Month: April 2020

Girl Falling from 4th Floor Stairs

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The other day I fell the stairs from the 4th floor, tumbling down all the way and with head down. For a second I thought it would probably be my last moments in the world.

Then I found myself unable to move, and felt falling apart.

It happened that I had another bad fall just a week ago, where I landed on my buttocks and the injury had not healed.

Fortunately, I fell not far from where a senior TCM doctor lived. Since I couldn’t move, I was carried into his house.

Seeing the old doctor, my tears could not help rolling down- it never hurt like this in my life.

“Absolutely I am going to be paralyzed.” I thought.

My arms, waist, and legs all hurt as if hammered a thousand times.

My poor little bones ~~

But the doctor did not say a word; he gave me some pills while smiling at me crying out loud.

A minute passed, I felt an unspeakable warmth flowing through all my pain points.

There was a little bit numbness, and suddenly it didn’t hurt anymore.

Even the butt that had been hurting for days stopped hurting.

That’s my experience- entered lying and came out walking.

Then I spent the next day roaming on the street all day.

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Moxibustion- Purulence, Dysmenorrhea and Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)

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When I was a teenager, water accidentally entered my ears while I was diving in a hot summer. Pus started to discharge from my ears in a few days. My grandfather put moxa into a small bamboo pipe, lit it, and blew the fume into my ears. The effusion subsided, scab formed, and the condition healed within only 3 treatments.

Puff Moxibustion

For the neighborhood girl with dysmenorrhea, my grandpa tirelessly boiled wormwood in water, used the water for her foot bath, and supplemented with massage on Baliao, Shenque, Uterus, and Sanyinjiao acupoints. This simple method created immediate effect.

Foot bath with wormwood pouch

After becoming a TCM doctor myself, once I came across a patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), but it was treated as common traumatic injury at the beginning. This disease is known as “nonlethal cancer“, and is extremely difficult to treat.

He had a treatment history of orthopedics in several famous hospitals, and had various exams, such as X-ray and blood tests, yet nothing came positive. During this time he took a lot of western medicines but to no avail.

He suffered from irregular pain, which aggravated during weather changes. When the pain became unbearable, he would go to hospital and take injection of painkiller and antibiotics. The pain lasted for more than adecade.

His doctors said: “This disease is very difficult to cure, and the only option is to keep on treating and taking medications.“

So he took western medicines for 3 years, where he went to orthopedics for examination every month; he also recieved other treatments like plasters. But the pain could only be temporarily relieved.

Plaster

He came to me to give it another shot.I checked his pulse, which thin and no good, neither was his mental state. He was skinny with poor appetite and sleep; his neck was stiff and back painful; he could not move well, and very painful when doing so.

He had a swollen tongue with white and greasy coating, and teeth marks on the edges.

I made a TCM prescription (2 doses for 1 course of treatment), and combined with other treatment including:

  1. Moxibustion– not only on the pain points, but also acupoints such as Dazhui, Shenzhu, Lingtai, Zhiyang, Mingmen, Yaoyangguan, Huantiao, etc.
  2. Cupping
  3. Bloodletting
Moxibustion

Within 2 months, his pain started to relieve, he felt good in 6 months. Now he is almost healed, and needs only a few more times for consolidation of curative effect.

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Breast Lipomas Reduced without Surgery

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During one of my physical exam, breast lipomas were found (one on the left and two on the right). They were so big that can be easily felt by hands.

Lipoma

WM doctors said surgery was the only option, but no girl would like to be operated on the breast and leave ugly scars.

I adamantly rejected my parents’ advice of going with the surgery (which would almost surely relapse as far as I know).

Because of my understanding of TCM, I went to see a TCM doctor, but my hopes were not high. I was so blessed to have met a solid doctor; he made me a prescription through only inquiry and inspection, without even taking my pulse.

The most amazing part is later when I was away, I could inquire him via Instant Message and Facetime, and he would write out another prescription.

It is the second dose now. I can feel clearly by touch that the lipomas are only 1/3 of the original size, and have softened.

With such progress, I think I’ll be cured after another dose.

I am deeply grateful to the doctor. In fact I also saw other TCM doctors in the past, and many said they were powerless. But if encountering the right doctor, it would indeed work like a charm!

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How do I evaluate my level of health when no symptoms of disease has been observed?

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Here are some ideas:

  1. Sleep
    People who can sleep all night usually have good and functioning organs.

  2. Appetite
    A normal appetite is to feel hungry at meal times. If you have poor appetite, do not feel hungry or have no desire to eat at all, then there’s a problem.

  3. Defecation
    Defecate daily, preferably in the morning. Since 5 to 7 AM is the time when the large intestine meridian operates, which is critical in bowel movement, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine.

