Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 955 The British Branch of the He Family, Pediatric Pain Relief (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets: 3K Chapters)

"I think we've given them too much credit, making them forget who they really are," another classmate said angrily.

Others also echoed:

"Exactly, these are all bad habits that have been fostered by spoiling them!"

The dialect actually agrees with what they said.

It's now clear that they can't distinguish between the big and small kings; the whole group seems to have taken the wrong medicine, doing everything they can to cause trouble.

It seems that the same thing will definitely happen again in the future.

One battle knocked them back to where they were, preventing them from rising again for decades. Only then did they realize what they were worth.

The school is in a difficult position now, feeling like a pig looking in the mirror, pleasing neither side.

On one side are the Vietnamese monkeys who keep causing trouble, and on the other side are the higher-ups who want to handle the friction between these students.

It seems that Professor Wang Yuchuan has been quite busy lately.

Dialects are no help now. The main problem lies with the Vietnamese students. They are determined to cause trouble, and no matter what measures you take, unless you use violence directly, they will still cause trouble.

Just as Fang Yan was pondering if there was any better solution, Director Liao and the patients who were seeing doctors that day arrived.

The hospital director also accompanied them and took the person to Fang Yan's clinic.

Director Liao first came over and greeted Fang Yan, then said to him:
"I'll see these four overseas Chinese businessmen after they've finished looking at their cases. I'm going to visit the people on the hospital floor now. I'll come back to you after everyone's gone."

Dialect should be used:

"Okay, then you go ahead with your work! After these four people have finished their check-up, I'll call the inpatient ward's nursing station, and they'll let you know."

After hearing Fang Yan's opinion, Director Liao thought for a moment and said:

"That's okay too."

He agreed, and then he and the hospital director went to the inpatient floor of Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

"Go and call the first person in for me," Fang Yan said to Wen Guohua.

"Okay!" Wen Guohua readily agreed and then went to call for help.

Then the first patient and their family came in.

The patient's family recognized him by his dialect; he was an overseas Chinese from the UK, surnamed Yan.

They work in the seafood industry there, similar to Mr. Gu's family in Hokkaido, but their business is more specialized.

After Mr. Gu's seafood business took off, he started to get involved in other businesses. His family plans to develop more supporting industrial chains in this industry.

They began investing in marine fishing operations in neighboring countries as well.

It serves some of the upscale restaurants in the area, as well as private ones.

"Hello, Mr. Yan." Fang Yan greeted Yan Ziqiang.

Yan Ziqiang nodded and responded in dialect:
"Hello, Dr. Fang!"

He brought his son back with him; the patient was his fifteen-year-old son, Yan Bin.

This time he came back in a wheelchair.

His complexion looked quite healthy, but his hands and feet were trembling slightly and he was in a strange posture.

It felt like I was having a constant spasm.

Yan Ziqiang pushed the wheelchair to Fang Yan and then took a bag from his assistant.

He took out a file folder from inside and handed it to Fang Yan.

Yan Ziqiang said to Fang Yan:

"This is my child's recent medical check-up report."

“It’s a report we prepared specifically in Hong Kong. We requested that it be in Chinese, and we brought it back specifically for you to see.”

"So particular?" Fang Yan was speechless; it wasn't like he couldn't understand English.

They even went to Hong Kong specifically to get a Chinese language medical check-up.

Yan Ziqiang said:
"I was afraid the British report wasn't clear enough, so I went to do it once."

“Okay, I’ll open it and take a look,” Fang Yan said to him.

After opening it, Fang Yan discovered that it contained not only reports from Hong Kong, but also old reports from the UK.

They brought out all the local dialects.

The records from Hong Kong state:

The patient's temperature was 39.8℃, with a regular heart rhythm and increased heart rate. A grade 1-2 systolic murmur was audible at the apex of the heart. Physical examination revealed swelling of the finger joints, wrist joints, and joints of both lower extremities, significantly limiting movement, inability to stand, and inability to perform grasping actions. Hand tremors were also present. Laboratory tests showed an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of 64 mm/h. Electrocardiogram (ECG) revealed ST segment depression and T wave inversion in leads II, III, aVF, and V.

The reports from the UK show a similar situation.

Fang Yan looked at the report and it seemed to be the diagnosis of rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis from the hospital.

Fang Yan looked up at the patient and then asked Yan Ziqiang:
"Tell me what happened."

Yan Ziqiang said to Fang Yan:

“My son has been telling me since May of last year that his legs feel heavy and that it is difficult for him to walk.”

“At the time, we thought he didn’t want to go to school, and because business was good, we didn’t pay any more attention to him. In mid-June, he said his legs started to hurt. We thought he was growing, so we gave him some calcium supplements.”

"He still said it hurt, but there was no swelling. However, he would have a fever from time to time, which reached as high as 41 degrees Celsius."

“When we saw this situation, we took it seriously and stopped some of our business. Then the couple took their child around to seek medical treatment, but after a month of trying, they still didn’t get better.”

"At the hospital at the time, the doctor diagnosed him with 'rheumatic fever' and 'rheumatoid arthritis'."

"Even after using prednisone and phenylbutazone, the fever still lasted for ten days."

