I phoned home and learned that my mum has an acute appendicitis, and has already did the appendectomy. Poor mum! She has to stay in hospital for one week.
She always has a stomach problem beside her headache. Many years ago, when I had holiday at home, she happened to have stomach pain. I didn't took her to hospital, because she said that was an old problem, it would recover after several hours. I even taught her some Yoga movements which I thought was very effective to me to release her pain. She tried according to my instruction, but gave up after, because she thought that was too awkward. She asked me to gether some camphor tree root (or chinaberry tree root, I forgot which one?) and boiled it for her to drink.
I had appendicitis when I was in high school, too. I got conservative treatment, and didn't have my appendix removed. My second brother told me that my youngest brother had same problem when he was studying in the same high school as mine in Shangtang.
Mum told us a story that her grandfather (her mum's father) died of appendicitis, there were no way to treat appendicitis before western surgery started to popular in China, the only thing we could do was drink some herbal tea, that's no better than any conservative treatment now we have. Her grandfather just pained to death, he was very rich, before he died, he said: "Whoever could save my life, I separate my property and give him half as reward. But no one could in that remote mountainous village."
My mum's brother-in-law was a teacher in Taishun, he also died of appendicitis, it seems Chinese people had already learned of how to treat appendicitis that time, but unfortunately there was a flood that night, that uncle couldn't be sent to hospital on time.
And her another far relative died of appendicitis only 12 years old. Mum said this is a family history problem.
Studies have shown that the family members of children with acute appendicitis are more likely than others to have appendicitis. Is that true?
Appendix just likes the un-used chimney in western house, why did the nature still keeps that useless thing in human body?