Chapter 82 Moxibustion Stimulation
“Ah…?? Ah?…”
Shen Yuqi was a little confused. She stared at Su Tang blankly for a moment, then blurted out, "General Internal Medicine? Shouldn't it be Obstetrics and Gynecology?"
How come a general medicine doctor is so experienced in treating breech presentation?
They even suggested that she undergo moxibustion treatment.
Shen Yuqi frowned slightly and said hesitantly: "Hmm..."
She had never heard of moxibustion therapy before. If she remembered correctly, every time she saw comments about moxibustion on the Internet, it was either for treating shoulder and neck pain, joint soreness, lumbar spondylosis, etc., even if it was combined with dysmenorrhea and diarrhea. It did not include the treatment of breech presentation.
"Madam, you don't have to care which department I'm from...as long as the method is useful, isn't it enough? I see that you and your husband have a very good relationship. According to current national laws, you can have three children. You don't want to have only this one child, do you?" Su Tang had observed before that the pregnant woman in front of her looked relatively young, and from the conversation between the husband and the pregnant woman, she could clearly feel the unfamiliarity and nervousness of new parents.
If the pregnant woman in front of you is already pregnant with her second child, she would not have used a coquettish and begging tone when talking to her husband on the phone just now. Instead, she would have told her husband clearly and affirmatively, "This is not my first child, don't be so nervous."
Su Tang's guess was not wrong at all. When Su Tang mentioned the third child, Shen Yuqi rubbed her cheeks and blushed slightly. She said shyly and happily, "I did discuss with my husband that we plan to have three children... This child is the first."
Su Tang looked at Shen Yuqi and explained to her seriously: "According to your current situation, if the first baby is in breech presentation and you choose a caesarean section, then for the second baby, in order to avoid scarring and rupture of the uterus due to overproduction, the hospital will definitely choose to have you perform a caesarean section again..."
"The first and second babies were both delivered by caesarean section, so can the third baby be delivered naturally?" Su Tang said seriously, "So if you and your husband plan to have three children, you may have to undergo three surgeries next."
Shen Yuqi: “!!!”
Shen Yuqi's pupils narrowed slightly, and she instinctively shrank back and leaned back in the chair.
Every time she went to see the obstetrician and gynecologist for a pregnancy check-up, the doctor said that the baby in her belly was very healthy. Therefore, even though it was a breech position, Shen Yuqi did not think too much about it.
After all, many women choose caesarean section these days. Some, like her, do so because of malposition of the fetus, while others are because the mother has some health problems or the baby has some health problems and is not suitable for natural delivery.
During a pregnancy checkup a few days ago, the obstetrician and gynecologist told her that if the fetus could not turn from breech position to normal position in the next few days until the due date, she might need a caesarean section.
She didn't take it seriously at the time, but now after hearing what the doctor said, she thought about it. If she wanted to continue having children...
Isn't that too tragic?
Su Tang: "Instead of having three surgeries, it is better to try the moxibustion fumigation method before giving birth. If it works, I can have a natural birth. The pain may last longer for the first child, but the second and third children will generally be born very quickly. It is definitely better for the body than three caesarean sections."
Shen Yuqi looked at Su Tang and saw that Su Tang's face was very serious and it didn't look like he was joking at all.
He swallowed subconsciously and stuttered a little, but firmly held Su Tang's hands and said, "Don't worry, doctor, I will go to the Sixth Hospital Clinic to see you tomorrow!"
Shen Yuqi: Although I don’t know what the recipe for moxibustion for fumigating the stomach is, but... it’s okay to give it a try!
Since you don't eat it, this kind of moxibustion should be similar to taking a hot bath, right?
Shen Yuqi's mind suddenly became a mess.
Su Tang looked at Shen Yuqi's determined expression and nodded with a smile. She felt that she had worked a little harder today than yesterday.
Look! Even when she was shopping in a mall or buying a backpack, she never forgot to bring some patients to the department! Is there any general medicine doctor more dedicated than her?
Hmm~
Su Tang thought for a moment. Maybe there was still Dr. Pan in the past, but recently Dr. Pan has been obsessed with Chinese medicine and can't extricate himself. He no longer has that much time.
Alas, she has indeed become the best and most active one in general internal medicine!
After she works for a few more months and becomes the most active and outstanding person in the hospital, she can start considering whether to hire one bodyguard or three.
"Oh." Su Tang sighed. It was not that she was unwilling to spend a lot of money to hire a bodyguard early on, but it was really inconvenient to work in the hospital now.
