Title:The Happy Health and Featured Tour
Date: 4 June, 2008
Day of Treatment: 10 days
Place: Guilin International Exchange Center of Chinese Medical Culture
Number of People: 20
Profession: Retired teachers,technologist.
Nationality: American,France
Description: Every year, there are increased tourists who visited TCM Department of Guilin Sino-western Joint Hospital. On 4 June, 2008,we received a group of people came American and France.some of them were retired teachers and technologist and so on.They were very excited when reached our center.Our doctors and nurses greeted to them.

After they reached our center.First, Professor Quan who introduced the center and Chinese medical culture to them.Then appreciated the Tai Chi performance. It was great!

After the Taiji performance,studied the lecture on chinese medicine by Professor Quan.During the lecture,our expert diagnosed for some of the visitors and performanced the cupping for the visitors.

John who was one of the volunteer to receive the cupping.After the diagnosis by Dr Quan,we knew that John suffered from sever shoulder and back pain for many years.

Then the doctor did the cupping for John.Besides,there were many visitors who suffered from different diseases such as the headache,arthritis also experienced the acupuncture and cupping treatment.

After twenty minutes cupping treatment,john said that it was great!He felt very comfortable!What's more,it was no pain.

In order to receive the further treatment for his shoulder and back pain,he consultated with Dr Quan and asked some questions about his health.Qr quan told him that it was much better to get rid of the shoulder and back pain by cupping,acupuncture and together with the herbal medication.It need ten days treatment.

John thought over and decided to stayed in our center for treatment.

The arrangement of the his treatment was as follow:

The whole treatment lasted 10 days,it include two treatments. After ten days treatment,enjoyed two days toured in Guilin.

The first day,morning:foot massage,acupuncture,herbal medication. At noon: cupping and the herbal medication.Cupping applies suction to the surface of the body to draw out pathogenic factors or to invigorate the flow of Qi at the surface of the body.

Cupping is usually done by inserting a flame into a small glass cup to remove the air and create a vacuum. The cup is then deftly inverted onto the surface of the body where the cup is held firmly in place by the suction created by the vacuum effect. This method is called "fire cupping.There are also specially designed cups fitted with air lock valves that allow practitioners to remove the air with a hand-held pump.

Frequently, the practitioner will apply a lubricant to the skin before placing the cups, and then move the cups back and forth across certain area of the body. This combines the effects of cupping with dermal friction therapy (gua sha) and is called "sliding cup" technique.

Cupping is frequently used to treat early stage colds and flu, trauma, and muscle pain, especially in the back and shoulders.

Cupping therapy involves the attachment of special glass cups onto specific parts of the body. Suction is created by briefly introducing a flame into the cup to create a vacuum immediately before application.

The cups can be left in place for up to ten minutes. One should experience a warm, pulling, stretching sensation, not pain, and any marks that appear on the skin will fade within a week. Cupping is often integrated with acupuncture or massage to treat swelling and pain by promoting the expansion of blood vessels within the skin and muscles in areas such as the back, shoulders, and legs.

This increases the circulation of blood and lymph within the joints, improves energy flow to the muscles and tendons and reduces local pressure on the vertebrae of the spine.

Cupping also helps draw out and eliminate pathogenic factors from the superficial levels for colds, flu, cough and asthma as it opens the pores so pathogens can be released through the skin.

Acupuncture plays an assistant role on treating the shoulder and back pain.

The next few days are the same as the second day.

Effect Observation: After taking two treatments,John cured the pain completely. He said that no pain on his shoulder and back.He continued to take three months herbal medication for follow up.

After the treatment,John went to travel in Guilin for two days.

First Day: Visit Solitary Beauty Peak and the Reed Flute Cave. Carving market tours in the afternoon.something about how to make a carving.

The second day:Visit the Home of Longevity-Bama county.

Bama of Guangxi, China-Villagers in a remote part of southern China claim to have discovered the secret of long life: rice wine, snake wine, and cannabis soup. In fact, most of the villagers are long lived. The old Chinese saying that people rarely live beyond 70 is becoming outdated as an increased number of Chinese are now living longer and healthier lives. Data from the nation's fourth census in 1990 revealed that there were 69 centenarians in the Bama County, 30.8 per 100,000 populations.

Bama is so cut off by the hills that surround it that the motor car has yet to penetrate. It has a population of just over 300,000, yet it has 73 centenarians, one of the highest ratios in the world. Scores more nonagenarians display the carefree air of people who know their time is not yet up, while octogenarians toil under the Chinese burden of deferring to their elders. In 1991, the county was ranked among the world's top five countries renown for their long-lived people. The Bama County of the Guangxi Zhuang

Autonomous Region in southern China set up a Longevity tour program which has attracted a number of people to their villages, where they can sample the local food and discuss the secrets of their longevity with centenarians. Because of most of Bama people being long lived, many researchers come to this place for studying their longevity secretes. Stay overnight in Bama

After the tour,John returned home happilly!

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