Chapter 77:

Eye diseases occupy a unique category in traditional Chinese medicine because it corresponds to many dialectics. Although there are a vast number of TCM medical records handed down from past dynasties, there are not many medical records about eye diseases. However, many medical records left in modern times have been compiled, preserved and compiled.

Xu Yi said slowly: "I have to see the patient before I can make a decision."

Ah Fu got an unexpected answer. His eyes moved and he said: "I want to ask... Doctor Xu to visit."

He said this It's so obscure, it's like saying it for the first time.

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows, agreed, and asked when he could see the patient.

Ah Fu said: "I want to go back first. Master Tang hasn't paid me the remaining money yet."

Xu Yi smiled and said for him: "The day after tomorrow, you come to me at this time the day after tomorrow."

This kind of thing . The eye disease that has been occurring for many years will be cured no later than these two days.

Xu Yi still needs to return Uncle Tang's favor first.

"Okay." Ah Fu nodded.

After he responded, he turned around, got back on the mule cart, and drove away.

Seeing the mule cart disappearing from sight, Xu Yi turned around and returned to the yard.

The medicinal materials he brought back were placed in the yard, and A Xu and A Jin did not dare to move them without his instructions.

A Xu looked at him and asked, "Lang Jun, what should I do with these medicinal materials?"

Xu Yi said, "I will separate the poisonous medicinal materials, and you can place the rest of the medicinal materials in the same order as before."

The poisonous medicinal materials were brought by Uncle Tang . These are the eggplants that came back. After Xu Yi got these, he thought of concocting "Sleeping Saint Powder" when he had time.

Now that he doesn't have a medical book on hand, he can't remember some dosages, so he doesn't dare to take them as he pleases.

After picking out these toxic medicinal materials, Xu Yi dug inside and found a small bag of medicinal materials wrapped in cotton cloth.

As soon as I opened it, I smelled a distinct fishy smell.

Xu Yi pinched a piece and looked at it.

It looks like an irregular capsule-like object, with vertical and horizontal lines on the top, and the stripes are slightly wavy. This small package is mixed with two colors, yellow and tawny, and it looks like some kind of Dried capsules. [Note 1]

Soon, he identified what kind of medicinal material it was.

He didn't expect Uncle Tang to bring him such rare medicinal materials.

Although it is said to be rare, it is actually more appropriate to describe it as "hard to find".

"Huh?" A Xu sniffed his nose and leaned his head in a bun.

He had a sensitive nose and had never seen such a medicinal material before, so he could not help but curiously ask: "Lang Jun, what is this?"

Xu Yi held a piece of medicine for him to remember the shape, color and taste of the medicinal material, and said: "This is Gallus gallus gallinae is made by drying the gizzard underwear of domestic chickens. Because the preparation method is troublesome, you need to kill the chicken and peel off the gizzard underwear while it is hot. You cannot wash it and just dry it directly. I am in the medical clinic in Yanting County. "It's rare to see it here."

Maybe there is, but Xu Yi hasn't encountered it.

A Xu was shocked: "Then we used to kill chickens and eat the gizzards. It turns out that they can be dried and made into medicinal materials."

He told Xu Yi that in the future, when killing chickens, he must peel off the underwear of the gizzards. Dry.

Xu Yi shook his head with a smile: "Do you know how many chickens need to be killed to get this bag of chicken gizzards?"

A Xu pursed his lips and said, "Lang Jun, let me count."

"Okay. "Xu Yi saw that he was interested, so he handed him the bag of chicken gizzard.

The texture of the chicken fillet was crispy. A Xu carefully held it and poured it onto the plate, counting it with his fingers.

One, two...

He was counting silently in his mind. A small bag of chicken gizzards actually counted hundreds.

A Xu was even more surprised and shouted to Xu Yi in a loud voice: "Lang Jun, there are one hundred and fifteen yuan!"

Xu Yi said: "It is difficult to save the gold in the chicken. It is not easy to save so much. This bag costs hundreds of dollars to buy."

At this moment, A Xu's surprise turned into dumbfounding. This chicken gizzard is so expensive!

He looked at the chicken nuggets on the plate and put them back into the small cloth bag more carefully.

Later, Xu Yi told them about the uses of chicken gizzard.

It has the effects of eliminating food stagnation, stopping enuresis, and resolving hardening and removing stones. It is used for symptoms such as indigestion, loss of appetite, bloating due to food accumulation, and malnutrition in children. [Note 2]

Xu Yi said to them: "This medicinal scope of Chicken Neijin is not limited to these. Sometimes some prescriptions for treating other diseases also use this medicinal material."

