Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 881 The Tenth Needle of the Ghost Gate: Even Healing Requires Lying (Combined Chapter)
"What's wrong now?" Ma Youxin asked in a low voice, pointing to Ma Wenying, who was sobbing with her head down.

Ma Wenying's crying was so eerie that Ma Youxin felt it didn't sound like his sister's crying at all, but more like the crying of a strange woman.

The sound of crying sent a chill down your spine, from your feet all the way up your back to your scalp, making your whole back feel cold.

Of course, others feel the same way.

Even dialects are no exception. At this moment, Ma Wenying's crying sounded like the wailing of a female ghost in a horror movie, which sent chills down one's spine.

As for why Ma Wenying cried, it's too mysterious to explain in her dialect.

After thinking for a moment, Fang Yan said to Ma Youxin:
"I used two special acupuncture techniques, which have a strong effect of expelling evil and supporting the body's righteousness, and can cause a violent struggle between the Yin and Yang energies in the body. This violent energy conflict manifests as a dual release of physiological and psychological energy, and crying is one of the outward symptoms."

"Oh, I see!" Ma Youxin felt much better after hearing the explanation in the dialect.

In particular, the tone of the dialect is very calm and composed. Although the voice is not loud, it has a penetrating power that inexplicably makes people feel convinced.

This also made Ma Youxin feel that the situation was still under control.

Next, Fang Yan ignored Ma Wenying's crying, took the needles and came to her feet. The fifth needle was Shenmai (Ghost Road), located in the ankle area, directly below the tip of the lateral malleolus, in the depression between the lower edge of the lateral malleolus and the calcaneus.

Fang Yan picked up the Heavenly Craftsmanship Needle and inserted it straight in.

When the Heavenly Craftsman's Needle penetrated three-tenths of an inch, Ma Wenying suddenly arched her body like a shrimp, and her crying turned into a sharp scream.

"what!!!!"

Everyone else was startled. Fang Yan didn't loosen the needle; instead, he continued to rotate it while keeping an eye on Ma Wenying to prevent her from suddenly attacking someone.

After screaming, Ma Wenying's eyes were filled with a hint of madness.

She glared fiercely at Fang Yan, then looked at him for two seconds before a look of confusion crossed her face. Her gaze then swept over the faces of the other people in the room, finally settling on Ma Youxin and his assistant.

"You two go out first," Fang Yan said to Ma Youxin and his female assistant.

The thought process of a mentally ill person is unpredictable, but even their dialect can reveal that they are going mad with a specific purpose.

Ma Youxin and his assistant seemed conflicted, as if they didn't really want to go out.

At this moment, Ma Wenying's ten fingers spasmodically gripped the bed sheet, her fingernails scraping against the silk quilt with a harsh sound.

He urged in a dialect:
"You guys just hide by the door and watch, hurry up, or it'll be troublesome if she starts making a scene."

"Oh, okay!" Ma Youxin finally agreed and retreated to the door with his female assistant.

The two of them showed half their faces and stared into the room.

At this point, the dialect continued, and the celestial needle was turned.

Ma Wenying seemed to have lost her target, her gaze sweeping aimlessly across the faces of everyone else in the room.

A series of rattling sounds came from his mouth.

There is still phlegm that hasn't been cleared out.

The patient's persistent rattling sound in his throat indicates that there is still phlegm and heat obstructing the lung orifices. The Danxi Heart Method calls this "strange disease with a lot of phlegm".

His gaze shifted between madness and confusion, reflecting the "mania" characteristic of phlegm and fire clouding the mind, as described in "Zhengzhi Zhunsheng" as "phlegm and fire intertwined, with the mind sometimes clear and sometimes obscured."

After Ma Youxin and his assistant left, Ma Wenying lost her target and began to look around blankly at others.

This aligns with the pathogenesis described in "Ling Shu: Ben Shen" as "When liver qi is deficient, it causes fear; when it is excessive, it causes anger." After acupuncture at Shenmai to release the stagnant fire in the Foot Taiyang Meridian, the liver excess is temporarily relieved, and the aggressiveness loses its clear direction.

Shenmai (BL62) is one of the eight confluent points of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels. When needled, it draws the Qi of the Yang Qiao Meridian directly to the top of the head.

Of course, according to the records of Zhou Zuoyu and Sun Simiao, it was "to stab the ghost's path, and when evil comes out, the sound is loud."

This "evil" can be deep-seated phlegm and fire evil qi, or it can be something else entirely.

