Chapter 3004: See a doctor
Zhou Man looked at her expression and asked curiously, "Do you raise a lot of pigs at home?"
The little girl whispered, "I have three."
That's quite a lot, at least as far as Zhou Man knows. Nowadays, very few people raise pigs. Even if they do, they only raise one or two at most, and very few people raise more than two.
Compared to raising pigs, more people prefer raising sheep and chickens.
Because many people eat lamb and chicken, and many people eat pork...it seems so too?
Zhou Man found that she had never noticed this before, but now she finally noticed it. She touched her chin and thought about it. Their family ate a lot of pork, but they also ate even more chicken and mutton.
Since she arrived in the capital, she seemed to rarely see pork when visiting other people's homes.
However, their restaurant has a lot of pork.
She curiously asked the little girl, "Does your family raise so many pigs because people in Qingzhou like to eat pork?"
"No, everyone prefers lamb. Pork is not tasty."
"It's delicious, isn't it?" Zhou Man said, "The steamed pork with rice flour and the steamed spareribs with rice flour are both delicious, and the braised pork trotters are also delicious."
The little girl's eyes were confused. Zhou Man paused and asked, "Have you never eaten these things?"
The little girl said with self-abasement: "No, I...I haven't even heard of it."
"It's okay, this is easy to make. Since you have pigs at home, I can give you the recipe. Hmm, how do you make steamed pork with rice flour? You need glutinous rice flour..."
The two of them started talking about food, but Zhou Man did not forget about his own business. He asked the little girl about her life from childhood to adulthood, and then pulled her out.
She said to the woman waiting anxiously outside, "She didn't have her period because of insufficient Qi and blood. She's only fourteen, so don't worry too much."
The woman said anxiously, "She could have gotten married and had children at the age of fourteen, but her family can't find a husband for her because she hasn't had her period yet."
Zhou Man said, "What's the big deal? The best time for a girl to get married is after she turns 18. Even if she has her period now, would you dare to let her get married?"
She gestured for the woman to look at her daughter. "Given her physical condition, do you want her to get pregnant and give birth at this time? It could be fatal."
The woman turned her head and glanced at her daughter. Although the little girl was already fourteen years old, she looked much smaller than her peers due to her poor health. She was so thin, and then she imagined her with a big belly...
The woman shuddered and responded “yes” repeatedly.
Zhou Man tore off a piece of paper and wrote her a prescription, saying, "I'm prescribing a prescription to regulate her spleen and stomach and replenish her qi and blood. However, this prescription requires diet. After taking it, she will absorb it better, so she will get hungry easily. Your family needs to make some changes. At least she should eat three meals a day."
"Primarily porridge, rice, and noodles," Zhou Man said. "Her spleen and stomach are weak, so it's hard for her to digest whole grains. But she can eat millet porridge and white rice porridge. She can eat them for breakfast and dinner. She can eat rice or noodles for lunch..."
"If you can afford it, give her more red meat. If not, try eggs. One or two eggs a day will be enough. Also, she has a severe cold body and uterine cold, so try to keep her away from cold water. She can do other work, like picking grass for pigs. Moving around will help invigorate the blood, dispel cold and eliminate blood stasis..."
Zhou Man gave her all the instructions and then handed her the written prescription. "The prices of medicine in our clinic are the same as those in other pharmacies. If you don't want to buy it here, you can go to other pharmacies. Keep the prescription. This medicine can be taken continuously for half a month. Bring her back to see me in half a month. If she recovers well, I will supplement her with acupuncture. By the way, where are you from?"
The woman was stunned when she heard this, and then she remembered the rules of seeing a doctor in the medical office, and hurriedly took out her household registration.
Zhou Man took a look and quickly wrote down the information on the pulse chart beside him. He glanced at the population of her family and felt that there were quite a few people, but the village was a bit far away. "Although it will take time, I still need to bring her in for a follow-up checkup in half a month. Acupuncture is also very effective in regulating qi and blood."
The woman asked quietly, "Is the needle... expensive?"
Zhou Man said generously: "If it's just a needle, no medicine, I'll give it to you for free, it's the medicine..."
She thought for a moment and said, "It's not expensive, just a few cents."
The woman breathed a sigh of relief and quickly agreed. She folded the prescription and put it in her arms, but she still held her daughter down and didn't let her get up. Instead, she smiled ingratiatingly and said, "Sir, why don't you give her two injections now?"
Zhou Man said: "It will be twice as effective to give her acupuncture now. Wait until she takes the medicine and then give her acupuncture, and it will be twice as effective with half the effort."
That is also merit, isn’t it?
The woman didn't want to leave.
Seeing this, Zhou Man took in her expression and nodded, "Okay, since you want to see it anyway, I'll give you a few injections."
Zhou Man asked the little girl to go into the inner room, take off her clothes and lie on the bed.
The woman pulled her daughter-in-law in, and Mingda also followed in curiously to see.
The little girl felt very uneasy when she saw so many people surrounding her, so she hesitated and refused to take off her clothes.
Zhou Man saw this and drove everyone out. He pulled the curtain up for her and then looked at the woman. "Let your daughter take a break. Come on, I'll show you first."
The woman didn't think she had any illness. She mainly brought her daughter-in-law and daughter with her. However, after Zhou Man examined her, he found that her waist was not in good condition and her qi and blood were deficient. She had more problems than her daughter.
Then she also lay down on the bed and was given acupuncture together with her daughter through a curtain.
Zhou Man gave injections to both the mother and daughter, and her ears finally quieted down. She turned around and went out to see the next patient.
This time, the older one was still with the younger one, but the younger one was even younger, only about three years old. He was a little boy, "... he kept coughing and had taken medicine, but it never got better."
While Zhou Man was examining the child, he couldn't help but cough violently again. Zhou Man frowned, then said after examining him, "We have a patch in the clinic. I'll write you a prescription. You can go to Master Wen to get it applied. His condition has been delayed for a long time, so it's best for him to stay in the clinic for treatment."
Zhou Man gave her a prescription.
The young lady took the prescription without much hesitation and carried the child downstairs.
Mingda also often coughed. As the saying goes, long-term illness makes a doctor, and she was seeing the most outstanding imperial physician, so she also saw something. "Is this a cold disease being treated as a hot disease?"
Zhou Man nodded helplessly. "Many people think that this is the hottest time of the year and that people won't get cold, only hot. However, they don't know that even during the hottest time of the year, there can be chills in the early morning hours. You heard it too. The couple felt hot, so they slept with the windows open. This makes the child more likely to catch a cold."
"The previous doctor prescribed the wrong medicine for the wrong condition," Zhou Man sighed, passing over the matter. "Fortunately, it's not too late to correct it now, but the child will have to suffer a little more."
There are quite a few people coming to see the doctor today, basically they are women who come with their daughters-in-law, children, or even granddaughters-in-law.
Some people took the medicine they were prescribed and Zhou Man always reminded them of the date to take the medicine. If they felt better, they didn't need to come back, but if they didn't, they had to come back, and the consultation was still free. However, for some people, Zhou Man had to remind them again and again to come back on time.
For example, Zhou Man reminded the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother and daughter: "Be sure to come to see me after taking the medicine. These diseases cannot be cured in one or two times..."
The woman nodded in a daze, and dragged her daughter-in-law away with medicine in both hands. In the end, she bought medicine at the medical office, and bought a lot.
See you at 7pm
(End of this chapter)
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