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Locked in his own little world, six-year-old Tom Sun sits quietly in a small hospital chair, wearing a very peculiar traditional Chinese medicine “hat” that is intended to treat his autism.

A few needles are placed in acupuncture points on his closely shaved head.

He seems quite oblivious to it all, including the moxibustion, or burning of mugwort herb inside the small (10cm x 5cm) hollow cylindrical bamboo tube “hat” with holes to release the smoke.

Sun has been receiving this therapy, and other treatment, for four months at home.

His mom, Diana Liu, says it seems to help because during recent thunderstorms the boy was not terrified and screaming.

Sun’s mother has placed a picture book on his lap and squats beside him, showing him pictures and trying to get him to read the characters.

Though he looks normal, Sun does not speak or reach out for his mother and seek her hugs and kisses.

When he was three years old, Sun was diagnosed with autistic-spectrum disorder, a pervasive developmental disorder. There are different types and severities of autism and in all of them the patient withdraws to a greater or lesser degree and lacks communication and emotional connection skills.

His mother quit her job and has been searching for treatment for him since then.

Four months ago, she contacted Dr Wang Ruihua, of Ruijin Hospital, who for the past 12 years has been studying and treating autism by moxibustion, a TCM treatment involving application of burning moxa, usually mugwort herb, to acupuncture points.

He does not claim it’s a cure but says patients show some improvement.

Autistic children lack interest in the world and other people and are immersed in their own reality, playing alone, sometimes just rocking back and forth. They have difficulty learning, of course. Some become violent.

Autism has not been researched extensively in China, but it is not rare, says Dr Wang who estimates there are around 1.5 million child patients, and many more unreported cases. Most known cases are in urban areas.

There are around 8,000 child patients in Shanghai, says Dr Wang.

Most children cannot be diagnosed until they are two or three years old, around the age when they should begin to speak and express themselves.

“Many autistic children were thought at first to be just late in acquiring speech or simply introverted,” says Dr Wang, “but actually their brains didn’t develop together with their body growth.”

These children usually have a poor sense of space, motion, language, logic and communication, some may be hyperactive and exhibit symptoms such as eating things other than food.

The exact causes of autism are not known, but there are theories involving heavy metal poisoning, a mother’s bad mood during pregnancy, genetics and problems with some kinds of inoculations.

Wang says most treatments in Europe and the United States involves a mix of therapies tailored to individuals, including physical therapy, behavior training, communication, supplements, diet and so on.

“But in TCM, doctors focus more on reinforcing what the kids lack,” says Dr Wang.

TCM holds that autism is an inborn problem of slow development of shen (spirit/brain), he says, “and this problem is believed to be caused by deficient primary energy that the child is born with.”

Everyone is born with a given amount of original energy. This energy is a major source of brain growth, according to TCM, and without sufficient energy, children cannot develop their shen, just as they cannot grow tall without enough nutrition from foods.

A pregnant woman’s troubled moods, fatigue, poor nutrition or illness can all cause birth defects and energy deficiencies in their babies, says Wang.

“Since these children lack energy, we have to help them make it up,” he says. The best time for this is from the ages of two to six, before the peak growth period from seven to 16 years, when a great amount of energy is urgently needed.

Energy in the heart and kidneys is considered the most important source of shen development, while other organs also aid the development of the brain.

Determining the exact area of deficiency and compensating is crucial in treating autism. Otherwise, imbalanced internal energy may aggravate autism.

Taking the pulse is a common way to locate the problem, and behavior is another indicator, says Wang.

Autistic kids with deficient energy in the lungs are usually depressed and sad; those low in kidney energy are usually timid and lack willpower; those with little spleen energy are often constipated and may eat things such as paper, uncooked rice or dangerous objects like nails.

Sun is a typical case of deficient energy in the kidneys. He used to wet the bed a lot, and has always been a timid, especially afraid of loud sounds.

“Many boys love firecrackers; but for my son, they are monsters,” says Liu, Sun’s mother. This year’s Spring Festival was a family nightmare. Sun screamed and shivered at the noise and refused to go out.

