Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 695: It turns out that the weird things are still to come! It's like a fox-induced madness!

Whole angelica 9g, large Chuanxiong 5g, Hangzhou chrysanthemum 9g, Uncaria rhynchophylla 12g, large white peony root 9g, Tribulus terrestris 12g, French pinellia 9g, fragrant angelica 5g, roasted Bombyx batryticatus 9g, Albizzia julibrissin bark 12g.

This is the prescription given in dialect. Except for the bark of Albizzia julibrissin, the dialect emphasizes the original characteristics of all other medicinal ingredients in the above prescription.

For example, the whole angelica has different effects because different parts of angelica have different emphases. The head of angelica stops bleeding, the body nourishes blood, and the tail breaks blood. The whole angelica can both nourish blood and activate blood circulation.

This medicine can not only nourish liver blood to treat the original deficiency of blood not nourishing the liver, but also activate blood circulation and improve the existing blood stasis in the body, so that it can nourish without stagnation and flow without hurting the body, and better target the pathogenesis of old ladies' blood not nourishing the liver and having purple-red tongue with blood stasis.

As for other medicines, the emphasis is on the origin or characteristics.

Only by using appropriate medicine can the old lady's illness be cured faster.

After the prescription with only dialect and medicine was written, it was handed to Zhang Yanchang, who was asked to arrange for the old lady to be admitted to the hospital.

"Just follow Xiao Zhang. He will take you through the admission procedures. Also, the medicine will be delivered to the ward in an hour."

"Just cooperate with the treatment."

Fangyan explained the situation to Mrs. Li and her family.

Then let Zhang Yanchang take over and lead them out.

The patient's son thanked him in dialect:

"Thank you, Doctor Fang!"

Fangyan waved his hand and said:
"The treatment may last for a while, from half a month to a month. After all, I have been ill for seven or eight years. It cannot be cured overnight. I hope you understand."

The latter nodded repeatedly:
"I understand, of course I understand."

Then they followed Zhang Yanchang out to go through the admission procedures, and the third patient came next.

This was a man in his forties. As soon as he came in, Fangyan noticed that his eyes had a lot of red bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept for a long time, or as if he had some eye disease.

Accompanying him was a girl in her twenties, who looked like his assistant or secretary.

After the two came in, the man introduced himself in a hoarse voice.

"Hello, Doctor Fang. We meet again."

Fang Yan then remembered that he had met this person in front of him at the party that day, and that he and he had the same surname.

His surname is also Fang, and his name is Fang Yongxiang.

My family is in the palm oil processing business in Malaysia.

It seems that Fangyan and his family are not from the same branch. Anyway, in terms of seniority, Fangyan doesn't know that there is a Yong generation in his family.

When Fang Yan saw his appearance today, he didn’t recognize him.

Although the lighting that night affected observation, his condition was definitely not as serious as it is now, otherwise I would definitely have been deeply impressed.

Fang Yan didn't waste any words. He nodded at him and said:

"Tell me, what's going on with you?"

After the other party sat down, he spoke in a hoarse voice in dialect:

"Well, this is an old problem of mine. I started to have oral ulcers a few years ago. At that time, I was diagnosed with riboflavin deficiency. I started treatment at that time. After two years of treatment, my two eyes became red, swollen and painful. Just like the hospital diagnosed it now, it was keratitis."

"Huh?" Fang Yan felt a little confused when he heard what he said.

Is there any necessary connection between the oral ulcers that occurred a few years ago and the current situation?

Seeing the dialect, the patient didn't understand what was going on, so he explained to him:

"It's a long story, just listen to me and I'll tell you slowly."

Fangyan nodded:
"Okay, then you say it."

"Two years later, I started to feel pain in my two fingers. I started to have bleeding spots, which gradually turned into abscesses. The bleeding spots appeared symmetrically on my left and right hands, and when they broke, yellow fluid would flow out."

