I Can Talk to the Internal Organs

Chapter 366 - 332: A Budding Traditional Chinese Medicine Student in Class

Experimental Primary School.

Class Three.

As the children’s traditional Chinese medicine teacher, Lu Jiu again came over to teach on his day off today.

After more than a semester of his teaching, many children have a great understanding of traditional Chinese medicine.

Especially regarding the recognition of the Five Viscera and Six Bowels, they can completely be considered little apprentices of traditional Chinese medicine.

In the past one or two months, Lu Jiu has been trying to incorporate the properties and meridian association of herbal medicine into the comics.

Such as which herb, after being ingested, will travel through which meridian, and will have the effect of regulating qi and blood in which organ, etc.

Although it may not be very comprehensive, for the children, they can also have a preliminary understanding of some uses of Chinese herbs.

Take ginseng, for example; it is sweet, bitter, and warm in nature, associates with the spleen and lung meridians, enters the upper and middle burners, and its effect is to greatly replenish vital energy.

It benefits the Five Viscera, but its effect when taken alone is minimal, and excessive consumption can be harmful.

If a person is already not lacking in any nutrients and is quite healthy in all aspects, if they still drink ginseng tea every day, the better the ginseng, the greater the harm to the person.

Because anything with a nourishing effect, no matter what it is, once excessive, is only harmful to people.

However, the ginseng or American ginseng in those pharmacies would not cause issues because most of them are fake.

"Teacher, I took my dad’s pulse yesterday."

In class, Lu Jiu was testing whether the students remembered the contents from the comics.

When it came to Luo Xiaoxiao, the little guy, after answering, suddenly added with a happy tone.

Hearing this, Lu Jiu couldn’t help smiling, "Oh? What did you find out?"

Luo Xiaoxiao said, "I couldn’t see anything, but my mom always says my dad’s very weak. Teacher, is it because my dad’s Five Viscera aren’t good?"

Uh...

Lu Jiu was at a loss between tears and laughter, "Maybe it’s because your dad’s work is quite tiring."

Due to his prolonged teaching, the children already have a concept of weakness.

And many children are very smart; a couple of seemingly unintentional words from adults seem to stick especially clearly in their minds.

This is actually the inherent gossipy nature of human beings.

Many parents are very troubled about how to teach children, but there’s actually no need to teach at all.

As for teaching children, the ancestors had already summed up the experience, teachers need to explain, while parents need to demonstrate by example.

Do not speak of rebellious teenagers, even kids as young as seven or eight; if you teach them seriously, they may not necessarily learn, but when couples exchange words, or something is unintentionally revealed during activities, the children often take it to heart.

Just like Luo Xiaoxiao, his mom might have been jokingly teasing, and Xiaoxiao remembered it.

He even took the initiative to take his dad’s pulse.

Even in class, he couldn’t help but bring it up in front of him.

"No, my mom says that my dad is very idle every day, just a cup of tea at work, and he can leave after drinking it till the end of the day. Teacher, do you think my dad is sick?" Luo Xiaoxiao looked at Lu Jiu seriously.

"Luo Xiaoxiao, did you forget what the teacher taught us? If it’s deficiency, liver deficiency means dizziness, pain under both ribs; heart deficiency means sleeplessness at night, pain in the left side of the chest; spleen deficiency means poor appetite, and the belly is bloated, and the stool is loose; lung deficiency means discomfort in the throat, weak cough, shortness of breath; kidney deficiency is soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, buzzing in the ears, loose teeth. Why don’t you ask your dad which part of him is uncomfortable." Jiang Zeshen said.

Eh?

This little guy is quite something!

Lu Jiu looked at Jiang Zeshen, full of delight.

Although he taught these kids a lot about traditional Chinese medicine, and the comic content was tested a lot, he wasn’t sure how many actually learned it and could think independently.

Jiang Zeshen was able to speak about the Five Viscera knowledge from the comics at this moment, which means he was thinking just now.

This alone already surpasses other children.

You can say that others at most have a slight understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, but the knowledge they grasp is just dead.

