Pedicure is a folk skill of Han people to treat foot skin and toenail diseases for foot patients. It is an integral part of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. It combines China's traditional medical technology with knife cutting to treat various foot diseases, and is called "the three national arts" of China together with acupuncture and massage. It is popular in most parts of the country.
condition
Pedicure is called pedicure for short. 1949 after the founding of new China, after excavation and sorting, there have been pedicure monographs and pedicure monographs published in China, which made pedicure valued, pedicure technology popularized, and the social status of pedicure practitioners improved. Pedicurists in China have developed from street and park pedicures to shop pedicures, and some large chain pedicure shops have appeared. Now many pedicurists go abroad for pedicures.
Pedicure can deal with all kinds of problems on the feet, including manicure, scraping, pinching, peeling and so on. Repairing foot pads, corns, thick nails, onychomycosis and ingrown nails is an important measure to protect human health.
Skills and technology
Pedicure techniques are varied, and there are "three methods" in operation: pinching knife, forcing knife and long knife; There are also "eight methods" to hold feet: supporting, picking, pinching, clamping, gathering, grasping, earning and pushing; There are also "eight methods" in cultivation: grasping, breaking, chopping, cutting, digging, tearing, dividing and scraping. Various pedicure methods, tailored to the symptoms, can generally get rid of the symptoms. Pedicure can cure some foot diseases that are difficult to treat in hospitals. Pedicure is known as "carving flowers on the meat".
As far as pedicure techniques are concerned, the whole country can be roughly divided into three schools because of the differences in regions and traditional habits. First, Beijing pedicure is the representative, including the "Northeast School" in North China and Northeast China; Second, the "Jiangsu School" represented by Yangzhou pedicure covers the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the vast southern region; The third is the "Shandong School" centered on pedicure in Jinan. Among them, Yangzhou pedicure school enjoys a good reputation for its exquisite skills and fitness and illness, and is well-known at home and abroad.
history
The prevention and treatment of national football disease in China has a long history. As early as 1300 BC in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, foot disease was recorded in Shang dynasty. According to legend, in Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wenwang suffered from onychomycosis, and a man named Ye Gong cured him with a "square flat shovel". Callus and corns were recorded in Treatise on Febrile Diseases in Sui Dynasty, so the history of foot surgery is also very long. By the Qing Dynasty, pedicure had become a specialized industry because of its emphasis on "pedicure". During Guangxu period, there was a written record of "pedicure gouging out corns" in Five Miscellaneous Words written by Li in Dingxing, Hebei Province, which shows that pedicure was widely used for foot patients at that time.
kind
Pedicure depends on local customs, and there are generally three ways to learn from in China, namely Hebei Road, Jiangsu Road and Shandong Road. Hebei Road, with Beijing as the development center, is characterized by ingenious pedicure technology and meticulous stubble, and is good at repairing various foot diseases. Jiangsu Road takes Yangzhou as the development center, and pays attention to the exquisite beauty of live stubble when pedicure, especially in pinching and scraping feet. Shandong Road takes Jinan as the development center and has comprehensive technical requirements.
The specific services of pedicure include: repairing toenails, calluses (foot pads, calluses, fat), corns, ingrown toenails, beriberi, plantar warts and so on. Has been extended to the treatment of various foot diseases and foot kneading, foot friction, foot bath and so on.