Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 958 The Fast Food Chain Owner with Stomach Problems, Spleen Contains Intentions (Bonus Chapter 3K for Monthly Tickets)

Fang Yan was certain that Professor Jin Shiyuan was interested, otherwise he wouldn't have asked this question.

So Fang Yan smiled and said to Professor Jin Shiyuan:

"Professor Jin, if you are willing to join us, you only need to contribute your technical expertise as equity, just like Professor Ren and his colleagues, without any capital investment. Your authoritative position in the identification of Chinese medicinal herbs and the management of authentic medicinal resources is exactly what we urgently need for developing high-quality products."

"For example, the identification and application of medicinal materials, and the quality control of raw materials, require the guidance of experts like you."

"The specific form of cooperation can be flexibly arranged according to your wishes. Whether it is consulting guidance or project cooperation, we have needs. Your junior, Professor Zeng, will put forward specific requirements to you."

I originally wanted to recruit him last time, but I didn't find the opportunity. Now that he brought it up himself, I certainly can't let Fang Yan get away with it.

Upon hearing this from the dialect, Professor Jin Shiyuan said:
"Hmm, that would work..."

Fang Yan was delighted upon hearing this and said to Professor Jin Shiyuan:
"Alright, since you've agreed, I'll have Lao Hu bring the contract to you later."

"From now on, we'll have to rely on you and Professor Zeng for the company's drug research."

"I will do my best as long as it is within my power." Kim Se-won nodded.

The matter was settled in front of the students from the five classes, who were also witnesses.

Everyone was a little envious of Professor Jin Shiyuan; it would be so great if they could be invited.

Unfortunately, their current skills are not enough to attract Fang Yan's attention.

Although they were all in the elite class, through spending time together, everyone realized where their differences lay.

There's still a long way to go before we can catch up.

The group of students secretly resolved that their foundation was actually quite strong, but they lacked practical experience. They were determined to learn as much as possible during their morning internship.

By summarizing more clinical experience, I should be able to catch up with the other students.

Not to mention catching up with the class leaders, catching up with Du Heng and Yan Yifan should be achievable, and it should be achievable in a short period of time.

Before the dialect was even known, the students in the class were already secretly preparing to roll it up.

After recruiting Professor Jin Shiyuan, his next patient was the last one of the day.

After treating this, we conducted a physical examination for Director Liao.

Fang Yan finished writing the form, handed it to another classmate, and said to him:
"Go to the pharmacy for me, and while you're at it, call the person at the door in."

The student nodded and immediately ran out.

Then the last patient of the day entered the consultation room with his family.

The couple came together this time. I had met the woman before at the banquet. Her surname is Li and her name is Li Yin.

They came back from the United States and run a Chinese fast food chain.

Because my parents were in this business, they took over and merged the chain, and now it's quite large and has reached a considerable scale. It's just that my husband is sick.

Her husband's surname is Wang, and his name is Wang Di.

I am 41 years old this year.

Upon entering, Fang Yan noticed that the person's complexion was sallow, swollen, and lacked luster, giving the impression of being "bloated," "puffy," and having "loose skin," which was clearly different from the firm and elastic face of a healthy person.

Furthermore, her lips were pale and somewhat sausage-like, as if she had been stung by a bee and the swelling had subsided. Fang Yan had seen this kind of face on people with drug allergies before.

Moreover, he had a worried look on his face and didn't seem very energetic.

His eyes were a little dazed, like someone who had just woken up and was still a bit confused.

The person felt as if they were in a state between dreaming and waking.

His wife greeted Fang Yan, and he was stunned for several seconds before he came to his senses.

Greeting in dialect:

"Hello, Dr. Fang!"

Fang Yan nodded to him and then asked him to describe what was wrong with his body. He seemed to have amnesia, staring at Fang Yan blankly for a while, then looked at his wife before finally coming to his senses.

"Oh, right! I'm sick!"

