In early winter, the weather has been very cold. After eating breakfast in a hurry, I went to see a doctor with Mr. He Ying as promised, consolidating the curative effect of the previous two days. Teacher He Ying is good at acupuncture, and often uses moxibustion and scraping therapy to treat patients, which has repeatedly achieved miraculous results.
My rheumatoid disease has a history of 35 years. I have joint deformities in my hands, knees and feet. Acupuncture can never completely solve the problem once or twice, and it needs comprehensive treatment. He Laoshi advised me: "A patient with femoral head necrosis came to see me with crutches. After comprehensive treatment, he got rid of crutches ... You should also have confidence and cooperate with the treatment. Don't doubt that miracles will happen to you! "
He Laoshi's words are particularly warm in this early winter season. A person who has been tortured by chronic diseases for decades is in a state of depression and weakness for a long time. Often, hearing a doctor's comforting words can awaken the hope and willpower that have been sleeping for a long time, just like opening a bright skylight, his mood will suddenly be enlightened, and he will once again straighten his tilted and possibly falling life balance.
Moxibustion and scrapping are based on the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Neijing holds that meridians can be "fatal and cure all diseases", so moxibustion and scraping can be used to dredge meridians, which can not only protect health, but also treat various diseases and even strange diseases. Moxibustion is to use moxa sticks made of folium Artemisiae Argyi to stimulate acupuncture points or specific parts of human body, and regulate the physiological and biochemical functions of human body disorder by stimulating menstrual activities, so as to strengthen the body resistance and eliminate pathogens, and achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases; Scraping is a special scraping instrument and its corresponding method. It is dipped in a certain medium and scraped repeatedly on the body surface, so that red grains of rice or dark red bleeding spots appear on the skin, thus achieving the effects of promoting blood circulation, penetrating consumption, eliminating pathogens and expelling toxins. He Laoshi made good use of "Moxibustion Scraping Cup", and completed two medical procedures of Moxibustion Scraping at the same time, combining point and surface, and making corresponding scattered supplements, with remarkable curative effect.
What He Laoshi gave me this time was the comprehensive therapy of "Moxibustion and Scraping Cup". She took a delicate pottery cup, skillfully put it in the moxa stick, and then lit it with a lighter ... Suddenly, Ai Xiang floated around the room, making me feel as if I smelled my hometown. I remember in my hometown, every Dragon Boat Festival, my mother would pick mugwort leaves and hang them on the lintel, saying that they could drive away plagues and evil spirits and add a lot of security to young hearts. Artemisia argyi has a history of thousands of years and became the hero of preventing plague at that time. Modern medical pharmacology has proved that wormwood is an antibacterial and antiviral drug, which can inhibit and kill germs and also prevent and treat respiratory diseases. Today in the year of Gengzi, I smelled the smell of wormwood under the roots of the imperial city, and there was no warmth and kindness to soothe my soul.
He Laoshi put ginger essential oil on my back, and the ceramic cup scraped by moxibustion began to slide in an orderly way. This gentle sliding gives people a very moist and comfortable feeling. In a trance, I was urged to enter a mysterious fairyland, and it was easy to feel satisfied ... After about half an hour, my whole back was diagnosed and my whole body relaxed.
Author Li, a retired military cadre in Lianhuachi, Beijing, is a member of Chinese Writers Association. He is the author of a collection of poems, Selected Lyrics of Li (Volume I), a collection of essays, Sunbird, and a long documentary literature, Son of Nature.