There are other TCM autism treatments like eating herbal medicine soup and acupuncture. But Dr Wang prefers moxibustion, as it stimulates children less and is easier to carry out, even for parents with no professional TCM background.

Dr Wang invented his own moxibustion tool with the aid of an expat financial sponsor from Britain, John Pistilli. It is a hollow bamboo tube-like tool with a moxa holder inside. Moxibustion can be carried out safely without burning the skin.

Moxibustion is a traditional TCM treatment that uses burning moxa (mugwort and other herbs) to warm acupuncture points and thus induce a smoother flow of blood and energy.

Herbs added to the moxa can also travel through the energy channels and function at target points. This method requires less precision than acupuncture.

“I don’t suggest parents come to the hospital often,” says Dr Wang. “They can treat their kids right at home where the kids feel safer and more comfortable. That may contribute to a better outcome.”

First, Dr Wang diagnoses the problem and teaches parents how to apply moxibustion treatment on certain acupuncture points. Children should be treated every day for one or two weeks before the next consultation.

Each treatment takes 40-50 minutes.

Dr Wang adds special yin jing yao (energy channel-guiding medicine) to the moxa to help the medicine reach the target area of the brain more precisely.

For example, yu jin (radix curcumae) helps guide the herb to the liver meridian, while rush (marsh reeds/rushes) helps guide the herb to the heart meridian.

Comprehensive treatment also involves herbal medicine, behavior training and stimulation of peripheral nerves, like brushing the fingers with brushes.

Dr Wang sets five goals for his patients – acquiring the ability to repeat words, initiate language use, think logically, communicate with others, and adapt to society.

Almost all of Wang’s patients, around 100, can now repeat words, he says, and about 30 have apparently recovered this ability in a short time.

The other goals are far more difficult to achieve, Dr Wang says.

Just getting kids to concentrate is a huge task and adapting to society is a very distant goal.

“I don’t expect my son to recover completely, like a normal child,” says Sun’s mother. “I just want to make life relatively easier for him.”

After four months of treatment, she sees some progress. During last weekend’s thunderstorms, Sun ran to the window to see what was going on instead of screaming as he did when he heard Spring Festival firecrackers.

British Expat Backer with Moxie

A British expat, John Pistilli, has given financial support to Dr Wang in developing his moxibustion therapy and device for autism.

Pistilli, who works in the financial field, tells Shanghai Daily that Wang’s moxibustion therapy and device are “very exciting” because they are simple, apparently effective and can be used by many ordinary people to help their children.

No one claims it can cure autism.

Pistilli, who is not a doctor, says he met Dr Wang about five yeas ago through a friend.

“I saw how Dr Wang treated children and I thought it was amazing because most Western doctors consider autism is incurable,” he says. “But through Dr Wang’s treatment almost all the kids have shown some improvement.”

Dr Wang does not claim to “cure” autism but says his therapy has shown encouraging results.

Pistilli says he saw a Chinese boy from Beijing who was suffering from severe autism. “A few months later he was communicating and hugging his mother. He was totally changed,” says Pistilli.

So he wanted to help.

One doctor can treat only a limited number of people, he notes, “but with this convenient device, thousands of people can use it themselves to help their own children.”

Maximizing TCM with Moxibustion

Moxibustion is one of the oldest forms of Chinese traditional medicine. By burning moxa – mugwort and other TCM herbs – and focusing the heat on acupuncture points, it can help reinforce and activate the flow of qi and maintain general health.

It can also be used to treat specific ailments and pain.Traditionally moxa was burned directly on the skin over acupressure points along key meridians. Because of pain, burning and scarring, this method is seldom used today.

A skilled practitioner can do it safely, however, by placing burning moxa on a piece of ginger, salt or other material on top of the skin. In this way it heats but does not burn. This takes great skill.

TCM practitioners these days generally use indirect moxibustion. It involves burning a moxa or herb stick an inch or more above the skin over the acupuncture point. In this way the heat is targeted; the heat also opens the pores so the herbal smoke penetrates the skin and enters the bloodstream.

