Mu Huaixi planned to send the dried mushrooms she had picked and dried in the mountains a while ago to Grandpa Ying and Third Uncle. She heard that furs, bacon, walnuts, etc. were being sold at the last market, but Ying Mingcheng would have to find a way to buy them.
The next day, there were many patients in the health center. Most of them suffered from common winter headaches and fevers, but some came specifically to see Mu Huaixi.
Mu Huaixi saw four patients in the morning and wrote out four prescriptions. Her medicine cabinet was not ready yet, and Xiaohua Fengjuan was not familiar with the medicinal materials, so she had to go to the warehouse in person to get and prepare the medicines.
After she prepared the medicine for the last person and told them the precautions for boiling and taking the medicine, she saw two young nurses gathered around her table, holding the prescription and discussing something.
"Doctor Mu," Li Fengjuan heard her footsteps and was obviously a little nervous. "I, we just..."
Wang Xiaohua was much more direct. She raised the medical record in her hand and asked, "Doctor Mu, how come you only wrote one prescription when four people came?"
Li Fengjuan looked at her with bright eyes, obviously she was also curious about this. These four prescriptions were basically the same, except that some had one more medicine. Obviously, the four people had different complaints, so how come the prescriptions were almost the same?
"Oh? Then tell me, what are the symptoms of these four people?" Mu Huaixi took a sip of water. She could see that these two people, especially Fengjuan, were very interested in traditional Chinese medicine.
Wang Xiaohua counted on her fingers, "I remember the first one said he had a cough, the second one also said that her cough was uncomfortable, the third guy said he had a headache, the fourth one..."
"The fourth one said she felt dizzy and felt like she was about to die, so she came to ask Dr. Mu for an acupuncture treatment," Li Fengjuan added.
Wang Xiaohua nodded immediately, "Yes, the first two people said the same thing, so why are the prescriptions different?"
Mu Huaixi put down the teacup and said, "You are talking about superficial symptoms. According to traditional Chinese medicine, these four people have the same disease."
"A disease?!"
Mu Huaixi looked at the two pairs of equally surprised eyes in front of her, and suddenly found the joy of studying medicine as a child. She took the medical record from Wang Xiaohua's hand and said, "Traditional Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine. The medical theory I learned classifies the pathological evolution of meridians and internal organs according to the six meridians. The cough, headache, and dizziness you just mentioned are all superficial symptoms. After observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation, they can all be classified as solar disease."
"Sun disease? Is there also moon disease?" Wang Xiaohua blurted out, and felt a little embarrassed after asking. She seemed to have asked a stupid question.
Mu Huaixi showed no impatience. She spread a piece of paper on the table and casually drew a diagram of several major meridians in the human body. "The outer sides of the limbs, the head and face, and the waist and back are yang meridians, and the rest are yin meridians. Taking the upper limbs as an example, the Yangming meridian is in the front, the Shaoyang is in the middle, and the Taiyang is in the back."
Seeing the two of them were confused, Mu Huaixi smiled and added, "Actually, you all know something about the Taiyang Meridian. The first and second eye exercises involve squeezing the Jingming acupoint. The Jingming acupoint belongs to the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian."
"Ah!" Wang Xiaohua and Li Fengjuan were both excited. The term "Taiyang Meridian" sounded unfamiliar to them at first, but who hasn't done eye exercises when they were in school?
It turns out that they have also been exposed to traditional Chinese medicine and meridians!
"Yes," Mu Huaixi smiled sweetly and continued, "Look again, the Taiyang meridian is located outside the body. Generally speaking, when external evil invades, the body's righteousness will definitely rise up to fight back. The two sides fight to the death, which will definitely affect the Taiyang meridian qi. For example, Xiaohua was exposed to a cold wind when she got off work, and she felt better after a good sleep. That means she won the fight, but if she lost, she would feel even more uncomfortable. This is an imbalance between the Ying and Wei, which is Taiyang disease."
