Traditional Chinese Medicine: Back to the years when educated youths went to the countryside

Chapter 358 The Cause of Guo Chen’s Disease
Wang Chengzhou could only respond with a silly smile to his parents' hopeful reproach.

It's not that he doesn't know what to do, it's that he has a choice that suits him better than taking the highly competitive college entrance examination.

Moreover, he did not think that the laughter of these little girls in the village was because they understood the foresight of the national policy.An illusory vision cannot be worth money, rice, oil and salt, nor can it be used as shoes, socks and cotton clothes, nor can it wipe away the sadness in the corners of the parents' eyes when they are faced with poverty and have nothing to do.

Because they may be tossing around all night thinking about how to earn eighty cents to buy a pair of brand-new cotton shoes for their son with open toes.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that a person is a whole composed of spirit, energy, form, blood and will.

Everyone's living conditions are collaboratively affected by physical and mental conditions.This is why Chinese medicine is always accustomed to starting from the internal organs when treating mental illnesses.

Instead of directly operating on the brain and nerves like Western medicine, patients take a large amount of psychostimulant drugs.

"Huangdi Neijing" says: There is an excess of spirit, but there is a deficiency; there is an excess of qi, but there is a deficiency; there is an excess of blood, but there is a deficiency; there is an excess of form, but there is a deficiency; there is an excess of ambition, but there is a deficiency.All these ten people have different Qi.

Whether it is medical skills or life, many times it is not a metaphysical thing, but a complex state where flesh and blood coexist with spirit, reality and ideal are intertwined, which is real and touchable.

At dusk, Wang Chengzhou was handling the medicinal materials collected from the mountains. Although he was scolded by his parents, he always had a smile on his lips.How could he be unhappy when the whole village was laughing because of him?
Early the next morning, Wang Chengzhou was holding a bowl for breakfast when a faint cry suddenly came from the door.Cry for a while, stop for a while, and squeal, as if some little girl has suffered a great injustice.

The whole family was stunned.

Who's here for something?Why are you still crying?Could it be that someone in the family had a serious illness and was so sad that he couldn't help crying as soon as he found the doorstep of his house?

"San'er, go and have a look."

Li Yuzhu was soft-hearted and hated seeing this the most, so she quickly urged her son to go outside and take a look.

Wang Chengzhou looked strange, put down his job and walked out.

When he saw the person coming outside, his nose almost became crooked and he cursed angrily:
"Guo Mingyue, what are you doing here so early in the morning?"

"While we're eating, you can come as soon as you want. Why are you still standing at the door crying?"

"This doesn't look like your temper. What's going on?"

Hearing that it was her, Li Yuzhu even laughed and cursed angrily, but then her heart trembled, her face changed drastically, and she ran out quickly. She was so nervous that she stuttered when she spoke, and asked with wide eyes:

"Ming, Ming Yue, 伱, is your mother dying?"

"No, not so fast, right? Yesterday, you said that her illness was not serious and that she would be fine just by taking some medicine. How come she was gone in the blink of an eye?"

"You kid! Yesterday I told you to let your master go and have a look. Why didn't you let him go?"

Looking at his mother who was almost crying, Wang Chengzhou's heart skipped a beat. He also thought something had happened to the Guo Chen family, so this girl came over to cry early in the morning. Could it be that she was really here to announce her funeral?

Immediately, his eyes almost popped out of his head. Looking at his pretty little apprentice with tears on his face, he couldn't help but feel sad. He asked stupidly: "Mingyue, your mother is dead?"

"what?"

Guo Mingyue cried until her nose turned red. Even a big girl didn't find it disgusting. She shook her nose and blinked her wet eyelashes. Her pretty face was full of doubts?
But he probably thought of something sad again, so he said viciously:
"It would be better to die!"

"She has good intentions and wanted Master to go and see her yesterday. She was blocking her and refused to let her go. But last night her illness became serious and she couldn't even get out of bed in the morning. I She said she had to ask Master to show her, but she scolded me indiscriminately."

"It's so irritating! If she hadn't kissed her daughter, I wouldn't have wanted to care about her. But who told me to owe her? So I just bit the bullet and let her scold me, and ran all the way to find the master. But when I got to the door , I thought about asking Master to go back and get scolded by her. I am no longer a human being inside and outside, so I couldn't help but want to cry."

"Master, it's all my fault. I, I disturbed you from having breakfast."

The family was dumbfounded.

Li Yuzhu couldn't even laugh or cry. Looking at this aggrieved silly girl, she really didn't know how to comfort her.

