The leisurely life of rebirth.

The old man asked with a strong northern accent: "Oh! Little baby, you wrote this prescription." He looked at her with hale and hearty eyes. The older you are, the more experienced you are in traditional Chinese medicine, the more you can win the trust of patients. There was obvious surprise and disbelief in his eyes.

During this season, there are many Chinese who come to the United States with a southern accent, and there are really few northerners. Listening to the accent he is slightly familiar with, Fang Monan feels very kind. "Why, is there something wrong with this prescription?" Fang Monan raised his eyebrows and asked.She looked at Agnes and said, "Give him your hand and let him feel the pulse." Seeing her being moved, Fang Monan said again: "Don't you believe me, it would be better if one more person can diagnose your pulse. "

Agnes smiled sheepishly, sat on the stool in front of the counter, and put her hands on the counter.

Looking at this posture, the old man knew that the blond white man was actually a patient, so he held his breath and took his pulse seriously.After about a quarter of an hour, the old man let go of his hand, and then let go of his frowning brows, and stared blankly at Fang Monan.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?" He, a young girl standing beside the old man, asked anxiously. [

The old man came back to his senses, he looked at Fang Monan, his eyes made no secret of his eagerness. "Uh! Girl, let's talk about it."

"Okay!" Fang Monan nodded, and the two began to speak in a casual manner. The language was in Chinese, which the girl could understand, while Jerry had only a half-knowledge.Only Agnes was not interested, looked at the drugstore, smelled the strong smell of medicine, pursed her lips, with a face of reluctance.If it wasn't for her illness, she wouldn't want to stay here for a moment.

"Actually, cancer is not a terminal disease that cannot be cured. As long as the root cause of the disease is found, it is not difficult to starve the cancer cells to death. It is better than surgery after surgery. Chemotherapy is good. Kill it regardless of whether it is good or bad." Fang Monan said with a smile.

"Haha...you are so right. I hate Western medicine. The wisdom left by our ancestors is better. After 2000 years of hard work, it is better than the hundreds of years of Western medicine." The old man said with a big smile. "Listening to what you say is better than reading ten years of books."

"Where, I still have to ask the old senior for advice." Fang Monan bowed, and he could see that the prescription she prescribed was extraordinary.Presumably medical skills are also very good.

"Girl, be humble, you don't need to come to these vulgar rituals." The old man waved his hand impatiently.Bold and unrestrained, hearty air is fully displayed.

"Hehe..." Fang Monan smiled, it seemed that the old man was very forthright. "We learn from each other and make progress together."

The girl stood beside the old man, listening to the hearty smile of the grandfather, she opened her mouth wide, with an incredible expression on her face.She rarely saw grandpa's smile in her memory, he was reserved and never showed his emotions.Today is really unprecedented.I don't know what charm this little girl has that makes the old man so happy.

Agnes knocked on the counter impatiently, "Stop chatting, you two, just speak Chinese, we can't understand it, and it's not polite at all. Hurry up and get the medicine! I'm still waiting to leave!" She He raised his wrist and looked at his watch again.

"Oh! Ah Yuan, quickly decoct the medicine here." The old man urged: "I want to see its curative effect."

"Uh! Good!" The girl named A Yuan turned around and began to grab the medicine from the grid.After weighing the medicine, go to decoct it.

Fang Monan said to Agnes: "Just decoct the medicine here. The procedure is very troublesome, and it will save you trouble."

"That's right!" Agnes looked at the old man and asked tentatively, "This prescription..."

"This prescription is prescribed for your illness, and it is very suitable for you." The old man said seriously. He is most disgusted with this kind of people, but because the person who prescribes the medicine is too young, he doesn't care so much.

During Ah Yuan's decoction, Fang Monan sat down with the old man to have a further conversation.Fang Monan knew that the old man's name was Tang Yaoxian. He was also a well-known Xinglin master in mainland China. He immigrated to the United States to escape the war and came here for more than 40 years.The sons and daughters have received American education for a long time, and they are unwilling to accept the pharmacy and medical skills of the elderly.In order to pass on the things of the ancestors in his hands, he broke the family's ancestral precept of passing on males and not females.Now only his granddaughter Tang Yuan studies Chinese medicine with her.It can be considered old and comforting.

Tang Yaoxian also knew during the chat that the girl's name was Fang Monan, and she had inherited medicine from her family.

