My journey of traditional Chinese medicine - practicing medicine

1. Getting to know Chinese medicine

In July 2011, my son was born.

More than 40 days after giving birth, I returned to Beijing and began a life of studying while raising my baby. As mentioned before, the child was hospitalized for more than a week due to jaundice after birth. As a result, he got used to a pacifier. In order to correct breastfeeding, he was starved for nearly a day. The child still resisted. Finally, under the persuasion of the old man, he had to give up. As a result, I almost went back to breastfeeding, and my milk supply became less and less. Before I was even out of confinement, I had to start feeding with milk powder. This also left hidden dangers for the child's physical condition later on.

Having mentioned this, I still want to emphasize that the child's physical constitution is not only inherited by the parents' physical constitution on the one hand, but also has a lot to do with the mother's nutrition and emotions during pregnancy. My child has grown slowly since he was born and is smaller than his peers. On the one hand, I have had poor health since I was a child because I was born prematurely. According to my mother, it was difficult to give birth to me and it took me 7 days and 7 nights. When I was born, I was only as long as a chopstick, and I couldn’t hold it in without crying. In addition, I had severe morning sickness during pregnancy, and I did not breastfeed enough after the baby was born, all of which had an impact on the baby.

When my child was about 8 or 9 months old, my husband was responsible for the life pressure of a family of four. In order to relieve him of the pressure, I started looking for a job.

This year is a turning point in my life and professional career.

Soon, I entered an institution that prevents and treats sub-health and chronic diseases. In this unit, I came into contact with the views of Western nutrition. For example, eating milk will increase the risk of tumors and chronic diseases. This is contrary to my traditional concept of nutrition, and can even be said to be subversive. I learned about Gerson therapy, the cutting-edge therapy for treating tumors in the United States, and the methods of treating tumors by Dr. Wu Yongzhi from Taiwan. I also witnessed with my own eyes the demeanor of Dr. Wu, who was already in his 70s at the time, and listened to his lectures. Although this unit is not a hospital, it does similar work to a hospital. Our customers entrust their health to us. I have many colleagues who are authoritative in the medical field, such as a retired professor from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, the chief physician of cardiac surgery at China-Japan Hospital, and the attending physician for diabetes at Peking University Third Hospital. It can be said that this unit has given me a lot of training. , we often study and discuss, hold lectures, and provide health conditioning plans to customers. I have also given many lectures on nutritious and healthy meals and Chinese medicine courses. Our conditioning targets are various sub-healthy people, people with chronic diseases, and cancer patients. Through this job, I tried to combine the thinking of traditional Chinese medicine with the thinking of modern Western nutrition. I went through the process of questioning, seeking evidence, and finally seeking common ground while reserving differences. Many of my concepts have influenced me to this day.

At the same time, this year I applied for the exam of practicing assistant physician of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and passed the exam in one fell swoop, and obtained the qualification of practicing assistant physician.

With my study at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, my in-depth understanding of Chinese medicine, and my experience, I gradually became more interested in Chinese medicine. It can be said that before, I only scratched the surface of Chinese medicine. Gradually, I gradually gained a deeper understanding of the beauty and magic of Chinese medicine.

2. Entering the door of traditional Chinese medicine

There are three things that impressed me most.

The first thing is my son. Because he was not in good health since he was a child, when he was 2 years old, the doctor thought that his growth and development were delayed. The predicted adult height was less than 170cm, maybe just over 160cm. I was very sad. I had various examinations at the Sino-Japanese Hospital, including brain MRI and growth hormone stimulation. During the test, doctors recommended injecting growth hormone into children once a week for 1 to 2 years. As a mother, you can imagine how you feel when you hear such a result. So I went to the Beijing Children's Research Institute, and the doctor at the Children's Research Institute suggested that I could be observed for another 2 years. If growth is still slow, try again. But the doctor's words gave me hope again. She said that although there is a rough prediction of the child's future height, it is not absolute. After all, acquired factors account for about 40%. Later, after seeing a relatively well-known Chinese medicine doctor, he believed that there was no need to worry at all. Chinese medicine did not recommend growth hormone injections, and he prescribed Chinese medicine for the child for two to three months.

Although I didn’t insist on watching it later, he gave us some advice on life, which I felt was very beneficial.

