Chapter 141: Craniotomy in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Zheng Yichen picked up the scalpel, feeling the sharpness of the thin blade, and his expression was unprecedentedly focused. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Since Western medicine and surgery can no longer save Lei Dong, you might as well try the surgery of Chinese medicine surgery!
Tonight, the "Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics", which has been lost for thousands of years, will bloom again!
There are two very important steps to deal with before a Western medicine surgery is performed.
The first step is strict aseptic operation.
The scalpel in Zheng Yichen's hand was naturally not a sterile scalpel, and the bedroom was also full of all kinds of harmful germs.
With this instrument, operating in this environment, patients often die from secondary infection and inflammation!
If an orthodox Western surgeon sees it, he will also denounce it as a matter of carelessness.
Aseptic operation, this is the first trench in front of Zheng Yichen!
This is also the reason why Zheng Yichen couldn't stand it when he saw "The Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics" for the first time: the book did not record the aseptic operation process of traditional Chinese medicine, but only understated it and brushed it off.
Zheng Yichen thought that thousands of years ago, when the divine doctor Hua Tuo performed surgery, he didn't seem to pay attention to sterility and sterility.
The medical conditions of the ancients were low, so it was naturally impossible to create a sterile surgical environment, but after surgery, there were no cases of patients dying of infection after surgery.
In the middle, there must be mysteries and cats!
Zheng Yichen believes that when this mystery is revealed, it must be very simple, "The Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics" is very detailed, and he does not want to spend more pen and ink to describe it, naturally because this method is too superficial!
It was this superficial method that made Zheng Yichen shy away from "The Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics", and he was in no mood to read it.
It wasn't until a few months ago that he was taught by three surgeons, Li Sanguang, Chen Yong, and Liang Siqun, and finally made great achievements in surgery, and then began to re-study the "Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics".
When he compared the knowledge of Western medicine and surgery with the content of "The Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics", he suddenly had a wonderful idea: the so-called germs of Western medicine, to paraphrase the vocabulary of traditional Chinese medicine, are actually external evil spirits.
During the operation, the reason why germs are easy to invade the human body is due to the low immune mechanism of the human body, which gives germs a chance to take advantage of it.
The immune mechanism in Western medicine is similar to the righteousness that Chinese medicine has always emphasized!
The process of germs invading the human body is explained by traditional Chinese medicine knowledge, which is called "when the righteous qi is weak, the evil will invade".
On the other hand, if righteousness is stored in it, then evil cannot be done!
After Zheng Yichen figured this out, he realized that he had finally mastered a key element: why bother to destroy germs (extinguish evil qi)? As long as you use a certain method to strengthen the body's immune mechanism (strong righteousness), you can prevent germs from invading the human body (evil cannot be done)!
According to Western medicine, the human body has three lines of defense.
The first line of defense is made up of the skin and mucous membranes, which not only block pathogens from entering the body, but also have a bactericidal effect on their secretions.
The second line of defense is germicidal substances in body fluids and phagocytes.
The third line of defense is mainly composed of immune organs such as the thymus, lymph nodes, and spleen, as well as lymphocytes.
For the human body, the skin and mucous membranes constitute the first line of defense against most germs.
Patients during surgery are susceptible to bacterial infections because of the loss of this natural barrier.
In terms of Western medicine, if you want to improve the immune mechanism, you can only study in the direction of minimally invasive treatment to minimize broken skin.
In traditional Chinese medicine, what plays a role in resisting external evils is to guard qi.
The human body has two qi, the main inside of the camp and the main outside.
The Corpse. There is a cloud in the "Honzo": "Those who guard qi, so the flesh is warm, the skin is filled, the fat is fat, and the division is opened and closed."
Guarding the human body is the main arch, which has the functions of warming and nourishing the inside and outside, protecting the skin surface, resisting external evils, nourishing the intestines, and opening and closing sweat pores.
Once the Wei Qi is activated, it can establish a barrier against external evils on the surface of the human body, and will not be infected by those bacteria in the air, which is equivalent to the aseptic operation of surgery.
After understanding this, he slapped himself twice: what can be deduced so easily, it takes so long to think about it, no wonder there is no record in "The Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics".
After some research, he also found several acupuncture points that can stimulate the body's health qi, accompanied by the acupuncture method of "Eight Methods of Spiritual Acupuncture", which can definitely make the patient's righteous qi sufficient during the operation, and the evil qi cannot wait for the opportunity to invade.
The first moat was finally crossed by him.
The second step is anesthesia.
Western medicine anesthesia technology has been very mature, but in many cases, some side effects will inevitably occur.
Far away, let's talk about the painless delivery that has been sought after by many pregnant women in recent years, that is, the use of anesthesia to achieve the goal of painlessness.
Most of these people developed low back pain of varying degrees in later years and had to undergo acupuncture and massage treatment.
So much so that for a period of time, when Zheng Yichen saw women seeking treatment for low back pain, he would always habitually ask: Have you ever had spinal anesthesia.
The anesthesia method circulated in traditional Chinese medicine has long been known on the streets, that is, the hemp used by the divine doctor Hua Tuo when he did surgery.
Ma boiling powder has long been lost, and future generations can only feel its magical charm from some wild historical documents.
