Chapter 10: Solving Difficult Problems

Another bright morning, Zhou Quanlin got up early and did his daily homework - studying the classics and ancient books of Chinese medicine, this day he read "Materia Medica", which has a discussion on Chinese medicine atractylodes, Li Shizhi is quoting the example in "Jifeng Bei Emergency Prescription": "I found that the teeth were long, and they gradually became difficult to eat, and the name was medullary discharge." Decoction with atractylodes, gargling to heal. After reading this text, Zhou Quanlin seemed to have a bizarre illusion performance in front of his eyes, the ancient people had this "myelrhea", the teeth kept growing, just like the teeth of the little mouse kept growing, and the teeth were not grinding every day, and the rice could not be eaten, but with this atractylodes water to make a mouthwash, gargle, it was miraculously good, can there be such a strange thing? The ancient doctors were too good to be a doctor, and modern people seem to rarely get diseases, and I haven't heard of anyone who keeps teething. Zhou Quanlin was puzzled by this description, but he was very impressed and remembered it.

Zhou Quanlin was studying traditional Chinese medicine during this period of hard work, Cheng Dake old Chinese medicine led him into the door of ancient Chinese medicine, and Zhou Quanlin also practiced very well; Zhou Quanlin has now passed the ascetic stage and entered the stage of "Dharma Joy", and the practice of theory has become a part of his life; The use of ancient Chinese medicine theories to treat diseases and save people has become Zhou Quanlin's spiritual pillar, such a realm is definitely the realm of high monks and high laws, and the suffering he has suffered is nothing, and saving the suffering of all living beings is his ultimate goal.

Confucius once said that it is very good, "People do not know and are not ashamed, and they are not gentlemen?" Zhou Quanlin understood the meaning of the old sage of Confucius, "To do learning, you must be able to endure loneliness." "Zhou Quanlin studied medicine for three or four years, and he was able to see and diagnose and treat diseases, which is already extremely intelligent. But if you want to become a great doctor, you have to go through the boring process of "learning practicality, practical learning and then learning", which may take more than ten or twenty years to reach a state, and Zhou Quanlin has been fully committed and has no distractions.

Zhou Quanlin believes that reading the classics is not a matter of three years or two years, but a lifetime of big things, every time you read there is a new understanding, with the increase of experience and medical records, every time there are new discoveries in this ancient classics.

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On this day, Zhou Quanlin came to Dashuling Village, Qunlong Township to send a medical round, and as soon as he arrived at the village committee, Wu Guangwen, the village director, greeted him and said to him, "Doctor Zhou, Xia Junqi, the old branch secretary of our village, is sick, can you take a look?" There was a skeptical disbelief in his words.

"What's wrong? Very sick? Zhou Quanlin also felt that it was a difficult disease to deal with.

"It's not serious, it's just that there is something like a thorn in the heel, and it hurts as soon as the foot hits the ground, but Xia Junqi went to the county hospital to see it, saying that it was a bone spur and had to be operated. Can Chinese medicine solve it? ”

Zhou Quanlin thought, this is really a bit tricky, but no matter how difficult it is to treat, since the old man doesn't want to operate, he can't stand upright, take a look, and prescribe some internal and external medicines, which can reduce the pain.

"Director Wu, you take me to see, let me see how sick Old Xia Branch Secretary is?"

"Okay, follow me." Wu Guangwen was still very confident and curious when he saw Zhou Quanlin.

When he arrived at Xia Junqi's house, Zhou Quanlin saw that Old Man Xia was sitting on a wicker chair in front of the door basking in the sun, so he stepped forward to talk to Xia Junqi, "Secretary Xia, I'll come to see you." ”

"Doctor Zhou, you're here." Xia Junqi served as the village party secretary, saw the world, and shook hands with Zhou Quanlin, "You see that my foot hurts badly as soon as it hits the ground, and I won't stand up." ”

"You don't have to stand up, you just sit and talk."

"Doctor Xiao Zhou, I have been doing farm work all my life, why am I getting so sick when I am old! I can't even get down to the ground. ”

"If you don't have surgery for this old disease, you will have to take Chinese medicine, you see I will diagnose your pulse first!"

"Good, good! As long as you are willing to take action, I think there is hope, I have heard about you, you can boldly cure me! ”

"Old man Xia, I haven't been cured of this disease, and you believe me."

"I haven't been treated, just try to cure it, you see that I believe you as a person, my heart is straight, I don't want surgery, as long as you don't give up on me, I believe that you can be cured, you can see it." After the old man Xia Junqi finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to Zhou Quanlin, and Zhou Quanlin gave the old man a pulse, and the old man's pulse was sluggish, and it was obvious that the kidney was deficient in yin and yang. I asked the old man Xia Junqi some questions about kidney yin and yang deficiency: five heart irritability, night sweats, insomnia, dreams, and pale tongue. How does this give rise to bone spurs?

"Old man Xia, then I'll give you a prescription first."

"Good, good! You open it. ”

Zhou Quanlin wrote down the prescription, 15g of red ginseng, 30g of astragalus, 15g of angelica, 15g of rehmannia, 15g of atractylodes, 15g of psoralen, 10g of Yizhiren, 15g of dogwood, 10g of Poria cocos, 10g of lovage, 10g of Qianghuo, 10g of actinolite, and 15g of wolfberry. Grab 5 pays, pay once a day, eat once in the morning and evening, and decoction in water. Although he wrote this prescription, Zhou Quanlin did not have much confidence, although the old man Xia Junqi had various diseases of kidney yin and yang deficiency, it was not very serious. But since the old man doesn't have surgery, he has to give it a try.

