, to bring Qi and Blood to places that are Empty and to break up stagnant and congested Qi.

Common Uses:

  • channel sinew and joint problems
  • lower backache
  • injuries such as sprains
  • numbness and hemiplegia
  • common cold and hay fever
  • sinusitis
  • headaches
  • stiff neck
  • dizziness
  • poor eyesight
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Eases swelling and opens joints of the fingers and toes, It alleviates pain and numbness, relaxes the muscle and tendons, promotes Qi and Blood circulation locally and through entire limb or channel. It dredges stagnating obstructions from the channels.

Applied to fingers and toes

Common Uses

  • Bi Syndrome
  • Sprains
  • Swelling
  • Numbness and pain in fingers and toes
  • Trigger finger and thumb
  • Raynaud’s disease
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13
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Name the Technique:

Ji dian fa

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Finger striking (dotting and pointing)

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Dissipates and clears all pathogenic factors. It clears heat, quells fire, expels wind, disperses cold and resolves damp and plegm. It activates , dissipates and moves stagnant obstructed Qi and Blood stasis and dredges the channels, It relaxes tendons muscles, relievs pain and opens joints.

It is used to activate the functions of the points, to harmonize Ying and Wei Qi, stregthen Kidneys-Yang and regulate the functions of the Zangfu

Common uses:

  • Treat atrophy, paiful obstruction and paralysis
  • Treatement of Wei symptoms - MS
  • Bi Syndrome - Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Numbness and Paralysis from Wind-stroke hemiplegia and traumatic paraplegia
  • Joint and muscle stiffness, Prolapsed lumbar disc
  • Head and distal points for insomnia, dementia and mental and emotional problems
  • Clears pathogenic wind, fire and phlegm and to descend Qi
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Ji dian fa

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Name the Technique:

Ji Fa

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Chopping

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Name the technique:

It involves striking the body rhythmically. Sending waves that vibrate through the channel, envigorates and enlivens Qi.

Applied with relaxed flexible wrists to back, buttocks, arms, legs, chest, abdomen, head and shoulders

It opens and relieves the chest and eliminates phlegm when applied to the chest, back and upper limbs. It relaxes tendons and muscles, stimulates and invigorates the flow of Qi and Blood, dissipates stagnation of Qi and stasis of Blood, dredges the channels and eases pain.

Common use:

  • Respiratory problems with Phlegm such as coughs, difficult breathing, asthama, and oppressive feeling in the chest
  • Invigorates Qi, if tired and sluggish due to stagnation or Damp
  • Treats liver Qi stagnation
  • Wind-damp Bi Syndrome, hemiplegia, muscular spasm, lower backache, sprain of the lumbar muscles, stiffness and aching of back, shoulders and limbs
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Name the Technique:

Calms the shen, clears the head, improves the eye sight and brings Qi to the sense organs, It disperses congestion and stagnation, soothes pain, relaxes the channel sinews and aids the circulation of Qi and Blood.

The technique can be applied anywhere but most commonly to the face, head, neck and nape. Found very useful on the chest, ribs and the spine between the vertebrae.

Common uses

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Sinusitis
  • Allergic rhinitis
  • Common cold
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Headaches
  • Facial Paralysis
  • Dizziness
  • Stiff Neck
  • Myopia
  • Insomnia
  • Hypertension
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Name the Technique:

Commonly applied to the chest, ribs, belly, lower back and head. It can be applied to points using the finger.

When applied to the abdomen, chest and hypochondria, it warms and harmonizes the middle jiao, stregthens the stomach and spleen, improves the digestion, regulates the intestines, removes food stagnation, soothes the liver, moves Qi stagnation, disperses Cold and relieves abdominal swelling.

When applied to the head it expels wind and disperses cold and calms shen. When applied to the lower back it tonifies the kidneys and strengthens and warms mingmen.

Apply slowly to tonify and strengthen and briskly to move and clear. When working on the belly move clockwise direction for constipation to increase peristalsis. Move anti clock wise for diarrhea. To tonify pleen Qi, make small anti-clockwise circles within a large clockwise circle.

