Taoist Doctor Chapter 5

Chapter 05

“Sorry to disturb you.”

Jilong and Meilan weren't sure it's the time for them to turn around immediately before it's too late.

It's generally known that some hospitals have contracted out their departments, and people never heard of such thing in the third hospital. Also, can a hospital contract out to the Taoist temple…?

“Wait, don't go, what are you doing?” Zhou Jinyuan rushed up to them and stopped them. “Come on, take things as they come, do you come here to cure the Metrorrhagia(bleeding from the uterus )?”

He was so bored without patients. This was the second time that he met them, which indicated there was something destined between the patient and him. He was doomed to cure the patient.

Zhou Jinyuan enthusiastically took the people to the table and pulled the medical records in their hands.

Liu Meilan hesitated to sit down. Liu Jilong felt weird and still wanted to pull her away. Liu Meilan thought, no one can force her to cure in broad daylight.

To be frank, she was also a little bit curious, “…Are you a Taoist or an intern?”

She thought Zhou Jinyuan's tender appearance could only be an intern, considering of young-looking appearance.

In fact, after Zhou Jinyuan came to Haizhou Third Hospital, a lot of people ,from patients to colleagues in other departments, considered him as an intern .

“It's not wholly right. I am a Taoist at home. I am also a doctor here. You are my patients. I am not an intern.” Zhou Jinyuan emphasized that he is a doctor with independent medical authority.

Liu Meilan: “…”

She wanted to go again.

Liu Jilong: “Um, you looked at my wife at that day and said that she was sick. There is a family secret recipe that can cure… Wait, are you a doctor ? really?”

If Zhou Jinyuan didn't seem to have learnt the kungfu, he wouldn't feel comfortable sitting down. He always felt like he had stepped into a den of liars in a different s.p.a.ce.

If Zhou Jinyuan was saying something weird to them, he would report it.

Zhou Jinyuan directly took out his new work permit and felt very embarra.s.sed. “So I am wrong with my good eyesight? Your wife is sick. The secret recipe of our family has been used for countless people. Undoubtedly,  I can find it at a glance. "

Although Chinese medicine is a combination of the looking, listening, inquiry and feeling the pulse(four ways of diagnosis) and the four clinical methods are combined, yet some of the diseases can be diagnosed from the outside symptoms. Is it his fault to have this ability?

Faced with the suspicion of these two people, Zhou Jinyuan had to look at the name of the medical record, and said: “Is Liu Meilan? Your illness is in the category of ‘Metrorrhagia ‘in Chinese medicine. (Metrorrhagia: bleeding from the utures) Specific to you,  there should

be at least four months of menstrual dripping , and excessive bleeding at sometimes, which even lead to anemia and menstrual blood color is relatively light. There are many symptoms a.s.sociated with this illness , headaches, dizziness, weakness, abdominal pain and other conditions as well as appet.i.te is also greatly affected. "

Liu Meilan and Liu Jilong looked at each other. They didn't give Zhou Jinyuan the results of the inspection. Zhou Jinyuan didn't open the medical record today. They came to here on the spur of the moment. It's impossible to say that it's a trick.

Such a big city,  Haizhou,  they can meet again. It's so incredible.

The contents what Zhou Jinyuan said perfectly matched the situation of Liu Meilan.  If all of these were only guesswork, how about her blood? It's impossible to guess the color of  her menstruation.

With this in mind, Liu Meilan had a feeling: This doctor with young-looking appearance was capable.

Liu Meilan changed her action that she decided to leave at any time, and then planted herself in the seat and asked tentatively: "Doctor, what's your opinion of my illness? Can it be cured?"

“Don't worry, I will feel your pulse at first, and then consider how to treat it.” Zhou Jinyuan's hand was enough to win the trust of the patients, and finally gained it. He placated the patient, “My secret recipe is very effective!”

This time, Zhou Jinyuan said these like a liar , while Liu Meilan and Liu Jilong did not conflict these , even got a relief.

Through many days seeking for medical treatment without result, and no one dared to guarantee with them. Now, this person told them that he can treat . They got great relief from it.

To double-check, after carefully diagnosing the veins of Liu Meilan, Zhou Jinyuan asked for more details, which were exactly what he thought.

The uterine bleeding is a common disease in gynecology. Collapse is called as excessive bleeding, and the dripping is called as constantly blood dropping. There are several syndromes of uterine bleeding, such as kidney deficiency, spleen deficiency, blood heat, etc., mostly with deficiency syndrome.

And Liu Meilan, she had a serious blood collapse – deficiency of blood with some blood stasis.

