The First National Congress of Chinese Medicine
The first National Congress of Chinese Medicine took place on November 11th and 12th, in Aix en Provence. The Confédération Française de Médecine Traditionnelle Chinoise, CFMTC, represented by FNMTC, UFPMTC and SIATTEC, organized it.
Like a fortune sign coming from past times, the event opening was on the 11/11/11… the number “1” symbolizing in the Chinese thought, the Dao, the path that connects the All in one.
The General Consul of People Republic of Chinain Marseille, Mr. Binglin SONG, friendly came to express his satisfaction when verifying that the Chinese Medicine is expanding in France and that some close links are tied between our two countries.
Between two conferences, the 500 to 600 participants have all been asked to join the annual Chinese Medicine Congress in Rothenberg (Deutschland), which will take place from May 15thtill the 20th, 2012. Pediatrics and infertility will be the main subjects.
The conferences began with a grave subject, “the Acupuncture Place in Cancer Treatment” exposed by Mrs. Miansheng ZHU, Chinese Medicine Doctor, Dumetrac, Paris XIII. In Chinese Medicine, the treatment of cancer patients is both psychological and physical. The acupuncture, in parallel with classic treatments, allows stimulating immunity defenses, minimizing chemotherapy and radiotherapy secondary effects, reducing cancer cells activity, improving the symptoms and relieving the pain. It also increases the patients’ sensibility to the anticancer drugs, which allows decreasing the doses.
The “CD” Bingkai LIU resumes by giving us an excellent example of the Sino-French cooperation. He presents the book “La Nomenclature Norminative Internationale Sino-Française des expressions et Termes Fondamentaux de la Médecine Chinoise” introduced by Dr. Michel ANGLES during the last « Monaco International Talks » in November 2010. In this book, the precision, the perspicuity and the elegance were worked hard. Notice, with enthusiasm, that this book obtains the Price of the Best International Contribution to the Chinese Medicine.
Louis TOUBOUL, acupuncturist, speaks about his medical life, his hospital experiences and his remarks on Occidental medicine and Chinese medicine. How can they be sometimes even rivals when they are so complementary?
Gérard EDDE, teacher at the “Ecole du Dragon”, discloses the Taoist Qigong or therapeutic Qigong basis which origins are shamanic. These exercises or the “Eight Immortals” are practiced in a sitting position. It’s necessary to chink the teeth to produce saliva that nourishes the yin. The tong, the eyes and hands opening play a very important role.
The doctor Didier SCHMITT, acupuncturist veterinary, takes us to China, on the Spirits Way, which leads to the Ming’s vault. 24 animal statues (lions, unicorns, elephants, chimeras…) line the road. He shows and tells us how the Chinese made the first meridians plans of the buffalo, the dromedary and the horse. He describes us his 25 years of observations, his developments and experiences with horses, dogs and felines, with the complete respect of the animal.
On the second day, the far-famed Professor Eric MARIE opens the congress. His conference deals with “The Chinese Medicine teaching in Universities”. In China, the knowledge transmission was for a long time oral (Masters-Disciples). In 1950, the teaching of Chinese medicine was institutionalized and regulated in close association with the Occidental medicine. Under Mao’s government, the Chinese medicine (feudal medicine) did not benefit from a good image among the politics but the people appreciated it. We observed a policy conducted between break and continuity. Nowadays, the studies last from between 5 to 9 years.
In Europe, the Chinese medicine is more and more integrated in the universities, in Switzerland, in Belgium, in Spain… In France, it’s taught at the medical University of Paris XIII as well as in Montpellier. However some impediments are important, they are cultural, epistemological, and ideological… and the issues are crucial (international relations, research, legitimization, open-minded occidental medicine, economical…).
To support this willingness to make known the Chinese medicine in Europe, a Professor Giovanni MACIOCIA’s video is presented on endometriosis and its treatments. For this pathology, the Chinese medicine offers a very interesting alternative.
