(1) Sub-category of the Pressing Manipulations
All the manipulations in which the manipulator puts his palm, finger or other parts of the body on the patient’s body surface and delivers foree at the vertical direction to the body surface, belong to the sub-category of the pressing manipulations. The typical technique is pressing, others like compressing, pointing, nipping and so on. Click to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Painful Menstruation.

 (2) Sub-category of the Linear Moving Manipulations
All the manipulations in which the manipulator puts his fingers, palm or other body parts on patient’s body surface and moves straightly with constant pressing force, belong to the sub-category of the linear moving manipulations. The typical technique is linear pushing, others like linear-rubbing, plucking, wiping and so on. Click to read Hyperplasia of Mammary Glands in TCM.

 (3) Sub-category of the Circular Moving Manipulations
All the manipulations in which the manipulator puts his fingers, palm or other body parts on patient’S body surface and moves circularly with constant pressing force, belong to the sub-category of the circular moving manipulations. The typical technique is circular-rubbing, others like kneading, transporting, circular-pushing and so on.

 (4) Sub-category of the Roiling Manipulations
All the manipulations in which the manipulator touches patient’s body with the camber surface shaped with his finger tip or hand dorsum, and rolls forward and backward along the body surface, belong to the sub-category of the rolling manipulations. The typical technique is Dhyana thumb-pushing and rolling, others like thumb-pushing with the side tip, pushing with flexed thumb, rolling with the proximal interphalangeal joints and so on. Click to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Mastitis.

 (5) Sub-category of the Pinching-Grasping Manipulations
All the manipulations in which force is transferred from the two symmetrical sides of the body to the axis center to compress the deep tissues forcefully, belong to the sub-category of the pinching grasping manipulations．The typical technique is pinching, others like grasping, seizing and so on.

 (6) Sub-category of the Knocking Manipulations
All the manipulations in which the body surface is knocked by rhythmical and discontinuous force of very short duration,belong to the sub’category of the knocking manipulations. The typical technique is knocking, others like patting, tapping, pecking and so on. Click to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Bartholinitis and Bartholin Cyst.

 (7) Sub-category of the Vibrating Manipulations
All the manipulations in which the manipulator make his muscles vibrate with high frequency and narrow amplitude to cause the sufferers’ tissues resonate, belong to the sub-category of the vibrating manipulations. The typical technique is vibrating, others like waving, trembling, lifting-trembling and so on.

 (8) Sub-category of the Suporting-Inserting Manipulations
All the manipulations in which the manipulator compresses one part of the body with his hand and then delivers force in the parallel direction to the deep tissues, belong to the sub-category of the suporting inserting manipulations. The typical technique is suporting, others like inserting, hooking and so on. Click to read Pelvic Inflammation in TCM.