Chapter 499: 499
Wang Yao documented the symptoms, diagnoses, formula, and treatment method of all of his patients . He highlighted the massage therapy, which was his own unique treatment method and not typical .
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He didn’t stop working until 7 p . m . His mother had called him a few times . He put his notebook away and left the clinic .
“You are so late today,” Zhang Xiuying said .
“Yes, I had a lot of patients today,” Wang Yao replied .
He did a brief calculation and found that he had seen 37 patients . He wasn’t sure how many patients those hospital doctors saw on a typical day . He didn’t get a chance to rest except for a lunch break . He was extremely busy but feeling content .
“You should get some help,” Wang Ru suggested .
“Hire someone to help me?” Wang Yao asked . “I’ll think about it . ”
He had never thought about this before . He wouldn’t trust people he didn’t know . After all, his clinic was special . Whomever worked in his clinic would find his secret one day .
“Anyway, eat your dinner first,” Wang Ru said .
Wang Yao had a few drinks with his father and Du Mingyang . He was not a big fan of alcohol, but he didn’t mind drinking it . Plus, he wouldn’t get drunk . After all, he was much more fit than average people .
Since Wang Yao got home late and had been drinking, it was 8:30 p . m . by the time he finished dinner . He chatted with his family for a while after clearing up the table .
Zhang Xiuying used a big wok to cook dinner . The heat transferred to their brick bed, so it was very comfortable lying on the brick bed .
Wang Yao’s family was a typical Chinese family . The male family members were quiet while the female members were quite talkative . Both Wang Yao’s mother and sister were outgoing . He and his father didn’t talk much . Du Mingyang was relatively talkative . He created a harmonious atmosphere in
Wang Yao’s family .
After Wang Yao had finished massaging his parents, he went back to Nanshan Hill around 9 p . m .
He had seen many patients and used up all the herbs he prepared the night before . He needed to prepare herbs for the next day . He presumed that he would have many patients the next day as well because it would be the weekend . He prepared to stay up overnight .
He started a fire, fried the herbs, grinded the herbs into powder, and sieved the powder . He didn’t stop working until midnight . Then, he turned the light off and went to bed .
It was dry and cold overnight . It seemed to be a very long night .
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It was much warmer in South Xinjiang, which was thousands of miles away from Lianshan .
Inside a stockade village among the mountains, a middle-aged man was lying on his bed . Ahem! Ahem! Ahem!
He couldn’t stop coughing . He was so skinny that he looked like a mummy . He had deeply sunken eyes, which looked huge . He was very short of breath .
His family members stood next to his bed . An old man with white hair and a beard sat next to the bed .
“The toxin have gone inside his heart . I can’t do anything to help him,” the old man said .
“Sir, please help him,” a short and skinny middle-aged woman said with tears .
“I’m sorry,” the old man said with a sigh .
The middle-aged man was not the first person to be poisoned . Since they decided to feed the poisonous insects, they needed to take the consequence .
People died from feeding poisonous insects every year . Therefore, less and less people in the stockade village had any connection with those insects .
“Sir, that fantastic doctor is in a town nearby, can you ask him to take a look at him?” one of the middle-aged man’s family members asked .
“OK, get the car ready . I’ll ask him,” the old man said after keeping silent for a moment .
“OK,” the family member said .
The town at the border of Xinjiang was as pretty as a picture .
An old man with white hair and beard, who had slight hunchback but was in good spirits, had a pipe in his mouth . Sitting opposite him was another old man, who was of similar age but thinner . His skin was as dry as tree bark, but his eyes were very bright . He was wearing a jacket made from old coarse cloth .
“It is not good to stay up too late,” the old man smoking the pipe said .
“I’ve gotten used to it,” the old man wearing coarse cloth said .
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“Tell me what brings you here?” the old man smoking the pipe asked .
“I want to invite you to our stockade village,” the other old man replied .
“Who is sick?” the old man smoking the pipe asked .
“A young person in the village . He was poisoned by those insects, you know,” the other old man said .
“OK, just give me a second,” the old man said after taking a whiff or two of the pipe . Then, he picked up his medical box from the table . “Let’s go . ”
The two old men were like two old friends who hadn’t seen each other for years . They didn’t talk a lot . They kept their conversation simple .
A car was travelling on the even path among the mountains late at night . It took a long time to arrive to the stockade village .
“He is beyond cure,” the old doctor said after seeing the middle-aged man .
“How much time does he have?” the other old man asked .
“I can give him a decoction, which could make him last for another 10 days,” the old doctor said .
“OK, thank you,” the other old man said .
