I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 484 - 204: There Are 4 Different Types of Colorectal Cancer?

"Xiaoxuan, I don’t know much about traditional Chinese medicine, or almost none at all. But do you remember the contents of these two books you mentioned, ’Blood Disease Theory’ and ’Great Achievement in Surgery’?"

Lin Yongzhen took a breath. The content in ancient Chinese medical books is not in vernacular Chinese, and regardless of reading or memorizing, it is not as convenient and easy as in vernacular.

For the same content of five hundred words, if it were in vernacular, a typical person might memorize it thoroughly within half an hour. But if it is in classical Chinese, half an hour is completely insufficient.

In fact, not just half an hour, even an hour might not be enough to clearly memorize it, let alone recite it fluently.

Moreover, the content in classical Chinese is generally more convoluted, increasing the difficulty of understanding.

As a medical student, there is so much to memorize.

Lin Yongzhen knew the difficulty well.

But Lu Xuan could clearly recount the relevant contents from each medical book, which would be utterly impossible without an exceptional memory.

"It’s not just these two books. He can recite other books backwards just as well." Before Lu Xuan could respond, Ji Xiuwen said with a laugh.

"And these two books, I have rarely heard him mention. When it comes to books like ’Cold Pathogenic Disease,’ he understands them even more thoroughly. Otherwise, he couldn’t have achieved what he has in just two short months."

"Hiss..."

Lin Yongzhen couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

Extraordinary understanding ability, combined with a photographic memory and super talent in traditional Chinese medicine. Any one of these gifts would make a person’s path much smoother, let alone all three combined in one person.

Lin Yongzhen suddenly somewhat understood why Lu Xuan could become a renowned doctor in just two months.

It is just that people don’t know Lu Xuan could hear the ’Heart’s Voice’ of traditional Chinese medicine. Otherwise, they might say he is living a charmed life.

"So, can Grandpa’s condition be treated with traditional Chinese medicine?"

"Can it be cured?"

Lu Guoquan restrained the surprise on his face, with a serious expression, asked. Knowing his son has a photographic memory didn’t impress him much. What he cared about was whether the old man’s condition could be treated or even cured through traditional Chinese medicine.

"Uncle Lu, rest assured, this guy probably already has it figured out."

Seeing Lu Xuan looking relaxed, Ji Xiuwen knew this guy probably had full confidence.

Moreover, considering Uncle Lu’s condition is not severe, he thinks that with Lu Xuan’s ability, not to mention cure, allowing the old man to live like a normal person shouldn’t be a big problem.

"Xiaoxuan..."

Upon hearing this, Lu Guoquan looked at Lu Xuan again.

Feeling helpless, Lu Xuan glanced at Ji Xiuwen, and then thought for a moment, saying, "The ancient medical practitioners had quite a profound understanding of the causes and mechanisms of intestinal cancer. They believed it is due to various factors affecting the normal transmission function of the intestines. Damp heat, stasis toxin accumulates in the intestines, causing obstruction and eventually forming masses over time.

For instance, in the ’Complete Book of Sores and Ulcers Experience’ by Dou Hanqing in the Song Dynasty, it mentions: ’There are many who do not regulate their diet, indulge in rich and greasy foods... indulge in alcohol... or sit on damp ground for long periods... not having a bowel movement for a long time, leading to obstruction and causing hemorrhoids.

Other medical masters also emphasize damp heat as a cause when treating intestinal cancer.

Due to irregular diet, indulgence in fat-rich, pungent foods, alcohol, etc., which are hot and dry, hurting the spleen and stomach. When the spleen loses its healthy function, transportation and transformation are disrupted, internal damp-heat is generated, toxic heat accumulates, flows into the large intestine, injures the intestinal meridians, and forms cancer toxins due to stagnant masses.

From an internal perspective, it is due to internal damage from seven emotions, worries, and depression, causing liver dysfunction in regulating the qi mechanism, leading to qi stagnation. Qi is the commander of blood, when qi stagnates, blood stasis occurs. Over time, it accumulates to form masses.

Long-term tumors and prolonged illnesses damage the healthy qi, the spleen and stomach become insufficient, qi and blood cannot be generated, organs are not nourished, the spleen becomes deficient, which affects the kidney, leading to chronic diarrhea and imbalance in the body.

’This is the cause of intestinal cancer in traditional Chinese medicine?’ Lin Yongzhen vaguely understood a bit. What Lu Xuan said was basically explaining why the body contracts intestinal cancer.

Lu Xuan nodded.

"This..."

Lin Yongzhen pondered for a moment and said, "I didn’t expect there were records of intestinal cancer so early in Chinese medicine, and the causes were so explicitly clear, compared to which, Western medicine has fewer records in this aspect, and even to this day doesn’t fully understand why the body develops intestinal cancer and other conditions."

"Not knowing the cause, unable to identify the root, only using blunt measures to resolve it without removing the root cause, so most patients who undergo surgery and chemotherapy eventually cannot escape the fate of cancer cell metastasis, ultimately becoming untreatable." Lu Xuan spread his hands, pointing out the biggest flaw in how Western medicine handles cancer.

Lin Yongzhen frowned. As someone trained in Western medicine, to be honest, he didn’t entirely agree with Lu Xuan’s words, but upon careful thought, he also found there was reasoning in what Lu Xuan said.

In most cases, Western medicine indeed treats the symptoms rather than the root causes.

Regarding cancer treatment, it is mainly surgical, not considering why the patient developed cancer and failing to solve the problem from its root, leading to cancer cell metastasis in the vast majority of cancer patients, ending in a situation beyond medical treatment.

"You spoke of the general causes of intestinal cancer. If you were to treat it, how would you proceed?" Lin Yongzhen kept in mind the causes Lu Xuan mentioned, planning to discuss with the gastroenterology department doctors at the Second Provincial Hospital, but more than the causes, he was concerned about the treatment methods.