After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chinese medicine made no achievements in anesthesia, which indirectly led to the stagnation of Chinese medicine and surgery.
What the world doesn't know is that before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were already anesthetic drugs, and Hua Tuo's hemp boiling powder may also be inspired by that anesthetic drug.
That is the Tianji San, which is discussed in detail at the beginning of the "Yellow Emperor's Outer Classics".
"Tianji San, take 1 catty of mandala flower, 4 yuan of raw grass black, fragrant angelica, and Chuanxiong, 1 yuan of Aracea, 3 yuan of sheep's heel, and 1 yuan of ****** root, grind it into powder, and place it under the patient's nose. If the smoke is smoked over a slow fire, the smoke will be released and spread throughout the body through the nasal orifices, and the patient will not feel the pain. ”
When Zheng Yichen saw this text, he went to the pharmacy to configure a copy of Tianjisan for future use.
It also took a lot of twists and turns, in the composition of Tianjisan, the amount of mandala flowers was too large, plus it was not a commonly used medicine, and the inventory of Chinese medicine pharmacies was not very much, so he ran to more than ten pharmacies to get together a pound of mandala flowers.
The two steps of aseptic operation and anesthesia were solved by him, which gave him the courage to do this craniotomy.
Zheng Yichen picked up the sharp scalpel, scraped back and forth against the thunderous scalp, the silver hair fell, and after a while, the thunderous hair was shaved, and the polished head was refracting the light, which was extremely dazzling.
Next, he used milli needles to prick several acupuncture points to stimulate the body's health qi and ensure that the operation process was not evil.
The next step is to take out the tenkisan wrapped in tin foil from the bag.
He opened the tin foil, revealing a white powdery tenjisan, holding the tin foil under the thunderous nostrils with a hemostat in one hand, and baking it under the tin foil with a lighter in the other.
After a while, the white powder gradually volatilized, turned into a puff of white smoke, condensed but not dispersed, slowly rising, and inhaled into the thunderous nose.
Lei Dong's hideous frowning appearance eased down, as if he was asleep.
Zheng Yichen was still not at ease, so he deliberately used up all the medicinal powder before removing the tin foil.
After these preparatory steps, he breathed a sigh of relief and picked up a clean scalpel again: "Next, it's time to get down to business." ”
According to the results of CT films, the site of Lei's cerebral hemorrhage is mainly concentrated in the brainstem.
He gathered his energy and gathered his spirit, and slashed down heavily on the skull in the brainstem area, and the blade rubbed violently against the bone, making a tooth-aching grinding sound.
As if devastated, Zheng Yichen only used a scalpel and the strength of his arm alone to cut open the skull!
All of this is naturally due to the set of breathing and breathing exercises he practiced.
Zheng Yichen made two more slashes, made a triangular pattern, and carefully removed the triangular skull.
As far as the eye could see, it was blood-red.
He put down the scalpel and put a milli needle on the acupuncture points on his head, such as Jiaosun, Touwei, Sishencong, and Baihui, and after a while, the turbid blood in the brain flowed out of the triangular gap, Zheng Yichen had already prepared, caught it with a small bowl, and put two thick towels underneath.
He estimated the amount of bleeding, and after two minutes, his expression was awe-inspiring, and he quickly pulled out a needle, and the bleeding immediately stopped in the gap.
The red tide on Lei Dong's face finally faded, much better than before, but it was still frighteningly red.
Zheng Yichen put down the needle and wiped his sweat, his face was still solemn.
Next, the most critical step is the most important step.
He picked up two strange instruments again, one resembling an ear plucker, and the other resembling a small scalpel with a blunt blade that looked incapable of cutting objects.
Both instruments are more than ten centimeters long and as slender as toothpicks.
These two tools were specially ordered by Zheng Yichen after reading the "Craniotomy Chapter" of "The Yellow Emperor's Outer Classic", according to the description in the book.
With both hands in his hand, a spoon in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, he slowly probed the two instruments into the gap in his skull and began to perform a unique TCM surgery.
It was late at night, the light was not good, the gap in the skull was too small, and there was blood staining in the brain to obstruct vision.
Fortunately, after Zheng Yichen's "Wangqi Chapter" was a small achievement, his eyesight was also enhanced, through the gap in the black hole, borrowing some faint light like a star, the brain tissue was perfectly presented in front of his eyes, and it was meticulous!
Zheng Yichen's thoughts underwent a wonderful change, the instrument in his hand seemed to have become a part of his body, and he could feel the warmth from the brain tissue through the instrument.
He carefully felt the touch from the instrument, and after wandering for a while, he finally noticed the abnormality and stopped moving: "This is the bleeding point." ”
He manipulated the instrument in his hand, either point or poke, and tinkered for a while to stop the bleeding.
Zheng Yichen was relieved, and took out a knife-shaped instrument, a spoon-shaped instrument, which was still in his brain.
Although the dirty blood was discharged, the bleeding points were stopped, and the tissues in the brain stem were almost completely inactive.
If you don't find a way to activate the activity of the brainstem tissue, Lei Dong's life can be saved, and he is just a vegetative person who can't move.
What Zheng Yichen has to do now is to follow the record of "Craniotomy" to carry out the surgical method of awakening and rejuvenating the brain.