Stage a comeback in Beijing Tibetan and Ethnic Medicine Hospital

Mo Shuzhen in fact is not stupid. She opened the infertility clinic when she was 27 years old, became well known when she was 28 years old. Her fame spread to neighboring provinces, people in Luxi County shouted "Viva Mo Shuzhen”. She came to Beijing when she was 32 years old, became popular in Beijing when she was 36 years old, came off duty when she was 37 years old. She had to start from very beginning when she was 38 years old.

The life of other people was smooth and successful, but Mo Shuzhen often made her life unbearable. There was no way, this is Mo Shuzhen.

A friend has been very concerned about the fate of the ups and downs of Mo. One day, he told Mo Shuzhen: "You go to Beijing Tibetan and Ethnic Medicine Hospital."

Mo Shuzhen said: "I am a Tujia doctor, why go to Beijing Tibetan and Ethnic Medicine Hospital?"

"In recent years the party and the government attached great importance to the development of national medicine, planned to expand this hospital with national investment. A modern national hospital will be soon established. The national medicines are assembled in that hospital. Our country is collecting the talents for it."

National Ethnic Hospital? A Tujia doctor could found a foothold in Beijing.

Then Mo Shuzhen came to this hospital for the second time. The classical aristocratic luxury style of the hospital was quietly lying in the community. Its elegant environment made Mo Shuzhen like this hospital at the first sight.

The president of the hospital, Huang Fukai, warmly received Mo Shuzhen, said: "Good, you come. Our hospital is mainly of the Tibetan medicine, also with multi-national medicines in it. Your Tujia medicine can come to join us. Our country is going to invest for expansion of this hospital.”

Mo Shuzhen felt warm in the heart. She told her friend: “Good! That's it, I’ll come to settle down in this hospital.”

On October 21, 1999, Mo Shuzhen came to Beijing Tibetan and Ethnic Medicine Hospital and started to work here. She was assigned to be the director of sterility department. Her life started from a new beginning again.

This hospital was elegant and quiet in environment, like in a nursing home. Mo Shuzhen was very happy with it.

During the past one year, Mo Shuzhen lost a lot. The connection with the outside, with the medias, and with the patients should be rebuilt.

One day, a lady with a brown face and long hair came to Dr. Mo’s office. She called with a clear and bright voice: "Are you not Dr. Mo?"

“Yes”.

"A friend of mine introduced me to find you here. She married for ten years but without pregnancy. You cured her, she gave birth to a son in the following year. But after that we couldn’t find you. Later we got to know from internet that you are in this hospital. I came from Africa." She told her story to Dr. Mo.

Originally she had a happy family and a lovely daughter. In 1992 they couple began to run a factory, made money as much as five hundred thousand. Men wound go bad if they are rich. She met such a thing. Her husband who was rich now had an affair, in illicit cohabitation with mistress, made her damaged a lot. She suffered from the disgrace. When her family property grew to one million, she resolutely put forward a divorce. Bringing along the five hundred thousand the court judged to her, she left for Africa. With the help of friends she started to do a business of zip-top cans.

In my impression, Africa is very hot and very poor. Most of my overseas patients were from the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and so on. “You go to Africa, can you make money there?”

She told me: "Most of the Africans are very poor, they are in bare feet, there are some people robbing things. Every day we are very nervous. When you sleep, you have to keep one eye open. But, in Africa the other side is that it is easy to do business. There are many rich people, each cans can sell four dollars."

Due to the stress of life, the market struggles, and the mental nervousness, she was made endocrine disordered, resulting in her amenorrhea. It was two years already.

She said: "Sometime ago, Africans flagrantly robbed my home, everything was taken away, a tall refrigerator was taken away, even the curtains were taken away. Four of the 8 containers were robbed away. I was trembling, went to the embassy for escape. One month later I came out. I sold the rest of the cans in the price of 8 dollars each. You see, without earning any coins.”

I asked: "In that poor place, you can sell cans at such a high price?" She said: "In that place, everything is lacking, I have to grind my teeth.” From then on, the bear foot Africans left a very deep impression in my mind.

I asked: "Why you choose such a poor and remote place to stay?"

