Chapter 2277 Treatment and Prevention
To teach these village doctors medical skills, they can only choose Chinese medicine. Western medicine requires a lot of examination equipment and complicated treatment methods. The training of any western medicine doctor needs a long time and the support of a modern industrial system, otherwise they will not be able to obtain medical treatment. equipment and various medicines.
Traditional Chinese medicine is relatively simple, and the patient's condition can be basically understood through the four methods of looking, asking, and asking. These half-agricultural, half-medical village doctors either go to the mountains to collect medicines, or grow some common necessary medicines by themselves. The mountains provided them with abundant medical raw materials, so that they could use nearby materials to treat patients.
This kind of treatment may not be as efficient and accurate as western medicine, but it is still the same sentence, everything can be practical, and the problem of having and not having to be solved before being qualified to pursue the problem of good and bad; Western medicine cannot completely replace traditional Chinese medicine in the first century, let alone now?
Shen Long changed his teaching habits at the Beijing Medical College. Instead of using standard written language, he adopted a more colloquial expression that was easier for these villagers to accept. It is found that the common people in Ding County are most likely to suffer from the following diseases: colds, diarrhea, skin diseases, smallpox, trauma caused by falling on mountain roads, etc. Now we will tell you one by one how to treat these common diseases .”
Some of these diseases can be prevented. A healthy medical and health system should not only focus on treatment, but prevention is more important. In the words of Lan Ansheng, a teacher of Chen Zhiqian and a professor of public health at Peking Union Medical College, it is: an ounce of prevention is better than With one pound of treatment, some diseases in Dingxian County are caused by bad hygiene habits, which can be avoided.
"... Everyone remembers these prescriptions for colds. They all use medicinal materials found in the mountains, and the price is not expensive, and ordinary people can afford them. Next, I will talk about the problem of diarrhea. The main reason is drinking unclean water, everyone should boil water as much as possible in the future.” Shen Long talked about prevention.
Drinking boiled water sounds very simple, but it is very difficult now, because the firewood for boiling water also costs money, and the poor people are reluctant to waste firewood on it, so Shen Long took out the plan that he had prepared a long time ago, and put it on the blackboard A picture of a firewood-saving stove was drawn on the board, and these students were going to build a firewood-saving stove first, and then help the surrounding villagers renovate their own stoves.
Then there is the issue of water sources. Most of the villagers use water from rivers, wells, and streams. Rivers and streams are easily polluted. As for wells, although they are better, the location of the wells in some villages is unreasonable. It is very easy to cause well water pollution.
When Shen Long was going to come next time, he went to Jingshi University to find a few geology students to come to Ding County to help these villages dig new wells.
"The main cause of skin diseases is the problem of living hygiene..." The villagers here hardly take a bath, which is also related to the cost. Taking a cold bath can easily cause a cold.
Once you catch a cold, you have to spend money to see a doctor or even risk your life. If you take a hot bath, you have to pay a lot of firewood, which farmers are reluctant to bear.
In addition, the structure of the houses is unscientific. Many people live with livestock and do not build separate pig pens, cattle pens, and chicken coops. First, it costs money to do so. Second, pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens are in rural areas. But hard currency, the common people are worried about leaving it outside the house, what should they do if it is stolen? Even if only one egg was touched, that would be an unbearable loss.
"Smallpox can be cured by vaccinia. As long as you have vaccinia, you will never get smallpox again in this life!" The emergence of vaccinia vaccine and antibiotics can be said to be a milestone. After that, Chinese medicine has already lost to Western medicine.
Because at this time, Western medicine has formed a four-level complete system of basic pathological research, combination of research results and applications, teaching materials and training content, and finally front-end clinical practice. Traditional Chinese medicine is a group of clinical experts. They may have superb medical skills and can treat various diseases. Diseases that cannot be cured by Western medicine at present, but without a complete system, their growth space is very limited.
Chinese medicine is currently only in the fourth level, and the third level has to wait for the help of the government after the founding of the People’s Republic of China to be established. As for more advanced basic pathological research, the combination of research results and applications cannot be done by the Chinese medicine community itself, because it requires professional knowledge. Experts who have received complete training in science thinking come to do it, and the thinking of Chinese medicine practitioners is closer to liberal arts thinking, and they are not willing to accept the guidance of science experts.
Occasionally, the appearance of a few genius doctors can't change the dilemma of Chinese medicine, even if there are a few protagonists of Chinese medicine from the starting point, so what? How many patients can they treat even if they don't rest around the clock? And how many people can be treated by the research and development of artemisinin? The two are obviously not on the same level. Although artemisinin is inspired by ancient Chinese medicine, the research and development process is based on the thinking of Western medicine.
Therefore, even if Shen Long came to Ding County to train village doctors, he could not do without the support of the Western medical system. It is too difficult to treat smallpox with traditional Chinese medicine, but the vaccinia vaccine can make this disease disappear from Ding County; of course, The most important thing is that after these years of development, the vaccinia vaccine has become relatively cheap, otherwise it is useless, and the local people cannot afford it.
As soon as they heard that smallpox could be prevented, not only these village doctors, but even the common people who came to watch the fun were all overwhelmed. They asked Shen Long to help them solve this problem. Today, smallpox is still flooding in Ding County, and every year Ding County dies. A large part of the population is due to smallpox.
Shen Long agreed, and began to arrange the sequence of vaccinations according to the investigation done in the early stage. First, the villages where smallpox had occurred recently were vaccinated, and then the nearby villages were vaccinated. During the vaccination process, Shen Long's students were first Do it yourself, let the village doctor stand by and watch, and let them do it after they get familiar with it. Soon, the village doctors have mastered this technique.
In the future, people from other villages can be vaccinated and let them go. Shen Long only needs to send someone to supervise and provide vaccinia vaccine.
Since then, no one in the village where cowpox was planted has had smallpox again. This has given Shen Long and the others a great reputation in Ding County, and the next work will be much smoother. Like the little daughter-in-law, she listened carefully to the lectures of the female students!