He gave an example to the two of them and said There was a man who had a sore in his mouth that was not getting better, so he went to see a doctor.

The man was treated by an old doctor who was good at using strange medicines. When the old doctor saw that he only had aphthous sores and no other unnecessary symptoms, he directly burned the chicken gizzard into ashes and applied it to the aphthous sores. It was cured within two days.

After speaking, Xu Yi saw that they were listening with interest and gave another example.

The examples given this time are people they know in real life.

"Axu, do you still remember Yang Guanren?" He asked first.

A Xu nodded heavily: "Of course I remember that Brother Rong often came to visit Xiao Huang before and said that Yang Guanren has not traveled far in the past two months."

Xu Yi nodded.

I thought of my chance encounter with Mrs. Yang on South Street not long ago.

Madam Yang's appearance has changed a lot. She seems to have painted on her eyebrows and put on facial makeup. From what she said, it can be concluded that she is now working as an errand in a family. She didn't have to live in the main house and could come back at night. Yang Rong was sent to a private school to study. When she came back from school in the evening, it was the time when she was returning home from work.

She said these words with a smile on her face, until she had enough money at her disposal to pay more attention to firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi collected his thoughts and said: "To quench thirst and induce drinking, for those who can drink one stone a day, you can use chicken gizzard and spinach roots to grind into powder, and then take it with rice soup. Take three doses a day, or two doses in mild cases." It can be cured in a day, and severe cases can be cured in five days."

A Jin asked the key question: "Lang Jun, why didn't you use this prescription to treat Yang Guanren last time?"

Xu Yi said, "The cause of the disease is different, and the prescription is correct. Yang Guanren is useless."

At this point, Xu Yi was about to tell A Xu and the others how many categories there are for diabetes.

After such a long time, Xu Yi still had a lot to say when the dialectic of diabetes mellitus was mentioned again.

Like Yang Guanren, who had sex after drinking alcohol, and because his body was already overworked and injured, he suffered from diabetes. It’s hard to tell two children about it, but it’s caused by excess gastrointestinal heat, improper drinking to warm up the body, and deficient heat. Diabetes, there are still many examples to mention.

Xu Yi pointed to the rice wine in the kitchen and asked them why they were not allowed to drink to warm themselves up in the winter.

A Xu said: "Lang Jun said that we are still young and not suitable for drinking."

In fact, nowadays, children of several years old can also drink a little wine. The alcohol content of rice wine is not high. Drinking it after warming it can indeed warm the body. Xu Yi did not let them drink it. Firstly, they were still in the growth stage, and secondly, drinking wine to warm up the body was not necessarily an advisable method.

People at that time thought that when the winter was very cold, people would become warmer after drinking wine, so they liked to drink to keep warm.

However, after drinking alcohol, the human body becomes full of blood and the heat dissipation speed increases, making it easier for wind evil to take advantage of it. This is why you are more likely to have a stroke after being drunk.

In addition to stroke, alcohol is very hot, and long-term uncontrolled drinking will cause the person's triple burner to heat up and dry the five internal organs. The human body will appear "dry", but will have frequent urination. This forms diabetes mellitus.

In this case, the first step is to stop drinking, and the second step is to take medicine, otherwise the diabetes will not heal easily on its own.

Xu Yi felt that he needed to start from a young age and tell A Xu A Jin about the dangers of drinking too much.

Whether it was because of his true nature as a doctor or because he was the husband of A Xu and A Jin, the reminder seemed to come from the heart.

Xu Yi sighed lightly. He could tell them not to drink, but he couldn't interfere too much with others.

"Lang Jun, are you worried about anything?" Ah Jin kept his eyes on Xu Yi and asked in a low voice.

Xu Yi shook his head: "I don't have anything to worry about. If you want to study medicine, you have to learn dialectics first. But for now, you still have to focus on reading."

After reading "The Thousand-Character Essay", it's time to study "Essential Instructions for Enlightenment" .

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The next day, Xu Yi invited Uncle Tang to have a drink in the restaurant and thanked him for bringing back a lot of medicinal materials.

He was still in his filial piety period, so Uncle Tang was drinking alone, so he lost interest. He asked for a pot of warm, fine rice wine, but didn't refill it.

After Uncle Tang drank, he told Xu Yi what they encountered on their way back: "I have been doing business for many years and have encountered many robbers. The robbers I met this time were only five or six people who wanted to hijack the car and were killed. Ah Fu and Tie Gou were so frightened that they ran away. "

A Fu's sword is the most famous in the bodyguard profession.

