Jia's family has also become a wonder of the local area and even the whole county. Two strong men carried a "normal person" to the hospital. In July 2000, Dr. Ding, deputy director of the Psychiatry Department of the Sixth People's Hospital of Shijiazhuang, received the strangest case in her 20-year medical career: the patient came from a poor mountainous area and looked healthy and normal, but he didn't look seriously ill, but he was carried by the village party secretary with two strong men as soon as he came in.
"Doctor, please help me, help our family. I really don't want to live if I can't see the disease this time. I can't stand up for more than ten years. "
Dr. Ding carefully looked at the thick medical records brought by patients in major hospitals such as Hebei Provincial People's Hospital, and all the examination results on the medical records were normal, indicating that the patients were normal and healthy. Careful Dr. Ding saw that although the patient said that he could not stand up and walk, he was embarrassed and wanted to prove that he could not stand up. When the patient crawls strangely on the ground, his legs and feet are very flexible, and there is no sign of atrophy or paralysis. After checking the nervous system reaction of the leg, make sure there is no problem.
"What is this?" Looking at the patient's expectant and painful eyes, Dr. Ding did not immediately express his position. However, from the patient's conversation and the photos and videos of the patient's family brought by the village cadres, she quickly found the problem.
The "strange disease family" lives an isolated life.
Nanyu Village is a mountain village with more than 2,000 people in the west of Hebei Province, near Niangziguan in Shanxi Province. The "strange family" is now the poorest family in this village. After Jia Hui was admitted to the hospital, the author heard the news and followed the village party secretary Jia Zhimin to Nanyu Village to interview this "strange family".
Jiahui's home is behind the village, and a brick house is built in front of a dirt mountain. The yard is a mess, giving people a sense of ruin and decadence. The walls and roofs are even covered with weeds, and there are huge rats in the corner of the yard from time to time. Next to a tap, dirty clothes were soaked in a big dirty wooden basin. The water is green and smelly, and green-headed flies fly around it, which is disgusting. There is a rusty agricultural wagon parked in the yard, and the chain and gear are rusted together. The farm tools on the car are as rusty as newly unearthed cultural relics.
"This tricycle turned out to be the second son of Jia Hongwei Jiahui. He worked to earn money. Earning money to support the family is a hard tool. It's a pity that such a good thing is broken. " Jia Zhimin, the village party secretary, said.
Jia Hongwei is holding the first person sitting in the corner in the sun. Seeing someone coming, this big guy with dull eyes, stubble beard and messy hair climbed into the room on all fours like a shy girl.
"At first, many people thought that they were pretending to be sick and advised them to come out to bask in the sun and exercise. They get angry when they listen to it too much, saying it's teasing them and letting them go out to exercise when they obviously can't exercise. After a long time, relatives and neighbors Otawa alienated them and simply shut themselves up at home all day. " When knocking at the door, the village party secretary said this.
In the small and dark room in the west, the "strange family" suffering from "strange diseases" sat around the bed with a dull face. When they saw the secretary of the township party Committee leading the author in, the whole family did not say a word, but still sat like clay sculptures, as if to prove to people that they really had a "strange disease" and could not move, especially Jia Hui's wife, whose eyes were strangely full of vigilance. The room was dirty, messy and dark, and the bottom glass of doors and windows was covered with newspapers. There is a muddy stove on the ground. A coal fire is burning on the stove, and a large pot of spinach is being cooked. An elderly lady is busy underground, preparing lunch for them under the pot.
The old lady is a lonely old man. After living here two years ago, the village cadres persuaded Jia Hui's family to take her in, so that the old lady could have a place to live and cook and wash clothes for Jia Hui's family who had a strange disease. "Or what should I do? This family all suffers from strange diseases. They can't do anything but eat. Not even a cook. We can't watch their whole family starve to death, can we? Of course, the meals eaten by their whole family are provided free of charge in the village. " The village party secretary said helplessly.
When the author proposed to take photos of the whole family in the yard, they looked very happy. Jiahui's wife also specially combed the messy hair that seems to have not been combed for many days. I can't believe it if I didn't see it with my own eyes. In addition to Jia Hui's youngest daughter, Jia Hongyan, she can still walk. Jia Hui's wife and two sons can still move their hands and feet, and their limbs are quite flexible, but they can't stand up and walk. They can only climb out of the house one by one like snails, only a few steps, sitting on stools one by one out of breath.
Finally, the scene of the whole family sitting in the sun at the door like a seriously ill patient is ridiculous. Jiahui's wife covered the harsh sunshine with her hand and said that they seldom crossed the threshold.
