Surgery Godfather Chapter 809 - 809 724 Yellow Dragon Decoction

Chapter 809: Chapter 724: Yellow Dragon Decoction Chapter 809: Chapter 724: Yellow Dragon Decoction “Don’t be nervous, this thod is only used when traditional treatnts are ineffective. If the traditional thods work, there’s naturally no need for such a crude approach,” Little Five reassured everyone.

“Unfortunately, this might be his only choice,” Yang Ping said with regret.

The people surrounding Yang Ping were confused, so he had no choice but to move the mouse and pull up Wang Dapeng’s case record, highlighting the allergy history section, which listed a string of drug nas that nearly included every antifungal drug.

Antifungal dication must be used to treat this condition because the microorganisms fernting in the intestinal tract are fungi.

Everyone was stunned, and Xu Zhiliang, with his characteristic stutter, said, “Wh-what do you an? Must we use—fecal matter and a mixed community of microbes transplanted as a whole?”

“Professor, ti is so precious, do you think I’m just talking for fun?” Song Zimo said, knowing Yang Ping’s style, once he delved into the case, he would automatically go through a series of thoughts in his mind, including diagnosis, data, prognosis, and so on.

“A fecal transplant, really?” Robert covered his reddening nose.

“Please use the proper academic terms!” August reminded him again, as he hated casual and imprecise people the most.

“Is surgery needed? How do we prevent infection? The intestinal tract is a huge bacterial reservoir,” Zhang Lin’s thinking also began to diverge.

Opening the abdominal cavity and incising the intestines to place feces into the intestinal lun is an extrely risky operation, and the consequences of an infection are unimaginable, considering that the intestinal tract is a huge bacterial reservoir with the number of bacteria accounting for 90% of the total bacterial population in the human body.

“How foolish must one be, to use incision techniques to transplant feces? The correct approach is—to purify the feces into fecal water and then instill it into the intestinal tract,” Xu Zhiliang got into the swing of the discussion and even started to speak without stuttering.

“If you administer fecal water via a gastric tube, won’t the stomach acid kill most bacteria? Can the few bacteria that make it to the intestines continue to function?” Zhang Lin refused to appear weak.

Xu Zhiliang glanced at him, “The purified fecal water is not transplanted from top to bottom but from bottom to top—by enema. One can use a colonoscopy to assist. Teacher Zhang, you’ve really opened my eyes. Is this a new enema thod you invented? Administered through a gastric tube?”

Zhang Lin blushed, having desperately opened his mind just enough to keep up with the discussion, he hadn’t expected to get the direction wrong.

“Administering through a gastric tube, that’s a bit of an extre idea, isn’t it?” said Li Guodong, who had just quieted his churning stomach, only to have it stirred up again by Zhang Lin’s suggestion.

“What’s with gastric tube administration, there are even direct oral thods. In the history of traditional Chinese dicine, Ge Hong’s Yellow Dragon Decoction, which includes feces as a main ingredient was used to treat food poisoning and severe diarrhea; it is consud directly, surprised or not?” Zhang Lin said confidently and without a change of expression.

August, Robert, and Ivan all looked toward Yang Ping at the sa ti, hoping for a reasonable explanation. Could traditional Chinese dicine really have such intense treatnt thods?

“In fact, such practices existed, and because of the use of feces as dicine, modern people have a deep misunderstanding of traditional Chinese dicine, considering it pseudoscience and absurd to use feces for treatnt, nothing could be more ignorant,” he said.

“However, later research on intestinal bacterial communities changed people’s perspective. In 1958, Dr. Ben Eiseman, a surgeon at the University of Colorado School of dicine in the United States, treated four severe pseudombranous colitis patients. He tried every thod he could think of—antibiotics, corticosteroids, probiotics, etc.—but the patients’ conditions did not improve and even worsened, leading to shock. In desperation, Dr. Ben Eiseman thought of using feces for treatnt. With just an attempt in mind, he used the feces of the patients’ family mbers to make fecal water and perford an enema on the patients. The treatnt results were astonishing, with three patients recovering and being discharged within a few days,” he said.

“You have to know that Ge Hong’s Yellow Dragon Decoction was used to treat diarrhea over sixteen hundred years ago, aning sixteen hundred years ago, the Chinese had already mastered a thod similar to adjusting the intestinal bacterial community, albeit empirically. Many treatnts or prescriptions in traditional Chinese dicine are often considered pseudoscience and are subjected to ridicule because modern science has not yet fully revealed the level of traditional Chinese dicine. For example, using feces for treatnt seems absurd, but in fact, it is full of scientific principles. It is only today, more than a thousand years later, that we understand feces can also treat diseases,” he explained patiently to everyone.

