Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-20
What Is Oriental Scientific Massage and Its Results !?
BY PROF. c X DINJIAN 4Os BEE BUILDING
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~ AssAGE-In Hindoo or Arabic is cold
NN mass, means to press softly. In
Greek, Masso; II means to kned, TO
work with the hands. In French, Masser:
Il also means to knead.
The definition of massage is a method
OF treating abnormal conditions by vari-
contents of the cells of such tissues as
are susceptible TO the effect Of kneading.
sispping. etc. ''''N''s'
The Effects OF Massage-The effect Of
this manipulation is to promote nutrition,
either general or local, to relieve conges-
ton, to aid in the removal of waste
products and I'm the ABSORPTION OF effusion
and abnormal deposits In the main their
cuatory system, In the cutaneous, mus
cular and nervous structures upon the
digestive and nutritive functions, and
upon certain of the internal organs. BY
alternate contraction and relaxation OF
the muscles they are exercised as fully
blood Is propelled with greater activity
thus permitting its life-giving qualities to
worn-out tissues Respiration Of secretion
are likewise increased, and the peristalic
movements of the intestines promoted
nerves OF sensation It often gives relief
from pain. A rise Of temperature usu-
ally accompanies treatment by general
massage and where the massage Is con-
fined to limited area a local rise of a
number of degrees may occur.
This treatment can be given in differ
according to the patients constitution, SO
they can stand for the treatments.
This theory of massage. or the art Of
massage, has not been found In recent
years, but several hundred years ago It
was found in East India, as the Hindoos
are great believers in massage treatment:
following from there to Egypt, through
| Turkey, Persia, Syria Russia and Sweden
Massage In one form or another was
one of the Injuries of the bath of the
ancient Greeks and Romans as Ii Is to this
day in Turkey, or Syria, Persia or India.
In 1913 an institute was established in
instructions, as nowadays Is called Swed-
ish movement. and in China massage treat
ments have been used two hundred years
for the purpose of curing diseases.
daily, to cure a general neuralgia.
Turks, Hindoos, Persians, Syrians. are
all using it, combined with their hot or
cold water shower baths. II is specially
recommended for nervous exhaustion,
insomania, headache. govt, rheumatism,
hysteria and all constitutional diseases,
caused by weakness. for by> its use
general strengthening and stimulatory
effect is produced in the whole system
Way back to the stories prove to us that
the massage is an art of theory Itself,
anything else. In order to prove this we
find that in the early part Of the Nine
teenth Century, by Peter Henrik Lings, a
poet and philosopher of Sweden, he was
induced to study anatomy and physiology.
and the influence of certain movements of
muscular action on the system by hav-
ing cured himself OF rheumatism by gentle
stroking, and i was through his in
opened the first college in that branch of
therapeutics.
In the city of Smyrna the capital Of
Syria, is established a massage institution
by the Greeks; also an ancient institute is
established In the city of Bombay, in East
India, etc.