I don’t know when it started, but I suddenly became interested in moxibustion.
Maybe you are getting old? In the past, if I stayed up late to go to the disco, I would still be full of energy and energy the next day. If I slept for a short time tonight, I would be as exhausted the next day as if I had been run over by a truck. The little girls in the office talked about how to keep in good health all day long, while soaking wolfberry and catching up on TV dramas. I was thinking, how about learning some crafts?
Then I searched for training schools in Wuhan.
Oh my god, I didn’t feel anything when I didn’t search, but once I searched, I was really shocked. The screen is full of "rankings", as well as words like "authority" and "preferred", which are so dazzling that people can't distinguish them clearly. It even mentioned the so-called top 5 popularity rankings before 2022. In fact, to put it bluntly, that ranking is for reference only. The key to whether it is really good or not depends on what you want in your heart.
Who is paying for your health anxiety?
You know, I have a friend who almost went crazy after giving birth to a child. The child would get sick every once in a while and would be given antibiotics when he went to the hospital. She was not willing to let her child become a medicine jar.
Later she learned pediatric massage.
She said that after giving her child a massage for the first time, she cried when she saw her child sleeping peacefully. It wasn't because of exhaustion, but because he finally felt like "I can protect him."
This feeling may only be understood by a mother.
Why Qichun? Why now?
When it comes to moxibustion, Qichun cannot be avoided.
The birthplace of Li Shizhen is the hometown where the "Compendium of Materia Medica" originated. The locally produced mugwort, called Qi mugwort, is different from the common mugwort that ordinary people can see. Its leaves are slightly larger, contain more hairs, and have more medicinal effects. I heard that moxibustion appeared earlier than acupuncture and medicine, and already existed in primitive society - "a bowl of soup, a needle, and a column of moxibustion." There is no reason why moxibustion ranks first.
Qichun has now become the "Whampoa Military Academy" of moxibustion.
Data from the county government shows that by the first half of 2022, there will be 19 formal training institutions for practitioners of moxa leaf burning therapy in the county, and more than 200 national chains. A total of more than 55,000 moxa leaf burning therapy practitioners have been trained, and these people are distributed in more than 15,000 Qichun moxibustion clinics across the country.
If you walk into any moxibustion parlor, the master who performs moxibustion on you is most likely from Qichun.
When choosing a school, what exactly are you choosing?
I went to see a few institutions that are popular online.
Millennium Ai is quite famous. It is not just a training school, it also houses a moxibustion Taoist museum, which displays dozens of ancient medical documents, the most precious of which is the Jinling edition of "Compendium of Materia Medica". It is also the inheritance and demonstration base for China’s intangible cultural heritage “Qichun Moxibustion Therapy”. Han Shanming, do you know this person? That is, the intangible inheritor is here.
To be honest, the experience of studying in such a place is not the same. The moxa stick you are touching may be the same type of item that Li Shizhen touched hundreds of years ago.
There is also Li Shizhen Health Care Center, located in Boyafang Neighborhood, Qichun County. It is a brand image store of "Qichun Moxibustion". There are experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctors sitting in the clinic, and you can see other people's treatment methods during the learning process.
There is a group of children's massage practitioners in the Wuhan area. They focus on the business direction of children's massage, and their slogan is "the youth is strong and the country is strong." Among them is an old man named Yang Zongyuan, who has been practicing medicine for more than 70 years. Even though he is now over 90 years old, he still continues to do technical guidance work. Apprentices trained under the guidance of such senior masters indeed have considerable standards in massage techniques.
Are certificates useful? Is it easy to make money?
I have to be honest about this question.
During May 2024, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security officially included "health moxibustion therapist" in the national professional standards. This means that this profession finally has an officially certified ID card. In the future, not just anyone can claim to be a moxa-moxibustion therapist. The recipient must have relevant certificates.
Qichun has achieved "five unifications", namely unified management of teaching materials, unified management of practical operations, unified management of assessments, unified management of certificates, and unified management of platforms. Among them, 30,000 trainees have obtained special competency certificates after the training.
We also have to talk about money.
Data shows that the average monthly income of moxibustionists who come out of Qichun is around 6,500 yuan. There are also those with good workmanship, those who open stores, and whose annual income is hundreds of thousands or even millions. This industry is different from working to receive a fixed salary. It is directly related to one's own skills and management capabilities.
You need to know the pitfalls of learning moxibustion
Don't listen to the hype of those institutions.
I once met a student who spent more than 30,000 yuan to sign up for a training class that claimed to "guarantee employment." After completing the course, he only got an internship opportunity with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan. When he worked for a month, he was told that it was "not suitable" and nothing happened.
Another thing to remind you is that acupuncture requires a medical certificate. If you plan to use needles to prick people, you must have a medical certificate. Just relying on a moxibustion practitioner certificate is not enough. Moxibustion belongs to the category of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and is completely different from acupuncture.
The same is true when it comes to pediatric massage. There are many related shops on the market today, but there are only a few massage therapists with rich experience. If you plan to open such a store, you must not only have relevant documents, but also have real professional abilities, so that parents can trust you with their children.
If you ask me how to choose
I think it depends on what you want to do first.
If you plan to return to your hometown to open a store after completing your studies, then you should look for someone who not only teaches related business methods, but also explains how to open a store, and also has a practice base. Just like Shaoerqiang, it claims to have six contents: "Information, lectures by famous teachers, internships in directly operated stores, and employment", which sounds quite comprehensive.
If you want to seriously learn a craft, you have to find a place with real teachers. So what is a real teacher? It’s the way he has been doing it for more than ten or twenty years and has treated thousands of patients on his hands. It is not the kind of person who has just graduated from a training class and acts as a lecturer before he has figured it out.
Also, don’t just focus on rankings. Because rankings can be brushed and good reviews can be purchased. You have to go to the field to check, have conversations with teachers, and ask students who are studying. This is better than anything else.
A friend of mine who is an HR once said something, and I think it is quite correct; "Choosing a school is like choosing a partner. What others think may suit your needs may not be right. You have to try it out and experience it yourself."
Finally I want to say
In fact, moxibustion, to put it simply, relies on the light and heat emitted by a column of mugwort to fill another person's body and heart with warmth.
At the beginning, I didn't understand why anyone would willingly engage in this industry. After all, it is exhausting and difficult to earn high income. Later, I had an attack of cervical spondylosis, which was so painful that I couldn't sleep, so I found a senior master to perform moxibustion. The master also started a conversation with me during the moxibustion. After the moxibustion, I slept soundly for two hours, and when I woke up, I could move my neck freely.
At that moment, I suddenly understood that some things can really help people.
No matter which school you choose in the end and what you do after graduation, as long as you really want to help others and keep yourself and your family healthy, then there will be no mistakes in this approach.
After all, moxibustion has been spread for thousands of years, not because of bragging, but because of the pillars of moxa fire and the patients who were cured one by one.
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