Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1152 Old Mud Brick

In the end, the restaurant owner's condition was very simple: heat attacking his heart, and at the same time, he had pericardial effusion.

When Bian Mu was treating the restaurant owner, Meng Shulan's senior student was still standing not far away, watching quietly and listening attentively. In her opinion, Bian Mu's treatment was indeed a little different.

"Since the beginning of the dog days, the heat has been getting heavier. Do you usually cook in the kitchen?" Bian Mu asked with a smile.

The restaurant owner also came here because of its reputation. His restaurant is in East City, and Bian Mu has never been there before. He is a complete stranger to the restaurant.

"We don't do breakfast business. We're busy for two or three hours at noon and four or five hours at night. So we're busy about eight or nine hours a day... It's the peak meal time, and I'm also busy. Now I've got heatstroke?!" The male owner of the restaurant responded with a smile, seemingly not caring much.

"In our industry, there is a big distinction between heatstroke and heat attack. Let me explain it to you this way...You have long-term heatstroke and have never been completely cured. You usually feel dizzy and you just take some poria drugs orally. Once the symptoms are relieved, you just ignore it, right?" Bian Mu asked with a smile.

"That's right! I'm a thick-skinned person, so usually nothing serious happens to me. Most of the time, I'm used to enduring it and don't like taking medicine." The male owner of the restaurant responded with a smile.

"Between heaven and earth, we might as well roughly divide the so-called qi into two categories. One is the one that we humans are born with, which we are accustomed to calling innate qi. Generally speaking, innate qi is good. You are lucky, your innate qi is quite complete. The second category, we are accustomed to calling it 'external qi', refers to the qi that exists outside the human body and can have a positive or negative impact on people. It intersects with air, but they are two completely different probabilities. It is a relatively broad concept. Once those external qi can cause pathogenic effects on humans due to other reasons, we often call it 'external evil qi'. For you, the environment in a restaurant kitchen belongs to exogenous evil qi. Over time, coupled with the hobbies unique to your age group, there are other factors. For example, do you like self-driving tours?" Bian Mu explained patiently.

Anyway, I will be off work after seeing this patient, so I might as well explain his condition more clearly. As for whether he will take the initiative to correct the deviations in his life in the future, that is not something Bian Mu can control.

"Really?! You can even call a number for a self-driving tour?! No wonder they said you..."

"Although my place is very small, I see dozens of patients every day. As I see more and more patients, my experience gradually grows, and the conclusions drawn by incomplete induction method overlap more. It's just a small experience!" Bian Mu responded with a smile.

After hearing this, the male restaurant owner was stunned. It was obvious that his education level was very limited and he really couldn't understand some of the words.

"I usually like to play mahjong in the Nansha River area. If I have enough time, I do join a lot of self-driving tour groups and travel around everywhere. In recent years, the restaurant business has been pretty satisfactory. I am not the kind of person who likes to save money, so..."

"Really? Fortunately you have a good attitude. Although the heat has already entered your heart for a long time, combined with other factors, some special symptoms of pericardial effusion have appeared now. The only thing we can do now is to find a way to get rid of the evil heat. Pericardial effusion is not a big problem. I'll write a prescription for you later. Take 7 doses of medicine first and then come back for a follow-up visit." Bian Mu said with a smile.

"Then...will it be inconvenient for me to help in the kitchen in the future?"

"Winter is better! Spring and summer are definitely not suitable! In principle, from now on, you'd better not go into the kitchen, even in your own home. You are only about 46 years old this year, and there is a long way to go. Just stick to it for 5 years and see! The specific method is also relatively simple. Our hometown is Lishi County. There is a place called 'Nanshawo'. In the past, there were many brick factories there, old red bricks, but later all closed down. However... In my impression, it is not difficult to find some old red bricks there. You can make a hard trip and buy some old red bricks from the locals. Three or five yuan will do. There is a vinegar factory in Nanjin, which has a history of hundreds of years. It is absolutely brewed by the ancient method of grain. The brand of vinegar is called 'Jifengfang'. You run a restaurant, so you must know more than us!" Bian Mu smiled and gave some instructions. "Doctor Bian is really knowledgeable and knows everything! We have been using 'Jifeng' old vinegar in our store for many years."

"Really? That's convenient! Soak the red bricks in white wine for 49 days. This is not superstition, but scientific. Then roast them on the fire until the temperature reaches about 100 degrees. Then, remove from the fire and pour the old vinegar that you have prepared in advance on the old bricks. After the temperature of the bricks drops, as long as you can bear it, you put your feet on them and step on them for a while until your feet sweat. Remember, you must sweat. At the beginning, you may not be able to sweat, or you may not sweat at all. You can work backwards to see which link is not done properly and just make some fine adjustments. I assure you that everyone will sweat eventually." Bian Mu continued to explain.

"That doesn't sound too difficult. I will do my best!" the restaurant owner replied with a smile.

Then, Bian Mu wrote him a prescription through the computer.

夏枯草10g、浙贝母12g、海藻9g、天花粉7g、熟大黄5g、大青盐10g、玄参15g
"This is the initial prescription, also called the Xiaoqing prescription. To put it in an analogy, it's like a reconnaissance team. After you have taken seven doses of the medicine, your pulse will change. Based on the change in the pulse, I will revise the subsequent prescriptions for you. Don't think that you feel good after drinking it, especially for your heart. It will make you feel much more relaxed, but you keep drinking it like this. That would be a joke." The machine printed out the prescription, and Bian Mu gave a few special instructions.

"No! People in the outside world have spread rumors about you as something extraordinary. Anyway, I believe in you. I will do whatever you say."

"Okay, if you think the medicine here is okay, you can get seven doses here. If you think our price is a bit high, you can go out and get it yourself." Bian Mu said with a smile.

"It's worth the price. It's not that troublesome. Here it is! Doctor Bian, thank you for your hard work!"

"Since you are so polite, I can finally get off work. There is a distinguished guest waiting for me over there! I won't see you off."

"You're welcome!" After saying that, the male restaurant owner went to find Zhang Jinsi to get medicine.

As usual, when there was nothing else to do in the clinic, Nurse Ye went upstairs to ask Luo Zhan's team to go home.

Bian Mu invited Meng Shulan's senior student to the concierge area and chatted with him for a while.

"Our teacher said, you can obviously treat her yourself, why send her to us?! Doctor Bian! I'm just conveying the teacher's message, please don't mind it!" The woman had just witnessed Bian Mu practicing medicine twice, so she was still polite in her words.

"You really overestimate me by saying that I can cure it. Ms. Cheng's condition is rather special. Professor Meng is the best in the world in gynecology. As a junior, I don't think there is anything wrong with what I did, right?" Bian Mu retorted politely.

The woman sneered a few times and for a moment felt a little awkward no matter how she responded to the conversation.