The two stories that Lu Jiu told are both real stories.
The first one happened twenty or thirty years ago, a ti when many examination reports were handwritten. It wasn’t uncommon for nas to be confused, and even the gender of babies in the delivery room was sotis recorded incorrectly.
The second story took place over ten years ago and was even turned into a docuntary by the television station.
The purpose of Lu Jiu telling these stories to the lady is simple.
Mood is very important!
No matter the disease, you should take it seriously, but you shouldn’t fear it.
Excessive fear can damage the kidneys, which store both our Innate Essence and Acquired Essence.
When you have a troubleso disease, it depletes your Acquired Essence heavily on its own; add fear to that, and it causes the kidneys to expend your Innate Essence directly.
What can cancer cells do?
They can multiply indefinitely, devouring crazily.
Both Acquired Essence and Innate Essence are nourishing to them.
If you don’t guard your essence and instead offer it up, they can only gratefully accept your generosity.
Therefore, Lu Jiu needs the lady to not fear the cancer anymore, or else no matter what thods Lu Jiu uses, it will be difficult to achieve results.
There is an ancient story that says, in the past, herbalists only passed down their dical Skills to their offspring and generally kept it private.
In Nanyang, there was a renowned doctor nad Shen Huai. He was over seventy years old and childless, constantly fretting about having no successor, unable to eat or sleep, gradually worrying himself into illness.
Local herbalists ca to treat Shen Huai but all said that no one could cure his ailnt.
As a result, Shen Huai’s condition worsened.
After Zhang Zhongjing learned about this, he went to Shen Huai’s ho, assessed the condition, and diagnosed it as anxiety-induced illness. He imdiately prescribed a redy, using one pound each of various grains to make pills, coated with cinnabar, for Shen Huai to consu in one sitting.
When Shen Huai found out, he couldn’t help but laugh! He had his family mbers hang the grain-made pills under the eaves, and whenever soone visited, he pointed to the pills and ridiculed Zhang Zhongjing.
When relatives visited, he’d jokingly say, "Look! This is the prescription Zhang Zhongjing gave . Who has ever seen grains cure illness? Ridiculous! Ridiculous!"
When friends visited, he would also mockingly point out, "Look! This is the prescription Zhang Zhongjing gave . Who can eat five pounds of grain in one sitting? Truly absurd! Absurd!"
When fellow herbalists visited, he would seize the chance to say, "Look! This is the prescription Zhang Zhongjing gave . I’ve been practicing dicine for decades and have never heard of such a thing! Hehe! Hehe!"
He fixated only on the absurdity, and all his worries fell away, unknowingly curing his illness.
At this mont, Zhang Zhongjing visited him and said, "Congratulations on your recovery, sir! I took the liberty."
Upon hearing this, Shen Huai was suddenly enlightened, feeling both admiration and sha. He later taught all he had learned to Zhang Zhongjing.
When Lu Jiu first read this story, he only thought Zhang Zhongjing’s approach was unorthodox, using a self-deprecating thod to make his seemingly muddled ’prescription’ effective.
But upon deeper reflection, he realized that emotions are truly crucial to one’s physical health.
Joy can overco worry, worry can overco anger, anger can overco thinking, thinking can overco fear, and fear can overco joy.
This cycle of emotional counteraction actually originates from the Five Elents theory.
Zhang Zhongjing was able to heal Shen Huai by using joy to overco worry.
This lady currently has cancer cells that have spread to her lungs, and continual worry will only exacerbate the cancer’s spread in her lungs. So Lu Jiu, emulating dical Saint Zhang Zhongjing, aims first to adjust her mindset. As long as he can make her happy, the treatnt will have a good starting point.
It’s worth saying that facing such difficult cases is indeed quite challenging.
Lu Jiu himself is also full of energy.
"Aunt Sun, do you think the two stories I told are true or false?" Lu Jiu asked with a smile.
Sun Dan paused, "False?"
"Why do you think they’re false?" Lu Jiu asked with a smile.
Sun Dan shook her head. She couldn’t explain it, but she just felt that a person couldn’t be scared to death in a month, and cancer wouldn’t just go away like that. If that were the case, why would cancer be considered a terminal illness?
"Then let ask you another question. Why do you believe the hospital doctors when they say you have only one year to live, but not when I say you have only six months?" Lu Jiu asked.
"The hospital doctors are specialists..." Sun Dan responded instinctively, but halfway through her sentence, she realized she had misspoken, so she stopped herself abruptly.
Lu Jiu understood what Sun Dan ant. He wasn’t angry; instead, he maintained a smile. "You want to say that the hospital doctors are experts and professors, and I am just a Traditional Chinese dicine doctor in a small clinic, right?"
"That’s correct. This is indeed a fact, and I don’t oppose you for believing in authority. After all, most of the ti, a person’s position does represent their capability. But now, you’ve tried everything, and the authorities in the hospital have clearly told you the outco of this illness."
