Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 880 The World-Renowned Suzhou Heavenly Needle, Opening the Gates of Hell Again (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets: 3K Chapters)

Seeing this, everyone in the room felt their hair stand on end.

Wasn't it said that the catatonic form would occur during the day?

So what's going on now?

The key point is that she spoke in French, which clearly indicates that Matilda has arrived and that Mavina is still asleep.

Even Ma Youxin was a little panicked; if this guy started causing trouble, even three or five people wouldn't be able to catch him.

Don't let his current thin frame fool you; when he gets going, he's bursting with energy.

Previously, a maid in my house helped me, and she broke her bones with her bare hands. You can imagine how much strength these guys have.

At this point, Fang Yan remained calm.

He spoke to Ma Wenying in French:
"Yes, of course I know."

Then she asked him:
"Les Misérables is not only a literary classic, but also a profound exploration of freedom and oppression. Did you choose this quote because you are also seeking some kind of liberation?"

Upon hearing the dialect, Ma Wenying tilted her head and looked thoughtful.

Fang Yan continued:

"True freedom comes from inner peace, not from confrontation."

Ma Wenying was clearly bewildered by the amount of information in those words. In the past, she had been fighting against her family in this state, and no one had spoken to her. Now, Fang Yan was actually talking to her and saying some things that made her think.

"N-nothing...it's nothing?" Ma Youxin looked at the scene in disbelief. Fang Yan's few words really had subdued her?

"Shh!" Ma Wenying gestured for Ma Youxin to be quiet.

He said in French:
"I'm thinking!"

"..." Ma Youxin was dumbfounded.

Fang Yan gestured for him to calm down, indicating that he didn't need to be nervous.

Then Fang Yan began to take Ma Wenying's pulse.

Ma Wenying glanced at Fang Yan holding her hand, then fell into thought again.

It seems she doesn't care too much about her body.

Instead, they paid more attention to what was said in dialect.

They did not exhibit any aggressiveness.

After diagnosing her two hands, Fang Yan picked up a pen and paper and began to write:
Tongue appearance: Red tongue with a dry, black coating and prickles (Yangming dryness and stagnation, depletion of Yin fluids)

Pulse characteristics: wiry, slippery, and rapid (liver stagnation transforming into fire with phlegm).
symptom:

During the day, she is as still as a corpse, and at night, she becomes manic and transforms into the "Matilda" personality.

Self-harm involving carving French characters, auditory hallucinations, and aggressive behavior.

Insomnia, refusal to eat, denial of illness.

The breath smells foul and alcoholic (due to damp-heat and phlegm rising upwards).

The core pathogenesis is liver qi stagnation transforming into fire, and phlegm-fire disturbing the heart. The patient's long-term emotional depression (marital pressure) leads to liver qi stagnation, which over time transforms into fire, which in turn condenses fluids into phlegm. The phlegm-fire obscures the sensory orifices, resulting in mania.

Secondly, there is disharmony between the heart and kidneys, and heat disturbing the mind. Horizontal lines on the root of the nose can indicate disharmony between the heart and kidneys and imbalance of water and fire. A mixture of blue and red on the glabella is a sign of liver fire attacking the heart.

The main symptoms identified were: mania due to phlegm-fire stagnation.

Concurrent symptoms: Liver Qi stagnation, heart-kidney disharmony, and Yangming dryness and constipation.

After he finished writing, Fang Yan removed the needle from her face.

Surprisingly, Ma Wenying completely ignored Fang Yan's actions, and she didn't even flinch when he pulled out the needle.

Everyone was amazed, thinking, "She truly deserves to be called the woman who wrote 'Les Misérables' on her own!"
"Hey, it seems like she's... gone again."

At this moment, Ma Youxin, who had been keeping a close eye on Ma Wenying's condition, spoke to everyone.

“No, I’m still thinking about it,” Meng Jimin said.

Fang Yan glanced at Ma Wenying's hands and feet and saw that they were already tense. He said:

"He's entered catatonia again."

Xiao Chengzhi, who was standing to the side, asked:
"Did she trigger a keyword, causing her to re-enter that state?"

