In August this year, a patient's family broke the news to the Beijing News that his mother was reluctant to go to the hospital after getting cancer because of her superstition of the "primitive point", and insisted on going to the primitive point base to "treat the disease", which eventually led to the delay in treatment.
The Beijing News reporter's investigation found that this is an organization that claims to "cure all diseases" under the guise of traditional Chinese medicine. In recent years, relying on network publicity and offline "training", the "original point" has been spread in many places in China, and there are many fans. There are hundreds of stores promoting the "original point", and dozens of WeChat public accounts have been opened.
Behind the banner of "curing diseases", the organization has made a lot of profits. In the online store of a public account alone, 250,000 "ginger" products were sold, with sales of more than 5 million yuan.
On September 7, a reporter from the Beijing News went undercover and entered the offline "training camp" of the original point in Wuhan. Sixteen participants in the training learned about it online or recommended to "study" here. Many of them suffer from various diseases, the most serious of which is already a patient with advanced breast cancer.
In the training class, in order to make the trainees believe in the "original point" of the treatment method, the person in charge constantly "brainwashed": "People are sick because they are guilty, because they are not good to their husbands, they are not filial to their parents, and they are disrespectful to their ancestors." "The primordial point can cure all diseases, and you can't solve your problem if you don't believe it." At his instigation, the practitioners knelt down and repented.
The way to "cure the disease" is even more bizarre. In the primitive point theory, "ginger" can cure all diseases, and a cancer patient's wound is covered with ginger mud and asked to "call me wrong when it hurts."
For 5 days, the trainees were asked to buy a large number of ginger powder, warm compresses and other products, but no one cured their disease. In this regard, the explanation of the person in charge is, "because the trainees did not make enough confessions." ”
Addiction: Remote hospital opens "free" training courses, cancer patients come to "cure diseases"
At the beginning of September, the reporter searched on WeChat with "original point" as the keyword and found that there were many public accounts that publicized and disseminated the original point.
One of the articles pushed by the WeChat public account called "Original Point Service Account" shows that a free Wuhan Original Point public welfare teaching and health camp will be held from September 8 to September 12. The article said, "If you encounter sub-health problems such as lumbar spine, perennial headaches, high blood pressure, diabetes, gynecological inflammation, skin diseases, as well as family, career, child rebellion, etc., you can sign up for this training course." ”
According to the article, the reason why the training is free is to "do good", earn blessings, and accumulate merit. Although it is said to be "free", it is stated at the end of the article that the registration fee of 200 yuan is to be paid, and the fee is not refunded.
On September 4, the reporter contacted Wang Yongqi, the person in charge of the original point in Wuhan, through the contact information left by the public account. After paying the 200 yuan registration fee, the reporter asked the other party whether he would charge other fees, and Wang Yongqi replied, "Are we deceiving people?" We are free public welfare. ”
On the afternoon of September 7, the reporter drove to the "Wuhan Primitive Point Base" located in Qijiawan Street, Huangpi District, Wuhan City. It is about 50 km from the city centre and is close to a country road with few households and occasional cars passing by.
The base rented the office building of an engineering materials company, and there were three signs hanging at the door: Wuhan Primitive Point Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., Wuhan Shuangyuan Pension Industry Development Co., Ltd., and Beijing Primitive Point Medical Research Institute Wuhan Branch.
The reporter inquired about industrial and commercial information and found that the legal representative of these three companies is Wang Yongqi, of which Wuhan Primitive Point Culture Communication Co., Ltd. has been included in the list of abnormal operations by the local market supervision and administration bureau for three times because of the reason that "it cannot be contacted through the registered residence or business premises".
On the walls of the base are various awards, trophies and photos of past students. There are more than ten houses in the base, including classrooms, push rooms and dormitories, canteens, etc. In addition to Wang Yongqi, the person in charge of the base, there is also a "coach" responsible for pushing and management, and 5 volunteers responsible for placing students and creating a classroom atmosphere.
There were 16 students in this class, including recent college graduates and old ladies in their 80s. Except for a few relatives and friends introduced by volunteers, the rest are from other places.
Most of these trainees are patients who come to the base with the purpose of "curing diseases". The reporter learned that some of these trainees have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, some have stomach diseases, and some have been diagnosed as infertile by the hospital, and the most serious one is a patient with advanced breast cancer.
This situation is not unique. In August this year, Zhou Hui broke the news to the Beijing News that her mother had been addicted to "primitive points" for many years. At the end of February this year, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer because she was superstitious about the "original point" and was reluctant to go to the hospital for surgery. He mobilized almost all the relatives and friends in the family, but still failed to persuade him. Zhou Hui said that in March this year, her mother went to the original point base in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, for "treatment", where there are many "fans" who are seriously ill like her mother.
