Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 27th Title: Decoding Chinese Medicine
Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Xiangbin Zhou Ning Lu Guoqiang
Adjusting the athlete’s state with nutritional diet, a few silver needles can relieve the muscle pain that drugs can’t get rid of … This is not a mystery. The secret of Chinese’s physical fitness lies in thousands of years of Chinese medicine.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of modern medical technology, what role does Chinese medicine play? Xinhua News Agency reporters talked with Chen Tongyun and other famous Chinese doctors, walked into the training bases of national teams such as women’s table tennis and flower skating, and witnessed the Chinese medicine physiotherapy of world champions such as Ding Ning … and started the journey of decoding Chinese medicine.
Wang Yi, director of the Nutrition and Dietotherapy Department of Guang ‘anmen Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency. Xinhuanet issued Yang Wei photo
The homology of medicine and food: the secret of the national team’s kitchen
At the beginning of May, in Huangshi, Hubei Province, China National Women’s Table Tennis Team was preparing for various events this year.
As in the past, Wang Yi carefully observed the dining situation of each athlete-whenever the national team closed training, the director of the nutrition and dietotherapy department of Guang ‘anmen Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine would appear on the team as scheduled.
Athletes of China women’s table tennis team are having dinner at Guoping Restaurant in Huangshi Table Tennis Training Base, Hubei Province. Xinhuanet issued Zhang Wei photo
The competition is approaching. In this era when athletes’ daily nutrition and calories are accurate to single digits, the dishes in restaurants are no different from those in ordinary hotels. Players such as Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling take their meals at will just like ordinary staff.
Ding Ning, the world champion and Olympic champion of women’s table tennis, is choosing a meal at Guoping Restaurant in Huangshi Table Tennis Training Base, Hubei Province. Xinhuanet issued Zhang Wei photo
"She won’t rigidly limit what we can’t eat, but let us freely match among the foods we love." Ding Ning, captain of the women’s table tennis team and world champion, revealed.
Such a "casual eating" nutritional diet can meet the requirements of high-level athletes’ training and competition? Such a question once appeared in the mind of Li Yan, president of China Skating Association and head coach of China’s short track speed skating team, but his worries were quickly dispelled: thanks to the scientific collocation of daily food, Wang Yi’s team ensured that no one caught a cold during the five weeks of preparing for the Winter Olympics in 2014, eliminating the "big worry" that affected the training quality.
The "magic" of Chinese medicine dietotherapy is far more than that.
Li Sun, coach of China Women’s Table Tennis Team, was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency. Xinhuanet issued Peng Jiajing photo
"During the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yining sent a text message to Wang Yi during the competition, asking me to stop Yining’s sugar." Out of years of trust, Li Sun, coach of the national women’s table tennis team, immediately followed suit. Sure enough, Zhang Yining played well in the next match. "It turned out that Wang Yi was a little slow when he saw Zhang Yining’s nervous game on TV, and realized that it might be too much sugar intake."
Due to the large amount of training and irregular life away from home, many female athletes have the problem of inaccurate physiological period, which even affects their competition results. "At first, western medicine was used, but the effect was not good. Later, nutrition diet was mainly used, and with a little medicine, the problem was solved." Li Sun said.
"Traditional Chinese medicine’s’ homology of medicine and food’ is integrated with nutrition to produce a wonderful’ chemical reaction’." Wang Yi said, "Under the premise of people, places and times, what I want to do is to help athletes scientifically choose the types of food according to their different periods and States."
Acupuncture and Massage: the Key to Healing for "Dancers on Ice"
Injury is the natural enemy that every athlete has to face, but Chinese medicine always has some clever tricks to help them beat their opponents.
Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo, champion of synchronized skating in the Winter Olympics, was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency. Xinhuanet issued Li Wei photo
In 2009, Zhao Hongbo, the world champion of figure skating, "couldn’t bend his knees" in preparation for the Olympic Games. A Chinese doctor showed Zhao Hongbo the "magic" of acupuncture. "A knee joint can be pierced with more than 20 silver needles, and there are needles on the head, and then electricity is applied." Zhao Hongbo said, "It’s like torture in movies".
