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SUBJ:
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE BEING VIEWED AS LESS
'MYSTERIOUS'
SOURCE:
BEIJING XINHUA IN ENGLISH 0757 GMT
11 NOV
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//((REPORT BY XINHUA CORRESPONDENT WANG ZIZHEN))
((TEXT))
BEIJING, NOVEMBER
(XINHUA) -
IT OFTEN SEEMED
MYSTERIOUS
TO A CHINESE PATIENT, NOT TO MENTION A FOREIGNER,
THAT A
DOCTOR OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, WITH HIS THREE FINGERS
FEELING THE PULSE,
COULD DIAGNOSE AN INTERNAL AILMENT.
WHEN THE DOCTOR TOLD THE PATIENT ABOUT HIS SYNDROME,
THE LATTER
WOULD BECOME MORE PERPLEXED THOUGH HE OFTEN NODDED
IN CONSENT.
FURTHER EXPLANATIONS OFTEN FAILED TO HELP THE PATIENT UNDERSTAND
THE CAUSE OF HIS DISEASE
IF THE DOCTOR USED HIS PROFESSIONAL TERMS
SUCH AS DEFICIENCY OF YIN,
FLOATING OF YANG,
STAGNATION OF QI OR
CONSUMPTION OF FLUID.
HOWEVER, TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE HAS BECOME LESS MYSTERIOUS
THANKS TO THE ADOPTION OF MODERN DIAGNOSTIC MEANS, A COMBINATION OF
MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE WITH THE TRADITIONAL THERAPIES AND RESEARCH
ACHIEVEMENTS
IN THIS FIELD.
ONLY
10 YEARS AGO, A WRIST CUSHION (FOR PULSE FEELING), A TABLE
AND A CHAIR WERE ALMOST ALL THE FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR A DOCTOR OF
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE.
NOWADAYS, X-RAY APPARATUS,
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH, FIBERBROCHOSCOPE,
GASTROFIBERSCOPE, B-ULTRASONIC
TOMOGRAPHY, AND COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
(CT) ARE COMMON
IN
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE HOSPITALS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
IN
ADDITION,
THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE MOST PROMINENT TRADITIONAL
MEDICINE DOCTORS, BEST PRESCRIPTIONS AND EFFECTIVE THERAPIES HAVE
BEEN COMPUTERIZED.
AIDED BY MODERN APPARATUS, DOCTORS
CAN JUDGE CASES RAPIDLY AND
ACCURATELY AND SELECT A MORE EFFECTIVE PRESCRIPTION OR THERAPY FROM
THE BEGINNING OF TREATMENT RATHER THAN WRITING A TRIAL FORMULA FIRST
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AND ADJUSTING IT A FEW DAYS LATER IN LINE WITH THE PATIENT'S
REACTION.
WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE CASE,
THE DOCTORS OF TRADITIONAL
MEDICINE CAN ALSO GIVE A MORE SATISFACTORY ANSWER.
MANY PATIENTS
SAY THAT TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE SEEMS LESS
MYSTERIOUS NOW AND MORE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE TRADITIONAL THERAPIES
RELIEVE AILMENTS FASTER THAN BEFORE.
FASTER AND MORE ACCURATE DIAGNOSES, BETTER RESULTS AND FEWER
SIDE-EFFECTS HAVE STIMULATED DEMAND FOR TRADITIONAL CHINESE
MEDICINE.
STATISTICS
SHOW THAT ABOUT ONE- THIRD OF THE PATIENTS ARE
VISITING HOSPITALS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE.
TO MEET THE GROWING DEMAND, MANY PROVINCES AND REGIONS HAVE
INVESTED HEAVILY
IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
IN RECENT YEARS.
FOR INSTANCE,
SICHUAN,
THE MOST POPULOUS PROVINCE WHICH HAS OVER
100 MILLION PEOPLE,
HAS OVERHAULED ALL THE HOSPITALS OF TRADITIONAL
CHINESE MEDICINE IN THE PAST THREE YEARS WITH EACH HOSPITAL ADDING
APPARATUS WORTH MORE THAN 100,000 YUAN.
SHENZHEN CITY, BORDERING HONG KONG,
INVESTED OVER 20 MILLION YUAN
(ABOUT FOUR MILLION U.S.
DOLLARS)
TO
SET UP A HOSPITAL OF
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE WITH FLOOR SPACE OF 30,000
SQ M.
LIAONING PROVINCE HAS TRIPLED
ITS TRADITIONAL MEDICAL FACILITIES
SINCE 1986.
IN ADDITION TO THE LOCAL EFFORTS,
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
ALLOCATED 6.2 BILLION YUAN (800 MILLION U.S.
DOLLARS)
TO DEVELOP
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE DURING THE 1986-1990 PERIOD.
WITH 646
NEW HOSPITALS AND 66,000 BEDS PUT
INTO USE
IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS,
CHINA NOW HAS 2,141 HOSPITALS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, WITH
200,000 BEDS AND
1 MILLION DOCTORS AND PHARMACISTS.
IN RECENT YEARS, CHINA HAS MADE GREAT EFFORTS TO INVESTIGATE THE
RESOURCES OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE, DEVELOP TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY
CASES AND ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND STUDY TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY.
SOURCES AT THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SAID THE
LATEST NATIONWIDE SURVEY SHOWED AT LEAST 8,000 KINDS OF TRADITIONAL
CHINESE MEDICINAL HERBS, ANIMALS AND MINERALS ARE CURRENTLY BEING
USED.
SUCCESS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
IN THE INTRODUCTION OF MANY IMPORTANT
EXOTIC SPECIES.
DETAILED STUDIES OF THE CULTIVATION OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT MEDICINAL HERBS HAVE ALSO BEEN CARRIED OUT.
ABOUT 200 KINDS OF NEW DRUGS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FROM CHINESE
MEDICINAL HERBS
IN RECENT YEARS, ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES.
ROUTINE METHODS
IN THE TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY CASES,
APOPLEXY,
HIGH FEVER,
SYNCOPE,
BLOOD PROBLEMS AND CARDIAC PAIN HAVE BEEN
ESTABLISHED.
NEW AND EFFECTIVE THERAPIES HAVE ALSO BEEN DEVELOPED
FOR NON-SURGERY TREATMENT OF APPENDICITIS,
PERITONITIS, ACUTE
•
PERFORATION OF THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM, AND ECTOPIC PREGNANCY.
IN THE FIELD OF ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION
(THE BURNING OF MOXA
NEAR SKIN FOR TREATMENT)
,
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS HAVE BEEN
OUTLINED,
SEVERAL DOZEN NEW ACUPOINTS HAVE BEEN FOUND AND VARIOUS
ACUPUNCTURE TECHNIQUES FOR THE FOOT,
FACE,
SCALP, NOSE AND ANKLE
HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED.
IN THE BASIC RESEARCH FIELD,
ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT
BREAKTHROUGHS
IS
THE DISCOVERY OF MORPHOLOGICAL BASES OF CHANNELS
(SPECIAL CONDUCTING STRUCTURES OF THE HUMAN BODY), A PILLAR OF THE
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