"OK, I will just show simply."
A Tang costume, fluent English, a Chinese medicine doctor with a silver needle to a man's forearm, the photographer quickly held up the equipment to meet the forward... Behind them, a large screen plays a PPT of a chinese medicine introduction.
The TCM physician, Li Huafei, is from Sichuan, China. On October 29, he took to the booth of the Dubai World Expo as a representative of Chinese traditional Chinese medicine.
Debut at the Expo
Acupuncture is done on site
In October, the Dubai World Expo, which had been postponed for a year, finally kicked off. On one of the exhibition lists of this Expo, the project of "Traditional Chinese Medicine" appeared.
"This is a project in the China-UAE Cultural Exchange Day at this World Expo." Li Huafei told Red Star News that the time was scheduled for the afternoon of October 29, with more than 20 display projects, such as Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Tea Art, and Arabic Coffee. According to the process arrangement, Li Huafei needs to let the audience feel the charm of Chinese medicine in about 5 minutes.
Li Huafei appeared at the Dubai World Expo
At 2:38 p.m. local time, the demonstration officially began.
Dressed in a Tang costume and fluent in English, Li Huafei introduced the audience to common TCM treatment methods, such as Chinese medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion and cupping. He also talked about the treatment of the sequelae of covid-19 in the fight against COVID-19.
After the introduction of PPT, followed by a live demonstration of acupuncture, a fat man wearing a red T-shirt walked up to the booth to experience. "He came here, and I gave him a preliminary diagnosis offstage." Li Huafei introduced.
Li Huafei said as he rubbed the man's forearm with an alcohol cotton ball, and then stuck a silver needle on his outer guan hole, introducing that this point was good for headaches and shoulders, and the needle used was also disposable.
Experience the charm of TCM on the spot
“How do you feel？ (How do you feel)" the host stepped forward and asked.
"I'm very good. (I'm fine)," the man said.
Li Huafei introduced that Chinese medicine usually more needles in different positions for different health conditions, such as treating headaches, and may use more than ten needles.
Li Huafei told Red Star News that the man usually has neck and shoulder pain, so he chose to tie the outer guan aces. At the same time, the ZawaiGuan acupuncture point can also dredge the Sanjiao Sutra to help him lose weight. However, this time only one demonstration was made, so only one acupuncture point was pierced, and more acupuncture points were needed to achieve better results.
Practiced medicine overseas for twenty years
Witness the value of TCM
Li Huafei was born in Guang'an, Sichuan, and now comes from a family in Chengdu.
In 2001, he graduated from the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and instead chose to stay in China, he went to the United Arab Emirates to practice medicine at the recommendation of a senior.
Li Huafei
"In 2001, there were very few TCM practitioners in the UAE." Li Huafei told Red Star News that when he first arrived in the UAE, he first worked as a doctor's assistant and English translator at HuarenTang in Abu Dhabi. In 2005, he returned to China to study in the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After going to the UAE in 2006, he went to Dubai and obtained the independent medical license of the UAE Ministry of Health and the TCM physician license of the Dubai Health Authority.
After 20 years, Li Huafei has experienced the start-up and development of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Middle East. Li Huafei introduced that local people who are reluctant to see Western medicine and eat Western medicine will try Chinese medicine with the mentality of trying it, because the efficacy is good, word of mouth is passed on, and word of mouth has been established.
Driven by Li Huafei and a group of TCM physicians who are mainly young and middle-aged, with academic qualifications, English and good clinical experience, TCM is becoming more and more popular in the UAE. Li Huafei said that about 95 percent of his patients are foreigners, and only 5 percent are overseas Chinese. There are also more and more TCM practitioners in Dubai, with about 40 at the moment.
Li Huafei told Red Star News that because the UAE has not opened up the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, Chinese medicine practitioners in Dubai rely on pure traditional Chinese medicine to practice medicine, and it is precisely because of this that people can see the real efficacy and value of Chinese medicine.
Being able to appear at the Dubai World Expo this time made him feel the value of promoting Chinese medicine overseas as a Chinese, "I feel very proud and honored." ”
Red Star News reporter Wang Tuo intern Pu Wanying
Edited by Zhang Li
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