"Possibly," Old Ren nodded.

Ma Youxin said:
"But that's good, now we don't have to worry about her jumping up."

Then he looked at Fang Yan, whose medical record had already been written, and asked:
"Dr. Fang, how do you plan to treat this?"

“Acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment,” Fang Yan replied.

Then, as he took off the silver needle wristband, he said:
"And it would be best if you didn't stay here. Find a place with a completely different style from here, preferably one with a completely different decor from your home in Haojiang."

"The hotel should have rooms in a purely Chinese style, or the simplest standard rooms, the simpler and smaller the better."

"She feels safer in smaller rooms."

After speaking in dialect, he paused, then added:

"In fact, it would be best to find a secluded and private residence. Zhang Congzheng, a famous doctor in the Jin and Yuan dynasties, once instructed a manic patient to move to a bamboo grove and thatched cottage, where the bamboo sap cleared phlegm and the quiet atmosphere helped cure the patient's intractable disease."

"There's such a saying?" Ma Youxin was shocked.

Fang Yan nodded:
"Yes, there is a record in the ancient Chinese medicine book 'Lixu Yuanjian' that says: 'Illnesses caused by the seven emotions should be treated with emotions.' This means that transferring patients to an unfamiliar environment can break the conditioned reflex between the original environment and the pathological psychology. Not only Zhang Congzheng, but Ye Tianshi also used the method of 'moving people to a different place and their depression will be resolved' to cure patients when treating depression."

"Furthermore, to put it in a superstitious way, European-style decor is dominated by the metal element, which easily suppresses the wood element of the liver, and the liver governs emotions. Switching to a Chinese style creates a balance of wood and fire, or a minimalist environment balances the earth element, which can regulate the flow of liver qi and subtly aligns with the color green in the east, which is beneficial to the liver." Professor Ren Yingqiu continued, "..."
"This is the Zang-Xiang theory from the 'Jin Gui Zhen Yan Lun' section of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic: Plain Questions."

Hearing this, Ma Youxin nodded:
"Then I'll go back and ask Director Liao about it."

He was clearly persuaded by the dialect.

After preparing the needles, Fang Yan asked Ma Youxin:
"There's a first-aid kit here, right? I'm still missing a three-edged needle."

Fang Yan realized that ever since he learned the Thirteen Ghost Needles, he really couldn't do without the three-edged needle; he'd have to carry one with him from now on.

"We have a first-aid kit! But I don't know if anything is prepared inside," Ma Youxin said.

After saying that, he said to his assistant:

"Go get it!"

Soon the assistant brought the items over, and there was a box of new silver needles inside. Fang Yan took a look... good heavens, these were not ordinary silver needles, but Su needles.

To be precise, it is the "Tiangong Needle" from the Hua family in Suzhou. The handle is made of jade. The set priced at 88 yuan at the 2019 Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition is this thing.

It is said to enhance the sense of breath, but I have never used it in dialects.

Other famous needles include the Nine-Turn Thunderfire Needle from the Le family of Tongrentang, which once sold for 218 million yuan per set (China Guardian Spring Auction in 2021).
There is also the Chuanzhen, which is the Daoist acupuncture needle from Qingcheng Mountain, which is sharpened using a cinnabar soaking method.

In addition, there are the Nine Dragons Needle from the Qing Dynasty Palace, the Musk Gold Needle from the Imperial Physicians of the Ming Dynasty, the Tai Chi Yin Yang Needle from the Taoist Physicians of Wudang Mountain, the titanium alloy "millimeter" needle from Japan, and the ceramic "Massen" needle from Germany.

The name "Tiangong Needle" comes from the creation philosophy in the "Kaogongji" (Record of Trades): "Heaven has its seasons, earth has its energy, materials have their beauty, and craftsmanship has its skill."

Fang Yan is going to try this needle to see if it's as magical as the legends say.

No need for the needles he brought with him anymore, Fang Yan picked up a needle and went to Ma Wenying, whose whole body was already stiff.

He took a deep breath and then inserted a needle into the philtrum, which is located one-third of the way up from her nasolabial fold.

