Chapter 29 Teaching Chinese Medicine to Foreigners
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After Halloween, someone came to the door, but not for the doctor's appointment. The person who came was an old man in his sixties, with white hair and a stern face: "Doctor Li, excuse me, I'm Dr. Rickman from Queen Mary, University of London." ”
"Hello, I wonder what you are looking for me?" There were a few patients waiting in line to see a doctor, and Li Han didn't bother to go around the corner with him, and asked directly about his intentions.
Dr. Rickman smiled: "I'm a fan of the Liverpool team," Li Han raised his eyebrows in confusion and motioned for him to continue, "so I've read all the newspapers about them, and I've gone to the club to talk to the manager, the professor, the team doctor, and all the athletes you've treated." ”
Li Han already understood what he meant, this was because he had taken a fancy to his medical skills, but he still didn't understand whether the other party wanted to discuss medical skills with him or what to do.
Rickman continued: "I think the West has not paid enough attention to Chinese medicine, but you have shown the public the subtlety of Chinese medicine, it can do some treatment that Western medicine cannot complete, I think if everyone can pay more attention to it, and make a supplement to Western medicine, they can make greater contributions to medical skills." ”
Li Han smiled bitterly, theoretically speaking, but in fact, even China is paying less and less attention to traditional Chinese medicine. There is no way, generally speaking, Western medicine is more effective, and Chinese medicine focuses on recuperation, and in today's fast-paced world, it is not treated by impetuous people. There is a solution to the problem in a few days, so why go to a Chinese medicine that only takes a month to see results? What's more, there is also the bitter decoction that is difficult to eat, which is even worse than the pill capsules of Western medicine, and I don't know where it goes.
Since then, the business of Li's TCM clinic has indeed been very good, but this does not mean that TCM is favored by patients, which can only show that Li Han is famous. It does not play much role in the status of traditional Chinese medicine.
"So, I'm here to ask you, would you like to go to the school and teach Chinese medicine to the students of the medical school?" Dr. Rickman asked.
Li Han was stunned. Going to teach Chinese medicine to students studying Western medicine? Can they understand? Or do you want to talk about the restraint or complementarity of some everyday foods? Puzzled, he asked, "Dr. Rickman, what are you trying to achieve?" You know, the system of Chinese and Western medicine is completely different, and it is impossible to understand it if you don't have the cultural heritage of Huangguo. ”
"I hope to promote Chinese medicine." Dr. Rickman unceremoniously said, "Use Chinese medicine to supplement the blank areas of Western medicine and solve those diseases that Western medicine cannot solve." ”
Li Han thought about it very seriously for a while, and said: "Then the Chinese medicine textbooks have to be carefully arranged, there are many knowledge in the Chinese medicine system that cannot be understood without that environment." Maybe we can try some simple things first, some medical lectures that don't require much knowledge of the ancient culture of the Huang Kingdom, if the students are willing to learn and can understand, and then invite someone to compile the textbook. ”
Rickman nodded: "That's what I mean, too. So, could you please ask Dr. Lee to come to Queen Mary for a few lectures? ”
Li Han has no opinion, if he doesn't say that he will definitely give a lecture fee, he will not give it, and he will not let go of such a good opportunity to promote traditional Chinese medicine. In the end, the two agreed to try five public classes first, and if the response was good, they would start offering elective courses in Chinese medicine next semester, and then consider opening a Chinese medicine major in the future.
After preparing at home for a few days, Li Han took the courseware of making zuò and went to it. In the past, when he was studying for a Ph.D., he used to give lectures to undergraduate students for his tutors, and he was used to lecturing. It's just that at that time, you only need to finish what you need to talk about, and everyone is professional. Now it is not only necessary to teach Chinese medicine to foreigners who do not understand the culture of Huangguo, but also to make it easy to understand, and to attract them to understand Chinese medicine and learn Chinese medicine, which makes people feel a lot of pressure.
Before walking to the classroom, Li Han saw his photo from a distance, he recognized it at a glance as the one in the sports newspaper, and his achievements in treating the injuries of the athletes were written next to it, and the classroom was full of people, and he didn't know how much better than he imagined the situation of three or two kittens.
The theme that Li Han has prepared for today's lecture is: Chinese medicine is an intangible science.
He prepared a large number of cases, interpreted the treatment methods in the cases with scientific methods, and tried to let these foreign devils who did not understand yin and yang and did not understand the five elements know that in fact, Chinese medicine contains science, and this qiē can be explained by scientific means.
Taking this as the first lesson has two purposes, one is to let these scientific foreign devils accept Chinese medicine psychologically, and the other is to hope to solve the problem of Chinese patent medicine.
