How did ancient Chinese medicine practitioners treat blood loss? What do TCM practitioners understand about modern blood donation?

I am a village doctor, had treated a patient in our village, a young woman, 35 years old, due to heavy menstruation, resulting in anemia, go to the hospital for blood transfusion treatment, after treatment of hemoglobin rebound, not a month after discharge, and because of anemia to hospital treatment, well, the hospital doctor told her that, if it is still not good, we have to operate on the uterus to be cut off, not a month, the disease returned to the previous, there is no way to do, came to my clinic for fear of drinking Chinese medicine so to the hospital, but the hospital finally told her to cut off the uterus, because of fear, so come to drink Chinese medicine. Come to my clinic, because of the fear of drinking Chinese medicine so go to the hospital, but the hospital finally told her to cut off the uterus, because of the fear so come back to drink Chinese medicine, after four diagnosis, diagnosed as collapse, the so-called collapse, that is, a large amount of bleeding, the so-called leakage, that is, drenching constantly, the patient is collapse, and accompanied by, fear of cold, weakness, movement is shortness of breath, the face is colorless, light lips and tongue color, poor diet, weak pulse, and other symptoms. The patient was treated with Si-Yi Tang plus tonifying Zhong Yi Qi Tang plus hemostatic medicine, three doses were effective, and the bleeding stopped completely after seven days. The patient was cured by the original prescription, removing the hemostatic medicine for about two months, and has not had any seizures so far.

How does TCM treat hemorrhage?

Let's start with the theory of Chinese medicine that

We compare the body of the five viscera and six bowels as household appliances, household appliances must have enough electricity to work properly, if less electricity, or no electricity are lying down, our five viscera and six bowels are relying on what can work properly? The answer is Yang Qi.

What is the role of Yang Qi?

Yang Qi has warming effect, fixing effect, nutritive effect, gasification effect, promoting effect, defensive effect.

That's why the Nei Jing says.Yang Qi is like the sky and the sun, if you lose it, you will lose your life and not be able to realize it.. It means that yang is like the sun, and if we lose the sun, then we can think about the result by ourselves.

Yang energy comes from the digestion and absorption of drinking food by the spleen and stomach, and when there is excess Yang energy it is stored in the kidneys.

When the ordinary vegetarian over-eating cold, and cause the spleen and stomach yang qi insufficiency, the spleen is the foundation of the latter day, for the source of qi and blood biochemistry, now the spleen and stomach is damaged, and the spleen and stomach of qi and blood function decline, so it will cause qi and blood deficiency, the spleen is the master of blood, the so-called unity is the unity, management of the blood to run normally.

Deficiency of spleen qi, weakness of yang qi, decline in the spleen's function of regulating blood, deficiency of yang qi, failure of yang qi to consolidate, loss of blood control and overflow of blood out of the veins, thus resulting in a massive loss of blood and causing disintegration.

Let's take an example, blood is water and yang is the water pipe, if the pipe breaks then the water overflows at the break.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty Zhang Jingyue said, tangible blood can not be born quickly, invisible gas should be fast solid "from the" Jingyue Encyclopedia "gas invisible invisible, blood tangible visible, but in the treatment of hemorrhage should be supplemented with yang qi, in order to restore the solidification of the role of qi, that is, replenishment of the water pipe.

The female patient mentioned above was deficient in yang qi and lost the fixation of the blood, so she used Si Reverse Tang to tonify yang qi, and tonifying Zhong Yi Qi Tang to tonify qi and elevate the blood if the spleen did not regulate the blood. That's why it works.

For blood donation if according to traditional Chinese medicine is not good for people, the heart is the master of blood, sweat is the liquid of the heart, sweat and blood from the same source, that is to say, the blood is the liquid of the heart, if the blood loss of blood is too much then it will certainly hurt the heart.

Blood, sweat, tears, semen, are all fluids, are all fluids in the human body, the same are all derived from the diet, the same diet is converted into water, and converted into blood, that consume the same amount of energy in the body? Consumption of the same subtle substances? It is definitely not the same, so donating blood is actually not good for people, but if someone tells you that the blood you donate can save someone's life, will you donate? Of course I would. So I don't reject blood donation. I've done it myself.

Chinese medicine alone ginseng soup, Western medicine blood transfusion ligation blood vessels cut Xu bleeding tissue is not the same now the problem is not a sentence to say clearly, not to mention the ancient times, say clearly you understand. Now the blood transfusion to save blood loss patients like death, the ancient one ginseng soup, like to save a lot of life. Don't look down on your ancestors.

Do not use their own ignorance to refute Chinese medicine, herbs to stop bleeding I have seen with my own eyes, my aunt had a hemorrhage, it just so happens that one of my uncles will be a recipe, dug up two or three herbs in the mountains, boiled and drank quickly effective, and for many years there has been no recurrence.

To treat excessive blood loss, the first thing to do is to stop the bleeding, and then to replenish the blood, and Chinese medicine have a complete set of formulas for all of them. It is undeniable that both Chinese medicine and Western medicine have diseases that cannot be treated. The combination of the two is of infinite use to mankind, while the two are mutually exclusive, and mankind loses a great deal of money.

Because of the sharp decrease in blood volume and ischemia of vital organs (especially the heart and brain), many people are in a semi-comatose state or a testamentary state, at this time, even if the hemostasis has been completed, the low blood volume has been unable to continue life, and what is urgently needed is to increase the blood volume (blood transfusion), to the lack of oxygen to the heart and brain blood supply. Because Chinese medicine does not have blood transfusion technology, many traumatic blood loss and maternal blood loss in ancient times basically killed on the spot.

