Chapter 87: Three-pronged Approach to Spot Removal
Seeing that the customer had mistaken the clinic for a Chinese medicine store, pharmacist He Mei initially wanted to say they didn't sell medicine. But then, looking at the woman in front of her, she said, "Want to buy red dates? You'll have to ask our boss."
The melasma on Qian Li's face caught Shen Jiang's attention. Generally, melasma is distributed in a butterfly shape on both sides of the cheekbones, but this lady's spots have been connected into a black patch, which cannot be covered by foundation at all. The overly white foundation makes the spots particularly obvious. Shen Jiang couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Qian Li turned her head away uncomfortably, saying in frustration, "Why is it so troublesome to buy red dates? I'd rather not sell them!"
Shen Jiang hadn't expected the patient to be so sensitive. Her gaze lingered on her face for no more than two seconds, yet she reacted so violently. Shen Jiang simply said, "I can try to remove the melasma on your face."
Qian Li said very coldly: "No need!"
She spent tens of thousands of dollars at beauty salons, but the spots didn't go away. Instead, they got worse. She felt worse than before. Later, she saw a dermatologist, who said they would only make them darker. Reluctantly, Qian Li gave up.
If anyone wants her to spend money to remove freckles again, it’s impossible.
Seeing her reaction, Lin Yunqing stepped in to diffuse the awkwardness. "Doctor Shen, I've heard that freckles are difficult to treat. Only laser treatment can completely remove them, but that's also prone to recurrence. Can Traditional Chinese Medicine help reduce them?"
Shen Jiang shook her head. "No, laser treatments can only remove superficial spots. Traditional Chinese Medicine can treat the patient's internal organs and eliminate the root cause of the spots."
Qian Li was very upset: "Stop bragging. I went to a professional and authoritative hospital, and the dermatologists there said that my spots are melasma and there is no cure."
Shen Jiang frowned. She knew that Western medicine used laser treatments for melasma, along with oral tranexamic acid tablets. She knew this was effective for some people. However, since Qian Li had seen Western medicine, this approach probably wouldn't work for her.
Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine have fundamentally different systems, and their treatment approaches are even more divergent. While Western medicine has no solutions, traditional Chinese medicine does.
Shen Jiang: "Melasma is also known as liver spots, which are closely related to liver qi disharmony. The main manifestations of liver qi disharmony are spleen and stomach dysfunction, hair loss, irritability, chest tightness, insomnia, constipation, and even diarrhea."
Qian Li's originally disgusted face showed a bit of surprise. She could actually identify with these symptoms.
He Ruiguo had been in society for many years and knew immediately that this young doctor was capable. Aren't these symptoms also shared by his wife? He knew his wife's temper and knew that she would definitely be too embarrassed to ask this doctor to treat her.
"Doctor, if you can cure the spots on my wife's face, I will send you a big banner right away!"
Qian Li rolled her eyes at him. Who said she was going to see this doctor?
Having said that, she had already followed Shen Jiang into the clinic.
As they walked, Lin Yunqing introduced Shen Jiang's abilities to them: "I'm not exaggerating, I was also a patient of Dr. Shen before. Don't look at her young age, she was able to cure my difficult and complicated illness that big hospitals couldn't cure."
She took out a photo of herself when she looked the most haggard and showed it to Qian Li openly.
Lin Yunqing had a small mole on his nose. If it weren't for the highly similar outline of the mole, Qian Li wouldn't have been able to match the dull, haggard face in the photo with the vibrant young woman in front of her. Qian Li was quite surprised. She had originally thought the two of them were in cahoots, and the boss was pretending to be helping his own people out.
I didn't expect this to be true.
Shen Jiang carefully took Qian Li's pulse and found that Qian Li's pulse was quite complicated. Not only did she have liver qi disorder, but also insufficient qi and blood, not to mention blood stasis.
As the saying goes, 'if the liver qi is not smooth, the qi will stagnate and not flow freely', Qian Li's body is in a state of 'qi stagnation and blood stasis'.
"With your health condition, you can indeed eat some red dates." Shen Jiang suddenly said this.
Qian Li remembered that when she first entered the store, she came for the red dates.
"Doctor, can my spots really be removed?" Qian Li felt a surge of anticipation in her heart at this moment, and her eyes lit up as she looked at Shen Jiang as she said this.
