Physician’s Odyssey

Seeing Su Tao staring at Tony in silence, Joanna frowned and said, "What's the matter?"

Su Tao sighed and asked, "When your grandfather became ill, did you have a similar situation and liked to bite?"

Joanna hesitated for a moment, nodded, and sighed: "This is our family's secret."

Su Tao sighed and said solemnly: "Your family not only has a genetic history of split personality, but also a genetic history of porphyria."

Joanna nodded and said: "You are right. After the inspection in Italy, Tony did have porphyria. He has been taking drugs, but the doctor has nothing to do with his mental condition."

Porphyria is also called vampire disease. Isn't this a realistic version of Earl de Koala?

Joanna did not deliberately conceal from Su Tao, but this involves family secrets.

If people know that their family has vampire disease, it will affect the reputation of the family.

Su Tao has a headache. As a doctor, he is most afraid of encountering two types of diseases. The first is a terminal illness that is generally recognized as no cure, and the second is a genetic disease.Tony's disease belongs to the latter, and there are also two genetic diseases, not only physical, but also psychological, which can be extremely tricky.

This also connects Su Tao with the legend of vampires. When encountering someone with a weird skin tone like Tony, and at the same time becoming crazy like a messenger of hell, normal people will feel fear.

Su Tao explained patiently: "Porphyria, also called hemopuromyia, is a relatively rare clinical disorder of blood system metabolism. It is caused by disorders of porphyrin metabolism in the body and increased production and excretion of porphyrin. Chinese medicine does not have it. The corresponding disease name can be related to'abdominal pain' and'blood accumulation syndrome'. Abdominal pain caused by porphyria sometimes appears suddenly and stops suddenly. The Ming Dynasty "Gujin Medical Jian" has a similar record:'I often feel hot in my abdomen. In addition, the abdominal pain of porphyria is similar to the "blood accumulation syndrome" in traditional Chinese medicine. For example, the Ming Dynasty "Jingyue Quanshu" said: "If there is abdominal pain in the blood accumulation, it is the blood accumulation syndrome."

Although Joanna is good at learning Chinese, Su Tao speaks too professionally and mixes with too many classical Chinese. It is inevitable that she is confused. She shook her head and sighed, "I don't understand."

Su Tao continued: "In short, Tony's disease can still be cured. The key is to find out the cause, which is in Tony's liver."

"What happened to his liver?" Joanna asked in surprise.

"The liver of traditional Chinese medicine and the liver of western medicine cannot be confused." Su Tao knew that Joanna had misunderstood and thought something was wrong with Tony's liver.

The onset of porphyria is closely related to emotions.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver is the general's official, and the sexual activity is the main cause of venting.Emotional depression or impatience and anger can damage the liver, cause liver disorders, unfavorable drainage, and block qi and collaterals.Due to the blockage of the air, the abdominal air will be blocked, and it will be painful, so abdominal pain occurs.

In addition, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, all mental illnesses are liver-qi stagnation, and Tony suffers from a split personality, which is also caused by liver-qi stagnation.

Su Tao carefully observed Tony's condition again. His complexion was sallow, the fur was thin and greasy, the texture was dark red, the pulse was stringy, and the waist and legs were sore and weak. Therefore, he was diagnosed with liver and kidney deficiency, stagnation of Qi, and abnormal movements.

Su Tao helped Tony on the bed at the back of the private room, then untied Tony's clothes and started to help Tony with acupuncture with a silver needle.After a while, Tony's body was filled with silver needles, and he looked like a hedgehog.

Su Tao uses two sets of acupuncture methods. One is the Xuyang Acupuncture Technique, which focuses on acupuncture for Tony’s Foot Jueyin and Liver Meridian, and the other is the 13 Guimen needles, which focuses on the "13 ghost points" and performs Chinese acupuncture. .

The Xuyang acupuncture technique is to treat Tony's porphyria, which is mainly to clear the liver meridian and expel the stagnant liver qi.

The thirteen ghost blood is the thirteen empirical acupuncture points for the treatment of mental illness in ancient times. It is derived from "The Essential Prescriptions for Qian Jin". It is suitable for all mental illnesses, such as hysteria, schizophrenia, and mania. Uneasy waiting for evidence, there are many versions of ghost caves, and now Sun Simiao’s thirteen ghost caves are mostly used.

The ancients believed that ghosts and monsters were stored in the human body and refused to leave, causing a series of abnormal behaviors, which are actually related to the meridian acupoints of the human body. Using these 13 empiric acupoints can help relieve the symptoms of mental illness. Based on the knowledge that the predecessors kept practicing and summarizing.

Joanna is a layman, but she can't help but sigh the mystery and shock of acupuncture after witnessing Su Tao's needle flying like a flying needle.

Judging from a foreigner who has never been in contact with acupuncture, wouldn't it be painful for so many fine needles to penetrate the human body?

However, Joanna did not obstruct Su Tao's treatment, and observed everything silently, because she trusted Su Tao's medical skills.

Finally Su Tao pulled out all the silver needles from Tony, and Tony slowly opened his eyes, looking at Su Tao and Joanna with a confused expression.Immediately, he recognized Su Tao and asked vigilantly: "Why am I here? Joanna, you tell me why, this guy appeared in front of me."

