Traditional Mongolian Medicine

The Mongolian Medical Department of Hohhot First Hospital was established in 1980. Currently, there are 6 doctors, including 2 chief physicians, 1 attending physician, 3 residents, 1 master, 4 undergraduates, and 1 specialist. There are 13 nurses in total, including 4 supervisory nurses, 6 nurse practitioners, 3 others, 11 with undergraduate degrees and 2 with associate degrees. The department has 22 open beds, and the annual average bed utilization rate is 93%. The department has two municipal-level key specialties with distinctive advantages of Mongolian medicine—Mongolian hematology specialty and Mongolian gynecology specialty. Workload: annual outpatient visits: 3189, annual discharges: 739, average hospitalization days: 13 days, annual business income: 3.5544 million, cure and improvement rate: 99.5%. In 40 years of clinical work, the Mongolian Medical Department has focused on the combination of traditional medicine and modern medicine, giving full play to the characteristics of Mongolian medicine. It is good at treating common internal diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction, ischemic cerebrovascular disease and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic gastritis, colitis, chronic cholecystitis, early liver cirrhosis and other digestive tract diseases, uterine cold, irregular menstruation, infertility, functional uterine bleeding, female menopausal syndrome and other gynecological diseases.Especially for allergic purpura, herpes zoster, pediatric epilepsy, facial paralysis, intractable hiccups, insomnia, cervical and lumbar disc herniation, rheumatoid arthritis, knee hyperosteogeny, gout and other diseases, it has unique treatment methods and significant effects. Among them, research projects on allergic purpura and epilepsy have won autonomous region and municipal science and technology progress awards. The department participated in the 2019 and 2020 academic annual meetings of the Hematology Branch of the Chinese Society of Ethnomedicine, where the "Efficacy of Integrated Mongolian and Western Medicine in the Treatment of Henoch-Schonlein Purpura" was shared. Another major feature of the department is the implementation of traditional Mongolian medical treatments, such as acupuncture, bloodletting, cupping, moxibustion, acupoint massage, sand therapy, wax therapy, fumigation, salt hot compress, Mongolian medicine retention enema and other special treatments, which have achieved good clinical therapeutic effects. The department has sand therapy beds, wax therapy machines, fumigation instruments, red light lamps, air pressure therapy instruments, medium frequency electric therapy instruments, moxibustion instruments and other equipment. It integrates treatment and health care and provides patients with standardized, scientific and high-quality diagnosis and treatment of Mongolian medicine.