Flowing water doesn’t rot, a door hinge that is often turned doesn’t get worm-eaten.
What’s the aning?
Flowing water doesn’t get stinky, a door hinge that is turned often doesn’t get worm-eaten, which taphorically ans that things that frequently move are not easily corroded by external forces.
Applied to gout, it refers to people who sit around all day without much movent being more prone to getting gout.
Lu Xuan turned to look at Chen Xinghua: "It can be treated, but the premise for treatnt is that you have to cooperate. If you indulge in eating and drinking without restraint, with a gout-inducing seafood and beer combo every day, no amount of dicine will help."
"This ti I’ll definitely stop eating indiscriminately." Chen Xinghua quickly vowed.
"Last night was pure agony for until now. Before, I’d only heard people say how unbearable gout was, but since it hadn’t happened to , I felt everyone was exaggerating."
"So, how do you feel now after experiencing it yourself?"
"Worse than death."
Chen Xinghua sighed and said, "Dr. Lu, you have no idea how long it took to get here from my rental community, which is at most a ten-minute walk. I ended up taking half an hour, and that was with young guys seeing I was struggling and coming over to help along. Otherwise, I might not have made it in an hour.
It was so painful, I couldn’t even put my foot on the ground, and just a light touch brought a sharp pain that I’d never felt in my entire life."
"Now that you know the pain, be more mindful in the future, especially in terms of your diet."
"I got it."
"However, Dr. Lu, isn’t this disease incurable?"
"Who said it’s incurable?"
"That’s what people who went to big hospitals say; they claim only taking dicine can help, and even then only while you’re on it. If you stop for even a couple of days, the disease acts up again, and that’s even when abstaining from certain foods. If you don’t abstain, dicine alone is totally useless."
Lu Xuan thought for a mont and explained: "Western dicine often treats symptoms rather than the root cause; taking dicine of course has effects, but relapse is normal when you stop. However, that doesn’t an that taking traditional Chinese dicine will definitely cure the root cause. To address the root cause, patients must also cooperate in their daily lives. Without changing your usual dietary habits, even if you carry the doctor around your waist, it won’t help."
"Uh-huh."
Chen Xinghua nodded repeatedly, even though it had only been one night, he was indeed scared by the pain.
"I had actually never heard before that gout was this severe, and since I didn’t have any friends with gout, the only exposure was in the hospital. Since there wasn’t much interaction there, naturally there wasn’t much said. Who would’ve known gout could be so excruciating!"
Hearing this, Lu Xuan didn’t say much. It didn’t sound like a lie, actually. Even now, there are still a lot of people who haven’t heard much about this disease.
But it’s undeniable that the average age of gout patients is getting younger and younger.
When they first discover gout, many people have an attitude similar to Chen Xinghua’s, not thinking much of it.
Even when soone reminds them, they don’t restrain themselves at all, indulging in rich als and beer and lobster.
They think anyway there isn’t really anything wrong with their bodies, and it doesn’t matter if they see a doctor or not, or they order so dicine online themselves, take so diclofenac to ease the pain, take sodium bicarbonate tablets at night to alkalize urine, and drink more water. With all this, they may get better in about a week.
In this way, patients naturally let their guard down.
Forget the pain once the scar heals, until it becos severe, forming tophi, forcing them to undergo surgery.
By this ti, they’ve endured considerable hardship.
Moreover, once it reaches the stage of tophi, even Chinese dicine isn’t sothing that can resolve it in a short period.
At this thought, Lu Xuan looked at the other person and explained, "Your situation is due to excessive obesity and frequent social engagents, overconsumption of alcoholic and aty foods, resulting in tabolic disturbance and internal invasion of damp-heat reaching toxicity, causing unending swelling and pain in the joints of fingers and wrists."
Hearing this, Chen Xinghua didn’t say anything; he knew Lu Xuan was speaking the truth.
But it was Ji Xiuwen who frowned, "I think there’s so record of this in the Inner Canon."
"Of course."
Lu Xuan smiled and said: "I wonder if you rember, in the ’Inner Canon Shengqi Tongtian Lun’ it contains a passage, ’When damp-heat is not expelled, the major sinews beco soft and short, the minor sinews slack and elongated, softness and shortness lead to contraction, slackness and elongation lead to flaccidity.’"
"I vaguely rember."
"Having rely a vague mory is useless. Even if you can’t rember all of it, you at least need to grasp the general idea, understand what’s actually said. Otherwise, you can’t always be looking up the books whenever you encounter a patient, can you?" Lu Xuan retorted.
Ji Xiuwen was terribly frustrated; he didn’t have a photographic mory, so how could he rember it so clearly?
However, he also knew that Lu Xuan’s statent was an undeniable fact.
If these contents aren’t morized, there’s no talking about understanding their anings, let alone treating diseases and saving people.
In traditional Chinese dicine, clinical experience is important, but the foundation is equally crucial. Without a solid foundation, it’s impossible to build a skyscraper.
"Give a year, and I guarantee I’ll morize the Inner Canon inside out." Ji Xiuwen said earnestly, this ti, he was truly planning to go all out.
From now on, gatherings and such have nothing to do with him.
With Lu Xuan guiding him now, he naturally has a huge advantage over others. If he doesn’t put in a bit more effort, this advantage will soon be caught up by others.
Moreover, he was also present during the previous etings.
Once the big building behind the Health Center opens, the Traditional Chinese dicine Departnt will need to hire a lot of people. Who knows if people like Gu Huahua will co here? By then, everyone’s classmates; Lu Xuan can’t just teach him and not the others, can he?
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