(Attack cancer?)
The patient talked with tears about her relative who was the cancer and had been informed the remainder of her life sentence from the doctor the other day.
Cancer was found from the kidney, and metastasizes to both lungs six months later, and shoulder, too.
She took the big operation three times, and continued the anti-cancer drug treatment and morphine, and the pane was treated. It also makes a mistake in the amount of the medicine, ten double are administered, and her whole body became stiffen. In addition, the pleural effusion was pulled out voluminously, as soon as having the radiation therapy, her physical strength fell rapidly. Her weigh decreased 10kg, had no appetite, became a walking difficulty and she returned to home with the remainder of her life sentence. It is a very aggressive unbelievable treatment.
The patient was suffered from these treatment and cancer, and the family sobs.
Is such a reality repeated like this every day now?
(Mother’s face I cannot forget)
I’ve never forgot my deceased mother for a moment since I started this work.
A person who found mother’s pancreas cancer was a general doctor in the neighbor.
The doctor asked me, “Do you mind if I notify the cancer to your mother? I said, “No, I don’t.” Because she spent the various hard time many times, so I thought she could accept her sickness.
The doctor said, “Shall we think more carefully. This is only one life. The reason why she was in the hospital was to inspect it in detail today.”
When I opened the door after doctor’s explanation, I saw mother’s anxious face I’ve never seen before.
I sincerely thanked for the doctor momentarily.
(The worst)
Mother went to the hospital where was introduced with the film of the cancer three days later.
The doctor whom we met first was called the best surgeon in the hospital.
The doctor cried out, “What a big cancer it is!”, in front of mother who was sitting on the wheelchair with her head down.
I trampled his foot down instinctively, and whispered to his ear, “She doesn’t know it.”
I got angry his saying, he seemed to be the worst of luck of delicacy and embarrassed nurses in the hospital.
Mother’s doctor was not that one, but a young and nice doctor. Useless treatment was hardly done, but he requested we did the acupuncture on mother and accepted our opinion.
When I notified the cancer to mother, I don’t know how many times I talked and discussed even in letters with the busy doctor. Both notifying the cancer and treatment of Western medicine were discussed carefully.
(Light in the dark)
Doctors have their own opinions about notifying the cancer to patients. To sentence of the cancer and to determine to accept the cancer can help the treatment for the patient.
However, the doctor can send the patient to the heaven or the hell even if the doctors don’t have the surgical knife is not the exaggeration. Especially the patient is a serious illness.
The woman who had been confined in toles and pebbles due to the earthquake of Sichuan the other day has been rescued after 170 hours.
Her fiancé discovered her and kept telling her let’s marry and was the Chinese type of the wedding good?
The master, Renfu Fujimoto, said, “To give one light in the dark to the patient is much more important than to light them.”
Human being has an unexpected vitality even if the time of death approaches.
It should be the doctor that can believe the human vitality indeed.
I feel that when we believe to respect the life heavier than the earth, we can give one light, one hope, to the patient.
“I have a symptom, but?”
A woman in sixties whose hand and leg on the right side of the body becoming numb, no power on the right hand, not putting on slippers easily to a right leg, came to my clinic on the other day.
I asked her, “Can you be inarticulate?” She answered that it was not easy to talk simultaneously with the symptom. Her blood pressure was high and she was the diabetic.
I worried about the cerebral infarction of a left brain soon. When the inspection of MRI was thoroughly undergone, there was nothing wrong at all and the doctor made her go home.
It there is nothing unusual in the laboratory result, you may be all right though you have a symptom. The doctor sometimes recommends the psychic treatment when it is awful.
I am sure that we can see any rhythm or a big hint of the cause of the sickness because we see a lot of patients.
What lots of patients come to me, even if abnormality is not found anyway in laboratory results.
“Cause and result”
According to her background, the patient is a madam in the temple. Lots of visitors couldn’t give her time to have a rest. Moreover visitors brought a lot of sweet, and she ate them every day.
In addition, she stopped taking a walk as a habit because her right leg became difficult to move.
The vicious circle kept going. If let it be, the blood vessel will be blocked in the future.
Well, I looked after her body. “Warp of the Qi” (unbalance of whole) is found while searching for the vital point because the most of our diagnosis is the outside of the body observation (introduced it in the last column). Moreover diagnosis becomes the recovery point. In this case、I could see the poor flow of blood by the reason of the griding pulse, state of skin (like crawl blood), blackish vein in the back of tongue.
Moreover, the reaction had obviously gone out to the vital point concerning blood.
In addition, it was very hard because she felt much tension for a long time and there were also a lot of vital point that were considerably loose.
I always want to pray to these vital points. Because I am taught by the vital points which are the sign of the sickness, even if there is nothing wrong in the inspection.
“Subdivision and whole”
The master of acupuncture always says: “Only laboratory results are paid to attention and the medicine is overdosed cause a further intractable disease (sickness not cured easily). The key that solves the problems about such symptoms is definitely in patients’ lifestyle. It is not treatment there that gives something without investigating the cause. It only increases the number of patients.” I completely agree with him.
To discover the warp of the “qi” of the entire body in the standpoint of not the mechanistic theory but vitalism is the most important in Oriental medicine. And also touching by human’s hand directly. It is a very soft power (reason for nature). I believe that it is the starting point of the medical treatment there.
Western medicine subdivides man and discovers the various things are true.
Western medicine keeps pursuing the microscopic world by subdividing the human’s body. And Oriental medicine thinks that a human body is just like a small universe and the balance of the whole is important.
Both are also important. We need both medicines.
However, I assume the idea of the Oriental medicine is a main treatment in the 21st century, and Western medicine is supplementary, and am convinced 21st century becomes the true health century.
The human spirit and body can’t be separated and it is really delicate.
