A morning on the inpatient ward in the new hospital

This morning we were with Professor Jin on the inpatient ward in the brand new building of the first affiliated hospital of the Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. This building has only been open here for a year. Patients have daily acupuncture and are an in patient if they cannot have daily outpatient treatment because their condition is too severe (e.g. stroke or rehabilitation) or they live too far away to come in every day.
Some of the treatments they have are fascinating and some are nothing but toe curling! Us westerners wouldn't be able to stand some of them....the Chinese don't even flinch!
We had a session on ear acupuncture and a demonstration on inserting small cat gut threads into acupuncture points to stimulate them to aid weight loss.

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