I Can Talk to the Internal Organs

Chapter 354 - 320: Recovering as Quickly as Flipping a Cup

"Stand up first and try to bend over."

Lu Jiu already had the finest needle pinched in his hand.

Upon hearing Lu Jiu’s direction, Ding Yulong also stood up and began to bend over. However, when he reached about fifty degrees, his back stiffened, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t bend further. Pain appeared on his face.

"Dr. Lu, I can’t do it anymore, I can’t bend," said Ding Yulong.

Lu Jiu nodded, "Alright, lift your shirt a bit, I’ll give you two needles in the back."

Ding Yulong immediately complied.

Lu Jiu stood behind him and quickly inserted two needles on his Du Meridian and Belt Vessel.

He didn’t use Mountain Burning Fire or Piercing Cold.

Because Ding Yulong just had a slight blockage in his Du Meridian, stimulating the acupoints to let the qi and blood flow faster was enough.

No need for reinforcement or drainage technique.

Just a gentle twist or two was sufficient.

After about twenty seconds, Lu Jiu withdrew the needles and pulled down Ding Yulong’s shirt.

Then he said, "Alright, try bending over again."

This quickly?!

Ding Yulong thought Lu Jiu would needle for a long time.

But it seemed that it was less than a minute. Could his twenty years of back pain be cured in such a short time?

Impossible!

With hesitation, Ding Yulong slowly bent over.

Huh?

No pain?

His back didn’t seem stiff either.

Ding Yulong could actually bend his upper body to ninety degrees now. If it weren’t for his beer belly getting in the way, and never having stretched, he felt he could bend further.

Shang Yehua and the other Chinese medicine practitioners in the consultation room were also amazed at Ding Yulong’s change.

Although Lu Jiu’s diagnosis was just to clear the Du Meridian for Ding Yulong’s back pain to get better.

But being able to unblock a patient’s Du Meridian with acupuncture in twenty seconds was not a skill everyone had!

It could practically be described as healing a cup overturned.

Impressive!

Just this move alone showed that Lu Jiu’s level was no weaker than any of them!

"Dr. Lu, am I really better now? Really healed? And it won’t relapse anymore?" Ding Yulong was now very excited.

As someone who had suffered back pain for twenty years, he cherished the moments when his back was fine very much.

Over the years, he could only relieve it for a while after taking biologics. But relying on frequent medication to maintain, over time, made a person very irritable.

He was very afraid that someday, when the medication stopped working, he might become disabled or even paralyzed in later stages.

This fear had always accompanied him, making him constantly think about how to survive.

He longed for health so much!

Lu Jiu’s miraculous means also gave Ding Yulong hope.

Before coming here, he was already prepared for long-term Chinese medicine, never expecting that his back pain would be cured within a minute.

At this moment, he simply couldn’t find any other word than "miracle doctor" to describe Lu Jiu.

Lu Jiu shook his head, "This is just treating the symptoms, the root problem isn’t solved yet. Your Triple Jiao is still blocked, Kidney Essence can’t replenish, and the medicine treating your ankylosing spondylitis also does harm to your liver and kidneys. These issues all need addressing, and you need to change your living habits as well."

"Chew more when eating, and restrain your diet. While your spleen and stomach function hasn’t recovered, avoid rich and heavy foods, and only eat until seventy percent full. Then strengthen your daily exercises, and if nothing unexpected happens, you should fully recover in two or three months."

Ding Yulong’s condition wasn’t actually complicated.

It was just that the previous doctor treating him completely ignored his deficiency of qi and blood, focusing solely on aggressively treating the back pain.

The more it was treated, the bigger his problem became.

If twenty years ago, Ding Yulong had back pain, a little exercise, dietary control, not overburdening the spleen and stomach, which would eventually allow qi and blood to replenish slowly, unblocking the Du Meridian, and allowing Hydronephrosis to get Kidney Essence in normal circulation.

The Five Viscera’s self-healing ability could quickly eliminate his symptoms.

But he chose to see a doctor, resulting in things getting worse over time, suffering pain for twenty years.

This reminded Lu Jiu of a public speech by a prominent figure in Western medicine.

He said a third of illnesses worldwide are incurable, a third recover without treatment, and a third get better with treatment. However, whether they were incurable or didn’t require treatment, hospitals are treating them all.

His most classic quote was, we turned the whole body into organs with scalpels, organs into cells with microscopes, and cells into molecules. Then we lost ourselves among molecules. A doctor once said to me, "I’m working on molecules," but working on molecules has nothing to do with humans. No wonder the Nobel Prize achievements in the last 50 years are all molecular, with no human aspect involved. Can this work?

He believed modern medicine was getting further away from humanity.

Originally a benefactor-like doctor-patient relationship, many have turned into adversaries now.

To be honest, Western medicine isn’t shy about criticizing itself.

These doctors probably have a genuine heart.

Because they truly treated patients as human beings, not just as walking wallets.

"Two or three months..." Ding Yulong’s face showed a joyful smile. This was the happiest thing he had heard in the past twenty years.

But what followed was endless grievance.

Because earlier, Lu Jiu said he didn’t actually have ankylosing spondylitis.

The suffering he endured over twenty years was all due to misdiagnosis.

Thinking about the torment made Ding Yulong’s eyes sour, his grievance turned into tears, rushing out.

"I... I friggin’..."

Words choked in his throat, unable to come out.

Lu Jiu looked at him, not knowing what to say.

The mainstream always promotes going to the hospital when sick, yet in reality, many illnesses don’t require hospital visits at all.

Because for many illnesses, even the doctors don’t know the causes.

Some ailments are incurable, and doctors are aware.

But sometimes, when patients insist on treatment, doctors have no choice either.

Once medicine is prescribed, they earn, and the patient is happy, everyone is pleased, so who would raise concerns?

This is where, after taking over the definition of health, the public self-harms with medication, not thinking there’s anything wrong.

Even if someone publicly stated that some illnesses don’t require hospital visits, they’d be met with scorn and criticism.

Because the mental habits are already formed, and even knowing hospitals can’t cure certain ailments, one self-domesticates rather than seeking alternative solutions.

Before there were no restrictions on antibiotics in the country, whoever said antibiotics were harmful would surely be scolded and told ironically to see if they dared not use antibiotics for illnesses.

But what about now?

After a long while, Lu Jiu comforted him, "Don’t be sad, as long as you’re better, just leave the past behind!"

Sometimes, letting go of past hardships is actually about forgiving oneself.

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