Free yourself Chapter 13

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At the intersection of Changle Road, Chengdu South Road, Shanghai, all roadsides are small shops.

Although the tiger stove along the street was demolished, soy sauce shops, cigarette paper shops, rice shops, and small tailor shops were nowhere to be seen, but alley crossing points still exist. Only small shops can open shops that have already opened.

When I was 8 years old, my father was beaten to the right, and my parents were persecuted for this. I left Gaolan Road where my mother used to live and moved to this small house in the Hutong of Chengdu South Road. My mother, my little sister and brother squeezed into a small bed to sleep. My big brother and I lie on the floor every day and sleep on the ground. I don't know how many years I have slept.

In the past, the economy of our family came from the salary of the father. Father is the cash cow of the family. Now the cash cow has fallen, and the whole family lives on the relief of the residents committee. For children, three meals a day is the most basic thing. But my mother said: "My ancestral home is in Guangdong. According to the habits of the Cantonese, only two meals are enough, and it must be shit." The abominable Guangdong habit once again tightened our siblings' belts. .

I really don't understand why the Cantonese people have such a habit, and I don't know whether the Cantonese people really have this habit. To make matters worse, the huge China will be destroyed by natural disasters for a period of time. In those years when natural disasters and human disasters merged, our family's rations changed from rice to rough tofu residues, without oil and water, and without salt. Three meals a day became two meals, and the staple food in the bowl, Dried from dry.

If any of our siblings want to eat another bite, the mother will open her eyes and scold: "Little red guy, are you hungry?" Looking at her angry face, we can only lick hungry lips, Put down the chopsticks and leave the dining table quietly.

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In addition to the lack of food rations in the family, tortured by starvation, even chopping wood in a coal stove has often become a complex problem, sometimes even an unsolvable problem. The family has no money to buy the firewood. The city is different from the countryside. Where can I find the firewood for the fire? How to heat the cold and hard black coal balls? So, I was responsible for the fire of the stove.

It's funny, after some research and study, I can actually use a few pieces of waste paper, plus three or four stick popsicles to burn a coal ball, of course, the coal ball must be broken into small pieces. Small pieces, so it is easy to burn. This new process of coal-fired ignition was soon popularized among neighbors.

If you can't even collect waste paper and popsicles, then simply fill the bottom of the furnace with a few nearly burned coal balls from the furnace bottom of the neighbor's house. Although the stove is on fire, what should I eat?

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The west-facing cabin less than ten square meters is the residence of our family of five.

The mother has no work and must go to the hospital frequently for treatment.

The mother had a strange illness, often suddenly fell to the ground, foaming in her mouth and twitching. Once, she fell to the vegetable market when she was ill, twitching her whole body. Once, when she was taking a bath at home, she suddenly became ill. After regaining consciousness, his left shoulder fractured. At that time, I always accompanied my mother to see the most famous orthopedist Shi Youshan at that time. In fact, her left shoulder moved significantly and she could not recover.

What's wrong with my mother, there is no source of income at home and no money to cure her mother. At that time, the whole family lived on the relief fund of the residents committee. Both the mother's brother and sister had served in the army and often sent some money as a subsidy.

Aunt donated money to let my mother go to the hospital for comprehensive treatment. At that time, my mother was only 38 years old. Mother often said she got the disease under the stimulation of her father. This disease is called "epilepsy."

Do you know "epilepsy"?

Epilepsy is often referred to as "lamb wind", also known as horn wind, horn disease, sheep disease and so on. People in Shanghai often call it "crazy sheep." My mother got the disease and was famous in the alley. In fact, this is a sudden, transient brain dysfunction. The incidence is very high and can occur at any age, especially among adolescents. When an epileptic seizure occurs, the patient usually screams, faints, twists his limbs, looks up, spits in his mouth, urinary incontinence, disappears within a few seconds or minutes, and some patients have transient disturbances of consciousness , But did not fall to the ground, this is called a slight attack.

Western medicine believes that epilepsy is a kind of brain neuron cell, a recurrent brain dysfunction caused by abnormal over-discharge. Patients with abnormal discharge will not feel it, while others will not see it, but it can be recorded by EEG.

