Chapter 348: Immunology in Traditional Chinese Medicine
John Tong did not need to question whether this treatment was useful or not, because even if it did, Western medicine would not need to use it.
"Really, Mr. Tang, why is smallpox still rampant on the African continent?" asked Su Huai rhetorically.
Tang Ruowang frowned slightly: "That's because the World Health Organization's manpower and material resources are limited, the existing smallpox vaccine is only immunized for 1 year, and regular injections must be injected every year to be effective, and Africa is so large that it is impossible to monitor all the personnel......"
In this time and space, the medical community also invented a vaccine against smallpox, which, like the "rabies vaccine", is a vaccine made by artificially cultivating a large number of people and then killing it by chemical methods, which is called a "dead vaccine".
Although this "dead vaccine" can protect against smallpox, the immunization time is limited, and it must be injected at regular intervals.
Under the promotion of this vaccine, smallpox has almost disappeared in China, Japan, North Korea, and Europe, which have been stable and modernized, and the World Health Organization has made great efforts to make citizens have to go to the hospital regularly every year to inject the relevant vaccines, so that smallpox has been eradicated in modern countries.
However, the smallpox virus is still raging on the African continent, and although ordinary people do not need to continue to be vaccinated against smallpox, anyone who has a visa to go abroad will now have to be vaccinated to ensure safety.
"So......" Su Huai looked at Tang Ruowang and asked:
"If there is a way to prevent smallpox, which can be effective once and immunized for life, will Western medicine adopt it?"
Tang Ruowang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled:
"Do you mean, with your human pox inoculation, you can permanently immunize patients against smallpox in one go?"
"Not permanently. Su Huai shook his head, and when everyone was a little disappointed, they heard him continue: "I can probably be immune for more than 90 years......
Hearing this, everyone present was dumbfounded......
Damn it...... More than 90 years...... Isn't that equivalent to lifelong immunity!?
Tang Ruowang couldn't help but look at the arbitrators next to him when he listened, and then they couldn't help but show mocking expressions.
One of the arbitrators said directly: "How do you know for sure? Did you use your 64 hexagrams to calculate it?"
Li Xian and Mrs. Xu were all furious, and the hot-tempered Mrs. Xu couldn't help but open her mouth and scolded: "What nonsense!?"
However, before Mrs. Xu finished scolding, she heard a person sneer: "Are these UNESCO people all old and confused, how can they send such a group of blind doctors to be arbitrators." ”
The arbitrator who spoke just now said angrily: "What did you say, and who are you?"
"I'm not anyone, I'm here to educate you about the blind and blind. Academician Yang asked the staff to hand the arbitrators, one document per person, and asked them to explain while reading:
"These are the foundations of viral immunology, you take a look at it, and I'll explain it again, so that you don't understand. ”
Tang Ruowang saw that Academician Yang had just cooperated in the treatment of the poisoned patient, and he also guessed that he was a medical expert in Huaxia, so he didn't dare to be careless, and looked through the information on viral immunology.
Dean Yang not only gave these people science popularization, but also told all the viewers in front of the TV, because this knowledge is so critical that it is likely to change the course of immunology in the whole world.
In the future, there will definitely be countless medical personnel describing all the details of what happened today, including this video of him, so Dean Yang also put away his contempt and said with an extremely serious attitude:
"Our human pox inoculation method is actually to make a new 'live vaccine', which is to actively stimulate the immune system and produce antibodies, and after recovery, there will be memory B cells in the body, and then there will be immunity to the pathogen. It's not that you won't be infected with the pathogen later, but that the immune system has already defeated the pathogen before you have obvious symptoms.
Antigen presentation cell recognition, antigen presentation, and antibody-antigen reaction are caused by antigenic determinants on the surface of the antigen. The antibody does not directly kill the antigen, and after the antibody binds to the antigenic determinant on the surface of the antigen, the antigen loses the ability to infect the cell, and then is engulfed and destroyed by the phagocytic cell. ”
Seeing that the audience was full of confusion, Su Huai couldn't help but remind: "Dean Yang, let's keep it simple." ”
Dean Yang couldn't help but have that kind of "really a bunch of idiots" look on his face, so as not to be embarrassed:
To put it bluntly, it is the concept of fighting poison with poison in traditional Chinese medicine that Mr. Su said. ”
After saying this, Dean Yang also deliberately glanced at Tang Ruowang, Tang Ruowang's old face turned red, he didn't expect to meet a real Chinese medical expert here, and his laughter just now seemed very ignorant.
But he was still not convinced, and interjected: "Why don't we use the existing vaccines?"
"That's a good question. Academician Yang clapped his hands excitedly:
"This is the key~~ Our current vaccines are actually called 'dead vaccines', which are simply a biological agent that uses physical and chemical methods to kill pathogenic microorganisms but still maintain their immunogenicity. Such as inactivated vaccines such as typhoid, cholera, and meningitis epidemic.
In other words, what is obtained is dead bacteria, but it also has the ability to stimulate immunity~
The advantage of the 'dead vaccine' is that the virulence is unlikely to return, and the safety is good.
There are many shortcomings, first of all, the number of vaccinations is relatively large, 2-3 times, and the amount of vaccination is large, the second is also the most deadly, the immunization maintenance time is relatively short, only 05-1 years, and now the mainstream smallpox vaccine is used in this way. ”
After all, everyone goes to get vaccinated every year, and they still have a deep understanding of this kind of trouble, and the most troublesome thing about the vaccine now is that the effect is too short.
"But~~!" Academician Yang suddenly raised his voice and said with a high spirit:
The pox inoculation method that Su Huai said has created a new way of thinking!
In "The Legend of the New White Lady", Xu Xian took off the smallpox bean scar and blew it into the nose of a patient who was not sick, actually infecting him with the active smallpox virus..."
There was an immediate exclamation at the scene, obviously unable to accept this fact, how could someone who did not have smallpox be actively infected with the smallpox virus!?
Dean Yang pressed his hand and said:
"Don't worry, listen to me, this smallpox virus infection does not really make you full of pox, but only allows you to grow one, or a few tiny pox scars, very mild attacks, and then, produces a strong immune effect!
That is, the 'live vaccine' of the living vaccine is used to make people immune to the effect. ”
Speaking of this, Dean Yang took a deep breath and announced in the most exciting voice:
"The immune effect of this 'live vaccine' can induce two different effects of humoral immunity and cellular immunity, and the immune maintenance time is relatively long, up to 1-5 years or longer, and it has been proved in our laboratory that smallpox can achieve the effect of lifelong immunity!"
As soon as this was announced, the audience suddenly boiled!?
What does this mean...... Is it not just this TCM treatment that immunizes people to smallpox for life?
What's even more terrifying is ...... Can be built