Regarding hand, foot and mouth disease, doctors in later generations have not reached a definitive conclusion. If it is not serious, it can heal itself. Once it is serious, there is no particularly effective treatment method, so Fang Yun does not want to say more.
Fang Yun briefly mentioned hand, foot and mouth disease and saw several people in succession.
Although Fang Yun lacked experience in medicine, he had read a lot of medical books, so he was very quick and thorough in diagnosing patients.
The medical science of Shengyuan Continent was just at the beginning of a great development. Many sophisticated medical sciences of later generations had not yet appeared, and the classification of diseases was not perfect. Fang Yun also discovered this shortcoming.
If he were in the outside world, he would not dare to throw out the medical achievements of later generations, but he would have fewer concerns in learning Chinese medicine in Huzhong.
The following symptoms were relatively simple, and Fang Yun pointed them out one by one. Not long after, Fang Yun was about to look at the eleventh person, the fourth person of the master's will, and said, "Wait! I don't understand something about the 'hand, foot and mouth disease' you mentioned."
Fang Yun secretly thought that it was not good. He did not expect that he had underestimated these people.
"What advice do you have, sir?" Fang Yun asked.
“What is the pathogenesis of this syndrome?”
Fang Yun thought to himself that this was really making trouble, no wonder this was such a hot topic!
"This disease is difficult to cure regardless of Chinese or Western medicine. There is still no unified cause, and it is composed of dozens of 'pathogens'. Why should I bring it up!" Fang Yun felt helpless. He was probably just a scholar in medical practice. He didn't want to say much, so he could only mention the name of hand, foot and mouth disease. In the end, he was still asked about the pathogenesis.
Pathogenesis is a broad concept, including all mechanisms of the cause, development, change and end of the disease. There are many classifications, including pathogenesis classified according to the location of the symptom, pathogenesis classified according to the cause, and pathogenesis classified according to the disease type, syndrome and symptom. There are really too many classifications.
The key point is that even in later generations, the pathogenesis of hand, foot and mouth disease has not been unified.
Fang Yun thought to himself. This disease is a typical infectious disease, mostly occurring in children under six years old. The mortality rate is not high, but the complications it causes are very terrible.
Fang Yun summarized what he had learned and decided to use the Doctrine of the Mean to prove his point. He finally said, "The cause of this disease is both external and internal. It is caused by the evil and epidemic qi that enters through the mouth, nose and skin, and combines with the damp heat accumulated in the body, traveling along the meridians and steaming up the mouth and tongue. It injures the spleen and stomach internally and the four extremities externally. The heat and toxicity accumulate and form rashes, and the dampness gathers and forms blisters, so we see sores and ulcers in the mouth and tongue and herpes on the palms and soles of the feet."
"Oh? Mouth, nose and skin? This disease clearly enters from the hair pores and goes up from the foot meridians, how can it go from top to bottom?"
When Fang Yun heard this, he was completely helpless, as this involved the evolution of the typhoid fever school and febrile diseases.
The Cold Damage School is the source of the Warm Disease School. Even though later generations have said that "The Cold Damage Treatise has not yet completed the methods, but the names are already complete", that is to say, Zhang Zhongjing, the founder of the Cold Damage School, has realized the differences between warm diseases, but did not subdivide them.
The Cold Disease School believed that the Warm Disease School was a subdivision of Cold Disease and could not be placed on the same level as Cold Disease.
But in the later period, the Warm Disease School flourished, and many diseases that were originally classified as typhoid fever were attributed to the Warm Disease School, making the Warm Disease School and the Typhoid Fever School parallel and become the mainstream of the medical school.
Even those who were from the Cold Damage School, which respected the classic prescriptions, were powerless to change the situation. They could oppose the Warm Disease School, but they could not deny the status of the Warm Disease School.
However, in the Shengyuan Continent, the typhoid fever school is still respected, and the warm disease school only exists in its infancy. The treatment methods of many warm diseases still follow the typhoid fever method.
For example, hand, foot and mouth disease and smallpox-like diseases, in the identification of the typhoid fever school, are still at the stage of "if you are injured by cold in winter, you will definitely get a fever in spring". They believe that the cause of this disease comes from typhoid fever, rather than the wind-heat evil that was identified in later generations.
