Elizabeth has suffered stroke for many years, which left her left body paralyzed. As a lawyer and a devout Christian, she is strong-willed and always strives to recover to help nursing home patients fight for their rights via her knowledge of legal. After acquainting with me, she often came to my clinic to receive acupuncture treatment. Through long-term treatment, her health was improved markedly. On last Christmas Day, she firstly came to my clinic and sent a handmade coffee table cover to me. What’s more, everyone in the clinic has one. Seeing this gift, I was very excited. I really moved by her great efforts to make these presents.

Joyce, one of my patients, gives me pumpkin cakes and crispy biscuits baked by him every year, which are favorite food of my family.Her left eye is completely blind and right eye also suffers severely hemorrhagic macular degeneration. Her right vision dramatically reduced after several times of eyes’ hemorrhage. She refused the local ophthalmologist injectable drugs, but chose acupuncture treatment. I always help her out of danger by acupuncture treatment, which surprised her ophthalmologist. Her oculist always asked her- Why Chinese acupuncture is so magical?

Florida, who is my children’s “American grandmother”, is my first patient from American. When I was a teacher at the American School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, her home was my makeshift clinic.After accepting my acupuncture treatment, she felt very good. Hence, she recommended me to all her family members including her parents, brother, sister and niece for receiving my treatment. Last Christmas Day, she sent me two birthday cards. A small gift means far much. More than 10 years, she punctually sends different birthday cards and Christmas cards to each of our family members. In a foreign country, it touched me that an American who has been adhering to send birthday cards to the family members who isn’t bound to her by any ties for a dozen years.

Another patient is a senior real estate lawyer in the Walt Disney Company. She gave my two children two Disney Souvenirs, which were a watch engraved my son’s name (jiaxi) and a Disney bracelet carved my daughter’s name (Hanna). She, a very kind person in reality, suffered from many diseases, including sciatica, food allergies, premenstrual syndrome. Once she felt uncomfortable, she would come to my clinic for acupuncture. She came to my clinic once a month in regular time for physical therapy. After treatment, her diseases, including shoulder pain, sciatica, food allergies, the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome improved markedly. She is allergic to nuts. Therefore, she will go to the emergency room when eats nuts. After my treatment, she was on the mend. There was a time when she mistakenly ate bread containing nuts and she was very nervous for fear of severe reactions. Fortunately, she wasn’t serious this time. But, She said that she must see a doctor in the past when ate nuts. She happily said that thanks me for helping her save money. Therefore, she sincerely invited my whole family members to Disney luxury hotel for one night for expressing her gratitude.

When I was in Yichang, I felt that Yichang people had deep affection. They always send gifts to their benefactor for expressing gratitude. In fact, Americans also put highly value on friendship. Althoughthey mostly present fruits and vegetables with their own hands as well as homemade foods to me. The gift is trifling, but the feeling is profound. Seeing patients’ good faith and attention to Chinese traditional acupuncture culture, I always feel pride.