Studying in China - Chengdu University

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For those of you who don't know: I went to China to study Chinese medicine. I thought it best to go to the SOURCE.

The hospital I studied in was called 'Chengdu University of TCM' and it had 3500 patients visit every day.

There are many departments:
-Respiratory (common colds, fever, bronchitis, etc)
-Neurology (depression, parkinsons, strokes, schizophrenia, etc)
-Pediatrics (the doctor for Pediatrics was also a specialist in nephrology!)
-Cardiology (I got an ECG scan while I was there out of curiousity. One of the few times in my life someone looked at me and said, "Normal")
-Gynecology (This is my FAVORITE, ie. This is my MAJOR. This will be my SPECIALTY)
-Orthopoedics (I got lots of good recipes from this group)
-Acupuncture (In most of the places, they re-use the needles on the next patient after sterilizing them. The doctor let me needle her patients. We got along just fine! Too bad, she didn't let me take pics.)
-Bells Palsy (this is abnormally common among all ages in Chengdu. No one knows why. I saw them treat even kids. pictures to come. They even do surgery for Bells Palsy in this ward. I can go into that in more detail if you wish)
-Diabetes (this is not as busy as the other departments, as it is not as common in China)
-Oncology
-There are a few more on this list...


A few things to note:
Chinese medicine docs can also prescribe Western medicine. Not a ton, but the necessary stuff. Antibiotics, diabetes meds, and stuff like that. An acupuncturist can say, "lower the dose of the antibiotics I gave you since you have diarrhea. Take this herbal formula in conjunction and you will get better faster." In America, the acupuncturist would be in so much trouble for giving medical advice, and could have their license taken away!

Also: I always asked the patients before taking pictures of them, or their x-rays or other pictures.






Recommended reading:
Books by Richard Feynman, PhD:
'What do you care what other people think?' and
'Surely, you must be joking Mr Feynman!'

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Photos

This is for Marco Chung-Shu Lam, L.Ac.
Marco - you wanted to see my certificate of completion from Chengdu University? Here it is!

Int'l Health Care Forum
The school brought us to the Int'l health care forum.
Afterwards, we had lunch. Fancy lunch, and I ate turtle for the first time! Eh... the duck was better!

But it was so interesting...
That Miri and I fell asleep.
We couldn't help it! What did they expect when the health forum was in CHINESE? We either need to learn Chinese, or get a translator!!

Are you ready?
Get ready!

Say AAAAAAWWWW
Open wide!
Can acupuncture make your teeth grow back?
Oh, that was rude. Actually, he was here for a stroke.

Get ready!
He came in after he had a stroke. Couldn't do anything on his own... and now -

Needle under the tongue!
Now he can ride his bicycle and talk! He had his stroke a few weeks ago. Painful and yet beneficial.

WOW.
This guy came into DERMATOLOGY. I hope he gets to know this hospital better, because soon, he might need Oncology. This tongue is swollen, blue and lots of cracks. Camera didn't capture enough.

yin deficient, Blood stag.
Camera doesn't true capture this tongue. You had to be there!

Chengdu University
This is a special acupuncture clinic called, "Latent." What is so special about it is that it is quiet, and they do a private intake and they use sanitary disposable needles.

Acupuncture in Latent
In the other part of the hospital, they re-use needles.

Dermatology Dept.
This is the doctor writing a prescription, while one of his student assistants take the pulse

and SMOKING!
can you believe that the doc will smoke while seeing patients?

this lady wants a prescription
to heal her foot! Awesome... :)

Pediatrics and Nephrology department
Here there are kidney cases, babies and kiddos.

This guy suffers from...
Premature ejaculation

Moxa + Ginger
Ginger is excellent for warming the stomach

Getting scraped
Our grandparents used this method of scraping to keep colds at bay. (see video)