The state administration of traditional Chinese medicine has taken note of public opinion in quan jian, who was injured in the "quan jian fire treatment"

December 27, 2018 thepaper.cn news

Include "right healthy fire cure hall" inside, large and small all sorts of "fire cure hall" be popular in a lot of cities, but "fire cure art" depend on chart, legal?

The so-called "quanjian fire therapy" claims to treat myopia, deafness and other diseases wherever they are burned. However, many people were burned or even maimed and died while receiving the "quanjian fire therapy". The initiator tianjin quanjian group co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "quanjian company") has also been questioned and received many lawsuits.

On December 26 and 27, thepaper.cn wrote a letter and called the information office of the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine (STCM) on the legality of the "fire therapy" and related projects of quanjian company. Several staff members of the administration told thepaper.cn that the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine has taken note of public opinions about quanjian.

Residents receiving the right to fire treatment were burned by alcohol flames

"Fire therapy" is one of the ways for quanjian to attract consumers to become its members and form a stable consumer group, a former dealer who once sold quanjian's products in jiangxi told thepaper.cn on December 26. According to his experience, "quan jian fire therapy" does not require operators to have a medical qualification.

The dealer said the right to health fire treatment "can not make a lot of money, is a service", a charge of only a few dozen yuan, then to sell to consumers right health products is the key. Before lighting a fire, he said, customers are usually coated with quan jian's dragon fluid or essential oil.

A patent search conducted by thepaper.cn found that quanjian had three patent applications related to fire therapy. One of them (201210119547.4) revealed the operation process of quanjian fire therapy: "... Cover the leaking area with a prepared dry towel... Spray alcohol and ask the patient for signs of pain relief for uncomfortable areas. Ignition; Blazes... Spray alcohol a second time... "

The patent claims that "quanjian fire therapy" has the effect of burning eyes to cure myopia and burning ears to cure deafness.

The patent was applied by quanjian company, whose inventor was labeled as yu renesola, legal representative of quanjian company. The patent was applied on April 23, 2012, and the current status is "unauthorized -- deemed to be withdrawn".

The patent claims that "the fire therapy and its process designed by the invention are the crystallization of modern science and Chinese metaphysics, together with the plant essence matching it... It makes fire therapy an epoch-making health care method in the history of human health care.

As early as 2014, CCTV focus interview program once secretly visited the dealers of quanjian company. Some staff said that the suction generated after combustion would suck out the impurities and toxins under the skin and burn them off. "Taoism, Taoism, I can't explain it to you."

"Fire therapy is a traditional Chinese medicine treatment that has been extensively clinically confirmed in the modern era," kwon said, according to voice of China. There are very few adverse events in the process, which are mostly related to improper operation of operators, and the probability is very low.

However, there have been a number of cases of consumers being burned or even died after receiving quan jian's fire treatment online.

According to a second-instance criminal judgment issued by the shangluo intermediate people's court in December 2016, xiong xx, who was treated by tianjin quanjian natural medicine company and studied fire therapy, had given "fire therapy" treatment to more than 20 people before he was arrested.

Since April 17, 2015, in the case of vomiting reaction of a certain white armour, xiong xx is still a continuous number of days to a certain white armour "fire therapy", and daub dragon fluid, in order to treat psoriasis. On April 27, bai died. The use of alcohol in the course of treatment was the inducing factor of death according to the forensic pathology forensic identification by the forensic medicine forensic identification center of xi 'an jiaotong university.

The shangluo intermediate people's court ruled that xiong was not qualified as a doctor and engaged in medical activities by means of fire therapy, which was an illegal medical practice. Xiong was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 8,000 yuan for illegal medical practice.

According to the second trial judgment made by shenzhen intermediate people's court in May 2018, on March 7, 2016, the right upper limb, chest, abdomen, back and other parts of the skin were burned by alcohol flame when xiao mou, a resident, received the fire therapy service and cupping treatment at the "quan jian natural medical beauty salon yali studio".

The first-instance court found that huang yali, as the medical service provider of "quan jian natural medical beauty salon yali studio", and zhang baoli, as the actual operator of fire therapy, all have no relevant medical qualifications.