In summary, Ma Wenying's screams are a natural reaction to the acupuncture's forceful opening of the meridians and expulsion of phlegm and fire. Her current state indicates that the treatment has entered a critical stage of the struggle between pathogenic factors and the body's resistance, and it is necessary to continue to use the Thirteen Ghost Needles to complete the Qi circulation.

The sixth needle is applied to the Fengfu (Ghost Pillow) acupoint.

In the posterior neck region, directly below the external occipital protuberance, in the depression between the two trapezius muscles.

It is about one inch above the back hairline.

Fang Yan took the silver needles and went behind Ma Wenying. He found the acupoints and slowly inserted them towards the lower jaw. He should not insert them too deeply upwards, as this could easily damage the medulla oblongata.

After the injection, Ma Wenying's breathing became even more labored, and she began to make some incomprehensible sounds, as if she were talking to someone in the air or muttering to herself.

However, a strong, mixed smell of alcohol and filth could be smelled, several times stronger than the smell of her breath before, as if she had vomited. Several onlookers couldn't help but frown.

"Old Meng, help me hold the spittoon; she's probably going to vomit," Fang Yan reminded Meng Jimin.

Upon hearing this, Meng Jimin immediately came forward and, as Fang Yan requested, placed the spittoon in front of Ma Wenying. At this moment, Fang Yan began to manipulate the silver needles.

As the needle began to tremble, Ma Wenying's breathing indeed became heavier and heavier, and the taste in her mouth became increasingly unpleasant.

Meng Jimin stood opposite her, directly in the eye, his grimacing expression a sight to behold.

Fang Yan kept waiting for Ma Wenying to vomit, but she just wouldn't. She also didn't see the "seeing white vapor coming out when piercing Fengfu" in the previous record of the Thirteen Ghost Needles.

Fang Yan had no choice but to take out the seventh needle.

The seventh needle is located at the Jiache acupoint, also known as the "ghost bed".

Fang Yan had previously stabbed her on the face to get her to open her mouth.

After this puncture, the needle was inserted into the Dicang acupoint and then penetrated 1.5 inches further, followed by the twisting and draining technique.

Ma Wenying finally reacted, and with a "vomit," she opened her mouth and vomited.

Fang Yan quickly let go of her hand.

Like the phlegm he coughed up before, it contained streaks of blood, but this time there was a larger amount.

Ma Wenying coughed and vomited repeatedly, with saliva and snot coming out.

The horses outside must have been in great pain.

He wanted to come in and help get some paper to wipe it, but Fang Yan waved him back.

After vomiting for a while, Ma Wenying finally stopped.

Looking around with a somewhat confused expression.

Fang Yan asked her:
Do you know who you are?

“I…I am…” Ma Wenying seemed to have lost her memory.

I thought for a long time but still couldn't remember my name.

Fang Yan said to her:
"It's okay, take your time to think about it."

"Who are you?" Ma Wenying asked Fang Yan.

"I am your attending physician. You are sick and are receiving treatment." After saying that, he pointed to the needles on her body. Ma Wenying then realized that her face and hands were covered with needles, and she was startled.

"Is it... is it healed or not?" Ma Youxin asked Fang Yan from the doorway.

"Je ne suis pas une poupée! (I am not a doll!)" A sudden French voice made Ma Youxin and the others' scalps tingle.

"..." Fang Yan was speechless. How could her split personality suddenly appear like a ghost?

"You spat out the phlegm, why aren't you better yet?" Meng Jimin asked Fang Yan.

He said in dialect:

"Although the phlegm and fire were expelled and thick yellow phlegm was discharged, the liver qi stagnation caused by the patient's long-term emotional depression has not been completely resolved. Her core pathogenesis is liver qi stagnation transforming into fire, and phlegm and fire disturbing the heart. Simply expelling phlegm is like cutting grass without removing the roots. Liver qi stagnation will continue to condense fluids into phlegm, forming a new pathological basis."

"Ugh!" At this moment, Ma Wenying vomited again.

Meng Jimin quickly grabbed a spittoon to catch it for her.

"So what do we do now?" Meng Jimin asked the question that everyone else wanted to ask.

The dialect picked up the eighth needle.

Said:

"Continue with the needles."

The Thirteen Ghost Needles technique was used before, and Fang Yan had only used it seven times before. This time, it broke the record again.

However, records are meant to be broken.

Looking at it from another perspective, now that we're using techniques like Tiangong Needle, and having patients like Ma Wenying for clinical practice, how is this a problem? Isn't this the best time?

Ma Wenying had just finished vomiting and was in a dazed state again.

The dialect took the opportunity.

Take out the silver needles.

