08/04/2026
当医师说病患需要看西医，别误会，这不是医师的医术水平不够高，这是医师对病患负责任，还有许多经验预测及评估病人的证候及症候。
以下分享一个病例：
某病患，男性，65岁，身体略微肥胖，病人的双手感觉麻木，全身无力，下肢水肿，走路容易跌倒，感觉走路喘，舌苔腻而中裂，血糖14，血压上压150，下压95。医师号脉后，和病患的家属说，病人很有可能会中风，建议病患去医院就诊。接着，医师为病患进行针灸疗法，也开了几副草药，给病人服用。
回家2日后，病患吃完一剂草药后，坐在厕所马桶站不起来，全身无力，尤其是左侧手脚，完全没有力；于是，家人就送病患入医院的紧急部门。经西医诊断，西医说：病人只是小中风，没有脑出血的情况。
2日后，病患出院。出院后，血压下降到正常水平，上压110，下压65，走路也不喘，双下肢水肿消失，手足麻木改善。血糖也显著减少到11。病患看到自己的身子改善了许多，就继续地服1星期的中药，血糖进一步下降到8.5，其他指数都趋于正常值。
顺带一提，有些中药服了过后，或许在病患好转之前，病情或许会短暂地更严重，请大家无须担心。
When a TCM physician tells a patient to see a medical doctor, this does not mean the physician's is incompetent; it means the physician is responsible for the patient, and might have extensive experience in predicting and assessing a patient's symptoms.
Here's a case example:
There is a patient who is 65-year-old, slightly obese, who experienced numbness in his hands. His feet feel weak and swollen. He also had frequent falls, shortness of breath. He presented a greasy and cracked tongue coating, a blood sugar level of 14 mmol/L, and blood pressure of 150/95 (mmHg). After taking his pulse, the doctor told the patient's family that he was likely to have a stroke and advised him to go to the hospital. The doctor then later carried out acupuncture and prescribed some herbal medicine.
Two days after returning home, after taking one dose of herbal medicine, the patient was unable to get up from the toilet bowl, experiencing giddiness and weakness, especially in his left hand and leg. His family took him to the hospital's emergency department. The doctor diagnosed him with a minor stroke, without any brain hemorrhage.
Two days later, the patient was discharged. After discharge, their blood pressure dropped to normal levels, 110/65 mmHg, and they no longer experienced shortness of breath while walking. The edema in both lower limbs disappeared, and the numbness in their hands and feet improved. Their blood sugar also significantly decreased to 11 mmol/L. Seeing significant improvement, the patient continued taking the traditional Chinese medicine for another week, further reducing their blood sugar to 8.5 mmol/L, and other indicators returned to normal.
Some traditional Chinese medicine treatments, to improve the patient’s conditions, may appear temporarily to worsen, before the patient’s recovery.
