Chapter 312: Cola Can Cure Illness

"When will the surgery be?" the family member of the patient in the next bed asked. "Hurry it up. I saw a patient in the room next door who had a blockage for too long, which delayed treatment, and in the end, several meters of their intestines had to be cut out."

"I'll go find the doctor and try to..."

"Wait a moment." Ji Xiang immediately opened his eyes; if he waited any longer, he might be the one getting cut open.

Ji Xiang did not have a masochistic streak, so he said immediately, "I want to use cola for a gastric lavage, not have surgery."

"Dad!" the daughter said unhappily. "Don't be senile. Cola, that's cola! You're using this stuff for a gastric lavage—is that treating an illness? Don't always think surgery is such a big deal; look at the uncle in the next bed, isn't he doing just fine?"

"No," Ji Xiang said firmly. "You call the doctor over; I will speak to the doctor myself."

"Dad, why are you so stubborn! It's one thing to be like a child usually, but for such a big matter, can't you just listen to me?"

The father and daughter were at a stalemate for a minute, and finally, under Ji Xiang's insistence, the daughter had no choice but to go find the doctor.

A doctor wearing glasses came to the ward, and seeing it was not Zhou Jiaoshou, Ji Xiang was slightly disappointed.

Having met a few times, Ji Xiang admired Zhou Jiaoshou in his heart, to the point that he looked forward to meeting him every time.

Although it was only an Empathy illusion, Ji Xiang did not want to encounter a quack doctor.

"Doctor, please explain the principle of gastric lavage with cola to me," Ji Xiang said, enduring the pain and the turbulent discomfort in his stomach.

"Oh? You know that cola can treat illnesses?" the doctor was pleasantly surprised.

"I have heard of it," Ji Xiang said.

"Hawthorn has a high content of pectin and tannic acid, which easily coagulates into water-insoluble precipitates after contacting gastric acid, sticking together with food residue to form gastric stones. These stones can cause gastric ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, and even necrosis and Perforation of the stomach wall."

"Your situation is quite special; the gastroscope shows two large stones blocking the pylorus, unable to pass, causing incomplete obstruction."

"So cola is useful, right?"

"Because cola contains phosphoric acid, it can combine with elemental phosphorus and also with calcium, effectively destroying the polymerized substances of plant-based stones and some mixed stones."

The daughter did not understand and wanted to stop them several times, but seeing the old man's insistence and the doctor speaking so logically, she held back and said nothing in the end.

"However, using cola is also a matter of luck. If you're lucky, it can be removed. If you're unlucky, you'll still need surgery," the doctor added at the end.

Doctors always talk like this; Ji Xiang automatically filtered out his last sentence.

"I know, let's try it first," Ji Xiang said.

The doctor felt a bit hesitant, looking at Ji Xiang and then at the woman.

Everything that needed to be said was in that look; it was self-evident.

"Doctor, I will talk to my daughter," Ji Xiang said. "She will come to find you to sign the papers in a moment. Don't worry, we are reasonable and won't cause trouble for the hospital."

"That's good."

After the doctor left, a sharp argument erupted between Ji Xiang and his daughter.

However, the argument was interrupted by a bout of severe abdominal pain before long.

Ji Xiang clutched his stomach, cold sweat layering his forehead, unable to wipe it all away.

A stomachache is not a disease, but when it hurts, it's truly life-threatening.

Fortunately, the pain did not last long, and it eased after two or three minutes.

Although the time was short, the bedsheet under Ji Xiang was soaked, and he looked as if he had just been fished out of water, with a human-shaped imprint left on it.

"It's too painful," Ji Xiang said with a hoarse voice.

Although he felt slightly better, he was still extremely uncomfortable. Ji Xiang looked at his daughter pitifully with a raspy voice, "Let me try it first. Using cola for a gastric lavage won't kill anyone anyway, don't you think?"

The daughter didn't know where to put her hands and feet, but seeing the old man start talking to her after feeling slightly better, she nodded repeatedly.

Since he insisted, she would try it, even though she didn't think at all that cola could cure an illness.

"Go sign the papers, and be polite to the doctor," Ji Xiang instructed. "He said using cola is worth a try, which is also for my own good; it doesn't mean it will definitely work. If it has no effect, then we'll have surgery to remove the stones. Do you remember?"

"I remember."

The daughter held Ji Xiang's cold hand, her own palms covered in sweat, agreeing to whatever he said.

Ji Xiang finally let out a long sigh.

When he experienced Urological Calculus through Empathy, he felt as if the sky were falling, and at the time, he felt Urological Calculus was the most severe illness in the world.

But now, feeling the gastric stones, the sensation was exactly the same.

Being sick is truly miserable, no matter what the illness is.

Because Ji Xiang had given such detailed instructions, the communication between his daughter and the doctor went smoothly, and soon Ji Xiang was taken to the Endoscopy Room.

Entering the operating room, the doctor wearing glasses patted Ji Xiang, "Old man, communicating with you is truly refreshing."

"Sigh, the child is ignorant and thinks cola is unreliable just by hearing the name," Ji Xiang said. "Coca-Cola was originally sold in pharmacies; it was purely a medicine."

"Ha, you even know that."

"I know a little bit," Ji Xiang suppressed his discomfort and tried to force a smile. "Is it painful when you perform the treatment?"

"It should be fine, but old man, let's agree that we are just trying it out," the doctor wearing glasses stated cautiously once again.

Ji Xiang truly hated this kind of doctor who was so rigorous they bordered on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

However, he figured he was probably the same in Clinical practice, always repeatedly telling patients about potential complications, no matter how low the probability.

The standard of the 912 Gastrointestinal Surgery was high; there was a gastrointestinal endoscopy room right in the Gastrointestinal Surgery ward, so relevant examinations could be done within the department.

Lying on the operating table, Ji Xiang began to feel a bit nervous.

He didn't know why, but whenever he lay here, his palms would always sweat; perhaps it was a physiological reflex.

"Old man, it might be a little uncomfortable, but it's tolerable. Pay attention, and if you can't stand it, tell me, and I will stop."

"Mm." Ji Xiang felt this doctor was very considerate and nodded.

The daughter had bought 5 large bottles of cola. The doctor opened the cola and began to draw it out with a 50ml Syringe, injecting it into the stomach along the gastric tube.

This stuff is refreshing to drink, but if it's actually injected, the feeling is completely different.

As the amount of cola increased, Ji Xiang began to feel gastric distension. After injecting enough cola, the doctor clamped the gastric tube and began to wait.

It wasn't particularly uncomfortable, just gastric distension.

"Old man, many patients can just drink cola themselves. You were vomiting too severely, your ions are already imbalanced, so for the sake of safety, it is better to be hospitalized for treatment," the bespectacled Doctor chatted with Ji Xiang.

"It feels a bit bloated, my stomach is bulging, but I don't have any feeling of nausea or vomiting," Ji Xiang said.

"That's for sure, the cola is currently taking effect inside your stomach," the Doctor smiled, "Wait 20 minutes, then I will extract the cola and put new cola in."

(End of this chapter)