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\u00a0UTAR Hospital staff is happy with the good response to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Photos from UTAR News<\/strong><\/p>\n By Foong Pek Yee<\/p>\n \u00a0UTAR Hospital staff is happy with the good response to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Photos from UTAR News By Foong Pek Yee foongpekyee@gmail.com Aug 7, 2024 A popular summer treatment – Sanfutei– saw folks making a beeline to UTAR Hospital (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Hospital) in Kampar, Perak, about 35 km from Ipoh recently. … Continue reading “A date with Summer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[430,428,429,274,215],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle-health","tag-qi","tag-sanfutei","tag-summer","tag-traditional-chinese-medicine","tag-utar-hospital"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}foongpekyee@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAug 7, 2024<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA popular summer treatment – Sanfutei<\/em>– saw folks making a beeline to UTAR Hospital (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Hospital) in Kampar, Perak, about 35 km from Ipoh recently.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt is a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment that enriches\u00a0 and smoothens\u00a0 the flow of qi<\/em> (energy)\u00a0 in our body system -a basis for good health according to TCM.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe procedure is administered by a TCM practitioner who identifies specific acupuncture points on the patient’s body\u00a0 and applies\u00a0 medicated herbal paste on the\u00a0 points.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAccording to TCM, Sanfutei<\/em> ,dated back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in China, works particularly well during summer (between July\u00a0 and August).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3.jpg?resize=500%2C281&ssl=1\")
<\/div>\nMaking a point: A TCM practitioner with his patient.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.jpg?resize=500%2C281&ssl=1\")
<\/div>\nConsultation in progress: Patients from different age groups show interest in TCM<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd Sanfutei<\/em> is commonly used to treat health issues involving joints, bones, muscles, the immune system and the respiratory system.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt is also good for treating health problems arising from erratic weather conditions like extremely hot or wet spells\u00a0 which is increasingly common in the wake of climate change nowadays.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nUTAR News reported that the price for the three -day treatment is RM30 for UTAR staff and students,\u00a0 and RM50 for the public.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt was free of charge for the first 200 patients from Kampar on July 25.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe first day of treatment was on July 25, followed by Aug 14 and 23, 2024 at the Traditional & Complementary Medicine (T&CM) section in\u00a0 UTAR Hospital.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0The offer is a joint effort by UTAR, Guangxi-Malaysia TCM Centre and the First Affiliate Hospital of Guangxi University of Chinese\u00a0 Medicine.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"