Wake up（23）

 

Chapter 4 Catastrophe

 

23

 

In the early morning of the summer of 2020, Chai Jianhua, a 96-year-old Chinese doctor, was awakened by cicadas.

The memories of past events that disturbed him overnight brought him back to the period of suppressing counter-revolutionaries and land reform, and he gradually returned to calm from fear. Veteran Chinese doctor Chai Jianhua picked up the "Life Catastrophe" from his pillow. The author of this booklet was Wang Changcai. He did not know the specific situation of the author, but he remembered that the author might be from Sichuan, and the pamphlet was written in Chengdu.

But old Chinese medicine practitioner Chai Jianhua clearly remembers that this booklet was given to him by a 90-year-old man on his 90th birthday.

The old man has suffered from diabetes for more than 20 years and has been treated by western medicine. Diabetes is already the top five of the top ten causes of death among Chinese people, and the number of people is gradually increasing, increasing at a rate of 25,000 new people every year. Diabetes is a "chronic" venereal disease. When the body is in a state of high blood sugar for a long time, it is easy to increase the risk of complications including cardiovascular disease, nephropathy, and retinopathy, which seriously endangers one's own health.

The sick old man is called Lin Huiting, and he also has a Russian name: Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov. Russian names are generally composed of three sections, Ivan is my name, Ivanovich is my father's name, which means the son of Ivan, and Ivanov is my surname.

Lin Huiting, like many diabetic patients, does not want to take western medicine for a long time, but wants to use traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. Chinese medicine practitioners said that overall, modern Chinese medicine can indeed prescribe the right medicine to help diabetic patients control blood sugar and improve related symptoms. The assistance of modern technology makes the treatment more comprehensive. Modern Chinese medicine can improve the disease by diagnosing the patient's symptoms through the cloud case and the perspective of empirical medicine, and matching with appropriate prescriptions.

Lin Huiting heard that Chai Jianhua, a veteran Chinese medicine doctor, has excellent medical skills, so she came to Chai Jianhua for diagnosis and treatment of diabetes through a friend's introduction.

Veteran Chinese medicine practitioner Chai Jianhua told Lin Huiting that the manifestation of diabetes is that the concentration of sugar in the blood is too high, and the key lies in the sensitivity and regulation of blood sugar in the body to insulin. Excluding type 1 diabetes, it is caused by genetic inheritance, but most people have type 2 diabetes with acquired metabolic disorders. Even if blood sugar is well controlled, many people still experience discomforts such as dry mouth, thirst, fatigue, weakness and excessive sweating. These symptoms can be improved through Chinese herbal medicine. In addition, if a diabetic suffers from kidney disease, eye disease, or neuropathy, Chinese medicine moxibustion, auricular point therapy, and scalp acupuncture can also be used to improve the complications and continue to worsen. Clinically, ginseng, yam, astragalus, Poria, Ophiopogon japonicus, rehmannia, rehmannia, trichosanthes, gypsum, Anemarrhena, etc., are all traditional Chinese medicines that are often used to treat diabetes.

Chai Jianhua believes that the course of type 2 diabetes includes "stagnation, heat, deficiency and loss". In the initial symptoms of "stagnation and heat", patients often show "burning" symptoms, such as thirsty and polydipsia, frequent urination, hyperphagia, easy hunger, irritability, constipation, heat intolerance, hyperhidrosis, irritability, insomnia, dizziness , dizziness, repeated vaginitis, urethritis, dermatitis and many other atypical symptoms. In the initial stage, the body functions are in an overactive state, which makes the pancreatic islet cells over-secrete. In the long run, the islet cells will gradually become fatigued and even fail, and eventually they will not be able to secrete enough insulin and must rely on insulin injections for treatment.

Chai Jianhua further explained to Lin Huiting that the key direction of early treatment is "clearing heat and purging fire", cutting off the state of excessive hyperactivity of body functions, allowing the pancreas to rest moderately, and prolonging the "useful life" of islet cells. He mentioned that TCM treatment of diabetes focuses on "resolving the reabsorption and utilization of blood sugar in the body". According to each individual's symptoms, through diet, medicine and other methods, the spleen and stomach can be adjusted to restore the digestive system to normal, so that excess glucose in the blood can be eliminated. It can be reabsorbed and utilized by the human body to achieve the purpose of lowering blood sugar. Chai Jianhua also added that modern society is mostly in an atmosphere of blind tonic and excessive dietary therapy. It is often believed that prescribing medicine "too cold" will hurt the body. This is not a correct concept. The treatment of traditional Chinese medicine must be based on the constitution, which belongs to heat, and heat-clearing medicines are tonics for him.

