Focus on Health China Traditional Chinese Medicine (First Health Report by Lu Jiawei)
In the preface:
Time is the grave where history is buried. No matter how many years have passed, great events and small feelings that have happened, when they are recalled, the fragments of time string it together and turn it into a series of intriguing stories. That year, when people were still immersed in the melody of the popular song "Come and meet in 98, meet in the warm affection under the silver moonlight", a sudden pandemic swept through Beijing. ……
Lu Jiawei
After the Spring Festival in 2022, Omicron was ravaged, and millions of people died in Hong Kong. Shanghai was shut down for more than a month due to the epidemic, and people’s production and life were greatly affected. In May, the epidemic in Beijing was also on the rise. It can be said that this is the biggest black swan incident at present. What good methods will Chinese medicine have in the face of the epidemic? We might as well review the history to find some useful information, especially the anti-epidemic deeds of Chinese medicine in Beijing in 1998.
The author provided a recent photo of the first health report.
After entering the winter in 1998, the cold, accompanied by the flu, quietly spread in Beijing.
One day in November, the number of outpatients in Beijing Dongzhimen Hospital suddenly increased, and the patients in the hospital were crowded and in a hurry. Due to the unclear positioning of the affiliated unit of the hospital at that time, a large number of backbones began to transfer to the Second Affiliated Hospital. This is the third large-scale technical delivery of Dongzhimen Hospital after the China-Japan Friendship Hospital and Wangjing Hospital, and the technical strength of the hospital has lost a lot. In this case, facing the surging patients, the hospital took it easy from top to bottom, from outpatient to emergency, and methodically used traditional Chinese medicine to suppress a wider range of popular trends.
Jiang Liangduo, Zhou Ping ‘an and other expert teams randomly observed 472 patients in outpatient and emergency departments, and filled in their medical history, symptoms, signs, laboratory tests and other items in the pre-designed observation table for influenza patients, including 253 males and 219 females, the oldest being 87 years old, the youngest being 14 years old, and the average being 52.3 years old.
Dongzhimen Hospital in 1990s
After collective consultation, TCM experts finally determined the characteristics of the flu: rapid onset and similar symptoms.
First, general malaise, runny nose or throat discomfort occurs, and then fever and anhidrosis occur quickly. Fever is mainly high fever, with cold and heat alternating, nausea and vomiting, anhidrosis, general pain, headache, cough, sore throat, yellow or white phlegm, dry stool and yellow urine. Most patients have a taste, dry cough and little phlegm.
Some patients developed tracheitis or pneumonia after fever. Among them, the virus-infected pneumonia with normal white blood cells and increased lymphocytes is about 33%, and patients with basic diseases are easy to cause complications, which makes the condition worse or worse.
With the sharp increase of outpatients, after clarifying the causes and symptoms, in the face of the menacing pandemic, an anti-epidemic war in the hospital began.
Experts from all walks of life actively face the prescription for the right medicine, and the prescription prescribed by Dr. Zhou Ping, director of the emergency department, is based on the classicsMaxing Shigan Decoction is the monarch, supplemented by heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs such as Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Forsythia suspensa.The clinical effect is excellent, and it only takes about 1 day to reduce the fever at the beginning of the flu. (This core prescription performed well, and was later registered as a hospital preparation Jiedu Qingfei Mixture. )
At the end of 1998, I happened to be in charge of the management of the hospital decocting room.
Dongzhimen Hospital began to use the decocting machine at the end of 1997, which is the first top-three hospital in Beijing to use the decocting machine. At the beginning of November, there was a demand for the prescription of cold medicine in the outpatient department. At first, it looked like a few hundred yuan a day. After a few days, the demand increased greatly, and overtime took up all the machines. The hospital urgently purchased six or seven packaging machines for this purpose, and also organized a large group of people to fill 200ml plastic bottles. It wasn’t long before the peak came one after another, and the whole pharmacy department started to meet the flood of outpatient demand, and all kinds of means went into battle.
The author provides the old photos of the first health report.