He seemed completely out of his mind. Fang Yan said to Li Yin:

"I think you should speak. Mr. Wang seems to be feeling a bit unwell right now."

Seeing her husband like this, Li Yin said somewhat awkwardly to Fang Yan:

"His condition has worsened since he came back, which is why he is like this."

“This is an old problem of his; he has had stomach pain for a long time and has been taking medicine for many years.”

“You don’t know how busy we people in the catering industry are. We often can’t eat on time. When he was young and had just gotten married, he took advantage of his good health and didn’t care about eating. Then one day he suddenly felt like his stomach was on fire. After going to the hospital for a checkup, he found out that he had a stomach problem.”

"The doctor prescribed medicine for him, but didn't say whether it would cure the pain or not. He was just told to take it whenever he was in pain. Later he found out that the medicine was mostly for pain relief. As a result, he has been suffering from this for many years, with the pain sometimes flaring up and sometimes subsiding."

"In the last five or six years, the attacks have become more and more frequent, and when they are very severe, I can only lie in bed and can't get up."

"I am always afraid of the cold, have little energy, eat little and digest slowly."

"You won't believe it, but he especially can't eat porridge. It should be the easiest thing to digest, but when he eats porridge, his stomach feels watery."

"In severe cases, it will start to guzzle out right after eating."

"And you can't eat too much oily food, otherwise you'll feel like the food isn't digesting properly and your stomach is bloated."

"My stool is sometimes loose and sometimes hard, but most of the time it is loose and unformed."

"And when it gets really bad, you can also feel a sensation of heaviness or pressure in your anus."

“Recently, when I had this ailment, my stomach was bloated and painful, and it would also radiate to both sides of my ribs. I felt like there was gas moving around inside my body, but I couldn’t burp. When the gas went down, I felt like I needed to have a bowel movement, but it was difficult to pass stool.” “Later, we found a traditional Chinese medicine doctor in the United States to treat us. He taught us a method: using warm compresses or massage until our stomach started making intestinal noises and we passed gas. This made us feel much better.”

"In addition, my husband himself said that he feels comfortable if he can urinate smoothly."

"But that traditional Chinese medicine doctor was eventually arrested because he said he caused problems while treating patients, so we stopped taking his medicine..."

"..." Fang Yan was speechless.

She summarized what she had said and then started writing.

"Anything else?" he asked the patient's wife as he wrote.

Li Yin thought for a moment, and at this moment Wang Di seemed to finally come to his senses, and slowly said to Fang Yan:

"Also, you can't stand for too long. If you stand for too long, your stomach will feel heavy and sinking. When the pain is severe, your stomach will be very bloated. You can't press on it, and you can't talk loudly either, because it will hurt if you talk."

"In the end, all I could do was lie there quietly."

"I don't like to move anymore. If I move, I get dizzy and my vision goes black. It's like my brain can't keep up."

Li Yin picked up the conversation and said:

"Yes, we also had tests done at several hospitals in the United States."

"However, the results from each hospital's examination are different. I was once diagnosed with chronic hypertrophic gastritis, mild gastroptosis, anemia, etc."

"This relapse was because I caught a chill after taking a shower when I came back. The pain was quite severe at the time, and the medications I brought with me didn't help. Now we suspect it might be malignant, and we're very worried..."

After listening to the dialect, he quickly wrote down the key points of the matter.

Then he said to the patient, Wang Di:
"Mr. Wang, please open your mouth and stick out your tongue so I can see it. Also, please give me your hand so I can take your pulse."

Wang Di was a little more composed now. He paused for a moment, then realized what was happening.

He opened his mouth to speak in the local dialect.

The moment he opened his mouth, his dialect was unmistakably strong.

The tongue coating is thick, greasy, and slightly yellow, and the tongue body is slightly swollen and dull.

The pulse in both hands is a soft pulse.

