Chapter 702 Free Clinic (V)
Manbao held the rice in one hand and pressed her belly through the cloth with the other hand. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll help you with the piercing after I finish my meal."
The old woman didn't expect her to agree so easily and was stunned for a moment.
Manbao gave Zhou Lijun some dishes and started eating quickly. Zhou Lijun felt a little distressed when he saw her eating so fast.
We only eat like this at home during the busy farming season, and this is the adults' business. When has my aunt ever suffered this?
But Zhou Lijun said nothing.
She knew that her aunt was already very capable now, and she was learning skills. Only when she became more capable would her life be better in the future.
Manbao didn't think too much about it. The main reason was that she just found that there seemed to be more and more patients queuing behind her. If she didn't speed up, she might not be able to see all the patients within three days.
When Manbao was eight-tenths full, he drank some water, then asked the old woman to go in and wait while she went to wash her hands and take out the needle.
Seeing how easy she was to talk to, the old woman asked, "Young doctor, can I come again tomorrow?"
She said embarrassedly, "My stomach still hurts when I press it hard. I'm thinking maybe I ate too much tree bark before. If you can give me acupuncture for a few more days, maybe it will feel better."
Manbao nodded and said, "Yes, it would be better, but if you want to come, you should either come early in the morning when I just arrive, or at noon when I am having lunch and taking a break. I will be free then."
The old woman smiled and said kind words as if they were free, "Young doctor, you really have a kind heart."
Manbao asked casually, "Do you believe in Bodhisattva?"
"Yes, they say that the Bodhisattva has a kind heart, so don't look down on us because we are poor. We are also very pious and good people."
Manbao nodded and wanted to say that he believed in Master Tianzun, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not right, so he said: "I believe in Bian Que and Hua Tuo."
"I know Hua Tuo, he's a miracle doctor, but who is this Bian Que?"
"Bian Que is also a miracle doctor..." Man Bao chatted with her while giving her acupuncture, "He is a miracle doctor who existed even earlier than Hua Tuo. He is really amazing."
Zhou Lijun stood aside, picked up the boiled needles, wiped them dry and put them away, listening to the young girl chattering to someone.
The old woman felt a little embarrassed when she saw Manbao rolling up her trouser legs and inserting needles into her legs as well. "I'm really sorry to bother you, little doctor. Do you want to insert needles into my legs too?"
"Well, to regulate the Qi, since you have time, then do more acupuncture," Man Bao said, "this will be more effective."
Zhou Lijun glanced at the clepsydra and said, "Auntie, the time has come."
Manbao also took a look at the clepsydra, nodded slightly, and then gave the remaining two needles to the old woman. Then he lifted the curtain and went to the bed next to him to remove the needles from Gao's body.
The old woman then realized that there was someone next door. When Manbao helped the person out, she was slightly surprised and said, "It's the Chen family's daughter-in-law. You're here too?"
Gao saw the old woman and smiled slightly, saying, "It's Auntie. I came to see her too."
"It's good that you came. It's good that you came. I told you to come earlier, but your man was worried about this and that. What's there to worry about? If you're sick, you have to see a doctor. For people, staying alive is the most important thing."
Gao nodded perfunctorily and took the prescription Manbao had given her. She couldn't understand the words on it, so she could only pull at the paper and ask, "Doctor Zhou, is this only enough medicine for three days?"
Manbao nodded.
Gao sobbed, "What about three days later?"
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "I'll see if the herbs are still available in three days. If they are, I'll prescribe another for you. If not, you'll have to buy them."
She said, "Your illness isn't too advanced yet, so it can be cured. If you don't take this opportunity to cure it, it will only get worse in the future. At the mildest, you won't even be able to get out of bed in five or six years. At the worst, lochia won't just cause postpartum hemorrhage. If you have hemorrhage, you've already given birth, so you don't need me to teach you, right?"
Gao was startled and nodded repeatedly.
Manbao pointed her in the direction and said, "The place to get the herbs is over there, go ahead."
Gao took the prescription and left.
Zhou Lijun took down the rest sign and let the next patient in, then collected the needles that Gao had just used and put them in the pot to boil again.
"Aunt, I think you need a new set of needles after these five days."
This set of needles is not cheap, but Manbao thought of Koko. She searched for it in the mall, but maybe because people in the future world don't use acupuncture treatment, that kind of thing is not sold in the mall.
But just because it’s not available in the mall doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in that world. Teacher Mo said that while he was teaching her, he would also practice acupuncture.
So Manbao decided to go back and talk to Teacher Mo in the evening. If the materials there were better and not outrageously expensive, she would give Teacher Mo points to buy a few sets as backup.
Manbao started to receive the next patient.
At the end of the day, there were more than twenty patients who came to see the doctor, all of whom were carrying sacks or tattered cloth on their shoulders. They were all young wives and girls between the ages of fourteen and twenty-two.
Manbao was wondering while treating them. Their illnesses were not something to be hidden, so why did they have to hide them?
The old woman, who had already been given an acupuncture injection and had gone to the toilet, came back and, while she was lighting a fire to boil the needles or simmering the medicine for her, she talked to her, "Those illnesses are not difficult to explain, but they are caused by the wrong place. What's so difficult to understand?"
She said, "These doctors are all men. You saw a fifteen-year-old girl who was bitten on the butt by a poisonous insect. Would you be so embarrassed to take off your pants and let the doctor see her?"
The woman who was seeing the patient quickly agreed, saying, "That's right, that's right. It's already good enough that their family can go to the pharmacy and ask for some ointment. If it were someone more ruthless, they would just chew some herbs and apply it on themselves. Whether they live or die would depend entirely on fate."
Manbao thought about it carefully and she seemed to have never been bitten by a bug on her buttocks. However, she felt that even if she was bitten, her mother would pull down her pants and show it to the old doctor.
Between face and life, of course life is more important.
Moreover, Manbao felt that he had to speak up for the doctors, "In the eyes of us doctors, patients are all the same, regardless of gender."
"How can they be the same? The items on them are all different..."
Seeing the woman's blunt words, the old woman couldn't help but cough heavily. The woman said a little embarrassedly: "I forgot that the young doctor and this Miss Zhou are still young girls and have not yet married."
Zhou Lijun: ...
Manbao said it was okay.
Then he took a clean needle and gave her a few injections in her left and right hands. He asked her to sit aside and wait, and called the next person in.
While waiting for someone to come in, she picked up a pen, dipped it in ink, quickly wrote down her prescription, and then put it aside.
The old woman looked at him with envy. She looked at Manbao's tender face and asked, "Little doctor, your medical skills are really good. Is it a family tradition?"
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