Chapter 173: Western Medicine Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to Save Lives
crematorium.
It is called a crematorium, but in fact it is just a piece of land marked out in the wilderness with a large pit dug next to it.
After the corpse was cremated, the charcoal, bones and ashes were all poured into the pit, ready to be filled with soil after the plague was over, and the ashes would return to ashes.
Ordinary people have their own set of rules for epidemic prevention and control. Now is not the time to talk about humanitarianism.
Lin Sanqi held the little girl's body and gently placed it on the pile of firewood, then placed a small bag of fruit candy next to the girl's hand.
He didn't cry, but just touched the little girl's dry hair, sighed and left.
Village Chief Lei chased after him and said, "Comrade Lin, do you want me to light the fire?"
Lin Sanqi really wanted to complain, are you holding the Olympics?
He shook his head and said, "Forget it. It was just a chance encounter after all. Just send her off for the last time and let her go in peace."
"Okay, that's fine..."
What doctors fear most is empathy. This is one of the most important medical practice principles taught by teachers to every medical student in school.
Lin Sanqi was very upset before, but after calming down, Lin Sanqi knew that he could not make the same mistake again and could not be obsessed with the death of a patient.
A little girl died, but there are still hundreds of patients waiting to be saved.
If he does not take action, dozens or even hundreds of new patients will be added every day, and dozens of old patients will die every day. The plague is a life-and-death struggle.
Since God allowed him to travel back to 1959 and accidentally come to this remote mountain village, it means that God hopes that he can save people.
It's destined, so let's do it well!
Lin Sanqi, who had made up his mind, did not hesitate and was ready to join the real fight against the epidemic:
"Village Chief Lei, please ask the county and the district authorities for help and have them send these Chinese medicinal herbs over here as soon as possible."
Lin Sanqi handed a piece of paper to Village Chief Lei. Village Chief Lei took it and took a look. There were about ten kinds of medicine.
Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, Phellodendron amurense, Gardenia jasminoides, Bupleurum chinense, Citrus aurantium, Tangerine peel, Chuanxiong, Paeonia lactiflora, Cyperus rotundus, Licorice root...
Lin Sanqi requires so many medicinal materials, in fact, it is just to confuse people and make things mysterious so that people can't understand it.
"Village Chief Lei, these are common medicines. Most pharmacies or Chinese medicine clinics have them in stock. Don't ask me how to use them specifically. This involves the secret recipe of our Lingnan School, so I won't tell you!"
Village Chief Lei burst into laughter when he heard this:
"Okay, I won't ask. I just know that the great doctors from your capital are all very capable. It seems that I've made the right choice by keeping you here. I'm going to the county myself now."
Lin Sanqi then said to Huang Zhibai:
"Doctor Huang, please help organize a group of villagers to help me boil the medicine. Prepare medicine jars, the more the better. If you don't have medicine jars, any iron pot will do."
Huang Zhibai is a little strange:
"Doctor Lin, are you so casual? If Chinese medicine is used in an iron pot, the efficacy will be greatly reduced."
When boiling Chinese medicine, casseroles, pottery, clay pots, etc. are the first choice because these utensils conduct heat evenly, the heat is moderate, the heat preservation around the pot is strong, the water evaporation is small, and chemical changes are not easy to occur.
As for iron pots, copper pots, and aluminum pots, they all have certain chemical components, which can easily react with the medicines in traditional Chinese medicine, reducing their efficacy and even causing toxic side effects.
Therefore, Huang Zhibai, who has been engaged in traditional Chinese medicine for decades, was very confused by Lin Sanqi's request.
Lin Sanqi thought, I am going to use Western medicine ingredients, just to cover them with a layer of Chinese medicine. Now there are more than 600 patients waiting. If I use the traditional Chinese medicine slow-cooking method, how long will it take to simmer?
What needs to be ensured now is quantity, not quality.
In fact, if he wasn't afraid of not being able to explain himself clearly, he could have just taken out the capsule and stuffed it directly into the patient's mouth. There would have been no need for such trouble.
"Don't worry, Doctor Huang. Our Lin family's secret recipe doesn't specify the tools used to boil the medicine. You're right to listen to me."
Huang Zhibai had already heard Lin Sanqi say that he didn't need to ask too much, as this was his family's secret recipe, so he nodded heavily.
"Okay, Comrade Lin, I'll take your advice. I'll make the arrangements right away."
Several groups of people began to work separately. In order to save more villagers' lives, everyone was ready to fight to the death.
All the medicinal materials of Huang Zhibai's team were gathered together and handed over to Lin Sanqi, the "commander-in-chief".
Lin Sanqi didn't know too many medicinal herbs, so he pointed to one of them, Polygonum aviculare, and said:
"Doctor Huang, distribute the Polygonum multiflorum leaves immediately and have everyone start boiling the medicine. Use one qian for each pot. Boil for 30 minutes, then pour out the leaves and place them in a bowl to cool. I need them."
Is it only necessary to use 1 qian of Polygonum multiflorum leaves for a pot? Or is it a single herb and a single recipe?
This was also the first time that Huang Zhibai encountered such a strange prescription. Usually, the dosage of Polygonum multiflorum leaves was more than 3 cents, and this dosage seemed not enough.