A lot of Chinese medicine treatment for acute blood loss answer, boil angelica soup, ginseng soup, Sanqi soup, four reverse soup, raw pulse powder ...... answer is pure nonsense, the soup has not boiled people have been cold. Besides, chronic hemostasis and tonic for acute blood loss?

Ancient Chinese medicine treatment of blood loss, is certainly the first stop bleeding, "urgent is to treat the symptoms of slow is to treat the root". If there is excessive blood loss and syncope, the general application of "sole ginseng soup" and so on, urgent solidification of vital energy, "Jingyue quanquan" so-called "tangible blood is difficult to quickly born, intangible gas should be urgent solid". Rescue down, slowly to ginseng nourishing glory soup and other formulas to regulate, but also recommended chicken and other nutrients. Modern medicine, such as the combination of some of the means into Chinese medicine, the treatment will have a great auxiliary effect. As for blood donation, the ancients would not have thought of it. Blood donation involves medical knowledge of blood type, classification of blood cells, antibodies, etc., involving a wide variety of medical technology such as testing, preparation, washing of antibodies, blood cells, etc., need a modern medical system support. Further, organ transplantation, for example, can not be explained by Chinese medicine theory. Because it does not involve these. I don't know what the purpose of the questioner's question is?

Since the ancients did not have the ability to transfuse blood, Chinese medicine practitioners for bleeding cases usually stopped the bleeding first, then used herbs with strong cardiac effects to hang on for dear life, and used blood nourishing and tonifying medicines and nutritious food to regulate their own physique and recover their bodies. In a word, they rely on their own bodies to gradually restore their functions to produce blood. Therefore, there is basically no effective method for some cases of hemorrhage. It was not until modern medicine discovered the law of human blood type that there was a real blood transfusion method, which saved thousands of people's lives.

Boring! Boring!

How to say? I was born to study Western medicine, familiar with all kinds of Chinese medicine books, can see the general Chinese and Western medicine problems and can prescribe specific medicines. It is because I know the advantages and disadvantages of the two that I hate Chinese medicine black and Western medicine black. It's stupid to pit Chinese and Western medicine against each other on the issue of blood loss. Both Chinese and Western medicine are constantly evolving and optimizing their configurations.

As long as they can hang on for dear life, TCM practitioners can use drugs to promote blood production in the body. In addition, do not narrowly characterize ancient methods as TCM and modern methods as Western medicine. The traditional treatment methods of Chinese medicine are only limited by the technical conditions of ancient times. All the treatments of modern medicine have not broken through the theoretical system of Chinese medicine and can be incorporated into the system of Chinese medicine. It is only that Chinese medicine currently lacks patriarchs to do this.

The wonders of Chinese medicine have always been well known, and there are many people who think that Chinese medicine is a superstition. However, Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize for artemisinin extracted from Chinese medicine, proving that Chinese medicine still has its merits. Compared to Western medicine, Chinese medicine is much better in treating chronic diseases, for which Western medicine has no good solutions. Ancient China has a miraculous case, Genghis Khan's general will die from an arrow, Genghis Khan ordered him to stuffed into the tripe, the result will save his life.

To know the ancient medical conditions than the modern backward, especially for the treatment of trauma, almost no good way to modern invention of antibiotics to effectively reduce the mortality rate. Ancient cold weapons battlefield, real swords, in order to cause greater casualties will deliberately leave a bloodletting groove on the weapon, once injured will often bleed more than modern blood transfusion equipment can only be at the mercy of God.

And the bow and arrow as the most lethal weapon in ancient times, it also has barbs on it, it is not an exaggeration to say that the bow and arrow caused by the wounds, much bigger than any ordinary pistol. Yuan history records, general bu zhi er expedition, hit by a number of arrows, Genghis Khan personally check his injuries, found bu zhi er has been dying, so let the people will be his wounds on the arrow pulled down, suddenly blood flow, this way not far from death. Genghis Khan and let his men to find a cow, the cow's stomach cut open, will Bu Zhi Er stuffed in, after a period of time but magically recovered, Bu Zhi Er also therefore live a life.

Of course, there are records of more than one case, the Tang Dynasty general Guo Ziyi's son Guo Baoyu, when he went to war was also shot by the enemy general, the emperor stuffed him into the tripe, he recovered and applied to continue to fight. About such a case history also has more than one, even Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" also recorded this method, his explanation is that people lose too much blood, the vitality will also be slowly lost, will be put into the tripe full of blood, the vitality can be slowly restored to blood to stop the blood, a little similar to today's blood transfusion.

Of course, these things have become a thing of the past, modern medical technology is developed, no one will risk to try this approach, so this method in the end can not work, now no one knows. But this thing also let us know, although the ancient people do not have very good conditions, but many methods are in the actual life of the out of experience, the wisdom of the ancients can not be underestimated.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) says that Ying Wei is the master of the circulation of essence and blood in the human body. In some writings of many schools of Chinese medicine, it is believed that the preservation of essence and the maintenance of qi is the first priority in life. So we can assume that Chinese medicine is more opposed to blood loss, whether it is caused by blood donation or trauma. But! Everything is in development! Anything that puts aside the whole to talk about special cases is hooliganism!

Now we are in this era. Unlike the ancient times when massive blood loss was likely to be unsalvageable, and the living conditions and nutritional levels are countless grades better than in ancient times. In fact, the vast majority of people in our time have better living conditions and nutritional levels than the upper middle class of the ancients. We cannot say that everyone is fit to donate blood, and that 200ml/400ml of donated blood has no effect on the human body. However, considering the fact that donating blood may save a person, and the fact that the damage to yourself is so low as to be negligible, you can go ahead and donate blood if you want to.