Shen Jiang knew that no one cared more about the spots on Qian Li's face than she did. Although she covered them with makeup, the spots didn't hide them; instead, they became more noticeable on either side of her cheekbones. At this point, it's crucial to provide patients with positive psychological support.
"Of course," Shen Jiang took a piece of Amomum villosum from the pharmacy, "It's a good thing, you can chew a few if you like."
Qian Li looked at the medicine as if it were a panacea and put it in her mouth without hesitation. However, it tasted very strange, like the smell of wind oil, and she almost vomited out of disgust.
Shen Jiang: "Don't vomit, this will open up your spleen and stomach. Once your spleen and stomach qi flow smoothly, your melasma will be cured."
Qian Li's face was distorted, she didn't know whether to eat or vomit, but she listened to Shen Jiang and held back from vomiting.
Seeing the patient's cooperation, Shen Jiang nodded in satisfaction. Amomum villosum promotes the flow of qi in the spleen and stomach, drawing it downward and relieving stagnation. As long as the patient listens and cooperates, she truly has a way to remove the spots.
Shen Jiang quickly wrote down three prescriptions, and this action stunned everyone, including Lin Yunqing.
He Ruiguo asked in disbelief, "Doctor, are these medicines for my wife? Aren't they a bit too much? I heard that Chinese medicine can easily cause liver damage."
He had heard some Chinese medicine practitioners prescribe a plethora of medicines, but it was like shooting a gun: after firing so many bullets, one would always hit the target. This doctor was quite arrogant, but he hadn't expected the tactics he used to be so ruthless.
It was a funny story, but it wouldn't make him laugh if it happened to him. As the saying goes, every ounce of poison is a toxicant. He hoped his wife wouldn't damage her liver after taking so many pills.
He Ruiguo winked at his wife, suggesting that they just leave.
Unexpectedly, Shen Jiang answered his question seriously: "The medicine I prescribed for her seems a lot, but it is actually taken separately, not all at once. After it is made into pills, the daily dose is not much."
Qian Li: "What's the significance of eating them separately? We don't understand Chinese medicine, can you explain it to us?"
"Take 'Guipi Pills' one hour after breakfast in the morning to nourish the spleen. Also, chew a few grains of Amomum villosum when you have nothing to do; it can invigorate the spleen and stomach.
At noon, I take Jiawei Xiaoyao Pills to relieve the liver.
Take "Zuogui Pills" at night to nourish the kidneys.
At the same time, take 1g of 'Sanqi powder' with warm water every morning and evening to promote blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis. I suggest applying a little more 'Sanqi powder' gently to the affected areas before bed to achieve a combined internal and external healing effect."
Seeing that she was talking so convincingly, Qian Li was the one who was most eager to try out the effects of the medicine. But Shen Jiang said, "These pills are not like herbal medicine. It takes a long time to make them now. Please leave your phone number and I will notify you to come pick them up when they are ready."
Qian Li had just written down what she said on her phone's memo. When she heard that they had to wait, she couldn't help but get anxious: "Do pharmacies outside have these medicines? Can I just go there and buy them?"
Shen Jiang frowned: "No! If you take medicine from outside and something goes wrong, who will be held responsible?!"
"How can you talk like that!" Seeing the doctor's face suddenly change, Qian Li also became unhappy.
"I'm not refusing to pay! You won't lose a penny of the medical fee." Qian Li said unhappily. She didn't expect the doctor to suddenly speak so harshly. Her face couldn't help but look a little ugly. The black spots covered by white powder and the dark clouds made her look even more terrifying.
Lin Yunqing knew why Grandma Shen Jiang was hospitalized, and of course he also knew that what Dr. Shen hated most was patients coming here for treatment and then secretly going out to get their medicine.
"Doctor Shen is doing this for your own good. A patient once saw a doctor here and went to get his medicine filled outside. He ended up buying fake medicine and ended up having problems and was admitted to the hospital..."
Before she finished speaking, Qian Li interrupted her: "You should talk properly. Why are you so impatient? We are all adults. Don't you know how to talk properly?"
Shen Jiang stopped Lin Yunqing from explaining further, took a deep breath and said, "I'm sorry, I lost control of my temper for a moment. I'm sorry."
Seeing that her attitude was pretty good, Qian Li finally stopped pestering her, but her face was still very sour.
He Ruiguo came out to smooth things over: "Since we're seeing the doctor here, let's get the medicine prepared here. Where can I pay the bill? I'll go pay."
