Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 492: Overseas Chinese, I suggest using the special heart-saving soup (monthly ticket plus more)
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is similar to acute and chronic bronchitis in its early stages, with recurrent spasmodic severe coughing and asthma as its main symptoms.

Western medicine diagnoses and identifies its characteristics, mainly based on the clinical symptoms of progressively worsening dyspnea.

In addition, the lungs have typical diffuse interstitial disease shadows, restrictive ventilation dysfunction and decreased diffusion function.

In the end, no cause of the disease could be found.

Based on the few medical cases that Fangyan knew about in his previous life.

Once this disease is diagnosed, it is invariably accompanied by cor pulmonale.

Eventually they all died of systemic failure, heart failure, and respiratory failure.

This is what Fangyan learned when he studied Western medicine in his previous life.

No matter how Western medicine treats, the disease will eventually lead to death and is irreversible. Lung transplantation is the only option.

However, there is no concept of this disease in traditional Chinese medicine. It is generally treated according to the principles of pulmonary emphysema, tuberculosis, spasmodic cough, and asthma.

Fangyan believes that although this disease is rare, Chinese medicine has definitely encountered it. It’s just that neither the patients nor the doctors know that this is a difficult and incurable disease in Western medicine.

After the disease was cured using traditional Chinese medicine, no one knew about it.

Unless the disease is first diagnosed in Western medicine, and then the treatment is delayed until the late stage and then handed over to Chinese medicine for treatment.

Among the recorded medical cases in traditional Chinese medicine, the only one that I remember was the one that Mr. Li Ke encountered in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province in 1998.

She was a 44-year-old rural woman named Zhang Cunhua.

Before she went to see Dr. Li, she was hospitalized in the Respiratory Department of the Second Provincial Hospital for half a month. After examination, it was determined that she had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis combined with cor pulmonale.

After large amounts of hormone therapy, oxygen inhalation and other treatments were ineffective, the patient developed heart failure and respiratory failure and was discharged in critical condition.

When the patient was sent to Dr. Li, his limbs were extremely cold, with his hands colder than his elbows and his feet colder than his knees. After Dr. Li used the Poge Jiuxin Decoction to save him, he applied a series of Chinese medicine methods to treat him.

After three consultations and 40 doses of medicine, all symptoms disappeared.

In the spring of the following year, she followed her husband to another line to run a coal mine. Old Li told him to continue taking the medicine to consolidate the therapeutic effect.

Unfortunately, the patient did not follow the doctor's advice. At the end of the second year, Dr. Li met her husband again and learned that the patient had suddenly fallen ill in July, vomiting and having diarrhea more than 2 times day and night, and died before she could be treated.

This is the only medical case Fangyan knows of where a patient was diagnosed with Western medicine and treated with traditional Chinese medicine. However, based on the medical record, Mr. Li believed that his treatment was not successful.

Because the patient did not follow the doctor's advice, he died suddenly in July of the following year.

So theoretically it is not completely cured.

However, Fangyan still remembers his treatment plans very clearly.

At this time, Zhu Lin, who was standing by, asked the dean:

"Dean, what you mean is...this patient is going to be treated with traditional Chinese medicine?"

Her meaning is very clear. Dialects are Chinese medicine. If you go to consult with a Western doctor but in the end you don't know how to use Chinese medicine, wouldn't that be a waste of time?
It’s better not to go.

Although she didn't know what the disease was, a disease that required consultation was definitely not an easy disease to treat.

The dean nodded and said:
"In theory... the patient's family wanted to use traditional Chinese medicine for treatment."

Fangyan also became curious, so he went to Union Hospital and explicitly stated that he wanted to use traditional Chinese medicine.

Fangyan instantly guessed:
"Why did you go directly to Union Hospital for Chinese medicine treatment? Is the patient a foreigner or an overseas Chinese?"

The dean responded:
"The patient is an overseas Chinese. Her parents have made great contributions to our country. The case was assigned by the Ministry of Health. Now we will take over and decide on the treatment method after consultation."

Fang Yan suddenly realized what was going on. He did not delay and promised the dean:
"Okay, I'll go take a look too."

Then Fang Yan said something to his wife and gave her a reassuring look. Then Fang Yan followed the dean out of the dean's office, and the two of them headed towards the inpatient building.

On the way, the director spoke about the patient's condition in dialect.

The patient landed in Hong Kong from abroad a few days ago, then entered Guangzhou, and then flew to Beijing.

It was delivered to Concorde as quickly as possible.

He is currently receiving oxygen in the hospital.

After arriving at the inpatient department of Union Hospital, Fang Yan saw many doctors already waiting in the office. He knew many of them. When they saw Fang Yan, they were also a little confused, wondering why the dean brought him here.

After the dean briefly explained Fangyan's identity, everyone realized that Fangyan is now a consulting physician in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Office of Union Hospital.

After entering the office, Fang Yan was assigned to a seat in the Traditional Chinese Medicine office.

The Western medicine group from Union Medical College is across the table from each other.

Then the dean asked one of the doctors to start describing the patient's condition:

"The patient, Zhou Zhaoqin, is 23 years old. Three years ago, she was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with left heart enlargement in a foreign hospital. She has been hospitalized many times. High-dose hormone treatment has been ineffective. She has had spontaneous pneumothorax three times in the past three years. Her condition has worsened. She has lost the function of her left lung and only has 1/5 of the function of her right lung."

"He has been dependent on oxygen for half a year. Foreign hospitals recommended a lung transplant, but only 24 lung transplants have been performed worldwide, and only one patient left the hospital, and survived for only 40 months."

"So after learning about this situation, the patient's parents finally decided to return to the mainland to find other treatments."

"The patient traveled from Hong Kong to Beijing, with intermittent oxygen supply for 14 hours. He is currently coughing violently, wheezing, sweating profusely, with a gray complexion, purple nails, cold fingertips and a rapid pulse of 134 beats per minute."

"He is in critical condition and is currently receiving oxygen and hormone treatment."

"The patient's family asked the hospital to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat the patient."

“That’s probably the situation at the moment.”

After listening to the patient's briefing, the dean said to everyone:

"The patient is in critical condition right now, so if you have any ideas, please share them now."

The Western doctors looked at each other, and one of them said:

“Since the patient’s family wants to use traditional Chinese medicine, let’s ask our colleagues in the traditional Chinese medicine office to share their ideas.”

Several people in the TCM office were whispering to each other in dialect. Although they had not seen the patient, they knew from the brief report about the patient that he would die soon if things went wrong. Even if they were asked to treat him, they didn't know how to do it.

Finally, the dean directly named Fangyan:

"Counselor Fang, can you please tell us what you think?"

The patient's condition was very critical at the moment, so Fang Yan didn't waste any words and asked the dean directly:

"Then I said, can you treat it according to my method?"

The dean said to the dialect:
"You tell me first."

"Although I haven't seen the patient yet, I can tell from the briefing just now that the situation is quite serious."

"The patient is in a critical condition. We should first save the yang and consolidate the body. I suggest using the Poge Jiuxin Decoction!"

PS: Damn, I got 800 more monthly tickets, and I owe you another 16000 words, so after finishing this chapter, I still owe you 32000 words.

There will be more in the afternoon.

(End of this chapter)