The eighth needle, Chengjiang (Guishi), is located on the face, in the depression in the center of the mentolabial groove.

Fang Yan took the Tiangong needle and inserted it diagonally upwards 0.3 inches. After obtaining the Qi, he used the lifting and thrusting purging method. This time the reaction was very fast. Ma Wenying's breathing suddenly became very deep, and then she suddenly vomited a jelly-like purplish-black blood clot, which looked like phlegm wrapped in black blood.

After vomiting this stuff out.

Ma Wenying collapsed to the ground.

Fang Yan quickly helped her up.

She still has needles in the back of her head, so we can't let her lie down casually.

Even up close, you could smell that the stench of alcohol on her had dissipated.

Fang Yan said to Meng Jimin:
"She probably won't throw up anymore, let's leave her alone."

Meng Jimin nodded, holding his breath, and moved the filth from the spittoon aside.

Fang Yan carefully observed Ma Wenying, considering whether to continue the acupuncture.

The bluish tinge on her face had disappeared, but there was still a hint of red between her eyebrows.

This patient is even stranger than the previous ones.

The main problem is that she has developed schizophrenia.

If we follow Chu Qiaonan's medical record of using the Thirteen Ghost Needles, then at least the tenth needle should be inserted.

That is, the Ghost Hall, or the Upper Star Cave.

Fang Yan watched as Ma Wenying collapsed in his hands, unable to see any reaction from her, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should continue administering the acupuncture.

Just as Fang Yan was about to take her pulse, Ma Wenying began to murmur intermittently in her Haojiang accent, "Mother... I don't want to get married..."

"This...it seems like he's back?" Ma Youxin asked Fang Yan, who was watching from the side.

Fang Yan said to Xiao Chengzhi:
"Old Xiao, come over and help him up. I'll take his pulse."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chengzhi quickly went up and said:

"Let me take your pulse!"

Fang Yan paused, then, remembering that Xiao Chengzhi's diagnostic skills were inherited from Xiao Longyou and were also exceptional, he nodded and said:
"Okay, come on then."

Xiao Chengzhi came to Ma Wenying's side, took her hand, and began to take her pulse.

After a while, he said:

"The left Guan pulse is taut and hard like a blade, while the right Cun pulse is floating, slippery, and slightly rough. This indicates that the liver wood is invading the stomach and that phlegm and blood stasis are intertwined. Although the pathogenic qi of the Jueyin meridian has been expelled from the Shaoyang meridian, there is still latent heat in the Chong and Ren meridians."

After saying that, he quietly came to a conclusion:
"In my opinion... we still need to stab them!"

Before he even spoke, Fang Yan had already mentally prepared himself by recalling those medical cases.

Let them stab us then.

"Help me support the patient," Fang Yan said to Xiao Chengzhi.

After Xiao Chengzhi helped Ma Wenying up, Fang Yan took out the ninth Heavenly Craft Needle.

The ninth acupoint is Laogong (Ghost Cave).

This is an acupoint that many people are familiar with, located on the palm of the hand.

It belongs to the Pericardium Meridian of Hand-Jueyin. Stimulating this area can clear heart fire and is used to treat symptoms such as irritability, insomnia, excessive dreaming, and mouth ulcers caused by excessive heart fire.

It can also enlighten the mind and refresh the spirit.

Heatstroke, stroke, and epilepsy can all stimulate this area to help patients regain consciousness.

As for whether this injection will restore Ma Wenying's consciousness or Matilda's consciousness, that remains to be seen.

We'll see how things go in a bit.

Fang Yan picked up the Tiangong needle and inserted it 0.3 inches into the acupoint. After obtaining the Qi, he began to perform needling using the reducing method.

As expected, Ma Wenying opened her eyes while the acupuncture was being performed in Fangyan.

She looked at Fang Yan, who was giving her acupuncture, and Xiao Chengzhi, who was supporting her, and finally her gaze settled on Fang Yan. Then she tentatively asked:

"doctor?"

Upon hearing the voice, Fang Yan asked her:
Do you know who you are?

“I am Ma Wenying…” she replied.

Hearing this, Ma Youxin at the door finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to come over when he suddenly remembered what had happened earlier, and his steps involuntarily stopped. "Do you know where this place is?" Fang Yan continued to ask.

Meanwhile, the needles in his hand kept moving.

"The hospital?" Ma Wenying asked.

Then she shook her head.

"This is...a hotel?"

"Yes, you are now at the Yanjing Hotel in Beijing," Fang Yan replied.

"How did I come to be here?" Ma Wenying asked, somewhat puzzled.

