Chapter 1108 Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Heart Disease
Congenital heart disease is the most common type of congenital malformation, accounting for about 28% of various congenital malformations. It refers to anatomical structural abnormalities caused by formation obstacles or developmental abnormalities of the heart and great blood vessels during the embryonic development period.
Or the passage that should be closed automatically after birth fails to close.
The spectrum of congenital heart disease is particularly broad, including hundreds of specific types. Some patients may be combined with multiple malformations at the same time, and the symptoms vary widely. The mildest cases may remain asymptomatic for life, while the most severe cases may show severe symptoms such as hypoxia, shock and even death at birth.
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Based on hemodynamics and pathophysiological changes, congenital heart disease can be divided into cyanotic or acyanotic types. It can also be divided into three categories based on the presence or absence of shunts: no shunt, such as pulmonary artery stenosis and aortic coarctation. Left to right
Shunt types, such as atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus.
And right-to-left shunts, such as tetralogy of Fallot and misalignment of great vessels.
A small number of patients with congenital heart disease have a chance of self-healing before the age of 5. In addition, a small number of patients have minor deformities that have no significant impact on circulatory function and do not require any treatment. However, most patients require surgical treatment to correct the deformity.
For example, when Lin Wanqing was a child, she came from an ordinary family and had no money for treatment and surgery, causing her congenital heart disease to miss the best opportunity for Western medical surgical treatment.
Now if you want to undergo surgical treatment, even if you have money, I am afraid it will be more difficult.
Traditional Chinese medicine’s view on heart disease is that all heart diseases are due to Yang deficiency. If Yang Qi is insufficient, Yin blood will not be produced. Physiologically, Yang Qi is the basis of metabolization; pathologically, Yang Qi is easier to metabolize than Yin essence.
Damage; in terms of treatment, Yang is easy to be born suddenly but Yin is difficult to grow quickly.
Therefore, to treat heart disease, you must use the method of promoting Yang to be effective.
Chen Shifeng of the Qing Dynasty said: "When people have real heartache, there is no way to save them. However, if the medicine is used properly, it is not impossible to survive."
The power of the heart comes from the kidneys. Insufficient kidney yang is like insufficient electricity from a generator, which will cause the speed of the water pump to decrease and the pressure of the water to be insufficient. This means that the heart beats weakly and intermittent, resulting in insufficient pumping power and poor blood flow.
Cannot reach the ends of blood vessels.
The peripheral nerves will alert the central nervous system, and the central nervous system will stimulate the heart to beat faster, resulting in premature beats, insufficient kidney energy, and weak heartbeats.
Slow blood flow will easily cause blood stasis. Over time, blood stasis will be deposited on the blood vessel walls and block the blood vessels, causing coronary heart disease or myocardial infarction.
Western medicine only knows how to use physical means including surgery and chemical means to clear blood vessels and stimulate the heart, but it does not know that the root cause of the disease lies in insufficient kidney yang.
If kidney yang is sufficient, various functions of the human body will naturally be restored, the heartbeat will naturally be strong, blood stasis will naturally dissolve, and symptoms will disappear naturally.
The disadvantage of Western medicine in treating heart disease is that implanting stents in the cardiovascular system is reasonable in terms of physics, but extremely unreasonable in terms of physiology.
Because stents made of metal belong to the hardest congestion and are foreign bodies in the human body.
The human body has the ability to reject, and congestion is a soft foreign body in the human body. There will be a tingling sensation in the area with congestion, which is a sign of broken vitality.
The principle that acupuncture at acupuncture points can cure diseases is to take advantage of the rejection of the human body. When the metal needle is inserted into the human body, the menstrual qi and even the true yang energy will be mobilized to remove the foreign matter. After the metal needle is pulled out, the gathered meridian qi or
The vitality will be poured into the designated acupoints to achieve the purpose of regulating deficiency and excess.
In the same way, implanting metal stents in blood vessels will inevitably stimulate vitality, because the cause of heart disease is weak vitality.
Therefore, it is very unsuitable for heart disease patients with extremely weak vitality to implant stents. Not only will it not cure this type of heart disease, it will also cause the heart disease patient's vitality to rapidly dissipate, leading to accelerated death.
In addition, the current Western medicine treatment of heart disease mainly focuses on dilating or dredging blood vessels to achieve the purpose of unobstructing the blood vessels.
Therefore, the treatment methods of Western medicine are always limited to this.
Even when researching herbal medicines for treating heart disease, they all focus on how to dilute sticky blood and prevent blood coagulation, but they always fail to solve the problem of restoring human immunity and true yang vitality.
For example, Western medicine often uses heart bypass surgery for treatment, and the technology is also very mature. In the United States, as many as 350,000 to 400,000 patients undergo heart bypass surgery every year.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, this is obviously a "temporary" approach that cannot achieve the purpose of treating the "root cause" at all. Because any method of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dredging blood
All the medicines in the tube can only be effective under the action of true yang. Without the effect of vitality, there is no point in taking or injecting medicines.
It must be understood that any drug that breaks congestion and expands blood vessels is a drug that mobilizes or stimulates vitality. In clinical practice, long-term or excessive use of drugs that break congestion and dredge blood vessels will make people feel weak. This is an indisputable fact.
In addition, the United States has also manufactured an artificial heart. Although the size of the artificial heart continues to shrink and is almost the same size as the human heart, the lifespan of patients implanted with the artificial heart is very short, with no more than 100 days. Moreover,
Patients are highly susceptible to stroke.
This is because the power of the heart comes from the kidneys. Changing the heart does not strengthen the kidney qi. Moreover, the artificial heart is a foreign body in the human body. It is impossible for the kidney qi to supply power to the artificial heart. The kidney qi and the artificial heart cannot communicate (the heart and kidneys intersect).
), the patient will never be able to live long, and the future of the artificial heart must be bleak.
Patients who undergo heart transplantation can extend their lives by more than ten years or even longer because the transplanted heart is a human heart and can communicate with kidney qi. Moreover, the newly transplanted heart must be healthy, so the kidneys
There is no need to provide a large amount of kidney qi to replenish the weak heart qi, so that the weaker kidney function can be restored.
Although the transplanted heart is not your own, and there are varying degrees of rejection, it is much stronger than hard foreign bodies such as metal and plastic. This is why heart transplant patients can survive for a long time.
If after the heart transplant surgery, the patient can take traditional Chinese medicine "dispelling evil spirits and strengthening the body" to restore vitality, the rejection reaction will be eliminated quickly.
These are different treatment methods and methods used by traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat heart disease. However, Lin Wanqing's condition is a congenital heart disease, not acquired, so the treatment will definitely be more troublesome.
Just now, Xiao Chen only used his clairvoyance eyes and he could see clearly that Lin Wanqing's heart was indeed different from that of ordinary people. No wonder why the other party would easily fall into coma when excited.
Of course, in her case, there is no need for a heart transplant. One transplant operation will cause rejection, and the other operation will definitely affect her entire body.