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Traditional Chinese Medicine Study Tour in Beijing
This one day tour is intended for those who are interested in Chinese medicine including,acupuncture, Chinese herbology, Tui Na and massage and other Chinese methods for easing the aging and maintaining good health. Of course, you cannot expect that you can become an expert on Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM ) through our one day'd study tour, but you will surely get some strong feeling and basic knowledge about Traditional Chinese Medicine. Also our one day Chinese medicine tour will help you get acquainted with some Chinese traditional medicine practitioners and pharmacists for your future life plan.
Tour Code: TCMT-01 Departure: Daily Duration: 1 day Pick-up point and time: Your Hotel in Beijing around 9:00am Finishing point and time: Your Hotel in Beijing around 5:00pm Payment Types: Cash, Credit Cards, Wire We speak: English
Itinerary:
This one day study tour is focused on those who are interested in traditional Chinese medicine and the Chinese methods for easing the aging and keeping good health.
Pick you up from your hotel in Beijing around 9:00am. Then drive to one of the Hospitals of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. You will be arranged to meet and talk to the professionals at the hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. They will make a brief introduction to the practices of acupuncture, Chinese herbology amd measures to protect the health. Then they will take you to visit the outpatient department. Afterwards, you visit one of the medical wards and see how the doctors treating the patients by using acupuncture. You will have some feeling of an excellent hands-on experience and a real immersion into an integrated Chinese hospital. Finally you are arranged to visit its pharmacy to see how people taking the Chinese medicines.
After finishing the visit to the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, you will take hutong tour in the Shichahai area and have lunch with the locals in their courtyard home.
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Hutong Tour
Courtyard Home
After lunch, you proceed to visit one of the branches of Beijing Tongrentang Pharmacy. Beijing Tongrentang Pharmacy is a world famous Chinese pharmacy. Tongrentang was first set up in 1669. It was the designated brand of TCM for Qing court ( 1644 - 1911). Now it has a history of over 300 years. The pharmacy has been continuing to expand till today. You will see how people taking Chinese medicines and checking up their health. One practitioner at Tongrentang will teach you some basic knowledge of Tui Na. Tui Na is a form of Chinese manipulative therapy often used with acupuncture, moxibustion, fire cupping. Tui Na is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is taught in TCM schools as part of formal training in Chinese medicine. After learning Tui Na, you will have one hour for relaxation to enjoy foot massage at Beijing Tongrentang foot massage studio in Beijing Tongrentang Pharmacy. Return to your hotel in Beijing after your foot message.
Service package includes:
1. Entrance tickets
2. Pick-up service from hotel
3. Private air-conditioned car or van
4. Private English speaking tour guide
5. Chinese lunch
6. Visit Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese medicine, Tongrentang Pharmacy
Service package excludes:
1. Personal Insurance coverage of personal loss, illness or damages incurred during your trip
2. Tips to the tour guide and driver
Reservation:
1. Please use our online booking or send your travel request via email to info@tour-beijing.com. You are also welcome to call us at + 86 10 67160201 ext 1006 or 2007. If you have a last minute booking or an urgent matter after our normal office hour, please call 0086 13520598855 or 13901312027 ( 24 hours ).
2. Our real trip advisors will have your booking confirmed no more than one working day. We even take last minute booking if time is pressing. When your booking is confirmed, you will get a confirmation email or call from us, which includes the confirmed detailed information with price.
3. In your reply, please inform us of your hotel in Beijing and date for the tour. Usually our tour guide will call you on the evening before to fix the departure time from your hotel and collect the money on the spot when you board the coach.
4. Way of Payment: cash payment,credit card payment or wire transfer. Both RMB and hard currency are acceptable. Currency Converter
5. Our tour guide will meet you in the lobby of your hotel in Beijing.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): TCM is a system of health care coming from the ancient China. It is based on the concept of balanced "Qi", a kind of vital energy which is influenced by the two opposing forces of yin (negative energy) and yang (positive energy). The "Qi" of Yin and Yang is believed to flow throughout the whole body. Qi is supposed to regulate a person's emotional, mental, and physical balance. People will get ill due to the flow of qi being interrupted and yin and yang imbalanced. TCM is aimed to keep the balance between Yin and Yang by using various methods like herbal and nutritional therapy,acupuncture, restorative physical exercises, meditation, and remedial massage. Acupuncture and Tui Nan among other elements of TCM are becoming very popular and awidely accepted in the world. The practices of acupuncture: Acupuncture is a medical technique of inserting and manipulating medical needles into "acupuncture points" on the body in order to maintain health like curing pain and diseases. Acupuncture is believed to have come from the ancient China and is closely related to with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Different kinds of acupuncture ( existant in Japanese, Korean, Chinese acupuncture) are practiced and taught all over the world. Acupuncture is said to open "Qi" by inserting needles at particular points on the body to balance the opposing forces of yin and yang. When yin and yang are in harmony, "Qi"will flows freely within the body and a person will feel healthy. When a person is ill, , The "Qi" will be interrupted along one of the meridians. Traditional Chinese medicine has make clear some 500 acupuncture points where needles are to be inserted to unblock the flow of "Qi". Hutong Tour: Hutong is Beijing unique old city lane. Hutong originally was named Mongolian, namely street alley. Because Beijing had layout in ancient times, the hutong is relatively straight and dotted. There are 7000 hutongs and their names are very different. Surrounding the Forbidden City, many were built during the Yuan (1206-1341), Ming(1368-1628) and Qing(1644-1908) dynasties. Man-driving pedicab with red peak and black body is main traffic tool of visiting hutong. Having lunch with the locals in their traditional courtyard home. Tongrentang Pharmacy: Tongrentang is a world famous Chinese pharmacy. Tongrentang was first set up in 1669. It was the designated brand of TCM for Qing court ( 1644 - 1911). Now it has a history of over 300 years. The pharmacy has been continuing to expand till today. The Tongrentang has gone international by establishing branches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sydney and London etc. Tongrentang brand enjoys a worldwide reputation. Tongrentang is the first Chinese trademark registered under the Madrid Agreement and the Paris Agreement. It has been applied for registration in over 50 countries worldwide, and protected by the international organization concerned. Basic knowledge of Tui Na: Tuina (Tui Na) is an acient Body Therapy originated in China about 2000 years ago. Tui Na works through unblocking the the flow of Qi through the meridians as its basic therapeutic method according to traditional Chinese medical theory. Through the application of massage and manipulation techniques Tuina (Tui Na) seeks to establish a more harmonious flow of Qi through the system of channels and collaterals, allowing the body the naturally heal itself.
Tuina (Tui Na) methods cover the use of the techniques concerned to massage the soft tissue (muscles and tendons) of the body, acupressure techniques. Foot massage: Washing your feet in a soup at a foot massage studio is quite trendy in Beijing. Of course, the foot washing is quite different from the way you wash your feet at home. In essence, it is a foot massage with traditional Chinese characteristics, a kind of health-care method. Foot massage helps people relax, strengthens the immune system and maintains the body's natural balance. It has now grown into an industry in China. There are about 26,000 massage outlets licensed in Beijing. They offer foot muscle therapy to tired locals, travellers, businessmen and expatriates.