When the needle pierced through, it felt like a hot knife cutting through butter. Fang Yan could feel a faint "hissing" sound coming from the needle. He didn't know where the sound came from, but then he felt like a fish had taken the bait, and the feeling was strong. This meant that he had obtained the Qi, which was more obvious than with a regular silver needle.

Continue inserting the needle obliquely 0.3 inches, then apply strong stimulation with a twisting motion at 3 rotations per second.

The jade needle is heavier than the one with the dragon handle, and it doesn't feel very convenient to use when first using it.

But at that moment, Ma Wenying suddenly shuddered, her pupils contracted to pinpoints, and a rattling sound came from her throat.

Seeing this, Fang Yan continued to turn the needle handle. About 10 seconds later, she suddenly sat up and shouted in French, "Non! (No!)"

It startled everyone around.

Just when everyone thought she was about to go crazy, she looked around blankly and asked in Chinese:
"Where am I?"

"This...is normal?" Ma Youxin was dumbfounded. One injection and it was all better?

She coughed violently as soon as she finished asking the question.

"Cough cough cough..."

He coughed violently, with a heavy phlegm sound, as if a large piece of phlegm was blocking his chest. He coughed so desperately that it looked like he was trying to cough up his lungs.

Just as Fang Yan was about to turn around to ask for a spittoon, Meng Jimin understood and handed it to him.

The dialect was presented to Ma Wenying.

Then Ma Wenying coughed up a clump of thick yellow phlegm, which fell into the spittoon.

There were still traces of blood on it.

Then she began to gasp for breath.

"Wen Yin, are you alright?" Ma Youxin asked his younger sister tentatively.

Ma Wenying waved her hand.

She was about to remove the silver needle from her philtrum when Fang Yan suddenly pulled her hand away and said:

"You are receiving treatment in Yanjing, and I am your doctor."

"The treatment has just begun."

Ma Wenying looked at Fang Yan with some surprise.

At this moment, Fang Yan had already taken her hand and used a three-edged needle to prick the Shaoshang acupoint, 0.1 inches from the corner of the nail on the radial side of her thumb. Blood gushed out instantly, but the blood was dark red and viscous like tar, and did not look like human blood at all.

Ma Wenying paused for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Fang Yan's hand with tremendous force, but abruptly let go after meeting his gaze, murmuring, "Pourquoi (Why)."

Then his whole body trembled like a leaf, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans seeped from his forehead.

This scene left Ma Youxin dumbfounded.

he asked:
"Wait... why is it stuck back in again?"

Fang Yan, holding Ma Wenying's hand, said to Ma Youxin:
"Although bloodletting at the Shaoshang acupoint expels thick yellow phlegm, it is a release of phlegm-fire, but it does not fundamentally resolve liver stagnation. 'Although the stagnant fire is released, the root cause is not removed, and it will inevitably reignite.' The residual stagnant fire rushes upward along the Shaoyang meridian, obstructing the sensory orifices again. The personality shift is actually an external manifestation of the intense struggle between Yin and Yang energies during the body's process of 'opening the ghost gate and cleansing the mansion.' The expulsion of phlegm and blood marks the entry of treatment into the 'Jueyin emerges from Shaoyang' stage. At this time, the body's vital energy is temporarily weak, and the pathogenic factors counterattack. Don't worry, trust me, once the needling is finished, you'll be on the right track."

Ma Youxin only half understood what he was hearing, so he could only nod. The others, however, understood.

It was said that it was meant for Ma Youxin, but it was more like it was meant for other people.

Then Fang Yan took out two more Tiangong needles and simultaneously stabbed Ma Wenying's Guilei (Yinbai) and Guixin (Daling) acupoints.

With one hand she used the Azure Dragon Swinging its Tail technique and the other the Azure Tortoise Probing its Acupoint technique, but as the needle manipulation continued, after 20 seconds, Ma Wenying began to sob and weep, her mournful cries sending chills down one's spine.

P.S.: I still owe you 35000 words after finishing this chapter.

That's all for today, please come early tomorrow.

Lao Feng is working hard to write tomorrow's code.

(End of this chapter)