Fang Yan said to her:
"You came by plane. You were sick before, your engagement was called off, and you shaved your head. Now you need to get treatment in the capital."

Everyone looked at Fang Yan; he was clearly doing it on purpose, mixing a lie into the truth.

It was used to gain Ma Wenying's trust.

Upon hearing Fang Yan's words, Ma Wenying was indeed taken aback, then her eyes widened suddenly, as if she had recalled many things, and she said with some fear:
"Yes, I remember now... they're going to send me to a political marriage!"

"I...I just fainted."

"The engagement has been called off now?" Ma Wenying asked Fang Yan.

“That’s right, the engagement is off. Your illness can’t be cured in the south, so you have to come to the north for treatment,” Fang Yan said to her.

"I really...I'm so sorry to my family..." Ma Wenying said insincerely.

It was obvious that she was relieved.

"Who brought me here? And what illness do I have?" Ma Wenying seemed to have regained her logical thinking and began to question her current situation.

The doctor in front of her, not only in his voice but also in his actions, gave her a sense of trust.

Fang Yan said to her:
“Ma Youxin brought you here.”

Do you remember him?

Ma Wenying immediately said:
"Is that my third brother?"

Fang Yan nodded and said:
"Hmm, it seems you still remember."

Then he stopped needlework and said:

“Your illness is mental; you are under too much stress. You faint from time to time, and after fainting, you exhibit self-harming behaviors. So now I need to cure you.”

"What have I done?" Ma Wenying looked at the trembling Heavenly Craftsmanship Needle in her hand.

Fang Yan glanced at her bald head and said to her:
"You have so much to do..."

As if sensing something, Ma Wenying glanced at her hand and found that she had written something on it.

This clearly surprised her.

Then she remembered what the dialect said about her becoming bald, and when she touched her hair, it was indeed true.

However, she remained relatively calm and asked Fang Yan:

"Doctor, will I still faint now?"

"You'll have to ask yourself that," Fang Yan said to her.

Ma Wenying was somewhat bewildered upon hearing this answer.

Before she could ask further, Fang Yan said to her:
"Okay, there's one more injection left. Just bear with it for a bit."

The tenth needle is applied to the Shangxing (Guitang) acupoint.

This acupoint is located on the head, one inch directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline.

This acupoint has the effect of dispersing wind-heat and can be used to treat mental disorders such as insomnia, forgetfulness, and epilepsy.

Stimulating the Shangxing acupoint can regulate the flow of Qi and blood in the head, awaken the mind, calm the nerves, and thus improve mental abnormalities.

Fang Yan picked up the needle, and Ma Wenying looked at him with some fear.

However, Fang Yan's movements were very quick; he inserted the needle horizontally 0.5 inches and directly obtained the Qi sensation.

Ma Wenying was startled, and Fang Yan began to use the twisting and turning method to purge.

"Doctor, I heard a French woman's voice!" she suddenly said to Fang Yan.

Upon hearing this, several people around him got goosebumps.

The ghost doesn't go away!
"What did she say?" Fang Yan asked while performing acupuncture.

Ma Wenying frowned, paused slightly, and said:
"I can't hear clearly, I have some tinnitus..."

"Very good." Fang Yan continued the acupuncture.

Ma Wenying's body trembled, and she said:
"Doctor, I feel unwell."

"Feeling nauseous?" Fang Yan asked.

“Hmm,” Ma Wenying said.

This time, without needing to speak in dialect, Meng Jimin went back and brought over another new spittoon.

"Ugh!" As soon as she got it, Ma Wenying started vomiting.

However, this time she didn't vomit phlegm, but rather saliva and stomach acid.

He was spitting into the spittoon.

Snot and tears streamed down my face.

After vomiting for a while, she finally raised her head and began to breathe heavily.

I felt like I almost threw up my stomach just now.

Fang Yan listened carefully to her breathing and found that there was no more phlegm.

His eyes also became much clearer.

"How are you feeling?" Fang Yan handed over the paper and then asked Ma Wenying.

"I...I'm hungry," Ma Wenying said somewhat embarrassedly, wiping away her drool, snot, and tears.

Fang Yan was taken aback.

But then he immediately asked her:
"Is there anything else?"

Ma Wenying said:
"Just now I felt like a woman was talking a bunch of things in my ear, but you kept turning the needle, and my ears were ringing so I couldn't hear clearly, and then she disappeared."

"Disappeared?" Fang Yan asked.

Ma Wenying nodded:

"Yeah, suddenly I couldn't hear her talking anymore, and the tinnitus was gone too."

"Then my stomach felt very uncomfortable."