Indirect moxibustion also can be combined with acupuncture. In this method acupuncture needles are inserted and the moxa is burned above the needles. Thus the heat is also transferred precisely through the needles to the acupuncture points.

Other moxibustion tools have been developed, such as Dr Wang’s bamboo tube.

(Shanghai Daily September 1, 2009)

Many TCM classics record legendary top doctors who can help cure diseases before their onset.

Yet, anyone can try being a top doctor as long as they keep themselves free of impure energy, water and accumulated excreta, says Zhongli Baren, a best-selling health writer.

Curing a disease before its onset is not as mysterious or superstitious as many people think.

“The doctors are actually not curing you before you are ill, but help get rid of the pathogenic environment inside lest you get ill. Soil rooted out, ailments, of course, won’t grow,” says the writer of Asking Help From A Doctor Is No Better Than Asking Help From Ourselves.

The pathogenic environment is usually caused by three “impure” things – impure energy, water and excreta accumulated inside, according to the health writer.

Those impure items attract germs and viruses just like rubbish attracts flies and cockroaches.

Most people are aware of the importance of daily bowel movements, yet few know anything about getting rid of impure energy and water as well.

Impure energy is actually produced every day just like urine and excreta.

It may be absorbed from outside, produced from digestion or grow from a bad mood. It is much easier to dispel it than to prevent its production.

Of course, it is impossible for anyone to stay happy throughout the 24 hours; crying, yelling and even jumping up and down to release anger are actually all healthy habits, as impure energy produced by bad moods are released through these ways.

Yet, if you are not allowed to do so, you have another choice – according to Zhongli Baren – to fart.

TCM suggests that the impure energy growing from a bad mood is usually born in the liver and gallbladder; but as these two organs are not directly connected from outside, the energy needs to get out by way of the digestive system.

If people hold in the impure energy instead of farting, the energy will first gather in the digestive system, and then travel with blood to other organs.

With impure energy in it, blood usually travels more slowly and may even stagnate and cause ailments.

There are also cases of impure water gathered in the body instead of being dispelled through urination. It may also cause various ailments including obesity.

The gathered impure water will disrupt the normal functioning of the digestive system.

If you keep drinking large amounts of water while impure water blocks the digestive system, it may cause water poisoning rather than help dispel toxins, according to the writer.

Eating foods that help “soothe energy” such as turnips, beans and sweet potatoes are all good choices to help get rid of impure energy. Knocking wei jing (the stomach meridian) every day can also help relieve gathered impure energy.

Zhongli Baren strongly recommends rubbing your stomach every day. This can help dispel impure energy, water and excreta. It can also help relieve related ailments, especially chronic ones.

You can use your finger, palm or fist to rub the area from the heart to the lower stomach. You have to do it slowly and search for energy-blocking spots. They may be hard, aching, or a spot where you hear a water sound when rubbing.

If you find the energy-blocking spots, rub slowly until they melt away or at least melt away a bit. Do this once in the morning and once at night and you may find your problems relieved.

If you hiccup or break the wind while rubbing your stomach, it is a good sign of ascending clear energy and descending impure energy inside your body.

If you hear a water sound when rubbing, it suggests the movement of accumulated impure water inside. Try rubbing more to get it out through urination, lest it causes headache, eczema or diarrhea when it travels to other organs.

There is another recommended exercise for those with constipation problems – walking while squatting. There are cases where people suffer constipation not because of pathogenic heat, but insufficient energy in the stomach and intestines.

Try accumulating energy and blood in the lower stomach to help in this case. Zhongli Baren suggests patients squat and hold their knees with their arms. Then, try walking without lifting the heels. In this case, muscles in stomach will be the only power for walking.

Energy and blood will all run to the part to help complete the movement. Though it may be difficult at first, it can effectively gather energy and blood in the lower stomach, and thus help dispel impure material more efficiently.

(Shanghai Daily August 25, 2009)

Last week Chu Shu (end of the heat, the 14th of the 24 solar terms) marked the end of summer. Now the strong yang energy in the universe is beginning to fade.