Some of the middle-aged man’s family members in the room started to cry . It was a sad thing to know their loved one would die soon, and they couldn’t save him .
The old doctor gave the middle-aged man a decoction and left the room .
“You should stay away from those insects,” the old doctor said before he left . “The toxin in your body is also a big problem . ”
The old doctor left the village at late night without lingering .
What could a dying person do in 10 days?
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The next day, the sun came out as usual . Wang Yao left Nanshan Hill with his herbs early in the morning .
He had breakfast at home and then went to his clinic . It was only 8 a . m . when he arrived at his clinic .
Cars started to come into the village early in the morning . Wang Yao’s first patient was Du Feng . He felt much better after taking the decoction given by Wang Yao . As advised by Wang Yao, he came to the clinic first thing in the morning .
For both men and women, 40 years old was a turning point . After people turned 40, their body function started to deteriorate . If a person always looked after them self well enough when they were in their 20s, such as doing regular exercise and keeping a good lifestyle, body function wouldn’t decline so much after turning 40 . A lot of people in their 50s were more fit than people in their 40s .
Nowadays, especially in those big cities, people had a fast-paced lifestyle . The stress was huge, so they constantly lived under pressure, like a bow string . An over stretched bow string would break sooner or later . More and more people died from a heart attack or over working . More and more people died when they were still young . People started to get terrible illnesses at a young age . Du Feng was one of them .
“You are getting better . Lay down for me, I’ll give you an acupuncture treatment,” Wang Yao said after he had taken a look at Du Feng .
Last time, he had given Du Feng a decoction to take . He didn’t have herbs ready this time, so he decided to treat Du Feng using acupuncture, which could stimulate Du Feng’s acupuncture points and meridians . It was more than just improving the flow of Qi and blood .
In fact, normal human beings had the ability to heal themselves . Most people didn’t need any treatment to recover from a disease . A large number of medication and treatment methods could stimulate the human body to facilitate self recovery . Both massage therapy and acupuncture had this effect .
Wang Yao put most of his needles at Du Feng’s chest and stomach . He chose the acupuncture points and meridians closely related to heart .
While Wang Yao was treating Du Feng, another patient came into the clinic .
“Could you please wait for a while,” Wang Yao said to the other patient . Acupuncture treatment shouldn’t be disrupted .
“How do you feel?” Wang Yao asked Du Feng .
“I’m fine . I just feel a bit numb and itchy,” Du Feng replied . “Ouch!”
Du Feng suddenly had a tremor . He felt like his heart was pricked by a needle . It was painful . At that moment, his body began to sweat . He thought, I hope the needle didn’t get into my heart .
“Painful?” Wang Yao asked .
“Yes,” Du Feng replied .
Wang Yao manipulated the needle gently .
More patients arrived at the clinic . It was the weekend, so Wang Yao had more patients than usual . All the patients were curiously watching Wang Yao give acupuncture treatment to Du Feng .
Wang Yao placed the needle into the skin and muscle, manipulated the needle gently, lifted the needle, and finally removed the needle from the skin .
“Done,” Wang Yao said .
“Thank you!” Du Feng got up slowly . He took a big sigh of relief . His face turned red .
“Don’t rush to walk . Sit here for a while,” Wang Yao said .
“OK,” Du Feng replied .
“Who’s next?” Wang Yao asked the patients who had been waiting .
“Hello, Dr . Wang, I’ve been coughing, having a headache, and feeling nauseous lately,” the next patient said .
It seemed the patient had gotten the flu . Wang Yao made a diagnosis, prescribed a formula, and gave advice to the patient . Then, he saw the rest of the patients one by one .
Soon, Wang Yao had finished seeing three patients . Du Feng was ready to get up . He had a warm feeling in his chest . He felt very comfortable . All those uncomfortable feelings during acupuncture treatment had gone away . Now, he felt his heartbeat was more powerful .
“I think I’m fine now,” Du Feng said .
“OK, you can go . Come back tomorrow to fetch your decoction,” Wang Yao said .
“How much should I pay you?” Du Feng asked .
“Two thousand,” Wang Yao said .
“OK . ” Du Feng paid Wang Yao without hesitation .
Two thousand? The rest of the patients were all shocked . They didn’t think acupuncture treatment was special .
However, acupuncture contained a huge amount of knowledge . There was a famous story about acupuncture . In ancient China, Cao Cao suffered from a headache one day . All his men were worried about him . They invited Hua Tuo to see Cao Cao . Hua Tuo stopped Cao Cao’s headache by placing one needle into his head .