I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 283 - 249: Lupus

"Lemon water can reduce uric acid!?"

Fang Qian heard Lu Jiu's words, and immediately widened his eyes in disbelief.

This is even more outrageous than sugar closing a wound.

If it's true, then lemons could completely replace uric acid-lowering drugs, and compared to drugs, food almost has no side effects.

If this research is proven, it would be a devastating blow to uric acid-lowering drugs.

Far greater than the impact of sugar.

Comparing it to diabetes, it's like a food replacing the effect of metformin, without side effects.

There are over a hundred million diabetes patients nationwide, and the profit of drugs and pharmaceutical companies behind it might be in the tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

Although gout patients are less than one hundred million, only over eighty million, this data is definitely outdated.

So, the value behind researching whether lemon water can replace uric acid-reducing drugs is enormous.

This not only relieves many gout patients from financial burdens but also eases the national health insurance load.

Because conventional uric acid-lowering drugs are included in the national health insurance.

In the past three years, the economy has been declining, many people's salaries have decreased, various industries are cutting expenses, and even the iron rice bowl of civil servants is showing a trend of salary reduction.

National health insurance is also struggling to maintain support.

If this research is prioritized, it would be a definite boon for the country and its people!

As for the capital behind it,

Fang Qian just laughed, "Your worker's grandpa doesn't have the surname 'Capital'."

"Lu Jiu, if you are sure, then let's immediately start the experimental research, I'll apply to the director!" Fang Qian said.

"Rest assured, I have no need to fool you, but this time, I hope our hospital can also participate." Lu Jiu said.

"Oh? That couldn't be better, it's just right for us to do several control group experiments, and I'm also quite interested in knowing how traditional Chinese medicine views the issue of uric acid. If traditional Chinese medicine can also reduce uric acid, and even better than lemons, then the content of this paper will be even richer." Fang Qian said.

"But there's a problem," Lu Jiu said.

"What problem?" Fang Qian said.

"Our hospital has too few patients, and even fewer gout patients, so I'm afraid we can't conduct the experiment." Lu Jiu said.

"I thought it'd be something, this is simple, I can recommend some patients to your hospital. Let's first select sixty patients, thirty from us, thirty from you, first to agree to use lemon water to reduce uric acid, in the second phase, use traditional Chinese medicine to reduce uric acid. Of course, we won't use it on our side, you use it on your side, then compare the results. Oh right, your hospital just opened, and might lack enough research staff, I'll lend you two people, you already know them, one is called Tong Fei, and the other is called Wen Cheng." Fang Qian said.

"What about you?" Lu Jiu felt a little embarrassed.

"Don't worry about me, there are many people in the department. Moreover, this research originally requires additional manpower. I'll apply to the director later, don't worry about it." Fang Qian smiled.

As long as the paper can be successfully completed, manpower would barely be an issue for Fang Qian.

After discussing some details, they set the date for the experiment. Later, Fang Qian would send gout patients from People's Hospital to Lu Jiu's place for treatment.

Lu Jiu also informed all the doctors in the hospital about this news.

They all unanimously agreed.

Although they were still skeptical about whether lemons can lower uric acid, they were confident about subsequently using traditional Chinese medicine to reduce uric acid.

Of course, strictly speaking, uric acid reduction is not the main focus of TCM.

When treating gout patients, TCM basically restores the patient's own functions while eliminating pathogens, without focusing on the uric acid data.

Many times, after restoring the patient's own function, uric acid naturally decreases.

However, within others' discourse systems, their research can only develop in this direction, otherwise, they wouldn't even have the right to speak.

As long as this joint research paper can effectively prove that TCM can reduce uric acid without side effects, that would be sufficient!

...

A week quickly passed. Fang Qian also sent Wen Cheng and Tong Fei over and had thirty gout patients transferred to Lu Jiu TCM Hospital.

Before this, they and their families had also signed contracts agreeing to cooperate with the research.

Lu Jiu also began treating these thirty gout patients with lemon-infused water.

Of course, Lu Jiu did not personally conduct the specific work, it was Peng Yan, Sun Yuanwen, and Zhang Xiaoyong.

They were the earliest to know about this matter and were particularly curious about lemon water reducing uric acid, so they volunteered to participate in this research project along with Lu Jiu.

Their names might not be mentioned in the paper, but they must be present for the experimental process.

Wen Cheng and Tong Fei were specifically there to record the data.

On the first day, all thirty gout patients drank two cups of lemon-infused water.

Wen Cheng and Tong Fei initially thought that even if lemons were truly effective, it would probably take ten days to half a month.

However, after these gout patients drank one cup in the morning and one in the afternoon, by eight or nine in the evening when tested, almost everyone had a reduction of seventy to eighty from their original values.

This conclusion shocked the two!

It wasn't that the decrease was high, but that the speed of uric acid reduction was astonishingly fast.

If this data went public, those unaware might think they had taken medication.

However, a temporary reduction does not mean it will decrease every day.

Generally speaking, the uric acid level for gout patients is around four to five hundred, with extreme cases reaching six to seven hundred.

With medication treatment, it typically takes two to four weeks to bring uric acid down to normal levels.

If lemon water could achieve this within a month, bringing all these gout patients' uric acid levels to normal,

The value of this experiment would be extraordinarily high!

It's almost foreseeable that it could be featured again in the Huaxia Medical Journal!

Because this research has a higher gold content than sugar closing a wound!

Wen Cheng and his colleagues were quite excited, they never thought they'd encounter such a great opportunity in their medical careers.

If they could truly participate in two consecutive papers published in the top domestic journals, their future career advancement would be halfway secure.

In the following days, Wen Cheng and his colleagues kept recording experimental data.

Almost every day, these patients' uric acid levels decreased. Of course, the values also reduced—some by fifty to sixty, others by twenty to thirty—but overall, it was declining.

Lu Jiu no longer paid attention to these, after all, the experimental results would take a month; during this period, only the data recorded by Wen Cheng and Tong Fei was needed.

"Dr. Lu, oh my, Dr. Lu, I finally found you! I haven't seen you for months, how did you move to such a big hospital? I even heard people say that you founded this hospital, are you now the director?"

At the end of the day, Lu Jiu was about to ride his e-bike home when someone dashed over as soon as he put on his helmet.

It was none other than Qiao Ling, who had previously consulted him.

"Looking for me? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Ah, it's not me. It's a friend of mine, she... she's diagnosed with lupus."

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