"Can this action prevent heart disease?"
Liu Ziya looked at the video on his phone, his face full of the subway old man expression.
He was originally scrolling through local girls’ feeds, but sohow ended up on a Traditional Chinese dicine video.
Lu Jiu, right, Liu Ziya knew him, plenty of his videos were all over the local scene, but only the first few were quite popular. Later, videos people took at his clinic got fewer likes and comnts.
Liu Ziya had never consulted Lu Jiu about any illness and wasn’t interested in this local Traditional Chinese dicine practitioner who gained fa at his doorstep.
He just recently had so chest pain, and at this mont, seeing Lu Jiu’s video piqued his interest.
Even though Lu Jiu’s action was quite baffling, since nobody was at ho anyway, he thought he might as well try it out. If it didn’t work, he could just stop.
And so, indoors, Liu Ziya started banging against the wall repeatedly.
Who knew if it was the video being inherently viral or the action being too simple and easy to practice, but everyone in Jianghan City who saw the video, usually one or two among them would give it a try.
As ti went on, more and more people started banging against walls.
It got to the point where, by the third morning, quite a few people showed up in the park, each finding a tree and rhythmically banging against it.
"What are they doing?"
"I don’t know, using their backs to hit trees in the early morning is really strange."
"Yeah, they might be sick?"
"In the head?"
"Wasn’t there an old man in the park before who liked banging against trees? These people might be imitating him."
"Maybe, but why imitate tree banging? What’s the point?"
"..."
Beside a pavilion in the park, Cao Aiguo watched Liu Xun flying to hit a pillar, full of envy in his eyes.
If he had known this action was good for health, he would have learned from Liu Xun years ago.
Now, just banging his back a few tis against a pillar already made him need to rest for a while. His body was clearly no match for Liu Xun’s.
"Old Liu, you ntioned before that you learned banging pillars from soone else. What did that person do?" Cao Aiguo asked.
Liu Xun, shirtless and muscular, replied, "In his younger days, he was a monk, even went to war, and after fighting, he lived in Jianghan for a few years, then moved elsewhere."
"A monk, huh? Did he tell you what this action is for?" Cao Aiguo asked.
Liu Xun shook his head, "The monk only said it was good for health, never ntioned anything about preventing heart disease, as you said."
"But I do think that doctor makes so sense. At least over the years, I’ve had no issues, and wearing less during winter is no problem, unlike you old guys who get sluggish with a slight chill."
Cao Aiguo laughed, "Look at you boasting. I’m practicing too, maybe in a few years, I won’t be worse off than you!"
Liu Xun rolled his eyes, "Well, good luck with that."
...
As the video spread, with many people recently experiencing heart discomfort, people began to mimic Lu Jiu’s wall-banging action.
So strears started checking in daily to share their wall-banging journeys for views.
Over ti, it sparked a wall-banging craze in Jianghan City.
Soon, the original video maker who fild Lu Jiu’s wall-banging, seeing its rising popularity, decided to buy a spot on the trending list.
Now with official traffic promotion, the video’s popularity soared, reaching audiences beyond Jianghan City.
Under different circumstances, even with official traffic, the video might have struggled to beco widely popular.
But this winter, too many people were feeling heart discomfort.
Either a stuffy chest or sudden night pains.
Yet, hospital visits yielded no findings.
For ordinary people, if Western dicine doesn’t help, they turn to Traditional Chinese dicine.
But with the current Traditional Chinese dicine environnt, seeing a Traditional Chinese dicine doctor is like gambling because there’s no telling if the doctor is actually good or capable of treatnt.
So people went to nearby Traditional Chinese dicine Clinics, got eight or nine hundred worth of prescriptions, and after a few days or even weeks felt no different.
Others went to Traditional Chinese dicine Hospitals, and like Western Hospitals, start with a bunch of checks, spending thousands, and finally get prescribed a bunch of proprietary Chinese dicines, still with no effect, leaving patients unsure if they recovered naturally or from the ds.
With such experiences, disbelief in Traditional Chinese dicine naturally arises for many.
But, even if they’ve been tricked by Traditional Chinese dicine, many still choose to believe.
Just like knowing hospitals might not treat certain illnesses yet still seeking doctors for dications.
Because they have no choice!
They’re forced into it!
Who enjoys being sick?
Now, seeing an online thod claiming heart disease prevention, which looks simple and doable at ho, everyone rushed to try it.
This kind of phenonon seems to ride on a lucky wave, as if everyone is fanning the flas.
Lu Jiu once again broke into the public’s attention!
Many outsiders also began leaving comnts under the most popular video.
"Is what this Traditional Chinese dicine doctor says true or false?"
"Is he any good?"
"I’ve had allergic rhinitis forever, can he help?"
"Is this Traditional Chinese dicine doctor reliable?"
"In the 21st century, how is there still such anti-intellectual discourse? So many dimwits actually believe wall-banging can prevent heart disease, hahaha."
"Learning this move and never getting heart disease for life? If that’s the case, you deserve the Nobel Prize in dicine!"
"Looks familiar, I feel like I’ve seen this Traditional Chinese dicine doctor sowhere before."
"..."
Comnts were both positive and negative.
When people sought Lu Jiu’s consultation, Jianghan City netizens shared his location.
When others criticized Lu Jiu, many who had been treated by him defended him ardently.
However, such disputes are too common online; whenever a Traditional Chinese dicine doctor gains popularity, the comnt section will witness argunts.
Even when so Traditional Chinese dicine doctors successfully treat patients on the spot, there will be claims of paid actors.
It’s as if so people don’t want to see a situation where Traditional Chinese dicine rises alongside Western dicine.
As ordinary folks, they never care about the Traditional Chinese dicine-Western dicine divide, as long as their illness can be cured, who cares?
Thus, the best scenario for Traditional Chinese dicine and Western dicine is a parallel coexistence, where they compete, benefiting the ordinary people.
A monopoly only forces ordinary people to bear high dical costs.
Just like today’s various dical devices.
Many say check-ups aren’t costly; a dical device can cost hundreds of thousands to millions, spread across everyone, costing only tens or hundreds per person, which is already cheap.
It’s comparable to migrant workers building cities in tropolises they can’t enter.
Why?
Because surviving in a city requires high living costs; the more developed a city, the higher the costs rise.
City elites might not care because they can afford it!
But what about those doing the dirtiest, hardest, least visible yet essential labors?
Why can’t they enjoy the good life in the city?
Many people talk about unaffordable healthcare because fees add up quickly with each check costing tens of dollars.
Is a few hundred a lot?
For many, perhaps not.
But in a country where 600 million earn less than a thousand a month, a few hundred is a lot.
Rising healthcare costs only deter them, making them increasingly afraid to seek dical help, turning easily treatable minor ailnts into irreversible major diseases, leading to poverty and relapse into poverty from illness.
But why!?
Haven’t they contributed to this country?
Why should healthcare only be for the elites, not for the common people?
...
"Ha, teacher, look, it seems there’s a promising young Traditional Chinese dicine doctor in Jianghan!"
On the high-speed train, An Xianda handed the phone to an elderly scholar-looking man beside him.
The old man glanced at the phone’s content, and after listening to the entire video, showed a look of appreciation in his eyes.
"What’s his na?"
An Xianda opened the comnts section, taking a mont before replying, "Seems like... Lu Jiu!"
Lu Jiu...
The old man rembered the na.
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