Jiang Zeshen is different; he truly internalized the knowledge points from the Five Viscera comics.

This discovery pleased Lu Jiu immensely.

"Oh yeah, I’ll ask when I get home." Luo Xiaoxiao said.

Lu Jiu prompted, "Deficiency cannot be judged so simply. There are qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, and yang deficiency, these are overall deficiencies, and deficiencies of the Five Viscera must be judged based on this foundation, so even if you ask your dad, do not jump to conclusions. The knowledge you currently have is not enough to diagnose people."

"But Jiang Zeshen’s performance was very good, using the traditional Chinese medicine knowledge learned to think about problems. The teacher has decided to give you a reward."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zeshen straightened his body, his face blossoming with a smile.

"Teacher, what reward is it?" Luo Xiaoxiao, on the side, was the first to ask.

Lu Jiu smiled, "The reward is allowing Jiang Zeshen to intern at the hospital for a day and be a little Chinese medicine doctor with me."

Wow!!!

Upon hearing this, the whole class immediately looked at Jiang Zeshen with envy.

They are actually quite afraid of hospitals.

Especially when falling ill, hearing parents talk about going to the hospital for injections and medicine makes their entire body emit resistance from every pore.

But this time it is different, Jiang Zeshen is not going as a patient, but as a doctor.

Role reversal naturally doubles the attraction.

After all, for kids, whatever adults do is always very interesting.

Just like how every child longs to grow up.

"Teacher, teacher, why is only Jiang Zeshen allowed to go?"

"Teacher, I want to go too!"

"Teacher, me, me, me!"

"Teacher..."

For a while, the class became noisy again.

Lu Jiu couldn’t help but laugh.

Do you even need to ask?

That’s precisely the reason for not taking all of you together.

In the classroom, he can manage this bunch of little monkeys, but if they went to the hospital, perhaps not.

They might vanish if he’s not careful.

"Quiet, quiet, everyone will have a chance as long as you all study traditional Chinese medicine as hard as Jiang Zeshen; later, I will take each and every one of you to the hospital to learn, how about it?" Lu Jiu said.

"Teacher, you must keep your word!"

"Teacher, when will you take us?"

"Teacher, can I diagnose people?"

"Teacher..."

"..."

Look, that’s how kids are, a hundred "whys" in their mouths.

When you answer one, another one comes, endlessly.

Fortunately, Lu Jiu is already accustomed to dealing with children. After a few words to block their curiosity, he started today’s lesson.

Although he created the Five Viscera comics, the official textbooks were not entirely neglected.

Lu Jiu would just pick out the key points, blending some into the comics and explaining others in class.

To some extent, the Chinese medicine knowledge learned by the kids in Lu Jiu’s class is far beyond that of other classes.

After all, except for Tang Yi, almost all of An Xianda and his colleagues taught according to the syllabus.

And a semester’s textbook only has five units.

Like last semester, the textbooks the kids learned had four lessons in the first unit: "Shennong Tasted Hundred Herbs", "Fuxi Nine Needles", "Origin of Medicine", "Skillful Hands Relieve Suffering".

Although presented in story format, there’s not much practical connection; only the two texts from the fifth unit, "Flowing Water Does Not Decay", "Long-term Lying Injures Qi" somewhat count.

The curriculum for this term is almost the same as last term, only adding some stories about famous doctors using medicinal herbs to treat illnesses.

Lu Jiu understood why the curriculum creators did this, it’s merely to attract children’s interest in traditional Chinese medicine using stories.

But they greatly underestimated the children’s intelligence, memory, and imagination!

The stories in the curriculum at most count as background stories for Chinese medicine, they should mainly understand "Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor".

If a tradition Chinese medicine scholar could compile the "Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor" into readable texts for children, that would be true traditional Chinese medicine education.

Only by truly understanding the composition of "people" as life can one move to the next step of "medicine"; otherwise, if you don’t understand the process of life, how can you eliminate diseases that interfere with the healthy functioning of life?

Lu Jiu’s Five Viscera comics is actually interpreting "Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor" from a child’s perspective.

He just wasn’t aware of it himself.

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