Osteopathic osteopathy relieves pain! The inheritance and innovation of Zhao Hening, the dream keeper of Traditional Chinese medicine

A piece of stone soothes the bones and bones, a copper hammer relieves the pain, Zhao Hening, the inheritor of the osteopathy of Zhao Clan in Shandong Province, as a dream keeper of traditional Chinese medicine, while relieving the pain of patients, is also doing his best to inherit and develop this precious wealth left by his ancestors.

Adhere to the "integrity"

A homemade traction bed, a copper hammer, and a stone, which seem to be a very ordinary instrument in life, have become the right tools in Zhao Hening's hands. His patients ranged from 106-year-olds to 21-year-olds.

At the age of 6, he studied Traditional Chinese Medicine with Zhang Hongjiu, a well-known old Chinese medicine doctor in Jinan, and later entered the Jinan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. At the age of 20, he studied with Zhang Lian, the third-generation inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, and studied the ancestral osteopathic skills of Zhang Yangwenci, a family of imperial physicians. "The shock waves generated by the hammer, pestle and hammer, combined with traction, stretching and other methods to reduce the bone and joint septum, eliminating the injury and sequelae of the patient's surgery." In the treatment process of Zhao Hening, 16 kinds of techniques such as the feeling, pressure, rolling, prick and vibration of the stone are used for conditioning, which can solve a variety of orthopedic diseases.

Zhao Hening recalled that when she was 61 years old, there was a patient in Suzhou who had 4 of the 7 cones of the cervical spine that needed to be replaced. "At that time, the patient's symptoms were that her hands were numb, her stomach was like electricity, and the doctor's diagnosis for her was that if she did not operate, she was a vegetative person." Not only had Zhao Hening never seen such a disease, but even his master had never diagnosed it. After three days and three nights without rest, Zhao Hening reduced his position bit by bit according to the meridian chart, and finally found that it was a symptom caused by thoracic vertebral misalignment. During the week of treatment in Jinan, the patient basically recovered, but Zhao Hening was seriously ill because of overwork.

"Practicing medicine can solve the suffering of others, the master and ancestor treat the poor, and finally the medicine is sent." Zhao Hening has been watching his master and master practicing medicine since childhood, and "keeping righteousness" must be the foundation of Chinese medicine, eliminating fear and pain for patients, and relying on the professionalism, responsibility and kindness of doctors.

Practice your skills

In September 2018, Zhao Hening received an urgent task to enable Chen Qingquan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the father of the Asian electric car, to get up from his wheelchair and walk up to the viewing platform on his own while participating in the National Day military parade. Learning of Chen Qingquan's condition, Zhao Hening rushed to Shanghai.

"At that time, Academician Chen Qingquan, who was 84 years old, underwent osteopathic therapy for a week, and he originally had an old disease of lumbar disc herniation, and this recurrence was more serious." Zhao Hening admitted that at that time, he was under great pressure, and he suggested that Academician Chen Qingquan go to Jinan to receive osteopathy before the National Day ceremony, when there were only 12 days left before the National Day.

After being cured on time, Academician Chen Qingquan himself ascended the Tiananmen Tower.

"Inheritance is not ancient, innovation is not separated from the ancestors." Zhao Hening is also constantly working in the frontline, inheriting and innovating this ancient medical art. Through continuous learning, repeated research and clinical practice, we have collected and sorted out and continued to develop a variety of methods and programs, and constantly improve them. For various intractable diseases and sub-healthy people, a series of tools and health care hammers have been developed, forming a real "unique skill".

Inherit chinese wisdom

To learn Chinese medicine and osteopathy, we must have the determination to "endure hardships". "Not only do you have to endure loneliness, but you also have to work hard, contact patients as much as possible, and think about and analyze the condition." Other than that, there are no shortcuts. Zhao Hening frankly said that learning Chinese medicine is indeed a chore for modern young people. From the beginning of grasping the medicine, familiarizing with the medicinal properties, to being able to really call the pulse to sit in the clinic, this period of time is at least five to ten years. Osteopathy is no exception, from the initial meridian diagram to the final ability to touch the bone to judge, but also require deep skill.

Talking about the inheritance of osteopathy, Zhao Hening felt that the burden on his body was very heavy. Now he is the only one left in his generation to do the work of external communication, and his daughter and son-in-law are now recruited by him, and a few people who are willing to follow and learn from the apprentices who have come to him have been selected.

"When you read the classics of Chinese medicine, you only know what it is; only by studying with the teacher can you know why it is so." The training model of 'mentoring and apprentice' in TCM is an effective way to inherit the academic ideas, experience and technical expertise of TCM. Zhao Hening set up the Gongshu Center in the hope of "hand-in-hand" words and deeds, through the talent training mode of teacher-apprentice and master-apprentice inheritance, to cultivate a new generation of osteopathic inheritors who can inherit technology.

However, there are difficult thresholds for TCM education and inheritance to cross. "It is urgent to save Chinese medicine." Zhao Hening frankly said that as a non-profit institution, his center can currently recruit several apprentices, but in the future, the number of apprentices will increase, and the cost will face difficulties. Especially under the current system of traditional Chinese medicine titles and professional qualifications, shicheng education cannot obtain medical qualification certificates, which makes the shicheng education model into an embarrassing situation.

The establishment of a sense of cultural identity in Chinese medicine is the foundation for the development of Chinese medicine. "To popularize the essence of Chinese medicine culture, we must promote the entry into primary and secondary school classrooms." Starting from an early age is the first step, it is also a very important step, and it is also one of the best ways to solve the problem of doctors and patients. Zhao Hening believes that Chinese medicine should start from the doll, and the focus of the tutorial is on the contribution of Chinese medicine in the history of the development of the Chinese nation and the benevolence of ancient medical masters, which really allows children to establish cultural self-confidence.