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Rheumatology

Many people who do not understand rheumatology at first glance often think that rheumatism is a TCM concept, just diseases such as old cold legs, rheumatic bone pain, etc.

But Wang Ruoxiang knew it wasn't, “rheumatism” was actually a translated word, borrowing the rheumatism of traditional Chinese medicine, and then there was the explanation of traditional Chinese medicine.

“Rheuma” originates from the “Rheuma” of the ancient Greek medical system, meaning “bodily fluids harmful to the body”. In the 4th century BC, the Hippocratic Complete, in an article on human anatomy, considered rheumatism as a disease caused by wet and cold infusion into limbs and viscera and infiltration into joints.

In the seventeenth century, the "father of modern rheumatism", Guillaume Di Bayu, introduced the concept of rheumatism into clinical practice and defined it as a motor system disease.

Today, rheumatism refers generally to a group of diseases that affect bones, joints and their surrounding soft tissues, such as muscles, bursae, tendons, ligaments, fascia, nerves, etc.

The pathogenesis of these rheumatoid diseases, such as diffuse connective tissue disease, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, ankylosing spondylitis, etc., is mostly associated with the autoimmune system. Modern medicine is still limited, and most of the time it can only be treated with analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, so traditional herbs are recommended for combined treatment of rheumatism in all countries.

Among the national medical teams attending today's meeting are some of the best rheumatologists like Professor Lu Qiqing.

It's a meeting about the anomaly, and it's a medical meeting about the disease.

“We did a clinical consultation with some of the patients, especially how they feel," said Dr. Jona-Glasser of FBM, who said seriously that the flag country is currently the worst epidemic, with patients everywhere, whether in New York City, Los Angeles or elsewhere, "and got some answers, like a classic interpretation of rheumatism. ”

In the classics, Dr. Grasser used this adjective to confuse Professor Lu and Wang Ruoxiang.

The conference screen showed images of clinical consultations, beginning with a young patient, 16 years old, named Kevin Grille, the earliest diagnosed patient in Citizen, Los Angeles, with the most severe upper right limb condition and systemic ossification symptoms.

“At first, the patient said that the body was just experiencing a very strange soreness, which turned into severe pain after ossification.” Dr. Grasser says, "We think this is the first stage after the onset, but by the second stage, the patient's current state, he feels that he has an abnormal flow of water in him. ”

Abnormal water flow? The front-line people in the Qing 'an conference room were even more confused. Even Professor Lu Qingqi and multinational medical experts first learned about this situation, and it seems that only the patients of Citi State have progressed to the second stage for the time being.

On the screen, Kevin Grille was in a small, pale, walled ward, which was very poorly arranged, even like a cell, to keep the patient as little contact as possible to clear the pathogen. The young man had a poor complexion and his right hand had become dark with a sense of fear in pain and wandering.

He didn't have any bandages on him. It didn't work. He didn't have surgery. He didn't take any drugs other than painkillers.

“What's with the fluid you're talking about? Can you elaborate?” Dr. Grasser, who went in to see him at the time, asked.

“There's a stream of water... in me...” Kevin Grille replied blankly, "Well, I don't know how to say it... damn it, God... it's definitely not blood in the blood vessels, or water I drink into my stomach... I've been turned into stone all over my body, but it hasn't changed yet. There's a gap between the stone and the stone, and there's something flowing, and I feel like water, and I can even hear it ringing, like the sound of a river, and the water is in a hurry...”

“Can you give us more description of this water, or body fluids, about its color? Shape, smell? These aspects?”

“I don't know... I don't know... I just feel like they're in a hurry, like a flood, and I feel like I'm going to be swept away, so my body is turning into a rock, and only like a rock, like a giant stone in the pyramid, will it not be swept away...”

Wang Ruoxiang listened to these and frowned and noticed what the patient called a "giant stone of the pyramid”.

These patients' feelings are usually either unfounded or often point to the truth of things.

Petrochemical diseases, pyramid boulders, Hoof pyramids, 2.3 million boulders...

Is this ritual about building a giant, “real” pyramid of remains with the human bones of these patients?

At the same time, Grandpa Tong, Xiaoxu, Lu Xianning and others had their own thoughts. They also noticed this stone, but Changqiang noticed something else...

“Flood... Flood!” Chang Qiang shouted low, his face looked even weirder, thinking about what, said to the visiting crowd: “Ancient civilizations have legends about the Great Flood, almost all of which regard the Flood as a catastrophe, a catastrophe of the end of the world. This is because most ancient civilizations originate next to rivers, and their homes are often destroyed once floods occur. Except for one place of civilization, Egyptian mythology has no record of a flood disaster. ”

This is what they call a specialty in the arts, and the doctors are surprised, which is unexpected.

Egyptian civilization is one of mankind's oldest civilizations. Why is there no flood disaster? Because the land is in the desert? No flood? Where's the Nile?

“Ancient Egypt, Gukush, are all Nile civilizations.” Chang Qianhang continues, "Nile civilizations are not afraid of floods, they are afraid of no floods. It is the regular annual flooding of the Nile that brings them water, fertility of land and abundant harvest. If the Nile doesn't flood in any year, they'll starve to death. So the Nile civilization sees flooding as God's gift, which is different from the ancient civilizations of the rest of the world. Floods and suns are the two main sources of life that make up the Nile civilization. ”

Wang Ruoxiang frowned higher and a chill flashed through his heart.

After locust sickness, Grandpa Tong had that expectation of her, expecting her to work out the mist with a clue of what medical assumptions she had come up with.

Now she has a theory, "I wonder if the enemy is creating a 'great flood', where these patients gather into rivers, into great floods. It was the end of the world for us, but for them, it was the coming of God, and they would come out of the pyramids, and welcome their God, and welcome the coming of the new world. ”

For a while, the conference room was quiet and the crowd was not cold.