The medical road has been more than 40 years, and the torch has been passed on to benefit the common people - Guo Tianlu, the "famous old Chinese medicine" in Zitong County

In the outpatient department of Zitong County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, people often see such an old man, he often smiles, earnestly receives each patient, patiently asks about the condition, and carefully records the cause, and the hearty laughter when talking cordially with the patient continues to echo in the clinic, he is Guo Tianlu, a national grassroots famous old Chinese medicine expert in Zitong County.

Guo Tianlu likes to exchange TCM knowledge with patients and students, and has been sticking to the clinical front line for 43 years. He has received countless pennants, letters of thanks, certificates and trophies, but he is only willing to be a good respondent for ordinary people to see a doctor. He is close to his old age, and he should have been recuperating in his old age, but he is still working diligently on the medical road.

Abandon the halo and lay a new foundation for diligent study and intensive research

In 1956, Guo Tianlu was born in a medical family in Zitong County, and his grandfather Guo Dexin and father Guo Chongzhi were both famous old Chinese medicine doctors inside and outside Zitong County. Looking back on the past, he is glad that he abandoned the halo of "famous Chinese medicine", insisted on following his father to learn to identify various herbs since he was a child, reciting medical classics such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", and continuing the footsteps of doctors to save the common people from the thick pages of books and the emerald green among the mountains and fields.

Guo Tianlu studied at Mianyang School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1977, independently responded to Zitong County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1981, took correspondence courses at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1983, and studied in Sichuan Province in 1991 in the emergency class of traditional Chinese medicine.

Continuous innovation, determined to achieve far-reaching results

Rooted in the clinical front line for 43 years, Guo Tianlu has accumulated rich experience and unique insights in the treatment of hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, biliary tract diseases, spleen and stomach diseases and other diseases. He insisted on inheriting the ancestral traditional Chinese medicine methods and never forgetting the new clinical innovation, transforming the concepts of "prevention before disease", "prevention of existing diseases" and "prevention of recovery after healing" into operational clinical measures, and led the department to carry out traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, especially led the team to take the lead in the development of "three-dog patch", "white plus black" Chinese medicine ointment formula and new coronavirus Chinese medicine decoction formula, which can always win the tears of gratitude and sincere smiles of patients. "It's a wonderful feeling to be trusted. When I was studying, I didn't have such a strong feeling, but after I came into contact with clinical practice, I saw that the knowledge I had learned could cure diseases and save people, and I deeply felt the breadth and profundity of Chinese medicine, and I became deeply interested. Guo Tianlu said that doing anything, especially work, as a hobby, will be particularly interesting and will not feel tired.

Determined to study the classics of traditional Chinese medicine and devote himself to the study of incurable diseases, Guo Tianlu is happy to wander in the vast ocean of traditional Chinese medicine, turning the "sea water" of knowledge into the "spring water" of curing diseases. In 1998, his "Clinical Research on the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection" published by him won the third prize of Mianyang Municipal People's Government; In 1999, "Research on the Application of Electronic Automatic Control of Chinese Medicine Decoction Device" won the Science and Technology Progress Award of Mianyang Municipal People's Government; In 2000, "Clinical Research on the Treatment of External Fever with Detoxification and Antipyretic Oral Liquid" won the third prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Zitong County People's Government; In 2003, "Clinical Research on the Treatment of Externally Induced Fever with Detoxification and Antipyretic Oral Liquid" won the third prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Mianyang Municipal People's Government; In 2004, Guo Tianlu was awarded the top-notch scientific and technological talents with outstanding contributions by the Zitong County Party Committee and the County People's Government; In 2007, he was awarded the Advanced Worker of Traditional Chinese Medicine by the Zitong County Party Committee and the County People's Government; In 2013, he was rated as the first famous Chinese medicine doctor in Zitong County; In 2020, he was awarded the title of the first Wenchang Famous Doctor; In 2020, Zitong County Guo Tianlu Famous Doctor Studio was established; In 2021, he was awarded the National Grassroots Famous Old Chinese Medicine Expert (under construction of the inheritance studio). Behind these numerous honors is his continuous inheritance and innovation in TCM treatment.

Simple and inexpensive to low diagnosis fees benefit the villagers

After retirement, Guo Tianlu's heart is still the same, he did not choose to enjoy his old age, but was invited to re-hire, insisting on 5 days a week all-day outpatient clinic and weekends, holidays and half-day consultation, with the dedication to the medical cause, selfless dedication to patients and sacrifice to the family, the average annual diagnosis and treatment of more than 20,000 people, located in Zitong County Chinese medicine outpatient clinic, hepatobiliary diseases and incurable diseases accounted for 50%, the use rate of traditional Chinese medicine reached 98%.

