Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 913 The Secret Recipe for Treating Kidney Deficiency, "Hejian Rehmannia Decoction", Sudden Blindness (Bonus Chapter 3K for Monthly Tickets) Requesting Monthly Tickets!

After listening to the patient's account, Fang Yan thought for a moment and then said:

Do you feel anything in your lumbar spine? Right here in this area.

After speaking in dialect, he stood up and pointed to his lumbar spine for the patient.

After reading it, the patient spoke in dialect:

"I feel a soreness and swelling."

Fang Yan walked over, then squatted down to support his lumbar spine, and asked:
"Does it hurt when you press it gently?"

"No." The patient shook his head.

At this moment, Fang Yan exerted a little force, and the patient gasped in shock.
"Hiss... Yes, yes, yes! I've got it now!"

Then he asked:
"Why didn't I feel anything when I pressed it?"

"I didn't press it just now," Fang Yan said.

The patient remained silent.

Then Fang Yan lifted up his trouser leg and examined his feet, finding that the muscles had not atrophied and there were no external signs; the skin color was normal.

Then, Fang Yan pinched it on the surface and asked the patient:
Can you feel my hand?

"Okay, sure," the patient replied cautiously, afraid that Fang Yan might pinch him too hard.

Then, in a dialect, he asked him:
"Are you able to stand up now?"

The latter nodded, then, supporting himself with his wheelchair, stood up abruptly.

He spoke in dialect:

"You can stand, but you can't stand for too long. If you stand for too long, you'll lose control and fall."

Fang Yan then asked him:
"How about eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet?"

The patient nodded and said:

"Everything is fine, no different from usual, within the normal range."

Fang Yan stood up after hearing this, seemingly lost in thought.

After thinking for a moment, he returned to his examination table, sat down, and then said to the patient:
"Open your mouth and stick out your tongue for me to see."

"Bring me your hand too, I need to take your pulse."

The patient complied with the instructions. After a dialect examination, it was found that the patient's tongue was dark with a thin yellow coating and the pulse in both hands was deep and thready.

After the dialect check was completed, the patient couldn't wait to ask him:
"Dr. Fang, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, what kind of problem do I have?"

Fang Yan picked up his pen and said as he wrote:
"This illness, in essence, is caused by kidney problems."

"Kidney deficiency?" the patient's wife asked in dialect.

Fang Yan nodded, confirming her statement.

An eerie silence suddenly fell over the entire consultation room.

What men fear most is being told they have kidney deficiency, and what they fear most is that the person saying that is their own wife.

He coughed lightly twice in dialect, then explained:

"Well, there's an old saying that 'the waist is the residence of the kidneys,' which means that the waist is like the house of the kidneys and is very closely related to them. Moreover, the spine is where the Governing Vessel passes through, and the Governing Vessel is related to the kidneys. If the kidney qi is insufficient, the Governing Vessel will also 'act up' and become weak."

"Then why are my legs weak due to kidney deficiency?" the patient asked, somewhat unconvinced.

He said in dialect:

"In traditional Chinese medicine, the lower limbs are governed by the Shaoyin meridian, and the Du meridian is the 'big leader' that governs the lower limbs. If the Du meridian is weak and lacks strength, the lower limbs are like soldiers without a commander, not knowing how to exert force, and naturally they are prone to falling."

“Our ancestors used to call this disease ‘wind-heat’. Wind-heat is a disease that causes the limbs to become unusable. It is caused by the deficiency of the lower body, the upward floating of deficient yang, and the upward flow of phlegm and turbidity, which block the orifices, leading to coldness in the lower body and bloating in the upper body, resulting in the inability to use the limbs.”

At this point, Fang Yan paused, then asked the patient:
Do you understand what I'm saying?

"Um... I can understand!" The patient nodded.

Then asked:

"Is there any way to treat this?"

"Of course, the *Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber* says, 'Stroke with paralysis is characterized by the inability to support the body, speechlessness, confusion about the location of pain, or stiffness preventing turning over.' You Zaijing says, 'Paralysis is a form of fainting, where the spirit is weak, the muscles and bones are not used, not only due to the disturbance of pathogenic factors but also the decline of true qi.' The *Huangdi Neijing Suwen Xuanming Lunfang* says, 'Rehmannia Decoction treats aphonia paralysis, kidney deficiency with fainting, loss of voice, and paralysis of the legs.' Based on the above discussions, it can be seen that our ancestors had already established a certain theoretical basis and treatment methods for wind paralysis. To treat your problem, you only need to find prescriptions in these ancient books."

Upon hearing this, the patient immediately became happy:

"Really? That's great!"

Regardless of whether it's kidney deficiency or not, as long as there's a way to cure the problem, that's more important than anything else.

"Your problem can be cured simply by tonifying your kidneys and replenishing your marrow, nourishing your blood and dispelling wind. It's not a big problem," Fang Yan said to the patient.

Actually, he could have been cured by a traditional Chinese medicine doctor abroad.

However, they contacted Li Chengzhu first, which is why they came back directly.

Of course, it's good to come back; we can contribute to the country's construction and investment.

Soon, the dialect provided a prescription:
桂枝8g、附片8g、淡大云10g、巴戟天10g、远志6g、萸肉10g、石斛10g、天冬10g、五味子8g、生菖蒲10g、云苓10g、地龙10g。

This prescription is a copy of the Hejian Dihuang Decoction.

The adjustments were slightly made based on the patient's condition.

After writing it down, Fang Yan said to the patient:
"Next, you will stay in the hospital for two or three days. If you feel significantly better after taking the medicine, you can be discharged."

"Huh? Two or three days?" The patient was stunned; he thought his condition was much more serious.

According to the dialect, it only takes two or three days.

