Traditional Chinese Medicine and Health Professional

Seriously, don't be fooled by the jokes on the Internet anymore - the traditional Chinese medicine health profession is neither a "recreational water profession that teaches you how to soak wolfberry berries and do moxibustion", nor is it a "reservist who sells health care products". It is a set of health interventions that take the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine as the core and cover the whole life cycle. , a serious medical major that combines practical operation and academic research. The graduates' corresponding directions range from the pre-disease treatment department of community health service centers, health care clinics of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, to health product research and development, and high-end health care base operations. The employment path is much wider than many people think.

Last week, I took a third-year student to a community internship. As soon as I entered the door of the disease prevention department, I was grabbed by Aunt Zhang, who often does nursing care: "Little doctor, please look at it. I have been eating Tremella and Lotus Seed Soup for half a month. Why do I still have a dry throat and diarrhea every day? ”

The little girl who came with me was not in a hurry to give her prescription. She sat down with her aunt and asked a series of questions: Have you been watching costume dramas until twelve o'clock every day recently? After dancing in the square last week, did you go eat spicy crayfish with your old sisters? Do you usually have poop that sticks to the toilet and cannot be flushed? After asking, I smiled and told my aunt that you have a typical spleen deficiency and excessive dampness. Tremella itself is cold. Eating it every day will aggravate the spleen deficiency. In addition, staying up late consumes body fluids. Of course, the more you eat, the drier your throat will be. Stop the Tremella first when you go back. Make boiled water with fried barley + tangerine peel and drink it every day. Drink it for a week and then come back.

You see, this is the core of TCM health care professionalism - it is not a universal health care template at all, it is syndrome differentiation first and then care.

When it comes to syndrome differentiation, the industry has actually always had different ideas for adjustment. No one is higher or lower, but the people they are suitable for are different. For example, most academic teachers will emphasize "identify your body first and then take care of it." They will first find out whether you are yang deficiency, yin deficiency, or phlegm-dampness through nine physical tests, and then make targeted plans: People with yang deficiency should not follow the trend of drinking chrysanthemum tea to reduce fire. Drinking too much will only make your hands and feet colder. ； People with yin deficiency should not drink ginger, brown sugar and water every day to warm the palace. Drinking it will make you unable to sleep at night and feel that the loss is not worth it. However, many schools of folk inheritance more agree with the idea of ​​"using blood circulation as tonic". They believe that nowadays people often cannot sit still for a long time, eat too much, and the meridians are so blocked that they cannot absorb any tonic. It is better to first use scraping, tapping, and standing postures to open up the blood stasis, and the qi and blood can keep up.

I usually combine it when I treat people for recuperation. For example, for a girl in her twenties who sits in an office every day and whose shoulders and neck are as hard as stone slabs, I would first suggest that she do a shoulder and neck scraping to open up the meridians once a week, and then talk about replenishing qi and blood.； But if you are an old man in his seventies who usually breathes when walking, you must first adjust the spleen and stomach to replenish qi and blood. If you unblock it hastily, it will easily consume your righteousness.

Many people think that studying this major is easy, and that in class they just learn how to make herbal medicines and play Ba Duan Jin, but don’t think so. The "Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Chinese Materia Medica" and "Prescription Science" that are required to be studied in the first and second years of the freshman year are no less than those of clinical majors. In the practical class, students practice acupuncture, and many students have their hands swollen for three days. ； I can't control the distance when practicing moxibustion, and it's common to get small scars on my arms. Last year, a freshman told me when he first entered school that he thought he would learn this by drinking health tea every day, but at the end of the semester he got acne after memorizing it, and he came to me for prescriptions, which really amused me.

Many people also say that traditional Chinese medicine health care is an IQ tax. I don’t refute this. After all, there are too many people cheating on the market. However, we have previously cooperated with the community to conduct clinical observations: 200 obese patients diagnosed with phlegm-dampness constitution insisted on soaking their feet with Wendan soup + 10 minutes of foot massage every day. After 3 months of acupuncture, the average BMI dropped by 2.3 and the waist circumference was 4 cm smaller on average. Of course, there were more than 30 people who had basically no change. After asking, I found out that most of them couldn't control their mouths. They drank cold beer at least three times a week and ate barbecue twice. No matter how good the health care plan was, they couldn't stand up to this.

Oh, by the way, don’t think that people who study this major live like ascetics. The teachers in our teaching and research office will also make instant coffee to stay alive when they are working on projects, but after drinking it, they will make a cup of tangerine peel water to calm their qi, and they will not drink it every day.； We also eat hot pot when we have dinner together. After eating, we take two large hawthorn pills to eliminate food. Health preservation has never meant that you can’t eat this or touch that. It’s about a “temperature”, and you can’t do anything beyond it.

Not long ago, I received a courier from a student who had graduated two years ago. It was a wild jujube paste that he made himself. After graduation, he went to a health care base in Tianmu Mountain. Every day, he took the old people living there to play Baduanjin and make medicinal meals. When he was free, he studied various health paste recipes by himself. He said that he knew that I often stayed up late to write, so he sent it to me specially.

To be honest, I was quite emotional when I was holding the jar of ointment. Many people asked me what the use of studying Chinese medicine and health care is. In fact, there is so much truth in it. If you can take good care of your own body and help others, isn't that enough?