"Don’t be nervous, I’m a doctor, here to help you solve your problems."
Lu Jiu got straight to the point.
"Liver Wood, co out." Heart Fire called out.
"I’m so tired, what do you want?" Liver Wood said weakly.
"Is the drunkard seeing the doctor again?" Heart Fire asked.
"Yes." Liver Wood replied.
"The doctor can actually talk to us?" Spleen Earth was amazed.
"Doctor, then please solve it quickly." Hydronephrosis didn’t care about anything else now, as long as soone could fill its small store, it didn’t matter if he could speak or not.
Lu Jiu smiled, "Then when I ask you questions, you have to answer truthfully, without any deceit. Can you do that?"
"Yes!" Hydronephrosis answered firmly.
After Hydronephrosis spoke, the other Five Viscera also tacitly agreed one by one.
"Alright, Liver Wood, besides feeling tired, have you noticed any other changes, like is bile secretion more or less?" Lu Jiu asked.
"Less." Liver Wood said.
"Is there any congestion?" Lu Jiu asked.
"Yes." Liver Wood replied.
"Where?" Lu Jiu asked.
"My brother." Liver Wood said.
The gallbladder?
"Did you make his shoulders hurt?" Lu Jiu suddenly asked.
"How did you know? We did that, but he wouldn’t listen and kept eating and drinking recklessly." Liver Wood was still angry when talking about Wei Jun.
"So, is there sothing inside his gallbladder now?" Lu Jiu asked.
"Yes, but not as much as ." Liver Wood replied.
Tsk!
Lu Jiu clicked his tongue.
Fatty liver is one thing, but this guy also has a gallstone.
The last patient with a gallstone was that aunt who wouldn’t take dicine.
Didn’t expect another one this ti.
"Spleen Earth, what has he been eating lately?" Lu Jiu asked.
"Sigh, too much, barbecue, seafood, heavy-flavored foods, he eats them all, and drinks beer, often drinks at night. I’m clearly about to rest, but he drags out to work. It’s too much!" Spleen Earth complained bitterly, "He even had a midnight snack last night, didn’t finish eating until one, and after he slept, I still had to keep working. I was so angry I wanted to strike with the stomach, but when food cos in, we have to process it or we’ll feel terrible. But at night, our efficiency is too low."
"I not only feel very fatigued now but also a bit cold. Doctor, please help out."
No wonder there’s facial swelling.
Turns out he ate a midnight snack and stayed up late again last night.
This lifestyle is really sothing!
Is he trying to make his life shorter?
"Hmm, I see!" Lu Jiu said.
"Hey, why aren’t you asking ? Hurry up and ask !!" Hydronephrosis waited for a long ti, becoming anxious when Lu Jiu didn’t inquire about it.
Lu Jiu smiled, "Okay, where do you feel uncomfortable?"
"He’s draining my reserves!" Hydronephrosis complained.
Lu Jiu asked, "How is he draining them?"
"I don’t know, but he just keeps draining them every day, never stops!" Hydronephrosis replied.
Lu Jiu frowned, "Every day?"
"Yes, I’ve reminded him countless tis, made him thirsty, made his back ache, made his knees hurt, made his ears ring, but he just doesn’t care!" Hydronephrosis said.
This... is clearly a symptom of kidney yin deficiency.
Kidney yin deficiency generally has many causes, either prolonged illness injuring the kidney, excessive sexual activity, or emotional injury, etc.
Based on observation and pulse diagnosis, Wei Jun has symptoms of phlegm dampness, and in the presence of liver excess, there will be liver blood deficiency.
Generally, liver blood deficiency doesn’t affect the kidney, unless it reaches a very severe level, but analyzing the various symptoms, Wei Jun’s liver blood deficiency undoubtedly affects the kidney, leading to kidney yin deficiency.
Liver and kidneys share the sa source!
So his kidney yin deficiency is mostly due to long-term illness damaging the kidneys.
"Then it seems like there might be so issues with the heart fire as well," Lu Jiu said.
The kidneys are responsible for storing, and when sothing is missing there, it affects more than just itself, the heart is the first to be impacted.
Just like uremia, which happens because the kidneys fail to function, leading to toxin build-up in the urine that can’t be tabolized out, and these toxins then follow the blood circulation into the heart. The Western dicine treatnt is dialysis, which is actually blood dialysis.
In reality, this blood dialysis isn’t cleaning the kidneys, but the heart, because blood dialysis involves drawing blood from the kidneys, processing it through dialysis machines to remove toxins, and then returning it to the body, allowing the blood to flow back into the heart.
This treatnt process actually replaces the function of the kidneys with blood dialysis, completing an extracorporeal circulation, ultimately cleaning the heart.
