Lu’s Clinic.
Zhang Yu and Qiao Ling both ca for a follow-up consultation.
Both of them are recovering quite well, especially Zhang Yu. Since he started going to bed early and getting up early, along with so daily exercise, his vitality has completely transford.
As for Qiao Ling, after changing her diet and increasing her rice intake, when she ca with a bare face, her skin looked extraordinarily radiant, as if she had light makeup on.
This is exactly the sign that her qi and blood are beginning to recover slowly.
By noon, Gong Huo ca for a follow-up consultation and also brought along so books on various dical subjects.
After receiving them, Lu Jiu had lunch at noon and during his free ti in the afternoon, he helped Gong Huo by highlighting key learning points in the books.
Today was better than yesterday, with two patients coming in the afternoon.
One had a cold, and the other had so discomfort in the neck.
Neither of them had particularly severe symptoms, so Lu Jiu handled them swiftly.
As the days of Lu Jiu’s consultations grew longer, many familiar neighborhood folks stopped looking for Lu Mountain when visiting.
Everyone knows that it’s now Lu Jiu who is overseeing the clinic; the old man has already retired.
And despite Lu Jiu’s young appearance, many neighbors’ minor ailnts can be treated by him.
In just over a week, Lu Jiu has gained a lot of recognition from people.
During this period, he also acquired a lot of basic knowledge in Traditional Chinese dicine.
Especially in acupuncture basics, almost half of the rewards were related to that. Now, Lu Jiu can insert needles blindly and still hit the right acupoints, and with his skill in Qi Introduction, he can resolve many minor ailnts instantly.
Unfortunately, despite having treated several patients on the spot, Lu Jiu has yet to activate the Ultimate Skill reward, leaving him with just the Mountain Burning Fire technique so far.
Nowadays, Lu Mountain typically doesn’t supervise Lu Jiu anymore; he drops by the clinic in the morning and then goes for a stroll in the park for the afternoon.
An old age life indeed enjoyable.
Lu Jiu, on the other hand, remains steadfast at his post, attending to any patients that co in, and checking online for anyone who needs help when there’s no one around.
When bored, he practices acupuncture and reads dical books, leading a rather fulfilling life each day.
"ow~~"
Xiao Tu made two little jumps, using Lu Jiu’s leg to leap directly onto the table.
After more than a week of nourishnt, this little guy has recovered quite well. Not only has the ringworm vanished, but its constitution has improved, with new fur sprouting all over.
Seeing it jump up, Lu Jiu reached out to gently rub its head before continuing to browse the Chinese dicine Ho forum.
Recently, a hot topic has been the Han dicine Picture Album released in Fusang. The content isn’t complex, but it presents the knowledge from the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor in a pictorial way, undeniably lowering the barrier to learning TCM. Even so elentary students can easily grasp so TCM knowledge.
This has made many forum users indignant.
Just on the Jianghu dical Hopage, there are no fewer than twenty posts related to it.
"Ridiculous, while we’re here debating whether TCM is scientific or not, they’ve already started popularizing TCM knowledge in their elentary schools."
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"Friendly reminder, this Han dicine Picture Album has been out for three or four years, only recently brought online here."
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"Thieves!! Those folks from the land of the rising sun only know how to steal, disgusting like those from the peninsula."
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"In the future, will we have to go to Fusang to study TCM?"
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"Even those outsiders know TCM is a treasure."
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"Whispering to all of you, a century-old TCM company was recently acquired by Fusang. Tsk tsk tsk, terrifying if you think about it!"
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In fact, it’s not new that Fusang values TCM; during the Anti-Japanese War, they plundered TCM books extensively.
Many ancient acupuncture books of the Lu Family were lost during that ti!
Of course, they didn’t just snatch these!
But no matter how much this nation plundered, they seem unable to grasp the essence of Huaxia culture.
They stole TCM and renad it Han dicine, stole prescriptions and renad them Han Prescriptions, but they don’t truly understand what the core of TCM is.
Decades ago, Fusang implented a policy of "abolishing doctors and preserving dicine."
It’s correct; many in Huaxia also want TCM to proceed this way now.
The reason Fusang enforced the abolishing doctors and preserving dicine was that they believed the most important aspect of TCM was the dicine itself; knowing what each dicine does and what diseases it treats was deed sufficient, making the underlying theory seemingly irrelevant.