Out-patient Chinese pharmacy sells the agreed prescription directly, and the preparation room has 1 ton, 2 ton boiling extraction tanks and two open pots to extract several times throughout the day, and the decocting room is responsible for filling. At the peak, there are more than 30,000 bags or bottles of substitute decoctions every day, which can meet the dosage of 5,000 people for three days. A small house dedicated to storing substitute decoctions is emptied after working overtime all morning at night, and there are many people who buy and take medicines at the door of the decocting room every day. What impressed me most was that China Bank purchased 6,000 bags with a prescription.
One of my brothers also got the flu. Fortunately, the fried medicine was delivered in time, and the fever dropped the next day. Afterwards, he said, Jiawei, you saved my life. According to him, the high fever persisted and he felt like he was going to die. That was the first time I heard that the flu was still so harmful.
According to the timeYan Xu, Director of Pharmacy Department.Memories: "That year was a big flu in five provinces and cities such as Hebei and Inner Mongolia. Many people found Dongzhimen Hospital after intravenous drip. Line up at the window to buy medicine until the door of the hospital. But the order is particularly good, there is no noise and congestion, and thank you for getting the medicine. Outpatient decoction pieces can’t be supplied, and several companies help them to take medicine day and night. The leaders of the hospital also brought people from various departments to help. Zhongnanhai named Dongzhimen’s cold medicine, and finally I personally escorted it to Zhongnanhai. "
The whole epidemic lasted until the spring, and Dongzhimen’s cold medicine was not only loved by the masses, but also recognized by the highest authority. Later, there was a demand for outpatient services in winter, which lasted for several years.
At that time, there was no decocting machine in Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the prescription was mainly based on agreement. As a result, the patient was sued to the Health Bureau: "It is said that Chinese medicine needs dialectical treatment, and we can see how to get the prepared medicine for colds." The Beijing Evening News also reported on this. It can be seen that the general public does not know that traditional Chinese medicine can be used to prevent and treat the epidemic in the early stage. Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine gave a reasonable explanation, and it was popularized in the mass media. This is the most basic version of Chinese patent medicine, and it is also the cradle of traditional Chinese medicine preparations and new drugs. The predecessor of Tasly Danshen Dripping Pills is the agreed prescription.
The city’s Chinese medicine medical institutions are also fully fired, and it is conservatively estimated that the daily consultation capacity will reach 700,000-100,000 people. For mild or initial symptoms, it usually takes 1-3 days to solve the problem. In short, a pandemic involving 1.2 million people diagnosed with symptoms was finally put out after two or three months of struggle, and the great gods in the field of Chinese medicine did not participate in the war, and only the Mesozoic masters played to win!
afterwards
According to the epidemiological retrospective survey released by Beijing Health and Epidemic Prevention Station in the spring of 1999, the incidence of influenza in Beijing was 10.1% from November 1, 1998 to January 31, 1999, when more than 1 million people in the city suffered from influenza.
What is the concept of this data today. It is equivalent to more than 2 million people in Beijing being diagnosed! 2.5 million people in Shanghai were diagnosed! Putting it in the country is 140 million people diagnosed! At that time, Beijing had a resident population of 12 million, which was equivalent to the level of medium-sized countries in Europe, so this flu data definitely had various analytical and statistical values.
In 1998, social development was relatively backward, and the per capita salary of Beijing employees was only about 1100 yuan per month. At that time, it was impossible for all staff to do nucleic acid and build a shelter. Mobile phones were still luxury goods, and it was impossible to have health codes and travel codes to control suspected people.
Life should go on, and the epidemic should be defeated. At this time, it is time for Chinese medicine to show its power, and Chinese medicine has indeed done it. In 1998, Chinese medicine won the battle against the Beijing flu epidemic. From the bits and pieces of the Dongzhimen Hospital affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine to find out the real situation of this forgotten pandemic, it may be enlightening for today’s anti-epidemic.
In 1998, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine gathered a great number of giants. Tung Chee-hwa, Cheng Shennong, Liu Duzhou, Wang Mianzhi, Liu Bichen, Yang Jiasan and Yan Zhenghua were the kings of Chinese medicine in that era. In Mesozoic, Wang Yongyan, Du Huaitang, Tian Delu, Guo Weiqin, Zhou Pingan, Wang Qi, Jiang Liangduo and Tian Jinzhou gathered together. Chen Lixin, Ye Yong ‘an, Wang Yaoxian, Liu Qingquan and Jong Li, the younger generation, have thrived, and the three generations of the old, middle-aged and young people have cast a celestial group in the field of Chinese medicine.
