Chapter Nineteenth: The Return of Good Friends

  "Hehe, Dr. Wang has already said that he's just trying it out and also guarantees that his treatment won't affect everyone's condition. We just need to cooperate with his treatment and let him understand the situation at any time. When we find a suitable bone marrow, we can still have surgery as usual. Let's consider it, after all, trying more means having more opportunities." Seeing the hesitant expressions of many patients' families, Yang Yiming comforted them again, believing that even if Wang Zhi really couldn't cure them, at least he wouldn't affect their current condition.

  After hearing Professor Yang Yiming's words, some patients' families were somewhat moved. After all, Wang Zhi's reputation was there, and trying it out wouldn't hurt anything.

  "That Dr. Wang, I don't know what your treatment costs are..." a patient's family member asked tentatively.

  "Hehe, my treatment won't cost you all a single penny, and any medication will be provided for free, so please don't worry about that." Wang Zhi said with a slight smile. Although Wang Zhi currently doesn't hold any position at the Central Hospital, telling Zhang Peihou this simple request shouldn't be difficult, after all, apart from a few precious and expensive medicinal herbs, ordinary herbs aren't very expensive, and besides, with Wang Zhi's current wealth, he can still afford it.

  "Free?" Hearing Wang Zhi's words, many people exclaimed in surprise. After all, although they had some subsidies for their medical expenses here, there was still a significant burden. This was also one of the reasons why many people hesitated when they heard that Wang Zhi wanted to try treating them earlier. Now that it's free, what's there to hesitate about? Not only is it free, but it also guarantees no worsening of the condition. Who would refuse such a good thing?

  After getting Wang Zhi's guarantee, many patients' families were willing to let Dr. Wang try the treatment, which surprised Wang Zhi a bit. He originally thought that finding one or two people would be good enough, but he didn't expect there to be so many.

  After careful consideration, among the twenty or so people, except for a few who were well-off and unwilling to take risks, everyone else had signed up, with as many as nine people. This made Wang Zhi Xi overjoyed, after all, the more people there were, the more situations Wang could observe, which would be more beneficial for his future use of medicine.

  After that, Wang Zhi also checked on the condition of several patients. Through his meticulous examination, he gained a lot more information and decided to go back and first try prescribing some medicine to see its effect and observe their reaction to traditional Chinese medicine.

  From the leukemia patient, Wang Zhi's mood was somewhat heavy. Having practiced medicine for many years, he had always been carefree and optimistic, with his treatments yielding quick results. But now, he felt helpless watching so many young men and women in their prime being tormented by illness.

  The cause and symptoms of leukemia are now well understood. Leukemia is a malignant proliferation of leukemic cells in the bone marrow, spleen, liver and other hematopoietic organs, which can enter the bloodstream and infiltrate various tissues and organs throughout the body. Clinically, it can manifest as varying degrees of anemia, bleeding, infection, fever, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy and bone pain.

  Its characteristics are that leukemia cells proliferate malignantly and unrestrictedly in the bone marrow and other hematopoietic organs, infiltrating all tissues and organs throughout the body, producing different symptoms; there are changes in the quantity and quality of blood cells in the peripheral blood. Every day, the bone marrow can produce hundreds of billions of new blood cells, most of which are red blood cells. However, people with leukemia have a higher production of white blood cells than they actually need, and most of these white blood cells are immature, or blasts, which survive longer than normal. Despite the large number of these white blood cells, they cannot fight infections like normal white blood cells do. The increase in these white blood cells can directly affect the function of some important organs and the production of normal healthy blood cells. Due to the malignant proliferation of tumor cells, it inhibits the production of red blood cells and platelets that stop bleeding, and even lacks enough normal white blood cells to fight infections, making it easy to get hurt, bleed, and become infected.

  To completely cure leukemia, it is necessary to alleviate the growth and variation of white blood cells and restore the function of normal hematopoietic cells. It sounds simple, but the main production organ of hematopoietic cells is the bone marrow, which is also the most difficult place for drugs to reach. Even if there are some drugs that can restore the function of hematopoietic cells, patients cannot absorb them well, so even if they have some suppressive effect, they still cannot alleviate the condition, and at best can only prolong the patient's life.

  All the way, Wang Zhi was thinking in his mind that he hoped to find some more effective drugs for combination, so as to find a feasible method. Unconsciously, Wang Zhi had returned to the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. At this time, there was still some time before getting off work. With nothing to do, Wang Zhi flipped through some latest medical journals about leukemia. Although these journals were all about Western medicine theories and inferences, at Wang Zhi's level, there were also places where they could learn from each other.

  After flipping through the magazine for a while, there was no new progress for the time being. Wang Zhi could only try to open some nourishing and blood-activating prescriptions first, see the effect, and then make plans. After all, this kind of disease can't be solved in one day.

  After a moment of contemplation, Wang Zhi first wrote out a simple prescription, mainly consisting of honeysuckle flower, salvia root, dandelion, pseudostellaria root, gastrodia tuber and licorice root. These ordinary Chinese herbs have the effect of nourishing and tonifying blood, will not affect the patient's condition, and can be used to test the patient's absorption of traditional Chinese medicine.

  The prescription was written, and Wang Zhi instructed the nurse to send it to the pharmacy. Starting tomorrow, the medication would be administered to those patients. As for him, he planned to visit Lin Xueyan, although they had been together day and night these past few days, there was still Xu Xiaoran in between them, and some things couldn't be said casually.

  As he walked, Wang Zhi secretly sighed to himself, wondering if he was being too greedy. Others would be thrilled to have just one of them, but he couldn't help thinking about both of them, which seemed a bit excessive.

  Although he thought it was excessive in his heart, Wang Zhi didn't want to let go of any of them, those lovely beauties. If they were to run into someone else's arms, wouldn't that be depressing?

  Wang Zhigang walked halfway when his mobile phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and found that it was a local strange number.

  "Who could it be?" Wang Zhi slightly guessed and picked up the phone, a familiar voice came over: "Little Zhi, you kid still uses this number? Do you know who I am?"

  Wang Zhi heard the voice and smiled slightly, it was actually this kid A Ze.

  His name is Cheng Zexu, and he can be considered a good friend of Wang Zhi since childhood. However, this kid didn't attend university and instead joined the army for more than four years. It's been a long time since they last met. Last year, he still called Wang Zhi frequently, but this year they have had little contact. Fortunately, the traditional Chinese medicine college that Wang Zhi attended is in Jianghuai, so his phone number hasn't changed.

  "Haha, it's A Ze, you little rascal, you're willing to come back." Wang Zhi also said with a smile.

  "Haha, I just got back today and gave you a call. How about we get together? I've invited several old friends too." Azhe said with a smile.

  "Alright, where is it? I'll come over." Wang Zhi said, looking at the time. It was only an hour until the end of work, and sneaking out now shouldn't be a problem.

  "Come on, everyone, hurry up, don't keep everyone waiting." Azhe urged.

  "This kid seems to be doing well, all set." Wang Zhi hung up the phone, smiled slightly and left the hospital, took a ride straight to Wanda.

  PS: Tomorrow is Monday again, and this week there are still no recommendations. The editor told XiaoXiao that the number of signed books is too large, and XiaoXiao estimates that it will be next week. This week, I still hope that book friends will continue to work hard, once again putting Traditional Chinese Medicine on top, letting everyone know that even without a recommendation, Traditional Chinese Medicine is still very powerful. Moreover, this book has been uploaded for about 20 days now, and it's also the last week on the new book chart. Everyone, please don't let Traditional Chinese Medicine fall off the chart in vain!