The second thing is that after the child went to kindergarten, he fell ill frequently. This is a process that every child goes through. My child also suffered from external infections and even bronchopneumonia several times before going to kindergarten. He was cured after taking antibiotics. However, this time, I had a dry cough for nearly a month. Finally, the Western medicine doctor said that it was a specific cough that would develop into bronchial asthma if it develops further. Then the child was prescribed Singulair (a tracheal antispasmodic agent to prevent asthma). , anti-inflammatory drugs, and require the child to take atomization continuously. The course of treatment is about 2 or 3 months. After about three times of nebulization, I found that the child's dry cough turned into aggravated cough with a lot of phlegm. I felt something was wrong. However, the doctor explained that this was a normal phenomenon. In my heart, I disagreed with the doctor's statement. Then I called a well-known pediatric Chinese medicine doctor. Under his treatment, the child’s cough was under control after taking 5 doses of medicine. From then on, when my child had a cough or illness, I basically went to see him. Although his registration fee was relatively high, the curative effect was very definite. Generally, 3 or 5 doses of medicine are enough. This increased my interest in Chinese medicine.

The third thing is myself. At the beginning of 2015, due to high mental stress and repeated physical problems, I contracted bacterial vaginosis. The disease kept me awake all night. Although it is not a serious illness, I have been struggling for several months to see if it is not good. I have spent more than a thousand yuan and went to the hospital to prescribe a lot of western medicine and suppositories, but the problem always persists. Finally, I tried to see a Chinese medicine doctor, and within two weeks, I was cured.

After these few incidents, my concept began to change. I no longer believe in the saying that Chinese medicine is slow to come. I agree with what my teacher said: For acute diseases, Chinese medicine is not necessarily slower than Western medicine; for chronic diseases, Western medicine cannot speed up the disease!

During this period, I visited the senior fellow of Lu Zhizheng, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, a kind old Chinese medicine practitioner, and saw his miraculous ability to treat diseases. I also studied Chinese medicine with my introductory Chinese medicine teacher, Master Liu Dagang, whose family is Traditional Chinese medicine, I learned acupuncture from him, conducted face-to-face consultations, and pricked acupuncture on myself to understand the sensation of the needles under his guidance; I had a consultation with Dr. Song Tianbin, a nationally renowned veteran traditional Chinese medicine doctor; I also studied the video lectures of Professor Wu Yongzhi of Tianjin Cancer Hospital; Learn painless bone setting from the master of traditional Chinese medicine, Mr. Wang Wenlin... I studied medicine everywhere and was very hungry. When the door of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine opened to me, I discovered that Traditional Chinese Medicine is such an interesting subject. TCM books that I used to be intimidated by have now become lively and interesting. In the past, when I encountered a disease, I wanted to use Western medicine to solve it. Now I always consider TCM first. The healing cases from myself and my relatives and friends also gave me a lot of confidence. It strengthened my belief that I want to return to traditional Chinese medicine.

I went to work at Deshengmen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and worked in the thyroid department, ophthalmology department, and orthopedics department. This made me truly return to the clinical field of traditional Chinese medicine. 2016 was also the year I obtained the qualification to practice medicine. .

Fate always likes to play tricks on us. One day in May 2017, I received a call from my brother saying that my mother’s breast cancer had recurred and had metastasized to the bones. This news was another bolt from the blue, and my heart dropped to the bottom. Soon, my son was diagnosed with adenoid hypertrophy, and Western medicine recommended surgery. Two pieces of bad news overwhelmed me. However, I couldn't care about much. I returned to my hometown in Hubei and wanted to accompany my mother as much as possible. No matter what method I used, the most important thing was to fight the tumor. The family members all agreed that chemotherapy should be given to the mother, especially the father. Although I was very opposed to chemotherapy at this time, I had to respect my father's choice. So while accompanying my mother during chemotherapy, I used all the means I knew and understood to help her. Moxibustion, acupuncture, nutritional supplements, essential oils... are all used by mothers as supplements.

This process is very painful, because my heart is worried about both my son and my mother. Not only did my mother have various reactions to chemotherapy, but also the pain in her sternum and the swollen lymph nodes in her neck worried me a lot. I read a lot of books on cancer treatment, including traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and Western naturopathy... After three courses of chemotherapy, my mother stopped chemotherapy and adopted conservative treatment.

At present, my mother's health is generally in good condition, although she experienced a period of "deterioration" in the middle. This also makes me understand how important TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment is in different stages of the disease and different physical conditions. I will write about this process of fighting cancer in the future, but I will briefly mention it today.

As of today, I would like to say that I am actually very grateful. Every Chinese medicine leader I have met is a person with an open mind and noble medical ethics. They selflessly share their knowledge with others. I don’t even have any reservations, including my current teacher—Teacher Yang Xiaosheng, the 24th generation descendant of “Leshan Yang”, a family of traditional Chinese medicine and gynecology. Without them, I would not be where I am today, and I would not love Chinese medicine so much. I sincerely hope that all my teachers will be healthy and live a long life! I also hope that I can use what I have learned to bring health to more people!