Upon hearing this, not only Fang Yan, but also other onlookers like Elder Ren and Xiao Chengzhi knew that Fang Yan had successfully completed the treatment with the Thirteen Ghost Needles.

It's really not easy.

Back and forth, Matilda's personality would pop up from time to time like a ghost.

It has finally dissipated.

Of course, this dissipation needs to be consolidated, otherwise she will be resurrected on the spot once the conditions are met.

Mr. Ren gave a thumbs up to the dialect.

Now he's seen this kid's skills for what they are.

Fang Yan smiled at him.

Then he turned his head and shouted towards the door:

"Mr. Ma! Could you please bring some food over, something light and hot?"

"Okay, okay!" Ma Youxin quickly replied from outside the door.

Then Fang Yan heard him making a phone call downstairs, probably ordering food to be brought up.

After finishing the call, Ma Youxin excitedly ran in and greeted Ma Wenying:

"Wen Yin!"

"Third Brother," Ma Wenying called out to Ma Youxin.

Upon hearing the word "Third Brother," Ma Youxin breathed a long sigh of relief.

He was genuinely terrified of hearing Ma Wenying utter another French phrase at him; he felt like he would burst out laughing.

"Dr. Fang, you're amazing!" Ma Youxin gave Fang Yan a thumbs up.

From his perspective, it was that other places couldn't cure it, but the dialect could.

Fang Yan said to him:
"She is still very weak, and the next step is a long period of recuperation."

"As I said before, change her environment and let her receive traditional Chinese medicine treatment."

"I will prescribe the formula for you, which will be divided into several stages."

“Okay, okay! I will definitely do as you say!” Ma Youxin nodded repeatedly.

At this moment, Ma Wenying asked Ma Youxin:
"Third Brother, have I really broken off the engagement?"

Ma Youxin shuddered, but he reacted quickly and nodded immediately:
"Yes, we cancelled it!"

"Don't worry about anything now. Just stay in the capital and recuperate."

Upon hearing this, Ma Wenying visibly breathed a sigh of relief and nodded happily.

Said:

"Then it might be a long time before I can go home?"

Ma Youxin said:
"There's no rush. Let's get better first. It'll be about time when your hair grows to shoulder length."

Upon hearing this, Ma Wenying touched her bald head and suddenly felt a pang of melancholy.
"I don't know how long it will take for my hair to grow that long, it must look awful right now."

Ma Youxin said:
"Not ugly, not ugly. You shaved your head when you were little, looking like a little boy, and some girls really liked you, remember?"

Upon hearing this, Ma Wenying paused slightly, then laughed.
"Haha, I remember... I still remember that little girl was from the He family."

Then the two siblings reminisced about their childhood, and the atmosphere gradually improved.

This time, ten needles were used, which is considered to be the highest record Fang Yan has achieved so far.

If this doesn't improve, the eleventh acupuncture point will be the private area, the "ghost's hiding place," which is the perineum.

Looking at his younger sister, who was covered in needles but still smiling with him, Ma Youxin asked Fang Yan beside him:

"By the way, Dr. Fang, what about these needles?"

Fang Yan glanced at his watch and said:
"There are still more than 20 minutes left. She needs to leave the needle in for a while."

"I'll explain the detailed requirements for recuperation and medication to you later."

Ma Youxin nodded.

He whispered to the dialect:

"Dr. Fang, thank you so much. Please stay a moment and let's talk next door."

Fang Yan knew that he intended to thank her for treating his illness.

It's anyone's guess what the Ma family's move will be.

To be honest, Fang Yan now wants the set of Heavenly Craftsmanship Needles that are stuck in Ma Wenying's body more.

"Okay, we'll talk about it later." Fang Yan nodded, took out the prescription and started writing.

Old Ren and the others also gathered around, now even more curious about the prescription Fang Yan had given them.

All that was seen was a sentence written in dialect:

A four-pronged approach.

Soothe the liver and relieve depression: Targeting the core pathogenesis of liver stagnation transforming into fire, it resolves long-term emotional stress.

Clearing heat and eliminating phlegm: Eliminating residual phlegm and heat, preventing phlegm and heat from obstructing the orifices again.

Heart and Kidney Communicator: Adjusting the state of disharmony between the heart and kidneys.

Nourishing Yin and Moistening Dryness: Repairing the Yin fluid depletion indicated by a red tongue with a black and dry coating.

In the first stage, the formula Chaihu Jia Longgu Muli Tang combined with Mengshi Guntan Wan was modified.

PS: The basic chapter of 6000 words has been updated.

There will be an extra chapter later.

(End of this chapter)