Wang Xiaohua suddenly understood and gave Mu Huaixi a thumbs up, "As expected of you, Doctor Mu. I understand it right away."
In fact, solar disease may also be caused by internal factors. However, since this was the first time for the two of them to come into contact with Chinese medicine, Mu Huaixi didn't want to explain it too complicatedly to avoid losing their interest.
She placed the medical records in front of the two of them and flipped through them one by one. "These four patients may seem to have different symptoms, but they all have external wind-cold deficiency syndrome. They all have fever and sweating, and their pulses are either floating and slow or floating and weak. They can all be treated with Zhang Zhongjing's timeless and best prescription, Guizhi Decoction."
Guizhi Decoction is composed of cinnamon twig, peony root, roasted licorice, ginger and jujube. It can relieve muscles, release exterior and harmonize the Ying and Wei. Guizhi Decoction and Guizhi Additions and Subtractions are extremely widely used and are known as the best prescription for typhoid fever.
"Then why did the first two people both have coughs but have different prescriptions?" Li Fengjuan asked thoughtfully.
"The first two patients also had the symptoms I mentioned, and they also had coughs. They were treated with Guizhi Decoction plus Schisandra chinensis, but the first patient had yellow phlegm, so we added apricot kernel. The second patient had white phlegm, which is caused by dampness, so we added Pinellia ternata."
"The third young man said he had a headache, but in fact it was numbness in the back of his neck. If you look closely, his mouth was a little crooked. He was exposed to too much wind and didn't realize it. It can only be cured by Guizhi Decoction with a large dose of Pueraria lobata. As for the fourth mother-in-law, she just caught a cold. As for her dizziness, it was because she didn't eat breakfast." Mu Huaixi was talking to them and also reviewing himself.
After all, Mu Huaixi's foundation is too shallow. At her age, she should stay with her grandparents and father to see more diseases and accumulate experience. Even if there are predecessors in medical books who "teach" her experience, she still needs to integrate it through repeated diagnosis and make the experience her own.
"Traditional Chinese medicine is really..." Wang Xiaohua suddenly sighed, but couldn't find the right words for a long time. In the end, she could only spit out one sentence, "It's really five thousand years!"
Li Fengjuan was originally thinking about what Doctor Mu said. Upon hearing this, she glared at Xiaohua angrily, "That's called profound and extensive!"
"It's okay, you're not wrong," Mu Huaixi smiled. "You can ask me if you have anything else in the future. I'm counting on you to familiarize yourself with pharmacology as soon as possible so you can help me get the medicine!"
Wang Xiaohua immediately ran away when she heard that she had to do more work. Li Fengjuan was so excited that she said, "Doctor Mu, I will ask for your advice more often in the future!"
At first, Li Fengjuan just wanted to learn more, but the plaster that Mu Huaixi asked her to bring back was so magical that her mother felt warm in her knees as soon as she put it on. She no longer felt pain in her legs when she slept at night, and she could walk more smoothly the next morning than before.
Only then did she realize how superb Dr. Mu's medical skills were, and she immediately decided to learn more from Mu Huaixi. This was an opportunity that could not be missed!
"Doctor Mu, my mother feels that the plaster is very comfortable. She asked me to ask if it can be applied day and night. Will it heal faster?" Li Fengjuan actually knew that she should follow the doctor's advice, but her mother didn't listen to what she said, so it would be better to "request" an imperial decree from Doctor Mu.
Mu Huaixi raised his eyes to look at her and shook his head in a serious manner, "I've told Auntie, but it's too late. Just warm the plaster and apply it before going to bed. Let your legs and feet rest during the day, and it will heal faster."
Only four plasters have been sold so far, but Mu Huaixi is not worried at all. She has full confidence in the Mu family's ancestral plaster formula. As long as someone uses it, they will definitely become her "tap water" and help promote the plaster.
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