TCM recommends getting one more hour of sleep, drinking more water and eating moistening foods to maintain health and keep your body’s energy in sync with cosmic energy.

Chu Shu on the Chinese lunar calendar usually falls around August 23. Temperatures usually remain high for around 18 days before it starts to cool off south of the Yangtze River, according to Qing Jia Lu by Gu Tieqing in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The book describes the culture and customs in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and nearby areas.

At this time of year, the yang energy in the universe begins to descend from its peak while yin energy starts to grow. Accordingly, the yang energy in the human body also starts to decline. Thus, at least another hour of sleep is recommended.

Though ancient Chinese wisdom calls for taking a nap whenever you feel sleepy after Chu Shu, in these times it’s not possible to just nod off when you feel like it. A nap of up to an hour at midday is recommended, if you can manage.

Getting good quality sleep at zi (11pm-1am) and wu (11am-1pm) is important for health.

The yin and yang energy in the human body will shift along with energy changes in the universe.

Yang begins to dominate in zi while yin starts to dominate in wu, so deep sleep is important.

Regular physical exercise can help relieve fatigue in this season. Keeping plants in your room can improve oxygen content and relieve fatigue. Bracken, balata and asparagus fern are recommended.

The end of summer also means that “pathogenic dryness” is increasing in the universe and can invade the body, consuming fluid and causing dry skin, itchy throat and other problems.

Drink lots of water, not just when you’re thirsty. It’s recommended to drink an additional 1,500ml of water a day.

TCM also recommends eating foods that moisten the system and nourish yin energy, such as white fungus, turnip, sesame, walnuts, lily, apples and pears. Sour foods like hawthorn are recommended.

Though temperatures may still be hot, extremely “cold,” yin-energy foods like watermelon and bitter cucumber are not recommended because they can damage the declining internal yang energy.

Wear warmer clothes when you go out at night to protect your yang energy. Close doors and windows to avoid drafts and make sure your tummy is covered and warm to protect against pathogenic energies.

Season’s recipes for healthy living Sesame spinach

Ingredients: Spinach (500g), cooked sesame (15g), salt, sesame oil

Method: 1. Wash spinach, place it briefly in boiling water (blanching).

2. Pull it out, drain and cool.

3. Add salt, sesame and sesame oil.

Benefits: Aids liver and kidneys, moistens organs.

Green pepper and bean curd

Ingredients: Box of bean curd, three green peppers, parsley (10g), salt, sesame oil

Method: 1. Blanch bean curd, drain it and cut it into cubes.

2. Blanch green peppers, drain, chop.

3. Chop parsley.

4. Combine ingredients with sesame oil and salt.

Benefits: Reinforces energy, promotes fluids, nourishes organs and dispels pathogenic heat. Treats loss of appetite.

Lily and lotus seed soup

Ingredients: Dried lily (100g), dried lotus seeds (75g), rock sugar to sweeten (75g)

Method: 1. Wash ingredients, soak lily in water overnight, soak lotus seeds in water for four hours.

2. Combine in a saucepan with water, bring to a boil, add sugar and simmer for 40 minutes.

Benefits: Nourishes heart, spleen and stomach; soothes nerves.

(Shanghai Daily September 1, 2009)

Apple’s iPhone is scheduled to debut in China’s mainland, the world’s biggest mobile phone market, in three weeks in a partnership with China Unicom, the telecommunications carrier said yesterday.

The iPhone’s official entry has been keenly anticipated and expected to increase competition in the smart phone market with rivals such as Nokia and Dopod, said Wu Wenzhao, a telecommunications analyst at Beijing-based IT research firm Analysys International.

China Unicom and Apple initially will kick off with two models: the iPhone 3G and the latest iPhone 3GS. The price will be lower than models bought on the black market, which cost 3,000 yuan (US$441) or more, according to a China Unicom source.

“The cooperation will open the door for Apple to enter the huge China market,” said Sherrie Huang, an analyst at Ovum. “It also gives China Unicom a competitive weapon in the high-value subscriber segment.”

