Traditional Chinese Medical in Yuan Bao Temple

    On Sunday, there're no ceremony or festival in Yuan Bao Temple, because we got visitor from china medical university hospital. They were in here to give free traditional Chinese medical check up for us and people who want to check up in here.

   Traditional Chinese medicine is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (Tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy. It is primarily used as a complementary alternative medicine approach. TCM is widely used in China and it is also used in the West. But before they start the traditional medical check up, there's a speech by old man (maybe he works in yuan bao temple). And then, he gave them cerficates for some students. After that, the students from china medical university hospital opened the examination directly. And their purpose were to get some practice and experience for students.

    And then, when time showed at 9 am o'clock, they began to open the examination for people who want to check their healthy. After that, many people came to here to check their body including Yuan Bao's staff and us. Although, I was scare about that but I have to try it because I really curious about it too. I got number 10 for this examination and I should wait until they call my number. Finally, they called me to come and get some form for traditional medical check up. They gave a lot of questions to me such as "did you feel cold when you arrived in Taiwan for first time? And how about now? What do you feel?". And I answer their questions like this "yes, I felt cold when i arrived in Taiwan for first time especially my hands because I didn't wear gloves. After that, they suggested me to check my weight and height but I thought the different or special between traditional Chinese medical and modern medical are Chinese medical don't use technology they just use their hand to touch patient's hand and they will know the patients disease. And then, they gave me order to move to another counter because 1 counter is different specialist doctor than another counter in there so, I have to move. Lastly, they said I must change my habit like I have to reduce drinking cold water, so the conclusion is I'm healthy and I don't get medicine.

Special Sunday in Yuan Bao Temple

This was the best Sunday because it had special activities happened on Yuan Bao Temple. They were 2 activities at the same time. Moreover, both activities were free, so no wonder that why this day the temple was very lively.

The first one is medical diagnosis by China Medical University (CMU) and the second one is calligraphy on the red paper by masters.

 

The first activity is medical diagnosis for the people who would like to check up their health by volunteer doctor from Chinese medicine, China Medical University. There were many people join in this activity because Chinese medical is well-known in Taiwan. Some volunteers are trainee who going to be the doctor in the next 2-3 years. So, when the doctor explained about the problem that patients faced, the trainee studied at the same time, or we can call on the job training. I think that is mutual benefit for both trainees and people. I really like this activity. I also joined for checkup my health. Something surprised me is the doctor can directly diagnose the disease by touch patient’s wrist just around 5-8 minutes. When doctor touched, he or she has to concentrate on taking the patient’s pulse. I think the doctor have to practice for a long times. After checking up and diagnosing, everyone got some herbal powder medicines depending on their problems. The pharmacist prepared the medicine for a while by weighing the herbal followed by the doctor’s prescription. And then the people went to get the medicine and learn how to use it. 

 

Second activity is calligraphy in the red paper with the gold color for hang on Chinese New year. Masters wrote down on that paper that the sentence or words are followed the people wanted. Those are all the good meaning such as brings the good fortune, for health, happiness, and peacefulness etc. The master is really expert in this kind of thing. They made the font very beautiful and fast. When the people got the paper, they will hang it in their house because they believe that the word which the master wrote down will bring the good fortune to them in the next years.

Once,I thought that the tradition Chinese letter is very hard to study and it is useless. But now, I realize that the traditional Chinese font is very splendid and worth, so should to preserve for the next generations.   

Accounting to this temple has many good activities beside normally worship the god, Yuan Bao temple is as in the heart of local and broad people. That why this temples remain in many centuries and forever.