The 3rd Annual Meeting of the 2017 International Health Self-care Association (IAS) was successfully concluded on December 17th. As the strategic partner of the conference, Sina Health and Sina Health, we interviewed the chairman of the conference, and learned about her. The experience of promoting the concept of self-care in the year.

Three years of continuous exploration, opening multiple new fields

Health self-care is a self-care method that people can use universally. At the beginning of the establishment of the International Health Self-care Association, Ren Biao had only one purpose - to promote aromatherapy in the country, to develop aromatherapy into a standardized, scientific self-care method, and no longer controlled by foreign societies.

The growth of health self-care is not always smooth. Self-care covers a wide range of topics, and involves many fields. In the process of training aromatherapists, when faced with various disciplines such as anatomy, physiology, and chemistry, students find that their knowledge structure is lacking and more confused. For example, when learning joint-related knowledge, it is necessary to further study the joints of the elderly and some shoulders under pressure, etc., but in this step-by-step learning process, many students' bloodstains have been hit. Secondly, self-care has the characteristics of being relatively independent, distinct, short and effective. All the projects carried out need to be carried out anytime and anywhere. It is also a big problem that equipment materials cannot be followed up in time. Ren Biao said: "The most common use in aromatherapy is essential oils. What do we do when we want patients to be happy, but there is no orange peel oil around us? In fact, we can squeeze the orange peel in small bubbles and small water. The moment when the pearls came out, it was actually similar to the principle of the extraction process of essential oils."

From the beginning of the establishment to today, although the exploration of three years is very difficult, in the process, the idea of Ren Biao has been opened up. First of all, self-care should use all the raw materials that can be used in life, and do everything in its power. Second, open the door to the subject handover. Because self-care is faced with the needs of all ordinary people, it is necessary to connect with different disciplines and different raw materials. The most important experience of Ren Yi’s efforts in the past three years has been harvesting, docking, integration, and medical science, and it has been adapted to the local conditions and materials.

Highlight the spirit of Chinese medicine, perfect the healing system

As early as in the Yin Shang oracle bones, there are records about "aromatherapy" in China, such as smoked oysters, steamed oysters and brewed liqueurs. By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, the custom of wearing sachets and bathing orchid soup appeared. In the "Shan Hai Jing", it is recorded that the scent of scented grass can be smashed. This shows that in the very early days, China has begun to use aromatic drugs to prevent diseases, clean the environment, and sterilize. Ren Biao has his own ideas in creating an independent health self-care society that is not controlled by foreign scholars. She said: "China's health self-care society must have its own characteristics, absorb the Chinese herbal medicine culture, and combine the advantages of Chinese medicine. At the same time, it seeks sufficient theoretical basis in Western medicine. For example, China records the genus of Daqingye, Mint, etc. The divergent medicinal material can be used for heat dissipation and fever after boiling. Similarly, we will allocate a certain proportion of the extracted peppermint essential oil, and apply the same effect to the whole body of the patient. Understanding market orientation and caring for the needs of the people can not only improve the self. The treatment system further promotes the learning and promotion of students."

The progress of self-care is inseparable from the advancement of specific talents. Ren Biao introduced western aromatherapy teaching and held three international examinations in three years. Systematic study and strict screening. All theoretical examination questions are from medical school undergraduate. Question bank. The output of excellent seed talents is ensured, while at the same time, the lesser and better therapists in three years have created an excellent aromatherapy environment. This makes the self-care healing system more perfect.

Growing up in change, advancing self-care progress

Ren Biao has greater expectations for the development of health self-care. She hopes that all the teachers and students in the association will not only learn knowledge and skills, but also be able to give back to the society. In the course of these three years, the Health Self-care Association has cooperated with numerous companies to establish an education and training center to train excellent aroma therapists. At present, the education and training center for aromatherapy has spread throughout 12 cities in China. Secondly, the association and Wu Yongbo, chairman of the Beijing Ivy League Medical High-end Talent Alliance, jointly created a social welfare enterprise. The main products of the company are mainly high-end essential oils, and 15% to 20% of all proceeds will be used for public welfare projects. Ren Biao said: "To be a social welfare enterprise can not only ensure that people who work in this industry have a profit, but also return to society, which is the best public welfare export."

At the same time, the association will face the training of some special people in the society to do health self-care, provide financial and product support, open project process sharing, etc., and teach people to fish instead of giving people a fish. Whether it is a special laid-off woman or a physically handicapped person with disabilities, you can regain self-confidence in the process of learning and helping others, and also heal yourself in the process of dealing with essential oils. Ren Biao said: "Improve their life skills, improve their current living conditions, and return to society with dignity. This is what we have to do." In addition, focusing on social issues is also one of the projects, for example, vulnerable groups. Health, geriatric care, child immunity, disease population, etc. It is worth mentioning that the Guiyang Education Center has started to promote the care of geriatric care regularly in the community.

The spread of self-care is facing a problem in any country – in combination with traditional medicine. However, in China, Ren Biao took the lead in overcoming this difficulty because she was a gynaecologist and obstetrician. When she came up with the promotion of "aromatherapy" or "self-care", both professionally and technically. The level has stronger credibility. So in China soon there is a mechanism to interface with clinicians. The next step is to call on more doctors to train the first doctors to receive aromatherapy. In the future, the promotion of self-care or aromatherapy will be more perfect and more credible.