diabetes?

Lu Jiu took a closer look at the woman.

It doesn't look like it.

That's right, it doesn't look very accurate after applying makeup.

"It will take a diagnosis to know whether it can be cured. There is no time today. You can see it tomorrow." Lu Jiudao.

Bai Xiuhong shook her head, "It's not me, it's my dad."

Lu Jiu asked, "How old are you?"

Bai Xiuhong said, "Seventy-four."

Lu Jiu asked, "When did you get diagnosed with diabetes?"

Bai Xiuhong said, "It has been twenty years since I took medicine to control it."

Twenty years?

When Lu Jiu heard this number, he knew that the situation was not very good.

After 20 years of medical treatment, Lu Jiu didn't need to read it, so he knew that the old man had definitely had problems with his liver and kidney function.

Why?

The most widely used drug for treating diabetes is metformin. This drug can reduce the synthesis of glucose in the liver and the absorption of intestinal glucose, and at the same time it will also decompose sugar in the body, helping diabetic patients make full use of endogenous insulin and reduce hyperglycemia on fasting and after-meal.

It seems that there is nothing wrong, right? However, reducing the synthesis of liver glucose and intestinal glucose absorption means that you are hindering the normal activity of liver function.

This is actually a rough intervention behavior. If there is too much sugar, I will reduce the synthesis of sugar for you. However, the foods consumed by the body will not disappear because there is no synthetic sugar. If this natural physiological function is interrupted, it means that the liver will be relieved, the spleen's transportation, the large intestine transmission, etc. will all have problems.

Why do diabetics experience indigestion or constipation sometimes?

It is because of problems with these functions.

But is this caused by diabetes?

No, it is caused by the medicine for treating diabetes.

The most typical complication of diabetes is diabetic foot. Doctors will tell you that diabetic foot is caused by various causes such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic vascular disease, infection, and trauma.

Actually it is caused by medicine.

Because it prevents sugar synthesis and decomposes sugar in the body, these things will remain in the body and cannot be excreted because they are removed from the normal physical function cycle and naturally they cannot be metabolized through normal circulation.

So if you can't get out, where will these things go?

The answer lies on your feet.

From the perspective of Yin and Yang theory, this part of the things that cannot be released are Yin solid, and it will definitely deposit under the body, because the food eaten by the human body will be transformed into qi in the small intestine and divide the clear and turbid substances. The turbid substances are excreted through the large intestine, and the clear qi rises through the liver and spleen. Therefore, only qi rises in the body, while solid things must sink, which is consistent with the laws of nature.

When these things accumulate too much on the feet, they will naturally become diabetic foot.

Many diabetic patients who have been taking medicine for many years have thorned their fingers when they self-test their blood sugar, but if you thorn your toes to measure blood sugar, you will understand where the sugar goes.

But don't try it easily, otherwise you will be unable to take your mouth after getting injured and you will be troublesome.

At present, this disease is also helpless, because in the current medical field, the recognized treatment method for diabetes is basically controlled by drugs, and you must take medicine for life. Therefore, even if most people know that the complications of diabetes are caused by drugs, there is no way. You have to take it.

I don’t know the causes of these diseases and may feel better, at least I don’t have any psychological burden when taking medicine.

The reason why Lu Jiu felt something was a little bad is that he had a twenty-year history of taking medicine. Not to mention the complications of diabetes, it is difficult to adjust the impact of drugs on the liver and kidneys alone. Once treatment starts, Lu Jiu must have to stop the medication. So can his Chinese medicine suppress the withdrawal reaction of stopping the medication?

Lu Jiu himself didn't know this question.

He only used Baihu Jia Renren Decoction to treat some patients who had just had diabetes for one or two years. These patients took the medicine for a short time and did not have much withdrawal reaction. They basically belong to the upper elimination of diabetes, which is lung heat and fluid injury. This is the simplest. It can easily be used to promote fluid and quench thirst. One dose of Baihu Renren Decoction can have a good effect.

If it is a middle-aged elimination, then it will either be caused by excessive stomach heat or deficiency of qi and yin. It will be a little troublesome at this point, because not only does it need to promote fluid and quench thirst, but it also needs to clear stomach fire, nourish yin, nourish qi and strengthen the spleen, etc.

Once it is a sagittal disease, it may be a deficiency of kidney yin or deficiency of yin and yang. At this time, it will be equivalent to damaging the liver and kidneys, which is very difficult to regulate. If you add a decades of medication history, Lu Jiu will have to consider whether to accept it or not.

Once such a patient is taken, it is still a trivial matter if he cannot be cured. Once something goes wrong, Lu Jiu will not be able to bear this responsibility.

When I was at Jinling Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Lu Jiu saw many Chinese medicine doctors at the director level who encountered diabetes. When asked how old the other person was and how many years the medicine had been taken, as long as they had been seventy or decades of taking medicine, they basically asked the other person to continue taking medicine and control it, so don’t ask the Chinese medicine doctor to see it.

Why?

I am over 70 years old and I can continue to control the medicine I have taken for decades. There are no complications and not to the point of rescue. So why do I find a Chinese medicine doctor?

As for the little torture in life, I have endured it for decades and can pass it as long as I can. If I encounter a Chinese medicine doctor with a low level, the situation may be worse.

"My suggestion is to continue taking medicine to control it. If you have traditional Chinese medicine, don't look for it, it's useless." Lu Jiu pondered for a moment and gave his own answer.

Although it is a bit embarrassing to take the initiative to admit that he is not capable in front of so many patients, Lu Jiu has always told the truth in this regard. If he is well treated, he will be well treated. If he is not well treated, he will not be well treated. He will never make false guarantees.