Joanna found that Tony's situation had changed a lot. Tony was always half-awake before, but now his eyes are clear and his speech is extremely smooth, without the kind of ignorant madness.

Joanna was a little agitated, her eyes flushed, and she choked up: "You are sick, so I'll take you for treatment."

"Let him treat the disease?" Tony patted the head. Although Su Tao gave him acupuncture, his schizophrenia and porphyria have alleviated a lot, but he just hit the head, and it is inevitable that he will have sequelae "Is he so kind?"

Tony used these two sentences deliberately in Chinese.

Tony is still worrying about the Seven Mountains Incident. Su Tao and Anderson joined forces to create anti-drug drugs, which caused him not only to fail miserably, but also to be arrested and imprisoned.

Su Tao glanced at Tony calmly, and said lightly: "If Joanna hadn't asked me for help, I would never treat you. In addition, your condition is only slightly relieved. If it is not consolidated, you will continue to relapse. ."

Tony said solemnly: "Do you want me to thank you? Stop dreaming, we will always be enemies. I will definitely avenge you."

After seeing Tony awake, Joanna was so repulsive to Su Tao that she didn't get angry, she raised her hand high and slapped her brother's face fiercely.

Tony was stunned by Joanna's actions. "You hit me?"

Joanna frowned and said coldly: "I want to wake you up. You are so stubborn and hopeless. Have you forgotten what you did during this time?"

Tony had a split personality. He always thought that everything he had done before was done by another person. Now Su Tao has awakened his other personality, so he forgot what he had done before.

Tony frowned and said, "What did I do?"

Joanna took out her phone, handed it to Tony, and said angrily: "Look at it yourself!"

Tony saw himself on the screen, like a mad dog, smashing things everywhere, and anyone close to him, whether close or close, would be beaten and bitten mercilessly by him.

"It's definitely not me." Tony looked at Joanna in horror.

Joanna sighed, grabbed the phone from Tony, and picked out a picture of their mother Monica.Monica has a blue nose and swollen face, bandaged, eyes closed, where there is still the delicate appearance of a Roman lady.

But Monica is the real mother of the two, and her appearance has changed a lot. Because of the blood relationship, she will never have the slightest disgust.

Joanna said with tears in her eyes: "Do you know who the murderer is? You hurt her like this."

Tony hugged his head, shook his head vigorously, and said: "Impossible, I would never do that. How could I hurt Monica."

Su Tao sighed, pressed Joanna’s shoulders, and said solemnly: "You should not continue to stimulate him, otherwise, he will reject his current personality, and then another hidden personality will appear again. Now this personality, Although stubborn, I don't know good or bad, but at least it is more acceptable than that violent and crazy personality."

Joanna wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and pleaded: "Please heal him, no matter what the cost, I can promise you."

Su Tao said sternly: "I am a doctor. It is my job to treat illnesses and save people. It is not that I am unwilling to treat him, but that his condition requires treatment for a period of time, not overnight. Of course, he needs to be willing to cooperate with the treatment. From his current state, it is obvious that he will not cooperate."

Joanna squatted down and whispered in Italian: "Tony, don't be nervous, Monica knows that you are sick, she will never blame you. As long as you can completely heal, Monica will definitely be very happy. For her, you obediently cooperate with genius Doctor Su to receive treatment, okay?"

Tony's mood slowly stabilized. He looked up at Joanna and found that his sister's eyes were clear and sincere.The ice in Tony's heart melted instantly. He nodded weakly and said in a deep voice, "Okay, I am willing to receive rehabilitation."

A color of surprise flashed in Joanna's eyes, and she said in Chinese: "He agreed."

"I will prescribe a prescription for you. No surprises, there will be a significant improvement in one month. Continue to take it for half a year, and the symptoms will be completely relieved. Then I will give you another prescription to strengthen the foundation, as long as it does not happen In a big accident, your condition will never relapse." Su Tao said patiently.

The reason why Su Tao did not rush to talk about his next treatment plan is that he has taken into consideration. Now Tony and himself are the relationship between the patient and the doctor, so he must resolve the knots and contradictions between the two, otherwise even if his medication is accurate , Tony has doubts in his mind that the therapeutic effect will definitely be compromised.

Su Tao sat on a chair and quickly wrote a prescription: 15 grams of raw rehmannia, 20 grams of raw white peony, 15 grams of ganqizi, 15 grams of Ligustrum, 20 grams of Shouwu, 15 grams of Dendrobium, Gansong 10 grams, 20 grams of turmeric, 10 grams of angelica, 30 grams of whole melon, 8 grams of fried citrus fruit, 15 grams of Xu Changqing, 8 grams of orange peel, 8 grams of licorice...

This prescription is modified on the basis of the "Doctor's Scriptures" for the treatment of blood accumulation. Generally, the classic prescriptions do not need to be changed, but Su Tao is now very successful in his medical skills, and he has changed the level of the prescriptions, adjusted or added or deleted one or two flavors. Herbal medicine can have a better effect.

After Joanna took the prescription, Su Tao carefully warned: "Take the prescription to Sanweitang, and someone will dispense it for you. You need to stay in China for a period of time. You will return to the clinic after two weeks. Change the prescription as appropriate and continue to observe. , Wait for a complete recovery before returning to China."