This hospital has been providing large-scale traditional Chinese medicine consultation services for 10 consecutive years, and citizens can experience making sachets with their own hands.

In ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival was also known as the "Five Poison Day". In May of the lunar calendar, the weather is hot and humid, poisonous insects are infested, and diseases such as hostility and plague are prone to occur. Wearing sachets is not only a traditional folk custom, but also a way to prevent diseases. Today, in the square in front of the Hongqiao Art Center in Changning District, a group of citizens tried their hand at making sachets.

The characteristic Dragon Boat Festival sachet is designed to aromatize dampness, strengthen the body and ward off evil spirits. It contains a total of 8 Chinese herbal medicines such as clove, angelica, and patchouli. It is wrapped with silk cloth and then tied with five-color silk strings to form a rope. The different shapes are exquisite and eye-catching. Ms. Zhang, a citizen, immediately hung it on her bag. "I rarely have the opportunity to experience traditional Chinese medicine and handicrafts. I like the fragrance very much."

This is the 10th consecutive year that Tianshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital has held a large-scale traditional Chinese medicine consultation event. In addition to the permanent medical consultation area, health exercise display area, experience area, and intangible cultural heritage area, this year there is a special science lecture area and sachet making experience. How to let more citizens understand, experience and identify with traditional Chinese medicine? Dozens of doctors from different specialties gave detailed answers on site.

Meng Weiwei, chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, received many elderly patients. “There are many inquiries about cervical spine, lumbar spine, knee joint pain and osteoporosis. Citizens’ doubts focus on the choice of treatment methods.” He told Reporter, the long-term concept is that conservative treatment is better than surgical treatment, but it needs to be discussed individually according to the condition. Previously, Mr. Zhang, who was in his 60s, suffered from severe pain in both lower limbs due to degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. When traditional treatment methods such as traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and massage had little effect, Meng Weiwei discussed with him whether to undergo surgical treatment.

"In fact, just like the questions raised by citizens at the free clinic, when discussing surgical treatment options in clinical settings, patients were initially reluctant. Therefore, we decided to use minimally invasive surgery. Although it is less commonly used in the treatment of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, and The technique is difficult and requires imaging and professional equipment to accurately find the patient's pinched nerve points. "Mr. Zhang's pain and numbness in both legs have been basically relieved. Good results can be achieved without "operation", and now it has become a bone problem. One of the mainstream treatments of choice in trauma department.

In addition, he specially reminded that the elderly prefer walking as a form of exercise, but they do not know that it may further aggravate knee arthritis. "If you have the conditions, you can try cycling, swimming, planking, etc."

Compared with "backache and leg pain" that citizens are familiar with, stroke is still a slightly unfamiliar term. "It turns out it was a stroke." Several residents who came together asked Cui Xiao, director of the rehabilitation department, before asking. "Except for patients who have been clearly diagnosed with stroke, family members came with examination reports. We found that patients with lacunar infarction actually have a great lack of understanding of stroke." She explained that, unlike the obvious symptoms of stroke, In daily life, numbness or weakness on one side of the limb, facial numbness or skewed corners of the mouth, loss or blurred vision, dizziness and vomiting, etc., may all be signs of cavity obstruction.

“Stroke prevention is divided into three levels. Among them, primary prevention refers to targeting people with stroke risk factors and actively treating the risk factors. At the same time, regularly monitoring the occurrence of other risk factors and taking targeted measures to reduce the occurrence of the disease, such as banning smoking. "Limiting the salt content in the diet, eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, doing regular physical exercise, and avoiding excessive drinking can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease." She told the citizens who came to consult that they should prepare for early risk factors before they are induced. Intervention may achieve better results than rehabilitation.

Shi Xiangdong, a dual-employed doctor in the community, provides massage to citizens.

Dean Ma Qiayi introduced that today is an event jointly organized by the hospital, as the leading unit of the Changning District Traditional Chinese Medicine Consortium, in conjunction with the tertiary hospital Longhua Hospital and the community health service center in the district. Dual-employed experts such as Wang Qiang from Wei and Shi Xiangdong from Huayang Social Health were also on hand to bring citizens experience in the appropriate techniques of traditional Chinese medicine. "In the next step, we will focus on the difficulties in primary care and residents' medical congestion, continue to integrate regional traditional Chinese medicine medical resources, build a rehabilitation network combining Chinese and Western medicine, carry out homogeneous management of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, cultivate and enhance the service capabilities of grassroots traditional Chinese medicine talents, and strengthen full-course health management and health science popularization, contributing to the high-quality development of regional traditional Chinese medicine.”