This belongs to the "thready pulse" category. Its characteristics are that the pulse is thin and soft, easily felt with light touch, and not obvious with heavy pressure. It is like touching cotton floating on the water with your finger. You can feel the soft texture, but if you press down a little, the cotton will sink with the water and the feeling will weaken.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the "soft pulse" pattern mainly indicates deficiency syndromes and dampness syndromes.

The dialect began to be analyzed rapidly in my mind:

The patient's long-term irregular diet led to spleen and stomach weakness.

The spleen is responsible for transportation and transformation, while the stomach is responsible for receiving and digesting food. When the spleen and stomach are weak, their transportation and transformation functions fail, leading to the retention of dampness inside the body. Dampness traps the spleen, and over time, it transforms into heat, resulting in internal damp-heat accumulation.

A thick, greasy, and slightly yellow tongue coating suggests damp-heat, while a soft pulse indicates dampness and deficiency.

Stomach bloating and pain, and a feeling of gas moving around may be related to liver qi invading the stomach, and liver qi stagnation affects the ascending and descending functions of the spleen and stomach.

A feeling of heaviness in the anus and a prolapsed stomach are signs of a deficiency of Qi in the middle Jiao (middle burner), indicating a weakness in the spleen that prevents it from lifting properly. Feeling cold and fatigue indicate insufficient Yang Qi, especially spleen Yang deficiency.

Some patients cannot eat porridge, which, according to dialect analysis, is likely related to excessive gastric acid secretion or damage to the gastric mucosa.

If so, then dietary recommendations need to be adjusted, avoiding spicy foods and eating smaller, more frequent meals.

Fang Yan was about to write the medical case when he stopped writing. He thought to himself, "Wang Di was so absent-minded just now, as if he had lost his soul. What's wrong with him?"
Fang Yan thought for a moment, then asked Li Yin, the patient's wife:

"Is Mr. Wang's lack of concentration a recent development?"

Li Yin said:

"Actually, it was a little bit before, but it wasn't as serious as it is now. He got sick recently, and I don't know how it got so serious..."

Fang Yan nodded and went over the symptoms again.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the patient's tongue coating is thick, greasy, and slightly yellow, the tongue body is slightly swollen and dull, and the pulse is soft, which suggests that there is dampness in the body and weakness of the spleen and stomach.

A soft pulse is commonly seen in dampness and deficiency syndromes. Combined with the patient's fear of cold and fatigue, this indicates a deficiency of spleen yang.

In addition, the patient's stomach bloating and pain radiating to the ribs may indicate a problem of liver qi invading the stomach, as liver qi stagnation can affect the ascending and descending functions of the spleen and stomach.

The patient has recently experienced difficulty concentrating and mental confusion.

This is likely related to the deficiency of qi and blood caused by long-term spleen and stomach weakness after the onset of the disease.

Because the spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and the source of qi and blood production, spleen deficiency leads to insufficient production of qi and blood, which cannot nourish the brain, resulting in brain malnourishment and symptoms such as dizziness and difficulty concentrating.

In addition, long-term chronic diseases and physical discomfort can also lead to emotional distress, further aggravating liver qi stagnation and creating a vicious cycle.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic states that "the spleen stores the vital energy, which in turn houses the mind." When the spleen is deficient, the mind cannot be held.

In addition, dampness and turbidity obstruct the orifices, and damp heat disturbs the clear orifices, like oil-coated dough causing mental confusion.

Finally, he must also have symptoms of insufficient Yang energy. When Yang is deficient, it cannot warm the mind and spirit, which will lead to the state of "wanting to sleep".

Having thought this through, Fang Yan had basically figured out the situation.

He picked up his pen and began writing medical records with great speed. For Wang Di's illness, he planned to use an external treatment method he had never used before—"organ support application method".

PS: After finishing this chapter, I currently owe everyone 98000 words.

That's all for today, please come early tomorrow!

Lao Feng is working hard to write tomorrow's!

(End of this chapter)