"After the fever subsided, we discharged him from the hospital and he continued to take the medication as prescribed. But just two weeks later, he started having a high fever again and had to be hospitalized again." "This time, not only did his legs hurt, but his hand joints also hurt, making it difficult for him to even lift his arms or bend his fingers."

"We checked his erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and the result was alarmingly high, at 180 milligrams per hour. The next eight months were like a nightmare. He would get a high fever almost every two weeks, and it just wouldn't come down. His joints in his limbs were swollen and painful, and he needed help to walk. He couldn't even hold a bowl properly, and his condition was getting worse and worse."

"In order to control the condition, we have been taking hormone medications without stopping. But seeing my child suffer, I am really anxious and furious."

“During this period, we visited many hospitals in the UK, but they all used similar treatment methods. At that time, I lost hope and started to seek treatment from local Chinese medicine practitioners in the UK.”

"Then a very famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor in the area recommended you to us."

“They said that if we bring the child back, you will definitely be able to cure him.”

"Then we found out some information about you, and after learning about it, we believed that you could solve our problems. So we contacted the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and came back to invest in a fish cannery, hoping to get medical treatment from you."

Hearing this, Fang Yan frowned and asked:
"Wait, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor from Britain? Is he a native Briton or a Chinese?"

Yan Ziqiang said:
"Chinese people!"

"His surname is He, and he's almost eighty years old."

Scratching his head, he wondered if he knew any traditional Chinese medicine doctors with the surname He.

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed into his mind.

Of my maternal grandfather's brothers, two branches live abroad.

Could this be one of them?
"Dr. Fang?" Yan Ziqiang called out to Fang Yan.

"Oh, please continue!" Fang Yan said to Yan Ziqiang, snapping out of her daze.

"Then we landed in Hong Kong. In case you can't understand the inspection report, we went to Hong Kong to conduct another inspection."

At this moment, Jin Shiyuan, who was standing to the side, said:
"Actually... we Chinese medicine practitioners don't need to look at these reports. We use the four diagnostic methods of observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation to diagnose patients."

Yan Ziqiang then said somewhat awkwardly:

"I was just thinking that having a report would be more reassuring."

Fang Yan said to Yan Ziqiang:
"It's okay."

"Let me take his pulse and examine his tongue."

After saying that, he went to Yan Ziqiang's son, took the boy's stiff hand, and then placed his fingers on his cun, guan, chi, and zhi points.

At the same time, he said to him:
"Open your mouth and let me see your tongue."

Upon hearing this, Yan Bin obediently opened his mouth.

The tongue coating is white and moist.

After taking the pulse, Fang Yan found that the pulse was deep, thin, and rapid.

Fang Yan asked Yan Ziqiang:
Is your neighborhood damp?

Yan Ziqiang said with slight surprise:

"No, I feel fine."

He asked in dialect:

"Is it because the place where he goes to school is a bit damp?"

Yan Ziqiang glanced at his son, who shook his head and said:
“My school wasn’t particularly damp.”

Yan Ziqiang asked in dialect:

"What does this have to do with the illness?"

Fang Yan pointed at Yan Bin and said:
"His current physical condition is related to the environment. He has been in a damp place for a long time, in that kind of wet environment."

"In addition, he is not very old and his physical condition is not very good. So if this situation continues for a long time, the dampness will rise from the soles of his feet."

"That's why he felt his legs were heavy and uncomfortable all day long, as if they were filled with lead."

"Moreover, he sweated a lot from exercising or working, but didn't change his clothes in time. As a result, he was exposed to cold wind, and the cold air penetrated his body. The cold and dampness mixed together and blocked the blood vessels and joints, causing blood to stagnate. His bones and joints started to ache and hurt."

"In traditional Chinese medicine, this is called cold-induced arthralgia, or painful arthralgia."

"Think carefully, did he do something similar before he fell ill?"

After finishing speaking in dialect, Yan Ziqiang suddenly slapped his thigh:
"Yes, I did. I had him help manage the family's deep-sea fish processing plant for a while during his vacation. It's very humid there, and there's a cold storage! He must have gone into the cold storage without wearing a down jacket!"

Yan Bin then remembered and said:

"I think my illness started recurring after I started school."

"Alright, the case is solved now," Fang Yan said.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic states: "When cold qi invades the outside of the vessels, blood is insufficient; when it invades the inside of the vessels, qi is obstructed."

"Your child worked in a cold storage without proper protection from the cold, allowing cold and dampness to invade the body, obstructing the meridians and causing poor blood circulation, resulting in joint pain and swelling. In addition, he is still young, and being in a cold environment for a long time has damaged his yang energy, leading to spleen and kidney yang deficiency, which further aggravates the retention of dampness. In traditional Chinese medicine, this is called the combination of wind, cold, and dampness, which causes bi syndrome, a type of painful bi syndrome with cold and dampness as the main factor."

"It's not rheumatoid arthritis."

Yan Ziqiang was a bit dumbfounded. So it turned out that he had caused the problem by training his child!
He asked Fang Yan somewhat nervously:

"Is this easy to treat?"

Fang Yan thought for a moment and said:
Whether it is easy to cure or not depends on the patient's age and physical condition.

“Your child is fifteen years old, which is considered pediatric in traditional Chinese medicine, so there are more aspects to consider, and the treatment is slightly more difficult than for adults.”

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