Chinese medicine diagnosis: South Zhan bone-setting

"Old Changsha" are aware of such a history: in 1932, the Nationalist Party provincial chairman He key in Changsha to organize and hold a province's martial arts masters tournament, invited Changning Zhan Shun Ting father and son of the clinical medical. A Northern School player was hit and fell to the ground, unable to move, Zhan Gong father and son to the secret of the sparing the meridian rescue that is healed, the injured person should climb up, return to the original team. The story spread in Changsha, and Zhan Gong was called "Zhan Fa Shi" (Master Zhan).

Changning City, Hunan Province, Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to orthopedics and traumatology, in Hunan and outside the province, and has a hundred years of inheritance of the "South Zhan orthopedics" is known as the hospital characteristics of orthopedics and traumatology of the soul. The reporter recently visited the 84-year-old "Nanzhan bone-setting" heir, Mr. Tang Yiyan.

Hunan Province, one of the two main streams of traditional Chinese medicine orthopedics "South Zhan and North Zhang" "South Zhan orthopedics", originated in Changning. The great Zhan Shunting (1874~1945) is Hunan Changning Litang people, since childhood from the teacher of martial arts, 18 years old as a bodyguard, 20 years old because of arm injuries aspiring to learn the art of medical injury. So he visited, successively in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan provinces teacher more than 10 people, assiduous self-study, integration of the master's long, original creation of their own orthopedic system "Maolu orthopedic medicine", i.e., the South Zhan orthopedic system, and with apprenticeships, training of more than a dozen orthopedic professionals such as Tang Wenxuan, Chen Fan, Zhan Zhenchuan.

Zhan Zhenchuan (1911~1987), the heir of "South Zhan Orthopedic", followed his father's profession, learned medicine with his father at the age of 16, and practiced medicine with his father at the age of 20 in Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Gan, Shanghai and Ningxia, etc. He participated in the joint clinic in 1952, and transferred to Changning County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1956, and founded the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology.1970, he was the master of his nephew, Tang Yiyang (Tang Wenxuan). In 1970, his nephew Tang Yiyang (son of Tang Wenxuan) was transferred to the hospital, and Zhan Zhenchuan and Tang Yiyang joined hands to **** forward, so that the "South Zhan Bone-setting" has been better utilized and played. In the early 1980s, Zhan Zhenchuan and Tang Yiyang were awarded the title of the first batch of "famous Chinese medicine practitioners" in Hunan Province.

The main feature of "Nan Zhan Bone Setting" is that in the clinical application, the eight methods of bone setting are mastered flexibly, and the skillful use of manipulative bone-setting techniques can be used to gently, quickly and accurately reset the fracture under the state of painless or less painful condition of the patient, with bone-setting pliers, meridian knives, cedar splints, and the traditional traditional Chinese herbal prescriptions, which can achieve the purpose of curing the disease very quickly. The purpose of the disease is to cure the disease very quickly.

Nan Zhan Bone-setting especially emphasizes the "technique", which must be light and heavy, accurate, fast and in place, which is the key to the success or failure of the reset, healing speed, functional recovery. To master the orthopedic manipulation, one must have a solid knowledge of human anatomy, the second to learn and practice more practice, in order to do in the manipulation of orthopedics on the "hand touching the heart will be", "hand with the heart", "law from the hand out! The result will be "the hand touches the heart", "the hand follows the heart" and "the law comes out from the hand". For the long tube bone fracture and vertebral compression fracture which is difficult to achieve the effect of manipulative bone-setting, with the use of bone-setting pliers, there are meridians out of the groove, misplaced, the application of the meridian knife, so that out of the groove, misplaced meridians back to the position. For closed rib fracture, femur fracture and joint dislocation, the knife also has a miraculous effect.

For patients with fracture after manipulation, "Nan Zhan Bone-setting" adopts cedar bark as external fixation splints which are flexible, breathable and easy to be shaped. For the production of cedar veneer splints, "Nanzhan Bone-setting" is very concerned about the number, length and shape of the splints according to different parts and different types of fractures. For example, the surgical neck fracture of humerus is divided into internal and external type of splint making. For example, the posterior lateral plate is 5-6cm longer than the anterior lateral plate, and the shoulder peak end is positioned as a semi-bow and perforated in the center of this end, and the axillary splint is fixed with a semi-circle of adhesive tape to form a mushroom head, which facilitates the fixation and does not slip off, and also plays a better role in the external fixation.

Traditional bone injury series of traditional Chinese medicine prescription, is "South Zhan orthopedics" a hundred years of clinical experience of the summary of its rigorous formula, flexible use of the subsequent healing of patients with bone injuries play a unique role. On the basis of the internal treatment of orthopedics and traumatology in early, middle and late stages of medication, the compilation of medication according to the meridian flow injection and according to the injury points and the introduction of meridian medication, etc., which promotes the early recovery of the patient has doubled the effect with half the effort and effect.

For the convenience of patients, Changning City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine will "South Zhan orthopedic" ancestral secret formula and experience, according to the principle of three-phase treatment of bone fracture, respectively, developed into a series of orthopedic and traumatology Chinese patent medicines with the ability to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, promote qi, swelling and pain relief, renew the tendons and bones, and promote the growth of bone scabs and bone fracture healing. The types of preparations have developed from pills and wine to tinctures and oral liquids.

Since the founding of New China, "Nan Zhan Bone-setting" has been very influential in southern Hunan. Because of its traditional methods with cedar splints, Chinese herbal remedies for the treatment of patients, the cost of medicine is very low, so that many patients are exempted from the pain of surgery and the burden of expensive medical costs. The average cost per outpatient visit is generally less than 100 yuan per person, and the average cost per bed day for hospitalized patients is generally less than 250 yuan. The cost of medicines does not exceed 45% of the total cost of medicines, which makes the number of patients continue to increase, with an annual increase of 5% for outpatients and more than 20% for inpatients. The hospital's orthopedic and traumatology inpatients account for 65% of the total inpatients. Due to the brand effect, patients outside the community accounted for 47.6% of orthopedic patients, in addition to patients in the province, Guangdong, Guangxi, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Chongqing and other 15 provinces and municipalities in the country, patients also came to seek medical treatment.