An estimated 10 million mainland users already have iPhones, according to Ovum, a UK-based consultant.

China Unicom will start commercial use of 3G phones next month, its Shanghai branch said. Users will be able to buy iPhones through various packages from a starting price of about 100 yuan, Shanghai Unicom said.

(Shanghai Daily September 25, 2009)

A nationwide questionnaire of bankers released Thursday by China’s central bank showed that the bankers’ confidence index for macro economy and bank performance in the third quarter had continued rising, and expectations for bank performance in the fourth quarter had been improved.

Bankers’ confidence index for macro economy stood at 55.4 percent in the third quarter, up 15.4 percentage points than that in the second quarter. The macro economic expectation index rose 6.8 percentage points to reach 45.9 percent, according to the survey.

The survey showed 39.3 percent of the bankers believed the current monetary policy was “relatively loose”, 9.7 percentage points lower than in the second quarter. Around 55.9 percent bankers predicted monetary policy would stay unchanged in the fourth quarter.

The loan demand index was 68 percent, slightly down 0.2 percentage points from the previous quarter. By sector, loan demand by agriculture and non-manufacturing industry dropped 1.2 and 0.7 percentage points from those in the second quarter.

The performance index of the banking industry added 2 percentage points from the previous quarter to 66.5 percent. The banking industry expectation index was 67.9 percent, 1.8 percentage points higher than that of the second quarter.

The questionnaire was a systematic quarterly statistical investigation sent to the country’s 2,900 banking institutions. It was jointly conducted by the People’s Bank of China and the National Bureau of Statistics.

(Xinhua News Agency September 25, 2009)

Nobel laureate in economics Robert Mundell said Thursday that China should not make the Renminbi convertible too rapidly.

“I tend to be … conservative. Don’t do it too rapidly,” the “Father of Euro” told the audience of a lecture on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, saying that the gains from making the RMB convertible should be weighed against the losses.

The peg of the RMB has brought a lot of gains to China, he said.

China was once pushed on the convertibility issue some nine years ago. Had China made its currency convertible at that time, the gains would have been much less, he said.

Mundell became the fifth distinguished professor-at-large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong after the university created the post to attract renowned scholars to teach and provide leadership for the benefit of general academic advancement.

Mundell said one of the major implications of the recent economic crisis had been the harm done by the big swings in the exchange rates between the world’s major currencies, and thereby, the need for a global monetary system.

Mundell said an Asian currency area that include China, Japan and other economies might still be possible by 2015 as the world moves toward larger currency areas.

He also said the United States might be repeating its mistakes of late 1960s and early 1970s in the policy pursuit of monetary expansion and tax increases. Instead, it should cut taxes to get as much production as possible out of the monetary expansion, which should be limited to a lesser extent, he insisted.

(Xinhua News Agency September 25, 2009)

China’s banking regulator told Xinhua Thursday night it does not place limits on the pay of the country’s commercial banks’ top executives.

The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) said it noted that some of the country’s media reported the CBRC was drafting a document to regulate the pay of bankers from commercial banks.

Every country was trying to correct the improper incentive mechanism to curb excessive risk-taking which sparked the current financial crisis, said the CBRC.

“The CBRC has been working with other relative departments on improving the wage incentive mechanism for the country’s banking industry since last year,” an official from the CBRC, who declined to be named, said in response to the media reports.

“The aim was to introduce scientific guidelines on incentive mechanism by integrating executives’ pay and operation risks,” said the spokesman, adding the CBRC is not directly responsible for regulating bankers’ remuneration.

Detailed pay setting should be determined by individual financial institutions, according to the official.

(Xinhua News Agency September 25, 2009)

The 21st century economic coverage on September 16 news “this crisis was not they (developing country) creates, they also most lacked the preparation. Therefore, reaches a fair agreement to be important at the Copenhagen congress.”World Bank President Zoellick on September 15 said.