Wang Chengzhou rolled his eyes, but frowned, and said helplessly: "Mingyue, has your mother's condition worsened?"

"Yes, it is."

Guo Mingyue sobbed again, took a long breath, pouted and said:
"When I got home last morning, I asked the health worker from our place to help her and prescribed some metamizole or something like that. I didn't think it was like that, so I ran to the commune to ask the doctor from the pharmacy I'll prepare Xiaochaihu soup for her."

"Unexpectedly, after eating, her symptoms became more serious. Her face was red, she seemed very weak, and she felt dazed from time to time. She said that it might be because the medicine was not yet effective enough, so she refused to let me come. Looking for you."

"But this morning, she was bedridden. She was still having chills and fever. I was really afraid that something would happen to her, so I came to you despite her scolding. I was really angry! I want to If it’s not just this girl, I won’t care about her! I’ll just let her go as my good intentions are worthless!”

Wang Chengzhou couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

My heart says that if I don’t have one mother, how many more mothers do you want?Four or five mothers give birth to one part each, and you will make up the head?

After a lot of slander, he nodded and said:
"I told you yesterday that the situation of going back and forth between cold and heat is very complicated."

"Although it is more likely that she got cold when she went to dig a river, there are other reasons."

"Since you have already received this scolding, aren't you being wronged for nothing if I don't go? Come on, let's go and see together."

"Ok."

Guo Mingyue wiped away her tears and followed him obediently. Her eyes were red, and she felt that perhaps the master in the world loved her the most.

Seeing her like this, Wang Chengzhou couldn't continue eating breakfast, so he immediately accompanied her to Guojiazhuang.

While walking on the road, Wang Chengzhou finally couldn't help but ask, "Mingyue, your mother... apart from the symptoms mentioned yesterday, is there any other discomfort? For example..."

After struggling for a while, he still said bravely: "For example, is her menstruation still normal?"

"scare!"

Guo Mingyue's eyes widened in shock immediately, and she stayed there for a while before her pretty face turned slightly red and she said curiously:

"Master, can you guess this?"

"Well, that's what I wanted to say yesterday, but... I was really embarrassed to say it. I didn't expect you already knew it. It's really amazing!"

"I...my mother is quite normal, that is."

Guo Mingyue was still very embarrassed to speak about such things about her mother, so she hesitated and added with a confused look on her face, "Does this have anything to do with it?"

"Then...she probably hasn't been here recently...to be my aunt, right?"

When Wang Chengzhou was talking about his widowed mother in front of his daughter, his head was as big as a bucket. He tilted his head and pretended to look at the scenery and asked a question. "No, she's not like that."

Guo Mingyue was also a little silent, with her neck raised and her heart full of weirdness.

In fact, as mentioned earlier, Guo Mingyue's father died early. At that time, Guo Chen was just in her thirties. Ten years later, she was only in her early forties.

For women in Qiqi, the Ren pulse is weak, the Taichong pulse is weak, the Tiangui is exhausted, and the tunnels are blocked, so the shape is bad and there are no children.

In other words, a woman will not enter menopause until she is 49 to [-] years old, and her menstruation will stop and she will no longer be able to conceive a child.Before that, widows also had the right to menstruation.

During menstruation, if a woman is not careful, she may feel cold and aversion to cold and generate heat. If the evil energy enters the uterus, the heat will combine with blood congestion and penetrate into the tunnel to cause cold and heat.

In severe cases, there may even be some strange symptoms, such as fullness under the chest and hypochondrium, like a knot in the chest, clarity during the day, delirium at dusk, like seeing ghosts, pain in the lower abdomen, etc.

Delirium is just nonsense.

In rural areas, due to living conditions and tiring farm work, we occasionally see some women start to curse or talk to themselves for no apparent reason. This may be the reason.

If you meet a half-baked doctor and send him to a mental hospital, it might really be a tragedy.

Again, the human body is very complex. You can’t just treat a headache or a headache. A mental problem is not necessarily a brain disease.

This is actually what Wang Chengzhou said before.

However, since Mrs. Guo Chen did not catch up with her menstruation when she went to dig the river, this should not be the reason.

It is neither Shaoyang disease nor malaria, so there is only one possibility left...

Wang Chengzhou couldn't help but feel that his throat was dry and his scalp was numb from embarrassment. He suddenly didn't want to cure this disease and wanted to go home.

