Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 587: 19-year-old fetus poisoned, insecticide used again
Fangyan looked intently at the girl's left hand.

I saw that he was wearing a woolen glove on his left hand, but it was obvious that his fingers were nearly twice as large as normal fingers, and the veins on the exposed knuckles were partially exposed.

Fangyan heard the girl say that the hospital outside recommended amputation for the girl?
He asked the girl:

"Can you take off your gloves so I can see them?"

The girl nodded, then took off the woolen gloves on her hands, revealing the original appearance of her left hand.

I saw swelling on the back of my left hand, with blood vessels clearly visible. It was obvious that something had grown inside.

Then the patient's mother spoke in dialect:

"Soon after the child was born, we found a sesame-sized black mole on the back of his hand. After a full month, swelling appeared on the back of his hand, which spread to his fingers and the entire forearm, and gradually grew year by year as he grew older."

"At the end of 1977, not only did the swelling of her left hand worsen, but she also developed unbearable pain in her left upper limb and difficulty moving it. We sent her to the hospital for examination and took an X-ray."

After that, the patient's father took out a file bag, took out an X-ray film and the result report from it and handed it to Fang Yan:

"Look, it's right here."

Fang Yan took the report, glanced at it, squinted his eyes slightly, and then said:

"Hemangioma on the left forearm and dorsum of the hand, thickening of the middle and lower part of the ulna, and dislocation of the distal radioulnar joint."

The patient's father said seriously:

"Yes, the outpatient consultation concluded that the child's left arm could no longer be preserved and recommended amputation."

"We also saw your news in the newspapers outside. We heard that you can cure all diseases now, so we thought of coming to see you..."

"See if you can save the child's hand."

When the father said the latter part, his voice trembled a little.

Fangyan took a deep breath, rubbed his eyebrows, and then looked at the diagnosis report again. The measurement report also showed that the circumference of his left forearm was 39 cm and the circumference of the back of his left hand was 28 cm.

This size is much larger than that of a normal person.

This indicates that the hemangioma has grown very large.

Fang Yan frowned and asked the patient's family:
"I just heard from you that this girl has had this problem since she was a child. Why did you wait so long to bring her to the hospital for treatment?"

After hearing Fangyan's question, the patient's family members all showed a look of guilt on their faces.

At this time, the old lady who had just asked for the dialect in a crying voice said:

"The conditions didn't allow it before, as my family members were all out of town at the time."

"You also know about the previous few years..."

Hearing this, the Dialect Alliance waved their hands to interrupt what they were about to say, then nodded and said:
"Okay, no need to say more, I understand."

Hearing Fangyan's words, the family turned their eyes to him again, and the patient's mother asked hopefully:

"Doctor Fang, you are so powerful and have great medical skills. You must have a way, right?"

Fangyan did not answer her question immediately, but said to the patient:

"Stick out your tongue so I can see it."

The patient obediently stuck out his tongue and showed it to Fangyan.

Fangyan found that the patient had a red tongue with a thin clean coating.

Then Fangyan took the patient's pulse again.

The pulse in both hands is thin and stringy.

Finally, I touched the hemangioma on the back of her hand and found that the temperature was higher than the skin temperature elsewhere.

With a little force, the little girl shrank back in pain.

The normal tongue color is light red, but a red tongue indicates heat in the body. When heat invades the human body, it can speed up the flow of qi and blood, which is reflected in the tongue, making the tongue color turn red.

The normal tongue coating is a thin white coating that is evenly spread on the tongue surface.

The little girl's tongue coating is so thin that it is almost non-existent.

This is a long-term illness. The body's vital energy is weak, and the qi, blood and body fluids are insufficient, which cannot be carried to the surface of the tongue to form a normal tongue coating, so the coating is thin and clear.

The combination of stringy and thin pulses is often seen in cases of liver-kidney yin deficiency or liver depression and blood deficiency.

Hemangioma is a disease that belongs to the category of blood tumor or tendon tumor in traditional Chinese medicine.

Xue Lizhai of the Ming Dynasty recorded this in great detail:

"Liver fire dries up the blood and causes tendon spasms. The blood tendons bulge and feel like tendons when pressed. After a long time, red streaks may appear. This is called a tendon tumor."

"When the fire of the yin blood boils, the external evil gets in and causes a swelling. It starts from the muscles and becomes red after a long time, or the skin becomes red. It is called a blood tumor."

it means:
"Because of the raging liver fire, blood is consumed in the body, resulting in blood deficiency and inability to nourish the tendons and veins, which in turn leads to tendon spasms. At this time, the blood tendons on the surface of the body will bulge abnormally, and when you touch them with your hands, it feels like touching tendons. Over time, these bulges may also develop red, thread-like veins. This disease is called a tendon tumor."

"The human body's yin blood, due to the intense heat in the body, is boiling and disturbed, and is also invaded by external evil qi. The interaction between the two causes abnormal blood circulation. On the surface of the body, a swelling begins to appear in the muscle area. As time goes by, red thread-like veins will appear on the swelling, and the skin on the surface of some swellings will also turn red. This disease is called a hematoma."

It is believed that there is heat in the blood and that the blood is being boiled to form a tumor. In this case, the treatment should be to cool the blood and promote blood circulation.