"It has happened many times, and every time it was in a symmetrical position, without exception."

When Fang Yan heard this, his brows slightly frowned, feeling that this situation was much weirder than the previous one.

Could this be the weirdo the dean was talking about?

Resisting the urge to speak, Fangyan gestured to the patient to continue.

Fang Yongxiang continued:
"I went to the hospital for a checkup and was diagnosed with erythema multiforme and lupus erythematosus."

"Then I went to a Japanese hospital for treatment and took Chinese and Western medicine for about three years, but still couldn't control the attacks."

After hearing what he said, Fang Yan silently calculated in his mind: two years plus two years plus three years, that would be seven years.

The patient sighed and said:
"Later, my family sought help from a master of metaphysics. After his advice, he stopped taking Chinese medicine and only took Western hormones, but the condition still could not be controlled. In addition, the oral ulcers caused by riboflavin deficiency and the keratitis with red and swollen eyes also recurred from time to time, with no signs of recovery."

"Then, at the end of last year, I developed more severe bleeding from a gastrointestinal ulcer, accompanied by new symptoms of headaches, dizziness, and memory loss. I wanted to sleep but couldn't close my eyes and sleep well. I woke up after falling asleep, tossed and turned, didn't want to eat, and hated the smell of food."

"After examination at the hospital, it was found that there were blood clots in the blood vessels, and abnormal bruises appeared in the lower genital area. Finally, the liver and spleen were abnormally swollen..."

When Fang Yan heard this, his hair stood on end. He felt that the man in front of him was like a tractor that was about to be scrapped.

It is difficult to find all these problems in people in their seventies or eighties, but he has so many of them.

Fortunately, his family was rich and he was able to get treatment quickly. If it were someone else, he would have been tortured beyond recognition. But the point is that so many problems were concentrated in one person, which was not right in the first place.

And something is very wrong.

If Meng Jimin was here, he would probably have already started silently calculating whether he had violated the laws of heaven.

But at this moment, Fangyan suddenly thought of an uncommon disease recorded in a classic ancient book.

That was recorded in the "Golden Chamber" written by Zhang Zhongjing in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

This disease is called fox-madness in the book.

The record of fox-madness in "Jingui Yaolue" is: "The symptoms of fox-madness are similar to those of typhoid fever. The patient wants to sleep silently, cannot close his eyes, cannot lie down or get up, does not want to eat or drink, hates the smell of food, and his face is alternately red, black, and white. If erosion occurs in the upper part of the body, the patient will have a hoarse voice, and it can be treated with Licorice Xiexin Decoction. If erosion occurs in the lower part of the body, the throat will be dry, and it can be washed with Sophora flavescens Decoction. If erosion occurs in the anus, it can be fumigated with realgar."

There are some symptoms that match what he just said, such as inability to close eyes, restlessness when lying down or standing up, loss of appetite, and aversion to the smell of food.

It is also stated that if the pathogenic factors erode the upper part, the voice will be hoarse, which means that if the pathogenic factors erode the upper part (throat), the voice will be hoarse, which is the same as the patient's condition now.

The main characteristics of fox-induced madness are erosion and ulcers on the mouth, eyes, and genitals, accompanied by systemic symptoms such as dazed look and poor appetite.

In Western medicine, the disease of fox-madness is called "Behcet's syndrome", also known as Behcet's syndrome. It is a systemic, chronic, vasculitis disease.

Clinical manifestations include oral ulcers, genital ulcers, eye inflammation, skin lesions, joint pain and swelling, digestive system ulcers, bleeding and perforation, comprehensive damage to the nervous system, and vascular thrombosis.

Basically, they all match this guy's.

Western medicine explains that this is due to abnormal activation of the patient's immune system, which produces a variety of autoantibodies and inflammatory factors, leading to vascular endothelial cell damage and inflammatory response; infectious factors such as bacteria (such as streptococci) and viruses (such as herpes simplex virus, hepatitis C virus) may trigger the body's immune response and induce the disease.