Fang Monan carefully observed his expression, grabbed Elder Tang's wrist, and put his cold and moist fingers lightly on Elder Tang's. After a while, he said lightly, "You often have heart cramps today, restless sleep, and fatigue all over the body. Tired, but the spirit is in a state of excitement, am I right?"

Elder Tang looked at her in surprise and nodded.

Fang Monan smiled slightly, picked up the paper and pen on the doctor's desk, and wrote a few big characters in a fluttering manner, and said softly, "This medicine can be taken after three hours of slow fire, once a day, You need to take more, and your pain will be relieved after five days." [

Holding the prescription, Elder Tang frowned when he saw the medicinal ingredients inside. He gradually loosened his frown. He saw some tricks, but he still couldn't find the right way.

After careful questioning for a long time, she still couldn't find a solution, so she asked Fang Monan to explain in detail the Taoist medicine she had learned.The Five Elements Theory of Taoist Medicine believes that everything in the world is formed by the movement and changes between the five basic substances of wood, fire, earth, metal and water.At the same time, it also explains the interrelationships between things with the relationship of generation and restraint among the five elements, and believes that nothing is isolated and static, but maintains a coordinated balance in the continuous movement of mutual generation and mutual restraint.This is the basic meaning of the Five Elements Theory.Ancient thinkers used these five substances to explain the origin of everything in the world.Chinese medicine also uses the restraint of the five elements to explain and analyze many phenomena in physiology and pathology.

Because there are four seasons, there are four elements, so there is soil.Earth represents the smooth movement of air.The sowing of plants is called crops, and the harvest of crops is called harvest.Soil has the functions of sowing crops, harvesting grains, and transforming all living things.It is further extended to the fact that soil has the characteristics of growth, carrying, transformation, breeding, and long-term maintenance.Breeding biochemistry, vomit the image of all things.All things or phenomena with such characteristics can be attributed to soil.The spleen and stomach belong to the soil, open to the mouth, and disharmony between the spleen and stomach is reflected in the mouth.The Lord's Belief in Soil: Soil has the ability to carry things, biochemical storage and storage, the homeland carries the four directions, is the mother of all things, and has the nature of great contribution.Its nature is strong, its affection is thick, and those who are prosperous in the hexagrams have round waists and moist noses.Beautiful features, eloquence, loyalty, filial piety, sincerity, courage and generosity, words must be done, actions must be resolute, willing to give and take everything.Too much soil.Taboo, introverted, stubborn and stubborn.Those who don't understand the truth, those who are inferior, have a low face and low nose, a sad look, unbelief, vicious and stingy, and selfishness.Unreasonable.

Deduction and deduction method: that is, according to the known five-element attribution of some things, deduce other related things, so as to determine the five-element attribution of these things.For example: It is known that the liver belongs to wood (major premise), because the liver unites gallbladder, dominates the tendons, its flowers are in the claws, and opens to the eyes (minor premise), so it can be deduced that the gallbladder, tendons, claws, and eyes all belong to wood; similarly, the heart If it belongs to fire, the small intestine, pulse, face, and tongue are related to the heart, so they also belong to fire; the spleen belongs to earth, and the stomach, muscles, lips, and mouth are related to the spleen, so they also belong to earth; the lungs belong to metal.The large intestine, skin, hair, and nose are related to the lungs, so they also belong to metal; the kidneys belong to water, and the bladder, bones, hair, ears, and two yin are related to the kidneys, so they also belong to water.

The theory of the five elements is based on the characteristics of the five elements, and uses the methods of analogy and deduction to classify various things and phenomena in nature into five categories: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Both phenomena and phenomena have the same or similar specific attributes and form a certain relationship with each other.

Under the guidance of the idea of ​​the correspondence between heaven and man, traditional Chinese medicine centers on the five elements.Taking the five directions of space structure, the five seasons of time structure, and the five internal organs of human body structure as the basic framework, various things and phenomena in nature and the physiological and pathological phenomena of the human body are combined.It is summarized according to its attributes, so as to connect the life activities of the human body with things or phenomena in nature, and form a five-element structural system that connects the internal and external environments to illustrate the unity of the human body and the natural environment.

"Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are called the art of the five elements by Taoism. They believe that everything in the world is composed of it, and that it is the truth of the origin of all things. As long as you study it thoroughly, any disease and hardship will be solved." Fang Monan said lightly. Then, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a 'magic stick'.

The more Mr. Tang heard it, the more astonished he became. No matter how he looked at it, there was a shadow of feudal superstition.What's the matter?