So, what was the result?
The dical practice was abandoned, and the dicine was ineffective.
Because when Chinese dicine was handed to those who didn’t understand TCM, they discovered that despite the books stating a prescription could treat a particular illness, patients didn’t recover after taking the dicine. In fact, so conditions worsened, and others even died from it.
When a new illness appeared, and they scoured through textbooks, they found no prescriptions for it.
This kind of case, which deviated from textbook illnesses, left them completely bewildered.
After this cycle, many leaders in Fusang realized that this approach wasn’t working; abolishing doctors and preserving dicine seed futile.
So, more than a decade ago, Fusang finally renewed their appreciation for TCM’s diagnostic and treatnt differentiation.
Up to this day, the Huaxia dical community still talks about the abolishing doctors and preserving dicine approach, essentially treading the old path of Fusang, committing a fundantal mistake.
That mistake is naively believing that Chinese dicine is the core of TCM.
In fact, the diagnostic and treatnt differentiation of TCM is what matters most.
Four diagnostics of observation, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking, the eight diagnostic principles, the six-syndro differentiation, and so on—these are the soul of TCM.
Many believe that it’s the dicine that cures the disease, and as long as the drug components are effective, it doesn’t matter who administers the dicine.
But is that truly the case?
The components of a whole piece of danggui are the sa, but depending on the part, its effect can vary, and the combination can alter the efficacy. How can one prescribe without understanding differentiation?
Take blighted wheat, for example; it doesn’t have any components capable of curing diseases, yet TCM uses it for its uplift and floating qi. So tell , how can one prescribe without understanding differentiation?
To heal and save lives, if you don’t even understand people, how can you prescribe? How can you save lives?
Regrettably, many don’t comprehend these basics and continue to spout nonsense online. Even so modern dical masters publicly state, "If TCM clings to the old four diagnostic thods and eight principles without evolving, it will always face skepticism."
Admittedly, this master has made significant contributions in the modern dical field, but their understanding of TCM is sowhat superficial.
What are the four diagnostic thods and eight principles?
They represent TCM’s most core theoretical system, a system that has stood the test of thousands of years without being discarded.
What does it an to discard this?
Rember during the Cold War, when Emperor Ying whispered to Ermao?
Hey, Ermao, my buddy, as long as you discard your nuclear weapons, I’ll let you join our big family!
Then, Ermao did discard them, and then he got beaten up and never caught his breath again!
Afterward, there was never another chance to breathe.
If Chinese dicine were lost, TCM still has acupuncture; if acupuncture were gone, TCM still has Gua Sha, cupping, and even massage and bone setting.
But if diagnostic and treatnt differentiation were gone, TCM would truly enter the National Museum, becoming a thoroughly sealed piece of history.
Lu Jiu looked at the forum posts, speechless for a long ti. Fusang has already awakened; they realize what the soul of TCM is and have outpaced Huaxia in the field of TCM education. As a descendant of Yan and Huang and a torchbearer of TCM, he feels a heavy sense of duty.
Our ancestors’ legacy, which was ahead of the world for millennia, if snatched by those folks, would be a humiliation for their generation.
Even in death, they’d have no face to et their ancestors.
Learn!
Darn it, I have to learn and set an example!
With a snap, Lu Jiu closed the notebook and picked up a copy of the Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Warm Pathogenic Diseases, starting to study it carefully.
Xiao Tu tilted its head, looking at Lu Jiu’s puffed-up expression, full of puzzlent and incomprehension. In the next mont, its head suddenly turned toward the outside of the clinic, as if it had discovered sothing.
Soon, a figure rushed through the clinic doors at high speed.
"Dr. Lu, Dr. Lu..." The visitor, a man, stepped into the clinic, panting and looked at Lu Jiu, "Dr. Lu, please help my mom."
Lu Jiu looked up at the man, seemingly not recalling his face, "What’s wrong with your mom?"
Yang Chun spoke rapidly, "My mom has been diagnosed with gallstones and is currently hospitalized under observation."
Gallstones?
Oh!
Lu Jiu rembered.
The aunt who ca for treatnt a week ago.
He found it strange that she never ca for a follow-up after three or four days of dication, and the system didn’t notify him either.
"Didn’t I prescribe dicine? Was it ineffective?"
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