September 7, at the entrance of the base of wuhan original point. Beijing News reporter Liu Ruiming photographed
Words: "The primitive point can cure all diseases, and you will only be able to realize the disease."
After arriving at the original point base, the trainees were required to dress uniformly, and the clothes were printed with the words "Wuhan Primitive Point", and they called each other "family".
On the evening of September 7, 16 students were called to the classroom for the first time. Wang Yongqi took the microphone and promised the trainees that "the primordial point can cure all diseases".
He claims that the primordial point can cure all kinds of intractable diseases, including cancer, and even cure new crown pneumonia. "The original point is 100% capable of solving the coronavirus. You may ask, then the epidemic is like this, why don't you go to the original point to treat the disease? I don't have a doctor's license, and no one will pay any attention to us. ”
Nie Hongxia, the coach of the base, said that she and Wang Yongqi have been running training classes and massage shops at the original point for many years, and there are tongue cancer, lung cancer, bone cancer, etc., and there are hundreds of cancer patients who have been cured. Wang Yongqi, the person in charge of the base, said, "As long as you calm down, through 5 days of study, your family's cold, fever, heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure can be solved, and you can become a general practitioner." ”
The base has set up a multimedia classroom with soundproof materials in the room, where students are usually given lessons and videos. Students get up at 6 o'clock every morning to study in the classroom and leave at 9 p.m.
Every morning in the morning class, the volunteers led the students to do health exercises and read aloud the theory of the original point. Before the course begins, bow to the screen to "honor the mountains and rivers and the earth, ancestral parents."
In order to let the students realize the "magic" of the original point, Wang Yongqi will play the "successful case" of the treatment in class. In one of the videos, an elderly man in his 80s is in a wheelchair unable to get off the ground. Wang Yongqi said that if such an old man went to the hospital, the final result would be to collapse in bed, and it took only 13 days to cure her at the original point. Then he played the next video, in which the old man walked briskly on the ground, "The original point is good, I didn't expect the original point to have such a good effect." ”
A middle-aged woman who claims to have multiple myeloma for more than 5 months has undergone chemotherapy in the hospital and cannot take care of herself. When the picture shifted to the base of the original point in Wuhan, the woman was already able to climb the stairs by herself. She clapped her hands while shouting, "Thank you Mr. Wang!" Wang Yongqi explained that multiple myeloma is medically incurable, but the original point can make patients "run" in only 10 days.
After the video was released, Wang Yongqi said, "A lot of medicine is wrong. The hospital only treats the body, but people are sick because of psychological problems. ”
During the conversation, Wang Yongqi stressed many times, reminding the trainees to follow his train of thought. "That's the way it is!" "Everyone must believe!" "Even if I say that one plus one doesn't equal two, you have to believe it!" He constantly guided the trainees, "Only by devoting yourself to learning can you cure the disease, and you can't solve your problem if you don't believe it." ”
After a speech, some trainees said on the spot that they "no longer believe in the treatment of the hospital." Zhang Ailian, a student with advanced breast cancer, also immediately said, "After drinking ginger soup tonight, I feel much better." Wang Yongqi commented: "When you realize it, your illness will be better. ”
In order to avoid being reminded and persuaded by their families to leave during the training, Wang Yongqi advised the trainees not to contact their families.
On the morning of September 8, students watched a learning video in the classroom. Beijing News reporter Liu Ruiming photographed
Brainwashing: "You are sick because you are guilty", the trainee prostrated his head on the spot and confessed
In addition to explaining the primitive point theory, more often, it is spreading feudal superstitious ideas.
In class, Wang Yongqi would use Buddhism to promote superstitious ideas. He deliberately played tragic pictures of animals being killed as a way to advise everyone not to kill, saying that killing would lead to "illness." For example, when talking about abortion, he would promote the superstitious idea that "a dead fetus will attach to the human body because of resentment and cause illness to the person.".
After a long period of "brainwashing", many students began to believe. A female practitioner said that the reason why she has cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases may be because she has "karmic obstacles that have not been removed."
Wang Yongqi also played the video materials of "Women's Moral Education" many times. The video content requires that women should be filial to their in-laws and not confront their husbands. If a woman competes with men for status at home and for fame and profit in society, "then her women's characteristics will degenerate, and eventually she will get breast cancer, uterine cancer, and so on." ”
In the video, someone appeared and said that his girlfriend had breast cancer because she was "too much like her grandfathers". After learning female virtue, I went back to kowtow to my parents and husband, and after a while, the cancer cells disappeared.
