Chapter 415 The King’s Disease
There are a few more people with diabetes later, but none of them are as serious as the previous one. It doesn’t matter whether to increase or decrease the prescription of medicine.
Patients of the same type seem to be faster.
Among these thirty patients, the majority are patients with hypertension and diabetes. This is a 61-year-old male patient.
Obese (about 115kg/170cm), with a big belly, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and wheezing with even the slightest movement.
The blood pressure difference is small, low pressure is high, and sometimes there is acid reflux.
Without even feeling the pulse, Wu Xiaofu was basically sure that the patient was not suffering from high blood pressure just by looking, smelling and asking.
After taking the pulse, the patient showed a sinking pulse.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, diseases include insufficient Qi and poor Qi circulation - myocardial hypertrophy; and symptoms of rising fire.
Basically no difference.
Myocardial hypertrophy can be known by TCM syndrome differentiation without taking X-rays.
The patient is obese, has shortness of breath, and has a deep pulse, indicating that the patient's Qi is sinking. It is autumn, and the pulse is floating at the right time, indicating that the patient's lack of Qi is a deficiency syndrome. Qi and blood are difficult to circulate in the body and require cardiac pressure supply, like Long-term exercise will naturally cause cardiac hypertrophy.
The immobility of Qi in the body also has the effect of obesity. There is too much fat and the body cannot carry it.
In addition, there are many families nowadays, and the family inheritance of diseases is determined by the same temperament in the same family. This can actually be corrected later in life.
For example, the patient is unreasonable, stubborn, and obese. If he does not want to inherit the disease in his family, he must learn to "deviate from the norm."
If everyone in your family is fat, you should work hard to lose weight; if everyone in your family has a bad temper, you should specialize in cultivating a good temper.
Isn't there a saying that people who "deviate from the traditional ways" will definitely not inherit family diseases, which is "unfilial".
After making it clear to the patient, Wu Xiaofu began to write prescriptions. Wu Xiaofu also felt that effective Chinese medicine treatment was better than Western medicine in treating high blood pressure.
Of course, you have to pay attention to some things, such as avoiding alcohol and meat.
As the writing goes, Zhuru 15 tangerine peel 3 licorice 3 Poria cocos 15 plantain 15 Glauber's salt 6 (red) coptis 3...
Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of traditional Chinese medicine is its slow effectiveness.
Just like this patient, the first course of treatment requires fifteen doses, and then the results are observed.
For many acute diseases, TCM doctors may not be able to reverse the condition in time even if they give strong medicines. They also have to consider whether the patient can tolerate the strong medicines. Therefore, facing such patients is a test of the ability of TCM doctors.
This patient came with his child. His 18-year-old son was in line behind the patient.
It can also be seen from this that current high blood pressure is indeed genetically predisposed. Otherwise, at the age of 18, there should be no elevated blood pressure.
It’s not just blood pressure that’s inherited, but also weight.
Similarly obese, the father weighs more than 200 pounds, and the child also weighs about 200 pounds.
18-year-old Xiao Shan has been experiencing headaches and bloated head for more than a month. He is also accompanied by weakness in his left leg and pain in his left foot after a full stomach.
Xiaoshan also checks his blood pressure at ordinary times. His systolic blood pressure is usually about 145mmHg. After eating fried food, his systolic blood pressure can reach 150mmHg.
Xiaoshan didn't care at first, but now the standard isn't one hundred and fourty. If it exceeds five or ten, it shouldn't be a big problem.
So this time Xiaoshan is not here to see high blood pressure, but to see other things.
After turning 18 weeks old, Xiaoshan took the driver's license test and drove a taxi in the village to pick up tourists. The pain and weakness in his left leg and foot affected his work.
Xiaoshan doesn't think that the symptoms of the left lower limb are related to blood pressure, and he has never heard of it.
Not to mention Xiaoshan, even Xiaonan and Xiaobei didn't think the symptoms of the left lower limb could be related to high blood pressure.
"You need to control your blood pressure. Your left leg weakness and left foot pain are the reasons for high blood pressure."
Wu Xiaofu said, surprising Xiaoshan and others, "Is the problem with the left leg and foot also related to blood pressure? No way, I've never heard of it."
Others were also staring at Wu Xiaofu. They had never heard of it. What was going on?
Wu Xiaofu smiled when he heard this, "You have these symptoms after you are full. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is called 'drinking into the stomach and causing the essence to overflow'.
The spleen and stomach absorb the whole grains eaten by humans through transportation and transformation, further process the nutrients, and then transport them to various places after processing. The pain that occurs after a full stomach is a rejection reaction. Well, it can be regarded as unqualified processing.