There are countless patients who have come to see him for treatment these days, and some people have taken the medicine he prescribed but failed. Lu Jiu also made it clear that the three doses of medicine were ineffective, so he asked the other party to ask Gao Ming for another job and would never make a penny.

Therefore, Lu Jiu had almost no medical disputes. Some patients even had bad attitude towards Lu Jiu, and others helped Lu Jiu to speak.

Sometimes it is like this. Everyone’s heart is like a mirror. Whether it is good or not, it depends on what you have done.

"Is there really no hope at all?" Bai Xiuhong said expectantly.

Lu Jiu shook his head, "If you can reach this age, there is no complication, it proves that you are well controlled. As long as this disease does not have much impact on life, such as not being able to eat or sleep well, then keep the status quo unchanged."

"The old man is not as good as the young man. He recovers slowly. In addition, taking medicine for too long, if the medicine is changed suddenly, it will have a significant impact on the old man's body. The risk here is very high. With my level, I can't do anything for the time being."

Bai Xiuhong hurriedly said, "It's not that there are no complications, it's already there. Diabetic foot, the doctor recommends that you have amputation surgery as soon as possible, otherwise... or you will have to keep your feet and you won't be able to save them..."

At the end of the day, Bai Xiuhong's words were filled with a hint of crying.

Lu Jiu frowned, "Has the infection spread?"

Bai Xiuhong nodded.

Generally speaking, if the diabetic foot is screened for very carefully, it will not easily reach the level of amputation.

Either the blood vessel dilation, pain, anti-infection treatment, or the lower limb arterial cavity intervention or vascular bypass surgery, the worst result is amputation.

Some have toes, while others have more infections.

At this point, it can be said that the situation is already very bad.

"In this way, I will teach you a way. You can go back and try it. If possible, maybe there is no need to amputate. If the effect is not ideal, then what the hospital says, you should do it." Lu Jiu said.

Bai Xiuhong said, "What method?"

"Go and buy a few kilograms of sugar, then put a basin of water, pour half a kilogram of sugar down each time, and soak your father's feet. If there is pus and blood sucked out, come to me and I will give you some Chinese medicine to help your father close the mouth. As long as the wound is stopped and the muscles and skin grows back, the feet should not be amputated. State it in advance, don't expect me to cure your father's diabetes. At most, I can only try to see if I can protect your father's feet. Do you understand?" Lu Jiu said.

Bai Xiuhong nodded repeatedly, "I understand, I'll buy it now."

"Remember, it must be pure sucrose. Forget it. If you ask you to buy it, you may buy fake ones. I'll give you some of the inventory here." Lu Jiu thought about it, but was still worried that Bai Xiuhong would buy it. If she couldn't tell what refined sugar was and what sucrose was, once she used refined sugar to soak her father's feet, it would not have any effect at all.

Lu Jiu actually didn't buy much. He walked to the medicine cabinet and raised the bag containing sugar to weigh it. Seeing that there was about one kilogram, he took it out and handed it to Bai Xiuhong, "Here, it's more than one kilogram here. Take it back and soak your father's feet, half a kilogram at a time, soak twice a day. Remember, if you don't suck out the pus and blood for the first time, don't soak it."

Bai Xiuhong carefully wrote down, "Doctor Lu, how much does it cost?"

Lu Jiudao, "Fourteen."

Bai Xiuhong paid immediately, and then left Lu's clinic with a bag.

Looking at Bai Xiuhong's back, Lu Jiu couldn't help but sigh.

There are tens of millions of diabetic patients nationwide, but unfortunately, there are very few doctors who can cure them.

...

Back at the hospital, Bai Xiuhong hurried to the 12th floor of the inpatient department.

After arriving at Ward No. 1205, Bai Xiuhong saw her father lying on his side and frowned, and immediately took a basin from the bathroom.

Since she had this diabetic foot, her father had never been out of the hospital. She had performed several debridement surgery, but the wound on her feet still could not heal. The ulceration area of ​​the wound turned yellow, and thick water came out every day, which looked very nauseous.

Bai Xiuhong knew that her father suffered unimaginable pain every day, and even after taking painkillers, it was difficult to fall asleep. He could only take a short snatch when the pain was really unbearable. Even so, the eyebrows on his forehead had never been relaxed.

She had never thought about finding a Chinese medicine doctor before. If she hadn't been bored, she wouldn't have run to Lu Jiu's clinic to find him if she hadn't seen him.

"Dad, come and soak your feet." After putting half a pound of sugar in the water for a while, Bai Xiuhong woke up his father.

"What feet are soaking?" Shirakawa looked at the red water in the basin, not sure.

"The doctor suggested, you give it a try." Bai Xiuhong said.

"Didn't you say you can't get water?" Shirakawa is old and has a good memory. He remembered that the doctor told him that the wound on his feet must not get water, otherwise it will be very easy to get infected.

"This is what the Chinese medicine doctor said. Try it. If possible, your foot will be saved." Bai Xiuhong is now in a state of emergency.

"Really?" Shirakawa himself was unwilling to amputate his limbs, but the wound on his feet that had never healed made him see almost no hope.

"Try it, come." Bai Xiuhong pushed the basin closer.

Shirakawa didn't think much about it. Since his daughter said so, he had to try anything he said. The next moment, Shirakawa slowly put his feet into the basin. When the wound on his feet touched the water, a stinging pain suddenly came. Shirakawa took a breath of cold air and immediately pulled his feet back.

pain!

It hurts so much!

"Dad..." Bai Xiuhong looked at Bai Chuan nervously.

"It's okay..." Shirakawa gritted his teeth, made his mental preset, and put his feet in the washbasin again. This time, the same pain came from his feet, but he did not retract his feet, but stepped in hard.

Shirakawa's legs were still trembling, and he held the bed sheet tightly with both hands, his face full of ferociousness.
To be continued...