Chinese medicine: from rural hospitals to top three hospitals in Kyoto

Chapter 874 The so-called 'method'

"The patients who came this time all contacted our program team online and came to the scene with the help of our program team..."

The host said: "Traditional Chinese medicine is the traditional medicine of our Chinese nation. It was born with our Chinese nation and has a history of more than 5,000 years."

"This time we invited several experts to come to the scene to diagnose and treat patients on the spot, and explain and analyze the conditions to the audience. We hope that everyone can have a more intuitive understanding of traditional Chinese medicine."

"Next, we invite the first patient to come on stage."

The patient who came this time was now sitting in the audience. As the host's voice fell, the camera turned to the patient.

The patient was an old man in his early seventies. As the camera turned to the patient, the old man stood up with the help of his family and walked towards the stage. The host also introduced the patient's condition.

"The old man came from Yunzhou Province. He is 72 years old this year. He has suffered from phlegm and asthma for many years. His condition has worsened in the past half month and he can hardly lie flat..."

While the host was introducing the patient, Chen Yang and others were also looking at the old man's medical records.

The old man has had this wheezing and phlegm for more than 30 years. Western medicine diagnosed it as chronic bronchitis, which means he has been suffering from the disease for many years. His family is also from the countryside. Even though he is 72 years old, he has been working all year round.......

Diseases such as chronic bronchitis are almost impossible to cure. People who are familiar with this type of patients should know that they basically cannot do heavy work, and as they get older, their condition will become more serious every winter.

If the patient can survive, he may live longer. If he cannot, it will be very dangerous.

Therefore, some patients with good conditions can even live to 80 or 90 years old, and some may live to 50 or 60 years old. When they are in good condition, they can do some work, but when they are serious, they need to stay in bed for treatment...

Sun Mingde, Zhao Hailin and a few others all frowned to some extent.

Is this first patient so difficult?

This chronic disease is the most difficult to treat. If it were that easy to treat, patients would not have been suffering from the disease for so many years.

When they learned yesterday that this program was about clinical consultation, Sun Mingde and Zhao Hailin even thought about withdrawing, but withdrawing would also be embarrassing.

After all, he is a chief physician and cannot afford to lose face.

There is a difference between being defeated in a war and being a deserter.

The doctors and nurses in the hospital all knew that they were going to be on the show, but they ended up deserting at the last minute. How could they return to the hospital?

"Director Sun, Director Zhao, who of you will examine the patient first?" the host asked with a smile.

"Let me take a look first."

Sun Mingde spoke.

The staff and the patient's family helped the patient sit down in front of Sun Mingde. Sun Mingde took the old man's pulse and asked about his condition.

During the on-site diagnosis and treatment, Sun Mingde took the patient's pulse and told everyone his diagnosis, pulse condition and tongue condition.

Except for Chen Yang, everyone else was either a chief physician or a professor and had some basic skills. If others had no objection to the pulse and tongue, there was no need to diagnose again. It would just be a matter of asking a few more questions, asking about some things that Sun Mingde had just overlooked and that he had thought of temporarily.

After that, we can enter the dialectical and discussion phase.

“This disease is quite tricky.”

Sun Mingde said: "From the pulse, this is a case of upper fullness and lower emptiness. People who know a little about Chinese medicine should know that Chinese medicine is all about yin and yang, emptiness and fullness, cold and heat..."

"This kind of mixed disease is the most difficult to treat clinically..."

"Director Sun is right."

Zhao Hailin also said: "From the patient's symptoms, if the method of clearing the lungs and reducing inflammation is used to treat the 'upper fullness', it will inevitably affect the 'lower deficiency' of the kidneys. If the lower deficiency is only supplemented, it will inevitably block the phlegm and hinder the upper-burner lung fullness."

"Well, the use of medication is indeed quite tricky." Shen Qiuyun also nodded.

Several other people also expressed their opinions in order to appear on the show. Regardless of whether they can cure the disease or not, they should at least talk about it first to avoid becoming a decoration.

You know, this is a live broadcast, and there are countless people watching it in front of the TV and on the Internet.

"What does Dr. Chen think?" the host asked Chen Yang.

"What Director Sun, Director Zhao and others said is correct. This patient's condition is indeed a syndrome of upper fullness and lower emptiness. The patient's phlegm and wheezing are signs of excess, and the pathogenesis is that he has excessive kidney deficiency due to years of hard work, which has weakened his body and made him unable to lie flat. This is a mixture of excess and deficiency."

Chen Yang said slowly: "As the saying goes, if you are weak, you should supplement it, and if you are strong, you should drain it. In Chinese medicine, when you face a weak symptom, you should use the supplement method, and when you face a strong symptom, you should use the drain method. The difficulty of this kind of mixed deficiency and strength symptom is that if you use the drain method, the weak part will become weaker, and if you use the supplement method, the strong part will become stronger..."

Since it is a program, Chen Yang not only has to cure the disease, but also has to explain the pathology clearly so that the audience knows what the disease is and how to treat it.

"So there is no way to treat this disease?" asked the host.

Chen Yang smiled and said, "From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there is no disease in this world that cannot be cured. The reason why it cannot be cured is because the right method is not used. As long as the right method is found, any disease can be cured. Doctor Zhang Zhongjing once said, if you know what disease you have, you can treat it accordingly..."

"Now that we know what disease the patient has, we can treat it symptomatically..."

"So Dr. Chen has a method?" the host asked with a smile.

Chen Yang smiled and said, "Speaking of the word 'method', there is actually another saying that this word comes from traditional Chinese medicine. The prescriptions that traditional Chinese medicine prescribes for patients are called 'prescriptions', and the means of using the medicine are called 'methods'. Only when there are 'prescriptions' and 'methods' can it be called 'methods'."

"Is there any other way to say this?"

The host was surprised: "This is the first time I've heard of such a statement. Can Dr. Chen tell us more about it?"

"The so-called 'prescription' is a prescription."

Chen Yang said slowly: "The prescription is to use the right medicine for the right condition. If the patient is full, then use the purgative method. If the patient is 'weak', then use the tonic method. That's the 'prescription'."

"But the patient's symptoms are a mixture of deficiency and excess. When using medicine, we cannot let the tonic affect the patient's excess symptoms, nor can we let the 'laxative' affect the patient's deficiency symptoms. We need to use some methods..."

Listening to Chen Yang talking, Zhao Hailin, Sun Mingde and others beside him were also listening attentively.

They really had no way to treat this disease, but Chen Yang's words gave them some food for thought.

A few people who can become chief physicians have some skills and emotional intelligence. In such occasions, if you are not as good as others, then just listen carefully. If you talk nonsense or have no self-awareness, it will be more embarrassing.