Andy Roscoe’s Blog: Another day in China…
/ 17 October 2013 / No CommentsHello again from Guangzhou. It’s now been 4 days in outpatients and they are still coming in thick and fast.
One thing that is different here is that the acupuncturists can also choose to train in Tuina which is very similar to osteopathy as it includes bone manipulation as well as all the deep tissue massage. They are surprised that the two disciplines are separate in the UK.
We continue to see many serious cases and the great thing is that the patients can come in every day for treatment if need be as it is essentially £1 a session ad I explained in the first blog.
Today we saw some young children being treated with acupuncture. Both were premature births. In one a young girl had misformed feet and ice cold legs. She had had operations on her feet to reshape them (in another part of the hospital – how good it is to have integrated medicine) and now she was getting acupuncture to connect up the lower body again. In the other a young boy could not speak and was essentially autistic. In amongst all the kisses and hugs he kept giving us he was given acupuncture to help him speak again, and had two words he could now say.
We see also amazing care given to these children by both parents and doctors and wonder how much this reflects the ‘one child ‘ policy and the preciousness of the only child.
The image shows one of the treatment rooms where we observe, to give you an idea of what it is like.
Goodbye until the next instalment.
