I can talk to my internal organs

Chapter 27 What is Modern Medicine?
"How is the hospital these days?"

At the dinner table, Liu Mei chatted.

"It's not bad, at least it's not that no one cares about it." Lu Jiu said.

"Your father had dinner with the director of Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine yesterday. He heard that their Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine is undergoing reforms. They are urgently recruiting students majoring in Chinese Medicine. If they have a license to practice, they can be specially hired, and they will help with the establishment after the establishment." Liu Mei said.

Lu Jiu couldn't laugh or cry, "Mom, haven't we all discussed it? Why do you want me to go to the hospital?"

"I didn't tell you to go now, but I just left you a way out. Dad and I made a plan. Since you don't want to go to a hospital in a big city, you must have a decent unit in Jianghan. It's best to have a staff. Although the medical center is free, it's too dangerous." Liu Mei said.

Lu Jiu said helplessly, "So you don't believe that I can earn 20 a year?"

Liu Mei explained, "Confidence is a good thing, but according to the charging standard set by your grandfather, how many patients do you have to see to earn? Another thing, if the economy is in a downturn and the rent rises, then all the money you earn will have to go to the landlord."

"It's not that you don't know what your father's business has been like in the past few years. If you don't lose money, you are already lucky. We don't expect you to make a lot of money, but insurance is always right. Besides, seeing a doctor is not a doctor. You can see more people in the hospital. Isn't that bad for you?"

Lu Jiu shook his head, not wanting to argue with Liu Mei on this issue.

Yes, there are many patients in the hospital, and my abilities can be brought into full play there.

But Lu Jiu didn't like it.

He doesn't like the atmosphere of the hospital!

It's not just the volume, but the formulation of the rules makes Lu Jiu feel very uncomfortable in his heart.

Just like routine checkups in hospital.

It’s fine for western medicine to do these things, but Chinese medicine also prescribes these things.

why?
Hospital regulations!

No matter who you are, you must do routine examinations when you are hospitalized. Even if you are hospitalized with a sprained foot, you still have to do routine blood tests.

The purpose of this inspection is good, it is to screen to see if you have other diseases, and then you can intervene and treat in advance to prevent patients from turning from mild to severe.

However, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, this kind of screening is basically meaningless.

Because traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the outside world and the inside, and the investigation of things to gain knowledge, any symptoms of internal organs will have corresponding external manifestations.

Just like the liver palms mentioned in modern medicine, even non-Chinese medicine knows that the appearance of liver palms means that there is a problem with the liver, but why it is a liver problem is not clear to Western medicine. You must do some tests, such as blood tests, CT, before you can draw a conclusion.

But in the view of Chinese medicine, the so-called liver palm actually means that the liver does not store blood.

The blood is red, the liver does not store blood, and the excess blood has nowhere to go, and some of it will run to the palm, so there is a red ring around the palm, which is especially red.

Then why doesn't the liver hide blood?

There is truth!

There is something accumulated in the liver, occupying the position that originally belongs to the blood, so excess blood comes out.

This is actually a problem with the catharsis function of the liver.

However, problems with the catharsis function of the liver sometimes do not lie in the liver itself.

Because the liver has two outlet channels, one is the gallbladder, which can receive the bile secreted by the liver, and the other is the large intestine.

Therefore, when Chinese medicine treats the liver, sometimes it does not manage the liver as an entity, but restores its catharsis function, that is, opens up the two vent channels where it has problems.

The road is clear, there is no traffic jam, the dirty things in the liver have a place to go, and the blood can naturally return to its original place.

But Western medicine doesn't know this, and treats the liver when there is a problem with the liver.

So, what's the point of this check?

It was precisely because Lu Jiu had seen too many examples like this that after two years of working, he didn't want to stay any longer when he got his medical license.

Many people are saying that modern medicine is progressive, it is neither Western medicine nor Chinese medicine, both Chinese and Western medicine are ancient medicine and should be eliminated.