"Well, you're only forty-five this year, in the prime of your life. You just need some conditioning to restore your body's organs to their proper functions."

Fang Yan explained to him:

"Our traditional Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine; it focuses more on restoring your body to its original functions."

Upon hearing this, the patient seemed to have been suddenly enlightened, and immediately slapped his thigh:
"I understand, I get it!"

"So you're saying I wouldn't normally have kidney deficiency, but due to certain reasons, I developed it, and then you used medicinal herbs to restore it, and I got better, right??"

“That’s right!” Fang Yan gave a thumbs up.

Hearing the affirmation from the dialect, the patient seemed to regain his confidence.

He said to his wife:

"My kidney deficiency is only temporary! Western medicine's so-called spinal stenosis has no scientific basis whatsoever."

Hearing her husband say this, the patient's wife asked in dialect:

"Dr. Fang, when will he be able to fully recover?"

Fang Yan thought for a moment and said:
"It should take about three months to fully recover."

Upon hearing that three months had passed, the patient's wife asked:
"That's quite a long time, isn't it? He doesn't need to stay in the hospital the whole time, okay?" "No, he'll just be a little weak later on. If he keeps exercising, he'll actually recover faster." Fang Yan shook her head.

"I understand!" The patient and his family suddenly realized.

Next, Fang Yan told them to go to the hospital.

The patient happily gave Fang Yan a large red envelope.

Then he left happily.

Today's treatment gave him a feeling of relief, like a false alarm.

He now feels that his recovery is just around the corner.

This was the first simple pattern he encountered today, and he finished reading it very quickly.

After they left, the two people who had gone to the pharmacy returned.

As is customary, I'll share some dialect with everyone who's with me today.

Everyone received a portion of the US dollars.

Everyone had heard this legend before, but no one expected it to happen to them today.

They were all somewhat incredulous as they looked at the US dollars that Fang Yan handed them.

You should know that just yesterday, Fangyan wrote down the application list for them and offered them funding support.

I didn't get the funding support, so I'm just here as a bystander today, and I got foreign exchange just by running errands.

Even Fang Yaozhong felt that Fang Yan was being incredibly generous.

That amount of money would be a considerable sum if converted to domestic currency.

The company hasn't distributed the profits yet, but the dialect group has already received theirs.

That's why so many people are willing to follow the dialect. If it were him, he definitely wouldn't be as generous as the dialect.

At the very least, he needs to think about how to divide it.

This is clearly something that was done without thinking, or something that was already planned out in advance.

Who wouldn't want to work under this kind of leader?

Only Fang Yan remained calm, saying, "How much is this?"

He had broken up with many others before.

Should traditional Chinese medicine practitioners be poor?

If you have the ability to cure people, isn't it only right to take money from them?
Moreover, he knew that these people had unlimited potential for the future, and now was the best time to invest in them and buy at the bottom.

Fang Yan then took the prescription to Pang Hong and told him to go to the pharmacy before starting the next consultation.

Pang Hong happily ran out and called the next patient.

The people who came in this time were a little different.

She was a woman in her fifties, who was being helped in by her family.

This family are overseas Chinese businessmen who returned from the United States.

I saw the man supporting the woman at the last banquet; this is the patient's husband, surnamed Huang.

He's also from San Francisco and runs a Chinese fast food chain.

His wife clearly has a vision problem.

Wearing sunglasses, she was helped to the consultation table in Fangyan.

After sitting down, he took off his sunglasses, revealing a pair of eyes that looked fairly normal.

It was just noticeable that her right eye was out of focus.

At this moment, the patient's husband, Mr. Huang, had already taken out a test report and handed it to Fang Yan.

"Dr. Fang, this is my wife's eye examination report."

"She has a problem with her right eye; her vision in her right eye is only 0.2."

The patient added:

"The left eye still has 1.2."

Fang Yan looked at the medical report, which consisted of several versions, some in English and some in Japanese.

The reports here are from several different sources, and the results are all similar, but it's clear that the situation is deteriorating.

Fang Yan hasn't had his eyes checked in a long time.

To be honest, when it comes to eye examinations, the person who is more skilled is my friend Lao Fang.

Fang Yan glanced at Lao Fang, who was also looking at the report.

Fang Yan turned to the patient couple and asked:

"You also conducted inspections in Japan?"

Mr. Huang said:
"Yes, that's right. Before we came here, we went to an eye hospital in Japan for a checkup. They said we needed surgery, but I didn't agree. I planned to come back and try to see you first."

The others behind Fang Yaozhong also gathered around and looked at the test reports from several hospitals.

These are all students who were among the top scorers in the entrance exam, and they can understand some of the English text.

Fang Yan looked at a recent report from a Japanese hospital and said:
"The optic disc in the right eye is congested, the temporal border is unclear, the retinal veins are tortuous and dilated, the retina is full of hemorrhages and exudates, and the fovea of ​​the macula is blurred and visible. The Western medical diagnosis is central retinal vein occlusion in the right eye."

This left Fang Yaozhong and the other students stunned. Yuan Qingshan asked curiously:

"Brother Fang knows Japanese?"

"I know a little bit about the basics," Fang Yan replied.

Then he asked the patient:
"Besides the eye problems, do you have any other symptoms? For example, chest tightness, headache, or dizziness?"

Upon hearing the dialect, the patient immediately said:
"Yes! You're absolutely right. I do have chest tightness, like something is pressing on my right side of my chest. I also get angry easily, have irregular periods, and my abdomen is always bloated and painful."

The patient asked in dialect:

"Dr. Fang, what's wrong with me?"

After listening to Fang Yan, he said to her:
"Your sudden blindness is caused by anger."

Upon hearing this, the couple were both taken aback and immediately felt embarrassed.

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