Ancient China had known epilepsy for a long time: "Huangdi Neijing" has a precise definition of epilepsy. "Epilepsy" refers to madness, which refers to disturbance of consciousness during seizures. "Epilepsy" refers to convulsions, which refers to spasms during seizures.

There are three types of epilepsy, which are divided into primary, secondary and cryptogenic epilepsy.

Idiopathic epilepsy is also called idiopathic epilepsy; epilepsy has no organic lesions and genetic susceptibility. If the mother’s family does not have the disease, genetic factors can be ruled out.

Secondary epilepsy or symptomatic epilepsy; also called epilepsy with definite etiology and cerebral organic lesions. There are many diseases that cause this type of epilepsy, which are mainly divided into the following two categories: one is intracerebral diseases, various encephalopathy, such as cerebrovascular disease, craniocerebral injury, encephalitis, meningitis, hydrocephalus, brain abscess, inflammation Granulomas, intracranial tumors, brain parasites, craniocerebral trauma, demyelinating diseases, abnormal brain development, brain atrophy, sequelae of craniocerebral surgery, local brain scars, degenerative brain diseases, etc. can all cause epilepsy; : Such as: hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, asphyxia, shock, eclampsia, uremia, diabetes, cardiogenic convulsions and metals, drug poisoning, etc. Many central nervous system or systemic diseases can cause epilepsy. Common causes of secondary epilepsy are birth injury, intracranial infection, abnormal cerebral circulation, etc., such as sequelae of encephalitis, convulsions in children with high fever, etc., can cause epilepsy.

Cryptogenic epilepsy: Although the cause can not be found after various current methods, epilepsy is the only symptom of the disease. But with the advancement of science and technology, there will be more cryptogenic epilepsy who can find out the cause of its onset.

I think the cause of the mother is the second type, which is birth injury. She often said that it was difficult to give birth when she was born in Shenyang in the northeast. Later, she had an epilepsy and terrified her father. The father was afraid that she would be out of breath. While informing the person to call the doctor, he actually used a spoon to pry open the mother's front teeth. As a result, she broke off her mother's two front teeth. According to the habits of the northeastern people, the mother's front teeth were set with large golden teeth.

I am very helpless for this. The mother angered her father, always thinking that her illness was caused by his stimulation. Although the soldier's father knew some culture, he did not understand epilepsy, leaving his stupidity on his mother's big teeth. I am the cause of my mother's illness, caused by birth injuries. But I was still a child under 10 years old, what can I say? What do I know?

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In order to cure my mother's illness, I always accompanied her to and from the hospital, going a long way. Worried about my mother's sudden illness, I became my mother's attendant. When they arrive at the hospital, the doctor always asks about the situation of the mother when she was sick. My mother always asked me to describe the course of the illness. Because the mother did not remember anything when she became ill, only I witnessed the scene when the mother became ill.

　　Epilepsy, also known as epilepsy and epilepsy syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine. The name of epilepsy begins in "Internal Classic". In the book "Medical Correction", the disease was further elucidated, recognizing that the disease is related to Qi deficiency and blood stasis.

In the treatment of epilepsy, blood chemistry tests are often performed:

　　 Such as blood sugar, blood calcium, blood magnesium, pharmaceutical ingredients, etc. Blood glucose, blood calcium and blood magnesium levels are important conditions that cause seizures. On the one hand, the abnormality of these factors may be an important factor that causes seizures. On the other hand, it can provide a basis for the diagnosis of diseases accompanied by seizures, such as hypoparathyroidism, diabetic epilepsy, etc.

The main purpose of drug composition determination is to guide clinical medication, including the selection of effective drugs and determination of accurate dosage.

The mother's treatment process is very troublesome. She can't take Western medicine and use Western needles. She will respond to Western medicine treatment and have itchy skin and erythema.

The concept of traditional Chinese medicine is to support righteousness and eliminate evil, and the concept of western medicine is to correct it based on pathophysiology. In fact, the biggest difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine lies in the concept. Most traditional Chinese medicines are mainly herbal medicines. The concept of traditional Chinese medicine is to make up. If the human body lacks, make up for the lack of things, and people will naturally be better. Most western medicine is mainly based on pills. The idea of ​​western medicine is to cure. I will treat you wherever you hurt. The so-called headache cures your head, and foot pain cures your feet. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment has no side effects. Western medicine has headaches, and feet hurts. In general, it may be better to use traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, almost all of the mother's medicines in her life are traditional Chinese medicines.