Lu Jiu heard this kind of words countless times, as if labeling Chinese and Western medicine as ancient and obsolete could erase the curative effect of Chinese medicine.

In fact, ancient Western medicine cannot be called medicine. The methods are rough and the theory is backward, and it is completely inferior to the surgery of Chinese medicine. Yes, you heard me right. Chinese medicine actually has surgery, or the predecessor of Western medicine is the surgery of Chinese medicine.

Many medical cultural relics unearthed today have confirmed that Chinese medicine was already very mature in surgical techniques as early as the Ming Dynasty.

It’s just that due to some historical reasons, after returning from overseas trips with these medical knowledge, they became the children of someone else’s family. The other party came to tell you face to face with fresh anatomy, bacteriology, virology and other brand-new theories, that I am the father.

With the advancement of science and technology, Western medicine has also taken this free ride and quickly became the mainstream medicine in the world!

That is to say, the modern medicine that regards anatomy and other theories as classics among many people!
It can be said that modern medicine is the product of the evolution of Western medicine + technology, while Chinese medicine has not been in the same group from the beginning to the end.

In fact, all the current hospitals are dominated by western medicine, supplemented by traditional Chinese medicine, and the same is true of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, except for a few pure traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, but the number is pitifully small compared to the whole country, and all the rules are set based on evidence-based medicine.

What is evidence-based medicine?
In fact, you have to talk about evidence, you have to have data, and you have to report when the patient comes. In this way, even if the cure is not curable, I have something to prove that this is not my problem. Even if some people want to sue the hospital extremely, this thing can avoid legal disputes.

Yes, doing so can protect doctors to a great extent, so that they will not look down on a patient, and the doctor's entire career will be wasted, and no one will want to study medicine.

Therefore, routine examinations in hospital are a must, and you have to pay for this money if you don't want to.

But is there any room for improvement in this practice of presupposing patients as enemies?
For example, change mandatory inspection to optional inspection?
It is true that there are many medical troubles nowadays, and the doctor group also has hardships that they can’t tell. They don’t get the money for the examination.
However, in places that have not been reported by the media, there are more ordinary families who are impoverished due to illness than medical troubles. The number of that group has reached the point where it is not enough to become a news point for media attention, unless it is enough to cause a sensation.

There was once a news that a college student accidentally hit someone while riding a bicycle, and he offered to pay for the other person’s medical expenses. However, when he arrived at the hospital, the doctor there ordered a checkup worth [-] to [-] yuan for the person who was hit.

What about Chinese medicine?
There are many things about it that cannot be explained.

For example, the liver stores blood. It is obvious that many organs contain blood when dissected. Why do you say that the liver stores blood, but the heart stores blood?

What about the left liver and right lung? After the autopsy, the liver was clearly in the upper right abdomen.

If you don't even know the basic position of Chinese medicine, how can you still talk about medicine?

This is actually equivalent to using the rules of tennis to question table tennis. They are all balls, but table tennis players must say that you cannot fight back if you are not on the table, otherwise it is a foul!

The left liver and right lung in traditional Chinese medicine are actually not referring to the substantial organs, but its qi.

The liver belongs to wood, on the left, like the east, and governs ascending, the lung belongs to metal, on the right, resembles the west, governing descending.

The left liver and right lung actually refer to the left ascending and the right descending, describing the functional characteristics of the two organs.

Just like the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the qi in the human body is the same as nature.

The underlying logic of Chinese medicine, that is, the "Huangdi Neijing", is an instruction manual for the human body based on the observation of the sky and the earth, and then combined with the characteristics of the human body. It talks about how a normal person gets sick.

Western medicine is basically researched in the laboratory, focusing on a small area and a more microscopic perspective.

It is more or less inappropriate for you to use the rules formulated by a microcosm to limit the principles realized by a macrocosm.

Therefore, Chinese medicine practitioners work in many regular hospitals, but if you really think about the patients, it will be somewhat awkward.

It may take a long time to get used to it.

But Lu Jiu couldn't do it!

The Chinese medicine he likes is not cold medicine.

(End of this chapter)