In addition, the course also guides female students not to nag at home, otherwise the child will get autism. Women can't argue to move out and not live with their mother-in-law, so they will get ectopic pregnancy.
"You are sick because you are not filial to your parents and disrespectful to your ancestors." Wang Yongqi took the microphone and gave a speech with a crying voice, accompanied by sensational music and dim lights, and many students began to sob.
Zhang Liya, a student, confessed on the spot in class, saying that she had repeatedly confronted her parents and in-laws, "I have this infertility disease because of these, I am sorry for them." ”
Peng Junjie, a student in his 40s, knelt down at the scene, prostrated his head three times to apologize to his parents, and when he got up, his mouth still said: "Thank you Mr. Wang." Instigated by the atmosphere at the scene, many practitioners prostrated their heads and repented and cried.
In class, students kneel and confess under the guidance of the teacher. Beijing News reporter Liu Ruiming photographed
"Cure the disease": ginger mud is applied to the wound, and cotton clothes are wrapped in high temperature days
During the lecture, Wang Yongqi put a "safe cloak" on the original point. "Why does Dr. Zhang (Zhang Zhaohan) say every time that (the original point) is not a cure? Is the person who protects us to do the original point. Because many people who do the original point do not have a medical certificate and no professional institutions, they cannot talk about treating diseases, and the country that treats diseases will find you trouble. ”
Zhang Zhaohan is a person who is often mentioned in the training class, and the "Primitive Point Medicine" brochure distributed to the trainees by the base introduces that the inventor of the "Original Point" is Zhang Zhaohan.
According to the brochure, in 2001, Zhang Zhaohan's wife suffered from breast cancer and still relapsed after two surgeries. Later, Zhang Zhaohan found that the position of her buttocks and groins reacted strongly when she massaged her wife, and after many massages, her illness eased. So he found that "any pain in a person has a fixed primitive point, and as long as you find the switch, you can solve the pain of the whole body." ”
Wang Yongqi talked about the theory of the original point. "The original point has three treasures, that is, pushing, warming, and drinking ginger soup. No matter what disease you have, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, such a disease has a switch. After we pushed the switch, we warmed up and drank ginger soup, and no matter what disease could be cured. ”
During the first two days of the training, the base will set aside an hour or two for participants to experience the original point massage techniques.
Zhang Ailian, who suffers from breast cancer, was asked to lie on a massage table, covered with a warm compress similar to a down jacket, and beads of sweat constantly appeared on her face in the summer heat of 30 degrees Celsius. After half an hour of warm compresses, the volunteer asked her to drink a large cup of boiled ginger water and then began to push.
When the volunteer pressed Zhang Ailian, he pressed it while saying to her, "You have to cooperate well, believe in the original point, your illness will get better quickly." If you feel pain, you call Out Amitabha, I was wrong. Because we are guilty of getting sick. With a push and a push, Zhang Ailian kept shouting: "I was wrong, I was wrong." ”
After pushing for half an hour, the volunteers put ginger mud on her festering wound, then wrapped the wound and body with toilet paper and plastic wrap and let her lie on the bed to warm the compress.
When she first came to the training class, Zhang Ailian walked with her chest covered, sat down to listen to the class and whispered softly, with toilet paper in her hands, and wiped the pus flowing from the pus on her body at any time. She told the Beijing News reporter that she is more than 40 years old this year, breast cancer was detected last year, and after two chemotherapy treatments, her hair fell out and she could not eat. Because the treatment process was extremely painful, she gave up treatment in the hospital and sought medical treatment everywhere, but her condition was still deteriorating.
In the "treatment" of the wuhan original point base, her wounds were repeatedly coated with ginger mud. But after three or four days of treatment, on September 10, Zhang Ailian told reporters that her wound was painful, fiery, and the feeling of pain was stronger than before. The reporter suggested that she go to the hospital for treatment, but she said, "I don't want to go to the hospital, and I will be a live horse doctor at the original point." ”
Gao Shan, 21, and her father, Gao Hai, have been in Wuhan for a month. Gao Shan suffers from congenital disabilities, is unable to walk normally, and her body often twists uncontrollably.
Gao Hai felt that the primitive point could cure his daughter and insisted on using the "treatment" method of the primitive point. One night, he brought a bucket of hot water and put the soaked ginger paste on his daughter's leg. Gao Shan screamed in pain, and the cries spread throughout the corridors.