In the Occident, the treatments are either hormonal or surgical. The hormones aim is to block the ovulation and the menstruations, an important inconvenient for women of childbearing age.
The Chinese medicine will adapt its treatments according to the symptoms (blood stasis, abdominal masses, tong color, kidney yang deficiency, humidity…) and to the 4 phases of the patient’s menstrual cycle (kidney tonification after menstruation). After the treatment (from 1 to 2 years), a significant improvement of the sterility and of the lesions is observed.
Mr. Trong Le DO, Chinese medicine Doctor, explains during his conference “Influenza A and seasonal influenza in TCM” that the influenza viruses are different but the lethal symptoms are the same (high fever, throat pain, breathing difficulties…). The yin energy is always deficient, the balance Xian Tian and Hou Tian must be reinforced; the nourishing energy (Ying Qi) must be strengthened and the defensive energy (Wei Qi) tonified to restore the yin/yang balance.
In acupuncture, the therapist will adapt his treatment to other symptoms (pulse, heavy legs, hands and feet temperature…). If the hands and the feet are cold, the Ren Yang will be toned up. To recover the body energetic balance and al the organs correct function, a lot of points will be solicited.
The Doctor Philippe ANNET presents “Acupuncteurs Sans Frontières (ASF)”, created in France 20 years ago. This organization goal is to favor the treatments access for the most deprived population all around the world. The acupuncture is an efficient preventive and curative treatment with a low cost (sterilisable needles), accepted by lots of populations as it is based on the body energetic balance (an almost universal concept). The interest is to teach to the local medical staff (doctors, nurses, midwives…) how to practice acupuncture to preserve their autonomy and to valorize them…
As says the Chinese proverb: “It is better to teach to a hungry man how to fish than simply giving him a fish”.
http://www.acupuncture-sfi.org
The Doctor Hamid MONTAKAB tells us about the dreams role and interpretation in Chinese medicine. In China and in Tibet, the dreams always had a divinatory and medical function. The circadian rhythm is the most important, it lasts 25 hours. During the sleep, the dreams occupy 20 to 25% of the time. All the dreams long, the cortex, the limbic system, the cerebral trunk and the cerebellum are stimulated.
In Chinese medicine, during the sleep, the Wei Qi flows 25 times in the body, the Shen retires in the blood, the liver plays a crucial part… the Hun and the Po take the control…
In the Taoist tradition: “The dream is the reality when we sleep”…
The Chinese medicine doesn’t attempt to interpret the dreams like Bruno Bettelheim in the Occident but try to extract the feeling remaining after the dream.
The last conference was a fabulous trip to China. The talented Sinologist, Cyrille JAVARY, with lots of poesy, humor and eloquence took us for a walk in the gardens at the yin/yang 4 seasons rhythm.
The Chinese garden is the cultural connection with the nature. It creates some landscape pictures (shanshui; shan: mountain and shui: water). We can find rocks instead of mountains, all shapes rocks, and dreaming sculpted rocks over time by the natural elements. We can find ponds and pavilions inviting us for contemplation or literary classics.
We linger in the Nets Masters’ Garden in Sushou, a microcosm of the universe. At the east, the spring, the rocks, ensuring the landscape stability, rise to the sky. At the west, the autumn, the flat rocks and some mountains indicate the irremediable come back of the yin. At the north, the winter, some rocks in which we can penetrate…
In the center the pond, the water, is empty of live in winter. In spring, the lotuses blossom and undulate to the light breeze rhythm... Instead at the west, some Ophiopogons, falling as waterfalls on the flat rocks, evocate the ripples of the mountain streams…
The gardens speak to our heart, to our spirit. Their beauty is never the same depending on the place where we are, the hour, the day or the season. We discover them as a painting or have a writing, through ornamented windows or a door curve… round… They are a poetic evocation, an invitation to delight…
References: “Garden of Suzhou” de Chen Jianxing
“Jardins de Chine ou la quête du Paradis” de Che Bing Chiu et Yuxiang Li
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