Upon hearing this, August, Robert, and Ivan developed a solemn respect for Chinese culture, recognizing its advancent even under ancient technological conditions. anwhile, contemporary Western dicine was still using such barbaric thods as bloodletting.

“Of course, we mustn’t dwell in the past, we must look forward, and modern dicine is the mainstream, but we must maintain awe and respect for tradition, and not slander or malign it casually,” Yang Ping said slowly.

“A salute to five thousand years of civilization!” Robert stood up straight, maintaining an upright posture.

August and Ivan also straightened up, maintaining an upright posture.

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After staying in the VIP ward for 48 hours, Wang Dapeng felt very comfortable. If possible, he thought he wouldn’t mind staying for another ten days or half a month.

After the blood test results ca out, both Wang Dapeng and Hu Xiaoliang were stunned; neither of them could have imagined such an outco.

In the world, there truly exists a disease that can get you drunk without drinking alcohol. If it wasn’t for Hu Xiaoliang’s past experience of frequently drinking alcohol while mixing with society and his strong tolerance for alcohol, he might have been in a tipsy state every other day. It was precisely because of his high alcohol tolerance that the high blood alcohol concentration didn’t affect him much, and he mistook it for fatigue caused by running around.

This result completely dispelled the misunderstanding between the two.

At that ti, Wang Dapeng was convinced that Hu Xiaoliang rembered the grudges from their middle school days and that taking him in for drunk driving twice was just personal revenge.

On the other hand, Hu Xiaoliang insisted that Wang Dapeng was looking for trouble and seeking an excuse to evade legal punishnt.

Now the two stood there, dumbstruck.

“Auto-brewery syndro?”

Laypeople, and even doctors, few had ever heard of this disease, let alone seen it.

“Your intestines, your very own intestines, are like a tiny brewery, producing alcohol which you then absorb. So, you don’t need to drink alcohol; just eating food containing starch will get you drunk the sa way,” Little Five patiently explained while looking at the test report.

Since the issue was raised by the Comprehensive Surgery Departnt, it was natural for them to take charge of the follow-up. Little Five, representing the Comprehensive Surgery Departnt, oversaw Wang Dapeng’s diagnosis and treatnt.

Because the test report contained professional jargon, Wang Dapeng didn’t understand it. He just flipped through it superficially, pretending.

“Are you saying I can brew alcohol myself? Make my alcohol and drink it?” Wang Dapeng asked in amazent.

Little Five nodded, and Zhang Lin, who had co with him, also nodded.

Wang Dapeng was pleasantly surprised, “I actually have such a special ability? But the feces I pass every day don’t seem special, and it’s not like they’re lees?”

Little Five solemnly said, “It’s a disease, and if not treated, you might not be able to drive in the future. Plus, you’re always in danger. Who knows when you might suffer from alcohol poisoning.”

“No wonder sotis I feel dizzy, as if drunk. I thought it was fatigue from working on construction sites.” After thinking it over, Wang Dapeng realized the doctor was right; he did often feel dizzy, but he never thought it was a state of inebriation.

“But I don’t actually get completely wasted, just dizzy. With so much alcohol, shouldn’t I have collapsed?” Wang Dapeng asked, puzzled.

“Because your liver contains a high level of the enzy that breaks down alcohol—aldehyde dehydrogenase—it’s difficult for you to reach a deep state of intoxication,” Little Five explained.

“That’s it! Back when I was involved with gangs, I used to drink baijiu like water, often knocking everyone under the table while I was fine. Turns out I have a natural talent?” Wang Dapeng suddenly understood.

Little Five continued, “You could say your talent was extraordinary in the past, but no matter how strong your tolerance is, it’s just that—strength. If the concentration of alcohol in your blood rises higher and exceeds your tolerance, you’ll still suffer from alcohol poisoning, which can sotis be fatal.”

“Therefore, treatnt is a must,” Zhang Lin emphasized.

Wang Dapeng thought for a mont, “How do you treat it? It’s not too much trouble, is it?”

“It’s usually simple and could involve dication, but you’re allergic to antifungal drugs, having suffered from severe exfoliative dermatitis, so we have to resort to special thods,” Little Five put away the test report.

Wang Dapeng sighed, “I’ve been allergic to several dications for fungal infections before, almost killed by exfoliative dermatitis.”

“That’s why we need to use a special thod, simply put, a stool transplant. We transplant soone else’s feces into your intestines. The feces contain a large number of bacteria, which can help you establish a normal bacterial group. Your problem right now is an abnormal intestinal bacterial group,” Little Five explained slowly and clearly.

“Put soone else’s poop into my stomach???” Wang Dapeng’s eyes widened in shock.