Seeing his confused look, Fang Monan said, "In layman's terms, 'the same origin of medicine and Taoism', the medicine of medicine, the Taoism of Taoism, 'the same origin of medicine and Taoism' can explain it clearly, and there is 'ten ways and nine medicines', Almost all famous doctors in history, they are either the medical sages and kings revered by Taoism; or he is a Taoist priest; etc."

"Oh!" Mr. Tang nodded, "It's interesting."

"The four major philosophical theories of traditional Chinese medicine, one is the overall theory, the other is the theory of yin and yang, the other is the theory of five elements, and the other is the theory of essence. The theory of yin and yang and five elements has the same root as Taoism. I think the old man must understand it." Fang Monan Seeing him nodding, he said again: "The theory of Jingqi comes from the understanding of life in Chinese Taoist culture. Chinese Taoist culture has entered everyone's mind. Chinese people will say a word, called Jingqishen, to say how are you?" , It is often said that energy is insufficient, right? There is also a holistic theory, which is the biggest difference from Western medicine. It is actually the theory of the unity of man and nature in Chinese Taoist culture. Taoism has long said that, Zhuangzi mentioned in the "Nanhua Jing" that "heaven and man are one". This holistic theory not only refers to our individual being a whole life, and we use a holistic concept to look at ourselves, but also this body and the universe are in harmony. It is the unity of heaven and man, and the unity of heaven and man, and the medical system of Taoism, the medical system of Taoist culture, has always been the empirical system of traditional Chinese medicine.”

Fang Monan saw the obvious change in his expression, why didn't he know what he was thinking?After experiencing that chaotic era, everything was learned from the Western style, and of course I thought everything was feudal dross.It is not possible to change people's inherent thinking concepts in a short while.Even the textbooks of the current TCM colleges are all edited by Western medicine converted to TCM. It can be said that they have become monks halfway, which is fundamentally wrong.

Fang Monan said: "To put it simply, the human body is the same as the sky and the earth. It is constantly changing, so sometimes it is healthy and sometimes it is sick. There are many reasons for illness, including the influence of the external environment (that is, exogenous pathogenesis), There is also the deterioration of the internal condition (that is, the internal cause); there is both the functional decline of the body organs and the decadence of the mental state. The external factors and physical factors are important, but the internal factors and the spirit are more important.”

"Well! It makes sense. Mental factors and life attitudes also play an important role in the health of the body. Sun Simiao's "Thousands of Gold Prescriptions" said: "The husband who cultivates the nature, so he is accustomed to the nature, ... the nature is good for itself. Since you are self-benevolent, you don’t know all kinds of internal and external diseases, and you are free to cause disasters and disasters. This is the great scripture for health preservation’” said the old man Tang.

"Those who do good will bring spiritual happiness to themselves. Those who accumulate virtue do not seek personal gain and do not worry about gains and losses. They will have a peaceful mind, harmonious qi and blood, and feel comfortable physically and mentally." Fang Monan laughed. "Like such a strange disease, such a terminal disease, in fact, it is easy to cure. The most difficult thing in the world is the "heart disease". Knowing what he wants to do, some people don’t learn well, they specialize in harming others, their hearts are so dark, of course they will get a strange disease. If you have a strange disease, you have to blame the doctor. If you don’t scold him, expose his shortcoming and cause the disease. , I was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat, and his disease was treated by forensic medicine. Therefore, to see a doctor, he must first heal his heart and ask him to change his ways. Repent and start a new life, and then give some medicine. Once the disease is cured, it will naturally come to fruition.”

Fang Monan smiled, turned around and saw a big man rushing in from the outside, with a young boy on his back, he couldn't tell what disease the boy had, but he could hear his pain from afar muffled sound.

When the two saw Mr. Tang, they hurried forward, as if seeing a savior.Both of them were Chinese, and they both spoke Chinese, hurriedly "Mr. Tang, help me, Mr. Tang!" He put down the patient on his back, grabbed the old man's hand, and shouted anxiously with a strong southern accent.

"What's going on? Dashan." Mr. Tang asked, "Look..." Dashan stretched out the young man's hand.

"Ah!" Agnes screamed in fright, quickly covered her mouth, and nodded embarrassingly to everyone, and the others expressed their understanding.

The young man's left hand was injured, and the four fingers that used to be straight were now like soft noodles, drooping at [-] degrees, and seemed to tremble when the wind blew, which looked very scary.Elder Tang asked, "What's the matter with your hand?" (To be continued)