She is very proud: "Dr. Mo, you don't know, I now bought a big villa in the rich people area with the money I made. Outside there is a swimming pool. I have three maidservants at home. When I come back home, immediately someone will come to take off the coat and give you slippers. That is a life like in the heaven."

I was in silence. I don't know, a 42-year-old woman with amenorrhea for two years lived a heaven-like life, how sweet it is?

Bringing my medicines with her, she returned to Africa, returned to her life. Every time when I think of the remote Africa, I always have an indelible disappointment in my mind.

Mo Shuzhen couldn't help thinking of another story. It was an evening in the summer of 1996, when Dr. Mo worked in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. After she finished the treatment for the last patient, it was the high time to come off duty. A woman with a luggage bag in her hand came in in sweating: “Dr. Mo Shuzhen is right here?”.

“Yes, I am.”

"I am Li, came from the United States, I'm sorry to bother you. You can take your rest time to talk with me?"

"Yes, please come in."

They two talked like friends. She told Dr. Mo about her struggles in a foreign country, about her husband, about her illness, and about her marriage crisis, etc.

She graduated from a domestic famous university and went to the United States for further study. She did quite well, so got appreciation of the instructor. After she began to work the United States, she got married with her boy friend who was two years younger than her age. "You cannot imagine how hard the life is when you live in a foreign country," she said.

She was pregnant. Because she was busy with her work, she had induced abortion. One year later, the endocrine disorders caused her obesity and amenorrhea. She was unable to be pregnant. Her husband was tired of her day by day.

Mo Shuzhen said to her: "I am confident to cure your disease. No matter how is your marriage, if you are pregnant, you must keep your child."

She timidly said: "Actually, we have separated. I dared not tell this news to my parents, only tell you the truth.” Mo Shuzhen didn't know what to say. The patient left the clinic, bringing Tujia herbal medicines with her and bringing hope with her.

The following is the story “A fruit grew in Norway”

One day in the afternoon, a patient walked into my office, weeping aloud. Outside in the corridor, her son, 12 years old, sat quietly.

I gave her a sheet of tissue gently. When she stopped crying, she told me the story. She was a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu province. She came from Norway. Her father was a famous university's President. She grew up in a superior family surroundings. When she studied in university, she fell in love with a boy, her classmate. The boy was very diligent, after getting master degree, he studied for doctorate then. After they got married the couple lived separately. The man worked in another place. She visited her husband in his city on their honeymoon. One month later, she was pregnancy and gave birth to a son.

Unfortunately, the man was always suspicious that the child was not his son, so he was uncomfortable all the time. Later, they both went abroad to Norway. Because he disliked the child, he was bad-tempered everyday at home. When he came home from work, he loudly scolded his wife and the child everyday, so that, when his son saw him, just like the mouse saw the cat. Every time, when he lost his temper, the son quickly hided into the room, frightened as a little rabbit.

The man got the doctorate in China and went abroad to study for PHD. His salary was good and social status high, then his was changed. The wife could not find job because of her language problem, so she had to do the housework at home, becoming in a lower position gradually, the life got more and more difficult for her. After the abortion some years ago, she was in a bad mood and didn’t get pregnancy any more. Now she was 40 years old, had oligomenorrhea for two years and salpingitis as well. She thought, if we could have one more baby, my husband would have no complaints this time.

I asked: "So high his cultural level, why is this so?" She said: "He has two PHDs. He grew up in a small town, his parents divorced when he was small. He was unsociable and eccentric, maybe relating to his family surroundings.”

So, there is any relation of diploma with morality? In my mind I always asked about this.

She brought herbal medicines with her and went home. A few months later, she called me and said she was already pregnant. Sometime later she gave birth to a son too. This was a good news for me as usual, but I was not as joyful as before as I heard good news, instead, a very sour bitter coming into my mind. I do not know how is her family life now since I didn’t get any news of her thereafter.

The story “When drink water, don’t forget the person who dug the well” is as follows:

One day, it was a clear female voice coming from a phone call: "Dr. Mo Shu-zhen?"

I said: "Yes, I am." "Oh! Finally we found you." "Who are you?"

"Zhao Xiao-mei!" She loudly spoke out her name, then said like a machine gun, "Oh! I finally found you. My mom at home every day scolded me, said when drink water don’t forget the person who dug the well. You gave birth to a son but didn’t go to see the Dr. Mo. Actually, I've been looking for you all the time. Yesterday from the newspaper I know that you are in Beijing National Hospital. Now, I am hurried to call you. Dr. Mo, one day I’ll bring my son to go to thank you!"

