NBA: The best team doctor in history

Chapter 68: Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Cupping Master Sean
Sean, who had already planned to learn, quickly asked the most crucial question.

Now that I have weapons, how do I use them?
The minister needs to teach me!

Jiang Ming opened another package and handed a few books inside to Sean and Jiang Muyan who was cleaning medical equipment in the disinfection pool:
"These books are about the acupuncture points on the human body and the effects of massage and acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine. They cover the most basic things. You can study them first. If you don't understand, just ask me."

This is the book he used for the required Chinese medicine course when he was in school. It is a must-have for beginners and is more useful than any other book on Chinese medicine on the market.

The two of them carried the book to their desks as if it were a treasure, while Jiang Ming opened different types of moxa sticks and began to study them.

Moxibustion sticks are completely unavailable abroad, so Jiang Ming bought a lot of them.

Foreigners who go to traditional Chinese medicine clinics simply don't believe in this method of medical treatment that does not involve direct contact with the body, so the traditional Chinese medicine clinics here don't use it.

But in fact, Jiang Ming thinks this is the most useful, because ordinary people can use it easily at home, and it is very effective for maintaining health.

It's just a little troublesome to make. Given his current conditions, it's not realistic for him to make moxa sticks by himself.

It is for this reason that he has the highest requirements for moxa sticks.

So he smelled the moxa sticks he bought one by one and sorted them according to quality.

Moxibustion sticks can be divided into pure moxa sticks, old moxa sticks, clean moxa sticks, smokeless moxa sticks, medicinal moxa sticks, etc.

1. Pure moxa sticks: They are made of pure moxa. No other ingredients are added except moxa.

This is what he gave Oden at the beginning. It was also made by his junior fellow student in an experiment and was taken away by him.

2. Aged moxa sticks: moxa sticks made from moxa leaves that have been stored for a long time. Generally, the moxa leaves are dried and stored for 3 years, or even longer.

3. Clear moxa sticks: Use moxa sticks made from moxa leaves that have been stored for one year. However, clear moxa sticks are hot-tempered and contain a lot of tar, so doctors generally do not recommend their use.

4. Smokeless moxa sticks: Moxa sticks are made by carbonizing moxa leaves, but the effect is relatively poor.

5. Medicinal moxa sticks: In addition to the ingredients of mugwort, some traditional Chinese medicinal ingredients for enhancing fragrance and removing odor are also added.

Jiang Ming purchased each kind and found that the aged moxa sticks were really good. They should be of this age. It seems that the pharmaceutical company that sold them to him did a good job in quality control. He can buy more next time when they are used up.

In the end, Jiang Ming dismantled the most trusted traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment method in the United States.

Compared with moxibustion, 10 out of 9 Americans go to traditional Chinese medicine clinics for cupping, and 1 for scraping.

Gua Sha is less targeted for athletes, and Jiang Ming will not use it on players often, so he bought some plant essential oils and a few stainless steel scraping boards, and scraped himself or the staff around him when they felt uncomfortable.

Cupping is much more targeted.

So Jiang Ming also purchased a complete set of cupping sets.

The types of cupping jars mainly include bamboo jars, ceramic jars, glass jars and vacuum jars.

These jars are much cheaper because they don't require any particularly high technical content, as long as they are made of this material, it will be fine.

The bamboo jar is made of solid and intact bamboo with a diameter of 3 to 5 cm. It is shaped like a waist drum, with a node at one end as the bottom and the other end as the jar mouth.

The advantages of bamboo pots are that they are easy to obtain, economical and easy to make, light and cheap, and not easy to break, making them suitable for decocting.

However, its disadvantages are that it is easy to crack, leak, and has weak adsorption capacity.

So although Jiang Ming already had a set of bamboo pots, he still bought a new set as a backup. Pottery pots are made of fired clay, and their shape is also small at both ends and large in the middle, shaped like a waist drum. The advantage of pottery pots is their strong adsorption capacity, but their disadvantage is that they are heavy and easy to break and damage.

The glass jar is made of glass based on the ceramic jar. It is shaped like a ball and has a smooth mouth.

The advantage of a glass jar is that it is transparent. When using it, you can observe the degree of congestion and blood stasis of the skin at the site of extraction, making it easy to understand the situation at any time.

The vacuum tank is mostly made of transparent plastic, with a piston on it for easy vacuuming. There are also special rubber bag exhaust tanks. The advantages of this tank are easy to use, strong adsorption, safer and not easy to break.

These different types of jars have their own characteristics and are suitable for different treatment needs and occasions.

Bamboo jars are light and economical, so they are suitable for self-care use in rural families. If they break, they don’t have to worry about it. They can just go to the bamboo forest and cut more the next day.

Ceramic and glass jars are more popular in professional medical environments due to their transparency and strong adsorption capacity;
The vacuum cup has gradually become the mainstream choice for modern cupping due to its convenience and safety.

Jiang Ming himself would never use this vacuum jar. When did the ancients ever use this kind of high-tech jar? The effect is far inferior to that of bamboo jars and glass jars.

But he purchased 5 sets of vacuum cups because he thought this was the material that would be easiest to popularize cupping.

These are also the most suitable jars for Jiang Muyan and others to learn from. Otherwise, if they use ceramic jars and glass jars at the beginning, either the patient will be scalded or the jars will not fall off due to insufficient fire. No matter how many sets they buy, they will not be enough.

Mainly from the perspective of promoting traditional Chinese medicine and business, once this kind of vacuum plastic jar is popularized in the United States, it will definitely be a great promotion of traditional Chinese medicine. It is too easy to use. You can use it after watching once how to use the rubber bag to pump air.

Jiang Ming is well aware that he shoulders the heavy responsibility of promoting traditional Chinese medicine.

If this kind of jar is sold to Americans, the profit can be multiplied several times.

After all, the effect is visible to the naked eye when you see a few black marks on the body, and Americans fall for it.

When Jiang Ming was sorting out so many jars, the staff passing by thought they were wine glasses. They thought, this new minister just came and bought so many big wine glasses. Is he going to create a drinking culture in the office?
But Robert, who had seen Jiang Ming cupping Oden, felt an itch on his back after seeing some of the extra-large cups.

I want to pull it out!

"Just say it if you want to. It's a good opportunity for Sean to practice."

Robert smiled awkwardly. Although he really wanted Jiang Ming to cup him personally, he changed his mind and thought that it was good enough to be able to cup him during working hours. Why would he need a bicycle? So he nodded quickly.

Jiang Ming directly told him to lie down in the infirmary, and taught Sean how to cupping with the simplest vacuum cup. He knew why Robert wanted to cupping when he saw the cup, and the subconscious discomfort in his back was because he had a lot of moisture in his back, which happened after staying in the air-conditioned room for a long time.

Jiang Ming taught Sean to remove dampness by stimulating specific acupoints on Robert's body surface or the back-shu points on both sides of the spine.

Sean pumped Robert so much that 20 minutes later, when he applied cupping, Robert's back was covered with round marks ranging from red to purple.

Robert put on the shirt with great comfort: "Great, my back feels ventilated, so comfortable!"

This also attracted several other members of the team's medical team to go and pull them out one by one.

The team doctors use air conditioning in the office every day, and there is basically heavy humidity in the office. Sean turned into a cupping master. The next day, when Jensen asked his subordinates why there were marks on their necks, they sighed that it was comfortable and suggested that Jensen try it too.

"Shawn is a master now, he's really good at cupping!"

Jensen snorted:
"I'm not going. The Chinese Medicine Department is not doing its job. The right thing to do is to cure Oden as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)