Students lie on the massage table to experience the original point pushing technique. Beijing News reporter Liu Ruiming photographed
Profit: Known as "Ginger cures all diseases", training for 5 days to earn tens of thousands
Although under the banner of "all public welfare, all free", but by opening the class to charge, selling products, Wuhan Original Point also has its own set of "ways to make money".
If a student questioned the 200 yuan registration fee, Wang Yongqi explained that there were many people who participated in the training course in the past, and some people smoked and made phone calls in the aisle, which destroyed the magnetic field, so they had to charge. "Money is all little things. Some people think about two hundred dollars, and if they think about it, they get sick because they have a problem with their mentality, they don't have compassion. ”
In the theory of the primitive point, "ginger" can almost "cure all diseases". Li Dongmei, a volunteer at the base, is more than 50 years old and claims to have studied the original point for three or four years. She told reporters that the volunteers are accompanied by ginger every day, brushing their teeth, bathing and beautifying with ginger powder. She thinks that ginger powder can be anti-inflammatory and sterile, spraying ginger powder in the nose can cure colds and rhinitis.
During the training, students will develop the habit of using ginger powder and warm compresses. At the end of the course, at least five trainees purchased warm compresses at the base for 800 yuan each. Ginger powder is something that almost everyone buys. The cost price of ginger powder is 20 to 30 yuan per kilogram, and the students will be charged 60 yuan to 130 yuan. Although the price is not expensive, it also costs a lot of money for daily flushing, bathing, and treatment.
In fact, during the 5-day training, participants will not learn the so-called "theory" and "technique". After the end of the course, the staff will suggest that the students continue to study, "You can apply for the next 21 days of the technique improvement class, the tuition fee is very cheap, other places to eight or nine thousand, here only 3800 yuan." ”
Trainee Zhang Liya suffered from infertility, and she spent more than 1,000 yuan at the base to buy warm compresses and ginger powder. She had planned to continue her "further studies" and chose to give up because of the 3800 yuan tuition fee, "My medical expenses over the years have exceeded 200,000 yuan, and it is difficult to afford such a high tuition fee." ”
According to the reporter's rough statistics, through these 5 days of training courses, Wuhan Original Point has earned at least tens of thousands of yuan in terms of registration fees, accommodation fees, and sales of products.
For the statement that "Ginger cures hundreds of diseases", Wu Zhigang, a professor at the School of Public Health of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, told the Beijing News reporter that formal medical means will not put ginger mud on patients' wounds, and in the history of medicine, there are no cases of using ginger to cure cancer and other diseases.
In the view of Lu Yang, professor of pharmacy of traditional Chinese medicine and doctoral supervisor of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, warm compresses can only relieve pain and have no therapeutic effect. And "ginger cures all diseases" is also not advisable, ginger in chinese medicine is used for both medicine and food, some Southeast Asians like to eat ginger, but there is no report showing that people in these places have a lower rate of illness. "If ginger is used as a drug, the pharmacopoeia stipulates that a person's daily intake should not exceed 9-15g.
Lu Yang said, "Ginger has ginger in it, if you blindly apply it to the wound, it will make the patient very painful, and it is not conducive to the healing of the wound." The most frightening thing is that patients will trust these wrong knowledge and delay the disease. ”
The ginger powder sold to the trainees at the Wuhan Original Point Base cost 130 yuan for 450g. Beijing News reporter Liu Ruiming photographed
At the bottom: dozens of hundreds of public names in the store, "ginger" products sold 5 million yuan
The Beijing News reporter found that the original point has a special official website, saying that "the original point medicine is the innovative inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine".
The website also publishes video lectures, cure cases, theoretical explanations, etc. of the original point. Among them, the treatment cases contain hundreds of diseases, and there is no shortage of cure cases for various malignant tumors. However, after watching it, the reporter found that these cases were all told in videos and did not have too much support.
It is worth noting that the first to be listed is the cure case of new crown pneumonia, and the "cases" in the video are all foreign people, claiming to be cured using the original point of ginger powder and pushing and other techniques.
In addition, the reporter found that the website also announced more than 40 "original point public welfare promotion points", distributed in 19 provinces such as Guangdong, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Henan and Shandong.
The reporter randomly called several public welfare promotion points. Xue Yan, the person in charge of the original point promotion base of the Shoukang Society in Shangqiu City, Henan Province, told the Beijing News reporter that she began to build the base in 2011, and there are currently more than a dozen volunteers, who open classes for students every day, and have enrolled 110 students. "We are a public welfare class, we can learn theories and techniques in 3 days, and we also have traditional culture education." Finally, the trainees can donate to our base according to their individual ability. ”
The Public Welfare Service Promotion Center of Cixin Primitive Point in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, showed the address in a unit room in Nanchang's Xihu District, and the person in charge said that it was a massage shop she rented a house. "After pushing, some people will give a large donation after being cured."
