Only STANDARD patients need apply ...

According to the following article:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-07/25/c_133511336.htm?__scoop_post=582bc7a0-1479-11e4-d3d7-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=1035125#__scoop_post=582bc7a0-1479-11e4-d3d7-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=1035125

China has issued "acupuncture treatment protocols" for so-called standard treatments:
"The National Technical Committee on Acupuncture and Moxibustion Standardization Administration of China and China Association of Acupuncture-Moxibustion (CAAM) issued the protocols."

Well, everybody watch out!
Only STANDARD patients with STANDARD symptoms will be accepted in STANDARD clinics, that use Chinese(!) STANDARD protocols to treat STANDARD diseases/conditions with STANDARD techniques and (naturally) SUBSTANDARD (=Chinese) materials.
That fits just beautifully into the Chinese mindset where everybody and everything has to be exactly the same.
Wonderfully suited for mindless robots.

Everybody is naturally FREE - as long as THIS concept is allowed - to choose "scientific standard treatment" for their respective symptoms.

Speaking only for myself, I take the liberty of being equally free in NOT accepting take kind mechanistic robot treatment for myself.
In this respect Japan is an "acupuncture paradies".
Since nobody, at least nobody in any sort of powerful position, gives anything (a rats ass, if you pardon the expression) about oriental medicine, its development and application, there are about as many "styles" here as there are acupuncturist. Although people love to quarrel here too, nobody is more "right" or "wrong" than anybody else.
This makes the country a glittering, fascinating treasure island for insights, techniques, knowledge and off course the manufacture of products with a quality far superior than anything that comes from China.

I firmly believe, that the "Japanese way" of acupuncture is much better suited for MOST people of the world than the Chinese standard stuff.

(I took the liberty of expressing my opinion in form of an ebook:
4) "Acupuncture .. the easy way - or the hard way"　・・　
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/420707

Which I will shortly make also available for free (hoping for minimal "donations")

"Acupuncture: The easy way - or the hard way"

Ich habe kürzlich einige meiner ganz privaten Vorstellungen im Zusammenhang mit "japanischer Akupunktur" zusammengeschrieben (diesmal auf Englisch). Ganz persönlich bin ich der Ansicht, dass die Art, wie viele japanische Kollegen behandeln - eben "japanische Akupunktur" - für viele "Ausländer" (die meisten nicht-Chinesen) besser geeignet ist, als die "authentische" chinesische Akupunktur.

Da ich weder Akademiker, noch gelehrter noch sonstwie Intellektueller bin, kann es sehr wohl sein, dass meine Ansichten völlig falsch sind. Aber solange wir noch (theoretisch) Redefreiheit haben, dachte ich aber, dass ich vielleicht ja auch das Recht habe, falsche Meinungen kund zu tun.

Abgesehen von den Textabschnitten, die ich von anderen Leuten geborgt habe, handelt es sich um Ansichten, die nicht auf wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, sondern nur 30 Jahren klinischer Erfahrung beruhen.
Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass der eine oder andere Hinw

Mein Büchlein ist seit gestern als Ebook bei Amazon erhältlich:
Acupuncture: The easy way - or the hard way

Falls Interesse besteht ...

Leuten, die keinen solchen ebook reader haben, wie mich zum Beispiel, biete ich eine PDF Datei direkt an.

eis Leuten, die eventuell orientalische Behandlungsmethoden in Erwägung ziehen, ein wenig behilflich sein kann.

Chinese maturity test .... continues

Remember my previous notes about the topic:
http://thomasakunkturklinik.blogspot.jp/2012/09/china-maturity-test.html

There I wrote:
But, there is this new wonder slogan:
「愛国無罪」
meaning literally: as long as it is a patriot act, there will be no charges!
Yesterday: drunken boat drivers and toppled cars.
Today: destruction of supermarkets and factories.
Tomorrow: ... let's kill a few people. Its patriotic and therefore no problem!

Well, it is happening already ...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120920a8.html
Thursday, Sep. 20, 2012
Suspect arrested in assault on Japanese couple in Hong Kong

I have not followed this, but maybe the man "arrested" has by now been declared a national hero. And since action was most likely a "patriotic act", there will be no charges.

This has been seen before:
the Indians
the Black
the Jews

are not worthy living, subhuman creatures ...
(in modern China they have their variety with different ethnic groups,
not pure blooded Chinese
"mud blood" -> muggle born (see Harry Potter)
or the Arier, pure blooded "Germans" (see Hitler)

The newest fashion: banning or maybe even destroying books
does not show any more maturity.
It's the  behavior of the unruly kids in Kindergarten
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120920a2.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120920b7.html
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120924000105&cid=1101


The "burning of books" has throughout history NEVER done any good to anybody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Dynasty
"The Qin Dynasty also introduced several reforms: currency, weights and measures were standardized, and a better system of writing was established. An attempt to purge all traces of the old dynasties led to the infamous burning of books and burying of scholars incident, ..."