With this knife, he scared off many gangsters who wanted to block the road and steal their money. Some people said that Ah Fu was not a pure Sichuan man, and that he must still have the blood of foreigners flowing in his body.

But he was born here, and his grandfather was from Yanting County. Others only dared to talk about him secretly behind his back.

Because they are all afraid of the knife in his hand.

Uncle Tang couldn't help but ridiculed: "Afu's biological father and mother are both from Yanting County. Those people are just jealous of the money Ah Fu has made, so they want to use these bullshit to make others exclude him."

Xu Yi did not expect that Uncle Tang would also With such a face, I couldn't help but smile to calm him down.

Uncle Tang said that he was not angry, but he just ate an extra bowl of rice and was a little tired.

Xu Yi: "..."

After having a drink and receiving the money Xu Yi handed over, Uncle Tang should go home.

Xu Yi sent him to the bullock cart and asked Uncle Liu to drive him to Tang's house first. After watching Uncle Tang enter the house, the bullock cart wandered towards Xu's house again.

When getting off the bus, Xu Yi asked Uncle Liu to come over tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, shortly after dawn, Zhou Fu arrived outside Xu's house early. He didn't knock on the door, like an evil god, he leaned against the wall of Xu's courtyard with his arms folded.

Neighbors passing by saw him and were startled by the machete on his waist.

Looking at his face again, I saw a fierce scar on his face, across his jawbone. When he raised his eyelids and looked over, he seemed to want to skin the person alive.

Neighbors: "!"

They hurried past in fear, all worried that Xu Xiaolang had offended some evil person!

"Who is that person?"

"Why is he standing outside Dr. Xu's house? Is he here to find Dr. Xu?"

"But why doesn't he go in?"

Not far away, several children were covering their mouths and whispering. .

They spoke so quietly that Zhou Fu didn't hear them. His eyes fell on the wall of the house opposite Xu Yi's house, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Woof!"

"Woof!"

"..."

There was a wall behind him, and a yellow dog wagging its tail rapidly was barking at the wall.

Zhou Fu didn't expect that the Xu family had a dog. He turned around and met the dog's eyes.

"Woo——" Xiao Huang made a sound of expulsion.

Zhou Fu narrowed his eyes slightly, lowered his chin, and his eyes became sharp.

Just when he made a move, a little girl wearing a cotton-padded jacket came out and shouted to the yellow dog: "Xiao Huang, do you want to go out to play?"

She trotted and squatted on the dog called "Xiao Huang" In front of the dog, he touched its head.

"Don't worry, Lang Jun is still in the house. We will wait until Lang Jun goes out before going out. You should be obedient and don't make any noise..." As Ajin said, she noticed something was wrong, as if someone was looking at her.

She raised her head suddenly and saw a head appearing in the corner.

"Ah!"

She was startled. After seeing who it was, she stood up without fear and asked, "Are you here to find your husband?"

Zhou Fu nodded in a few words.

After getting his response, Ah Jin ran to the house to find Xu Yi and said that the fierce man the day before yesterday was here.

When Xu Yi heard that Ah Fu had come so early, he was a little surprised and went out to open the door himself.

"Woof woof woof!"

Xiao Huang shouted arrogantly again with his master's support.

Xu Yi patted its head a few times to comfort it, and then asked Ah Fu why he didn't knock on the door when he came over.

"It's too early, I'm afraid I'll disturb you." Zhou Fu suppressed his words.

Xu Yi twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "I'm going to wake up at midnight. If you come over now, you can just knock on the door."

After hearing this, Zhou Fu said "Oh" and became quiet again.

Xu Yi already knew that this man didn't talk much and was not sociable, so he didn't feel much offended by his cold and serious look.

However, he didn't say anything extra and asked him to wait a moment while he went inside to prepare.

Xu Yi returned to the house, changed into a thick robe that was easy to move around, and put on a wind-proof scarf. He put the medicine box on his back and went out.

Not long after, Uncle Liu arrived at Xu's house with an ox cart.

Xu Yi and Zhou Fu got on the bullock cart together and headed out of the city.

They were going to a place called Huanggou Village, which was sixteen miles away from the county seat. There were twenty households in the village.

The Zhou family was considered a wealthy family in Huanggou Village. With the money Zhou Fu earned from working as a guard for merchants, they built a three-room blue brick house in the village.

