Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 727 A radical plan, military doctors invented Chinese medicine injection
"Well, let's start now." Fang Yan said to the patient.

Secretary Gao nodded and agreed:
"it is good!"

"How should I cooperate with you?"

Fang Yan said to Secretary Gao:

"Lift up your clothes, and let me take a look at the lump you mentioned."

"Okay." Secretary Gao was from the military, so he didn't waste any words. He stood up, unbuttoned his coat, and lifted up his clothes around his abdomen, and said to Fang Yan:

"Please."

Fangyan walked forward and touched the area with his hand to check and found that, just as the patient said, there was a lump in his upper abdomen that was 3 cm by 4 cm in size and was hard in texture.

After pressing it with a little force, the patient gasped in pain.

"Hiss...it's...this is the place." Secretary Gao frowned, but still insisted on not sitting down, so that Fang Yan could check it carefully.

Fangyan used Luo's bone-setting method to feel the outline of the patient's lump again. After determining the boundary, he asked the patient:
"Apart from the pain here, do you feel anything else?"

The patient thought for a moment and said:
"My mental state is not as good as before. I feel tired when I sit down now. My limbs feel as if the strength has been drained away. I want to lie down when I sit. I have also lost a lot of weight. My chest and stomach are often bloated and painful, and there is a stabbing pain from time to time."

"It was like someone was stabbing me from the inside with a knife."

Fang Yan nodded, put down Secretary Gao's clothes, and then continued to ask:

"Um, any more?"

Secretary Gao glanced at the trash can where he had just vomited yellow water, and then said:

"I feel like there is something foul in my stomach, rushing up my throat. Sometimes it smells like a sewer after rotting in the summer, and sometimes it smells like a dead rat, rushing from my throat all the way up my nose. It feels very uncomfortable."

"This is the smell that came over me just now. I couldn't help but want to vomit."

Fangyan glanced at the trash can and said:
"But I see you didn't vomit anything?"

Secretary Gao said:
"Oh, I can't eat. The pain will get worse if I eat."

"I rely on glucose transfusions in the hospital and can only manage by eating porridge."

Fangyan shook his head and said:
"You can't do this. You'll lose weight very quickly and you won't be able to hold on for long."

"You have to keep eating if you want to be treated here. I will prescribe some recipes for you then."

"Okay!" Secretary Gao nodded and agreed.

What Fangyan said also indirectly explained one thing, that he intended to take over.

This made Secretary Gao feel somewhat relieved.

Fang Yan spread the rumor that as long as he accepted the patient, it meant he was confident, which gave him hope.

"How is your defecation and urination?" Fangyan continued to ask at this moment.

Secretary Gao said:
"The urine is normal, but the stool is dark in color and small in volume."

Fang Yan nodded and said:
"Well, sit down, open your mouth, and let me see your tongue."

The patient sat down obediently and opened his mouth.

At this time, Zhang Yanchang immediately handed over the flashlight:

"Brother Fang, flashlight."

Fangyan took it and shone it into Secretary Gao's mouth.

The tongue coating was found to be white and greasy with yellow.

He sniffed his mouth and indeed there was a faint foul odor coming out of his breath.

But the dialect tastes like vomit.

He frowned slightly, then said to the patient:
"Hmm...roll up your tongue so I can see underneath it."

Secretary Gao rolled up his tongue obediently, then opened his mouth and uttered:

"Uh, ah..."

Fangyan used a flashlight to look at the tongue and saw that the lower part of the tongue was a dark purple color and the veins under the tongue were varicose.

"Okay." Fang Yan turned off the flashlight, then sat back at the examination table and said to the patient:
"Give me your hand, I'll take your pulse."

Then Fangyan took the patient's pulse.

The pulses of both hands are consistent and thin and stringy.

Fangyan now has a basic understanding of Secretary Gao's situation.

His condition is called epigastric pain in traditional Chinese medicine, which is a type of accumulation of lumps and masses. In Western medicine, it is indeed classified as gastric cancer.

However, there is no concept of cancer in traditional Chinese medicine. There are many disease names similar to cancer in ancient Chinese medical books, such as "accumulation", "dysphagia", "breast rock", "stone goiter", etc.

"Accumulation" describes Secretary Gao's symptoms of abdominal lumps, pain or swelling, which are similar to some manifestations of abdominal tumors in Western medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of this disease is related to a variety of factors, mainly including internal and external factors. Internal factors such as deficiency of vital energy. When the body lacks vital energy, the organs will malfunction and be easily invaded by external pathogens, leading to pathological changes such as qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm coagulation, heat and toxicity, and then forming tumors.

As mentioned in the book “Medical Essentials”, “the accumulation of qi is caused by insufficient positive qi, which is then occupied by negative qi”; external factors include the six exogenous pathogens (wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire), improper diet, and emotional disorders. Long-term bad living habits and emotional depression may affect the circulation of qi and blood and the function of internal organs in the human body, increasing the risk of cancer.

For example, long-term consumption of spicy, greasy, and irritating foods can damage the spleen and stomach, leading to the endogenous generation of phlegm and dampness; emotional distress and liver qi stagnation can cause qi stagnation and blood stasis, all of which may be related to the occurrence and development of cancer.

Judging from what Secretary Gao said himself, the cause of his illness was long-term irregular diet and irregular hunger and satiety that led to weak spleen and stomach, alcoholism that damaged the stomach, and phlegm and blood stasis that formed into masses, dampness, heat, blood stasis and toxins.