The "strength of the Chinese is not their maturity, intellectual achievements, refinement, "historical facts" or the like ..... it is simply their number, which allows them to overrun everything/everybody else.
Remember the locusts I mentioned in my previous post?

And as I also said before, the world need to think this through a little!

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Everything is mine!

English: Mao's official portrait at Tiananmen gate 中文: 天安门上的毛泽东官方画像 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Personally I doubt that the recently displayed behavior of the Chinese people could meet ANY standards for maturity; such as one might want to expect from a place that is today a "global power" ...
Well, I said it before: I don't know much (nothing) about politics.
Therefore, I should probably just shut up, the behavior of our friendly neighbor China really calls for some comments.
One of the triggers of the currently ongoing "anti-Japanese" protests is the quarrel about the Senkaku Islands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands
"The collective use of the name "Senkaku" to denote the entire group began with the advent of the controversy in the 1970s."
"The Japanese central government formally annexed the islands on 14 January 1895."
"The islands came under US government occupation in 1945 after the surrender of Japan ended World War II.[17] In 1969, the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) identified potential oil and gas reserves in the vicinity of the Senkaku Islands.[20] In 1971, the Okinawa Reversion Treaty passed the U.S. Senate, returning the islands to Japanese control in 1972.[21] Also in 1972, the Taiwanese and Chinese governments officially began to declare ownership of the islands.[22]"
So --> The Chinese started to show an interest in this piece of "holy motherland" AFTER oil and gas reserves were found. Isn't that interesting.
How Chinese.
Can they (the Chinese) produce any evidence - and one of those fake documents produced just for this purpose - that they were just in love with these pieces of rock since ancient times and therefore have now the "God given right" to destroy everything Japanese in their path?
I would encourage everybody in the global community to make their own judgement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_China_Sea
The Chinese also "NEED" this islands and the waters around them for fishing.
Naturally, since they have fished their own waters virtually dry, leaving a marine wasteland.
Now they have to move on to exploit other places.
Sounds like the locust plague to me.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust)
Billions of locust (Chinese) swarm all over the place and devour everything ...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/senkaku.htm
"The Meiji government incorporated the Senkaku Islands into Okinawa Prefecture in 1895 after it had confirmed that the islands were not under the control of the Qing Dynasty"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FG27Dh03.html
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Chinese_submarine_enters_Japanese_waters
"The intrusion occurred on 10 November, Japanese time (UTC+9). The submarine was quickly spotted by Japan's Self-Defence Forces and was tracked by helicopter as it wandered in Japanese waters for two hours before moving north-west. International law requires a tracked submarine to surface and identify its nationality in times of peace; the submarine did not do so."
Naturally!!!

English: Aerial Photo of Kitakojima and Minamikojima of Senkaku Islands, Ishigaki City, Okinawa, Japan, 1978. 日本語: 北小島・南小島（尖閣諸島）：沖縄県石垣市、東シナ海 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

BUT ... what would happen, if this were the other way round: a Japanese (or other) submarine entering Chinese waters ...???
Just imagine all the canons fires ...
Again, this probably "only natural" for the Chinese.
After all, their great leader put it so eloquently
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
* 枪杆子里面出政权
* "Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
And since China means literally "central country", the Chinese most obviously assume, that they are the center of the world and have both the right and obligation to take and do as they see fit.
This finds another wonderful expression.
Remember the drunk boat driver who rammed a Japanese coat guard boat and was later declared a hero?
Or the lunatics from Hongkong jumping onto the above mentioned Islands, who were after their deportation to Hongkong shown on TV celebrating and drining champaign?
Those people that attacked a Japanese embassy car?
And todays news: anti-Japanese demonstrations going wild, destroying lots of Japanese properties. Like supermarkets. Only the customers there were Chinese ...
But, there is this new wonder slogan:
「愛国無罪」
meaning literally: as long as it is a patriot act, there will be no charges!
The legacy of Mao Zedong in its purest form!
Yesterday: drunken boat drivers and toppled cars.
Today: destruction of supermarkets and factories.
Tomorrow: ... let's kill a few people. Its patriotic and therefore no problem!
Think this through yourself. The picture should not be so difficult to see ...
http://world.time.com/2012/08/19/why-asias-maritime-disputes-are-not-just-about-china/
< The reasons that pundits give for Beijing’s bellicosity range from its appetite for the natural resources of the South China Sea to its desire to look tough amid an uncertain leadership transition and to stir some nationalist fervor at home (witness the violent anti-Japanese protests on the mainland during the weekend) to its irritation at what it thinks is Washington’s interference in its backyard. At a regional conference two years ago, in remarks now often cited as a sign of China’s unilateral ambitions in the South China Sea, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi infamously declared the body of water to be a “core national interest,” adding: “China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that is just a fact.”>
Well, that naturally leads straight to those locusts mentioned above.
In light of these cute tendencies, please reconsider when China claims to "preserve natural resources, maintain peace and contribute to the development of the world at large.
How can a country that is basically ego-centric, as the country's name itself implies, ever have such altruistic fits ...???
I could go on forever and actually published my personal opinions here before, but ... I don't know nothing ...
http://nyuwa.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/chinese-quality/
(in English)
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/thoacu/62652273.html
(this one is in Japanese)