Memorabilia of influenza in Beijing after liberation
The shadow of influenza has always lingered in human society. According to historical records, there have been several major influenza outbreaks since the liberation of Beijing.
In 1957, influenza A/type 2 caused a widespread pandemic, and more than 50% people in Beijing were infected. Some factories and schools were shut down, which not only brought serious harm to people’s health, but also caused great losses to the national economy.
Type A 3 was popular in China in 1968, and soon spread all over the world.
In 1977, Type A 1 reappeared, which became popular among teenagers.
At the end of 1988, there was a moderate epidemic of influenza in Beijing, and the incidence rate was above 10%.
In 2003, the team of Deng Tietao, a master of Chinese medicine for SARS, created four zero records: zero infection, zero transfer to hospital, zero severe illness and zero death.
Achievements of Chinese medicine practitioners
Lu Bingkui, commander of Chinese medicine, wrote to Premier Wen asking Chinese medicine to go into battle to treat SARS.
Ren Jixue, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, took the SARS preventive prescription for 90,000 people in Jilin, and no one was infected. Sars is a curtain call for Chinese medicine practitioners, and it also leaves a strong legacy for the history of Chinese medicine’s anti-epidemic.
Lu Bingkui, commander of traditional Chinese medicine, wrote at the age of 89 that "medical health should make people live on the road of disease-free health, and people with normal physiological functions should not get sick." This is a popular explanation of the traditional Chinese medicine that "healthy qi should be kept inside, and evil should not be done" to treat the disease before it happens.
postscript
I should say,The 1998 Beijing pandemic should be the last battle for Chinese medicine to fight the epidemic independently and win completely.However, it is enough to prove that it is possible for Chinese medicine to lead the fight against plague, and it also proves that Chinese medicine has the advantages of advanced nature across time and space, rapid recovery of patients and super preventive ability, and finally realizes a win-win situation with extremely low social damage against epidemic.
In the fight against plague, Chinese medicine can face the epidemic directly without infection, and the treatment principle is like thunder, which can quickly wipe out the sequelae. For critically ill patients, it can gradually recover to save their lives, and the trinity of "prevention, treatment and rescue" constitutes a system.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been developing and expanding since Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor, and has established a set of theoretical methods and classic prescriptions of "prevention, treatment and rescue". This is a super versatile arsenal, especially for respiratory infectious diseases. No matter where the enemy comes from, it can respond quickly at the first time and has the ability to destroy the enemy before it happens.
With the great development of society, people’s living standards have been greatly improved, and it is difficult for severe infectious diseases such as plague and cholera to make a big splash. Globalization makes world travel the norm, and domestic transportation is extremely convenient. The objective reality makes the spread of respiratory diseases extremely rapid and extensive, which may be the main contradiction of future epidemics.
It is urgent to explore the anti-epidemic energy of traditional Chinese medicine in advance, so as to make it a systematic and regular anti-epidemic main force, which will also be a national weapon to ensure the smooth and stable development of the country.
Author’s notes
Lv Jiawei, born in 1969 in a family of traditional Chinese medicine, is the youngest son of Lv Bingkui, founder and commander of traditional Chinese medicine in New China. At the age of 20, I followed around to participate in various Chinese medicine activities, and was responsible for sorting out medical records and life information. Gradually understand the ancestors’ pursuit and academic thoughts in the cause of traditional Chinese medicine under the influence of years. It laid a solid foundation for determining the career direction in the future. In 1985, he was admitted to Beijing Chinese Medicine School at the age of 15. In 1990, he joined the pharmacy department of Dongzhimen Hospital in Beijing, and was responsible for the management of decocting room, Chinese medicine storehouse and preparation room. He used to be a director of China Folk Chinese Medicine Development and Research Association and a member of the Preparation Committee of Beijing Chinese Medicine Association. There are many successful cases in the transformation of clinical achievements of traditional Chinese medicine. At the end of 2018, he resigned from the public office and devoted himself to the big health industry, Chinese medicine planting management, Chinese medicine preparations and new drug development.
(Editor of autumn rain)