“Well, I will give you a needle to stop the abdominal pain. Then, you take the medicine according to the prescription, eating two doses, menstruation will stop, and then eat for half a month to adjust the menstrual period to normal, removing the root cause of illness.” Zhou Jinyuan knew, for the patient, dizziness and abdominal distension were particularly uncomfortable, so it was a pressing matter to stop pain, cure the symptoms and then cure the root cause of illness.

He had a family secret recipe,  which suited the remedy to the cause. Rhubarb as a main  drug in this recipe, which has the effect of stopping bleeding, eliminating phlegm and coagulation of blood. Rhubarb has a variety of processing methods, this recipe uses wine rhubarb charcoal, with Ejiao, pine root in poria, Angelica, Astragalus and other herbs to stop bleeding and tonify deficiency .

In the hometown of Weizhou, this prescription has cured many serious cases of female patients, and many people's situations are worse than Liu Meilan's.

Liu Meilan thought that she had been ill for  months. She had to drink at least dozens of bowls of Chinese medicine to nurse. After listening to his words that two doses can stop bleeding, and half a month can get ride of the root of the disease, she was so happy.

Particularly, those uncomfortable symptoms could relieve their pain by using acupuncture. She had been taking painkillers for a long time, and the effects had not been as good as they  were at the beginning of treatment. The effect s were not lasting, she still felt painful.

“Great G.o.d, are you going or not?… ah, you have patients.” Liu Qi slammed the door in high spirits, watching someone, and zigzagged his mouth.

He thought it was really unfortunate. The genius sat on the cold bench for a few days .Just as there was a good thing for him, while he got a patient.

“What is it?” Zhou Jinyuan asked when he was prescribing.

“I want to ask you to see Dr. Mao's use needle(Acupuncture treatment). He wants to use the fire-burning method!” Liu Qi said that urgently. It's so loyal for him to inform Zhou Jinyuan. “Hurry up! I am gone!”

Not waiting for Zhou Jinyuan to answer, Liu Qi rushed to Dr. Mao's office.

……

After drinking Dr. Mao's a dose of Xu Fu Dai Zhe Tang(a drug) , Vice President Xiao's mother felt worse. Although his prescription has not worked, he had courage to recommend himself due to his ability.

Liu Qi entered the clinic, and several trainees were also here. It was necessary to seize the rare opportunity to observe the “burning fire needle method.”

Acupuncture treatment has the method of reinforcing and reducing. According to actual situation of patients, it will restore deficiency and relieve symptoms(reducing).

The burning of mountain fires (a treatment)is specific to cure the deficiency and cold syndrome. In contrast, there is a reducing method called “Tou Tian Liang”(a treatment), which effect is reversed. It is used for diarrhea.

Simply speaking, these treatments ,one for reducing cold and the other for reducing heat, are very difficult to operate. It is said that these two methods can change the patient's body temperature, resulting in a sense of heat or cold!

Due to the difficulty, although the two methods have been applied in clinical practice, yet it is rare to see that the patients really feel heat and cold, and even some doctors of Chinese medicine have no confidence to produce this kind of needle feeling.

Usually, doctors just follow the law to do acupuncture to achieve the effect of reinforcing and reducing or with the help of moxibustion.

Dr. Mao, as one of these few doctors(who can produce needle feeling: heat and cold) , can make the patient really feel the needle feeling of the “fire” from burning the mountain fire treatment.

This was why Liu Qi was rushing to watch. From the university to the present, in his teachers and predecessors, only Dr. Mao could operate the effect after training  under the guidance of a master inn the past two years.

How to operate in acupuncture is more difficult than making a correct diagnosis or finding the right point.

When Liu Qi came in, Dr. Mao was already starting. He was explaining to the patient: “This is a special acupuncture method. It is called burning a mountain fire. I will use the needle along the meridians(channels in Chinese medicine) in your hand. Then you will have Feeling that a heat flow conduct along the your meridians. So you can warm your meridians, evacuating evil(evil means pathogenic factors)!”

The patient nodded and seemed confused by the mysterious theory. “Oh! Good!”

Dr. Mao nodded and seemed satisfied .language counseling is a very important step. First, it will let the patient have confidence, feel heat in his body, and get effects from doctors' words , so that it is more easier to succeed in treatment.

Dr. Mao began to use needles on the patient's arm. The patient and the trainees(students) were all staring at his operation. Every time the doctor gave the needle, he asked the patient, “Is there a warm current to start from this position…”

The patient looked up and saw seven or eight faces staring at him. After carefully feeling, he said “Oh, um, it seems, there is a little bit!”