When Xu Yi and others arrived at Zhou's house in an ox cart, Grandpa Zhou was sitting under the eaves with a cane. He had been blind in his right eye for several years. In the past few months, my left eye has become increasingly blurry, and I can no longer do many tasks. I can only feed and guard the chickens in the yard.

But the weather is getting colder quickly. In the past few days, the chickens at home have not dared to leave their nests, and they have all hid in the chicken coops to keep warm.

Grandpa Zhou had no work to do and could only sit alone in the room in a daze.

He was old but had good hearing. As soon as the bullock cart stopped, he groped for his crutches and stood up to look outside.

"Is Ah Fu back?" Grandpa Zhou's eyes were cloudy and he shouted towards the door.

Zhou Fu walked forward quickly and shouted: "Aweng, I'm back with the doctor."

Grandpa Zhou said twice: "They say I don't need to see the doctor anymore, why are you still asking the doctor to come back? You can't spend it like this if you have money."

He grabbed Zhou Fu's hand and continued to talk, "When you go out, Li Matchmaker's mother just came over and found a good match for you. He asked for a wedding gift of twenty thousand dollars. As long as you can collect the money, the marriage will be settled."

Zhou Fu frowned, and his stern expression became more fierce: "That matchmaker is a stick."

Grandpa Zhou muttered in disbelief: "Really? I even gave her five dollars to drink tea!"

Zhou Fu: "She has defrauded several families of their money."

After he finished speaking, he helped Grandpa Zhou into the house. .

Come out again and ask Xu Yi to come in.

When Xu Yi came in with the medicine box on his back, he heard Grandpa Zhou muttering in a low voice: "Why have I become a bachelor?"

However, Grandpa Zhou didn't mutter for long. After Xu Yi came in, he looked at it with his half-broken eyes. he.

"Are you the doctor Ah Fu invited to consult me?" After Grandpa Zhou asked, he added without Xu Yi's response, "Doctor, please excuse me for this trip. I have been suffering from eye diseases for many years, and my right eye I have lost sight for a long time. The previous doctors said that it was impossible to cure it, but Ah Fu was reluctant to give up and always spent money to see the doctor.

If I asked him, he should not put his thoughts on me. He really wanted to make me happy. If I have a few more years to live, I have to find a granddaughter-in-law for me and give birth to a few brothers and sisters. It would be great if I could be the father-in-law."

Xu Yi walked to him calmly and listened to Grandpa Zhou talking. , while carefully observing his eyes.

The cornea of ​​his right eye had almost no luster, as if it was coated with a thick layer of oil that had solidified into a milky white color. The entire eye cell is slightly swollen, and when the eyeball is turned, turbid gray-white spots at the corner of the canthus can be exposed.

Seeing the symptoms, Xu Yi felt strange in his heart and frowned slightly.

Seeing Grandpa Zhou still talking about Zhou Fu's marriage.

Xu Yi spoke appropriately and said calmly: "Zhang Zhang, please relax. I think brother A Fu is a man of his own opinion and will not live up to his life's important events."

It was rare for someone to listen to his nagging words, and Grandpa Zhou's desire to talk became even more intense. Wang Sheng, sighing repeatedly: "It would be great if he really has this intention. I only have one life, so I can't care so much. But he is already twenty-four years old and has not been able to get married so far. How can I not be impatient?"

Most People usually get engaged at the age of twelve or thirteen, and can get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. If it's later, the marriage will be settled at the age of fifteen or sixteen. In a year or two, the marriage can be done and they can start living together.

The widower in Huanggou Village whose wife died last year was only twenty-one, three years younger than Zhou Fu.

Can Grandpa Zhou not be impatient? His house has a brick house, but the matchmaker's mother who came to do matchmaking shook her head when she saw Zhou Fu's face.

With such a fierce face, which young lady would dare to marry him?

Xu Yi listened to the gossip without warning and blinked innocently.

Fortunately, at this time, Zhou Fu spoke up and asked Xu Yi to see his grandfather first.

Grandpa Zhou hummed twice, knowing that his grandson didn't listen to a word he said so much today.

He stopped talking about Zhou Fu in front of outsiders, and instead asked how old Xu Yi was and whether he was married.

Xu Yi's eyebrows skipped a beat, but he still told the truth.

Grandpa Zhou was shocked when he heard Xu Yi say that he was only sixteen and not married yet.

What a young doctor. He tried hard to open his left eye to see Xu Yi's face clearly.

Unfortunately, his vision in his left eye was so poor that he could only see the outline of Xu Yi's face, but could not see his facial features clearly. In addition, Xu Yi has a calm demeanor and a clear voice. Just listening to Xu Yi's words, you really can't tell his age.

