"Curing incurable diseases is the happiest thing for me!" (Approaching the Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine?) ）

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Biography

Lu Fang, born in 1939, a native of Zhaodong, Heilongjiang, was a doctor with his grandfather, inherited his family's studies, and was selected as the third master of traditional Chinese medicine in 2017.

He advocates the "combination of disease identification and dialectics", advocates the treatment of diabetic complications with the same treatment of spleen and pancreas, is good at treating internal medicine and miscellaneous diseases, and devotes his life to the innovation of traditional Chinese medicine on the basis of inheritance.

Lu Fang is 83 years old, with white sideburns, and needs to rely on a wheelchair to travel, but when she consults, she is still in good spirits and her eyes are like a torch.

"Don't worry, let's talk first." Sensing the patient's anxiety, Lu Fang gradually let the patient talk about the condition in a "nagging" way, without the shelf of a famous doctor.

After several inquiries, he patiently said to the patient: "I will go back and think about the formula, and we will work together to cure your disease." "Despite her rich experience, when encountering difficult problems and new problems, Lu Fang always has to study a bit and then prescribe the most suitable prescription for patients."

Young chengting training, the benevolence of the healer

"Medicinal Nature Endowment", "Soup Song Recipe", "Medical Sect Golden Book"... Since childhood, Lu Fang has been with his grandfather, who is a folk Chinese medicine practitioner, reciting classic treatises, and subtly, he gradually began to become interested in Chinese medicine.

Lu Fang recalled that when she was a child, many children in rural areas went to the fields early to farm, and reading was a luxury. The support of her family was the biggest motivation for Lu Fang in her early years of study. Wearing ventilated cotton pants to survive the winter, chewing hard tortillas in the cold window of reading, Lu Fang never said bitter.

During the college entrance examination, Lu Fang, who had excellent results, chose the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine as a volunteer. When she was in college, Lu Fang was deeply attracted by the profound culture of Chinese medicine and eagerly learned the knowledge of Chinese medicine. The lights in the dormitory turned off on time every day, he often got up in the middle of the night to review his homework, and when he returned to the dormitory, the sky was already light.

Lu Fang knows that every month's tuition and living expenses are hard-earned by her parents. "I study hard every day, and if I can't learn a little more about TCM, I feel sorry for my parents' nurturing grace."

Coming from a poor background, Lu Fang has a natural affinity for patients with poor family conditions.

Once, before the patient could enter, the family members cried outside the door. Only to see a young girl being pushed in, her body red and swollen. In the consultation room, seven or eight doctors sat around a table, but they were hesitant to make up their minds, and after some discussion, everyone brushed and looked at Lu Fang.

"Symptoms are really rare." Lu Fang frowned, thought for a long time, and prescribed several pills.

"We've traveled all over the province's hospitals!" Many people say it can't be cured, but we borrow money and want to try again. Listening to the patient's family talk about the difficulties at home, Lu Fang silently reduced the cost by half.

Specialize in difficult problems, keep the integrity and innovation

After practicing medicine for sixty years, Lu Fang has devoted herself to the treatment of difficult and complicated diseases, and in the thousands of cases accumulated and studied, he has found many diseases that are very troublesome. "Everywhere I looked, everyone looked at it, but I couldn't cure it." Lu Fang explained.

More than 50 years ago, Lu Fang's neighbor Wu Da Niang suffered from trigeminal neuralgia, and when she had a seizure, she was in pain, and she searched for famous doctors and never got better. At that time, the young Lu Fang was not famous and lacked experience in treating such diseases.

"I went to the library to read the ancient books, page by page, and found in an ancient book that the symptoms depicted were particularly similar to trigeminal neuralgia, and it was necessary to use a medicinal herb." Lu Fangru was the most precious treasure, but the joy was quickly disappointed - this medicine was added to the prescription, but Wu Da Niang still did not get better.

After repeated measurement and bold attempts, coupled with Lu Fang's real-time observation at the door, after treatment, Wu Daniang's condition finally improved.

After careful study of trigeminal neuralgia, Lu Fang summed up the dialectical typing treatment method, attributed the disease to three types of wind and fire, blood stasis and wind chill, and adopted dialectical typing treatment, and the "cranial pain Ning" developed for trigeminal neuralgia won the Heilongjiang Provincial Government Scientific and Technological Achievement Award.

Lu Fang also proposed the "combination of disease identification and dialectics", and advocated the treatment of diabetes complications through the same treatment of spleen and pancreas, and he transformed the empirical prescription results into 4 kinds of drugs to eliminate the pain of patients.

Behind more than 10 scientific research awards and invention patents is Lu Fang's persistent study of difficult diseases. Turning to Lu Fang's medical record manual, "follow-up", "follow-up" and "return visit" - these words are very common, some with a gap of several months, some as long as 10 years, "the return visit to difficult diseases is not only responsible for patients, but also convenient for us to study the efficacy of prescriptions." Every patient's illness is remembered in my mind, and curing difficult diseases is the happiest thing for me!"

"Chinese medicine should be proficient, Western medicine should be proficient, and at the same time, we must insist on innovation, and it is not okay to only keep the old method." Lu Fang believes that Chinese medicine should adhere to innovation, hard work, and combine the respective advantages of Traditional Chinese and Western medicine in order to better carry forward.

The author of the book said, peach and plum full of garden

In the 1970s, Lu Fang collected her clinical experience into the book "Internal Medicine Identification and Dialectics", which has Western medical diagnosis and Traditional Chinese medicine typing, and displays it in the form of a schematic diagram of the cause of the disease.

During the day, he stayed up late to write, and the bed table in the room was full of manuscripts: "Late at night, people are quiet and efficient, and they can write 6,000 to 10,000 words a night." ”

"During the time he wrote the book, he often didn't say a word. Once I scrambled eggs for him, mistook baking soda for salt, and he read the information while eating it, but he didn't eat it at all. His persistent love for the cause of Chinese medicine can be said to be obsessive. Old partner Wang Lingfen recalled.

Published in 1979, the book is 250,000 words, in the form of a combination of pictures and texts, combining the understanding of diseases in Western medicine with the dialectical treatment theory of Traditional Chinese medicine.

"My friends are divided into two categories, one is patients and the other is students." In Lu Fang's view, it is more gratifying for students to have achievements than their own achievements, and he often says to students: "I am not a teacher, I only do your ladder." He has been identified as "the national old Chinese medicine expert academic experience inheritance instructor" for 6 consecutive times. Cultivate hundreds of TCM talents and harvest peach and plum fragrances.

"During the consultation, in order to see a few more patients in a limited time, the teacher often did not drink a sip of water and did not go to the toilet in the morning. He regards the patient's suffering as his own, and when he encounters difficult cases, he also wants to come up with a way without eating or sleeping. Student Sun Qi said with emotion: "In the university, students go to the teacher's class, and the largest lecture hall, as long as Lu Lao lectures, is also full. ”

"The treasure of Chinese medicine is the root of my life, and I am willing to use my life's hard work and sweat to water it, let it carry it forward, take root, blossom, and bear fruit for the benefit of the people."

Not long ago, Lu Fang's granddaughter had just been admitted to the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as a doctoral candidate. After learning the news, Lu Fang was excited, and he sent a small poem to his granddaughter, wanting to encourage her with her——

"All his life is determined to dedicate himself to his own duties." The revitalization of Chinese medicine can not be slackened, smell the chicken dancing early whip. ”

People's Daily (2022-02-16 15th edition)