The effect was obvious. Zhao Hongbo quickly returned to the ice rink. A few months later, he and his partner Shen Xue won the first figure skating Olympic champion for China.
This is not the first time that I have become attached to Chinese medicine. In August, 2005, Zhao Hongbo’s achilles tendon was broken. In the pessimistic argument that "it is a miracle to stand on the field again", the medical team used "almost all means" of western medicine and Chinese medicine for Zhao Hongbo. "There is a Chinese medicine prescription for soaking feet, and the effect is very good." -Just six months later, Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue won the bronze medal in the Winter Olympics.
No wonder some foreign athletes commented calmly: "He is badly hurt, but Chinese medicine can cure him."
Ding Ning, world champion of women’s table tennis and Olympic champion, was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency. Xinhuanet issued Peng Jiajing photo
"I’m afraid of needles, although the doctor says needles are very effective." Ding Ning said with a smile that she would rather choose massage or massage. After the hard training of "swinging tens of thousands of times" every day, the massage of professional doctors makes "Ding Ning people" relieve fatigue and spirit.
Shang Xuedong, head of the medical team of China table tennis team, was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency. Xinhuanet issued Zhang Wei photo
Shang Xuedong, head of the medical team of China Table Tennis Team, said confidently: "Traditional Chinese medicine has its unique features, such as sprained ankle, and external application of traditional Chinese medicine reduces swelling very quickly; Another example is muscle injury, and acupuncture and Chinese medicine can quickly relieve symptoms. "
The curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is not only reflected in the treatment room. On the training ground of China’s short track speed skating team, experts from Guang ‘anmen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine are feeling the pulse of the athletes who have just finished a sprint-the interval of short track speed skating competition is half an hour. The traditional blood test method is easy to interfere with the athletes, but several experts can feel the pulse separately, and they can understand the psychological and physical changes of the athletes in a few minutes, so as to adjust their tactics.
Ding Ning, the world champion of women’s table tennis and Olympic champion, is receiving massage and other traditional Chinese medicine treatments. Xinhuanet issued Zhang Wei photo
Harmony between man and nature: the "health code" of Chinese people
In the thousands of years without vaccines and other medicines, how can Chinese fight against epidemics?
Chiu Man-Cheuk, the image ambassador and actor of China Fitness Qigong, demonstrated the basic movements of Tai Chi. Xinhuanet issued a cloud game.
Yu Rencun, an 83-year-old oncologist of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, is a patient with stage III intestinal cancer. "When it was discovered in 2005, there was already lymph node metastasis, which was a late stage. Chemotherapy after surgery, and a bigger operation after half a year. " Yu Rencun said that he chose several movements from Taiji Yunshou and Baduan Jinli, "Exercise when you have time", and combined with the treatment of traditional Chinese and western medicine, "patients with stage III intestinal cancer are generally prone to metastasis and recurrence in two years, and now it is 11 years, not bad."
Chiu Man-Cheuk (second from left), the image ambassador and actor of China Fitness Qigong, instructs Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yong (first from left) to practice Ba Duan Jin. Xinhuanet issued a cloud game.
Chen Tong Yun, a 96-year-old national famous old Chinese doctor, got up and took the reporter to do a set of self-created body-building exercises to move the whole body joints, and when exercising by herself, she had to lift her legs up to 1500 steps. Visiting 45 patients twice a week, each time continuously, Chen Lao, who has the skills of staying in Yan, has many fixed "fans".
"I live a happy life, never complain, and I am a contented person, so I have no gas to live." The old man told reporters that she likes to eat whole grains and is not picky about food, but she must eat on time and control her fullness at eight points. Get up on time every day and go to bed on time. "If you have a regular daily life, a moderate diet, and a good attitude, you can live to be 100 years old’ and keep moving’".
"The formation of Chinese medicine is inseparable from nature, and it is a theory summarized from the relationship between man and nature and between man and environment. Inconsistent with nature, people will get sick. " Chen Tongyun said.
Harmony between man and nature, harmony between righteousness and harmony, harmony and harmony, innovation and innovation … This is Chinese’s philosophy and Chinese’s health secret.