Editing Massage (section)

=== Middle Ages ===
One of the greatest Persian medics was [[Avicenna]], also known as Ibn Sina, who lived from 980 AD to 1037 AD. His works included a comprehensive collection and systematization of the fragmentary and unorganized Greco-Roman medical literature that had been translated Arabic by that time, augmented by notes from his own experiences. One of his books, ''Al-Qānūn fī aṭ-Ṭibb'' ([[The Canon of Medicine]]) has been called the most famous single book in the history of medicine in both East and West. Avicenna excelled in the logical assessment of conditions and comparison of symptoms and took special note of analgesics and their proper use as well as other methods of relieving pain, including massage.

AD 1150: Evidence of massage abortion, involving the application of pressure to the pregnant [[abdomen]], can be found in one of the [[bas relief]]s decorating the temple of [[Angkor Wat]] in [[Cambodia]]. It depicts a [[demon]] performing such an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the [[underworld]]. This is the oldest known visual representation of abortion.<ref name="potts">{{Cite book |last1=Potts |first1=Malcolm |title=Gynecology and Obstetrics |last2=Campbell |first2=Martha |date=2002 |volume=6 |chapter=History of contraception |chapter-url=http://big.berkeley.edu/ifplp.history.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217025152/http://big.berkeley.edu/ifplp.history.pdf |archive-date=17 December 2008 |url-status=dead |name-list-style=vanc}}</ref>

In Southeast Asia, massage traditions and techniques have already been entrenched in the people's diverse cultures for centuries before trade contact with Europe in the 16th century. In the [[Philippines]], a distinct massage and healing tradition called [[hilot]] developed,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/129612/healing-hands-hilot | title=The healing hands of a hilot | date=15 April 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://mb.com.ph/2022/12/11/hilot-to-become-developmental-science/ | title=Hilot to become developmental science | website=[[Manila Bulletin]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Domingo |first=Katrina |date=Sep 6, 2021 |title=License for albularyos? Senate bills seek regulating traditional, alternative medicine |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/06/21/regulation-on-hilot-albularyo-other-traditional-medicine-sought |website=ABS-CBN}}</ref> while in [[Thailand]], the tradition of massage that developed was called [[Thai massage|nuad thai]]. Nuad thai was declared in 2019 as a [[UNESCO]] intangible cultural heritage.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/nuad-thai-traditional-thai-massage-01384 | title=UNESCO - Nuad Thai, traditional Thai massage }}</ref>