Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 21 Kidney Replenishment
It can be seen that the old man also wants to test himself.

Fangyan didn't say much, just nodded, and then let the patient sit on the chair in front of him.

The person who came was a middle-aged woman in her 40s, a little overweight. When she entered the room just now, Fangyan had discovered through inspection that she had liver problems. Now after she sat down, he began to ask the patient what was wrong with her body.

However, the patient did not directly state his illness, but said:

"I came from a rural area in Haidian. I had seen doctors in the brigade before. They said that my spleen and stomach were weak and the liver's fire was weakened. They prescribed some spleen-strengthening prescriptions for me, plus some medicines that did not support the liver's fire. However, after taking several doses of medicine, I didn't feel much better, so I thought of coming to the city to see a doctor."

"But let me make it clear first. If you find the same symptoms as them, I won't pay you for the medical treatment."

“……” Fangyan was speechless after hearing this.

The depletion of liver fire actually means liver qi deficiency.

This is the same as the symptoms I saw when I just examined the patient.

However, liver deficiency can be divided into yin deficiency, blood deficiency, and qi deficiency.

Yin deficiency may also be caused by emotional frustration, qi stagnation turning into fire, or insufficient kidney yin.

Blood deficiency may be caused by insufficient kidney essence, which cannot be transformed into blood, leading to insufficient liver blood, or deficiency of spleen and kidney, which leads to insufficient qi and blood. Even some chronic diseases can cause liver damage and blood consumption.

As for qi deficiency, bad mood, poor nutrition, long-term illness and physical weakness, and improper use of medication, all of these may lead to it.

So it is very likely that the previous doctors made a diagnosis, but their diagnosis was not accurate.

The woman heard that everyone's diagnosis results were almost the same and thought it must be the doctor's problem, so she told Fang Yan as soon as she came that if his diagnosis was still the same, then she would not see the doctor.

Fang Yan had encountered similar patients before when he went to the countryside for free medical treatment. This did not bother him. He just smiled and said calmly:

"Comrade, your illness was not cured. It may be that there is something wrong with their diagnosis or that the medication was not used properly. Moreover, the same symptom may not be caused by the same reason. Please stretch out your hand first and I will feel your pulse."

The woman seemed to be able to speak the dialect well, and she was no longer so aggressive when she spoke. Her tone was much softer as she said:
"It's not that I don't trust you, little comrade, but I've been to see doctors for this disease many times, but it keeps coming back and hasn't been cured. Today I deliberately dropped my farm work and drove into the city to come and see Tong Ren Tang. I think it's better to let your master come and take a look."

After hearing this, Fangyan finally realized that the other person disliked him because he was too young.

"It's okay, let him see the patient first. After he makes the diagnosis, I will do the rest." Lu Donghua pointed at Fangyan and insisted on letting Fangyan see the patient first.

The woman had no choice but to finally stretch out her hand and place it in front of Fangyan.

Fangyan placed his hands on the woman's Cun, Guan, and Chi fingers and began to feel her pulse. As his fingers gently stroked her pulse, a lot of information suddenly appeared in his mind.

Although it was not as magical as Liang's method of pulse diagnosis, it was still able to obtain a lot of information about the patient. He used his right hand to feel the pulse in dialect for ten minutes. He withdrew his hand only when no other information appeared in his mind. He then told the woman to use her left hand.

But at this time the woman was somewhat reluctant, and she asked in dialect:

"Young comrade, do you know how to feel a pulse? Our doctors can only feel it for less than half a minute, but you've been feeling it for a long time and you still can't find the problem?"

Fangyan was speechless. How could he diagnose a problem in just half a minute?

The three parts of Cun, Guan and Chi all need to be diagnosed with fifty movements to get the information clearly. I still have a system. Those people only use half a minute. Isn't they better than me who has a system?

But at this moment, he couldn't argue with the woman, so he just said:

"When taking the pulse, the left hand is yang and the right hand is yin. If we want to understand your problem, of course we need to check the pulses of both hands." The middle-aged woman still didn't believe it and looked at Lu Donghua beside her. Seeing this, Old Lu said:
"Lady, please be patient. The longer he feels your pulse, the more problems he can find. Didn't the doctors who felt your pulse before fail to cure you? Now that he can feel your pulse for so long, doesn't it mean that he can see the problem? Think about it, isn't that the truth?"

"Well... okay." Seeing that the old doctor said so, the middle-aged woman had no choice but to agree.

Seeing this scene, Liu Zude, who was watching the fun at the stairs on the second floor, pursed his lips and thought that Old Lu really took good care of this kid.

Then the middle-aged woman handed her hand to Fang Yan for diagnosis for about five minutes. When she saw Fang Yan finally took his hand back, she asked impatiently:

"How do you figure out what the problem is?"

Fang Yan already had a diagnosis in his mind, but he still said to the patient:

"Stick out your tongue again and see."

The other party was helpless, but having come to this point, he had no choice but to do as he was told.

Fangyan took a look and found that the tongue coating was light and white.

After reading it, Fang Yan said:
"Do you usually have symptoms such as inexplicable irritability, frequent dreams at night, irregular menstruation, dizziness, tinnitus, and decreased vision?"

The middle-aged woman was slightly shocked and asked in disbelief:
"Um...how do you know? I've been having some insomnia lately."

Fangyan did not answer and continued to ask:

"Do you still feel the left side of your body falling?"

The middle-aged woman's expression turned completely into surprise. She slapped her thigh and stood up:

"Yes, it's especially obvious when you're lying on your side! I haven't even told you all this, how did you know?"

Many people around looked at Fangyan in surprise. Generally speaking, it is the patients who describe their own symptoms. This is the first time they have seen a doctor describe the patient's daily symptoms after diagnosis.

Even Mr. Lu looked at Fangyan a few more times, secretly surprised that Fangyan's pulse diagnosis had reached such an level.

Fang Yan pondered for a few breaths, took a deep breath, then looked at the middle-aged woman and said:
"You have liver blood deficiency, which is probably caused by spleen and kidney deficiency, and biochemical deficiency leading to qi deficiency and blood deficiency. It was right for those doctors to strengthen the spleen, but the reason why the problem was not solved was probably because they treated the symptoms without addressing the root cause. They should prescribe a kidney-tonifying medicine, which can solve this problem."

"Replenish the kidneys?" The middle-aged woman was a little surprised.

"Yes." Fang Yan nodded confidently, and then he looked at Mr. Lu.

Seeing this, Mr. Lu knew that he should take action himself.

He knocked on the table, motioning for the middle-aged woman to give him her hand for diagnosis.

Although his hand was injured, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it. He had already done the four examinations, and he was watching by the side, so all he had to do was feel the pulse, and he had completed the diagnosis in a short while.

After looking at Fangyan, he said to the middle-aged woman:

"His diagnosis is correct. A prescription to strengthen the spleen, liver and blood, combined with a kidney-tonifying prescription, should be able to cure your illness."

(End of this chapter)