  4. Urination
    Preferably a minimum of 5 to 7 times a day. Healthy amount of urination is about 400cc to 450cc (about volume of a typical bottled water). Normal color of the urine should be transparent with light yellow.

  5. Thirst
    It is normal when you feel thirsty, start drinking and the feeling disappears. However, if someone is always thirsty and keep drinking, yet after e.g. 5 cups of water, the thirst is still unable to be quenched, then it is a sign of illness.

  6. Temperature of hands and feet
    When the heart pulsates, most of the generated blood will flow to the organs and muscles, and the remaining to the extremities. If the heart function is impaired, the hands and feet would get colder; if heart is further weakened, they would become ice-cold. Under this circumstance, we need to bring heat back to the hands and feet.

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    Evaluate Your Health and Improve It via Regimen & Exercise

What will happen if the US adopted herd immunity on Covid-19, and how likely is it going to happen?

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Let’s do a quick math: herd immunity requires minimum infection rate of 70%. Take US population as 300 million, so this means 210 million people infected. Assume a minimum mortality rate of 1%, the total number of death will be 2.1 million. However, the prerequisite of the 1% mortality rate are:

  1. No collapse in the medical system
  2. Sufficient supply of materials
  3. Stable social order
  4. Stable economy and stock market and
  5. Efficient government operation

Otherwise mortality rate of almost 10% in Italy would be a reference. After herd immunity was over, will the US still be able to maintain its dominance in the world?

As President Trump mentioned in a press briefing that the U.S. coronavirus death toll could have reached 2.2 million without social distancing restrictions, and it would signal “we all together have done a very good job” if the number was limited to 100,000–200,000.

Take Italy as an example, which is currently closest to herd immunity (according to available truthful data). The Italian population is about 60 million, herd immunity will mean an infection of 42 million, with mortality rate of 10%, the death toll would be 4.2 million. Right now, infection case is about 100,000 in Italy. Considering increased number of testing and asymptomatic cases, a maximum of 6.4 million people may have been infected, which is still far away from 42 million people.

Presently most countries have adopted lockout and the infection curves have flattened. So it may take many years for the infection rate to reach 70%. If lockout was removed, which appears only a matter of time, the real infection curve could head upward again.

On the other hand, what if herd immunity did happen in Italy but not its neighbors like Switzerland, Spain or France? Should they continue to shut down the entire country and build a wall on the border?

Furthermore, human understanding of Covid-19 is still simple and lack of imagination. As the strangest virus in human history, it has refreshed horizons of human beings in just a few months. What if antibody of the virus had a limited duration, the virus mutated, or the virus suddenly disappeared? Hundreds of thousands of people would have died in vain?

The only hope for herd immunity are vaccines and specific medicines, but we all need to prepare for the worst.

Why hasn’t the US started importing masks from China, arguably the only country capable of relieving American mask shortage?

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Chinese company sued for exporting masks to the U.S.

There is a small company in China with its own factory, which does not have much awareness of patent. Recently, it was sued by a U.S. company for patent infringement for a recent export of masks to America. The US company does not have capacity to manufacture masks, but it has patent on masks.

The American company stated that: “Give us a sum of money and we will withdraw the lawsuit.”

But the total sales of the goods are not even enough to cover the proposed settlement amount.

With this precedent, the number of companies willing to export masks to the United States would be even less. At the time of global pandemic, this would not help relieve the urgent needs for medical equipment in the United States.

But certain American companies care nothing about health of the Americans; they just want to make a buck.

The Chinese standard of masks- KN95 is basically equivalent to N95 (American standard), but different interpretations of two standards in different regions.

Even the US CDC has stated that effectiveness of the KN95 mask is the same as that of the N95, and it is one of the many “suitable alternatives” of N95 masks, which are “in short supply.” According to 3M, the world’s largest mask manufacturer, KN95 is “equivalent” to N95 masks and “can be expected to be very similar in function.”

On March 17, 2020, the US CDC announced a “Strategy for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators: Crisis / Alternative Strategy”, which approved masks of the same level as N95 from other countries can be used in the United States. The list includes Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Australia , Europe, Mexico and China, a total of 7 countries and regions.

However, on March 28, the US FDA launched a new “Emergency-Use-Administration” (EUA), which states that respirator products from only 6 countries and regions can meet the US standards, and excluded China from the list.

On the other hand, in a news conference on March 31, President Trump discussed the potential needs of Americans to wear masks, and said Americans “can wear scarves” instead of masks.

“You can use a scarf, a lot of people have scarves and you can use a scarf. A scarf would be very good.“

When asked if he would recommend all Americans to wear masks, Trump said: “My feeling is if people want to do it there’s certainly no harm to it. I would say do it. Use a scarf if you want rather than going out and getting a mask.“

This article was originally posted on Quora.