"Now, when I offer you a different answer, you think I am deceiving you. Can I then understand it as you blindly believing in authority rather than the doctor? Because you don’t understand either Chinese or Western dicine, all your knowledge about this disease cos from doctors. In other words, you believe whatever the doctors say. But I am also a doctor, and you don’t believe . I think your trust is based purely on identity, and you have no clear understanding of their dical skill, right?"
Sun Dan fell into deep thought.
She was already confused by Lu Jiu’s words.
But as she thought about it, she felt that Lu Jiu made so sense.
She truly understood nothing; she learned about breast cancer through the doctors.
She had been hospitalized for over half a year. Surgery and radiation therapy nearly consud her life. The breast cancer was gone, but it had tastasized to lung cancer.
Even now, she doesn’t actually understand these illnesses, so she agreed with what Lu Jiu said.
"What should I do?" Sun Dan was lost.
Lu Jiu smiled and said, "It’s simple; it depends on whether you still want to live. Doctors aren’t King Yama; they can’t determine a person’s life or death. There are nurous cases in dicine where doctors issued death notices, yet patients lived much longer. So, you can listen to doctors about anything, but only you can decide how long you want to live!"
"I want to live!" Sun Dan’s voice was faint, but her will to survive was strong.
Lu Jiu smiled and said, "Then you have to trust ."
"I do trust you," Sun Dan said.
"Saying it isn’t enough. I need you to be happy now. Stop looking so miserable. You’ve heard comforting words many tis, and I don’t want to repeat those platitudes. Anyway, the point is, if you’re happy, your family will be happy. If you recover, your family’s life and work can get back on track. If you want to live on without burdening your family, then smile. Even if it’s just pretending, can you do that?" Lu Jiu asked.
Is it enough to just smile?
Sun Dan didn’t understand Lu Jiu’s purpose, but she went along with it.
Yet, when she forced a smile, it looked even uglier than crying.
However, for Lu Jiu, this was already enough!
To make soone who has been suffering from illness for years genuinely happy in a short ti is hard to achieve. Lu Jiu did this to divert her attention.
Even faking a smile would prevent Sun Dan from thinking about when she would die, at least for so ti. Next, Lu Jiu had to use a series of thods to build her confidence to live on.
This is the most challenging part!
If this step fails, then all the efforts Lu Jiu made with his words would be in vain.
"Mom, think of Dou Dou. She’s waiting every day for her grandma to recover and co ho," Chen Muyao said softly.
At the ntion of her granddaughter, a natural smile appeared on Sun Dan’s face.
After noticing this detail, Lu Jiu gave Chen Muyao a aningful look.
Since Aunt Sun liked her granddaughter, showing her more things about her might lift her spirits.
Chen Muyao also understood Lu Jiu’s intention and nodded subtly in acknowledgnt.
"Alright, enough small talk. Let’s get to the main topic. Regarding your breast cancer, I first need to explain why this disease occurs, so you can evaluate systematically and change so bad habits in the future."
"Initially, breast cancer starts as mammary hyperplasia. Over ti, lumps and hard knots form. dically speaking, these are classified as benign or malignant. The fundantal reason for malignant tumors is that your body temperature has dropped."
"During pregnancy, a woman’s nstruation stops, and milk flows out. After childbirth, when nursing ends, breasts may feel swollen and painful. This results from retained milk that can’t be expelled or transford into nstruation, accumulating in the breasts to form hard lumps."
"So people’s bodies can absorb these nutrients, while others cannot, leaving the lump present. It becos necrotic and can’t be absorbed by healthy cells. When does this lump turn malignant? When your body accumulates too much cold and dampness, creating turbidity. At this point, cell changes occur, and cells that thrive in turbidity proliferate. The necrotic milk clumps beco their natural nutrient source, leading to breast cancer."
"Of course, this is typical for post-pregnant won but another scenario occurs after nopause. Won may experience unpleasant physiological reactions such as feeling hot, dry mouth, irritability, anxiety, and crying. If these symptoms are considered hormonal imbalances and treated with estrogen supplents, breast cancer symptoms may also appear."
"For n at 64 and won at 49, these ages are about storing. Just like the four seasons, humans at this age are in winter. The best redy for unfavorable physiological reactions is internal retention of Qi and blood, rather than dispersing it. However, taking estrogen encourages growth and disperses Yang Qi, causing body temperature to drop sharply to a point friendly to cancer cells. In the 18th Century, foreign dical research found that one-third of breast cancer cases are related to estrogen use."
"So, fundantally, it’s about changes in your body’s environnt that make it conducive for cancer cells to survive. You’ve probably noticed during your hospital stay that cancer patients fear the cold without exception. So, resolving breast cancer isn’t impossible. Do you understand?"
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