我有一位外国朋友,非常喜欢中国文化。初来北京时,曾找过我的一位老师学习中医。后来,很长一段时间没见,去年在一次学术交流会上又看见她,一下子没有认出来——昔日既苗条又漂亮的她,已经变得身材臃肿。她告诉我她经常腿疼,还患上了关节炎。这不禁让我想起,因为关节炎来找我治病的外国人很多。为什么外国人患腿病的那么多,而且普遍是年纪越大的人腿越粗呢?我们不妨看看中国的 I have a foreign friend, I really like Chinese culture. When I first came to Beijing, I had asked one of my teachers to study Chinese medicine. After a long absence, seeing her again at an academic exchange meeting last year did not immediately recognize her - she was slim and pretty before, and she had become overstaffed. She told me she had frequent leg pains and had arthritis. This can not help but remind me, because arthritis came to me a lot of foreigners to heal. Why foreigners suffering from leg disease so much, and generally older people are thicker legs it? Let us look at China’s