"You’re quite a capable doctor, being able to see that I have a problem too." The heart fire, like a big brother showing off, spoke with a hint of arrogance.
"Tell , where does it feel uncomfortable?" Lu Jiu asked with a smile.
"It’s not really uncomfortable anywhere, just sotis the blood flow isn’t fast enough, so I speed it up a bit," said the heart fire.
"Speed up the blood flow?" Lu Jiu frowned.
High blood pressure?
Got it!
Kidney dysfunction can indeed lead to what Western dicine calls high blood pressure.
When kidney function issues start with yang deficiency, which gradually leads to yin deficiency, the blood vessels within the kidneys contract. When blood enters these contracted kidney blood vessels, the normal volu becos larger for the smaller vessels, much like how pressure decreases when a large pipe turns into a smaller pipe; when the blood exits the kidneys, it turns back into a larger pipe, making it difficult for the blood to flow, and the heart receives less blood.
At this ti, to self-rescue, the body increases heart pressure to speed up blood flow, so that blood can move quickly through the kidney blood vessels, delivering what used to be the normal blood volu.
So, high blood pressure isn’t really a disease; it’s just a manifestation of the body’s self-rescue chanism, fundantally still a kidney function issue.
But now hospitals treat high blood pressure as a disease, and the prescribed antihypertensive ds are mostly diuretics.
However, the kidneys are responsible for urine, aning urination is managed by the kidneys. Diuretics indeed can lower high blood pressure but also replace kidney function.
High blood pressure initially results from kidney function inadequacy, and if you take antihypertensive ds that replace kidney function, can you really stop taking them?
Not only can’t you stop, but you also have to keep taking them until the kidneys fail, leading to kidney stones, uremia, tumors, renal cell carcinoma, and so on.
Because since the birth of humans, nothing in this world can replace the function of any human organ, nothing!!
Phew~~
Lu Jiu sighed lightly.
There really are plenty of problems!
According to the nas of illnesses in Western dicine, Wei Jun not only has fatty liver but also gallstones, chronic gastritis, nephritis, hypertension, and more.
Similarly, based on the observation of symptoms in Chinese dicine, Wei Jun’s symptoms are abundant, but the pathology is still yang deficiency.
Whether it’s liver blood deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, or gallbladder excess, they all involve situations of yang deficiency.
Chinese dicine doesn’t treat diseases by simply supplenting where it’s deficient. For example, if there’s liver blood deficiency and you prescribe blood tonics without enough qi to transform, those dicines are useless, as qi and blood share the sa source; strengthening qi is essentially strengthening blood.
"Dr. Lu, why are you sighing? Is my brother-in-law’s condition very serious?" Xie Fang, Mao Dawei’s wife, couldn’t help but beco nervous.
"Sis, I know my own body, it’s definitely not serious," Wei Jun said with a laugh, looking carefree.
Upon hearing this, Lu Jiu released the hand he had been using to check the pulse and asked, "Have you been to the hospital before?"
Xie Fang replied, "Yes, yes, the first check-up showed moderate fatty liver, but the hospital couldn’t cure it, so it’s been delayed until now."
Lu Jiu said, "Impossible, this is treatable in the hospital. The fact it wasn’t cured is entirely due to his own reasons."
Though Lu Jiu is a practitioner of Chinese dicine, he has a certain understanding of Western dicine. According to Wei Jun’s disease progression, if initially, the dical equipnt only detected fatty liver, it wouldn’t usually spread to the kidneys with proper treatnt.
Earlier, Wei Jun’s description of the Five Viscera already confird to Lu Jiu that this person hasn’t recovered because he hasn’t changed his diet and lifestyle habits at all.
Upon hearing Lu Jiu’s words, Wei Jun couldn’t help but laugh, "How is that possible, I have been taking dicine continuously."
Xie Fang nodded, "Yes, his wife even told that he’s been taking the dication the whole ti."
Lu Jiu said, "Did you change your diet habits?"
Wei Jun said, "I did, ever since I fell ill, I’ve rarely touched oily foods."
Lu Jiu stared at Wei Jun, "Are you sure?"
Your Five Viscera already confessed to , are you still pretending?
Wei Jun felt a jolt inside, not knowing why Lu Jiu’s gaze suddenly made him a bit anxious. Yet, his mouth remained stubborn, "Of course, why would I lie to you?"
Lu Jiu waved his hand, "You can lie to , but don’t lie to yourself. You stayed up late for a midnight snack just last night, and you’re telling you’ve rarely touched oily foods?"
What!?
The three of them, Wei Jun, Xie Fang, and Mao Dawei, appeared as if question marks had popped above their heads. In the next second, the couple Mao Dawei and Xie Fang looked at Wei Jun, with eyes hinting at doubt.
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