"Director, can appendicitis be treated with traditional Chinese medicine without surgery?"
Seeing Director Li walking into the consulting room from outside, Nurse Xiao Zhou asked quickly.
"Ah?" She asked fiercely, leaving Li Chu a little confused. He didn't know what she meant.
"That's the patient you just saw. When he was in the surgery department, the doctor diagnosed him with acute appendicitis and sent him to the hospital for surgery."
"Oh, you're talking about the intestinal carbuncle just now. It belongs to the type of qi stagnation and blood stasis, which can be cured through acupuncture and taking medicine."
"Then why did the surgeon recommend surgery?"
"It's simple, once and for all. Western medicine believes that the appendix is dispensable, so if there is acute inflammation, just cut it off."
"Then is this thing really useless?"
"How could it be useless? After so many years of evolution, the human body has long since eliminated useless things. According to Western medicine, the appendix is responsible for the function of intestinal immunity. It can also secrete digestive enzymes and store probiotics, so it is not
As a last resort, it is best not to cut out the appendix."
"Director, what do you mean, there are actually many types of appendicitis?"
"Yes, Chinese medicine divides intestinal carbuncle into three types: qi stagnation and blood stasis, dampness and heat accumulation, and heat-toxin invasion type. If it is heat-toxin invasion type, then I will also recommend surgery, because at this time the patient's appendix
It has completely suppurated, and if surgery is not performed in time, it may be life-threatening."
"Can you operate?"
"Haha." Li Chu smiled when he heard Xiao Zhou's question and said, "Xiao Zhou, do you think Chinese medicine doctors don't do surgery?"
"Yes, the doctors I see in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine mostly use massage or acupuncture. I have never seen any of them talk about surgery. Some patients who need surgery will be asked to go to the surgery department for another look."
"Traditional Chinese medicine also has surgery, but because of the existence of Western medicine now, TCM doctors don't need to perform surgeries. Furthermore, after so many years of changes, many surgical techniques have been lost, so now even in schools,
Teachers won’t teach this to Chinese medicine students because they don’t know how to do it themselves.”
Whether Li Chu knows how to perform surgery, of course he can, it's in the skill book he opened back then, and again, it's not necessary.
He doesn't have to compete with surgeons for food, and he can do those things, but the skills passed down in the skill book are indeed very rough. If he really wants to perform an operation very skillfully, even he needs more practice.
It only takes a few times.
The current treatment of diseases through acupuncture, massage and syndrome differentiation is enough for young TCM doctors to learn for a lifetime. If TCM surgeries are added to the equation, those students may go crazy.
Seeing Xiao Zhou nodding in understanding, Li Chu waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go see if there are any patients with Chinese medicine outside."
"Okay director."
It seems like he hasn't signed in for a while? Li Chu muttered to himself.
Signing in now has no attraction for him. No matter what kind of rewards the system will give him, he will not be able to take them out openly.
Forget it, the procedures that need to be carried out still need to be carried out. Who knows what day the system will fail.
He immediately made up his mind to get one when he went to bed tonight.
Just as he was thinking about it, the door curtain opened and Director Zhao from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine walked in with a solemn look on his face.
"Old Zhao, what's wrong with you? Sit down."
"Director Li, I would like to ask, are there any medicines you have prescribed recently that don't work for patients after drinking them?"
Director Zhao's words stunned Li Chu. He didn't know what they meant.
"Old Zhao, what do you mean? There are cases where the medicine doesn't work for patients after taking it?"
"Yes." Director Zhao nodded: "Not just one or two, there have been several such patients in the past two days."
As he spoke, he put the prescriptions in his hands on the table.
Li Chu picked up the prescriptions, looked at them, and asked about the patient's condition. According to Director Zhao, this should be symptomatic.
Moreover, these prescriptions were not written by one person. Even if someone wrote the wrong prescription, it is impossible for several doctors to write the wrong prescription.
Several of them were old doctors, but Li Chu didn't believe they would be so irresponsible.
After watching it for a while, he felt something was wrong.
"No, Lao Zhao, where did you get this prescription? Did you ask for it specifically from the pharmacy?"
"No, the patient brought it."
"You mean these patients didn't get any medicine from our pharmacy?"
"Well...since they have the prescription, it should be the medicine they bought outside."
"Where is the patient now?"
"They didn't come here today, they were there yesterday and the day before. I just thought something was wrong when I was sorting them out, so I packed them together and thought I'd come over to see if this is the case here."
"I haven't seen this kind of situation yet. So, can we contact these patients?"
"I can contact one of them, he lives opposite our hospital."
"Old Zhao, look for him and ask him where he bought the medicine. Ask him to go there with the prescription and buy another pair. Then bring it over and let's study it."
"Director Li, do you mean there is something wrong with the medicine sold in that pharmacy?" Director Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up.
They discussed it for a long time, but they really didn't think about medicinal materials.
"Currently I can only think of one situation." Li Chu nodded and said.
The reason why he could think of this was mainly because he thought of a news he had seen in later generations, which said that there was a problem with the medicinal materials sold in a certain pharmacy. The patients went there to get the medicine, but after drinking it, it had no effect at all. Later, the Food and Drug Administration came to inspect
, the problem was discovered.
"Okay, I will arrange for someone to go find this patient now and ask him to grab another pair of this medicine."
"Well, when you buy the medicine, you call me and I want to take a look."
"Okay." Director Zhao picked up the prescriptions and walked out.
After he left, Li Chu sat there, frowning and thinking.
The prescription is symptomatic, and I take the medicine according to the prescription, but the medicine does not work after I drink it.
That's interesting.
Director Zhao's execution was quite outstanding. It only took half an hour before he came back with a pair of medicines and the patient, followed by several doctors from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department.
After exchanging pleasantries, Li Chu first checked the patient's pulse to confirm that there was indeed nothing wrong with the prescription. Then they opened the paper package together and studied the medicine.
There were only four herbs in total, and the doses were not large. As soon as he opened the paper package, he could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the coptis chinensis among them.
Director Zhao and two other old Chinese medicine doctors also saw it.
Several people unanimously picked up a small piece and stuffed it into their mouths.
Their actions made Nurse Zhou and the patient's eyes twitch.
"Bah, this is not Coptis chinensis from Sichuan. If I taste it correctly, it should be grown in Jiangsu and Zhejiang." An old doctor just put it into his mouth and took a taste, then spit it into the spittoon by the wall.