The court of second instance held that huang yali's business activities were always guided by people who claimed to be employees of quanjian company, and she developed offline members by herself. It is enough to show that the fact that huang yali studio has significant relations with quanjian company both in terms of internal relations and external publicity is highly possible.

The court ruled that huang yali and quan jian natural medical science and technology development co., ltd. must compensate xiao for more than 272,000 yuan within three days from the effective date of the judgment.

According to a second-instance judgment issued by the jinhua intermediate people's court in August 2017, zhu mou, a resident, died of thermal-ejection disease after receiving the second quanjian fire treatment at the kangyun health massage service department of yiwu city in August 2016. But zhu's relatives did not agree to an autopsy, so yiwu public security bureau did not conclude. The court rejected the claim made by his family members because of insufficient evidence.

State administration of traditional Chinese medicine has replied: yi medicine fire therapy

Jia Yang, director of the Shanghai literature museum of traditional Chinese medicine, told thepaper.cn that there is fire therapy in traditional Chinese medicine. The principle of fire therapy is a bit like cupping, which is to use external heating to remove cold. The range of fire therapy is very limited. It can only treat some cold diseases like rheumatism and pain, and it can only achieve some auxiliary therapeutic effects.

"Although fire therapy is a traditional method of traditional Chinese medicine, I think it [quan jian's] method is a concept stealing." 'fire therapy is not used too much in traditional Chinese medicine, but relatively much in ethnic medicine,' Mr. Jia said.

He expresses, fire cure is a kind of medical treatment behavior theoretically, have certain risk, operate by the doctor that has certain experience commonly, should not be in the blame medical treatment orgnaization such as inn of health preservation health care undertakes.

Li changzhi, one of the country's top traditional Chinese medicine experts and the deputy director of acupuncture and moxibustion at yueyang integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine hospital affiliated to Shanghai university of traditional Chinese medicine, said fire therapy practitioners must have professional qualifications to learn and operate the technology before they can be relatively safe, thepaper.cn reported.

It is worth noting that guangdong provincial bureau of traditional Chinese medicine has asked the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine for instructions on non-medical institutions to carry out "fire therapy" projects.

Relevant personage to surging news confirmed, on May 15, 2018, the office of the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine to the foregoing for instructions reply (" the traditional Chinese medicine medical letter [2018] no. 79 "), said in 2010, the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine public health special fund project "the folk medicine of ethnic literature and appropriate screening technology promotion project" in the yi medical therapy in treatment of wind cold dampness arthralgia fire technology. Such technology shall be carried out in accordance with the technical operation specifications to ensure safety.

According to the reply, TCM medical technology should be carried out by health technicians in medical institutions. Acupuncture, scar moxibustion, foaming moxibustion, traction, manipulation, minimally invasive techniques of traditional Chinese medicine, lavage of traditional Chinese medicine and other traumatic, invasive or dangerous techniques are prohibited to be used by health care institutions of traditional Chinese medicine.

It is unclear why the guangdong administration of traditional Chinese medicine issued the letter.

Does fire therapy belong to "traumatic, invasive or dangerous technical methods", or one of the forbidden technologies of non-medical institutions and traditional Chinese medicine health care institutions?

The office of the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine did not specify the foregoing documents.

On February 26 and 27, thepaper.cn wrote a letter to the press office of the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine (STCM) on the legality of quanjian's "fire therapy" and related projects. Several staff members of the administration told thepaper.cn that the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine has taken note of public opinions about quanjian.

What is the yi medicine and fire therapy mentioned in the reply of the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine?

Yi people are a nation of fire, and local residents have long used different fire therapy techniques, said a department director at yunnan yi medical hospital.

According to the data provided by the person in charge of yi medicine and fire therapy, there are five kinds of yi medicine and fire therapy -- fire needle therapy, wine fire therapy, fire extraction therapy, cotton stick moxibustion and skin fire therapy.

This controller expresses, this hospital dermatology waits for a department to ever used cutaneous fire therapeutics to treat for the patient for many times, the treatment cost of different place has difference, back every time fire treats 100 yuan, head waits for a place to collect fees to have a few yuan only.

As for the basis of the efficacy of skin fire therapy and other yi medicine fire therapy, he said, it may not have been sorted out into a paper, nor have experts demonstrated or identified, "the clinical work is too busy. But there are certain clinical effects, there are related cases.