Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 1269 The Occupational Hazards of Police Officers, The Old Lady, a Martyr's Family Member (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

The bespectacled officer stuck out his tongue as instructed. Fang Yan observed that the tongue was dark in color, with faint teeth marks on the tip, and a thin, white coating that was slightly moist.

He gently placed his left wrist on the pulse pillow, his fingers unconsciously clenching the hem of his uniform. His tone was somewhat uneasy: "Dr. Fang, I've had this problem for almost half a year. At first, I thought it was because I sat for too long and didn't take it seriously. But it got more and more painful. Sometimes when I'm on night shift and sitting in the office, I have to get up and walk around every half hour, otherwise my waist and buttocks feel sore and swollen, like I'm carrying a stone."

Fang Yan nodded, placed his hand on Cun, Guan, and Chi, and focused on feeling the pulse. After a while, he felt that the pulse was deep and weak, especially the Chi pulse.

"Do you usually sit for long periods of time? And when you're on night shift, do you like to lean back in your chair and doze off?" Fang Yan asked while feeling his pulse.

The officers nodded repeatedly: "That's right! For us clerical workers, sitting for eight or nine hours a day is common. Sometimes when we're on night shift, we're busy until the wee hours and there's nowhere to lie down, so we just lean back in our chairs and take a nap. There's no cushion behind our backs either."

After checking the pulse in the left hand, I checked the pulse in the right hand.

The situation is similar here; people here generally understand the dialect now.

He stood up and said to the police officer:

"Turn around and place your hands on the examination table."

The police officer was a little confused, but he did as instructed.

Then Fang Yan gently pressed the right side of his tailbone.

"Ouch—it hurts!" The other person gasped sharply, instinctively leaning forward.

The police officer pressed further up to the lumbosacral junction and frowned again: "It's sore and swollen here. Sometimes it's even difficult to bend over and pick up documents."

Then Fang Yan suddenly pinched and lifted, and everyone heard a slight "click" sound. Then the policeman straightened up abruptly.

"Alright! I used bone-setting techniques on you, that should help for a while," Fang Yan said as he returned to his seat, explaining.
"You have a typical case of 'liver and kidney deficiency, qi stagnation and blood stasis.' Prolonged sitting damages the kidneys, which govern the bones, and the tailbone and lower back are areas under the control of the kidneys. When you doze off in your chair, the qi and blood in your lumbosacral region do not flow smoothly, and over time they become stagnant, causing soreness, swelling, and pain. It's not a serious problem, but if left untreated for a long time, it can easily lead to chronic strain."

The police officer's eyes lit up. He patted his now-relaxed back, but then asked with some concern, "Can it be cured? I had an X-ray done at a Western medicine clinic before. They said there was no fracture or bone spurs, and they just prescribed some painkillers. They worked while I was taking them, but the pain returned as soon as I stopped taking them."

"Of course it can be cured." Fang Yan nodded.

"I just massaged it for you, does it not hurt anymore?"

The latter twisted his waist, confirming that he felt better.

Fang Yan continued:

"I'll prescribe two more doses of medicine for you. Just pay more attention to your posture, and you'll feel better soon."

After finishing speaking, he began to write out the prescription. After writing it out, Fang Yan made a note on it, then handed the prescription to the other person, saying:
"This prescription goes to the pharmacy. Besides giving you the medicine, they'll also give you a bottle of medicinal wine, which is also used to treat similar conditions..."

Upon hearing Fang Yan finish speaking, the latter quickly took the gift, nodded, said thank you, and then hurried downstairs.

Then, they moved on to the next one.

……

Although there were many people here today, the dialect revealed that there weren't actually that many diseases that could be considered difficult or complicated.

Most of them are common occupational diseases.

Police officers who work in clerical work, intelligence analysis, and other similar positions need to spend long hours working at their desks.

In this era of limited office conditions, the height of desks and chairs is often unsuitable for everyone's body shape. Officers often sit for hours at a time, or even spend the whole day looking down at documents and writing reports, lacking sufficient neck movement and rest.

