Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 1041 Forbidden Book (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)
This kid is so oblivious. His grandfather's condition is quite serious, yet this guy actually came downstairs to eat.

But that makes sense, since he couldn't really help much from up there anyway.

"Have you settled all your business matters?" Aji asked Fangyan.

"You still care about me? Aren't you worried about your grandfather's situation?" Fang Yan couldn't help but complain to this guy.

Ah Ji shrugged and said:

Who is my grandfather?

"Who is it?" Fang Yan asked, bewildered.

Ah Ji said proudly:
"Li Chunfang! What illness could possibly be so difficult for him?"

"It's just a slightly troublesome problem, it can definitely be solved."

After saying that, he shrugged and said with a helpless expression:

"Besides... there's no use in me being anxious. I can't even take a pulse now, I'm not even as good as you."

This time, Fang Yan, Li Chong, and Deng Cai were all speechless.

Even though what he said was true, why do I feel like punching him?

Fang Yan's identity in front of A Ji is Lin Jingxing, who has some medical knowledge. Right now, his most important task is to get his hands on the "Huangdi Mingtang Jing" and the acupoint combination diagram of the Liaoyuan Acupuncture Method from the old man's hands.

So Fang Yan nodded and said to Aji:

"You're right. If you can't help, it's better not to help at all. Not causing trouble is already the biggest help you can give."

Ah Ji looked at Fang Yan and said:
"Young Master Lin, why do I feel like what you said was sarcastic..."

Dialectal wave:
"No, I always speak like this, I tell the truth and never lie."

After saying that, he took Li Chong and Deng Cai to get the vegetables.

After they had picked up their food, Ah Ji and the others had already started eating, so Fang Yan and the others sat down next to Ah Ji.

Seeing what was on his plate, Fang Yan asked curiously:
"Oh, no vegetables at all, all meat?"

Ah Ji said:

"I'm used to it in America, and vegetables don't taste good."

Fang Yan thought about American food in the 1970s, a time of unprecedented economic prosperity after the war. In addition to the rise of fast food culture, meat became the main staple on the table.

Ah Ji happened to be a child who grew up during this period, so he is indeed more suited to this kind of eating habit.

Then, Fang Yan asked Aji curiously:
What do your parents do?

Ah Ji said while eating meat:
"It's also traditional Chinese medicine. My family has been practicing traditional Chinese medicine for generations."

"They all run clinics in San Francisco."

Fang Yan frowned:

"That's not right. If your parents are both practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, how come you don't know anything about it?"

Ah Ji shrugged and said:
“I am not the only child in my family, and learning traditional Chinese medicine from elementary school is really too hard. My older brothers have already suffered, and they did not intend for me, the youngest, to suffer.”

"Then how did you get back to Hong Kong?" Deng Cai couldn't help but ask.

Ah Ji said:

“I messed with the local gang, and my dad was worried about my safety, so he sent me back to my grandpa’s place.”

Upon hearing this, Fang Yan remarked with emotion:
"So it's a reverse version of Bruce Lee..."

Bruce Lee's family sent him to the United States because he got involved in a street fight.

Upon hearing the name Bruce Lee, Ah Ji's eyes lit up immediately:
"Hey, you like Bruce Lee too! I even saw him at my parents' clinic when I was little! I love him so much!"

Fang Yan never expected that Aji had actually met Bruce Lee in person.

He nodded and said:
"I've seen his movies, he's a really impressive person."

Ah Ji became even more animated when he heard about Bruce Lee's movies, and started talking non-stop, recounting how he learned to practice martial arts with his grandfather under Bruce Lee's influence.

However, the result was obvious: he lacked perseverance and did not achieve good results. Instead, he angered the local gang by practicing a few moves.

Fang Yan was speechless. This kid is really useless at everything... and he even finishes everything. After finishing the meat on his plate, Aji went to get another serving, saying he would eat with Fang Yan and the others.

After Fang Yan and the others finished eating, he was considered to have finished eating as well.

Then he ran to order food for his grandfather and patients and delivered it upstairs.

After ordering, it was noon. The group and the waiter pushing the food cart took the elevator to Mr. Li's floor.

This floor remained quiet, seemingly reserved by the hotel for long-term guests.

Old Master Li's room was not closed. Even before you reached the door, you could hear groans coming from inside, "Ouch, ouch..."

Following Ah Ji inside, we soon saw several other people in the main hall. Old Master Li was massaging acupoints for a middle-aged woman lying on the sofa.

The patient was in so much pain that he kept screaming.

