It was my tremendous honor to join this meaningful event on April 7th. I was very happy to see all the foreign guests from Britain.
As a Chinese girl, I have not only learned a little Chinese medicine, since I am currently helping to translate for a nice young English lady who is studying Chinese Tuina and acupuncture as part of the DDA Tuina Internship Programme now, but I have also always believed in our medicine that has been handed down from thousands of years ago.
However, I was still little concerned about whether all the teachers from Britain could accept the general ideas on how traditional Chinese medicine can cure some common diseases such as fever, pain in the neck or shoulders, sleeping problems, etc, for there must be some big differences between Chinese medicine and western medicine on how to diagnose and treat physical problems.
To my big surprise, all the foreigners listened to Dr. Li’s introduction about meridians in the human body and their different functions very carefully. We all concentrated on Dr. Li’s speech on the importance of changing some inappropriate life style and living habits in order to keep healthy, like having too much cold food and too much junk food.
After the theoretical lecture, all the guests had a chance to be more active in real practice. Although some of them were afraid of hurting their partner by pressing too hard at the beginning, such worries quickly disappeared after Dr. Li showed them one by one, the correct way for massaging the gallbladder meridian.
Moreover, during the course of the evening, several teachers had some treatment for other uncomfortable feelings and aches and pains they’d been experiencing; which were reduced a lot after acupuncture and cupping that evening. The other British teachers were fascinated to see the deep purple colour on one teacher’s neck after he had cupping and watched the whole process very attentively.
The teacher had suffered from a lot of pain in his neck over the years, which according to Chinese medicine is mainly caused by excessive cold inside the body. Amazingly, he felt much better after the treatment, as did the other guests who had acupuncture. Everyone looked very happy and satisfied with the whole event.
For me, I had a wonderful time with all the foreign guests. What’s more, I felt so proud of our own medicine. It’s not just an important part of Chinese culture, but also can be very effective for actual health problems nowadays. It represents the brilliant wisdom of our ancestors who had a deep understanding about how to keep healthy and keep our body balanced, so that it can help us to get rid of some common illnesses which are caused by our wrong life habits or fast-moving life.
I hope the lecture and Chinese medicine knowledge did leave a strong impression on all the foreign guests, and help them to always stay healthy in the future.
I also enjoyed spreading our traditional Chinese medicine to friends all over the world and wish Chinese medicine will become more and more popular in the west.
Sunny