Mr. Kata, who is from Mali, an ancient civilization country in West Africa, was suffering from shingles brought by a cold. But his sickness was quickly cured by acupuncture of Chinese medicine. In Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kata excitedly gave a thumb-up to the doctors and said “Chinese medicine is good”.

Kata graduated from China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing. He runs an import and export trading company. Just before the Lantern’s Day, Kata felt very sick, and showed symptoms of weak, fever, headache and cough. He took some medicine but it did not work. Kata is very interested in Chinese medicine so he thought of acupuncture this time. He came to seek medical advice in Acupuncture Section of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of TCM. Sun Jianhua, Director of the section carefully examined him and found on the superciliary ridge of his forehead erythema and papulovesicle, some of which had rankled, apart from cold symptoms. Experience Dr. Sun diagnosed that Kata had been affected by shingles. Through active therapy of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, as well as careful nursing, Kata recovered very well. (Modern Express)