Skepticism: A Family Lost in Superstition
199 1 in the spring, drummer Jia Hui came back from the funeral and caught a cold. He stayed in bed for several days. A witch who often visits Jiahui's house in a neighboring village said that Jiahui's illness was caused by the evil spirits at the funeral, and Sang Menxing gave her a punch, so she had to send Sang Menxing away to get better. Jia Hui is dubious, but Jia Hui's wife Duan Lachan is convinced. After asking the witch to see a doctor, Jiahui recovered quickly. At that time, Jia Hui and several fellow villagers formed a band together. When there is a wedding nearby, someone will pay for the performance. After one year, the income is ok, and the whole family is very comfortable.
A month later, Jiahui came back from the funeral and caught a cold again. This time, it seems worse. It doesn't matter if you take cold medicine several times. Jiahui's wife invited the witch to watch it again. After reading it, the witch told Jia Hui's wife seriously that she must have been possessed by evil spirits again, but this time it was more serious. There are only two ways. One is to move the ancestral graves, and the other is to steam at least 50 kilograms of rice in the pot every day. Every morning at dawn, Jiahui would secretly pick it up in the graveyard, pour rice on the ground and give it to evil spirits. It will last for half a month and outsiders can't know.
Jiahui chose the latter. So there was such a ridiculous scene: every morning, Jia Hui slipped out of the village alone with two barrels of steamed rice at night and trudged on the winding mountain road. On the seventh day, Jiahui, who went to the graveyard to deliver food, suddenly found a shadow behind a tombstone. He couldn't see what it was, so he threw down the bucket and the pole and ran home. When I got home, I was flustered and couldn't move. I had a high fever and said I was worse. I quickly went to the village health clinic to see a doctor. The doctor diagnosed tonsillitis as a minor illness caused by a cold. After two injections, the high fever subsided and the cold soon recovered. However, Jiahui, who was lying in bed, failed to get up from the ground this time. He feels that he has no strength, can't carry heavy objects in his hands, and can't even carry his rice bowl. His feet are too heavy to move on the ground. Since then, he can't walk, and people can only be ill in bed.
Two months later, Duan Lachan got the same disease. Since Jiahui became possessed, she has been suspicious all day, saying that there are ghosts at home. In the middle of the night, she always hears pots and pans ringing in the cupboard, and even hears someone running on the roof. Duan Lachan is ill with a cold. After she got over her cold, she found herself as immobile as Jiahui. Suddenly, she couldn't walk on the ground. She went to the hospital several times, but she didn't get sick.
"Have no disease how can we suddenly paralyzed well? The doctor can't seem to see the disease. What is this? " This is the conclusion reached after the couple exchanged their "experience" of getting sick.
Because of the fear of ghosts, the family used to sleep in four rooms, but later they all moved to one room and slept together in fear every night. In this way, the family lives in the shadow of "ghost" and "rule" day after day and year after year. ...
Stubborn: Superstition almost ruined their family.
"Old deathlessly, you are a pest. So you're making trouble. If you live, we will all die. I will kill you. " 1one day in the summer of 997, Jia Hui, who had been "paralyzed" in bed for several years, took his son and daughter to lunch and sighed. Although Jia Hongwei is not happy at ordinary times, he is still filial to his parents. Because he quarreled with his father during dinner, he suddenly jumped up and flew into a rage, throwing his rice bowl at his father's head.
The village cadres sent someone to take Jia Hongwei to the hospital. After diagnosis, Jia Hongwei suffered from "schizophrenia". After several months in a psychiatric hospital, Jia Hongwei's condition tends to be stable. But soon after leaving the hospital, after a cold, Jia Hongwei suddenly became bedridden and got the same disease as his parents. The village once again sent someone to take Jia Hongwei to the hospital for diagnosis, but the doctor said that he was in normal health and was not sick.
There are five people in the family, and three people have this "strange disease". They are paralyzed in bed, eat nothing, and their lives are very bleak. Jia Hui, who has been ill in bed for many years, feels even worse as the head of the family: "Since the house is haunted, I have spent several years of savings just to see a doctor. The money is used by my two sons to marry their daughters-in-law. Now, both sons are old enough to talk about marriage, let alone marry a wife. Now the whole family is the boss who works alone to earn money, and even has no money to eat. The whole family got sick one after another, probably because evil spirits haunted me and brought disaster to the family. I just died. After I died, I was lucky that my family could be at peace. " The more I think about it, the more annoyed I am that Jia will sneak into the yard one night and drink half a bottle of pesticide in the corner ... Fortunately, he was found by his neighbors and sent to the village health center in time to save his life.
"It must be evil spirits at work again. You should ask the experts to look at it again quickly, otherwise it will be Lin Hong and Hongyan's turn next. " Duan Lachan's "reasoning" seems very reasonable, but it just scares Jia Honglin and Jia Hongyan who are listening.
This time, Duan Lachan didn't invite a witch again, but invited a fairy from a neighboring village who claimed to be "Zhang Tianshi" to drive away ghosts at home. "Zhang Tianshi" is really good. After only one look at Jia Hui's house, he concluded that Jia Hui's house was "strange" because it was built in the wrong direction. Just tear down the small kitchen behind the house.