Seeing him being silent for a while, Guo Mingyue had already guessed that it was definitely not the reason. She couldn't help but stare with big eyes and said curiously:
"Master, this is not the case, and that is not the case. Doesn't my mother have malaria?"

"But is malaria caused by external damage to the six evil spirits or from internal damage to the seven emotions?"

"Well, it should be the six external feelings, but which one of the external feelings is it?"

"Bullshit!"

Wang Chengzhou glared at her and said angrily:
"Malaria mostly occurs in summer and autumn. Now that it's winter, it's unlikely. What's more, there are so many people digging the river. If your mother had malaria, the epidemic would have already spread on the riverbank."

"Infectious diseases like malaria are quite special. "Lingshu Suilu Lun" says: The wind and malaria are of the same kind... The wind is left in its place, and the malaria sinks with the meridians and pulses internally, so the Wei Qi should be Zuoye. Moreover, according to the specific symptoms, it is divided into cold malaria, phlegm malaria, miasma malaria, etc. Seriously speaking, it may be attributed to wind, so the exogenous pathogenic factors related to plague are also called malaria."

"Of course, current scientific research shows that the plague is caused by a virus, which can be regarded as a kind of cognitive improvement, but it does not prevent us from using the theory of traditional Chinese medicine to treat diseases and save people."

For example, in the recent plague that occurred in later generations, traditional Chinese medicine has achieved good results based on the "cold-dampness epidemic".

"But your mother is different."

Wang Chengzhou suddenly said something without any end, then stopped talking and started walking with his head down.

Guo Mingyue raised her eyebrows when she heard this. She didn't figure out what he meant for a long time. She quickly chased after him with a confused look on her face and kept chattering:

"Master, what's the reason for my mother?"

"Oh, why don't you speak?"

"Master, do you find me annoying? I am your disciple! And I am my mother's daughter. I have the right to know what happened to her."

"To shut up!"

Wang Chengzhou felt irritable, and she was like a fly again, so he couldn't help but scolded her.

"Humph!"

Guo Mingyue was so frightened by her that she pursed her lips and stopped talking aggrievedly.

Seeing the red circles under her eyes, Wang Chengzhou suddenly felt a little regretful and felt that he had gone too far, so he wanted to coax her and tell her the reason.

After all, she is his apprentice, and she will definitely become a doctor in the future. Doctors are like parents, and the two of them have already put aside the matter of men and women. Logically speaking, there is nothing bad to say.

But at present, Wang Chengzhou was just guessing, and Guo Chen was her mother. As juniors, it was a bit treasonous for the two of them to discuss such things. In the end, he still held back and did not speak.

After arriving at home, Guo Mingyue quickly opened the door for him. She seemed to have forgotten the unpleasantness just now, and carefully led him into the house.

She originally thought that her mother would be furious when she saw him, and then sarcastically mock him, but Guo Mingyue was already planning to break up with her mother over him.

But after entering the room, Mrs. Guo Chen just tilted her head and glanced at him without saying anything. She lay motionless on the bed like a very serious patient.

"Mom, are you, are you feeling better?"

Guo Mingyue had the courage to lean over, turned around, winked at him, and said coquettishly:
"I've invited Wang Chengzhou... my master here, let him show you."

"Look, I'm also doing it for your own good. It's not like you haven't seen what my master is capable of. A person who has been bedridden for a year is about to die, but my master can save him. He will surely cure your illness. Get rid of your illness! I feel sorry for you, and it’s not like I really don’t listen to you."

"I know what you are worried about, but I have sworn that I will not marry anyone until I have good medical skills. Even if I become an old girl and we live together for the rest of our lives, I will not disobey you and do whatever I want."

Guo Mingyue lowered her voice and said the last words very sincerely, but her eyes couldn't help but turn red. She sat on the edge of the bed and cried silently.

Guo Chen squeezed her fingers hidden under the quilt, but cruelly did not respond to her, and continued to pretend to sleep with her eyes closed.

"Auntie, why are you so angry about this?"

Wang Chengzhou raised a smile on his face, took a few steps closer, and said with a raised corner of his mouth:
"I have already said that Mingyue and I are master and apprentice, why are you being polite to me?"

"I know you are afraid that the bright moon will come to my house every three days and cause me trouble, but shouldn't this be the relationship between master and disciple?"

"You are her mother, and you are sick now. How can I, a doctor, turn a blind eye?"

"You are too outspoken!"

Mr. Guo Chen was lying on the bed, so angry at his shamelessness that she couldn't help but open her eyes.

(End of this chapter)