The practice of massage therapy started with the Ancient Chinese, Greek, Roman, Indian, and the Egyptian era. The Yellow Emperor's classic book of Internal Medicine, recommends "breathing exercises, massage of skin and flesh, and exercises of hands and feet" in the Chinese era. Massage was one of the principal method of revealing pain for Greek and Roman physicians. In Egypt, the Egyptian tomb paintings showed people practicing massage. Ayurveda, the traditional Indian system of medicine, where they had great emphasis on massage and it remains widely practiced in India. Massage was therefore used by early physicians to treat fatigue, illness, and injury based on their basic understanding of how the body functions. The disintegration of the Greek and Roman civilization lead to a scarce practice of massage until the late 19th century that brought about the demand for massage as a therapy.
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