Common use:

Particularly useful as an adaptive, tonifying and harmonizing technique used for

  • digestive disorders
  • mestrual and fertility problems to move Qi and blood and warm lower jiao and kidneys
  • Headaches, insomnia, shock, anxiety and depression
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Name the Technique:

It removes obstruction from the channels, relaxes spasm, relievs pain, moves stagnant Qi and blood, expels Wind, disperses cold,drains damp from channels, dredges the channels and subdues rising liver-yang.

It is applied to larg muscle groups and deep points and is used mainly on the back, buttock and leg.

Common use:

  • Back pain including wind-cold damp Bi Syndrome and sciatica
  • Stimulating points on the back such as back shu points
  • On Bladder and Gallbladder channels of the leg are full and congested and tender on pressure.
  • Use forearm over liver, stomach and spleen back shu points to harmonize the middle jiao, soothe and sedate the liver and descend liver-yang in case of hypochondriac pain, digestive disturbance, epigsatric pain, belching, dizziness, headaches and migrains.
  • Yang channels on legs where there is fullness
  • use for emotional stress and depression. Releasing stagnation of help emotions that get locked into tissue.
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Name the Technique:

This requires sensitivity, awarenessand a relaxed mental mind for the practitioner. The thumbs are used to stimulate points also the tips of the fingers.

Can be used anywhere on the body to stimulate points and channels

  • Slow, steady, gentle to moderate pressure for long periods of time (over 3min) will tonify, support and strengthen the channels, vital substance and zangfu, calm the shen, dispel andxiety and relax and strengthen muscls and tendons.
  • Deep held for 3 or more minute will relieve pain, spasm and stasis and help to adjust and realign joints
  • Quick rhythmic pressing and releasing will move and disperse stagnant Qi and blod.
  • Applied along the course of a channel using moderate pace and pressure will warm the channels and regulate and harmonize Qi an blood and the functions of the zangfu
  • applied to the abdomen will aid in digestion and remove retention of food.

Common use:

Can be use for any problem. most commonly:

  • Insomnia
  • Anxiety
  • Headaches
  • Digestive disorders
  • Respiratory problems
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Fertility problems
  • General muscular aches
  • Pains and stiffness
  • Trauma
  • Bi syndrome
  • Joint misalighnment
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Name the Technique:

Can be used on a very wider range depending on method and area of the body being treated. It stimulates the actions of the points, invigorates and regulates the flow of Qi and blood, reduces swelling, relaxes muscles and relievs spasm, stops pain, dredges the channels, expels Wind and Cold, opens the chest, strengthens the Stomach and Spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao and calms the mind, If applied brisk and strong with elbow and forearm it will subdue rising liver-yang, clear liver-heat and generally soothe, cool and regulate the liver.

Common use:

It is the most commonly used treatment in some form.

  • Headaches and migrain
  • Dizziness
  • Insomnia
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhea
  • Epigastric pain and distension
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Opressive feeling in the chest
  • Menstrual pain
  • Muscular pain
  • Numbness
  • Stiffness and spasm
  • Bi Syndrome
  • Backache
  • Soft Tissue injuries
  • Sprains
  • Hemiplegia
  • Stress
  • Anxiety and Depression
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Name the Techniques:

This is extremely versatile and can be applied all over the body. The technique is gentle and with many repetitions (100 - 300).

Generally it opens and warms the meridians, dredges the meridians, moves Qi and blood, relaxes the muscles and sinews, relieves pain, clears the head, promotes circulation of Qi in the chest and aids respiration, strengthens the Stomach and spleen, improves digestion and harmonizes the middle jiao.

Common uses:

Use it to start treatment in the adaptive stage and come back to it if you want to dredge a channel. Common uses for:

  • Headaches
  • Dizziness
  • Anxiety
  • Hypertension
  • Insomnia
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Oppresive feeling in the chest
  • Abdominal distension
  • Stiff Neck
  • Muscular spasm
  • Bi syndrome
  • Backache
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