Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 1362 Detoxification Test Results are Out, National Day is Coming (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)
After receiving Fang Yan's affirmation, An Dong was in a very good mood. Although there were some flaws, and although he made his judgment only after seeing Li Zhengji's prescription, it did not affect his happiness.

This shows that his line of thinking is correct.

Having studied for so long and read so many medical cases, Anton still didn't have a clear understanding of his own position. Now, he basically knows his position.

He possesses independent dialectical abilities and can optimize treatment methods. His theoretical knowledge is basically sufficient to address some symptoms, but he is an advanced apprentice who still needs practical experience to refine his skills.

Lu Donghua was even happier, seeing that his disciples and grand-disciples could reach such a level, which truly brought him great comfort.

Anton's kung fu skills aren't quite up to par, but thankfully Sofia can fill in the gaps. It's just a shame there's no all-rounder like Fang Yan.

I wonder if little Zhao Zhengyi will be able to shoulder the responsibility of practicing both medicine and martial arts when he grows up.

The old man's thoughts had already wandered far away.

After lunch, Fang Yan went to check on Mr. Sima and Zhang Fu at the hospital. Mr. Sima's condition usually improved a lot around noon every day.

Zhang Fu's condition is improving, but he still can't eat, saying that he's not hungry after taking the medicine.

And there will be a series of detoxification reactions.

Dialect analysis suggests that Zhang Fu may have previously suffered from rabies, hydrophobia, and refused to eat, and his body had adapted to a low-intake state; therefore, his hunger was not obvious.

However, just because he wasn't hungry didn't mean he didn't need to eat. Fang Yan still arranged for the cafeteria to send him some food, all of which was suitable for his current physical condition.

Fang Yan looked at his toilet records and found that there was still that rust-colored, jelly-like unidentified substance. She didn't know what part of his body it came from, but Zhang Fu felt much better after expelling it.

The dialect suggests that it may be caused by the oxidation of blood stasis or the mixing of bile pigments, and is related to the nature of blood stasis in different parts of the body.

Rabies virus attacks the central nervous system and internal organs, forming "toxin lumps". The drug activates intestinal peristalsis, which removes toxins from the blood and nerve tissue, and then excretes them after being wrapped by the intestinal mucosa.

Fang Yan thought for a moment, then called the laboratory department again, asking them to take the excreted substance from Zhang Fu after his detoxification process back for testing. After all, the results would be shown to the Western doctors during the lecture later, and Fang Yan wanted to give them the test results so they would have nothing to say.

Other departments at Peking Union Medical College Hospital were also quite cooperative when they received Fang Yan's call.

They had all heard about the traditional Chinese medicine treatment for rabies and had long wanted to see what was going on. Now that Fang Yan was asking for help, they were more than happy to oblige.

After everything was arranged, Fang Yan went to school.

I attended a political and ideological class.

However, this political education class was a little different from what Fang Yan and the others had expected. It basically praised their class for their response to the epidemic during the last free clinic.

Everyone was happy to hear the praise.

After class, the homeroom teacher, Wang Yuchuan, made arrangements for the National Day holiday.

At that time, the National Day holiday was two days long. Back then, holidays were still quite scarce across the country, so two days was considered a pretty good holiday.

Of course, since there were no classes the day before the holiday, some students who were not scheduled for internships could actually take a break in advance, which meant that some of them had a three-day holiday.

……

The next morning, before Fang Yan even started her rounds, Director Li from the laboratory came to her with a report, looking somewhat surprised: "Director Fang, the results for the thing you asked us to test are in."

"Oh? Really? Let me see." Fang Yan took the report. At this moment, Director Li spoke up:
"It contains not only a large amount of old blood clots, but also fragments of nerve tissue and a small amount of residual viral antigens!"

Pointing to the data in the report, he continued, "The concentration of hemosiderin in the blood stasis is very high, which corresponds to the 'rust color' you mentioned, indicating that it is a long-accumulated toxin; more importantly, we detected rabies virus antigen in the nerve fragments, but the activity was very low, which should have been inactivated by the drug."

Fang Yan took the report, quickly scanned the key data, and understood: "In other words, what's being expelled is indeed 'stagnant toxin clumps' that have been removed by the medication, along with the nerve tissue that was attacked by the virus being expelled?"

“That’s right!” Director Li nodded. “This explains why Zhang Fu felt relieved after the detoxification. It’s like the ‘toxin’ in the lesion was cleared out. The inflammatory markers in his blood have dropped significantly, which shows that the detoxification is indeed effective.”

He nodded in dialect.

Director Li couldn't help but exclaim, "I used to think that 'blood stasis and toxins' was an abstract concept in traditional Chinese medicine, but now that the test results are here, I have to admit it. These nerve tissue fragments and viral antigens correspond exactly to the pathological process of rabies virus attacking the central nervous system. Your medicine has really 'dug out' the lesion."

"We will continue to test the subsequent detoxification samples, and then we can compile the data so that Western medicine can also learn from it!"

Fang Yan heard this and said:

“Okay, with this test data to support us, our treatment approach will sound more convincing to Western medicine practitioners. Otherwise, even if we explain a lot of traditional Chinese medicine theories, they won’t understand.”

At this point, Director Li also said:
"By the way, we also found a small amount of bile pigment in the sample, which explains why some of the excrement is brownish, which matches your previous guess of 'mixed bile pigment' exactly. We will focus on monitoring the changes in the activity of viral antigens to see if they can gradually disappear as the virus is excreted."

Fang Yan nodded and suggested that Director Li come over every day to check the samples and record the detoxification process.

Director Li immediately agreed:
"With these test results, we can not only give Western doctors a direct explanation in the lecture, but also prove the scientific nature of the 'blood stasis removal and detoxification' approach."

"By compiling the daily test results and Zhang Fu's symptom changes together, we can create a complete 'Detoxification Efficacy Monitoring Table,' which will provide a more solid basis for subsequent promotion and research."

This is no simple matter; it could overturn the conclusion that "rabies is always fatal."

Many hospitals can perform the tests, but the person who takes the notes and cooperates will definitely be remembered.

He said with some excitement:

“Since you’ve agreed, I’ll immediately arrange for someone to coordinate with Zhang Fu’s ward nurses. We’ll collect samples multiple times a day, and after the results are available, we’ll simultaneously fill the data into the monitoring form. We’ll not only record the viral antigens and inflammatory indicators, but also the color, characteristics, and amount of the excreted substances in detail to ensure the data is complete.”

"This case is too special. I feel that the day the patient is cured, when we release the data on traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, it will be explosive news that will shake the world."

Fang Yan nodded and said:

"Alright, then thank you for your hard work, Director Li!"

Foreign capital hasn't come in yet, so Western medicine can still be won over. If we can gain the approval of some of them on this issue, the subsequent offensive from Western medicine will be much weaker. This is the current advantage of dialects.

After everything was arranged here, it was afternoon when Director Liao called Fang Yan to inform her that a patient would be arriving from Hong Kong at 4:30 pm that afternoon. This patient was the one with idiopathic pulmonary interstitial fibrosis that we had mentioned before.

This time it was a chartered direct flight, and we went straight to Concord Hospital after landing late at night.

PS: I still owe you 73,000 words after finishing this chapter.

Continue tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)