The patient's current condition is dialectically diagnosed as: fetal toxic heat, which burns the blood, causing the qi and blood to go astray, coagulate in the veins, and form a tumor. Simply put, when the patient's fetus is in the mother's body, it is severely invaded by heat and toxins, making the blood in the body feel like it is being boiled. This situation will cause the circulation of qi and blood to become disordered and no longer follow the normal rules. After the qi and blood circulation is abnormal, they continue to coagulate and accumulate in the veins, and eventually remain and form a tumor.

Fang Yan thought for a moment, then asked the patient:

"how old are you?"

The patient girl said in dialect:

"19 this year."

Fangyan nodded and said, "I am 19 years old this year. That means I have been suffering from this disease for 19 years since I was a fetus."

It is a very stubborn disease and ordinary medicines are basically ineffective in treating it.

So at this time Fangyan remembered the insect prescription that he hadn't used for a long time.

Mr. Zhu's secret techniques of using insect medicine popped up in Fangyan's mind again.

Most insect-based medicines have strong effects in breaking up blood, removing blood stasis, softening and dispersing nodules.

Insects like horseflies and leeches have strong power to break up blood and remove blood stasis. They can effectively dissipate the accumulation and reduce the size of lumps caused by blood stasis, such as uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts.

This is because they are good at moving around, can penetrate deep into the blood vessels, search out blood stasis, and dissolve stubborn blood clots.

Even foreign Western medicine admits that insect medicines contain a variety of special biologically active ingredients.

For example, cantharidin contained in blister beetles has anti-cancer activity and plays a certain role in the treatment of certain cancers; leeches contain hirudin, which can inhibit thrombin activity and has anti-coagulation and anti-thrombosis effects, which are special functional ingredients that many herbal medicines do not have.

If you want to cure this disease, you really have to rely on insect medicine.

Fang Yan thought about it and soon finished a draft in his mind. Then he picked up a pen and wrote on the proposal:
The treatment method uses insect medicine to clear the blood, remove blood stasis, soften hard masses and eliminate tumors.

Seeing something written in dialect, the patient's family members suddenly became excited:
"Doctor Fang, how have you thought of treating this?"

Fang Yan nodded and said:
"Well, I happen to have a prescription in my hand. A senior used it to treat a similar disease many years ago. You are lucky to have come across it, so you can give it a try."

He paused, then continued:

"But this time the treatment period will be longer, so you'd better be mentally prepared."

Hearing what he said, the patient's family members' faces suddenly changed.

After looking at each other, the patient's father asked cautiously:
"So...how long will that take?"

The dialect said:

"A month."

"Huh? One...one month?" The patient's father blinked in confusion. He had been mentally prepared for several years, but he didn't expect Fang Yan to say only one month.

"Yes." Fang Yan nodded.

The patient's father said quickly:
"One month is not long at all. It's not long at all."

Fangyan reminded them:
"The girl has to be hospitalized during this period, and someone from your family has to come to accompany her."

The patient's mother quickly said in dialect:
"No problem, no problem, Doctor Fang, as long as you can cure the disease and save the child's left hand, we can accept it even if it takes a year, not to mention a month!"

"That's right..." The other members of her family also nodded.

Seeing that they agreed to the treatment plan, Fang Yan picked up a piece of paper and a pen and continued to write a prescription.

He only wrote:
12 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 60 grams of raw oyster (fried first), 9 grams of earthworm, 9 grams of Moutan bark, 12 grams of red peony root, 9 grams of safflower, 12 grams of Vaccaria segetalis, 5 grams of Artemisia selengensis, 6 grams of Luffa loofah, 6 grams of Ligusticum chuanxiong, 12 grams of Zedoaria, 5 grams of Scolopendra subspinipes, 12 grams of Clematidis, and 12 grams of peach kernel.

There are fourteen herbs in total, just exceeding the rule of thirteen.

The instructions for use are written in dialect: the first and second decoctions are for internal consumption, the third decoction is for external fumigation, once a day.

In addition, there is a separate column for dialect: 3 grams of leech powder, which should be swallowed each time you take the medicine.

Fangyan used a combination of blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs, as well as insect drugs to break up accumulations and dredge meridians to treat the patient's current condition. He also added the leech drug in the prescription to break up blood and remove blood stasis to break her 19-year-old fetal toxin disease.

After prescribing the medicine, Fangyan asked them to go through the admission procedures, and then someone would naturally take them to get the medicine.

The whole family thanked Fangyan profusely and left the clinic to go through the hospitalization procedures. The whole room suddenly became empty.

After collecting the needles from the bank manager, there was only one last patient left.

He was a young man in his 20s, wearing a mask and a military coat.

The dialect greeted:
"Comrade, it's your turn."

After the shout, the young man looked at Fangyan and said:

"I'm not sick, I just came to see you treat my illness."

After saying this, he took off his mask, revealing his true face.

Fangyan immediately recognized who this person was.

Deng Tietao's apprentice, whom I met outside the examination hall last time, is Xiao Chengzhi, the grandson of Xiao Longyou, one of the four famous doctors in Beijing.

PS: 6000 words updated.

There will be more later.
(End of this chapter)