But he suppressed his doubts, immediately organized a team of 50 people, and started boiling hot pepper leaves on the school playground.
For ethnic minorities, it is very easy to make a simple outdoor stove. Once more than 50 small fires are lit, the scene is very spectacular.
In fact, Lin Sanqi had no choice. He didn't know how to compose Chinese medicine prescriptions. He only knew that the leaves of Polygonum multiflorum had the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, relieving blood stasis and relieving pain, detoxifying and reducing swelling. It could treat dysentery, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, etc.
The reason why it is a single prescription and a single medicine is because he is afraid of putting several medicines together. If there is any conflict, it will be even worse.
The dosage is even more random, preferring less to more.
Lin Sanqi put all the medicinal materials in a classroom and began to tinker with the "secret recipe passed down from generation to generation", and forbade anyone to approach.
Half an hour later, Huang Zhibai came and knocked on the door:
"Comrade Lin, the hot pepper leaf soup is ready. What should we do next?"
Lin Sanqi opened the door and pointed to a row of tables inside the room and said:
"Come on, everyone, pour the broth into bowls and put them on the table. It doesn't matter if each bowl has a little more or a little more broth. After pouring the first batch of water, add cold water and continue to boil the second batch."
"Okay, Comrade Lin."
More than 50 people worked together to boil the medicine, and their movements were very quick. One pot of soup could hold three bowls, which was more than a hundred bowls.
After putting all the medicine bowls into the house, Lin Sanqi slammed the door shut again.
Then quickly open the levofloxacin capsules, pour a grain of powder into each bowl, randomly scratch it a few times with chopsticks, and continue to prepare the next bowl.
More than one hundred levofloxacin powder tablets quickly dissolved in more than one hundred bowls of Polygonum hydropiper leaf soup.
Lin Sanqi quickly opened the door and shouted:
"Hurry, hurry, everyone, take this medicine away. One bowl per patient, no more, no less. Also, this Spicy Polygonum Leaf Soup is not suitable for children. I have other plans."
It is strictly forbidden for children under the age of 18 to use quinolone antibiotics, as they can easily cause joint lesions in children, damage bone and joint tissues, and cause damage to the central nervous system, hematopoietic system, liver and kidney functions, etc.
As a result, when Mycoplasma pneumonia was at its most prevalent in 2013, expert guidelines said that quinolones could be used in children.
But for safety's sake, Lin Sanqi decided not to use it, as there are alternatives such as cephalexin and amoxicillin.
The villagers walked into the room one after another, picked up the medicine on wooden plates and went out to deliver it to each patient. The whole process was like a banquet.
Huang Zhibai also picked up a bowl of medicine and walked out. After turning a corner, he immediately took a sip to taste it.
The soup was very bitter, with an indescribable bitterness, and there was some powdery residue at the bottom of the soup.
Huang Zhibai pondered for a long time, but still couldn't figure out the taste. He sighed in his heart, thinking that he really overestimated his abilities. How could the secret recipe of the capital's experts be easily guessed?
Half an hour later, the second batch of hot pepper leaf soup was ready, and the same method was used for Lin Sanqi.
After the third batch of pepper leaf soup was ready, Lin Sanqi replaced it with cefuroxime, which was specially prepared for children.
When Village Chief Lei returned from the county town, almost all the patients in Naxiang Commune had already drunk the spicy Polygonum leaf soup, but no effect was seen for the time being.
By this time it was already evening.
Lin Sanqi was still behind closed doors making his "secret recipe", while countless villagers were waiting outside the door, waiting for this great doctor from the capital to save their lives.
Suddenly the door opened and Lin Sanqi shouted again:
"Come quickly, take these water jars away. Remember, the patients can drink as much water as they want. Tell them to drink more if they want to stay alive."
When the villagers heard this, they quickly carried the five water jars in different directions, ready for the sick person to drink.
This is not ordinary water. Lin Sanqi has poured a certain proportion of "oral rehydration salts" into it according to the amount of liquid.
What diarrhea patients fear most is actually dehydration. For malignant intestinal infectious diseases, dehydration is the leading cause of death.
In cases of severe dehydration, you cannot drink plain water directly.
Because dehydration will also lead to electrolyte loss in the human body, boiled water does not contain electrolytes. Drinking water directly may lead to sodium, chloride, potassium and other deficiencies, causing hyponatremia, hypochloremia and hypokalemia, which can be life-threatening.
Oral rehydration salts contain sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate and glucose. In addition to replenishing water, sodium and potassium, they also have a therapeutic effect on acute diarrhea.
This is the medical black technology from 2013. Without exaggeration or understatement, when facing this kind of large-scale acute gastrointestinal infectious disease, traditional Chinese medicine still has limitations, and Western medicine is still the fastest way to take effect.
By 8 o'clock in the evening, all the doctors came back for the meeting.
As the temporary person in charge, Lin Sanqi needs to know how many patients have taken the medicine.
One of the doctors said anxiously:
“林同志，我负责的这一组情况不容乐观，80个病人，有13个根本没有办法喝下汤药，其中有一部分是喝下去又吐出来了。”
“是啊，我那一组也有10个病人没法喝药。”
“我也有！”
“我那也有！”
药都吃不下去，跟死去的小女孩一样儿，那就糟糕了……
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