However, the acupuncture section is very good, so we visited two of our TCM professors, Doctors Huo and Guo. They specialize in acupuncture and cupping. They also do electro-acupuncture, where they hook up a low electrical voltage to the needles to constantly stimulate them, instead of manual manipulations. Makes it easier to see lots of patients.
Electro-acupuncture. Stole this off the web.
Cupping. There's also moving-cupping, where after they put the cup on the back, or neck, they briskly move it downwards. Stole this off the web too.
Basically they store the glass cups in a shallow tray of alcohol, and then light an alcohol-soaked piece of cotton wool and hold it inside the cup to heat it up. Then they either apply the cup and leave it there, or run it down the body.
We didn't get to try any of those methods on the patients, but we did question them, take their pulses, and examine their tongues. Our diagnoses were pretty crappy, to be honest, but we could tell a cold disease from a hot one, and a swollen tongue clearly denoted a spleen problem.
The Yale girl brought her camera and took some pictures of us. We're saying we're Bei Yi medical students - that's what the emblem on our lab coats is! I really want to keep my lab coat and wear it to Physio lab next semester.
Taking the pulse. You use three fingers, and each one corresponds to a certain organ.
My TCM class.
No comments:
Post a Comment