When I was young, I often saw my grandmother digging some weeds in the ground, such as plantain, which we call "toad grass". My grandmother used this grass to drink water, saying that it clears fire and laxative.
Sometimes I go to the mountains to dig up a kind of diamond vine with prickly leaves. It is said that it is particularly good at curing back injuries and leg pain.
Because I have been exposed to it since I was young, I feel that the herbs in Chinese medicine are really magical. Therefore, I now regret that when I was in school, I was unwilling to study medicine or go to health school because I hated the smell of disinfectant in hospitals. If I had studied at that time and had a medical foundation, it would be much easier to get started if I wanted to learn Chinese medicine now.
I enjoyed Dr. Luo's lectures very much. I remember one time when I heard Dr. Luo talk about the effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Cornus officinalis. I remember one thing most. Through many examples, Luo Bo said that Cornus officinalis can stop diarrhea and improve the body’s righteousness, especially for the elderly who have been chronically ill or physically weak.
Then one day, my mother in her 60s felt that she had a sore throat and got angry. At night, she found two or three packs of pharyngeal flat granules that children eat from the drawer and soaked them in water. Unexpectedly, she probably took too much medicine. The old man was already weak due to the excessive cold. He suffered from diarrhea that night and became so weak the next day that he could not get out of bed.
But the old man was stubborn and refused to go to the hospital, thinking that it would be better if he just lay down a little longer.
I remembered the dogwood that Luo Bo had mentioned. The case in the middle was quite similar to my mother’s illness, so I went to the hospital’s Chinese pharmacy and weighed two or two. I took some and boiled water in a small pot for my mother to drink.
I also tasted a little of it myself, and the water boiled from the dogwood was really sour and refreshing! It was so sour that I could hardly open my mouth!
I went to work after that, but according to my mother, although the water was terrible to drink, she felt much better afterwards! At least I have the strength to get up. I believe that although it is not that magical, dogwood is still effective in boosting righteousness and making people less exhausted!
Just thinking about it is quite reckless. Traditional Chinese medicine needs to be dialectical. The more I learn, the more I feel that the medicine must be symptomatic. If I face such a situation again, I don’t know if I still have the courage to be so reckless.
At the end of 2017, influenza was rampant. I didn't quite understand it at the time. I only heard from colleagues in the office that the classmates in her child’s class took sick leave one after another, and the symptoms were all the same. They all had a high fever for several days, coughed, and lost their appetite.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, my husband developed cold symptoms. I complained of a headache at the beginning, but after taking cold medicine for two or three days, it had no effect at all. The headache was not relieved, and the cough started again. Moreover, the person was very weak, looked lethargic, looked pale, could not sleep well or eat well, and began to have abdominal pain and discomfort.
I tried various cold medicines, but none of them had any effect. Seeing the 1.7-meter-seven tall man getting more and more wilted, I felt really scared. This symptom was like a cold, but he took cold medicine but it didn't work, and he had other symptoms of abdominal pain, and he was prone to enteritis, so he rushed to the hospital and had various examinations done. The blood test was fine, and the lungs were taken. normal. Because of the headache, I also had a head CT scan, which was also normal, because their physical examination did not include the thyroid gland, and a neck B-ultrasound was taken, and it was found that there were enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, but he had always had lymph nodes in the neck. The doctor told me not to touch it if there is no movement.
He was given infusion treatment in the hospital first. The doctor was highly suspicious of his cervical lymph nodes and suggested an examination. But I feel that after so many years, it shouldn’t be a problem caused by lymph nodes.
After four days of infusion, the cough had subsided, and I was prescribed some oral antitussive liquid and a tablet called theophylline that I drank at home.
I searched the Internet at the time, and according to my husband’s symptoms, he said that he was sweating, and felt cold when he was blown by the wind. I also saw that his face was extremely pale, and he spit white cold phlegm. I thought it should be cold syndrome. I saw a doctor’s introduction on the Internet that if you are weak and sweating, your face is pale, you have a cough with white sputum, you have no appetite, and your food is tasteless, you can take Yupingfeng Granules and Shedan Chenpi Oral Liquid.
I think the two kinds of Chinese patent medicines should be symptomatic, so I let my husband take them while giving the infusion. The infusion is nothing more than infusion of anti-inflammatory cephalosporin or penicillin plus antitussive, but I always feel that the symptoms are not cured, and the infusion in winter makes it difficult to find the blood vessels, and the back of the hand is blue, which is very painful.
Yupingfeng granules are particularly effective. The astragalus in it can improve Qi and nourish the mind. After taking two packs, his sweating situation improved a lot. After taking it for two days, his complexion became much better. Chenpi Oral Liquid finally recovered.
Later, I listened to Teacher Sun Pengfei’s class and realized how serious the flu was. Because the teacher said in class that the influenza at the end of 2017 can be called a febrile epidemic, and the influenza at the end of 2016 can be called a plague. Moreover, the incubation period of this flu is quite long. Six or seven days after my husband recovered, my mother started to have a headache and a cold again, with symptoms similar to those of my husband. This time, I decided to let my mother take those two traditional Chinese medicines. Also after eating two boxes.
I remember there was a joke that when people reach middle age, they start to play "Journey to the West". There is the pressure of Wukong, Bajie's belly, Sha Seng's hair, Tang Seng's random thoughts, and the most terrible thing is that he is getting closer and closer to the West. close.
Who said otherwise? Children are getting older day by day, parents are getting older, and our own physical condition is not as good as when we were young. I feel more and more that I need to learn Chinese medicine, which can not only maintain health and prevent diseases before they happen.
Special thanks to Luo Bo and doctors and sages like Luo Bo. They are committed to promoting and disseminating traditional Chinese medicine, allowing more and more people to believe in tradition again, inheriting Chinese civilization, and allowing our traditional and ancient medicine to flourish in the land of China. new life.
The more in-depth I study, the more I feel how profound and profound Chinese medicine is. I don’t dare to expect too much. As long as I can take a class from a famous Chinese medicine teacher, listen to and read various lectures and books by Luo Bo, and be able to do a good job in family health care, I will be satisfied.
