Chapter Eighty-six

  Fang Mosou's momentum came to an abrupt end due to the car accident, and he suddenly fell silent. This was also good, reducing trouble. Watching those patients recover and be discharged from the hospital one after another, Fang Mosou felt very happy, and he studied medicine even more diligently, as matters concerning human life required double the care, seriousness, and reverence.

  But Fang Mengnan became Elsa's number one idol, and she decided to study traditional Chinese medicine too.

  Aisha couldn't understand why Fang Mornan didn't use any medical equipment, but could diagnose the condition just by touching and looking.

  Jerry deeply agrees with this. Since learning traditional Chinese medicine, he has always felt like he is in the clouds and fog, shrouded by misty mountains, and doesn't know what to say.

  Jerry deliberated for a long time, waiting for the right moment. Taking advantage of Sunday when those two annoying little brats weren't following him, Jerry and Elisa cornered Fang Mernan at a Chinese restaurant today, asking their questions in a way that implied he had to give them an explanation today.

  "You two, let me eat first, okay?" Fang Mo Nan said, looking at their hungry eyes.

  "Wait a bit and eat later, you won't starve to death!" Jerry said: "First clear up the puzzle for us."

  "Good, but let's order first." Fang Mo Nan called the waiter and ordered. She looked at Jerry with a smile and asked: "How do you define diseases in Western medicine, teacher?"

  It was such a simple question, yet Jerry furrowed his brow, finding it difficult to respond.

  So far, Western medicine seems to have no satisfactory definition of disease. In the past, Western medicine believed that all diseases except physical ones were caused by bacteria, but this was soon overturned. Jerry shook his head, for example, diabetes is a disease, but can you say that blood sugar is a bacterium? Not only is it not, but blood sugar is also an energy source for the human body.

  Before Fang Mo Nan learned traditional Chinese medicine, she also thought Western medicine was the best and most scientific. After being reborn, she studied national studies, the traditional culture left by her ancestors, philosophical systems, and after studying traditional Chinese medicine, she spent some time in the hospital's "tempering" to realize that Western medicine is so " rough, hasty, and ignorant". Seeing them treat illnesses in a way that is almost like suicide. She wanted to say something but was powerless because she was too small to have any persuasive power. The last emergency rescue was also because most doctors were busy and didn't pay attention to her, so she dared to "fish in troubled waters".

  Ailisha thought for a moment and said: "Due to some reasons, the normal shape and function of the human body deviate, it can be called a disease."

  Fang Mo Nan heard this and smiled without saying a word, shaking his head.

  Jerry said, "But this definition is also inaccurate. For example, heart rate, a normal person beats about seventy times per minute, which is normal, but an athlete may only have forty, which is also normal; Another example is IQ, low IQ is sick, but high IQ is genius? And bacteria are not all harmful to the human body, some are even needed by the human body." He couldn't define disease either, "This really doesn't have a precise definition."

  "Take a case in point, I remember the other day we saw that patient, a young woman of about 30 years old, with a right ovarian cyst." Fang Mengnan said.

  "I knew this, when Dr. Tom did the examination for her at that time, he said that there was no way to cure the ovarian cyst and it had to be removed." Elisa said with some indignation, "At that time I told her maybe traditional Chinese medicine could help? Unfortunately she didn't believe me and even scolded me. She had the surgery, but just a few days ago she came again, only three months after the operation another one grew on the other side. She doesn't dare to remove it again, and she still hasn't had children?"

  "Does Nanshan have a way?" Jerry asked.

  "I can't guarantee that. Actually, surgery is not necessary." Fang Mo Nan thought for a moment and explained: "Let me put it this way! Everyone knows that wood can grow mushrooms. As long as it's wood. If it's steel, it will only rust. Wood can grow mushrooms, but not all wood grows mushrooms, right? Wood can only grow mushrooms in a specific environment. When a person's body grows something, like a mushroom on wood, what do you do? There are two ways to deal with it. One way is to pick the mushroom. You pick it off, and this method of picking off the mushroom is indeed a solution, but I think it's not a fundamental solution. Because if it's still wood, in an environment where mushrooms can grow, even if you pick off the mushroom, another one will definitely grow back. Only when the wood is no longer wood will the mushroom disappear. Another way is to use Chinese medicine, which can have a real effect. I change the patient's internal environment that allows the mushroom to grow. If you put a piece of wood with mushrooms in the Sahara Desert, will it still grow? It definitely won't! Using the properties of Chinese medicine, we adjust the patient's internal environment, and use the medicinal properties to correct the body's imbalance. The environment that allowed the mushroom to grow is adjusted, so the mushroom won't grow anymore, and even if it does, it will disappear." She explained patiently, one sentence at a time.