"Grandpa, the food is here, and Young Master Lin is here too," Aji said to his grandfather, Mr. Li.

Li Chunfang looked up, saw Fang Yan, and greeted him:
"Oh, young friend Lin, please have a seat."

After saying that, he addressed the others:
"The food is here, everyone come and have some!"

By this time, the hotel staff had already placed the food on the table. The family members exchanged glances but made no move.

Seeing this, Li Chunfang didn't know what to say and could only continue massaging the acupoints.

Fang Yan came to the table and saw today's medical record. It clearly stated that yesterday, because Grandpa Li Chunfang was feeling unwell, he misdiagnosed the patient's symptoms of blood deficiency and yang excess, such as flushed face, headache and dizziness, as liver yang hyperactivity, and mistakenly prescribed the Tianma Gouteng Decoction, which is used to suppress yang.

After taking the medicine, the patient's Yang energy was excessively suppressed, resulting in symptoms of Yin and Yang deficiency with floating Yang. That same evening, the patient experienced a mixed reaction of cold and heat, including a splitting headache, cold limbs, and a burning sensation in the chest.

Now, Mr. Li Chunfang pricked and bled the patient's ten acupoints (the tips of the ten fingers) to draw the excess yang downwards and relieve the symptoms of a splitting headache.

Now, we massage from the Xuanji acupoint to the Zhongwan acupoint, section by section, and press the Neiguan and Yongquan acupoints to harmonize the conflicting Qi mechanism between the excessive Yang in the upper body and the deficiency and cold in the lower body.

However, in Fang Yan's opinion, a single dose of medicine would have been enough to correct the problem, and his method was really unnecessary.

Of course, the medicine mentioned in the local dialect is something that ordinary people wouldn't use.

Because we still need to use raw aconite.

The prescription is also very simple: dragon bone, aconite, cornus officinalis, and prepared licorice root. Boil them in boiling water over high heat for 15 minutes. Dragon bone calms the floating yang, aconite warms the lower jiao, cornus officinalis stops night sweats, and prepared licorice root harmonizes yin and yang. This not only corrects the excessive yang-calming effect of the previous medicines but also prevents the complete loss of deficient yang from leading to shock.

At this moment, Fang Yan suddenly noticed something stuck to the patient's two feet.

He stood up and walked to the sofa to take a look, and found that there were actually two slices of ginger.

Li Chunfang, who was pressing on the patient until he screamed in pain, noticed Fang Yan's confusion and said:

"When ginger is dried by body heat, it means that the yang energy is gradually returning, and you can stop stimulating the meridians; if it remains moist, you need to continue stimulating it to guide the yang energy back to its source."

Fang Yan was surprised, "Wow, this method is quite advanced."

But then he wondered... Is this true? Can the human body dry ginger?
Fang Yan was not the only one with doubts; even the patient's family members nearby were suspicious, and their whispers reached Fang Yan's ears.

Old Master Li seemed to have heard it too, and he said to the dialect:

"The method is from the 'Huangdi Mingtang Jing'. It's in the pocket on my desk. Take it and look through it."

After saying that, the old man pointed to the table in Fangyan's direction.

Upon hearing this, Fang Yan turned to look at the table and, sure enough, there was a canvas bag with the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) drawn on it.

He immediately went over, opened the bag, and his eyelids twitched. Inside were not only the lost "Huangdi Mingtang Jing" but also a "Yingya Shenglan: Medical Official Chapter" and a "Wudu Huizong".

These two books are lost to history and were banned by the Imperial Medical Academy during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Yingya Shenglan: Medical Officials" is a collection of notes written by imperial physicians who accompanied Zheng He on his voyages to the Western Ocean during the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty. It records special illnesses at sea and their treatment methods. The reason it was lost is that the Yongle Emperor ordered the burning of medical records from Southeast Asia (to prevent the spread of malaria and evil practices to China). Only a few copies were privately kept by the medical officials who went to sea.

"The Complete Collection of Five Poisons" specializes in the medicinal use of the five poisonous creatures, including scorpions, snakes, centipedes, toads, and geckos. It also includes special processing methods for insect-based medicines such as black-tailed snake, ground beetle, and pangolin used in local dialects.

The prescriptions were considered forbidden by the imperial physicians of the Qing Dynasty (for fear of being suspected of poisoning), and were burned by the Imperial Medical Academy during the Tongzhi era as heretical practices.

They've all appeared here now.

PS: I got another 100 monthly votes, so after finishing this chapter, I still owe everyone 63000 words.

There will be more this afternoon.

(End of this chapter)