The Beijing standard time on September 15 evening, the World Bank issued “in 2010 the world development report: Development and climatic change”. This report which issued when December United Nations Copenhagen climate conference pointed out especially, the developing country in facing the climatic change brings the threat is frailer, must therefore while developing and poverty-reduction changes the low-carbon economic type, but the premise is the high income country provides the fund and technical assistance.

“Developing country will bear the climatic change potential impact 75%~80%.”The World Bank chief economists and senior vice president Lin Yifu September 15 internal conference call expressed in. World Bank this report pointed out that East Asian and Pacific section’s developing country, because three big factors, appear especially frail in the climate disaster.

First, this region’s massive population lives on the seashore and topography low islands. “For example China has more than 130 million people, Vietnam approximately 40 million people, the Pacific Ocean island country approximately 2 million people.”

Next, these areas to agricultural dependant. But the environmental deterioration causes the natural resource the pressure to increase unceasingly, has increased the agricultural management complexity.

Third, this regional economies also highly rely on the marine resource, the marine pollution which the climatic change brings will affect directly the marine economy development of region.

Not is only “congenitally deficient”, because the developing country has not completed the industrialization development, the climatic issue will be bigger than the developed country to effect of its following economic development.

When accepting the newspaper interview, the Sweden economists and climatic issue expert Eck Lund (Klas Eklund) said that the developed country should not request China and other developing countries to shoulder excessively many reducing emission responsibilities, “China, India these the country was still developing, they require the time.”

At the same time, shoulders “historical responsibility” is also the developing country regarding the request of developed country. But takes the US to believe as representative’s developed country that the question key is not haggled over, but will be shoulders in the future the responsibility “together”.

Eck Lund this time and “climate economic” founder NicolasStern (Nicolas Stern) comes to Beijing to participate together by Chinese Development and Planning Commission Organization’s climate seminar, he told the reporter, the greenhouse gas emission’s computing mode, was at this seminar key point. “If according to the population ratio, the average per person withdrawal in China is not huge. But if according to industrial production total quantity computation, as ` industrial workshop of the world’ China, will be requested to shoulder the huge reducing emission responsibility without doubt.”

At present, will realize the developing country request developed country to 2020 in 1990 in the foundation 40% reducing emission. But American Pama government newest climate report indicated that the US is only willing to realize to maintain at 2020 1990 the emission level; Europe indicated that is willing to compare in 1990 to reduce emission 20%-30%.

“The Copenhagen conference is hard to obtain the success, because reduces emission behind the question the core is the ` money’.” Eck Lund said that “decisive content is hard to achieve, but may obtain some current framework agreements.”Much less, climatic issue’s lead US changes the question to be badly battered for the domestic economy recovery as well as the medicine, “(these questions) have consumed Pama government too many energy”.

But World Bank reported warned that the financial crisis cannot become the climatic issue places the secondary position the excuse. “Crisis will possibly cause the serious difficulty in the short-term to the intermediate stage and slows down the economic growth, but its duration little over 2-3 years. But threat of the climate warming is much more serious than the financial crisis, the duration is also much longer.”

Reported according to World Bank that must solve the climatic issue, needs to realize reforming of world energy system in the next dozens years. The research and development investment will need every year 100 billion to 700 billion US dollars, but the present investment every year only then 13 billion US dollars public purses, as well as 40 billion to 60 billion US dollars private capitals, two are very different. But the developing country must advance to the low-carbon society, depends on the developed country provides the fund and technical assistance.

“Climate financing must dramatically increase, the present financing level is lower than the demand which may foresee by far.”Lin Yifu said. At present, the World Bank initiates the climate investment fund (CIF), is using the low-carbon technology to reduce the cost for the developing country.

Eck Lund told the reporter, Sweden SEB Bank was carrying on “green bond” with World Bank the project cooperation, collects fund investment in the China, India and other developing country’s green projects. “At present only then 2 billion US dollars scales, are not big,” Eck Lund spoke frankly, “, but the following two years, anticipated will achieve 10 billion US dollars scales.” (This article originates: The 21st century economic coverage author: Spends Xin)

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