Shen Jiang stood up and said, "Come here with me."
Seeing Dr. Shen leave, Lin Yunqing told Qian Li the rest of his words: "Don't blame Dr. Shen for his strong reaction. Dr. Shen's grandmother was hit on the head by the family of the patient who took the fake medicine, and the old lady almost died. At that time, they insisted that her grandmother had made the patient suffer from bad treatment, and they were cyberbullied for a long time. If you don't believe it, you can check it online. It was a sensation at the time, but later even the big doctors in the capital stood up to speak for Mingxintang. So you can rest assured about Dr. Shen's medical skills. If she says she can cure it, she will definitely cure it."
Qian Li didn't expect that there was such a reason behind this. She suddenly regretted speaking to the young girl like that.
"So...how's her grandmother?"
Lin Yunqing said, "Maybe it was the good fortune he had accumulated from saving so many people in the past. He had been in a vegetative state, but I heard that Doctor Shen cured him with Chinese medicine."
Qian Li was stunned. For a moment, she couldn't tell whether the restaurant owner was the doctor's agent or a fangirl. Judging from the looks of it, the owner seemed to really admire this young doctor.
She couldn't help but feel a hope in her heart, hoping that she could really remove the dark spots on her face this time.
After returning home, Qian Li followed Dr. Shen's instructions, taking her medicine three times a day and applying powder without fail. While the dosage Shen Jiang prescribed wasn't large, it was enough to take it frequently, and each medication had to be taken at a different time. For convenience, she set five alarms a day to remind herself it was time to take her medicine.
Not only that, in order to be able to intuitively feel the effects of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, Qian Li directly posted her daily photos on a social platform called Xiao Zishu.
[Recording the process of TCM treatment for freckles - Day 1]
The accompanying picture is a frontal photo of her.
As soon as she posted it, many people clicked on her post and started leaving comments.
"Oh my god, this blogger's spot looks so scary. It's giving me a trypophobia..."
"With all due respect, if you want to remove freckles, you still need laser treatment. Could it be that the blogger was deceived by some unscrupulous Chinese medicine practitioner?"
"Traditional Chinese medicine for freckle removal? Is that an advertisement?"
"Isn't that one of those Traditional Chinese Medicine whitening masks? Blogger, stop it! Those whitening masks contain mercury, which is toxic!"
"Looking at this face makes me want to throw up my last meal... vomiting expression."
"Are you polite upstairs?"
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Qian Li did not expect that her previous post about laser freckle removal did not go viral, but she added a tag of Chinese medicine and it actually became popular. The account that had never been popular before suddenly became popular after she posted this post. A large number of users clicked in and left comments, and finally the platform pushed it to more users.
She couldn't help but laugh at herself, thinking that maybe the spots on her face were just too horrible. Honestly, she even found her face disgusting. Old He hadn't touched her in a long time. Maybe he didn't say it outwardly, but deep down he cared more about her spots than she did.
Just like that, on the second day and the day after, Qian Li diligently punched in. The latest pictures and texts she posted on Xiaozishu seemed to have grasped the password to traffic. The first one had already received 10,000 likes, and there were even private messages from people wanting to cooperate with whitening and freckle-removing products.
Qian Li hadn't opened the comments section since the first day. She simply posted a photo of her face, taken at the same time every day, with the date. She simply ignored the rest.
But she didn't know if it was just a psychological effect, but she always felt that the spots on her face seemed to have really faded a lot. This might be an illusion, after all, Qian Li looked carefully and found that there were still so many spots on her face, so many that they could be called plaques.
But one thing she was certain of: her insomnia had stopped. And from the next day on, she went to the bathroom every morning to defecate regularly, feeling refreshed afterward. While the spots hadn't disappeared, she felt much happier because of the changes in her body.
What Qian Li didn't know was that the tone of the comments section, which she didn't read, had already changed.
Starting from the third day, people began to ask for her Chinese medicine prescriptions in the comment section and private messages. Although the spots were still there in Qian Li's daily photos, her overall spirit had undergone a very different transformation, and this radiance could not be concealed.
By the seventh day, the spots on Qian Li's face had faded visibly, and her complexion had changed from dull to rosy and shiny.
He Ruiguo touched his wife's face in disbelief: "She looks ten years younger."
Comments:
"Blogger, please don't make me kneel down and beg you. Tell me what kind of Chinese herbal whitening mask you used?!"
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