In addition to the promotion points announced on the official website of the original point, the reporter searched in the map software to find that there are at least hundreds of massage shops, health centers, service centers, and technique exchange offices named after the original point. According to industrial and commercial information, there are thousands of cultural companies, health management companies, and beauty companies related to the original point.
The reporter found that there is a strong media matrix behind the spread of the original point. On the official website of the original point, the latest online live class of Zhang Zhaohan has been viewed by 590,000 times. There are dozens of WeChat public accounts that promote the original point, and many public accounts can maintain daily changes, and some push four or five pieces of content a day.
And these tweets are also eye-catching. For example, the tweet of the WeChat public account article of "Original Point Platform": "Dr. Zhang Explains: Why are there more and more patients?" "Father-in-law 50 years of stomach ulcer, only 22 days of original point conditioning and improvement", "Mother's car accident back wound is difficult to repair, ginger shot miracle effect" ...
Of course, these public accounts inevitably sell products. "The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, send the elderly mooncake, it is better to send a warm before and after the heat vest." "The original point massage gun, stroke according to the push master, do not understand the massage can also alleviate the symptoms." These official account articles have QR codes in them, and users can enter their online stores to purchase original point products. In the public account of the "Original Point Platform", scan the QR code to enter an online store called Huangsen Health Mall. The reporter saw that this online store was selling warm compresses, small yellow ginger, push tools, high-end gifts and so on.
An original ignition heat red bean bag cost 138 yuan, and the platform shows that this product has sold 2614 pieces. The products about ginger are diverse, including ginger stickers, dried ginger powder, ginger pills, yellow ginger toothpaste, etc., these products have high sales, of which the sales of ginger patches priced at 15 yuan are 46498 pieces, dry ginger powder is priced at 19 yuan, and 46353 pieces have been sold.
According to rough statistics, in this online store, only ginger products sold 250,000 pieces, with sales of more than 5 million yuan.
In the base of the original point in Wuhan, the students were asked to get up early to recite the "Disciple Rules". Beijing News reporter Liu Ruiming photographed
Question: "Lying under the guise of Chinese medicine"
On the afternoon of September 12, the training at the Wuhan Primitive Point Base ended, but no trainees were cured here.
Wang Yongqi, the person in charge, explained that it was because the trainees did not repent, so the problem was not solved. "Even if the original point cures the disease, the trainee will kill and eat meat after returning, and the disease will rebound."
For the treatment of the original point, Lu Yang, a professor of pharmacy of traditional Chinese medicine at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that the so-called treatment methods such as ginger powder and pushing do not belong to traditional Chinese medicine, "pressing push is just blindly borrowing the meridian theory of Chinese medicine, but Chinese medicine has a detailed theory, and the theory of the original point is not established." In addition, the statement that all diseases can be cured does not conform to the idea of dialectical treatment of Chinese medicine, and it is deceiving people under the guise of Chinese medicine. ”
After 5 days of "training", there are also trainees who can stay awake.
Li Xiang, a 23-year-old who has just graduated from college, was recommended by relatives to study at the primitive point because of a stomach disease, and he believes that after "treatment" he has not had much effect, and he is also skeptical of the superstitious ideas described in the course. Before retiring, zhang Meihui, a trainee, was the head nurse of a hospital in Wuhan, and after 5 days of study, she thought that the original point was "suspected of being a cult." "If the disease is not cured, they will say that your karmic obstacles are too deep. The training is to sell the original point of the product, and let everyone sign up for the 3800 yuan training class. ”
But Gao Hai, who was "brainwashed", still firmly believed. He began to think that his daughter's illness was caused by something he had done wrong. For example, quarreling with his wife, filial piety to his parents, and disrespecting his ancestors.
After the training, the father and daughter chose to stay and continue the "treatment". In the past month, they have spent thousands of yuan on warm compresses and ginger powder, but Gao Shan's condition has not improved, nor has she been able to walk like a few days as advertised in the class.
(In the text, Zhou Hui, Zhang Ailian, Zhang Liya, Peng Junjie, Gao Shan, Gao Hai, Li Dongmei, Li Xiang, and Zhang Meihui are pseudonyms)
Beijing News reporter Liu Ruiming
Edited by Li Ming
Video clip Wang Danyang
Proofread by Li Shihui