The oldest recorded knowledge of massage
The oldest recorded knowledge of massage comes from the Tomb of Akmanthor, otherwise known as The Tomb of the Physician. The massage is depicted in a hieroglyph, made in around 2330 BC, in Saqqara, Egypt, shows two men having their hands and feet rubbed. Older references have been made to massage, but no actual recorded evidence of these references exists, as they were made to times before recorded history.
Huangdi Neijing is the most famous ancient Chinese medical text from which all modern medicine has been influenced. The text contains advice and tips on different massage techniques that should be used to treat different ailments or injuries. The book makes references to medical knowledge from the time of the Yellow Emperor, who is a great historical figure in china and widely accepted as the initiator of civilisation in china. Sadly however no written evidence exists from this time, 2696 BC to 2598 BC, as nobody was making recordings of the times in books as they began to much later.
In 700 BC the earliest known Chinese physician, Bian Que, began to use massage as a medical treatment, and sparked the beginning of massage's well-known medical uses. This later influenced the 'Father Doctor', Shivago Komarpaj when he founded traditional Thai massage and Thai medicine. His developments combined acupressure, yoga positions and reflexology into a healing system, which today has been found to be based on a combination of Chinese and Indian traditions of medicine.
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