Yin Xizi was surprised.
Everyone has been exhausted these days, so she specifically asked everyone to go back and rest tonight. Who could be the one visiting in the middle of the night?
Yin Xizi opened the door and saw an old man with gray beard standing outside, and behind him was a middle-aged man who looked similar.
He was the folk doctor summoned by the court to help during this epidemic, Dr. Yang Lianting, and the middle-aged man was his son, Yang Yu.
"Doctor Yang, it's so late. What's the matter with you two?"
Yang Lianting and his son walked in.
"Doctor Yin, is Houttuynia cordata still not available?" Yang Lianting asked first.
In the past two days, the imperial court sent medicine. Several other herbs were available, but Houttuynia cordata was missing.
The stock of Houttuynia cordata was limited, so they had to reduce the amount of Houttuynia cordata in the preventive decoctions and save it for patients with the epidemic.
But it was obvious that the supply of Houttuynia cordata was almost gone. Even if the preventive medicine was stopped for the imperial guards, there would be no more Houttuynia cordata left.
The doctors were not stupid. Although they did not get a clear answer, they guessed that there was a problem with the supply of Houttuynia cordata.
Yin Xizi nodded, her eyes full of worry.
"Now I won't hide it from you. His Majesty sent someone to tell us today that there's a problem and the houttuynia cordata won't arrive for a while. He asked us to find a way to solve it and see if we can change the prescription."
"Have you thought of a solution?" Yang Lianting asked again.
Yin Xizi frowned and said, "I've been looking up a lot of medical books overnight. Although other heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs can be used to replace Houttuynia cordata, the efficacy will be greatly reduced."
"What I'm worried about is that patients whose conditions have improved will relapse after changing medication."
"Doctor Yin, don't worry. My father and I are here to help you." Yang Yu comforted him.
"Help me?" Yin Xizi's eyes flashed.
Yang Lianting's lips curled up slightly: "Yes, Doctor Yin, I came here specifically to give you some advice."
Yin Xizi looked at the Yang father and son eagerly, waiting anxiously for them to come up with a solution.
"You should know that our Yang family's ancestors have been practicing medicine, and they have passed down a set of Yang family acupuncture techniques."
"Yeah, I know." Yin Xizi nodded.
Yang Lianting's expression was serious, but his eyes were full of earnestness. "There's a way to use Yang family acupuncture that can stimulate the patient's internal organs' ability to detoxify."
"If oral medications are not effective in treating an epidemic or poisoning, using this acupuncture method can greatly enhance the effect."
Yin Xizi's eyes lit up. "You mean, after replacing the Houttuynia cordata with other herbs, combine it with the Yang family's acupuncture treatment?"
Yang Yu smiled and said, "That's exactly what my father meant."
Yin Xizi's brows relaxed immediately, but then furrowed again. "But Doctor Yang, your family only has two sons, and including you, there are only three of us who can use the Yang family acupuncture method. There are hundreds of patients in the inner city and the imperial guards combined. Even if you work tirelessly, you won't be able to treat them all."
The Yang family acupuncture method is very famous in the capital, but everyone knows that this set of acupuncture methods is a family secret method, and it strictly adheres to the tradition of being passed down from generation to generation and not passed down to outsiders, and not passed down to daughters.
Yin Xizi also comes from a medical family, so he naturally understands the strict inheritance of these family secrets.
Many secret techniques passed down from generation to generation in a family are not willing to be sold even if outsiders offer a high price.
If a prodigal son occasionally appears and violates the ancestral teachings and exchanges the family secrets for money, he will be criticized and scolded by the clan members.
Yang Lianting looked at Yin Xizi's furrowed brow and smiled, "Who said that only the three of us, father and son, are here to perform acupuncture? Right now, in the Imperial Guards camp alone, not counting the imperial physicians, there are over twenty folk doctors."
Yin Xizi was even more confused now: "But...but..."
Yang Lianting immediately understood Yin Xizi's doubts.
"I will gather everyone together and teach them this acupuncture method. Then everyone can perform acupuncture. Wouldn't that speed up the process?"
Yin Xizi was stunned when she heard this: "You mean, in order to treat the epidemic, you are willing to teach this acupuncture method to everyone?!"
"Yes, that's exactly what I mean." Yang Lianting smiled.
Yang Yu looked at his father, his eyes flashing with admiration.
"But...but...this is the secret method of your Yang family that is not passed on to others!" Yin Xizi stuttered because he was too excited.
Yang Lianting sighed, "If it were in the past, I would absolutely not want to pass on the Yang family acupuncture method. But now it's different."
"Doctor Yin, I want to thank you for bringing honor to us folk doctors and clearing our name."
"If it weren't for you, I, an old man like me, would have been looked down upon by those people in the Imperial Hospital until my death."
At this point, Yang Lianting's tone was somewhat difficult. His eyes were staring out the window, as if he was recalling something.
It was just a few days ago that the Yang family father and son, along with other folk doctors, were recruited by the imperial court and sent to the imperial army camp to treat the epidemic.
Yang Lianting was originally a famous doctor with considerable reputation among the people, especially known for his mysterious Yang family acupuncture.
Many people came to him to seek treatment for their difficult and complicated diseases.
But as soon as they arrived at the imperial guards camp, they were bullied by the imperial physician.
The group of imperial physicians, headed by the director of the Imperial Medical Service, relied on the fact that they were doctors in the palace who treated the emperor and his concubines, and they acted arrogantly and looked down on others. They did not regard these folk doctors as human beings at all.
Yang Lianting and other folk doctors are usually dignified doctors in their own clinics and are respected by others.
But when they arrived at the imperial guards camp, the imperial doctors actually arranged for them to do rough work such as collecting medicinal materials, boiling medicine and feeding medicine.
Famous doctors with superb medical skills have been reduced to running errands and doing rough work as medicine boys.
Yang Lianting was a man of upright character. He argued with the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau for a few words. Unexpectedly, instead of changing the status quo, he was slapped twice by the director's apprentice.
Yang Lianting was old and suffered great pain from such humiliation.
It was not until three days later that the situation of these folk doctors changed when Yin Xizi won the prescription competition with the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau and was appointed by Emperor Mingxi as the chief person in charge of treating epidemics in the Imperial Guards Camp.
Yin Xizi immediately grabbed the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau and his apprentice and apologized to Yang Lianting in person, admitting his mistake.
That day, Yin Xizi spoke in a powerful voice in front of all the doctors.
"Whether they are folk doctors or imperial physicians, they all heal illnesses and save lives. As long as their medical skills are superb and their medical products are valuable, they should be respected by everyone. As doctors, there is no distinction between high and low!"
These words made everyone feel warm, and also made the imperial doctors feel a little afraid.
The director of the Imperial Medical Bureau felt ashamed and returned to the hospital with his apprentice. Even if the other imperial doctors were still in the imperial guards, they did not dare to act rashly as before.
Yin Xizi stood up to support the folk doctors, redistributed the work, and gave the low-skilled work to the medicine boys, allowing these folk doctors to take the patients' pulses like the imperial doctors.
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