In addition to the differences in treatment concepts, the biggest difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine is maintenance.
Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on prevention, and the treatment of diseases also emphasizes three parts treatment and seven parts care. Therefore, when treating many serious illnesses and major diseases, the greatest advantage of traditional Chinese medicine can often be reflected.
Western medicine does have some characteristics in treatment, such as quick results and obvious effects, but it has great limitations when facing severe and critical illnesses. Moreover, as far as some of Western medicine's rescue methods and first aid techniques are concerned, they are often a mixture of good and bad, and it is difficult to say whether they are right or wrong.
Take some drugs such as cardiotonic drugs and epinephrine, for example. They are commonly used in first aid and can save lives at critical moments. However, this kind of saving is also an overdraft of life to a large extent. The side effects of these two drugs are very obvious.
There is also surgery, especially cancer tumor resection. After the operation, the patient not only has to go through a very painful chemotherapy, but it is also difficult to say how long he can live after the operation. A successful operation does not mean a cure.
Sometimes, a patient who could have lived for half a year was severely damaged by surgery and died a month after the operation.
In other words, Western medicine focuses more on the present, while traditional Chinese medicine focuses more on the long term.
Therefore, when facing serious illnesses, many Chinese medicine practitioners will not guarantee a cure, or how long it will take to recover. They will first treat the immediate critical condition and resolve the current difficult symptoms, and then consider the later stages and how to prolong life with the illness.
Especially when facing cancer patients, even the most outstanding masters of traditional Chinese medicine dare not say that they can cure people's cancer. They can only say that they can help patients reduce their pain as much as possible, prolong their lives, and pass away more peacefully with less suffering.
However, in this process of reducing pain, prolonging life, and passing away more peacefully, if the situation improves, the effect is better, and the patient's mentality adjusts, there may be a possibility of living longer.
Some patients can even live two or three more years, or even four or five years longer, and even ten years is not impossible. If the patient is an elderly patient in his sixties, then living ten more years is actually not much different from being cured.
This was the case with the lung cancer patient on the last day of the free clinic. After more than two months of treatment at West Asia Hospital, his condition improved and the serious symptoms disappeared. Although the cancer was still there, he was able to take care of himself and go home to continue taking medication to prolong his life.
In fact, many times such signs of improvement are a great encouragement to patients.
The reason why cancer is terrible is that it is too scary. Most patients cannot bear this blow. During the treatment in the hospital, although they are taking medicine and receiving treatment, the symptoms are getting worse day by day, making patients feel very clearly that they are dying day by day.
When Chinese medicine treats cancer patients, there will be some relief at least in the early stages, such as fever, poor appetite, fatigue, insomnia, etc. Chinese medicine will first treat these symptoms. After taking the medicine, the high fever will subside, appetite will increase, and fatigue will be relieved. This is a very obvious feeling.
The doctor said that the patient should go more peacefully and suffer less. But when it comes to the patient, he can clearly feel the changes in himself. In the process of feeling the changes, the patient's mood may also change, from the original despair to a glimmer of hope, and from the original sad mood, gradually igniting the desire for life.
And this hope and desire is often more effective than medication.
For most cancer patients, they may not be afraid of death, but they are afraid of the loneliness before death and the disease that is gradually eroding them.
Some patients are relatively optimistic when they are initially diagnosed, thinking that they can defeat the disease. However, when they are hospitalized, as time goes by, their condition continues to worsen, and their original optimistic mood gradually collapses.
No matter how hard I tried to hold on or how optimistic I was, I couldn't withstand the disease. Step by step, day by day, I was clearly heading towards death. This kind of pain is unbearable for most people.
When Yun Heng was treating a lung cancer patient, the patient's condition began to improve half a month after being hospitalized. This was broadcast live by internet celebrities at the time.
"Let me take a look at the situation first. Don't worry, we will definitely do our best."
Yun Heng comforted the child's mother and then walked to the bedside.
Lying on the hospital bed, the child's face was pale and frail, his lips were as white as a piece of paper, and his fingers were also white. Although he was awake, he looked very dull, like a fool.
"Fever in the five hearts, palpitations that shake the clothes, severe spontaneous sweating, swollen tongue...six pulses are floating and stringy, beating on paper, with more than seven beats per breath."
Chen Fanming finished examining the child, then turned back to Yun Heng and said, "Judging from the pulse and tongue, he's already at the stage of dying from exhaustion of both Qi and Yin."
"Doctor, Doctor Yun."
Although Chen Fanming's voice was low, the child's parents were right next to him. When they heard Chen Fanming say the time of death, the child's mother couldn't help but sob.
"Doctor Yun, please, please, we know this disease is difficult to treat, almost impossible, but you are a skilled doctor. I hope you can save my child, even if it means just a few more days."
The child's father supported his wife. Although he didn't cry out loud, his eyes were already red and tears were streaming down his cheeks.
Leukemia, everyone knows how terrible this disease is. When a child gets this disease, parents are actually prepared in their hearts, but no matter how prepared they are, few people can withstand it.
A fourteen-year-old child is at the age of a flower, and the future is full of infinite hope, but illness means death.
"Doctor Yun, the patient had already undergone two courses of chemotherapy and received over 2,000cc of blood transfusions before being brought here. Judging from his pulse and symptoms, he is already in critical condition."
Hu Xuezhong also spoke softly to Yun Heng.
This situation is already quite tricky.
"Let me take another look."
"How was dinner?"
"He only eats one to two taels a day, very little." The child's mother choked.
Yun Heng took a breath, bent down, and examined the child again using the Three Parts and Nine Signs method.
The Three Parts and Nine Signs Method, also known as the comprehensive diagnosis, is a very ancient diagnostic method. Before the Cun, Guan, and Chi diagnostic methods, the Three Parts and Nine Signs Method was a commonly used diagnostic method in traditional Chinese medicine. However, after the Cun, Guan, and Chi diagnostic methods, it has generally been rarely used, and is only used when facing some critical illnesses.
This check was actually Yun Heng's second check. When Chen Fanming was speaking just now, Yun Heng had already entered the simulation space and frantically performed ten consecutive checks, brushing out the designated mode and checking the child once in the simulation space.
Checking again now is just to give Chen Fanming and others an explanation. Otherwise, it would seem inappropriate to speak out without even starting.
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