The picture shows Zhu Yongwang's clinical diagnosis and treatment work. Lian Tao photography
Taiyuan, February 23, 2019 Title: Shanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine in Africa: Alleviating Illness and Forging Friendship
Author Fan Lifang Wen Yonggang
Since 1975, Shanxi has sent the first batch of foreign aid medical teams to Africa, from a small silver needle of Chinese medicine master Lv Jingshan to shake Cameroon, to Wen Hong, Liu Yonglin, Zhang Mojiang and other Traditional Chinese medicine doctors who have been warmly praised in the recipient countries, and for 45 years, generations of Chinese medicine practitioners have written history through the practice of foreign aid. As a member of the Shanxi medical team with more than ten years of experience in aiding Africa, Sun Cuiping has witnessed the "growth" of Chinese medicine in Africa.
Pan Weifeng explained the fire needle technique to Dr. Kara in Togo. Courtesy of respondents
More than 10 years of aid to Africa to witness the "growth of Chinese medicine"
Since 2005, Sun Cuiping has traveled to Three countries: Togo, Djibouti and Cameroon, "From routine consultations, free clinics, to the recognition of Chinese medicine by local patients, I have thought that 'it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish'." In 2011, when she went to Kara, Togo for the second time, Sun Cuiping made ppt courseware to explain acupuncture treatment, and took the lead in teaching assistants in the assisted hospital, teaching while practicing, which was praised by the dean and colleagues.
At the end of 2019, Sun Cuiping went to work at the Yaounde Women's and Children's Hospital in Cameroon, and she learned that pediatric tuina was still blank in the local area, so she held the theme activity of "pediatric tuina special popularization and promotion" in 2020, which was the first time in the history of Shanxi Aid africa to carry out special activities with the theme of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and tuina in the recipient hospital. The event aroused the strong interest of local hospital medical staff and people, and the hospital said that it hoped to incorporate this technology into clinical practice and form a sustainable development model.
The simplicity and inexpensive examination of TCM acupuncture has been recognized
Due to climate, environment and many other reasons, neck, shoulder, waist and leg joint pain, hemiplegia, facial paralysis, etc. have become common diseases in Africa, and there are also many patients with nerve damage and limb dysfunction caused by car accident trauma and cerebrovascular accidents. However, the backward medical infrastructure and the lack of auxiliary examination methods have become a "roadblock" for local people to seek medical treatment. As an important therapy for the treatment of waist and leg pain and knee pain, TCM acupuncture has gradually taken root in Africa with its characteristics of simplicity, convenience, incorruptibility and testing.
Djibouti has four seasons like summer, with a maximum temperature of 50 degrees Celsius. People often turn on the air conditioner, and even sleep on the floor outdoors, prone to cold and cold, light physical discomfort, muscle pain throughout the body, and heavy facial paralysis. Zhao Lijun, a doctor in Jibuti, Shanxi, said that after acupuncture and fire pot treatment, the pain of patients can be significantly reduced, which not only saves drug costs but also reduces the stimulation of drugs on the gastrointestinal tract.
Zhao Ping, a member of the Cara Team of Togo, once conducted a survey of TCM acupuncture on patients who came to visit, and more than 1600 valid questionnaires showed that TCM acupuncture was more than 80% effective in the treatment of psoas muscle strain and peripheral facial paralysis; the youngest patient who received acupuncture treatment was 10 years old, with an average age of 45 years old, "expanding TCM acupuncture here is effective."
"Mr. Hao Shifei, thank you very much for coming here to work, you used acupuncture technique to cure the disease, thank you." Courtesy of Hao Shifei
Unique efficacy triggers "acupuncture fever"
Pan Weifeng, a member of the Shanxi Aid Togo Kara team, used the fire needle technique for the first time in the local area for the treatment of a patient with swelling and pain in the left knee joint, "Their doctor felt very amazing, and dr. Joseph, who studied with me (who studied at the Shanxi Acupuncture Hospital for 3 months), learned the fire needle technique, tried it on his wife, and reported to me that the fire needle had a very good effect." I told him in detail about the indications, contraindications, and operational precautions of the fire needle, and served the patient for a long time. ”
Guo Zhanghai and Yan Xiaorui of the Acupuncture Department of the Lomé Medical Team in Shanxi Aid to Togo introduced techniques such as small needle knives for the first time, allowing local people to feel the unique charm of Traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture; at the "Chinese Culture Week" in Cameroon, Zhen Xiaoran demonstrated the acupuncture fire pot technique for participants from all over the world, which also triggered an acupuncture boom.
The rising "acupuncture fever" in Africa has stimulated the enthusiasm of local students and medical staff to learn TCM. The hospital where Zhu Yongwang, a member of the Shanxi Aid Ka Team, is located is the designated clinical practice hospital of The Second University of Yaoundé. In April 2019, seven African university students were placed in the hospital to follow up on the hospital. "In my spare time, I also communicate with them about TCM health exercises, such as Baduanjin and 24-style Tai Chi. I also rigorously assess my students, not only to memorize the common acupuncture points and meridians they have learned this week, but also to mark the correct positions on the patient's body surface. Zhu Yongwang believes that this teaching method can allow African students to better learn the knowledge of Chinese medicine and understand Chinese culture.
As the patient reported to Hao Shifei, a member of the Djibouti aid team, "as the condition improves, everyone believes in and likes acupuncture more and more." (End)
Source: China News Network