He raised his hand tremblingly, thinking of touching Xu Yi's face.

But when his hand reached mid-air, he put it down tremblingly. This was a doctor, and he couldn't be as rude as he was to his grandson.

"Make Dr. Xu laugh." Grandpa Zhou looked melancholy.

Xu Yi smiled lightly: "It doesn't matter."

Seeing that Grandpa Zhou's spirit was a little sluggish, he said again: "Zhang Zhang, let me check your eye disease first. Maybe I can cure your left eye."

Grandpa Zhou was startled when he heard this.

Zhou Fu next to him finally had a different expression on his face. He asked in surprise: "Doctor

Xu, can you do something?" Children are not fed well after weaning. Very few old people get this disease."

After that, he asked Grandpa Zhou thoughtfully: "When did you get sick, your eyes were so bright?"

Grandpa Zhou said with a look of thought on his old face: "Yes, it happened. During the day, my eyes hurt when I saw the sun, and they shed tears. They were like stones. I couldn't get anything out of my eyes when I rubbed them."

Xu Yi asked again: "Can you see the surroundings clearly at night?"

Grandpa Zhou said: "I can't see clearly, it's blurry, like a shadow."

Xu Yi held back his thoughts and asked again: "Is it normal to defecate in the toilet?"

Grandpa Zhou was a little embarrassed to say: "Every time I have diarrhea, but it doesn't hurt, I don't care."

After Xu Yi asked a few questions, he went Check Grandpa Zhou’s left eye.

There was pus secretion in the canthus of the left eye, the bulbar conjunctiva was congested, the cornea was dark and dry, and there were gray-white spots the size of sesame seeds on the upper temporal part of the eye.

During these days, Grandpa Zhou's eyes hurt, his appetite decreased, and he was not as energetic as before.

But when his grandson came home these two days, Grandpa Zhou was happy and in better spirits.

Especially this time, when the matchmaker mother said that a young lady was willing to marry his grandson, he was overjoyed.

It's a pity that the grandson said that the matchmaker's mother was a bachelor and was here to deceive others.

Grandpa Zhou asked with a heavy heart: "Doctor Xu, can my disease really be cured?"

"The left eye can be cured." Xu Yi said firmly.

He took back his hand to check his eyes and said to Grandpa Zhou and Zhou Fu: "My father-in-law's eye disease is caused by a weak spleen and stomach and damage to vitality. I will first prescribe a dose of Shenling Atractylodes Powder flavored decoction. Take it for five days to see how effective it is. "

Zhou Fu breathed heavily and asked hoarsely: "Where is the right eye?"

Xu Yi looked at him and said, "The lesion in the right eye is too serious."

Zhou Fu tightened his arms hanging on his sides. In this way, this is an incredible happy event for the Zhou family's grandparents.

In the overjoyed eyes of their grandfather and grandson, Xu Yi took out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone and began to grind the ink.

The flavored Shenling Atractylodes powder he prescribed comes from "Dampness Treatise", and the prescription is composed of eleven medicinal herbs such as Poria cocos, Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Gallus gallus gallus domestica and Shenqu. [Note 3]

This prescription has the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach, and relieving the Chinese earth. Grandpa Zhou has been suffering from malnutrition for a long time. This medicine alone is not enough. It also needs to be combined with acupuncture to help.

When Xu Yi goes out, he only needs to bring his medicine box and acupuncture and acupuncture.

After he finished writing the prescription, he asked Zhou Fu to read it, and then before taking the medicinal soup, he acupuncture acupoints for Grandpa Zhou.

Zhou Fu nodded and helped Grandpa Zhou to the back room. Xu Yi asked him to light the oil lamp again.

When the oil lamp was on, Xu Yi opened the medicine box and took out stone needles to roast them. He wanted to acupuncture the four seams.

Si'an acupoint is located on the palm surface of the finger and consists of four acupuncture points. It is an extraordinary acupoint outside the meridian, which can guide stagnation and eliminate accumulation. [Note 4]

Xu Yi applied the acupuncture carefully, always paying attention to the changes in Grandpa Zhou’s eyes.

When a thick, sticky yellow water flowed out from the corner of Grandpa Zhou's left eye, Xu Yi put away the needle.

After wiping away the yellow water, Xu Yi asked Grandpa Zhou to open his eyes. Grandpa Zhou opened his eyes with trembling eyelids. For some reason, the vision in his left eye seemed clearer.

He blinked and looked around again, and it seemed that he could really see more clearly!

Maybe this little doctor can really cure his eye disease.