After a minute, Lu Jiu released his hand.
Yesterday's acupuncture combined with herbal dicine had already cleared a lot of the phlegm in Zhang Xixi's body.
Because acupuncture has the effect of tuning the spirit, Zhang Xixi's sleep at night was particularly deep. At the sa ti, the Four Reversals Decoction's effect of raising yang also helped restore her internal organs significantly during the night.
At dawn, when yang qi begins to be born, the five viscera and six bowels start to work in accordance with nature, and start continuously repairing Zhang Xixi's body.
Clearing phlegm is one of these steps.
Although acupuncture works quickly, it doesn't go very deep. Herbal dicine can follow the ridians and reach the innermost parts of the organs, clearing phlegm-dampness, and eliminating phlegm-fire more thoroughly.
It can be said that just this one treatnt is enough for Zhang Xixi to no longer rely on dication to suppress her emotions.
This kind of efficacy is unique to traditional Chinese dicine.
No matter what kind of bipolar disorder, depression, claustrophobia, schizophrenia, and so on, similar ntal illnesses essentially stem from problems with emotions.
Emotions are a natural state that we humans inherently possess.
They cannot be suppressed!
Just like when soone is extrely sad, they can't cry at all, as if sothing is blocking their emotions inside their body. When this emotion can't be released, once it reaches a critical point, a person can go crazy from the pent-up negative emotions.
Don't think this is alarmist talk!
There was once a mother who went out with her three-year-old daughter, but the daughter was abducted by traffickers. After returning ho, the mother didn't sleep for three days and nights, and not a single tear was shed, eventually becoming completely insane.
Another case was a father whose son died of a terminal illness three months after birth. While his wife and mother wept daily, he seed unaffected, comforting his family. However, after they recovered from their grief, the father developed a strange condition where he felt cold whenever he touched water, even warm water of thirty or forty degrees felt like it was freezing. He had to wear a heavy coat even in the sumr when it was thirty-seven or thirty-eight degrees, never breaking a sweat.
This actually results from emotional repression to the extre, disturbing the body's balance of yin and yang, and thereby giving rise to various strange symptoms.
Why does Western dicine usually have significant side effects in treating ntal illnesses, and many doctors explicitly tell patients they can't cure ntal disorders?
It's because all Western dicines are damaging to the liver and kidneys, especially those targeting ntal illnesses, which inflict serious damage to the liver.
The liver governs the regulation and release of emotions. When you damage the liver, it's like blocking the patient's channel for emotional release, and of course the patient will feel uncomfortable.
Many patients who are slightly depressed often experience body swelling, and their faces turn a bluish-black color after taking antidepressants, which is what we call dullness. Additionally, their eyes turn yellow, and they seem to beco uglier.
Because after liver damage, it cannot cleanse the toxins from the blood, the accumulated garbage in the blood then goes through the heart and spreads throughout the body. As the toxins accumulate more and more, the features of the face begin to change, starting with complexion, then skin, and finally a change in shape.
There's a saying that a person's appearance is shaped by their heart - if soone is in a perpetual state of depression, the thoughts in their heart are already skewed, and as such, their face will beco askew.
Upon closer inspection, those with malevolent thoughts may have their philtrum and nose not aligned along a central line when viewed as such.
Those with simple and kind thoughts, harboring righteous qi, regardless of their beauty or ugliness, have a straight philtrum and nose.
This is why soone might appear good-looking but gives off an uncomfortable vibe, while others may appear ordinary but evoke a sense of freshness.
Of course, these malevolent thoughts are not rely bad intentions, like habitual self-gratification.
Such practices belong to the realm of debauchery, which only harms oneself, not others.
Yet, once such thoughts arise and persist in action for several, even over ten years.
Becoming uglier is inevitable.
It's the sa for girls.
Zhang Xixi's slight misalignnt of her nose and philtrum isn't due to debauchery, but to resentnt.
"Not bad, things have improved a lot. You can continue taking the dication prescribed yesterday. Of course, aside from dication, you also need to make changes yourself. Starting from today, engage in more outdoor activities, expose yourself to so sunlight, and don't stay cooped up at ho. As for your diet, keep it light, eat a little less during this period, just ensure you're not starving yourself," said Lu Jiu.
"Doctor, how long will it take for to recover?" Zhang Xixi asked.
"In your case, adjustnt is not a matter that can be resolved overnight. However, looking at the current state of recovery, it should be at most a month or two, and your basic life could return to before. Of course, the side effects from those antidepressants you've been taking will have to be slowly rectified by yourself, as dication is quite limited in this respect," said Lu Jiu.
A month or two?
It doesn't seem that long.
But just as she was about to feel happy, Zhang Xixi suddenly thought of herself and touched her face, feeling a surge of self-doubt.
She doesn't dare look in the mirror much anymore.
She doesn't want to see that face.
It's too unpleasant.
Both puffy and swollen, covered with pits.
Blackheads on the nose are clearly visible, and the hair on her lips rivals that of a man.
"Doctor, will the swelling on my face go down?" Zhang Xixi asked.
Lu Jiu understood too, as girls surely pay particular attention to their appearance.
Previously, there was a patient who was more concerned about their figure than their health.
"Of course it can, as long as you adjust your mindset, maintain an optimistic attitude every day, it could take two to three years at most, or as little as a year, and your appearance should be restored to a significant extent. So, don't panic," said Lu Jiu.
The recovery of appearance is certainly achievable.
However, to return to the youthful years is certainly not possible.
Even without illness, many people also suffer damage to their looks from the ravages of ti, let alone Zhang Xixi who has this illness.
"Does that an I'll never return to how I looked before?" Zhang Xixi said dejectedly.
Lu Jiu found it both amusing and exasperating, "Not just you, even I can't go back. Only that male celebrity with the surna Lin seems to maintain his eighteen-year-old looks. We are all regular people, and genetics dictate that our looks will grow older with ti. If you manage to recover significantly, it's already considered a normal state, so be content."
Zhang Yu couldn't help but ask, "Dr. Lu, I read online that in ancient tis, the Imperial Physicians in the palace provided the Empress and concubines with beauty-enhancing dicine. Does this an that traditional Chinese dicine has insights into beauty? Do you know of any beauty treatnts?"
Beauty?
Lu Jiu hadn't delved deep into this aspect.
However, with Zhang Yu's question, he did recall so beauty-enhancing formulas...
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