Chinese Doctor Cures Rheumatism with HerbsJin Zhaoji's osteopath clinic, situated in this capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, is always crowded with rheumatism patients from everywhere across the country.These people came in a hopes of being cured of the joint-distorting and muscle-atrophying disease of rheumatism with Jin's prescription of traditional Chinese herbs. Chen Hualing, having been paralyzed by rheumatism for 14 years, now recovered with Jin's medical treatment and returned to her job of conducting orthopedic operations. "It is doctor Jin who gave me a new life," said Chen thankfully. Statistics show that 87 percent of the 1,000 patients receiving Jin's treatment have witnessed considerable alleviation of rheumatism symptoms. Many of them even recovered from the excruciating disease. Jin's prescription consists of Yunnan-based unique herbs and animals for medical use, and mainly deals with various types of rheumatism and bone pathological changes. It took Jin Zhaoji and his colleagues some 36 years to find a cure for rheumatism, a disease that is prevailing in Yunnan. Sources said that over 10 percent of the world population are suffering from the disease. Rheumatism patients in China amounted to some 100 million. Clinic records indicate that Jin's solution has not lead to side effects of gastric ulcer and digestive dysfunction, which usually occur after use of the steroid-containing medicine for rheumatism. Jin and his clinic are expected to spread the benefits of the cure to more rheumatism-ridden patients, thanks to Yunnan's efforts to turn herbal medicine into a provincial pillar industry. Statistics show that 6,500 out of the 11,000 kinds of medicinal herbs in China are grown in Yunnan. Meanwhile, Yunnan has some internationally famous brands of herbal medicines, namely, Yunnan Baiyao (homeostasis powder) and Yunnan Sanqi (a herb used to improve blood circulation). |
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