When Fang Yun wrote "On Plague", he had actually explained the concept of warm disease, but he did not go into details. After all, he was mainly targeting the plague of the Lord of Plague, and he was not going to let the entire warm disease school directly enter the stage of history at this time. Besides, he did not have that ability now.
The Warm Disease School is a symbol of the great development of medicine and has saved countless lives. Fang Yun knows that he must spread it in the Shengyuan Continent. Its impact on the human race is no less than that of the war poems handed down from generation to generation. War poems are about killing enemies, and medicine is about saving lives, and both can enhance the strength of the human race.
But, now is not the right time. Fang Yun must wait until he becomes the county magistrate and then find an opportunity to put it into practice.
But since he was asked by the master, and this was not the outside world, Fang Yun gritted his teeth and recited the theories of the famous masters of the Warm Disease School like a machine gun.
"In addition to typhoid fever, there should be another type of febrile disease! Typhoid fever is caused by the invasion of wind-cold pathogens, while febrile diseases are caused by the invasion of wind-heat pathogens. Wind is the root of all diseases and has no fixed form..."
“Fever enters through the nose and mouth. Nose air flows to the lungs, and mouth air flows to the stomach. If lung disease is reversed, it will be the pericardium… Typhoid fever often has variable symptoms. Although fever and heat last for a long time, they will not change…”
“At the onset of typhoid fever, although there is fever and chills, the fever is usually mild and the chills are severe… At the onset of febrile disease, the fever is usually severe and the chills are mild…”
Fang Yun did not speak nonsense while talking endlessly. Instead, he first defined and differentiated febrile diseases, and argued from the differences in etiology, transmission pathways, symptoms, dialectics, treatment methods, and so on.
Every time Fang Yun said something that didn't exist in Shengyuan Continent, he felt the world in the pot shake slightly. However, he didn't care about that and still fought to save his life!
Especially after Fang Yun proposed the "Wei Qi Ying Xue Dialectics" of the medical giant Ye Tianshi and the "San Jiao Dialectics" of Wu Jutong, the fog suddenly became thicker, and ghosts appeared in the fog, as if countless famous doctors' wills were lurking in it.
Fang Yun was not aware of this. If the doctors saw this scene, they would surely be ecstatic.
This is the scene of "consultation of ten thousand doctors". It not only cures diseases, but also diagnoses the direction of medicine. It only appeared when Zhang Zhongjing established "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and Hua Tuo established the method of surgery.
After explaining the important theories of the Warm Disease School, Fang Yunyi bowed and said, "I wrote "On Plague" for the Lord of Fighting Plague. I did it in a hurry and only finished half a volume. The theory of warm disease is as vast as the starry sky and as complicated as the lines on the palm of your hand. I can't explain it in detail one by one. If I can return to Shengyuan Continent safely, I will explain it one by one, strengthen the medical way of our human race, drive out the monsters and savages, and glorify the medical world!"
Fang Yun noticed that the wills of these masters were obviously sluggish. After all, his words sounded shameless, and the subtext seemed to be saying that the Chinese medicine practitioner had been learning Hu Zi for too long, so he should finish it quickly and give some good comments and a few more "wonderful" words, otherwise don't blame him if he died in the hunting ground.
The third person from the left was silent for a while, then said, "Great!"
The fourth person said: "The method used in this book on plague to treat the plague is even more ingenious than that of the Medical Saint. Wonderful!"
The fifth person from the left immediately asked, "How is hand, foot and mouth disease treated?"
Fang Yun was overjoyed when he heard this. This fifth person was obviously letting him off the hook. He immediately said, "This disease has a thin white tongue coating and a floating pulse. It should be treated with cooling to relieve the symptoms and dissipate wind-heat..."
Fang Yunlian talked about several treatment methods.
"Great!" the fifth person praised.
Fang Yun secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The Five Wonderful Reviews far exceeded the original expectations. This plague theory would gain additional power and would be more confident in dealing with the Lord of Plague.
"This book is only half a volume, so we can only review half of it. When you finish the book, you can join the Medical Association again."
"Thank you, gentlemen!" Fang Yun bowed to express his gratitude. (To be continued...)