Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 8 Acupuncture, patients come to the door

As information came pouring in, thoughts surged in Fangyan's mind.

Acupuncture is divided into acupuncture and moxibustion. Regarding acupuncture, the original text of Huangdi Neijing. Suwen records: "If you puncture the void to make it full, the needle will be hot, and the fullness of the qi will be hot."

Acupuncture is divided into tonification and drainage. The ancients believed that when Qi and blood flow here, the local area will become hot, which is tonification. When Qi and blood leave here, the local area will cool down, which is drainage. This is the most primitive "burning mountain fire and cooling the sky".

In his previous life, Fangyan had read many books and watched many teaching videos on the techniques of burning mountain fire and cooling the whole body, but he had never succeeded in actually doing them, and few people in the acupuncture field could do it.

Even teachers who teach acupuncture in schools say that this technique is actually the same as the traditional martial arts techniques of tigers and leopards thundering and muscles and bones ringing. Don't take the legend too seriously. It makes sense that the blood circulation will be accelerated and the area will be heated up after the needle is inserted, but how can the blood circulation be cooled? So just learn it.

Although the dialect did not agree with what he said, only the right method can make wine from grains. The teacher would understand this, but of course he would not teach the students.

However, Fangyan did not have any experience in cooling down with acupuncture. Moreover, after he started working at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital, he found that there was a special acupuncture department, so he never conducted further research in this field.

Now the system gave him ten years of experience, and in an instant he had a lot of experience about acupuncture in his mind. For example, the feeling of qi during needle insertion, which he had never understood before, was now a very clear concept to him.

In the hospital, I have heard senior doctors explain that the Qi sensation during acupuncture is the so-called "getting Qi" or "guiding Qi".

Some say it's a stabbing sensation, some say it's like a fish swallowing a hook, some say there's obvious sucking and pushing, and more say the patient should feel sore, numb, swollen and painful sensations.

I didn’t understand the dialect before, but now I suddenly understand it. What they said is both right and wrong.

This is a very abstract feeling, which requires instruction and long-term practice and training. Now the system has directly brought Fangyan ten years of experience, which made him understand it all at once. Things that were mysterious before can now be done with acupuncture.

After giving himself several injections in succession, Fang Yan could still feel the so-called qi.

He had no concept of "getting qi" before, but now he has "got qi" 100%, and at the same time he can feel the huge difference.

Without Qi, the effect will be greatly reduced. With the sense of Qi, the effect will be better.

At this time, Fangyan remembered a passage from the Neijing:

"The key to acupuncture is that the qi reaches the target and the effect is effective. The effect is reliable, like the wind blowing the clouds, and the light is as clear as the sky. Then the art of acupuncture is complete."

Translated simply, the key to acupuncture is to get Qi. If Qi is obtained, there will be therapeutic effects. The reliability of the therapeutic effects is like a strong wind blowing away the dark clouds, revealing a clear sky.

This is the state that acupuncturists hope to achieve, where the needles are effective as soon as they are inserted.

After calming himself down, Fangyan pulled out the needle and fixed his eyes on the mugwort fluff again. Acupuncture and moxibustion are inseparable. With ten years of experience in acupuncture, moxibustion cannot lag behind.

He immediately picked up the wormwood fluff, pinched it into a 1 cm pyramid shape, placed it on the ginger slices and lit it. After it burned out, it became a strong incense.

[Ding! Divine Skill Experience System, Moxibustion Experience +10 Years! ]

As the system sounded, Fangyan suddenly had a lot of experience about moxibustion in his mind.

Moxibustion often appears in various videos in the Internet age. The most famous one is the story of "The old general moxibustioned Guanyuan three hundred times a day and had sex with ten women at night."

Although I don't know whether it's true or not, moxibustion on Guanyuan acupoint can indeed help men improve their sexual ability. In his previous life, Fangyan had already confirmed the effectiveness of this for his friends and patients. However, the three hundred strong men in the story are indeed a bit too exaggerated.

Some people can't stand the heat even if they do a few dozen stamina boosters, and I've never seen anyone do it in real life, even if they do three hundred stamina boosters.

At this time, Fangyan heard the old employees chatting outside and suddenly called out:
"Mr. Chen, you are here! Today we still follow the same old rules. Will we have a marinade package?"

Another hoarse voice replied, "No, no, my voice is hoarse today, so I came to find Lao Lu and asked him to give him two injections."

"Just do your own thing and leave me alone."

"Hey, Mr. Chen..." Before the person outside the door could finish his words, the door curtain of the back hall had already been opened.

An old man in a Zhongshan suit walked in. He saw Fangyan at first sight and was startled:
"Where's Old Lu? Shouldn't he be the one seeing patients today?"

Before Fangyan could answer, the old employee followed in.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Lu didn't come today. Our store manager has already gone to look for him on his bike."

"How about you wait here?"

The old man waved his hands, pinched his throat uncomfortably, and said in a hoarse voice:

"It's okay, just ask anyone to give me the injection. I still remember the spot where Lao Lu gave me the injection last time."

As he said that, he began to undress himself and pointed at a few acupuncture points on his stomach in front of the old employee. It turned out that the old man pointed out the points quite accurately.

"Uh..." The old employee hesitated.

Acupuncture seemed to be not difficult, but he had never done it before. He knew there were many tricks involved. He was fine with getting medicine, but he didn't think he could find the right place to practice acupuncture.

Just when he was a little confused, he suddenly heard Fang Yan speaking beside him:

"Acupuncture treatment focuses on the four diagnostic methods of observation, auscultation, listening, questioning and palpation. It is necessary to distinguish between yin and yang, exterior and interior, deficiency and excess, cold and heat. You cannot treat a headache by treating the head or a foot pain by treating the foot. If you acupunctured the same place that caused your hoarseness last time, it may not be effective this time, because the cause of your hoarseness may be different from the last time."

"It is necessary to make a clear diagnosis of which meridian or vessel the disease is in before starting treatment. It is not enough to simply find the acupuncture point and insert the needle into it and it will be effective."

Hearing this, the old man and the old employee were startled, and then the old man surnamed Chen asked:

"You know this, young man?"

"I understand a little." Fangyan nodded.

Old man Chen immediately said happily:
"Then can you show me what's wrong with your throat?"

"He..." The old employee opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly remembered that someone outside had just said that this man's mother was a doctor at the Union Hospital next door, so he changed his words for some reason:

"He...he can show you first!"

The store manager and the doctor on duty were not at home at the moment, so since the patient had come to the door, it was okay to let Fangyan take a look. There was no reason to chase the patient away.

Fangyan was thinking that it was a good opportunity to meet a patient and improve his experience in the four diagnostic methods of observation, auscultation, auscultation and palpation.

He glanced at the old employee, nodded at him, and then said to Old Man Chen:

"Then let's go to the examination table outside and I'll take a closer look at you."

(End of this chapter)