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“Foreign studies” in Japan

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Good evening, or rather good morning from Japan
Well, while this about a sort of “personal endeavor”, it is not really about me, but rather about Japan. And I definitely DO NOT have any qualifications that would make me a legitimate representative of Japan.
But, …
I have now lived in this country for 33 years, but only 22 years in my “home country” Germany. That means, I spent more than half of my live in Japan.
While my original purpose to come here was Japanese archery (Kyudo), I entered a vocational school for acupuncture here, obtained my licenses something like 28 years ago and for 17 years now run my own little (microscopic!) clinic.
Personally I believe, that Japan is a sort of “treasure island” in regard to variety and amount of information, skills, technical know-how etc. when it comes to ORIENTAL MEDICINE. I prefer the term “oriental medicine” over “Chinese medicine”, because it suggests, that there are also other possibilities/views than the state-sanctioned, uniform (the Chinese like to call that sometimes “standardized”) and thus rather dull single pattern TCM. Many people do argue about it, but I am always under the impression, that here in Japan there are as many “styles” as there are practitioners.
While the Chinese vigorously pursue their declared goal of achieving “world domination” in regard to the “intellectual property” of Chinese medicine, the Japanese people on the other hand appear to be somewhat handicapped: first, they are rather shy = are not much interested in “speaking up”; second (related to the first aspect), they seem to suffer from an inferiority complex, because they are not good (at all!) at English and third, they themselves have not very much ambition to present themselves to the world.
Yet, you can rest assured, that in addition to ALL the information pertaining to acupuncture available in China, there is a tremendous amount of additional information available. While I would be VERY cautious when viewing so-called scientific reports originating in China, there is usually MUCH LESS likelihood, that (scientific or otherwise) reports from Japan are outright fake or at least highly questionable. This does not rule out, that some people have opinions that oppose those of other people and a quarrel about right or wrong would be rather futile here.
I have been trying to convince the Japanese people for something like 20 years now, that they should make more of their information, including books, magazines etc., available to the world – meaning they should prepare at least summaries in western languages like English, German, French, Spanish etc. So far, I had very little success.
I do have a little website of my own (with many flaws, because I am not very computer savy): http://www.einklang.com/
Most of it is in Japanese, but there are also German and English sections. And these were the trigger for my above mentioned endeavor. Occasionally foreigners stumble across my pages on their search about information on Japan. It then happens, that I am asked about possible sites/occasions to study a little about acupuncture in Japan. Unfortunately, I am not a very social person and therefore know only few people, who would be willing to help out.
Maybe my constant bugging has contributed to lead to an “official decision” to promote acceptance of foreigners in Japan on the general assembly of the JSAM 4-5 years ago … but nothing much has happened since.
The way I see things, and some of my efforts are detailed here:
http://www.einklang.com/Foreign%20study.htm
or also in blog entries
https://nyuwa.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/ … -a-chance/
https://nyuwa.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/ … e-excuses/
Last year, during the great earthquake Australian visitors were here and one is going to return this year. Incredible!
https://nyuwa.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/ … le-return/
As I said, personally I would love to see the “Japanese way of acupuncture” find a greater audience in the world.
Even if no one here actually has any intention of coming to Japan (that is just fine!), maybe if there were once in a while inquiries as to the possibility of learning (as a foreigner) about acupuncture in Japan, or shadowing in clinics … maybe the Japanese people would finally become a little more stimulated/motivated to actually SHARE some of their very valuable material.
You could try for example the website of the The Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (jsam):
Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion -> http://www.jsam.jp/ -> honbu@jsam.jp　（ask for: Mr. Hirokazu Inami)
http://en.jsam.jp/contents/010000SsehRk/
Japan Acupuncture & Moxibustion Association -> http://www.harikyu.or.jp/ -> info@harikyu.or.jp
Tel：03-3985-6771 Fax：03-3985-6622 (no English page):
If it should prove helpful, please feel free to mention, that you learned about the above mentioned websites through my website (the page about “foreign studies”).
I believe, there is an abundance of material AND techniques probably better suited for western people than a major part the Chinese style.
In case this is completely off course here, I would like to beg your pardon and apologize again.
Greetings from Japan

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