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The snow of winter falls and melts, then falls again. One afternoon, a loud commotion erupted at the entrance of the clinic.

Two burly men carried a man inside. The man was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat, his back was bent like a shrimp, one hand was pressing on his lower back and the other was pressing on his lower abdomen. He was groaning and couldn't say a word.

The man being carried was surnamed Sun. He was the foreman of a porter's guild in the city, usually a burly man who could eat three large bowls of rice in one meal. But at this moment, his appearance had completely changed; his face was pale and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.

"Dr. Yang!" a companion exclaimed, "Please help Chief Sun! He's in so much pain! He woke up in the middle of the night, writhing on the ground in agony. The doctors in town have said it's intestinal colic, and others say he's possessed, but none of them will take his case!"

As his companion spoke, his eyes swelled up. "With his strength, he could carry loads and unload goods without falling over, but this morning he was in so much pain he couldn't even get out of bed. It scared me to death. What would happen to his family of eight if something had gone wrong?"

Yang Hu placed the millstone on it.

Sun's head throbbed so badly he couldn't bend over; the veins on his forehead bulged, his face alternated between pale and flushed, and his whole body twitched with every breath, unable to utter a single word. Yang Hu pressed on his lower abdomen and asked him a few more questions: Where does it hurt? Have you urinated in the last couple of days? What came out of your urine?

Sun gritted his teeth and stammered: "The pain goes straight from my lower back to my lower abdomen. I want to urinate, but I can't. I can't hold it in. I did urinate once this morning, but it was red."

Yang Hu felt more confident.

It's not intestinal colic, nor is it possession. It's like a stone, a millstone, has grown inside the kidney, moving down the urinary tract. The millstone is stuck, sharp and hard, grinding painfully against the urinary tract, causing this excruciating pain and bleeding. This ailment is excruciating, but the root cause isn't in the intestines, it's in the kidney, in that excretory tract.

"It's not colic," Yang Hu said. "It's just that there was a stone in my lower back that was blocking my urinary tract. Once the stone is expelled, I'll be fine."

"Sand...sand?" The companion's eyes widened, and he couldn't close his mouth for a long time. "Stones can grow inside a living person's belly? This...I've never heard of such a thing."

The porters who were watching the commotion were also a little skeptical. The pain was so bad that two doctors in the city said they couldn't cure it, but this young doctor said it was just a stone that could be cured by drinking water and jumping around. It sounded too unbelievable.

"Get the medicine," Yang Hu said without going into details.

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He inserted needles into several acupoints on Sun Batou's waist and lower abdomen, then pinched them to stop the excruciating pain. After the needles were inserted, Sun Batou's muffled groans gradually decreased, and his bent back began to relax a little.

He also prepared a soup to help clear the stones and instructed everyone to drink plenty of water these days, as much as they could, and to run and jump around in the yard after drinking it.

"It hurts so much, why are you letting him jump around?" His companion didn't believe it.

"If there's too much water, you slide down; if you jump on the loose sand and gravel, you can slide out," Yang Hu said. "Just lying there hurts, but if the rocks are blocking your way, the pain will last even longer."

Sun did as he was told, drank a lot of water, and gritted his teeth as he walked and jumped around in the yard.

The two porters helped him walk step by step in the courtyard.

Sun's headache came in waves, and he tried to lie down on the ground several times, but Yang Hu called him back and he stood up and walked away.

After walking for a full half hour, he suddenly bent over in pain, his head covered in sweat.

Instead of being in a hurry, Yang Hu said, "It'll be out soon. It hurts a lot now because the sand has reached the narrowest part."

Several porters watching nearby also helped him. Some said that the pain was getting worse and wondered if something had really happened. Yang Hu, however, remained calm and told them to relax and that he would get through the most painful part.

Another incense stick's time passed, and Sun felt a sudden tightness in his head. He leaned against the wall, ran to the corner, and urinated.

In the urinal, some gray sand mixed with fresh blood sank to the bottom.

The excruciating pain suddenly eased by eight or nine tenths.

Sun slumped to the ground, panting heavily. The paleness on his face disappeared. He wiped his sweaty hands and it took him a while to come to his senses.

