Chinese medicine doctor Xu Yang

In fact, things like curing a disease are often not so thrilling, or turning the tide. The real drama or excitement exists in novels or film and television works.

Most of the real treatment is very boring. Just like this patient, he first took Dabupleurum decoction, and his symptoms were slightly improved, but they were not obviously controlled.

So, I took Sini Decoction.

Add Bupleurum in Sini Decoction and pay close attention every day. It will take about a week to really get it under control and ensure that it will not worsen. Only then can the treatment be considered a successful step.

After continued treatment, the condition improved day by day.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is so boring.

Although there are turbulent undercurrents and dangers below, it is not that thrilling to say.

Traditional Chinese medicine often says that the effect is like a drum, which often occurs when an acute illness occurs. It comes and goes away quickly. But in some cases of deficient diseases, especially when the patient is extremely weak and has been ill for a long time, there is no such thing as the so-called effectiveness of the medicine.

The effect is definitely effective, just like this patient, every time he takes the medicine, it is effective. But what really plays a decisive role is after taking the medicine for more than a week.

The same is true for seeking treatment from a Chinese medicine practitioner. Generally, after three or four doses, it should be effective. But as for whether three or four doses can cure the disease or play a decisive role, that depends on the situation.

If after three or four doses, there is no improvement at all, it is usually a syndrome differentiation error, and you need to change the medicine or the doctor.

For this patient, after his condition was basically under control, he continued to be given medication, but the effect was not getting better. By the tenth visit, the patient's mood continued to improve, his energy was acceptable, and his sweating increased.

Slightly afraid of wind, no obvious shortness of breath at rest, no chest tightness and shortness of breath, no cough and sputum, normal appetite, no dry mouth and bitterness. During the medication period, the stool is 1-2 times a day, with rotten quality and no smell.

The tongue is dark red and stagnant, the coating is white and slightly greasy and covered with yellow, and the pulse is thin and slippery.

The patient's overall condition is improving, but new symptoms such as fear of wind and sweating have appeared. Zhang Hua lacks clinical experience and does not understand some of them, so he is a little worried.

Xu Yang guided him, saying that this was the disease evil starting to show up, and this was the transformation of yin syndrome into yang syndrome, which was a good thing.

One of the great theories of TCM treatment is that the origin of evil is its return. Generally speaking, it comes from the three yangs and finally comes from the three yangs.

The evil comes from the surface, and finally comes out, which actually indicates that this is a good thing. Xu Yang followed the trend and stopped using Sini Decoction. Instead, he used Guizhi Decoction to harmonize Yingwei and promote internal evil to come out.

Many inexperienced doctors are prone to stumble on superficial syndromes. A continuation of various symptoms should be used to solve the superficial symptoms, and the other is the appearance of symptoms in the later period, which is about the problem of subduing evil.

Xu Yang also took the trouble to remind Zhang Hua about this issue.

Seeing that Zhang Hua still looked a little confused, Xu Yang also told him about the mistakes he made last year when treating the young soldier who had dysentery due to flood fighting and rescue operations.

At that time, when the academic center was just established, this young man was sent to him after several hospitals in the province failed to treat him.

When it was delivered, the young man had been suffering from dysentery for almost a hundred days. When Xu Yang just took over, he couldn't cure it with medicine. Only later did he think of relieving the problem.

The method used is the method of pulling a boat against the current by Yu Jiayan of the Qing Dynasty. Although a hundred days have passed, the method of relieving the surface can still be used to relieve dysentery from the surface.

Who would have thought of this thing?

Dysentery can be cured by sweating!

Although it has been so long, Xu Yang feels sad every time he thinks about this. He said: "There are eight methods of internal treatment in traditional Chinese medicine, although these eight words are all simple."

"But every word condenses the experience and wisdom accumulated by predecessors over countless years. The world despises the method of interpretation, but some dying patients whose lives are hanging on the line can actually be saved by sweating!"

"Who could have thought of it, who could have thought of it!" Xu Yang smiled, shook his head and left.

Zhang Hua was stunned on the spot and asked loudly: "Teacher Xu, has anyone really saved a dying patient through sweating?"

Xu Yang didn't look back and said, "Yes, maybe you will meet me in the future."

Xu Yang continued to walk forward, but suddenly he stopped and said, "But I hope you won't touch me."

Zhang Hua showed doubts.

Xu Yang added: "It's better to meet him sooner."

"Huh?" Zhang Hua was even more confused.

Xu Yang frowned again and said, "Still...still...forget it, let's not talk about it."

Finally, Xu Yang waved his hands a little irritably and left.

Zhang Hua, who was left confused, froze on the spot.

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The patient adjusted her medication in time, and then Sister Ding also came over to give her acupuncture, which was umbilical acupuncture. This was pioneered by Professor Qi Yong from Shandong. As the name suggests, it is a technique of applying acupuncture around the navel.

The treatment idea of ​​umbilical acupuncture is to regard the umbilicus as an acquired Bagua diagram, with the umbilicus as the center and spreading in all directions to form the Bagua direction.

With this orientation, the upper, lower, left, right, left upper and other directions are determined according to the Eight Diagrams of the day after tomorrow, and the eight directions of Li, Kan, Zhen and Dui are respectively determined.

Finally, the relationship between the diseases that the human body is dealing with is found through the Bagua directions, so that targeted treatment can be carried out. Senior Sister Ding chose the Four Corners, which are the four parts of Xun, Kun, Qian and Gen, corresponding to digestive tract diseases.

In the treatment rules of umbilical acupuncture, there is a saying that the four corners treat digestion.

These four directions correspond to the gallbladder, spleen, large intestine and stomach respectively.

The art of acupuncture has a history of thousands of years. In addition to the techniques passed down from ancient times, contemporary acupuncturists have also developed new content.

For example, ear acupuncture corresponds to organs on the human body, and these organs are basically anatomical contents, such as the adrenal glands, duodenum, and anus.

Umbilical acupuncture also has a lot of considerations.

But whether it is ancient or modern, as long as it can cure diseases, it is a good skill.

Although this patient had pneumonia, his gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, and anorexia were very obvious and prominent, so Sister Ding chose the four corner positions to treat the gastrointestinal tract.

The effect was very good. After the combination of acupuncture and medicine, the patient's symptoms of abdominal fullness were relieved very quickly. By the fifteenth visit, the situation had completely stabilized.

Chest CT showed that the lesions in the lungs were also absorbed compared to before. Other symptoms were significantly relieved. After taking the medicine for a few more days, the nucleic acid test was conducted twice, both results were negative.

Already preparing to be discharged from hospital.

This patient is a typical severely ill patient, and because he is old, has many underlying diseases, and is weak in health, it is very easy for him to become critically ill and ultimately life-threatening.

After a period of treatment, Xu Yang and the others were able to block the patient's bedside in time and turn the patient's life around. Not as much thrilling though.

This is the real treatment process. Although it seems very simple and boring, it is actually an undercurrent and many difficulties.