Zhōu Yúfān 周於蕃 was a Wàn-lì-era (1573–1620) Míng-period physician from Chǔ 楚 (modern Húběi 湖北), known principally as the originator of the manuscript Tuīná yàojué 推拿要訣 (also called Tuīná mìjué 推拿秘訣), an unpublished pediatric-massage jué (technique-collection) that circulated as a closely-held family transmission for some 270 years before being recovered and edited into print by Zhāng Xiǎoshān 張振鋆 as KR3ee054 Lízhèng ànmó yàoshù (1888). The transmission history is given in Zhāng Yánlǐ’s preface to that work: a Zhōu-family member of Dāntú 丹徒 (Zhāng’s own kin) had read the Zhōu manuscript while staying at a relative’s house, copied it secretly (likening himself to Xiāo Yì 蕭翼 who tricked the Lántíng away from the monk Biàncái), and kept it for some twenty years before passing it to Zhāng Xiǎoshān. The original three printings of Tuīná yàojué in the Wànlì period (mentioned in Zhāng Zhènjūn’s凡例) have all been lost; the work survives only in the Lízhèng ànmó recension.
Zhōu’s biographical details are not preserved beyond the Wànlì fl. date and Húběi origin asserted by Zhāng’s prefatory account. He is not entered in CBDB.