Guo Tianlu will arrive at the clinic on time every day to start his busy work, when he sees a long queue of patients who can't be registered, he will add numbers for them, insist on seeing the last patient before leaving work, meet poor patients at home, he will pay for free treatment, and regularly go to remote areas for free treatment. According to the patient's condition, Mr. Guo will carefully find suitable treatment methods on the basis of dialectic, learn from the strengths of others, and most of the prescriptions prescribed are ordinary herbs, which are cheap and curative, which can be described as "simple and incorruptible", and his spirit also infects everyone in Zitong Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

"Patient consultation, careful recording, preservation of cases" is Guo Tianlu's more than 40 years of thunderous habits, he is loaded with essential case copies, cards and books, when his patients are sick again, he can quickly find the prescription of the year, in the card full of years of medical practice summary experience, as well as some prescriptions for incurable diseases, as soon as he has leisure to study the ancient books of Chinese medicine, and record his own experience, live to the old, learn the old, perfect interpretation of an old Chinese medicine enterprising style.

As a well-known Chinese medicine doctor, Guo Tianlu has never increased the consultation fee for his own achievements for more than 40 years, and the consultation fee of other old Chinese medicine doctors has long risen to 50 yuan, but he still maintains the lowest price of 15 yuan for the old Chinese medicine doctor in Zitong. In the face of the doubts of individual peers, he just said lightly: "The pension given to me by the state is enough, I have worked in Zitong for decades, and the patients here also need me." In Guo Tianlu's view, as long as the patient is well, it is a "mountain of gold and silver" given to him.

Gan is the guide to the peach and plum fragrance Jin "national first"

In 2020, Guo Tianlu was named the first Wenchang Famous Doctor, established Guo Tianlu Famous Traditional Chinese Medicine Studio, successively trained 9 academic inheritors, advanced students, interns, etc., and established the National Grassroots Famous Old Chinese Medicine Expert Guo Tianlu Inheritance Studio, with Xuzhou Town Central Health Center, Guanyi Town Central Health Center, Jinbao and Maying Village Clinics as the carrier, and once again absorbed 12 academic inheritors.

Xiao Fang (pseudonym), a villager in Maying Village, Ziqiang Town, once suffered from tarsal itching, and her husband Yang Kui, who was a doctor, had been diagnosed and treated in many ways for half a year to no avail. In the end, he sought treatment under Guo Tianlu, who showed through the "addiction rash", and was cured immediately with a pair of medicines. At this point, Yang Kui once again experienced the magic of Chinese medicine, so he was determined to further study Chinese medicine, and then worshiped Guo Tianlu to listen to the teachings, and finally achieved a good story of new and old Chinese medicine from a medical treatment.

Guo Tianlu often admonished his disciples to "endure hardships, suffer losses, and persevere", and used his spare time to explain to students how to interpret the classics, learn the classics, understand the classics, and use the classics, guide the study of ancient medical texts, understand the source structure of words, comprehend the philosophy in the laws of nature, comprehend the essence of the scriptures, broaden the scope of clinical application of the scriptures, and share many of his classic cases; Regularly teach ward rounds, carry out academic lectures, and lead disciples to find medicines, recognize medicines, and collect medicines. Guo Tianlu's outpatient clinic is both a consultation room and a classroom, and every student can improve from his clinical teaching.

Under the guidance of Guo Tianlu, groups of young Chinese medicine doctors have grown up strongly, Guo Tianlu has also infected them with his words and deeds, guided them, and added a vigorous and infinite "young power" to the development of Chinese medicine culture. In just 3 years, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Xuzhou Town Central Health Center has developed into a well-known characteristic department in the county, and the service volume of the Chinese Medicine Hall of Guanyi Town Health Center has grown by leaps and bounds to become a benchmark, and Bai Hailin, who has successively won the "National First" "2023 Chinese Family Health Gatekeeper", and Yang Kui, who has won the "2023 National Grassroots Most Beautiful Doctor", have become the representatives of the "three generations of doctors", injecting a new force that cannot be underestimated into the cause of Zitong Traditional Chinese Medicine.

People who are familiar with Guo Tianlu's family background know that the old man actually does not worry about food and clothing, and often some people do not understand why Guo Tianlu has a comfortable life, but chooses an "ascetic" life. In the face of these problems, Mr. Guo always proudly said: "I am willing to do it, my character is willing to do something for everyone, because only here can I have the joy of life." (Yang Kui)