The individual symptoms of Behçet's syndrome vary greatly. Some patients have mild symptoms, with only minor oral ulcers and skin lesions, while some patients may develop important organs and lead to serious complications.

Anyway, before Fangyan traveled through time, this disease was very difficult to treat in Western medicine. Treating it was like playing whack-a-mole. As soon as it was cured here, it would relapse in another place.

However, Chinese medicine is different. There were medical records of treatment as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the cause of fox-induced madness is mainly related to internal dampness and heat. Influence of dampness and heat, or improper diet, such as excessive consumption of spicy, fatty and sweet food, leads to abnormal spleen and stomach function, internal dampness and heat, and dampness and heat toxic evil flow up and down the meridians, corroding the mucous membranes, resulting in ulcers in the mouth, eyes, genitals and other parts.

In addition, factors such as emotional distress and yin deficiency may also play a role in the occurrence and development of the disease, leading to insufficient positive energy and an inability to resist pathogens, allowing dampness, heat and toxic pathogens to invade the human body.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes comprehensive analysis and treatment of symptoms based on holistic concepts and syndrome differentiation, while modern Western medicine's understanding and treatment of Behcet's syndrome focuses more on research and intervention from the perspectives of pathophysiology, immunology, etc.

The patient had not been diagnosed before because his symptoms were only a single manifestation, and this manifestation was measured in years.

It was not until before he returned to China this time that various phenomena began to appear in a concentrated manner.

Although the progress has become somewhat troublesome, the characteristics have become much more obvious.

It can almost be concluded that it is fox-induced madness.

Thinking of this, Fangyan had a direction, and he said to the patient:
"Stick out your tongue for me to see."

When the patient saw that Fang Yan was still willing to take a look at his complicated condition after hearing about it, he couldn't help but feel a little admiration for him. If it were any other doctor, they would have found a way to refuse by now.

So he obediently opened his mouth and spit out his ulcerated tongue.

Fangyan observed that his tongue was red with a thin yellow coating and had severe oral ulcers.

When I shone a flashlight into his mouth, I found several ulcers of varying sizes, the most serious of which had reached his throat.

Then Fangyan took his pulse again.

It is worth mentioning that when Fangyan was taking the patient's pulse, he also found that there were densely packed red spots on the patient's hands, hidden under the skin, as if they could pop up at any time.

Any doctor with a weaker psychological endurance would probably be unable to think at this moment.

After taking the pulse, both hands showed weak pulses.

To be honest, I haven't encountered this kind of pulse condition recently.

"Weak pulse" refers to a thin pulse, that is, the shape of the pulse is thinner than the normal pulse and the pulse is obvious, like a thin line. This usually indicates that the body is deficient in Qi and blood, especially in Yin blood, because the pulse channel needs the filling of Qi and blood to maintain its normal shape and pulsation. When Yin blood is insufficient, the pulse channel cannot be fully nourished and will become thinner.

"Rapid" means that the pulse rate increases, with more than five beats per breath, while the normal pulse is four beats per breath. This situation is often seen in heat syndrome.

Here, combined with the "weak pulse", it is more inclined to be Yin deficiency and internal heat. The internal heat generates qi and blood, which speeds up the pulse.

Therefore, "weak and rapid pulse" is common in symptoms of yin deficiency and internal heat, such as long-term illness damaging yin, and depletion of yin fluid in the late stage of fever.

His tongue coating also shows that there is heat evil in his body.

As mentioned in the "Golden Chamber", Zhongjing believed that the cause of fox-induced disease was mainly related to the internal accumulation of dampness and heat.

So at this point the dialect has been 100% confirmed, and my own judgment is correct.

The patient noticed Fangyan's expression of understanding at this time.

He immediately asked in dialect:
"Do you see what my problem is?"

When Fang Yan heard this, he nodded and said:
"Well, actually your illness is called fox-delusion!"

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