Zhao Xiao-mei, I remembered her. She is a patient that I used medicines the longest in course. She got married five years but without pregnancy, and she had oviduct obstruction and amenorrhea. Treatment in Beijing many hospitals was not effective, test-tube baby two times not successful either. The whole family was very worried. With the treatment of my herbal medicines for half a year, the oviduct became unobstructed, for another half a year, menstruation became normal, but she still was not pregnant. I was disappointed, and said to them, " Forget it. Two treatment courses already, if it is effective, you will be pregnant already. If not, you should think of other ways!"

In that year, there were many patients around me, three layers inside three layers outside, after my assistant finished writing case history, each patient came to me only five minutes for talking. But when the mother of Zhao Xiao-mei came, she would every time talk for a long time. Every time I saw them, I felt my head growing bigger. I asked them to give up, they told me firmly: "Dr. Mo, we believe you, we’ll insist." Later, Zhao Xiao-mei took medicines one more 3-month, and finally got pregnant. That year, her mother came especially to tell me this good news.

For this special mother and daughter, I had deep impression, of course, I remembered them. Later, Zhao Xiao-mei produced a son, the whole family was very happy.

Example cases:

In the winter 1999, a tall woman carrying her beautiful one-year-old daughter in her arm came to Mo Shuzhen’s clinic. She said excitedly: "Dr. Mo, do you remember me? I was a patient with habitual abortions. It is your treatment that helped me to get pregnancy and gave birth to my daughter. You see, she is one year old now." The little girl in her arms was very cute, with thick eyebrows, big eyes.

This was a patient of 39 years old. She was married for 13 years. After she had four times abortions she was diagnosed "chromosome abnormality". Mo Shuzhen treated her with the principle of reinforcing the kidney Yang for two months, and then with the herbal medicines for prevention of abortion after she got pregnancy. She gave birth smoothly to a girl.

Madame Lin, 35 years old, from The Capital Steel Plant，had 3 times abortion after getting married for ten years. In western medicine, she was diagnosed “ABO hemolysis”. She used Tujia herbal medicines for treatment in Dr. Mo Shuzhen’s clinic. Later, a twin boys were born. The whole family of the patient was extremely happy and said many thanks to Dr. Mo.

A patient from Inner Mongolia, 30 years old, married 3 years without getting pregnancy. She was diagnosed as "tubal tuberculous blocking".

This is the most difficult disease in infertility. Mo Shuzhen told the patient that it was difficult to treat, but she would try with effort.

The patient took medicine home for treatment for three months. After taking these medicines, she was pregnant, making a miracle.

A few days later, a 41-year-old patient came and said: "I had tuberculous salpingitis, Xiehe Hospital told me that they have no way to treat it. With treatment of your Tujia medicines for one month, I am pregnant, it is really a miracle!"

In winter on a snowing day, a woman from Fengtai district Beijing came to see Dr. Mo. The woman said happily: "Dr. Mo, for a long time no see, do you remember me?"

She said: "I had an ectopic pregnancy before, the doctor did salpingectomy for me. In December 1997, I took your medicine here for five months and then I got pregnancy. In the fifth month of pregnancy I went to hospital for a check. They said I had cervical erosion, then they applied medicine to the cervical region, leading to a premature birth. What a pity."

How a western medicine doctor made such a stupid mistake? The patient took herbal medicines for two more months, and she was pregnant again, later she gave birth to a boy.

Thereafter, this patient often introduced infertility patients to Dr. Mo.

After the Spring Festival of 2000, a couple holding a bouquet of flowers to Mo Shuzhen’s office, and kindly said: "Dr. Mo, thank you very much, you see, this is our son." The beautiful baby with sparkling eyes in the cradle was smile sweetly.

Mo Shuzhen had too many patients, she tried hard to recall from her memory. The woman said, "I have suspending embryo growth twice. When I had the third time pregnancy, I had bleeding again since the 22nd day of pregnancy. At that time, you just left the clinic of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, so we had to go to your home for getting more medicine. Now we’ve got our son.”