"It doesn't hurt anymore...it really doesn't hurt anymore!"

He was about to kneel down at Yang Hu's feet when he was stopped. The two men who had helped him up were overjoyed and kept patting his shoulders, saying that they thought he was going to meet the King of Hell in the middle of the night, but he was brought back to life after a few needles and a few bowls of water.

The Sun family was extremely grateful. The wife, carrying their two children, ran over and was about to kneel down at the hospital entrance when Yang Hu pulled her back.

The two city doctors who diagnosed Sun with "intestinal colic" and "possessed by evil spirits" dared not leave their homes for months after hearing about it. Every doctor in the city who had previously said "there is no cure" and were preparing for "funeral arrangements" mentioned Yang's shop in the east of the city without gesturing and pointing.

The news spread throughout the travel community in just a few days.

"Sun's head was throbbing with pain. The city doctor said it was intestinal colic, which was difficult to treat. Doctor Yang gave him a few needles and some medicine, and then had Sun drink water and urinate. A few stones popped out of his urine!"

"That's right, the most amazing thing is that they can tell at a glance whether it's a problem with the intestines or the kidneys. Their eyesight is truly incredible!"

Sun, the foreman, was a manual laborer whose family was not well-off. He had elderly parents to support and young children to raise. Yang Hu saw this and only took some money for medicine and consultation, leaving nothing for himself. He also told Sun not to hold his urine so much and to drink more water, as the sand was caused by holding his urine and not drinking enough water. He also told Sun to be careful with his mouth so that it wouldn't grow back.

Sun thanked him profusely, and before leaving, he insisted on giving Yang Hu a basket of eggs, saying it was a favor.

Aji, who was tidying up the needles, couldn't help but ask, "Master, how could you tell so quickly that Sun Ba Tou's stomach ache was caused by gravel growing on his waist rather than an intestinal problem?"

"Where does the pain start and travel in that direction? Is there blood in your urine?"

"The disease is in the intestines, and the pain is in the middle of the abdomen, and it hurts in circles."

He's experiencing pain in his lower back, a pain that shoots downwards, and there's blood in his urine...

That was sand flowing down with the water, splashing around inside and damaging that spot.

The pain may be in different places, but the root cause is completely different.

"Aji, why not buy some medicine to dissolve the stone? Why make someone jump around like that!"

"That stone is too hard; the medicine won't dissolve it in a short time!"

If you force it to melt, the person will suffer excruciating pain.

First, they used acupuncture to soothe the waterway, then used some medicine to loosen the water flow, added more water, and had people help remove the stones. Then, the water flowed away on its own!

It's the same principle as dredging a river; there's a big rock in the river...

I can't get anything out no matter how I try to plan it from the bottom.

We need to open the sluice gates and release the water to wash the stones away!

Aji nodded as if he understood, but he remembered the sentence.

In the evening, in the backyard

Lu Yan brought Yang Hu a cup of hot water. As she listened to Yang Hu talk about how a kidney stone had popped out of his urine during the day, she laughed.

"Young master's hands are so powerful that they can make even the stones inside someone's stomach pop out."

"Find the root cause where the disease is located."

What others consider a terminal illness is nothing here.

If the right medicine is found, even the most difficult-to-treat diseases can be treated!

Lu Rou was making receipts when Liu Ye returned, leaving behind a prey. Qin Ying sat by the window, polishing his half-new dagger under the lamplight.

The fire in the brazier burned brighter and brighter.

Most of the time had passed in the city, and Yang's name was becoming more and more well-known. Whenever someone in or outside the city fell ill with a doctor's ailment, they would think of Yang's in the east of the city first.

But the more this happened, the more people gathered in the Yang family courtyard.

The lights were on.

Yang Hu took the tea from Lu Yan, took two sips, and said, "Go to where the disease originated."

Other people's illnesses are all because the root cause hasn't been found; once it is, they'll be cured!

Even the most troublesome diseases have solutions, it's just that some people don't know them.

After wiping the dagger, Qin Ying looked at her face in the mirror, and Liu Ye came over to join in the fun.

The three of them looked at the ledger together, but Lu Yan was the only one in charge of the receipts.

The charcoal fire burned brighter and brighter.