After 6 days, Zhou Quanlin paid a return visit to the old man Xia Junqi, but it was obvious that this prescription did not make a major turn, and the old man's kidney deficiency was reduced, but there was no change in the bone spurs. What to do?

Zhou Quanlin then prescribed other methods to invigorate blood, remove pain and paralysis, but there was no obvious curative effect, Zhou Quanlin was puzzled, could there be no way to solve this bone spur?

After a month, the old man's bone spurs did not show any signs of improvement, Zhou Quanlin returned home and couldn't sleep well, and the meal was not good, the next morning, Zhou Quanlin looked at the "Compendium of Materia Medica" again, and inadvertently turned to the last time I saw the medication example of atractylodes, Zhou Quanlin read it more than a dozen times, and slowly had some understanding in his heart.

In the afternoon of this day, Zhou Quanlin went to the traditional Chinese medicine department of the county hospital to find the old Chinese medicine doctor Xiao Fushan to discuss this case, Xiao Fushan was very appreciative of Zhou Quanlin, "Quanlin, what you said about atractylodes is true, when I first watched it, I also watched it as a story, but when you mentioned it, I had a little humble opinion, teeth are bones, and the kidneys are the main bones, and the bones are the marrow, and the bone and the marrow are different names but a class of content." The meaning of the long teeth is like the medulla is full and overflowing, so ancient Chinese medicine gave this disease the name of 'medullary discharge'. ”

"Xiao Lao, that's what you mean, if you don't say it, I don't understand it too much, it makes sense. Does that mean that something is wrong with the system that binds the bone marrow? The bone marrow is dominated by the kidney, which is a reservoir of water. ”

"Yes, Quanlin, you want to go in the right direction. The binding system of the bone marrow is said to be done by the soil in ancient Chinese medicine, and the soil is water, and now the kidney is deficient, that is, the soil is deficient, and the water cannot be hidden, and the overflow, right, is the medullary overflow, so the teeth will become longer. ”

"Yes, Xiao Lao, what you analyzed is that Atractylodes is to replenish the soil, once the soil is restored and the pulp no longer overflows, it will be simple, and the teeth will not grow."

"Okay, Quan Lin, I support you to use the most authentic and pure Chinese medicine to treat diseases, this has always been my ideal, but sometimes I can't do anything!"

"Xiao Lao, I will insist. Alas! The tooth is the bone, and the root of the foot should also be the bone or the end of the bone! ”

"yes, what's wrong?" Doctor Xiao Fushan never doubted Zhou Quanlin's brain, he knew that Zhou Quanlin must have found something when he came to him to learn from him? or wavering and uncertainty in the application.

"Xiao Lao, I found a case of bone scarcity, and I used several methods to tonify the kidney, relieve pain and invigorate blood, but it was not solved."

"Quan Lin, isn't this case generally serious?"

"That's right! But this Xia branch secretary did not do it, never went to the operating table, and treated conservatively. ”

"Okay, doesn't that give you a great case?"

"Yes, Elder Xiao, I was inspired by you just now, and I will use this atractylodes to treat bone spurs now."

"Okay, wait for your good news!"

"Thank you, Xiao Lao, then I'll go."

Zhou Quanlin hurried to Dashuling Village, Qunlong Township, with Baizhu, and found Xia Junqi.

"Old Man Xia, this time I found a special recipe for you." After many days of treatment, Xia Junqi drank a lot of medicine, but it had no effect at all, and he was a little discouraged.

"Doctor Zhou, I want to drink Chinese medicine soup again! I've been drinking this bitter medicine soup for more than a month, and my kidneys have indeed improved a lot, but the bone spurs haven't been alleviated at all, and I don't seem to have any hope of getting off the ground! The old man Xia Junqi had a bitter face, listless.

"Old Xia, don't drink bitter medicine soup this time, you see, this time you can just wash your feet."

"What a magical herb, you can wash it."

"Of course, this is atractylodes, I'll decoction the medicine for you, just wait for a while."

Zhou Quanlin personally decocted the medicine for Xia Lao this time, and then put it in a footbasin, "Come, Xia Lao, put your heels in this medicine." ”

"This will work, just bubbles!"

"No, Xia Lao, you can't soak it, you have to soak it for a week or two!"

Zhou Quanlin taught Xia Junqi how to cook atractylodes and how to soak his feet with this, and went back.

A few days later, Zhou Quanlin visited the village again and saw Xia Junqi again.

Xia Junqi personally led a few old villagers to come, "Doctor Xiao Zhou is here, what changes do you see in me?" ”

"It's different, it's nothing! Last time I taught you, did you learn how to wash atractylodes? Zhou Quanlin looked at Xia Junqi, Xia Junqi stood up and walked back and forth.

"Old Xia, are you sick! The bone spurs are all healed. ”

"Okay, it's light."

"You didn't use other Chinese medicine to take it internally!"

"Of course not."

An old man in his seventies and eighties was reluctant to undergo surgery, but he made an unexpected gain and cured a stubborn disease.

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What's with? Zhou Quanlin analyzed that bone spurs are caused by the loss of bone calcium to the bone surface and the formation of bony vegetations. This is not fundamentally different from "medullary overflow". Therefore, using the same method has unexpected effects.