Lin Huiting believes in eating less or not. Under his guidance, in order to control blood sugar, Lin Huiting mainly eats high-fiber, low-sugar, and low-fat foods, and eats less or no fried foods. Including eating less other ingredients such as popcorn, nuts, leeks, peppers, garlic, etc. that help heat and hurt yin. In addition, drink less and quit smoking.

Chai Jianhua also often gives Lin Huiting acupoint health care: massage the Yinlingquan and Taixi acupoints on the feet, pressing the left and right sides alternately for five minutes each. Chai Jianhua said that doing acupoint health care not only lowers blood sugar but also promotes blood circulation in the lower limbs.

Chai Jianhua also advised Lin Huiting to pay attention to daily tea drinking: drink two to three times a week. If you are taking western medicine at the same time, you can drink it after two hours. It is recommended that Lin Huiting drink yam thirst quenching tea. The ingredients include trichosanthum, yam, and wolfberry. You can put trichosanthum, yam, and wolfberry into the tea bag, heat the water to 500ml, and drink it after simmering for five minutes. Can improve diabetes thirst, fatigue, blurred vision.

Chai Jianhua and Lin Huiting have had a lot of contact, and they have become friends who talk about everything.

Lin Huiting studied in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, and most of his exchanges with Chai Jianhua were the Sino-Soviet relations at the time. Both of them are old people over ninety years old, looking back on the past, they know everything.

Lin Huiting told the old Chinese medicine doctor Chai Jianhua that China's proposal of "surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States" was actually to catch up with the Soviet Union.

Lin Huiting seemed a little confused when he saw Chai Jianhua, but he said to him: "I was studying at Moscow University at that time. In November 1957, the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution in Soviet Russia, leaders of more than a dozen socialist countries and more than 60 Communist and Workers' Parties around the world The grand gathering was held in Moscow. Because of language constraints, my classmates and I all became temporary translators. Therefore, I experienced that period of history.”

Lin Huiting told Chai Jianhua about the little-known past:

The leader of the Communist Party of China, Lao Mao, is undoubtedly the most dazzling star among them, and it is also the most glorious international event in his life: the only arrangement to live in the Ekaterina Palace in the Kremlin; The leaders of the Communist Party and the Labor Party of various countries went to pay homage to Lao Mao’s residence; Khrushchev’s speech must not be used without Mao’s consent, and articles without Lao Mao’s nod would never dare to publish; if Lao Mao did not speak, Khrushchev Nothing can be done... On the surface, this meeting was held in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev is the leader of the Communist world. In fact, the director behind it is Lao Mao, and Hearst is just a follower.

During the party, Khrushchev invited Lao Mao to watch the ballet. Just halfway through, Lao Mao suddenly stood up and said, "What is the show? Why are they always jumping on tiptoes? I really can't stand it!"

In fact, when Lao Mao went to Moscow for the first time, Stalin also invited him to watch the ballet. Lao Mao not only watched it patiently, but also presented flowers to the heroine. At the banquet held by Khrushchev, Hearst happily talked about the scene of commanding the defense of Stalingrad. Lao Mao wiped his mouth, threw away the napkin, and taunted impatiently: "Comrade Khrushchev, I have already After eating, is your story on the Southwest Front still over?"

Lin Huiting said to Chai Jianhua: Lao Mao's speeches at the conference were like a powerful and unconstrained style, boundless, supercilious, and startled everyone, making party leaders from all over the world look up. Mao boldly stated that he would continue the revolution, expressing his dissatisfaction with the foreign policy of "peaceful coexistence, peaceful competition, and peaceful transition" proposed by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; One hundred million people is the best, and everyone was shocked. The general secretary of Czechoslovakia shivered with a coffee cup after the meeting, saying that China has 600 million people and we only have 20 million. During this period, Lao Mao also directly said to Khrushchev: "The third world war should start in China. After we lead the US military into the depths, please ask the Soviet Union to drop atomic bombs on us and wipe out the main force of the US military in one fell swoop. It may cause one-third of the deaths. Two population, but in exchange for a world Datong is worth it.”

Lin Huiting drank yam thirst-quenching tea and said to Chai Jianhua: At that time, Eastern European countries often said a word when they had any undisputed issues. Let's wait and see what the Chinese Communist Party says, and what Comrade Mao says. As a result, Eastern European countries thought that Mao’s proposition was too radical, too risky, and too terrifying. They were afraid of being tied to the chariot of confrontation with the West by Mao and did not want to follow China anymore, because they were as unwilling to fight wars as the Soviet Union, and they did not want to fight endlessly. "revolution".

Chai Jianhua was speechless, and he didn't dare to say anything.