Over time, this can alter the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, cause intervertebral disc degeneration, leading to neck pain and stiffness. In severe cases, it can also cause radiating pain and numbness in the upper limbs, affecting normal work and life.

Those police officers who patrol and stand guard often need to maintain a standing posture for a long time, and their waist muscles must work continuously to maintain their body balance.

Especially when performing security duties for large-scale events, standing for hours or even more than ten hours at a time can lead to lumbar muscle strain due to the lack of relaxation in the lower back muscles. Symptoms include lower back pain or aching, which can be relieved by rest but worsens after exertion. Furthermore, the intensity of training these days is quite high. In grappling, combat, and tactical drills, the lower back bears enormous pressure, making it prone to muscle strain and intervertebral disc damage.

On the other hand, during daily duty and patrols, standing for long periods or maintaining the same sitting posture while driving a police car keeps the lumbar muscles in a state of tension for a long time, increasing the pressure in the lumbar intervertebral discs and gradually causing lumbar disc herniation.

When the sick officers bend over or carry heavy loads, their lower back pain worsens, and in severe cases, it can even affect their lower limb movement, causing intermittent claudication.

Then there are high blood pressure, heart disease, neurasthenia, and gastrointestinal diseases.

Irregular working hours, night shifts and overtime, long-term high mental stress, high-intensity work, lack of sleep, and irregular eating habits are all problems that lead to these issues.

These problems are easy to treat; all that's needed is to change their work environment and lifestyle.

But that's the problem. They simply can't change it. There aren't enough police officers, and there are just too many cases. They wish they could stretch one person into three, but they still can't overcome the manpower shortage.

There's no way to change this right now, so the only solution for addressing dialects is through medicine.

Next, we'll discuss health supplements with the public security system; we'll be customizing these types of products for them.

Cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar muscle strain, hypertension, heart disease, neurasthenia, gastrointestinal diseases, and respiratory diseases are all summarized in local dialects.

In addition, for some external injuries, we can directly use the products that the company currently has.

Until noon, none of the patients at Fangyan's clinic encountered any situations that he found difficult to handle.

However, just before lunch, when Fang Yan had finished seeing one patient and was about to call the next one, Chu Qiaonan from the next table called him:

"Brother Fang! Can you take a look at this for me?"

Fang Yan asked while writing the medical record:
"what is the problem?"

At this moment, another voice said:
"The old lady suddenly went deaf after her child was killed. She had been diagnosed with burst sensorineural hearing loss by Western medicine. They injected her with vitamin B1 and B12, but it didn't work. She has been taking adenosine triphosphate tablets orally, but there has been no significant improvement."

Fang Yan was taken aback; this was a martyr's family member!
He looked up and saw a female police officer in her thirties or forties accompanying the old lady.

That was her speaking just now.

Then the other party said:
"Later, we sought treatment from a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, who said that the liver qi, along with phlegm and turbidity, was rising upwards and blocking the brain orifices, which was why the old lady was like this. After the treatment, the old lady was able to hear sounds again, but she kept saying that there was a cicada chirping in her head and she couldn't hear the sounds outside clearly."

After saying that, he picked up a notebook and took out a prescription:

"Look, this is the prescription I wrote back then!"

Chu Qiaonan stood up and said to Fang Yan:

"I feel that the prescription is correct, but I don't know why it didn't cure the disease."

Fang Yan nodded after hearing this, then walked over to Chu Qiaonan and looked at the medical records he had written and the prescription.

The medical record states that the patient has dull eyes, a depressed expression, dizziness, and is unable to hear any sounds, but feels like there is a cicada chirping sound. The tongue is pale red with a thin white coating and moistness, and the pulse is wiry and thready.

The prescription stated that it was a medicine for relieving nausea and phlegm, and for opening the orifices.

However, although the treatment was effective, the effect was not significant.

Fang Yan looked at the old lady and saw that her expression was somewhat blank, as if she had lost her soul. Suddenly, he remembered the incantation technique that Master Hai Deng had taught him.

P.S.: That's all for today. Please come early tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)