"Stand up first and try to bend over."
Lu Jiu already had the finest needle pinched in his hand.
Upon hearing Lu Jiu’s direction, Ding Yulong also stood up and began to bend over. However, when he reached about fifty degrees, his back stiffened, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t bend further. Pain appeared on his face.
"Dr. Lu, I can’t do it anymore, I can’t bend," said Ding Yulong.
Lu Jiu nodded, "Alright, lift your shirt a bit, I’ll give you two needles in the back."
Ding Yulong imdiately complied.
Lu Jiu stood behind him and quickly inserted two needles on his Du ridian and Belt Vessel.
He didn’t use Mountain Burning Fire or Piercing Cold.
Because Ding Yulong just had a slight blockage in his Du ridian, stimulating the acupoints to let the qi and blood flow faster was enough.
No need for reinforcent or drainage technique.
Just a gentle twist or two was sufficient.
After about twenty seconds, Lu Jiu withdrew the needles and pulled down Ding Yulong’s shirt.
Then he said, "Alright, try bending over again."
This quickly?!
Ding Yulong thought Lu Jiu would needle for a long ti.
But it seed that it was less than a minute. Could his twenty years of back pain be cured in such a short ti?
Impossible!
With hesitation, Ding Yulong slowly bent over.
Huh?
No pain?
His back didn’t seem stiff either.
Ding Yulong could actually bend his upper body to ninety degrees now. If it weren’t for his beer belly getting in the way, and never having stretched, he felt he could bend further.
Shang Yehua and the other Chinese dicine practitioners in the consultation room were also amazed at Ding Yulong’s change.
Although Lu Jiu’s diagnosis was just to clear the Du ridian for Ding Yulong’s back pain to get better.
But being able to unblock a patient’s Du ridian with acupuncture in twenty seconds was not a skill everyone had!
It could practically be described as healing a cup overturned.
Impressive!
Just this move alone showed that Lu Jiu’s level was no weaker than any of them!
"Dr. Lu, am I really better now? Really healed? And it won’t relapse anymore?" Ding Yulong was now very excited.
As soone who had suffered back pain for twenty years, he cherished the monts when his back was fine very much.
Over the years, he could only relieve it for a while after taking biologics. But relying on frequent dication to maintain, over ti, made a person very irritable.
He was very afraid that soday, when the dication stopped working, he might beco disabled or even paralyzed in later stages.
This fear had always accompanied him, making him constantly think about how to survive.
He longed for health so much!
Lu Jiu’s miraculous ans also gave Ding Yulong hope.
Before coming here, he was already prepared for long-term Chinese dicine, never expecting that his back pain would be cured within a minute.
At this mont, he simply couldn’t find any other word than "miracle doctor" to describe Lu Jiu.
Lu Jiu shook his head, "This is just treating the symptoms, the root problem isn’t solved yet. Your Triple Jiao is still blocked, Kidney Essence can’t replenish, and the dicine treating your ankylosing spondylitis also does harm to your liver and kidneys. These issues all need addressing, and you need to change your living habits as well."
"Chew more when eating, and restrain your diet. While your spleen and stomach function hasn’t recovered, avoid rich and heavy foods, and only eat until seventy percent full. Then strengthen your daily exercises, and if nothing unexpected happens, you should fully recover in two or three months."
Ding Yulong’s condition wasn’t actually complicated.
It was just that the previous doctor treating him completely ignored his deficiency of qi and blood, focusing solely on aggressively treating the back pain.
The more it was treated, the bigger his problem beca.
If twenty years ago, Ding Yulong had back pain, a little exercise, dietary control, not overburdening the spleen and stomach, which would eventually allow qi and blood to replenish slowly, unblocking the Du ridian, and allowing Hydronephrosis to get Kidney Essence in normal circulation.
The Five Viscera’s self-healing ability could quickly eliminate his symptoms.
But he chose to see a doctor, resulting in things getting worse over ti, suffering pain for twenty years.
This reminded Lu Jiu of a public speech by a prominent figure in Western dicine.
He said a third of illnesses worldwide are incurable, a third recover without treatnt, and a third get better with treatnt. However, whether they were incurable or didn’t require treatnt, hospitals are treating them all.
His most classic quote was, we turned the whole body into organs with scalpels, organs into cells with microscopes, and cells into molecules. Then we lost ourselves among molecules. A doctor once said to , "I’m working on molecules," but working on molecules has nothing to do with humans. No wonder the Nobel Prize achievents in the last 50 years are all molecular, with no human aspect involved. Can this work?
He believed modern dicine was getting further away from humanity.
Originally a benefactor-like doctor-patient relationship, many have turned into adversaries now.
To be honest, Western dicine isn’t shy about criticizing itself.
These doctors probably have a genuine heart.
Because they truly treated patients as human beings, not just as walking wallets.
"Two or three months..." Ding Yulong’s face showed a joyful smile. This was the happiest thing he had heard in the past twenty years.
But what followed was endless grievance.
Because earlier, Lu Jiu said he didn’t actually have ankylosing spondylitis.
The suffering he endured over twenty years was all due to misdiagnosis.
Thinking about the tornt made Ding Yulong’s eyes sour, his grievance turned into tears, rushing out.
"I... I friggin’..."
Words choked in his throat, unable to co out.
Lu Jiu looked at him, not knowing what to say.
The mainstream always promotes going to the hospital when sick, yet in reality, many illnesses don’t require hospital visits at all.
Because for many illnesses, even the doctors don’t know the causes.
So ailnts are incurable, and doctors are aware.
But sotis, when patients insist on treatnt, doctors have no choice either.
Once dicine is prescribed, they earn, and the patient is happy, everyone is pleased, so who would raise concerns?
This is where, after taking over the definition of health, the public self-harms with dication, not thinking there’s anything wrong.
Even if soone publicly stated that so illnesses don’t require hospital visits, they’d be t with scorn and criticism.
Because the ntal habits are already ford, and even knowing hospitals can’t cure certain ailnts, one self-dosticates rather than seeking alternative solutions.
Before there were no restrictions on antibiotics in the country, whoever said antibiotics were harmful would surely be scolded and told ironically to see if they dared not use antibiotics for illnesses.
But what about now?
After a long while, Lu Jiu comforted him, "Don’t be sad, as long as you’re better, just leave the past behind!"
Sotis, letting go of past hardships is actually about forgiving oneself.
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