There was no feeling at all, but when the doctor asked, he felt that there was such a slight sense of heat or nothing.

“And, I feel that the pain on my shoulders has also been reduced!”

Ah, it worked.

Although the students and the interns were inconvenient to say something, they gave Dr. Mao a sight with respect. No wonder he is Dr.Mao.

“Well, the more heat you feel, the lighter your pain will be.” The doctor who felt a bit shameful from the mistake treatment of Vice President Xiao, also restored his confidence again.

Giving he more time ,  he would be able to use better of the burning of the mountain fire(acupuncture treatment) and became a gold medal in the Chinese medicine department.

……

the other side.

“Just take two needles, don't be afraid, I use a fine needle, not painful.” Zhou Jinyuan appeased Liu Meilan, Liu Jilong went to pay, and he was here to give Liu Meilan a needle.

Liu Meilan had never done acupuncture treatment before , and it was inevitable that she was a little embarra.s.sed. She didn't dare to look at Zhou Jinyuan's movements.

Finding Xue(acupoints) of Sanyinjiao and waterway, Zhou Jinyuan first pressed these places for a moment, dispelling the Qi(or gas, a core part in our body in Chinese medicine theory ) and blood. Then, after disinfection, he operated acupuncture with filiform needles, divided into three needles considering of the Heaven, the ground and the human.(Three basic parts const.i.tute our world in Chinese culture )

He used needles of the sky department at first, after a while, slowly pressed nine times, then turned clockwise. Then he used the needles of the ground and the human department and after the same operation, returned to the Heaven part, and repeated this operation for three times with the needle tip always faces the direction of the gas.

Liu Meilan didn't feel pain , but the inserting places had a very strong acid bilge feeling.

Zhou Jinyuan said that this was normal. It showed that these needles were used in right places. She had never done acupuncture treatment before. It seemed to be a bit long time, so she couldn't help but turn her head and look at it. She found Zhou Jinyuan had been squatting needle for a long time.  He was inserting needles for several times. It took a long time to get the needle out.

Not like the TV at all, it's finished when needle was stuck in body.

She thought this was the end, but Liu Meilan felt that from the place where the needle was stuck, it was a feeling of heat and warm… It felt more and more clear, not an illusion.

“How, how does it seem to start to heat up?” Liu Meilan stunned. She had never seen pork before while she had seen pigs running. She had never heard of anyone who could feel heat and warm from acupuncture. This needle was thin, no trick.

Zhou Jinyuan appeased her : “This is normal.”

He used the method of burning the mountain fire to supplement the deficiency of Liu Meilan.

"Is' t normal?" Liu Meilan thought. She didn't  believe that this was normal and she remembered of another ident.i.ty of Zhou Jinyuan, said: “…Doctor Zhou, is this your vital Qi(or genuine Qi in Chinese Taoism culture)?”

She was not superst.i.tious before until she met Zhou Jinyuan!

“??” Zhou Jinyuan gave her disinfection for another acupoint, and said, “Beauty, you can read less fantasy novels.”

Liu Meilan: “…”

Surprise was coming immediately. The acupoint of  water hole was in her abdomen. After acupuncture, a sense of heat gradually spread. The sense of cold and pain from  abdomen was also expelled, like the haze of several months suddenly melted away by a sunshine.

“Good… so comfortable!” Liu Meilan couldn't care about the “Vital Qi” . “It's really painless, and the stomach was warm, it felt heat and warm.”

Because of the uterine leaking in the past few months, even in the summer, Liu Meilan always felt weak and her hands and feet were cold. Suddenly the symptoms were alleviated. She was so comfortable now

“Well, there is still a needle, it is more comfortable to tie it up. It will  well for this situation. If you take a careful rest in these days, you will not feel pain any more. After you drink the medicine, in menstrual period you will not feel pain any more.” On the acupiont of San Yinjiao in leg , Zhou Jinyuan applied again.

This second shot went down, Liu Meilan actually sweated down, and the thin clothes in summer were soaked by her sweat beads, which led the feeling of really easy after the illness.

– Since this treatment was called burning a mountain fire, of course, the more you burn, the better of the effect was .

Liu Meilan has already been convinced by Zhou Jinyuan ability, holding his hand, quite a bit incoherent saying, “That, Great G.o.d, thank you! You are too G.o.d! No wonder you are a G.o.d!”

Zhou Jinyuan: “…”

Although…but…they were called him G.o.d because (others think) he was practicing in the office!