If the absorption threshold of nutrients transported to the feet is 5, and the nutrients transported to the feet are 4.5, which does not meet the absorption standards, there will be accumulation, rejection, and allergic reactions. This is the cause of foot pain.
The reason for unqualified processing is the imbalance of transportation and transformation of the spleen and stomach. People are not born with transportation and transformation disorders. Diseases of the five internal organs are mostly caused by emotions. Therefore, the reason for the imbalance of transportation and transformation is actually that excessive thinking damages the spleen and stomach.
People, when they think more, they take less action. There is a saying of being "cautious". Is this your character? ”
It’s amazing!
Xiaoshan looked at Wu Xiaofu with horror in his eyes. If someone from Bianmiao Village knew his character, it wouldn't be surprising, but Wu Xiaofu was an outsider. He had heard about it. Wu Xiaofu only came yesterday.
Wu Xiaofu would never hear about a small person like him, so was this really calculated, no, visible?
Are all doctors like this now?
So magical?
His head was lighting up and down. Although Wu Xiaofu said a lot, there were many things he didn't understand. Well, most of them he didn't really understand.
But Xiaoshan felt that Wu Xiaofu said a lot, which must be reasonable. He didn't understand it, but he felt it was awesome.
I even felt in my heart that this was it, his disease was like this, the pain in the left lower limb was related to high blood pressure, and it was gone.
"So, as long as Xiaoshan lowers his blood pressure, these symptoms will disappear?"
Xie Yao asked, Wu Xiaofu nodded in agreement, but after hearing this, Xiaoshan's parents were a little worried, "Dr. Wu, Xiaoshan is only eighteen years old. Can you not take medicine? You can't take it for the rest of your life."< br>
This is a normal worry. In people's impression, taking antihypertensive drugs lasts a lifetime. It is okay when you are old, but it is like this when you are young, which is somewhat unacceptable.
"I can prescribe some Chinese medicine for him and let him take it first to lower his blood pressure. But the main thing is to lose weight, exercise, and be moderate in sexual intercourse. In this way, he won't have to take medicine all the time." Listen. Xiaoshan was happy and ashamed when he saw Wu Xiaofu. He was happy because Wu Xiaofu said he didn't need to take medicine all the time, but he was ashamed because Wu Xiaofu said he didn't need to exercise restraint in sex.
Xiaoshan didn't know anything about sexual intercourse. He had a mobile phone and all kinds of knowledge had penetrated his mind. He and his wife were indeed a bit frequent, and Wu Xiaofu noticed it again.
Especially when many people behind him were still laughing, how could this be unreasonable.
Those who don’t study in the village get married young, let alone those who are already adults at the age of eighteen.
Xiaoshan has been married for more than a year, which is normal in the village.
Some of them already have children. As for the fact that they are not of legal age, that is not a problem. They do not have a marriage certificate. They are afraid of the legal age. Once everything is over, they need to register for the children and then make up for it.
"Hypertension is a unique skill of us humans."
Unique?
Everyone was stunned when they heard Wu Xiaofu's words. In other words, other animals must not have high blood pressure?
"Well, because apart from humans, it is difficult for any species to live completely upright. Various studies have found that upright survival is the fundamental cause of blood pressure.
Its purpose is to ensure that the blood supply from the heart can pass directly to the brain and prevent cerebral ischemia and hypoxia.
Therefore, dizziness and headache, one of the complications of high blood pressure, actually need to be treated in order.
It is not the dizziness and headache complications caused by high blood pressure, but dizziness and headache first, and the heart needs to be pressurized to supply blood upward to prevent cerebral ischemia or blood clots.
Therefore, dizziness and headache come first, and high blood pressure comes later. High blood pressure is a dynamic adjustment of the human body, so treating high blood pressure is tantamount to treating the symptoms instead of the root causes.
This is the significance of treating the root cause of TCM. It does not blindly regulate blood pressure, but investigates the root cause of elevated blood pressure and removes the root cause. ”
After hearing this, everyone suddenly felt that the things left by their ancestors were really better than Western medicine. They must know that if they could control it through traditional Chinese medicine and achieve the goal of not having to take medicine for a lifetime, they would really want it.
There are also many people in the village who take high blood pressure medicine to control their blood pressure. When they heard this, they all begged Wu Xiaofu to prescribe Chinese medicine.
At this time, Wu Xiaofu also sighed in his heart. Even if he knew that Chinese medicine had miraculous effects in this area, he could not say that Chinese medicine conditioning could replace Western medicine treatment.
Otherwise, the number of people with high blood pressure in China is too large, and regulating blood pressure with traditional Chinese medicine is not something that can be done in one session. Treating the root cause is the most difficult, and it requires four or five courses of treatment.
In fact, it depends very much on the basic skills of Chinese medicine, and training a qualified Chinese medicine doctor does not take just a few years.
