"Does the child have a history of epilepsy?"
Yun Heng asked again.
"No, no." The child's mother said hurriedly.
"Did you turn on the air conditioner on the way?" Yun Heng continued to ask.
"No, it's not hot this season, so we didn't turn on the air conditioner. We left a gap in the car window when we got on the highway." The child's father also said hurriedly.
"No history of epilepsy, sudden fever, and foaming at the mouth?"
While Yun Heng was thinking about what might happen to the child, he examined the child in detail.
The right guan pulse is deep, thin and tight...
"Come on, take off your shirt so I can see it."
The child's mother hurried to help and took off the child's shirt. After taking off the child's shirt, Yun Heng asked him to take off the underwear underneath. After taking off the clothes, Yun Heng found the reason.
"It's sha syndrome!"
Yun Heng examined the child's popliteal fossa. The meridians there were full, purple, and dilated. Combined with the symptoms the child's mother had just mentioned, such as fever and foaming at the mouth, Yun Heng was basically certain that the child's condition was sha syndrome.
Sha syndrome is also known as shaqi and shazhang. This disease is a general term for critical exogenous febrile diseases caused by the foul air of epidemics, with common symptoms such as fever, chest and abdominal tightness, distension, pain, vomiting and diarrhea, coma, or subcutaneous cyanosis and sha tendons.
Sha syndrome is common in summer and occasionally occurs in other seasons. Cholera, paracholera, acute gastroenteritis and bacterial food poisoning commonly mentioned in modern Western medicine clinical practice can all be classified as Sha syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine.
Sha syndrome is characterized by sudden abdominal distension and colic, inability to vomit or have diarrhea, fever and headache, cramps in the limbs and even coma, or the appearance of purple sha tendons in the elbows, cubits and sides of the neck.
"Doctor, what is sha syndrome?"
The child's mother asked anxiously, "Is it serious?"
"Sha Zheng is a term used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In Western medicine, it should be called acute gastroenteritis. It's probably caused by the child drinking unclean water or eating unclean food."
As Yun Heng explained, he opened his backpack, took out a needle bag, and also took out a bottle of iodine that he had carried with him.
Afterwards, Yun Heng pulled out a three-pointed needle from the needle bag, disinfected the silver needle with iodine, and pricked the child's popliteal fossa twice where the meridian was full, releasing some purple-black blood.
While giving the child acupuncture, Yun Heng explained, "This disease is considered an exogenous heat syndrome, an emergency. It's often accompanied by acute abdominal pain. The child's crying may be caused by abdominal pain. I'm using acupuncture to bleed the child to temporarily relieve the symptoms. Once we get off the highway, you can go to the hospital for a checkup or give the child some Forsythia Mint Drink."
As he spoke, Yun Heng collected the silver needle and said, "I told you guys to remember this."
The child's father hurriedly took out his cell phone: "Doctor, you tell me, you tell me."
"20 grams of forsythia and 6 grams of mint. First, boil the forsythia, take about 500 ml, then add the mint, and quickly boil for three minutes. Remove the residue and add 20 grams of sugar when drinking."
The child's father carefully wrote down the recipe Yun Heng mentioned on his mobile phone.
"Doctor, is this all right?"
The child's mother asked Yun Heng with some concern.
"We're on the highway right now, and there's no way around it. I just used acupuncture to drain the blood clots from the child, so he won't be in any serious trouble for now. Give him the prescription I just mentioned, and he'll be well soon."
"Thank you, doctor."
The child's father hurriedly expressed his gratitude.
The highway was still congested at this moment, and Yun Heng did not return. He waited on the side. The child's mother held the child, and the child's father took some water from the car for the child to drink.
"Lin Xu, the child seems to be much better now."
The child's mother was the most attentive and had been paying attention to the child's reaction. Ever since Yun Heng gave the child acupuncture and bloodletting, she noticed that the child seemed to be much more comfortable.
Just now the child was twitching from time to time and foaming at the corners of his mouth, but now he doesn't seem to be twitching as much.
"Yes, it looks much better."
The child's father nodded and looked around: "Hey, where is the doctor from before?"
"Over there."
Someone pointed and Yun Heng was standing on the side of the highway, waiting for Chen Wansan's car to come.
"We haven't thanked the doctor properly yet."
The child's mother said to her husband, "I didn't even ask the doctor's name."
"I'll go ask and thank them."
The child's father was about to go over and thank Yun Heng as he was speaking, but at this moment, the cars stuck in traffic ahead began to move slowly, and at the same time, a traffic police car and an ambulance also came over here along the emergency lane.
Traffic police began to maintain order, and an ambulance came slowly. Traffic police cleared the traffic and made way for the ambulance.
"Who just shouted that a child was sick?"
A traffic policeman was asking questions with a loudspeaker.
"This way, this way."
Someone shouted loudly, and traffic police and doctors in white coats also came over here.
The traffic police brought the doctor to the side of the highway and took the child and his mother away first. Then the cars stuck on the highway began to move slowly.
Yun Heng stood by the roadside and waited for about forty minutes before Chen Wansan's car slowly arrived. Yun Heng hurried over and got in the car.
"Hengheng, what's wrong with the child? Is he okay now?"
"He must have eaten something unclean and has been taken away by the ambulance." Yun Heng replied.
"That's good."
Yun Tianxue nodded.
After Yunheng got on the car, it took about another hour for the car to exit the highway and arrive in Jiaoping County.
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