novelraw Chapter 376 - 342: Are You Sure This Prescription Isn’t Wrong?
Chapter 376 - 342: Are You Sure This Prescription Isn’t Wrong?
Cinnamon bark, peony, raw aconite, poria, atractylodes, ginger, baked licorice, Chinese dates.
Isn’t this prescription... too simple?
Xie Xiao looked at the doctor’s diagnosis case in the internal system’s backend. It was a prescription that Lu Jiu wrote for Jiang Shu.
He had always been paying attention to Jiang Shu’s condition.
Although leukemia is recognized worldwide as one of the five most incurable diseases.
However, in traditional Chinese medicine, it is not considered incurable.
For a child like Jiang Shu who has leukemia, it’s caused by innate deficiencies and postnatal neglect.
But if an adult gets leukemia, it’s because, after adulthood, the residual milk of women and semen of men enter the sixth vertebra of the Du Meridian in the body.
Therefore, any leukemia patient will have a very intense tenderness at the location of the sixth vertebra of the Du Meridian.
And for many men who get leukemia, a notable feature is having less facial hair, or even none.
The fundamental reason for this is the insufficient strength of the heart.
Because whether it’s a woman’s residual milk or a man’s semen residue, to reach the correct location, it’s controlled by the heart.
If the heart is damaged, it will cause their path to be incorrect.
For example, a woman’s breast cancer occurs when the milk doesn’t go completely to the uterus, and some of it stays in the chest cavity for too long, leading to breast cancer.
There’s also lupus erythematosus, which is caused by milk backflowing into the heart.
Excluding the factor of nutritional surplus, these diseases are basically caused by insufficient heart strength.
The same applies to men.
Therefore, for leukemia, one must address the issue of the sixth vertebra of the Du Meridian and strengthen the heart.
This is something Xie Xiao understands very clearly.
However, understanding is one thing, whether one can cure it is another matter.
He had actually studied classical prescriptions for many years and considered his level not bad.
But for a complex disease like leukemia, Xie Xiao still couldn’t create a completely symptomatic prescription in a short time.
Now seeing Lu Jiu’s prescription, Xie Xiao also couldn’t remain calm for a long time.
Because it’s so simple, yet it contains an extremely complex thought process behind the prescription.
Especially the Gypsum Decoction within.
This was the first prescription he mastered when learning traditional Chinese medicine.
He always remembered what his teacher said, that when you know how to use Gypsum Decoction, you can be called a master in the field of Chinese medicine.
Unfortunately, since entering the hospital, he rarely used Gypsum Decoction, this classical prescription.
After all, this prescription is a relieving surface agent, with the effects of dissipating cold, relieving the surface, adjusting the yin and yang of the protective and nutritional phases.
It’s mostly used to treat colds or to increase a patient’s immunity.
He almost never thought of this prescription for treating difficult and complicated diseases.
But Gypsum Decoction has always had the reputation of being the number one ancient prescription in the Chinese medicine community.
If it could only treat a cold, it wouldn’t receive such an honor.
At this moment, seeing Gypsum Decoction used here, Xie Xiao felt as if it was a divine touch.
"Old Xie, aren’t you on a break? Why are you still studying case files?"
In the office, another doctor, also the deputy director of pediatrics, Zeng Yun, saw Xie Xiao still hadn’t left after work and couldn’t help but approach.
"Look, this is the prescription the dean wrote." Xie Xiao pointed at the screen.
Zeng Yun came closer, "Cinnamon bark, peony... this is Gypsum Decoction with added raw aconite, poria, and atractylodes. Eh, the amounts of raw aconite and peony are quite heavy, huh!? Treating leukemia?"
"This prescription treats leukemia? Isn’t that a mistake?"
Xie Xiao laughed, "Look more closely. Combine the Chinese herbs here and ponder how they change."
Zeng Yun, seeing that Xie Xiao seemed to have found something, seriously looked again at Lu Jiu’s differential diagnosis and then carefully pondered it with the prescription.
Forty in substance while collected in dispersal, balancing evil and righteous Qi, adjusting yin and yang.
Raw aconite dispels internal cold, poria and atractylodes strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness.
Oh boy!
This prescription is too precise!
It almost perfectly corresponds to the major symptoms of leukemia.
Each herb maximizes its effect, wasting no medicinal potential.
Using Gypsum Decoction to treat leukemia is truly bringing classical prescriptions to life!
"Brilliant, truly brilliant. This prescription is incredible. Tsk, I need to study this carefully. It’s the first time in years I’ve seen such a perfect prescription. Each herb is simple, but when combined, the effects are hundreds of times stronger than many major prescriptions. What’s that saying again? A heavy sword without an edge, great skill is non-skill!" Zeng Yun, with an excited expression, grabbed a pen to copy Lu Jiu’s prescription.
Compared to Zeng Yun’s excitement, Xie Xiao was much calmer, but his eyes also shone with enthusiasm.
"Dean Lu is only in his twenties this year, not yet thirty, right? You tell me, with the level of just this one prescription, how many National Masters of Chinese Medicine can achieve it?" Xie Xiao said.
Zeng Yun stroked his chin, "It’s hard to say, but I feel that if we talk about the level of classical prescriptions, Dean Lu definitely has the level of a National Master of Chinese Medicine. A National Master in his twenties, thinking about it is a bit frightening. If he were in Jinling, just this one case could make him famous throughout Jinling."
Xie Xiao laughed, "Do you also think this prescription can cure leukemia?"
Zeng Yun said, "From the structure of the classical prescription, I think even if it can’t cure completely, it can allow this child to return to normal life. And at the very least, I’m saying at the very least, there’s no problem living another twenty years!"
Xie Xiao nodded, "I’m bolder in my thinking than you. I believe until the kidney Qi weakens at forty, this child will have no worries about his life."
Zeng Yun said, "Almost. It’s a pity, if Dean Lu had stayed in Jinling, perhaps in a few more years, by participating in some medical projects and gaining enough social influence, and maybe winning a few awards, he could steadily obtain the state-certified title of National Master of Chinese Medicine by his thirties, and for an individual, that would be standing at the pinnacle!"
Xie Xiao agreed with Zeng Yun’s statement, "Each person has their own ambitions. Besides, our hospital is developing well now. I heard that after collaborating with Wei Medical Hall, Dean Lu plans to establish a Youth Palace, aiming to incorporate all the children in Jianghan City into the system of learning Chinese medicine. That’s quite an ambition."
Zeng Yun couldn’t help but sigh, "The medicinal cuisine department has seized the health market, the beauty and skincare department has taken over the cosmetic market, and recently, there’s been a retirement home model to incorporate many elderly people from Jianghan City. Now, he’s planning a Youth Palace. Wow, is Dean Lu trying to create a health ecosystem and include people of all ages in Jianghan City?"
"If he really manages to make the entire population of over 700,000 in Jianghan City become users of the hospital, then just doing one or two traditional Chinese medicine checkups each year could generate billions in gross profit, not to mention the two main profit-making departments, the medicinal cuisine, and beauty skincare departments. Tsk tsk tsk, by then, who dares say that Chinese medicine doesn’t make money?"
Xie Xiao laughed and cried, "Hey, hey, hey, that’s not how you calculate it. If you genuinely want to serve over 700,000 people, our hospital doesn’t have enough doctors. More people means higher operating costs. What are you thinking?"
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