“I have a symptom, but?”

A woman in sixties whose hand and leg on the right side of the body becoming numb, no power on the right hand, not putting on slippers easily to a right leg, came to my clinic on the other day.
I asked her, “Can you be inarticulate?” She answered that it was not easy to talk simultaneously with the symptom. Her blood pressure was high and she was the diabetic.
I worried about the cerebral infarction of a left brain soon. When the inspection of MRI was thoroughly undergone, there was nothing wrong at all and the doctor made her go home.
It there is nothing unusual in the laboratory result, you may be all right though you have a symptom. The doctor sometimes recommends the psychic treatment when it is awful.
I am sure that we can see any rhythm or a big hint of the cause of the sickness because we see a lot of patients.
What lots of patients come to me, even if abnormality is not found anyway in laboratory results.

“Cause and result”

According to her background, the patient is a madam in the temple. Lots of visitors couldn’t give her time to have a rest. Moreover visitors brought a lot of sweet, and she ate them every day.
In addition, she stopped taking a walk as a habit because her right leg became difficult to move.
The vicious circle kept going. If let it be, the blood vessel will be blocked in the future.

Well, I looked after her body. “Warp of the Qi” (unbalance of whole) is found while searching for the vital point because the most of our diagnosis is the outside of the body observation (introduced it in the last column). Moreover diagnosis becomes the recovery point. In this case、I could see the poor flow of blood by the reason of the griding pulse, state of skin (like crawl blood), blackish vein in the back of tongue.
Moreover, the reaction had obviously gone out to the vital point concerning blood.
In addition, it was very hard because she felt much tension for a long time and there were also a lot of vital point that were considerably loose.
I always want to pray to these vital points. Because I am taught by the vital points which are the sign of the sickness, even if there is nothing wrong in the inspection.

“Subdivision and whole”

The master of acupuncture always says: “Only laboratory results are paid to attention and the medicine is overdosed cause a further intractable disease (sickness not cured easily). The key that solves the problems about such symptoms is definitely in patients’ lifestyle. It is not treatment there that gives something without investigating the cause. It only increases the number of patients.” I completely agree with him.
To discover the warp of the “qi” of the entire body in the standpoint of not the mechanistic theory but vitalism is the most important in Oriental medicine. And also touching by human’s hand directly. It is a very soft power (reason for nature). I believe that it is the starting point of the medical treatment there.
Western medicine subdivides man and discovers the various things are true.
Western medicine keeps pursuing the microscopic world by subdividing the human’s body. And Oriental medicine thinks that a human body is just like a small universe and the balance of the whole is important.
Both are also important. We need both medicines.
However, I assume the idea of the Oriental medicine is a main treatment in the 21st century, and Western medicine is supplementary, and am convinced 21st century becomes the true health century.
The human spirit and body can’t be separated and it is really delicate.

･Existence of　“qi”

I met a woman who was an acupuncture practitioner in Tokyo the other day.
There are a lot of common features of her and me but after all we both love acupuncture.
The topic which we didn’t know how much we spend on speaking about is acupuncture. Is “get along” this?
I am convinced that “qi” exists though doesn’t see it.
The example, which cat’s hair bristles up when they get angry, might be strange but this is the “qi” rose up by anger.
When my friend was angry, the downy hair of the arm stood. It is said that “Kan-ki” rises in the Oriental medicine.
On the other hand, I have seen the person who was too surprised to stand up. This is “qi” fell down. The temper “Ki” of the modern people who have a lot of tension and anger has been up all the time, and kidney and waist below of the body are weaker. There are in a word a lot of people who are reverse-triangular types. It is an unstable state. It can be said that rotating dizziness, the sudden deafness and the tinnitus of the high pitched sound will happen because of rising up “qi” of the tension and anger.

Though the talk was shifted from the topic, there are many words “qi” attaches are used in a daily life.
For instance, energetic, sick, a motivation, comfortable, feelings, a yell, courageous, patient, innocent, a wild excitement, impatient,　cheerful, gloomily, a nature, worry, stale, intimate, and so on.
The “qi” is the source of the vital activity in the Oriental medicine.
It is said the mainspring of the function activity in the root of the life support of entrails and the organ.

・“Qi” that is anywhere

The “qi” is from the feeling but also from no feeling. Only one pen which is very valued has the warmth that cannot be indescribably.
My acupuncture clinic is the place where the late mother had done for 30 years. The clinic seems to be filled with the feeling that mother thought of the patient and thanks and pleasure that became better than before.
When I worked with mother, I didn’t feel much about “qi”. But I have been feeling mother’s flowing “qi” since I started working here. As if I and mother work together･･･
The patients often say, “I am healed only by coming here, and become comfortable.” I thank to mother who left a wonderful “qi” here.
I am moved by the patient every day now and how much mother loved acupuncture.

･Expert of astonishment

I went to see the clinic which Mr. Renfu Fujimoto, my master, has in Nara the other day.
A patient whose face had got black a little and the swollen stomach came into his clinic.
She was the peritoneum cancer and not to urinate easily because of the swollen stomach by the ascites.
I had a look behind him how he treated her.
There was master who had acupuncture in right hand while checking patient’s pulse by left hand. Whenever master has done the acupuncture, I feel that this is effective in deed. However, acupuncture was not pierced on this patient. He had not better to do acupuncture on her.
The moment he tried to do the acupuncture, he said “Pulse is changed, and the “qi” occasionally moves even if not piercing.” Then treatment was ended. It was only a few seconds.
Acupuncture is really wonderful though it might be unbelievable actually.
The patient went to the bathroom later soon with her happy face.
How light the step was!
I would like to repay the kindness to the master who teaches me how wonderful acupuncture is. The only one thing I can do is that I achieve the word of the master of “Let’s accomplish the impossible for curing the patients”.