Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Care Course

Among the TCM health-preserving courses currently available on the market, there are only three categories that are worthy of your time: those that “match your daily needs, the instructors hold formal TCM qualifications, and do not sell sky-high-priced informal health-preserving products throughout the course.” The rest are mostly just hooks for cutting leeks. Not only do you fail to learn the real thing, but you can easily injure your body if you practice blindly.

I don’t say this casually. Last year, I helped my mother screen health courses on more than a dozen different platforms, and I also helped the senior sister who runs a community Chinese medicine clinic review the content of public welfare courses. I have seen too many examples of people stepping into the trap. Not long ago, an aunt came to the museum with a big bruise on her elbow. She said that she had received a health class for 9 yuan. The teacher said that 1,000 times of Baxu massage every day can detoxify the body. The pain became more and more painful after a week. She thought it was a "detoxification reaction". If her children hadn't forced her to come to check, she almost thought that the ruptured capillaries were a good thing.

In fact, current health courses can be roughly divided into two categories. The first category is academic courses taught by teachers from Chinese medicine universities and traditional Chinese medicine doctors in regular hospitals. The content is rigorous and every conclusion is supported by textbooks or clinical data. However, the disadvantage is that it is too easy to fall into academic terms. Ordinary people are confused after hearing "Syndrome Differentiation of Wei Qi, Nutrition and Blood" and "Triple Burner Theory and Treatment". After listening, they still don't know how to deal with cold hands and feet. The other type is practical courses given by TCM practitioners who have learned from folk teachers. The tips are very down-to-earth, such as gargling with light salt water to treat dry throat pain in the morning, adding 3 peppercorns to ginger and jujube tea to relieve menstrual cramps. You can use it on the same day after learning it, but you need to pay special attention to it. When looking at teachers, if you encounter those who do not have a professional license and are known as "hidden descendants", it is easy to hear the outrageous conclusion that "everyone drinks Shengmai Yin every day to live a hundred years." If people with heavy phlegm and dampness drink it, the more they drink, the more blocked they will become.

Many people say that TCM health classes are all about IQ taxes, but in fact they are really unreliable. My senior sister received free public welfare classes in their community. They talked about "how to look at your tongue coating to choose breakfast" and "how patients with high blood pressure usually press the Taichong point to help stabilize blood pressure." An old man who has suffered from hypertension for 10 years followed the class for 3 months, and adjusted his daily diet and rest. The last time he went for a review, the doctor reduced the amount of antihypertensive pills he took by less than half. But if the class you take starts selling “Energy Health Bed” and “Nine-turn Immortality Pill” worth tens of thousands of dollars in the third period, then don’t think about it and quit immediately. In essence, they will cut you like a leek.

Oh, by the way, when taking a course, don’t just focus on the gimmicks of “free” and “0 yuan learning”. First, go to the official website of the National Health Commission to check the instructor’s medical practitioner number. If you can find it, take it. If you can’t find it, don’t believe it no matter how awesome it is. There are also those who give you the conclusion of "one thousand people are suitable" at the beginning, such as "everyone should drink Panax notoginseng powder every day" and "everyone should moxibustion Guanyuan point", just cross it out. The core logic of traditional Chinese medicine is syndrome differentiation and treatment. Everyone's body constitution is different, and the suitable methods are very different. Anyone who dares to prescribe the same prescription to everyone is either stupid or bad.

If you really get a reliable class, don't be anxious and practice blindly. First, compare it with the physical fitness criteria mentioned in the class, first figure out whether you are yin or yang deficiency, whether you are phlegm-damp or qi-stagnation, and then adjust accordingly. I saw a girl before who had a red tongue with little coating and constant heat. I mistook the deficiency of yin and the excess of fire as dampness and heat. I followed the instructions in the class and drank red bean and barley water for half a month. I almost got a nosebleed from drinking it. It was really unnecessary.

Anyway, health care is all about living a comfortable life. Don’t be carried away by the gimmick of “taking classes for free”. It’s always good to be more careful. If you really don’t know how to choose, I still have the electronic version of my senior sister’s community charity courses. They are all for ordinary people. They don’t have all the fancy gimmicks. If you want them, just leave a message. It’s better than taking some unreliable courses blindly.