For this reason, every time I accompany her to the hospital, I have to explain to the doctor why my mother cannot use Western medicine. The doctor looked at me, a child of about 10 years old, and talked to him like an adult, and looked at me with amazement.

I was in the hospital and had to be busy registering and paying.

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When I left the hospital and went home, I had to cook Chinese medicine for my mother. If I neglect to burn the Chinese medicine, I will definitely be punished by my mother.

The treatment of mother's epilepsy is basically carried out through diet.

People are used to calling epilepsy "lamb wind", "sheep epilepsy", and sometimes "pig wind". Although the name is different, there is an obvious feature that the name is based on intuitive understanding of the patient's symptoms. Obviously, there is another basic idea running through it, which is to capture the basic characteristics of patients with epilepsy when exhaustively summarized. Although this is not a scientific summary and does not capture the essential characteristics of the disease, it is based on symptoms.

The best treatment for epilepsy with traditional Chinese medicine is to use 2 pheasants, 3 grams of antelope horn, 3 grams of stone d and so on. After boiling blood and water to remove the blood, put it in a saucepan. The antelope horn is salty and cold in nature. It has the effects of calming and nourishing the liver, clearing the wind and nourishing the liver, clearing the eyes and clearing the heat, clearing heat and detoxifying. Stewing these two drugs with sweet and chicken can supplement the deficiency and eliminate calories, reconcile the internal organs, and have a significant effect on children's convulsions, fever and thirst, cataracts, epilepsy, measles and other poisons. But the light pheasant must use two, and also use antelope horn as medicine. My family is poor and can't eat enough at home. How can my family buy this medicine?

In fact, Chinese medicine has a long history of treating epilepsy. The medicine with better treatment effect of traditional Chinese medicine is pharmacist Sanshuang San, which is the secret recipe of the Qing court. It is used to treat epilepsy and mental illness of members of the royal family in the late Qing Dynasty. Later, when the famous Chinese medicine at that time was added with new medicine, the treatment of epilepsy was very effective. After the overthrow of the Qing government, the prescription of "Pharmacist Rolling Tan San" was only recorded by the Chinese medicine practitioners in Weifang District, Jiaodong Peninsula, Shandong. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the prescription has cured many patients with epilepsy. When my aunt worked in the Shandong Army, she often sent some money from Shandong to her mother. Mother basically treats the disease according to this prescription.

In fact, the mother's most common and simple treatment method is to use the epilepsy diet remedy: Baiju green tea drink.

　　 Just put 3 grams of white chrysanthemum, 3 grams of sophora japonica and 3 grams of green tea in a porcelain cup, soak in boiling water and cover tightly. After 5 minutes, you can drink it on behalf of the tea.

　　 Chrysanthemum is sweet and bitter and slightly cold. It enters the liver meridian and has the functions of Pingyang, Qinggan and Sanyu.

"Shen Nong's Materia Medica" says that "the Lord's eyes are dizzy, swollen and painful, and his eyes are desperate." "Medicinal Properties" said it "could cure the hot head and wind, the brain bone pain." Modern medicine believes that chrysanthemum has the effects of sedation, dilation of coronary arteries and increase of coronary blood flow. Sophora japonica is the locust flower, the flower buds of the locust tree, the bitter cold settles, and the liver fire is cleared. Green tea bitter cold, clearing liver fire, fragrant and enlightening the brain, suitable for the epilepsy caused by the heat of the liver, the movement of the liver wind, the upper back into the brain, dizziness or fainting, and blood stasis.

About the eve of my graduation from elementary school, my mother's illness was finally cured. She also developed the habit of drinking tea.

During that time, I often had to accompany my mother to the hospital, and I had to get medicine and pay. As soon as I smelled the medicine in the hospital, I was sick. Until today, I have never wanted to go to the hospital. Fortunately, for decades, my medical record card was basically blank.

Somehow, my mother never seemed to talk to anyone about my accompanying her to the hospital, nor did she say a word of relief to me.

It was only once that she was admitted to a lot of hospitals because of a high fever. I used to watch her for the night and accompany her all night. She only said in her memory: "Mom knows that you are also a filial son."