It is because the body's Qi and blood are deficient and weak, which causes the organs to lose their normal coordinated operation, leading to Qi stagnation and poor blood circulation to form blood stasis. The body's water metabolism is abnormal and condenses into phlegm and dampness. These pathological factors gradually accumulate and eventually form accumulations.

This causes pain in the epigastric area and lumps (masses) in the abdomen.

Fangyan has thought of two treatment options now. One is based on the core concept of "eliminating symptoms without hurting the body, and strengthening the body without retaining evil". Through the four-dimensional intervention of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, external treatment and diet therapy, we strive to achieve the goal of surviving with the tumor and improving the quality of life.

The other one is a little more radical.

That is through the intramuscular injection of Chinese medicine injection, combined with oral and external application of Chinese medicine, to strengthen the body, promote qi and remove blood stasis, activate blood circulation and eliminate symptoms, and soften and disperse nodules.

This is a method of treating lumps that I learned from Mr. Zhu's book, from his fellow Jiangsu native, Zhang Xijun, who is now the director of CQ City First Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

Speaking of Doctor Zhang, he is quite amazing.

He is from Wuxi and comes from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.

He graduated from Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medical College in 1930, and officially opened his medical practice the following year. He later entered JS Provincial Medical College. After graduating in 1936, he and Mr. Cheng Dan'an founded the Chinese Acupuncture Society and Wuxi Acupuncture School in Wuxi, and served as the academic affairs officer.

Later, he co-founded the Shanghai Guanghua Medical Journal with Ding Zhongying, Ding Jimin, Zou Yunxiang, Ren Yingqiu, Dong Demao, Geng Jianting and others, and served as editor-in-chief. He also co-founded the Nanjing Traditional Chinese Medicine Rescue Hospital with Ran Xuefeng and others, and served as vice president.

Later, he opened the Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic with Hu Wenlan and others and served as deputy director.

Later, he served as the director of CQ City First Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

Fangyan had no experience in treating this disease, but he had read Mr. Zhu's secret book, which contained not only his own experience, but also the experience of various other famous doctors in Jiangsu.

It can be said that he knows most of the essential medical skills of Jiangsu School of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be so famous in the South.

The dialect now prefers the second one. Since it is for treatment, of course it must be cured.

If it cannot be cured, then we should settle for the next best thing.

In fact, this Chinese medicine injection has been around for a long time.

Its development history can be traced back to the 20s. It originated in 40, when our sanitary materials factory developed Chaihu injection, which is considered to be the earliest Chinese medicine injection in my country.

It was a time of war and the supply of medicines was tight. In order to solve the problem of treating common diseases such as fever, scientific researchers were forced to innovate traditional Chinese medicine and extracted effective ingredients from Bupleurum to make an injection.

Thinking that if Western medicine can use injections, I can use it too, I put this injection into clinical trials.

At that time, it was discovered that this injection was used clinically to reduce fever and achieved certain therapeutic effects. This wartime emergency product has since opened the precedent for Chinese medicine injections.

Later, after 1949, with the development of medical and health care, Chinese medicine injections were further studied and applied under the impetus of military pragmatism.

During this period, some new varieties of Chinese medicine injections were developed one after another, such as Houttuynia Cordata Injection and Isatis Indigotica Injection.

These injections are mainly used to treat some infectious diseases, such as respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, etc.

Zhang Xijun also got inspiration from this and began to apply traditional Chinese medicine to the field of injection.

Some people think that Chinese medicine injection is a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, but in fact, it is essentially the purification of the formulation principles that have been verified for thousands of years through modern technology, just like improving decoctions into pills and powders. It is a natural extension of the inherent development logic of traditional Chinese medicine.

Its core combination completely complies with the theory of "harmony of seven emotions" and has nothing to do with the "ingredient-target" thinking of Western medicine.

In 2017, the "Technical Guidelines for Clinical Effectiveness Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Injections" established an exclusive evaluation system, refusing to copy Western medicine standards and highlighting the path of independent innovation in traditional Chinese medicine.

Chinese herbal injection is a milestone in the independent modernization process of traditional Chinese medicine. Its theoretical basis, technical route and application scenarios are independent of the system of integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

Confusing the two not only belittles the innovative value of Chinese medicine injections, but also blurs the theoretical dilemma of integrating Chinese and Western medicine.

He is a product of the real revitalization of traditional Chinese medicine created by Chinese medicine pharmacists.

"Doctor Fang, can my condition be cured?" At this time, Secretary Gao shouted, bringing Fang Yan back to his senses.

He said to Secretary Gao:
"Of course, I just thought of a successful treatment plan from a senior."

As soon as these words were spoken, Secretary Gao's face suddenly lit up with joy.

The three people behind Fangyan originally thought that Fangyan was stumped, but they didn’t expect him to say... he had successful experience?

They were also a little confused for a moment.

They watched in amazement as Fang Yan picked up the pen and began to write the prescription. They were stunned by the first line of words. They only saw Fang Yan write:

Ginseng injection, intramuscular injection.

It’s actually a traditional Chinese medicine injection?

All three of them were trained in traditional Chinese medicine at home, and they would never touch this kind of stuff. They only heard that military doctors liked to use these things.

So who is this senior that Fang Yan is talking about? A military doctor? So unpopular?
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