The task of tearing down the kitchen naturally fell on Jia Honglin, the strong worker of the whole family. Jia Honglin is introverted. He doesn't like talking or socializing with people. When he was tearing down the kitchen, he flashed. When he wanted to go back to work, he found himself suffering from that "strange disease": suddenly he couldn't move for no reason. He cried in despair, and since then, he has been paralyzed in bed. Like his parents and brothers, his eyes are straight and he no longer walks out of the house easily.
The "strange disease" alarmed the county health bureau.
The Jia family's "strange disease" caused the villagers in Nanyu village to talk about it one after another, and some said that they were pretending to be sick and wanted to expect relief from the village; Some say it's an infectious disease, and maybe the whole village is infected; Others say that they are possessed, which makes people feel uneasy. Helpless, last year 10, the village cadres reflected this situation to the county health bureau. The leaders of the Health Bureau attached great importance to it and immediately organized doctors and experts from county hospitals, county epidemic prevention stations and endemic disease offices to make diagnosis and treatment. After blood collection, laboratory tests and other inspections, they once again concluded that there was no disease in the whole family. Experts are unwilling to reconcile and suspect that this is an endemic disease. They detected trace elements in local water sources, soil and mines, and the results were normal. Confused experts have to return in vain.
In order not to let the family despair, the village committee not only regularly supplied the Jia family with food, vegetables and clothes, but also organized villagers to donate more than 6,000 yuan to the Jia family twice, and there were also many clothes and food. The money is kept by the village Committee and used exclusively for treating Jia Hui's family. The Jiahui family has completely lost their ability to live because the whole family is almost paralyzed. Even the money donated by the villagers and the food provided to them by the village must be delivered to them by special personnel at regular intervals.
The whole family got a "strange disease". As the head of the family, Jia will sigh and worry in bed all day. Recently, his illness became more serious, and he once again showed the idea of suicide. In order to prevent accidents, Jia Zhimin, the village party secretary, decided to take him out to see a doctor again. After a comprehensive examination in the provincial hospital, the doctor still said that he was not sick. At the doctor's suggestion, Jia Zhimin took Jiahui to the Sixth Hospital of Shijiazhuang, which is famous for treating mental illness. So there was an opening.
The answer is revealed: "strange disease" turned out to be hysteria.
"Your disease is medically called neurosis. This is a mental illness. I'm sure I can cure it here, and you'll be fine soon. " Attending physician Ding's words are like giving the patient a reassurance. Heart disease still needs heart medicine to treat. In fact, doctors have begun to treat patients without expression.
"Come on, infusion, this medicine is a specific medicine, specially used to treat your disease." On the afternoon of Jia Hui's admission, the doctor gave him psychological suggestion treatment, and then he was given drug-assisted treatment. In fact, giving drugs to patients is not a new specific drug, but a useful and useless nutrient solution. Sure enough, after the first blood transfusion, Jia Hui said to the doctor, "This medicine really works. I feel much better and feel energetic. " The doctor strike while the iron is hot: "This medicine is very effective, not only can cure diseases, but also can stimulate appetite and improve sleep quality."
The next morning, Jiahui met the doctor in the ward and said, "I ate well last night and slept well." Now I feel very comfortable and my legs are no longer as stiff as iron bars. "
The doctor said: "This is the role of drugs, and it is more obvious after losing two or three times." The doctor hinted that the treatment was successful. After another infusion, Jia Hui lay in bed for a little while, but it seemed that he couldn't move. He slowly got out of bed with a crutch specially prepared by the doctor and began to crawl in the ward. Nine years later, he walked on the ground again, and now he looks stiff like a toddler. Walking, for him, seems to be a very fresh and pleasant thing now.
"Oh, old jia can fields so soon. Congratulations, you'll be all right afterwards. Try to see if you can walk without crutches? " Dr. Ding, who was observing in the dark, was secretly happy when he saw that he could walk on the ground, but he still gave him a hint of treatment with a straight face.
After half a month, Jiahui recovered completely and went home happily. Jiahui's return to the village naturally caused quite a stir in the village. After that, Jia Hui's wife and two sons and daughters were sent to the hospital for treatment by village cadres, and doctors treated them as usual. In less than 1 month, all the "strange diseases" of "hysteria family" were cured here, and the fastest one returned to normal in less than a day.
Dr. Ding Lianying said: "This kind of disease can only be found through examination by a specialist, and it can only be effective through symptomatic treatment such as psychological suggestion. Although hysteria is a common disease, it is very rare for a family hysteria like Jia Huijia to infect each other for up to nine years and cause paralysis. They don't have any physiological and genetic diseases, and they have been bedridden for so many years, which is mainly caused by a superstition and strong self-suggestion. Jia Huiquan's family is awake. As long as they are no longer obsessed, they can live a normal life in the future. "