Such a huge group of people with high blood pressure cannot be controlled by traditional Chinese medicine. What's more, in many cases, blood pressure needs to be stabilized in time.
Just like Wu Xiaofu and his colleagues at the Department of Surgery, when an operation is about to take place, if you want to perform an operation on a patient with high blood pressure, you need to lower the patient's blood pressure in a timely manner, and Western medicine is obviously more effective in this regard.
Therefore, this is the need of the times, not the needs of the patient group.
If we want to fundamentally eliminate this problem, it is not for doctors, but for the people. As long as they have healthy living habits and avoid obesity, smoking, drinking, and staying up late, not to mention high blood pressure, in fact most basic diseases can be avoided.
Let alone Shaoshuai Zhang, he can live as long as he wants by eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, and smoking. If there is any problem with Shaoshuai Zhang, he will have the best doctors to help him directly. This is a condition that others cannot have.
In the blink of an eye, half of the patients had looked over.
Among these patients, in addition to those with high blood pressure and diabetes, there are also some with gastrointestinal problems. People in the village do not eat regularly, especially since there have been more tourists recently. They all want to make more money, and some even skip certain meals. have eaten.
After such a long period of time, the intestines and stomach will basically not be very good.
In addition, there are mostly elderly people in the village, and some constipation problems are more serious. However, these are easy to treat. Wu Xiaofu will prescribe some Chinese medicine for them, and they will just pay attention to their living habits in the future.
"Director Wu, I have pain in my lower back and my calves. Please help me take a look. This has already affected my walking. Forget it, my work has also been affected. I work as a skewer maker and I can't stand well now. Station, especially affects my work.”
This is a young man in his thirties, about the same age as Xie Yao.
"Director Wu, this is my childhood friend, his name is Li Jun, who runs a kebab stall at the entrance of the village. He knew you were coming and wanted to see you, so he hurried over to take a look."
Wu Xiaofu nodded when he heard this, and looked at the patient's calf. There were some small bumps on the joints, which looked like tophi. Knowing this, he asked Li Jun to reach up and start feeling for the pulse.
The word "gout" first appeared in medical classics during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Because the pain came on as quickly as a gust of wind, the name "ventilation" came into being.
It is also called "pain numbness" in some ancient medical books.
The "Medicine Zhengzhuan" written by Yu Tuan of the Ming Dynasty mentioned that "the so-called painful numbness in ancient times is today's gout." Various books also call it the White Tiger Calendar Wind, which causes pain in the joints of the limbs. , like the shape of a tiger’s bite, named after it.”
This passage is consistent with the symptoms described by Li Jun. The pain appeared in the calf area. Li Jun's ventilation symptoms should have been present for some time. Of course, it did not last until he was terminally ill. He only had symptoms in his legs. However, , it is not considered mild, after all, tophi has appeared.
In addition to China, there are also records of gout in other parts of the world, and they are all relatively early. For example, in 2640 BC, the Egyptians had discovered that gout caused lesions in the big toe joint.
The famous ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates called gout the "disease that cannot walk" and pointed out that gout is "the arthritis of the rich", while rheumatism is the "arthritis of the poor".
Why did Ladi say this? There's a reason for that, of course.
In ancient times, gout often appeared in some dignitaries. What are dignitaries?
Just give some examples of well-connected dignitaries, such as Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, Philip II of Spain... Take a look, these are all serious men!
So at that time, gout also had the extremely awesome names of "disease of kings" and "disease of emperors"
Compared with these, the so-called "disease of wealth" actually seems very common.
The reason why I say this is because in ancient times, ordinary people were not found to have this disease. Only powerful and upper-class people had the chance to suffer from gout.
In addition, some people believe that attacks of gout can prevent more serious diseases such as paralysis and stroke. Just as fever is a sign that the body begins to fight the disease, once ventilation occurs, early intervention can be done to prevent serious diseases such as paralysis and stroke. .
So much so that gout was once considered a symbol of social status.
Well, it's all abstract when you think about it. If you think about it carefully, I guess the greeting at that time might be "I wish your whole family gout!"
In fact, if you think about it, you will find that the diseases that were discovered relatively early in ancient times were basically diseases suffered by high-ranking officials and nobles, because these high-ranking officials cherished their lives and would ask a doctor to see a doctor whenever they felt uncomfortable. No matter what the disease was, they could be discovered as soon as possible. , and then mobilized his strength to start diagnosis and treatment.
Otherwise, even if a disease like ventilation was discovered so early, it wouldn't be fatal immediately. Ordinary people who get this disease may not even take a look at it. They just buy some painkillers at home and get over it. It's common people who get it, and I'm afraid modern medical treatment is needed to discover it.
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