From herbal remedies and acupuncture to cupping and even physical therapy and massacre, Al -Jazeera Net tried during a visit to its delegate to the South Korean capital.
Many reasons push the Koreans to traditional treatment, some of which are relatively strange and some are expected, some of them are looking for known treatments for back or joint pain, for example, while others are looking for a treatment for a short stature and want to increase the length of their children, for example, as Dr. Kim Su-Boom told us one of the most famous doctors Traditional Korean medicine in the country.
We entered the doctor of Doctor Su-Boom at the afternoon and we do not know what we will find with him, and when we turned from the door, a nice nurse asked us to remove our shoes and wear one of those light shoes placed on a side shelf in order to keep the place clean.
After entering, we were surprised by the clinic, which is stacked with books, and that vestibule, which includes more than 100 garages, each of which contains a distinctive type of different herbs and even deer centuries.
Dr. Soo-Boom, with the intense Koreans of the Koreans, received the bending forward with a smile on his face, and we entered his office and we started our tour in a strange world on us and try it for the first time.
The importance of traditional medicine in South Korea
The origins of the traditional medicine in South Korea belong to its founder, Wi-G-(1837-1900), who wrote his book-which is considered a reference in this field-in 1894 entitled “A long life and preserving life in eastern medicine”.
Soo-Boom is in the footsteps of G-M-big, but he surpassed him with his wealthy experience, developing many medicinal herbs and launching many books and research in this field.
To find out the importance of traditional medicine in South Korea, it is sufficient to know that hospitals and clinics include 12.6% of traditional Korean medicine specialists (KM), which is the highest percentage in East Asia, and that about 69% of Koreans have tried traditional medicine treatment.
Also, treatments with this medicine are covered by health insurance companies in the country, such as any other treatments with medicines, and this includes acupuncture, ironing, cupping and most herbal extracts.
Besides, Korea has 12 universities studying traditional medicine, and graduation requires a study of 6 to 7 years such as modern medicine.
Five Member Energy
Returning to our doctor, Dr. Soo-Boom, who decided to fully examine me with various types of traditional medicine methods, he started his tour with me by examining the energy of the five members (liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidneys) by pressing 3 test points in each hand and in each foot using a device Like the e -pen it offers its readings to the computer screen, and after measuring pressure, length, weight and recording of these readings, the journey of traditional treatments began.
Doctor Soo-Boom specializes in spinal diseases, takes traditional Korean medicine to treat it, and his clinic includes more than 100 known and unknown medicinal herbs, and many beds for many naturally and natural treatments, along with acupunctures related to electricity and cupping.
His clinic also includes a special laboratory in which he works to prepare the extracts of these herbs and keeps them in small bottles through which he conducts examinations on his patients.
After that session of the light tests, Su-Boom started with me a method of examination that I did not understand, as I asked me to arrest a copper tube with my left hand and annexed my causes on my thumb in my right hand, and I started trying to open the episode between my cause and thumb, but every time he put a small bottle It includes an extract of specific herbs on a device on his desk, then tries to reopen my finger.
The strange thing is that when switching small bottles, he finds that there is a specific type of herbal extract that makes the doctor be able to open between my finger, while he fails when putting other types, and in the end they were anchored on two bottles and found that they have a relationship with my body.
All of these tests are aimed at knowing the type of body, as the philosophy of traditional Korean medicine is dividing people according to the quality of their bodies, which are 4 types: Yang higher and yang minimal, where is the highest, and each category has certain physiological characteristics.
As Dr. Soo-Boom explained, Valleang is the highest, for example, characterized by a strong lung and a weak liver, while the top yen is characterized by a strong liver, a weak lung and a relatively larger body, while the minimum yang is characterized by a strong spleen, a weak college, an active and vital body, and the lower yen is characterized by a strong college, a weak and a quiet personality Following.
Medicinal herbs
After these examinations, we took the doctor on a tour of his numerous valuable boxes that include the rarest medicinal herbs, which we may not hear about many of them, including omega herbs, Korean Korean, Korean owners hashish, al -Rishi mushrooms, Hangji herb, and arrow roots.
But besides those herbs with unique names, there was something strange of its kind for me, which is the seals of the deer, which he said is useful in treating endurance and stimulating the mind, and there is garara that includes larger parts of the deer, but it differs from its predecessor that it is collected On the ground from the horrors of the delay falling from it in the stage in which the animal replaces its horns.
After that, the doctor took me to the acupuncture session, and after a slight start of tingling, the needles were reached with electricity, so that the strange feeling was at the beginning before he used to the matter, and after a quarter of an hour the session ended to turn the place of tingling the needles into cupping in the Korean way.
After we finished from there, the doctor moved me to another bed for physiotherapy by pressing parts of the neck in his own way, then pressing the abdomen while raising one of the legs and bending it, and after we finished this somewhat tired session, the doctor went to me to a more comfortable session, which is the back massage, Where it stretched on a bed at the bottom of its covering devices that carry out the normal massage tasks.
A unique journey we concluded with this doctor who did not skimp on us by feeding us a mixture of some of his precious medicinal herbs or our watering from his other strange mixtures, and ending with our gifts with a book of signing it from his most recent books that he wrote in the field of traditional medicine in South Korea.
Just as we entered his clinic with welcoming and bending from him forward, full of Jam literature and a nice smile, and we called Dr. Sue-Boom after we had a unique experience in traditional Korean medicine.