I Can Talk to the Internal Organs

Chapter 385 - 351: The One Who Ignites the Flame

"What did you say?"

"Traditional Chinese medicine can solve diabetic foot? And the cure rate is as high as ninety-two percent?"

"Where is this data from?"

"A paper in the Huaxia Medical Journal."

"Let me take a look."

"Lu Jiu? Which hospital? Eh? The cooperating hospital even includes Elder Mo from Jinling Central Hospital?"

"Aren’t they from a Western Hospital? How did they get involved in Chinese medicine research?"

"Let’s read the content of the paper first."

"Hiss~~ Severe and mild diabetic foot patients can all be cured!? Is this a bit exaggerated?"

"The paper shouldn’t be fabricated, right?"

"It’s not impossible for papers to be faked, but the Huaxia Medical Journal is the country’s top medical journal; if it’s faked, it would be a big issue."

"Hard to say, haven’t there been fake papers in foreign journals too? That Alzheimer’s research paper, nearly all the articles were fake."

"Don’t worry, once this paper is published, it will definitely stir up a huge storm domestically, and then there will definitely be people verifying its authenticity."

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"Director, the latest issue of the Huaxia Medical Journal is out; the first paper is about traditional Chinese medicine."

"Oh? Since when did papers in our Chinese medicine field rank so high?"

"It’s a paper researching the treatment of diabetic foot, with a cure rate as high as ninety-two point five percent."

"What did you say!?"

"Take a look!"

"... It’s true, yes, the data is correct, and the theory is indeed this theory, but using the Vital Energy Warming Formula with sugar to treat diabetic foot, this method is simply brilliant. Let me see who the first author is, Lu Jiu? Which hospital?"

"It should be from Jianghan; you see there’s also a doctor from Jianghan People’s Hospital mentioned later, so this Lu Jiu is likely from Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine."

"Jianghan? Never heard of it."

"A county-level city under Beihu Province."

"County-level city? Just from his analysis of the Chinese medicine theory of diabetic foot, you can see he’s quite capable, and this internal and external treatment method is exceptional; why is he staying in such a small place?"

"That, I don’t know."

"Prepare immediately, and follow the method described in this paper to treat the diabetic foot patients in our hospital and see if the efficacy is as high as stated in the paper."

"Alright."

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In Jinling, Wei Medical Hall.

"Master Wei, have you seen the latest Huaxia Medical Journal? You’d never guess who authored the first paper," said Shang Yehua.

Wei Zhengxian laughed, "I usually don’t read papers; those so-called Chinese medicine papers mostly just repeat what predecessors have done, without any innovation."

To someone of his level in Chinese medicine, most papers are quite amusing.

Because many in Chinese medicine are applying Chinese medical theories to Western disease names, and research with such an approach, no matter how outstanding the result, is meaningless.

People get sick not because of diseases.

Research diseases, use prescriptions to match them, and in the end, forget about the person themselves; how can one grasp the essence of Chinese medicine like this?

"Master Wei, I think you should take a look this time; the first author of that paper is Lu Jiu," Shang Yehua said.

"Him?" Wei Zhengxian was also a bit puzzled.

He was well aware of Lu Jiu’s level; once he learned The Book of Changes, there wouldn’t be many better than him in Chinese medicine in the country.

"Yes, his paper researches the Vital Energy Warming Formula combined with sugar, treating diabetic foot both internally and externally, with a cure rate of up to ninety-two point five percent. This data is astonishing; it’s the highest cure rate I’ve ever seen in so many papers."

"Actually, I’m quite puzzled too. You often tell us that in treating with Chinese medicine, one must not be fixated on the disease, otherwise you get bound by the disease name and can’t use holistic thinking to dialectically assess the patient’s condition. But how come the method used by Lu Jiu can precisely treat diabetic foot?"

Shang Yehua was considered a fairly competent doctor in Chinese medicine.

He almost never focused on disease names when diagnosing.

After analyzing the number of symptoms a patient has, he identifies the primary symptom and prescribes accordingly.

When his skills were not enough, he also obsessed over how to treat specific diseases, resulting in very poor efficacy and recurring symptoms in patients.

Obviously, if you focus on the disease name, you can’t eliminate the fundamental symptom, so no matter how you prescribe, you can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

Because of this experience, Shang Yehua was very curious why Lu Jiu could achieve such a high cure rate by targeting the disease name.

"Vital Energy Warming Formula with sugar?" Wei Zhengxian immediately understood upon hearing this, "You haven’t grasped his internal and external treatment mindset; these two things combined, their efficacy is for promoting healing, draining pus and sealing wounds. Even if it’s for a different illness, as long as it needs healing, draining pus and sealing, his method’s cure rate would be high."

"This kid is clever; he hasn’t fundamentally cured diabetic foot; he’s only made it seem cured on the surface, because the core of diabetic foot is patients can’t generate body fluids or excrete excess sugar. But from a modern medical perspective, as long as you heal the patient’s leg, prevent ulceration and pus, that equates to curing the disease."

"If I’m not mistaken, he intends to exploit the modern medical understanding of the disease to attack diabetic foot with Chinese medicine theory at a lower level. If this paper gets attention, more patients with diabetic foot will likely turn to Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for treatment."

"Once this expands, and more diabetic patients receive treatment, the impact on the diabetes market for Western medicine will be devastating. From a human perspective, if a disease can be effectively treated without long-term medication, patients would choose the curative approach, no matter if it’s Chinese or Western medicine."

"His actions could be significantly impacting the market for antidiabetic drugs!"

Wei Zhengxian truly lived up to being a great master in Chinese medicine.

Just from knowing the Vital Energy Warming Formula and sugar, he understood the fundamental role of Lu Jiu’s method.

He even inferred from its efficacy what Lu Jiu aimed to achieve.

Indeed.

From the get-go, Lu Jiu intended to destroy the diabetes market.

But the market was too vast for him to handle alone, so he started with diabetic foot. Once more people knew Chinese medicine could treat diabetic foot, when they got diabetic foot, they would instinctively think of Chinese medicine.

Despite the fact that at this time, most Chinese medicine practitioners had difficulty managing diabetes, as long as most diabetic foot cases could be handled, quantitative changes can lead to qualitative changes.

By then, if patients were diagnosed with diabetes at a hospital, even in the early stages, they might consider whether Chinese medicine could manage it.

Because many would think if diabetes progressed to diabetic foot, a condition even Chinese medicine could salvage, then during the early stages when it’s less severe, there would surely be better methods.

Once this mindset takes root in patients’ minds, the market for antidiabetic drugs would rapidly diminish.

"Master Wei, are you saying Lu Jiu is declaring war on the diabetes market?" Shang Yehua widened his eyes, full of incredulity.

Wei Zhengxian replied, "I’m not sure of his true intent, but from this treatment method, even if he didn’t have this plan, he might have no choice in the matter. If Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospitals across the country see this paper and conduct extensive clinical trials, the results could be surprising."

"He’s like a person who lit the fire, but the ones adding fuel to it are Chinese medicine practitioners across the country. The diabetes market is too massive; if Chinese medicine can claim some of it, they definitely won’t hold back."

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