I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 362 - 155: Liu Rong’s Good Days Are Numbered

"I’ve heard before that this Heart-Saving Decoction is known as the number one emergency prescription. I didn’t expect it to have so many indications. It seems it truly deserves the title of being the top rescue formula."

Huang Beishan continued to ask, "What are the symptoms? What do they include?"

Huang Beishan had heard of these conditions, but had never treated such patients.

After all, these kinds of patients are usually sent to major hospitals for emergency treatment and don’t have a chance to come to the United South Chinese Medicine Association to see him.

Even when he was working at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, he never encountered this type of patient, and knew very little about their symptoms.

Lu Xuan thought for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, symptoms include profuse cold sweat, cold limbs, pale complexion, or sallow and dull, lips, tongue, and nails are cyanotic, breath cold at mouth and nose, labored breathing with raised shoulders, mouth open and eyes closed, incontinence, unconsciousness, feeble breathing, pulse is deep, fine, and weak, less than 50 beats per minute, or scattered like threads, quivering like a sparrow picking at the leaking house, or pulse surging like boiling pot, rapid and chaotic beyond measure, over 120 to 240 beats per minute.

For terminal conditions of the heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney recorded in ancient medical texts and those incurable pulseless conditions, when Western medicine gives up rescue, as long as the heartbeat hasn’t stopped and there’s still a breath left, this formula can be administered urgently. It often achieves resuscitation within an hour, stabilization within three hours, and complete turnaround in one day."

"I see, it seems I really should find time to study the things of the Fire God School, with what you said today, plus find some related medical books to read, even if I can’t master it completely, at least I can have a good understanding in mind."

Huang Beishan suddenly realized, then asked, "This Heart-Saving Decoction, was it uniquely created by Old Mr. Li, or does it have other origins?"

Lu Xuan continued, "This formula, it should be said, derived from the Four Reversals Soup Formula in the Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Warm Pathogenic Diseases, the Four Reversals Soup combined with Ginseng, Aconite, Oyster Shell and Dragon Bone Rescue Decoction and Zhang Xichun’s Laifu Decoction, exceptionally using Aconite, Cornelian Cherry plus Musk to form it.

Regarding the Four Reversals Soup, Old Huang also knows it as the main agent of TCM for invigorating the heart, clinically applied for over 1700 years, with remarkable effects in treating heart failure.

However, the condition of heart failure patients is complex, not only is Yang Qi depleted, but Yin fluids are exhausted, so Aconite is often added, becoming Four Reversals Soup with Ginseng, greatly replenishing Primordial Qi, nourishing Yin and Yang, benefiting Qi and generating fluids, making this formula more perfect.

But for treatment of critical life-threatening heart failure, the outcome is still uncertain.

Upon careful consideration, it boils down to two points:

First, the dosage generally used through the ages for Cold Pathogenic Disease formulas is too light, the main drug Aconite, if converted now, would only be about 10 grams.

Carefully thinking, the original formula of the Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Diseases, using raw Aconite 1 piece, if converted using the Han Dynasty’s standard of measurement, should be about 20 grams.

Assuming the toxicity and efficacy of raw Aconite is more than twice that of processed Aconite, the quantity of Aconite used per dose in the original formula equates to 40-60 grams of modern processed Aconite, whereas for generations, only a quarter to a sixth of the original of the Four Reversals Soup was used.

With such a light dosage, wishing to achieve instant resuscitation from life and death is indeed difficult!"

Upon hearing this, Huang Beishan couldn’t help but nod.

Indeed, now most people studying Chinese medicine are studying Cold Pathogenic Disease, with the dosage of Aconite mentioned in the Four Reversals Soup from Cold Pathogenic Disease, hoping to achieve resuscitation is practically impossible, laughingly low Aconite dosage, naturally leads to little effect.

At this time, the important medical school Fire God School, stressing Yang Qi and known for adept use of Aconite, founded by late Qing Sichuan famous doctor Zheng Qin’an, emerged.

Lu Xuan continued: "The second reason for not daring to reuse Aconite heavily is because ancient people feared the toxicity of Aconite.

In ancient and modern herbals, it is evidenced that Aconite is highly toxic.

But Aconite is the primary agent for invigorating the heart, its toxicity is precisely where its resuscitation effect lies.

When heart failure is critical, with all body functions collapsing, the five viscera and six bowels, externally and internally, the three burners, all besieged by layers of cold, life and death hang by a thread, returning Yang brings life, losing Yang brings death.

Without exceptionally heavy use of pure Yang Aconite, with its extremely potent heat and immense might, breaking through barriers, restoring Yang from yin, it cannot save life on the brink of death.

At this point, Lu Xuan also took a deep breath and sighed, "The heavy-use Heart-Saving Decoction, in treating various critical emergency heart failure cases, not only covers suitable applications to save life and death in an instant, it also breaks through the taboo zone of incurable diseases from ancient medical texts, and the terminal patients abandoned by modern hospitals, bringing ancient Chinese medicine onto the stage in the 21st century, contributing to the life and health of all mankind."

"If Chinese medicine wants to rise, the Fire God School is indispensable!" Huang Beishan sighed deeply.

As for emergency treatment of incurable diseases of the five viscera, among the seven major schools of Chinese medicine, no other school can compete with the Fire God School.

For Huang Beishan’s deep emotion, Lu Xuan did not speak, but in his heart, he deeply agreed, if Chinese medicine desires to rise and break through the dominance of Western medicine today, achievements in emergency treatment are necessary.

Truly achieving, what Western medicine can save, Chinese medicine can also save, and what Western medicine cannot save, Chinese medicine can still save.

Lu Xuan took a breath, looked up at the electronic clock opposite, the decoction had already been simmered for more than two hours, without saying a word, Lu Xuan directly grabbed the medicine pot with a damp cloth, poured out a portion of nearly 200 milliliters of medicinal liquid into a thermal large-mouth cup, and also filled other insulation cups, and together with three others went to the special needs ward.

Once the medicinal liquid cooled slightly, he let Ji Huan drink it all.

Although knowing this medicine had a large dose of Aconite added, at this time, Ji Huan also understood that hesitation was useless, it was better to choose to trust Lu Xuan’s medical skills, and drank it all in one go.