Hello,everyone,last class we discussed about how the acupuncture and moxibustion got popular through the world. Then the main point of this lecture is that is Chinese Traditional Medicine still useful today? We shall begin from some cases First of all, around the topic of acupuncture and moxibustion We shall talk about the application of acupuncture and moxibustion We once mentioned that acupuncture and moxibustion was used to treat dozens of diseases In fact the clinic application of acupuncture and moxibustion is far more than the number of WHO It has been shown that there have been over 100 kinds of acupuncture and moxibustion It is effective in various kinds of aspects from analgesia, anaesthesia ,to medical cosmetology and losing weight. Except the traditional clinic applications acupuncture and moxibustion and herbs have also been applied to the international frontiers Deng Tietao, the famous national master of medicine has a apprentice called Liang Lifang He combined the acupuncture and moxibustion and herbs in therapy And have achieved a lot in the research of test tube baby The book of acupuncture and moxibustion and test tube baby mentioned a fact The application of acupuncture and moxibustion and herbs can increase the the rate of success from 20% to 40% Someone may say that it is only 20 percent However as you can see it is making leaps and bounds to increase from 20% to 40% It is very difficult to double the success rate The result was acquired in the foreign research In fact there are also scholars who made similar achievements in clinic For example Wang Ruyao reported in the magazine of Chinese Traditional Medicine in 2005 Two cases which were successful in doing test tube baby with the help of traditional Chinese Medicine And Wu Yulin reported in the magazine of the 3rd issue on Chinese and Western Integrative Medicine in 2007 the experience of doing test tube baby with the help of traditional Chinese Medicine and summarized the applied effects in the frontier of doing test tube baby with the help of Traditional Chinese Medicine In fact the Traditional Chinese Medicine is often extremely effective in treating Infertility Let us see a case of a foreign doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine There is an Australian called Steven Clavey After studying Traditional Chinese Medicine in China in Traditional Chinese Medicine in China he returned to Melbourne and opened up a Chinese medicine clinics He is said to be good at obstetrics and gynecology of Traditional Chinese Medicine and of course according to the materials up to date, he also diagnoses patients in andrology of Traditional Chinese Medicine There is a patient called Yolanda Huisman The woman who was in her forties was tormented since she was unable to be pregnant Although she sought medical advice in many local hospitals, there was no improvement Then followed suggestion of her friends' she found Clavey’s clinic to try her fortune Clavey diagnosed using the therapy of Chinese Traditional Medicine and made prescription The prescription is made of some frequent-used Chinese Traditional Medicine. white Peony Root, red Peony Root, liquorice and so on As a matter of fact,they are medicine which pertained to liver channel and promote blood circulation In order to get a child, Huisman insisted to took these Chinese Traditional Medicine everyday. The decoction was sour and bitter, as well as a little sweet. Luckily, she successfully got pregnant a few months later With the help of the Chinese Traditional Medicine She was pregnant with two children This is a successful case A friend of Australian thought the story was unbelievable and found me to confirm I told him that in the clinical therapy using Chinese Traditional Medicine Such cases truly existed At least if the Infertility is not caused by organic disorder It can be healed by modulating physiology through Chinese Traditional Medicine As a matter of fact, in the formula prescibed by Clavey There were frequently used Chinese Traditional Medicine such as radices paeoniae alba, Chinese Angelica, Cyperus rotundus Linn, dried tangerine or orange peel, the root bark of the peony tree, Corydalis ambigua. I looked up the documents The medicine in that formula was almost the same with Gong Yanxian’s empirical formula treating Infertility in <healing all kinds of diseases> This document was published in the Shaanxi Chinese Traditional Correspondence of the fifth issue of 1996 That formula is almost the same with what was described as regulating menstruation is important in using decoction Those are frequent-used medicine in regulating menstruation in obstetrics and gynecology The difference lies in that there were no Rehmannia glutinosa, poria cocos, or medicinal evodia fruit. And that there were dandelion, red Peony Root, Codonopsis pilosula, liquorice, semen zizyphi spinosae, which the other did not include. It is also reasonable to modify the dosage according to the condition of the patients It is normal conventional therapy to Chinese Traditional Medicine. However it is miracle miraculous in the eyes of patients Chinese Traditional Medicine did solve some problems that the western medicine could not do. Except this case Next we shall talk about a case about brain trauma This is not a case which succeeded with only Chinese Traditional Medicine But a therapy using both the Chinese Traditional and Western Medicine An English doctor once gave up a patient The patient was a famous TV presenter She came across a car accident during her journey to Britain Luckily she herself could survive Although her brain trauma was very serious The English doctors tried their best to save her life But the patient was still out of conciousness after many repeated operation depending on the life support for survival The English doctors were to declare that her brain function ceased Her dependants could not accept this fact After careful deliberation ,on 8th June,2002 They transferred the patient to Beijing Xuanwu Hospital for treatment Finally,she was able to speak on 2nd August. The subsequent recovery was pretty good Why did I take such an example I think there were several points you should consider