  Jerry furrowed his brow and listened until she finished. "That's vivid, but what about other diseases?"

  Fang Mo Nan took a sip of water, "Take a common example, what does Western medicine do for a cold and fever?"

  "This is simple, feverish, the 'treatment method' is just 'antipyretics', there's inflammation, the way to deal with it is 'anti-inflammatory' - eliminate the inflammation, use antibiotics." Elisa said.

  "Fang Mo Nan said: 'How come Amy can't be cured with the same method?!'"

  "Th...th..." Elisa hesitated, with a vivid example right in front of her.

  The metaphor of Fang Mernan's image is: "Western medicine treats fever in a way that is like pouring cold water directly into a boiling hot pot. On the surface, it seems to work, but it can lead to endless troubles. Sometimes, if the patient's physical condition is weak, this treatment method may even be fatal, just like an iron pot being exploded by cold water. In most cases, it leaves behind serious aftereffects, and the lifespan of the iron pot is shortened without realizing it."

  Jerry nodded and said, "I understand that when people catch a cold or are infected with a virus, their blood sugar levels also rise sharply, leading to an increase in body temperature and the onset of fever. This is actually a battle between the human immune system and external invading substances." The chief royal physician

  Fang Mo Nan smiled and nodded, Jerry was indeed not an ordinary person, he could actually infer three from one. In a state of fever, blood sugar would indeed rise. The human body's immune system is also more active and stronger than usual. Fever is not a disease, it can even shorten the duration of illness.

  Now the general public has a common misconception, taking fever as an illness and lowering body temperature as a treatment method. The result of doing so is actually attacking the human body's immune system and helping the disease.

  Jerry nodded, he had contact with such patients in the hospital, and counted the probability of death due to fever caused by a cold, which could only be attributed to the patient's bad luck, poor physical ability, and the side effects of medication.

  Fang Mennai said: "In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, this is not because the virus is powerful, but because there is a fault in some part of the human immune system, such as lung qi deficiency or stomach qi deficiency." She pointed to her own lungs and abdomen, "Only then will people's 'qi' be insufficient, making it impossible to gain the upper hand in the fight against disease. At this time, taking a dose of medicine can either lift the lung qi or nourish the stomach qi, and when the body is full of 'power', it can naturally expel the disease from the body. Killing specific viruses is treating the 'symptoms' - it has a target, whereas strengthening and restoring the human body's own immune system is treating the 'root cause'. This 'root cause' refers to the human body itself, not completely eliminating the root of the disease. If that were the case, after being treated for a cold once, the human body would never get a cold again."

  Jerry nodded, he was from a medical family and had seen many research reports on this aspect. He knew that Fang Mo Nan was not talking nonsense. A flu virus that once swept the globe proved this point strongly. Western medicine's preventive measures were powerless, while traditional Chinese medicine's methods were effective immediately. In the end, what happened to this virus that once made humans panic? It didn't disappear, it still exists in the air, but it has retreated. Before the greatest life form on Earth - human beings, it surrendered. Because the human body's immune system produced antibodies against it.

  The waiters brought up the dishes one after another. Seeing Jerry still wanted to ask questions, Fang Mo Nan interrupted: "Let's eat first, and you can ask whatever you want later. I'll answer all your questions without reservation."

  Jerry had no choice but to finish the lunch that tasted unknown, Fang Mo Nan was not a picky eater, sometimes changed his taste, and eating what others made was also good, so she ate a lot. Scared Elsa stared with wide eyes, eating so much, where did it all go? She curiously sized her up and down, with a face full of envy, this kind of slim figure that didn't gain weight, was something every woman envied.

  After dinner, they moved to the sofa area. Fang Mo Nan asked the waiter to bring hot water and continued to make tea: "The basic treatment principle of Western medicine is basically aimed at 'eliminating symptoms'. For example, as I mentioned earlier, fever is just antipyretic and anti-inflammatory. Coughing? Of course, it's an "antitussive" drug - stopping the cough! Body aches? --- Of course, you need to take "analgesics" - stop the pain. If your blood pressure is high? Of course, you need to take "hypotensive drugs". High blood sugar? --- Hypoglycemic agents."

  Alicia nodded matter-of-factly, "That's what we all do, don't we?"

  "It is clear from here that you think disease is an enemy, and once 'ill', people's habit is to 'treat the disease' - eliminate the disease. View disease as a stranger and an enemy, and must be eliminated in order to feel at ease. However, traditional Chinese medicine believes: Disease is first a 'messenger', reminding you of problems with your body, mind and lifestyle. Secondly, disease and abnormal behavior of the body may itself be a means and form of self-healing."