77-year-old TCM doctor Zhang Xijian is suffering from cancer and writes 1 million words of medical books while practicing medicine

  "Every day is earned, I want to pass on my experience"

  There is a white board and a black marker in the consultation room of the “Zhang Xijian Famous Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance Studio” on the third floor of the Nanqiao Temple Department of Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. There is a white board and a black marker. The consultation room is the lecture hall, teaching and practicing medicine. The two most important parts of life.

Zhang Xijian, who has been in the medical profession for more than 50 years and is almost at his age, feels that every minute and every second is precious, "I earn it every day, and I want to pass on my experience."

  Teach the patient's pulse by writing on the blackboard

  Despite his advanced age, Zhang Xijian insists on attending outpatient clinics every week. In addition to seeing patients, his most important job is to teach his students the knowledge of Chinese medicine through each case.

Every Tuesday, it is Zhang Xijian's fixed teaching time, and Zhang's students will see a doctor with him in the consulting room.

  On the morning of the 18th, as usual, behind Zhang Xijian was a big white board.

At 11 o'clock, an elderly man walked into the consulting room and put the thick medical records in front of Zhang Xijian, "Lao Zhang, this is my latest physical examination report, saying that I have a serious stomach problem."

  After Zhang Xijian took the pulse carefully, he asked the two students in the consulting room to examine the patient's pulse. He turned around and drew the patient's pulse in the form of lines on the whiteboard behind him.

After marking the stagnant and changing areas in the pulse condition, Zhang Xijian began to explain the pulse condition in detail to the students and patients, “Here, the two sides are solid, and the middle is empty.” He pointed to the rising arrow in the middle of the pulse on the whiteboard, “Why is it? This way? Because the turbid air appeared in Zhongjiao." A pulse condition was explained in detail for nearly 5 minutes. There was only his voice in the consulting room. The students and patients watched his explanation and listened fully.

  Watching the student write down the pulse in his notebook in detail, he continued to inquire about the patient’s condition. Hearing the patient repeatedly mentioning his anxiety, Zhang Xijian patted him, “It will be better, you think too much, you Look, there is no big deal at all, don't scare yourself!"

  More than ten minutes have passed since a patient had finished reading it. The students erased the pulse records on the whiteboard and waited for the next patient to come by Zhang Xijian to draw a new pulse record. For so many years, every medical record was taught to the students by him.

  Before the patient came, the two students asked him to go to the toilet a bit tough, "Look, it's past 11 o'clock, are you not going?" The teacher asked the teacher to go to the toilet on time from 11 to 11:30 in the morning. It was owned by Zhang Xijian. The students know that Zhang Xijian has prostate cancer. Although he has recovered well after treatment, he needs long-term care, but he often forgets other things when he sees the doctor.

  Must form one's own theory of Chinese medicine

  After 12 o'clock in the afternoon, after reading all the registered patients that day, Zhang Xijian asked the students to send him back to his home in South Bank. According to his plan, he still had important work in the afternoon to organize and write his pulse-related theories.

  After 50 years of medical experience, Zhang Xijian has innovated, inherited and brought into play the pulse technology of traditional Chinese medicine. He created the theory of pulse theory. He advocated “pulse diagnosis first, the four diagnoses combined with reference”, and he discussed pulse diagnosis rules, fingering points and pulse conditions Both the identification and the main disease have their own characteristics, and these pulse theories have been well used in clinical practice.

  In Zhang Xijian's study, he has written nearly 1 million words.

Recently, one of his students, Zhu Danping, director of the Endocrinology Department of the Nanqiao Temple Department of Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, has helped him to type his handwritten manuscript into a computer file, and finally organize it into a book for publication.

Prior to this, Zhang Xijian's two pulse studies have been published, and these pulse theories have now become important theoretical knowledge in the study of Chinese medicine.

  "The teacher's book is organized by ourselves and divided into sections. What we can do is the work of a typist, because his thinking is too clear, and there is no need to follow up." Zhu Danping admires his teacher, and also very much. Feeling sorry for him, he hopes that the teacher can take more rest and give as few lectures as possible. "His vocal cords have been thickened due to years of teaching, but he still often teaches and trains in the hospital, and there is no way to stop him."

  Constantly teaching and writing, Zhang Xijian’s body is not so good anymore. “Sometimes when writing things in the afternoon, his brain is a little dizzy.” The students asked him to rest more, and he insisted on doing more, “I don’t know. It’s too late. Compared with Western medicine, which is based on theory, Chinese medicine is mostly based on experience teaching. We must form our own theory of Chinese medicine. We must have theories that can be used for reference and reference. The foundation of inheritance can be firmer and easier. ."

  Zhang Xijian said that he would go to the doctor and teach him to the moment when the physical condition is completely forbidden. "Even then, I can continue to study and sort out pulse theory if I can move my brain." In recent years, Zhang Xijian's son has slowly He followed his father to learn the pulse of TCM. He was not a TCM professional, but he was moved by his father's persistence. “The more one person learns these things, the more inheritance.”

  Chongqing Morning News·Upstream News Reporter Shi Heng and intern Huang Xin