Chinese medicine: from rural hospitals to top three hospitals in Kyoto

Chapter 175 Confidence

"Many of us have never been able to get into medicine. We don't know how to learn Chinese medicine well. We think Chinese medicine is difficult to learn and the threshold is high."

Chen Yang continued: "Actually, there is a shortcut to learning Chinese medicine."

After hearing what Chen Yang said, many students suddenly became energetic.

It is recognized by most students who study Chinese medicine that Chinese medicine is difficult to learn, the threshold is high, and it is easy to learn but difficult to master. It is also a headache for many people who study Chinese medicine.

It is said that after studying medicine for three years, you will speak arrogant words. After studying medicine for another three years, you will not dare to speak nonsense. After studying medicine for another three years, you will be silent. After studying medicine for another three years, you will not need to speak too much. . . .

In fact, the entire years of medical college can be attributed to the first three years for medical students. Before entering the hospital, they studied theory and medicine for many years and felt that they were great. After entering the hospital, they wanted to show off what they had learned and felt that they were great. Can become a famous doctor.

But when I got to the hospital and went through internships, training, and hospitalization year after year, I realized how superficial I was.

After studying medicine for three years, he talks wildly about the kind of medical students who feel that they are full of theories, have no clinical experience, and have not been hit.

This phenomenon is actually more accurate when it comes to studying Chinese medicine. Many students memorize the provisions of Chinese medicine and some theories of Chinese medicine, but when they get to the clinic, they start to get confused.

If Western medicine is precision medicine that relies on instruments and data for reference, Chinese medicine is sensory medicine.

It's like weighing things. Western medicine has an electronic scale. When you put something on it, you know how much it weighs. But in traditional Chinese medicine, you weigh it with your hands. You have to feel how much it weighs.

For example, feeling the pulse, looking at the color, etc., although there are standards, the feeling is different from one person to another. What is the Shen pulse, what is the Hua pulse, and what is the Xian pulse needs to be judged by feeling. If the feeling is No, it's really difficult to get started.

So it is also said that if you can't get started with Qingmai for three months, it will basically be difficult to get started in your whole life. It's like learning to drive. Some people are born with no talent and will never be able to drive in their lifetime. Even if they forcefully get a driver's license, it will be Roadkill.

In recent years, Chinese medicine has actually produced many auxiliary devices, such as acupuncture devices, massage devices, etc., and even pulse diagnosis instruments.

Like the pulse detector, it is actually just based on a standard to judge, but everyone and each individual is different, which is also the most difficult point of traditional Chinese medicine.

Chen Yang paused and said: "The shortest way is to learn a prescription first, learn a prescription thoroughly, learn it thoroughly, understand its additions and subtractions, and understand its corresponding symptoms."

"When we were in school, we would recite many songs and learn many prescriptions. Instead of mastering all the prescriptions, it is better to fully master one or two classic prescriptions and put the others aside first." Chen Yang said.

"Senior Chen Yang, can this be used to diagnose patients in clinical practice?" a classmate couldn't help but ask.

“Raise your hand when you ask a question.”

Ke Wenhui stood up and said loudly.

Chen Yang pressed his hand to show that he heard it.

"Do you think one or two prescriptions are useless?"

Chen Yang said: "Actually, this is a fallacy in itself. Even if you learn a TCM prescription thoroughly, it can still treat many diseases, such as the ephedra soup I mentioned before."

"Use cinnamon twigs, almonds and licorice in the ephedra soup. If you have fever, aversion to cold, head pain, or typhoid fever, take this stocking decoction."

Chen Yang said: "From the lyrics, we can see that Mahuang Decoction can treat aversion to cold, fever, headache, and neck pain caused by external wind and cold. The patient will sweat out the evil after taking the medicine."

"For those who are averse to cold or even have severe joint pain all over the body, add aconite and asarum; for those with nasal congestion and runny nose or headache, add Ligusticum chuanxiong, Xanthium seed, and Angelica dahurica. For those with thick phlegm, add Pediculus and Perilla. For those with asthma and chest tightness, , add dried ginger, Schisandra chinensis, white mustard seeds..."

Chen Yang continued: "Coupled with the various changes of Ephedra Decoction, it can treat many diseases."

"There is also Guizhi and Ephedra soup, half and half, which is actually an extension of Ephedra soup."

"Although Mahuang Decoction is a prescription for treating colds, in the process of the onset of many skin diseases, patients are often accompanied by bad wind. Cold, heat, anhidrosis and other superficial symptoms, clinically, Mahuang Decoction can also treat some skin diseases. The pathogenesis is Wei Yu Ying stagnation..."

After a pause, Chen Yang continued: "Just one ephedra soup, if everyone can learn it, it can treat many diseases. When encountering the symptoms of ephedra soup, it can almost cure the disease."

"As a doctor, there is no need to build yourself into an all-round polygon warrior. As long as you can cure the diseases you are good at, you will be a great doctor."

Chen Yang continued: "Like Ephedra Decoction, Guizhi Decoction, Xiaobuihu Decoction, these more commonly used classic prescriptions, if everyone can thoroughly understand them, we can basically solve many common colds, fevers and other typhoid fever symptoms."

"As a doctor, there is no shame in having a disease that cannot be cured, but if you try to treat it, it will be shameful if it cannot be cured."

"There is a saying that a new trick can be eaten everywhere. As long as we can thoroughly understand a few prescriptions, even if we open a clinic after graduation, we will definitely be famous."

"Xiao Chen said that very well."

Ke Wenhui said to Wu Yaolin: "Medicine is vast, and people like us will never be able to fully understand Chinese medicine in our lifetimes, but if we just start from the basics and master simple changes in prescriptions, we can indeed treat many diseases clinically. ".

"Ah."

Wu Yaolin nodded: "Yangyang's statement is a bit like Jingfang School."

The Jingfang School studies classic prescriptions and must ask for their sources when prescribing. As Chen Yang said, just mastering a few commonly used classic prescriptions and studying the additions, subtractions, changes and indications of the prescriptions is actually a shortcut. .

If you encounter something you don’t know how to do, don’t take it over. If you encounter something you are sure of, take action decisively. Being a doctor does not necessarily mean that you will accept everyone who comes. It is unrealistic for doctors to treat patients when they come.

Chen Yang continued to talk, and before he knew it, the class had passed.

Chen Yang started from why to learn Chinese medicine, then how to learn Chinese medicine, and then how to learn Chinese medicine well. He explained it very clearly through explanation of medical records and analysis of prescriptions.

In particular, Chen Yang's last statement about starting with studying a few prescriptions, thoroughly understanding them, and thoroughly studying them made many students a little excited.

A doctor's confidence mainly comes from whether he can cure the disease. As long as he can study a few prescriptions and cure the disease, the doctor can have confidence, confidence in himself and confidence in Chinese medicine.

Many TCM students are influenced by modern medicine after entering the hospital because they have lost confidence. Once they lose confidence, they will not be able to learn TCM well no matter what.