Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 552: Zhu You is a psychological suggestion? Then I have a little discovery (Monthly ticket plus more)

"Of course I know about the art of incantation. Why are you interested in it again?" When Meng Jimin heard Fang Yan say this, he immediately asked him in a low voice.

You have to know that if this thing is not handled properly, it will be labeled as feudal superstition.

If they were talking about something somewhere else, he wouldn't be so careful, but this is Union Hospital.

If the medical staff inside get out, the matter can become a big or small matter.

Seeing Meng Jimin being so careful, Fang Yan lowered his voice to reassure him and said to Meng Jimin:
"Today, when I was sorting out the "Yu Xiu Yi Fang Lei Ju", I found a lot of scattered incantations in it. I think this thing will probably not be made public in the future, but it feels a bit regrettable to throw it away, so I want to ask if you are interested?"

Hearing what was said in dialect, Meng Jimin said:
"In fact, I had noticed the things in there a long time ago. When you were busy and we couldn't push forward the verification work, I just flipped through those things."

"But there's nowhere to try this stuff, and the art of incantation has been around since ancient times, but most of the people who use it are petty thieves. They rely on learning a little bit of the art of incantation to cheat people out of food, drink, money, and sex. Some even have the intention to harm others, and use what they've learned to cheat and harm others."

"I feel that what the Koreans copied may not be useful. Maybe they were just recorded based on hearsay from somewhere."

After that, he asked in dialect:

"Think about it, how many medical cases of Zhuyoushu are recorded in our orthodox medical books?"

When Fangyan heard this question, he looked thoughtful.

Zhao Xuemin of the Qing Dynasty included various methods of incantation in his Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica.

The book "Jiyin Gangmu" records the use of Zhuyou for labor conditioning, and "Lizheng Anma Yaoshu" records the use of Zhuyou to treat children's crying, eye diseases, etc.

However, the dialects in these books feel more like psychological suggestions.

Meng Jimin also said at this time:

"For example, the stories recorded in the Qing Dynasty's "Continuation of Famous Doctors' Cases"..."

"Han Shiliang treated a woman who had a very deep relationship with her mother. Her mother died after she got married. She became ill because she missed her mother too much. Her symptoms included mental depression, fatigue, constant sleepiness, chest and stomach discomfort, and a dazed look all day. Medication had no effect. After examining her condition, Han Shiliang said that the disease was caused by long-term longing and could not be cured by medicine. At that time, local folk customs were very superstitious about witches. Witches would use ghost tricks to predict good and bad luck, and were called "butong."

“So Han Shiliang asked the woman’s husband to pretend to bribe the witch with money, and asked the witch to pretend to be the woman’s mother and say, “You and I had a grudge in our previous life, so you were reborn to me just to harm me, and your fate is against me, and my death is all because of you. Now I want to seek revenge on you in the underworld. You became sick and dazed, which was actually my fault. We were mother and son when we were alive, but we became enemies after we died.” The woman was very angry after hearing this, and said angrily, “I became sick because I missed my mother, but my mother wants to hurt me. What else is there for me to miss?” From then on, she no longer missed her mother, and her illness gradually got better.”

Meng Jimin slapped his thigh:

"You said this medical case, isn't it just psychological suggestion?"

After that, he thought for a moment and gave another example:
"There is also a medical case of Zhuyoushu in the medical book "Ancient and Modern Medical Cases" written by Yu Zhen of the Qing Dynasty. It says that once a man in the city drank too much at his in-laws' house and got very drunk. After that, he was arranged to rest in a beautifully decorated room. In the middle of the night, he was thirsty after being drunk and wanted to drink water but couldn't find any, so he sucked about a bowl of water from the trough with his mouth."

"When he looked at the trough at dawn, he found that it was full of small red worms. He was shocked and depressed. He felt as if something was blocking his chest and his stomach was blocked. As he had wild thoughts and doubts day after day, he gradually developed dysphagia. He went to many doctors but could not get cured."

"Later, Dr. Wu Qiu treated him and found out that his illness was caused by doubts, so he cut the red thread into a shape similar to a cloth strip, and then mashed two croton seeds with rice, put the red thread in it, and made more than ten pills. He asked the patient to take these pills in a dark room, and put water in the bedpan in advance. Not long after, the patient began to have diarrhea and sat on the bedpan. The diarrhea looked like a cloth strip rippling in the water. Dr. Wu Qiu opened the window for the patient to see it with his own eyes. From then on, the patient's illness was relieved, and after subsequent conditioning, he recovered."

Meng Jimin said to the dialect:

"To put it bluntly, this is still a psychological suggestion. One is internal and the other is external, one is medicine and the other is psychology. Together, they can dredge the originally stagnant Qi, so that the dysfunction of the spleen, stomach and other internal organs can be relieved, and the choking symptoms will be cured accordingly."

Fang Yan touched his chin and did not respond to Meng Jimin. Instead, he asked him:
"Have you ever thought about a question?"

"What's the problem?" Meng Jimin asked.

Dialects say:
"Are all the records you mentioned from the Ming and Qing dynasties?" "And the Imperial Collection of Medical Prescriptions records medical cases from the Warring States period to before the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

Hearing Fangyan's words, Meng Jimin was suddenly stunned. His eyes, which were clear as if he could see through the essence of things just now, suddenly became confused.

He was stunned for half a minute.

"hiss……"

He took a breath.

Then he said to the dialect:

"Lao Fang, you found the blind spot."

Then he started to deduce without any guidance from the dialect. He slapped his forehead and said:

"You should know that the Qing Dynasty even called for the abolition of acupuncture because Emperor Daoguang believed that acupuncture required exposing the chest and back, which was not the way to serve the monarch. He was also worried that doctors would use silver needles to perform acupuncture, so in the second year of Daoguang's reign, he ordered the abolition of acupuncture."

"Would Zhuyoushu, a more uncontrollable and bizarre method, have been noticed earlier?"

The dialect said:

"I think we still have to look at this matter dialectically."

Meng Jimin asked:
"You mean to practice on someone else? To prove the truth?"

Fangyan shook his head and said:

"Of course not. Now is obviously not the right time."

"What I mean is to collect this information first, and then talk about it when the time is right."

Just because it’s not suitable now doesn’t mean there won’t be opportunities in the future.

Anyway, let Lao Meng learn it and he can use it when he has the chance.

Fang Yan patted Meng Jimin on the shoulder and said:

"And you are talented in this area. For example, you are much better than me in face reading. If you develop it, maybe you can develop some new treatment. Even if it is some kind of strong psychological suggestion, it can be considered a psychological treatment, right?"

When Meng Jimin heard Fang Yan admit that he was not as talented as him in this area, he touched his chin and said:
"If you say so, then this... this is indeed true. I am more talented in this area."

The dialect said:

"Besides, that was the content selected and copied by the Joseon royal family. We can question their intelligence, but we should also trust their vision. Perhaps some research may bring some surprises."

Meng Jimin nodded when he heard this:
"That makes sense. I'll go to the calibration room to study it tomorrow when I wake up."

PS: After finishing this chapter, I still owe you 96000 words.

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(End of this chapter)