Exploring the thought of treating modern diseases using Chinese Traditional Medicine reproduced the prospect of treating infectious diseases using Chinese Traditional Medicine When the patient was just transferred to Beijing, because of infection She was in repeated high fever The patient was in high fever for another time on 24th June After consultation, doctors diagnosed it as serious septicaemia caused by mold infection At this time it is no point using antibiotics So the use of antibiotics had to be stopped And the doctors totally used Chinese Traditional Medicine and physical cooling to treat her Of course what we should pay attention to was that He adopted the emergency medicine in modern Chinese Traditional Medicine As well as traditional oral liquid form Combining the meridian transfusion and oral medicine And adding one of the three useful kinds of medicine called Angong ox gallstone Pill The body temperature finally was back to normal two weeks later And won time for further treatment The effectiveness of treating infection using Chinese Traditional Medicine reappeared But this choice is the largest concession to necessity And it is enough to demonstrate that people rely heavily on antibiotics As a matter of fact, before the antibiotics was discovered Intelligent human beings creatively used the traditional medicine To treat infectious disease Why people discarded all of that? The second point is that If the Chinese Traditional Medicine and the Western Medicine cooperate and appreciated each other instead of abusing each other, it will be very effective. During the process of therapy All of the staff in Xuanwu Hospital was mobilized Experts and medical equipment of all departments were used The combination of Chinese Traditional and Western medicine finally helped to patient to overcome difficulties and worked medical wonders Except the early Fundamental work Chinese Traditional Medicine has also done a lot in the later recovery Knowing the meridian and acupuncture point very well The method of rehabilitation not only combined some advanced technology but also added the meridian in Chinese Traditional Medicine into therapy The third point is that The Chinese Traditional Medicine must be supported by the modern science and technology so that it can function to the best and made breakthroughs During the process of brewing the medicine, there will remained some debris So during the administration of the critical patients medication The medicine can only be fed by using the nasal tube It is very easy to result in blockage And in the saving and treating of this patient in order to recover her ability of living independence as soon as possible The panel of experts decided to remove this nasal tube and trained the patient to eat herself. But this was faced with the difficulty of feeding her to take medicine Later they tied to transformed the granule in the medicine into paste by using rice water By this only a few scoops would solve the problem easily This also reminds you that there should be improvement in the traditional feeding methods of Chinese Traditional Medicine As a matter of fact,during the therapy, injection and intravenous injection were also used Such as Qingkailing ,Pulse-Engendering Powder and Pulse-Engendering beverage. those medicine were the fruits of researches with the help of modern science and technology It is not difficult to find from the above two cases that For some diseases difficult to treat using Western medicine, adopting Chinese Traditional Medicine or adopting the combination of Chinese Traditional Medicine and the Weatern medicine can made the treatment very effective Later, British sent two doctors to ask for information of the patient in China In order to confirm the compensation They were astonished at the sight of the treating effect They had thought even if such a patient recovered The situation would be no better than that she was in convulsion They were wondering what kind of therapy we adopted We Chinese healthcare staff gave such an answer We not only have high level doctors of Western medicine but also have Chinese Traditional Medicine which you do not have This is the fruits of the cooperation of Chinese Traditional Medicine and the Western medicine The father of the patient once said that He had been doubtful towards Chinese Traditional Medicine And facts told him that both his two daughters benefited from the treatment using Chinese Traditional Medicine His elder daughter was infertile because of brain tumor After visiting a doctor of Chinese Traditional Medicine, she was able to be pregnant She also said that luckily we returned to Chinese hospital And there are Chinese Traditional Medicine here and there is no gap between Chinese Traditional and Western medicine And it is the combination that saved her sister’s life In fact in the daily diagnosis and treatment of diseases There are numerous cases of the effective treatment using Chinese Traditional Medicine Chinese Traditional Medicine plays an important role both at home and abroad The chairman of the the traditional Chinese Medicine Association in Britain now is Ma Boying,who is the lifetime academician Royal Medical Society He is a professional doctor with special training in Western medicine The medical cases when he was practising medicine during the Great Cultural Revolution made him experience the clinical effectiveness of Chinese Traditional Medicine The first thing after the Great Cultural Revolution, to further his postgraduate study, further made him realize the profound nature of Chinese Traditional Medicine He once mentioned his own experience of practising medicine and his fond feelings for Chinese Traditional Medicine and excoriated those who held blind worship of western science and denied the speech made by Chinese Traditional Medicine and pointed out that Chinese Traditional Medicine was a Ecological science that deserved being promoted. In fact in China as well as many other places There are many patients receiving treatment using Chinese Traditional Medicine everyday And the successful cases are numerous Therefore, the Chinese Traditional Medicine is still useful OK that is all for this lecture