Chinese Medicines Center visit report

Today I write a report of Chinese Medicines Center, around 850 words, much easier than the last paper. Maybe because this report occupied only 20% total marks, I am more free to write=)

Moreover, I've tried the method I wrote on yesterday's blog---think exactly the meaning of a sentence before writing down and it really turned to work well! I love this logic method!

Keep going and work hard. Relax appropriately XD

Chinese Museum Visit Report

Expectation

At this time, I haven’t visited the Chinese Medicine Center. I ask myself “What’s your idea about Chinese medicine?” Then something comes out; radix ginseng, radix angelicae sinensis are famous Chinese medicine. So I hope to see some well-known Chinese medicine and know more about what their functions are how they work and how we could distinguish good Chinese medicine and inferior one.

Then as the history of Chinese medicine is very long, and a museum is where lots of things about Chinese medicine display, I hope to know some history about Chinese medicine as well. The book Bencaogangmu (mandarin pinyin) is so famous; maybe we could have a brief introduction on it.

Moreover, nowadays Chinese medicine is fiercely challenged by western medicine. Is there any decisive advantages could make Chinese medicine beat western medicine? If so, what are they and how could they do?

In the future, how will Chinese medicine develop? As some good medicinal materials need dozens to hundreds years to grow, such as radix ginseng, precious medicinal materials are reducing and hardly supplied to the medicine market, it must be a great challenge to people using Chinese medicine. Will Chinese medicine remain or degrade?

In fact, I heard some rumor that present-day Chinese medicine does little work, because many medicinal materials cultivated in greenhouses, which are not of enough nutrition. Is it true or false? In this visit I want to know.

Summery

In this visit I have been told many things about Chinese medicine. It has several categories and each can help people cope with various diseases or disorders. What’s more, medicinal materials are also in different classes, we can take some measures to distinguish them. Some Chinese medicines are not only curative but also poisonous, through this visit; I’ve gotten a brief idea on them. But after all, Chinese medicines are very helpful to people.

Categories of Chinese medicine

Chinese medicines are divided into three categories: plant, animal and mineral. There are more than 500 kinds of commonly used Chinese medicines which could be grouped according to their modes of treatment. Some Chinese medicines are so powerful, which can cure diseases that western medicines can’t.

To treat people, Chinese medicines have to fit specific types of expressions. For example, to solve heat, we use some medicines in cold property such as rhizoma coptidis; to stimulate digest, we can use fructus crataegi. There are also other categories of commonly used Chinese medicines, for instance, jiebiao medicine, qufengshi medicine, liqi medicine and so on.

Treasured herbs and animals

Among all Chinese medicines, some are especially precious and valuable for their scarce. These medicines are very expensive that general people can hardly use the first-class ones; however there are some inferior ones can be use as alternate, which I’ll talk about later.

Toxic medicines

There are 31 types of potent/toxic Chinese herbal medicines under regulation of Hong Kong, for example, cinnabar, realgar. These medicines are of great use but while the usage is not accurate, people may be in danger. When using these medicines, we have to obey the guide of doctors strictly and pay attention to the usage.

Genuine/ unorthodox/ fake medicines

Chinese medicines are classified. Genuine one and unorthodox one are different; for those fake one, of no use, just used by deceivers for fraud. So people have to take care to buy, everyone hope medicines to be good for their health, but they won’t want to be cheated or even harmed by fake medicines.

How to facilitate a healthy life with Chinese medicines

Chinese medicines have a great advantage is that they can be used to take care of people and keep a good balance of human bodies in daily life, not only when times you are ill. To gain a healthy life, people can meet doctors of Chinese medicines regularly, for curing diseases or disorders or protecting themselves from potential ill in time.

As I talked above, Chinese medicines are of various categories and classes. When people use Chinese medicines for their health, they have to mind medicines’ quality. Unorthodox medicines’ function is less than genuine ones, while fake ones are mostly of no use. It is only when people use right medicines can they see expected outcomes. What’s more, for a healthy life, people should be careful when use toxic Chinese medicines.

COMMENT

Though I neither saw the history of Chinese medicines nor the future of their development, I still praised the visit as ‘good’. In this visit I saw lots of real Chinese medicines and understood them better; the categories of medicines really help me know how to use them more. The most useful part I think is to learn how to tell fake medicines because I might come across them later.

For the four expectations Dr. Ko gave us in advance, I think they are all fulfilled. But about the medicines under the first class preservation program of the PRC government might not be lack of real objects. As they are so rare and expensive, the situation can be comprehended completely. What’s more, mineral medicines are talked few which is a little disappointed.

In the future, it is pleasant to know more about medicines’ functions and how to use them in daily life to keep healthy. Besides, the measure of telling medicines can be talked further, which is very practical.