Medical Encounter with Dr. Huo

By CiCi 2014-09-04 ccui2@albany.edu

Dr. Hao has great reputation in healing sicknesses related with reproductive system of both man and woman, his specialty also included many other categories, such as problems with skin, spine, etc, .

Family inheritance is one of the most important training approach of traditional Chinese Medicine doctors. Dr. Huo began his training when he was still a teenager…He want to find some one to inherit his skills, but even his son refuse to do it since “it is too difficult”…This is a classical dilemma of many traditional cultural heritages in China.

I had asked him whether I can learn from him, he said: You are too old for leading Chinese medicine… I agree with him… The training is very intense…and need great memory about all the recipes…To be really good at it, the trainee needs to start at very early age, and be totally focused on it.

Grateful patients from all over the country sent in appreciation flags to Dr. Huo. In China, sending appreciation flag to doctor is a sign of great appreciation.

Materials for Chinese medicine come from all kinds of plants and organs of animals, Dr. Huo and his wife who was a nurse trained in the western medical system use their own tools and procedures to make their own medicines. The formula can be well know receipt, it can also be a family secret.

Dried scorpions waiting for be processed. Scorpion is very good materials for many medicines.

The messages from Buddhism and Confucianism can be found on the wall and the door.

Dr. Huo and his wife live behind the door.

His office is also his pharmacy.

A long poem on the all that persuade people to treat their parents well.

Look at the left side of the picture, Dr. Huo is using his finger to diagnose his patient.

(I intentionally skipped the patient’s face in this photo)

The social structure and cultural-psychological structure in China is quite different from the U.S. Compared with here, privacy is not a big issue in China. As you can see, while Dr. Huo is diagnosing the patient, there were two unrelated individuals are around. No one think it is a problem, including the patient herself.

Doubt the effects of Dr. Huo’s medical skills? Let me put it in this way. The same sickness

that happened to many woman, in Western style hospitals, the patients need to go through the insertion of tube, even the surgery…even so, the symptom can only be mitigated, can’t be completely cured. When they come to see Dr. Huo, after three weeks’ medicine (tastes terrible…), the problem got completely solved.

There is always something going beyond our imagination.

Never got fooled by the illusion of what the world should be.

Thanks for your time!CiCi