Due to the elaboration of efficacy and pharmacological effects, which mostly follow the theories of traditional Chinese medicine and cannot be proved by modern scientific theories, it is almost impossible for traditional Chinese medicine to be registered and approved for marketing in the United Kingdom. If proprietary Chinese medicine is really stopped, it will be a big blow to the exhibition and promotion of Chinese medicine in the UK. He hopes that this lesson will inspire his colleagues at the UK exhibition to solve this problem. It also makes the UK's Drug and Health Products Administration raise its hand and not directly ban proprietary Chinese medicines.
Obviously, even Dr. Rickman did not expect that Chinese medicine could really be linked to modern science, which made some people who were already interested in Huangguo more interested, and some people who demonized Huangguo and confused Chinese medicine with witch doctors were refreshing.
Traditional Chinese medicine is also scientific.
The two-hour class ended quickly with thunderous applause. Dr. Rickman stood up from the front row and walked over to shake his hand: "Very well spoken, Dr. Lee, very successful, I believe our plan is very promising." ”
What is the plan? Of course, it is to open TCM elective courses and even TCM majors, which represents a big step forward in TCM in introducing itself to the world.
Li Han smiled lightly, I have to say that he was very nervous in this class, even more nervous than when he stood on the podium for the first time to give a lecture to undergraduates who were about his age.
"Hopefully, if the next few classes are still so popular, it means that our plan is going to be successful." Li Han smiled and waved goodbye to him, it was too early to say anything.
"Congratulations, Han, you've done a great job."
Li Han turned around, it was Lydia and Aina, he saw them as soon as he stood on the podium, sitting straight in the second row and smiling at him. They weren't medical school at all, they weren't even students at the University of London, how did they get to London from Oxford?
"Thanks, I'm glad you guys like it." Li Han smiled, "But why are you here?" ”
"Of course, I heard that you were going to give a lecture, so I came to support you." Aina half-truths.
Li Han turned to Lydia, he knew it as early as when he was losing weight for Aina, this girl sometimes runs trains with her mouth full, which is not very reliable. Lydia pursed her lips and smiled, "It's true that I came here to listen to your class, isn't it a weekend today?" Anyway, there was nothing else to arrange, so I came over. ”
"Thank you, thank you!" As soon as Li Han heard this, he hurriedly made a gesture, "How about I invite the two ladies to dinner to show my gratitude?" ”
The two girls pretended to think about it for a moment and nodded: "Then I'll give you this chance." ”
After paying the two girls to dinner, they were dragged out for an afternoon of strolling, both hands full of large bags and small bags, until they were about to catch the train back to Oxford, and then let him go.
In the next month, in addition to seeing a doctor, Li Han devoted the rest of his time to preparing for classes. He first took a lesson to talk about yin and yang and the five elements, although this kind of mysterious and mysterious thing is known to everyone in Huangguo, there are not many people who really understand it, let alone let these foreigners understand it. He can only talk about everything in the world in combination with yin and yang and the five elements.
Then there is the relationship between the human body and the changes of the four seasons of heaven and earth, the influence of seasonal climate and region on diseases, the relationship between changes in heaven and earth and treatment, and so on. It should be easy to understand, understandable, and attractive...... Theoretical things are okay, mainly because people who are purely theoretical can't understand it, so he can only find a lot of cases and talk about Chinese medicine from cases, which takes him a lot of time.
This is followed by the meridians, which are the simplest, directly talking about his treatment of injuries for athletes as a case, explaining the circulation of the strange veins on the human body and the role of treating diseases, as well as the relationship between essence, qi, and spirit and them. Finally, he showed his hand and pointed to a few self-recommended classmates to analyze their physical health and connect it with the recent climate.
This hand attracted a lot of admiring eyes, and some girls exclaimed: "This is a means that only Sherlock Holmes can have, it is too powerful!" ”
The amused Li Han laughed: "I have nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes's deduction, basically Chinese medicine will do this, just like Western medicine with a stethoscope." ”
The girl's eyes immediately lit up: "Dr. Li, do you also know how to perform Khan?" Do you also love watching Sherlock? ”
Li Han Khan: "It's also in the complete episodes of Sherlock Holmes, let's continue to take classes, continue to classes." The girl's eyes were so terrifying, exactly the same as when his ex-girlfriend pulled him to talk about those pairings, attacks, and acceptances.
Dr. Rickman immediately went to prepare for the opening of a TCM elective course at Queen Mary College next semester, originally he also wanted to open a TCM major directly, but Li Han felt that it was better to take it slowly, after all, opening a major is not like an elective or an open class, just learn these superficial knowledge, many things that need to be studied in depth are not so easy to understand, a bad one will delay the student's future, maybe the patient's condition will be delayed in the future.
In addition to these, to Li Han's surprise, even if his public classes were held on weekends, he did not expect that Lydia in Oxford would come to listen to every class, she studied classics and had nothing to do with medicine.