Instead, it is easy to attract frequent sidelong glances from others. Now, there is still more than a year before the plot begins. Su Tang feels that if there is no accident, she will prepare these six months before the plot of the novel begins.
Shen Yuqi didn't notice Su Tang's momentary distraction at all, and thought that the doctor in front of her was lamenting that her fetus was in an abnormal position and that she might have a hard time in the days ahead.
Shen Yuqi was moved, and felt that it was wrong for her to only go to private hospitals in the past. The doctors in these public tertiary hospitals were obviously very nice to patients!
Shen Yuqi agreed with Su Tang on a time to go to the clinic for moxibustion treatment. Shen Yuqi had no interest in shopping in the mall anymore, so she left the store with Su Tang.
I hailed a taxi on the side of the road and took it home.
Su Tang took a look at the license plate number of the taxi that was taking the pregnant woman home, then turned around and walked into the car parked at the bus stop.
Compared with taxis, Su Tang would rather take the bus, even if she had to pay for the emergency medical treatment. She always felt that the bus was crowded and could give her a sense of security.
It’s a pity that there are so many people in Shenzhen. During the morning rush hour every day, the cars are crowded with people either going to work or studying.
Especially since the bus stop in her community is not the starting point. Every morning when she gets on the bus, countless people going to work or school have squeezed the bus into a ball, and there are even two or three people standing in front of the hanging ring.
Fortunately, there was no exaggeration when getting off work, and Su Tang sat down on the chair smoothly.
After returning home, Su Tang knocked on Wei Yan's door again before dinner, and gave Wei Yan acupuncture seriously as she did yesterday afternoon.
During the treatment, Su Tang indeed discovered that the patient had been seriously ill for a period of time and had been on the verge of death for several times, but those famous doctors invited by Wei Yan at a high price were not pushovers.
One by one, they slowly snatched Wei Yan's body from the hands of death, and then dragged him out of the swamp step by step.
In addition, the couple has a private medical team who provide leg muscle care massage every day.
This is why Wei Yan was able to recover so quickly under her acupuncture and medicine.
Otherwise, if she relies solely on her personal abilities, it would probably be quite troublesome.
After all, according to the data Su Tang had previously viewed, Wei Yan suffered multiple fractures all over his body after the car accident, and many parts of his body were comminuted fractures.
Although Chinese medicine also has bone-setting methods that can be used to treat injuries such as comminuted fractures, orthopedics is still better and more scientific.
Su Tang blinked and looked at Wei Yan, who was lying on the bed with his back to her, with silver needles all over his body, like a giant turtle without a shell. A little envy also flashed in her eyes.
Just as many netizens said, although Wei Yan had a car accident, he was really rich.
Although money is not omnipotent, it is a very important part in treating diseases.
Judging from Wei Yan’s car accident case at the time, if he had less money, he would not have been able to find such a good doctor.
Su Tang estimated that the possibility of him being able to make the opponent stand up was reduced by 50%.
Su Tang was looking at Wei Yan with a storm in her mind.
However, Secretary Zhao next to him stared at Su Tang without blinking, expecting that Su Tang would ask their boss if he wanted some herbal food before leaving, just like he did yesterday.
Unfortunately, imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.
Not only did Su Tang not ask about this matter, she even pulled out the needle with a smile, patted her butt and left the Wei family.
Wei Yan was helped by Secretary Zhao and the old butler to sit on a wheelchair. His face did not show any emotion, and even his look towards others was as nonchalant as usual.
Secretary Zhao glanced at Wei Yan secretly, then quietly retracted his gaze and pretended that he hadn't noticed anything.
Although the boss didn't say a word, Secretary Zhao could clearly see that the boss didn't seem to be in a good mood at the moment.
As expected——
With a muffled "bang", the door of the Su family next door closed. At the same time, the sound of the old man from the Su family happily starting to eat, along with a strong aroma of medicinal food, quickly drifted into the Wei family.
Fortunately, Secretary Zhao was well prepared this time. He stood in front of the restaurant window and closed the glass window immediately.
However, there are always gaps in the glass windows, and some of the fragrance will still penetrate into the hall through the gaps in the glass.
Wei Yan: “…”
Secretary Zhao: “…”
Uncle Fu: “…”
It seems that every time Dr. Su comes to the Wei family, he will have to close the doors and windows in advance and turn on the air conditioner.
Wei Yan sighed and chuckled: "Forget it, let's eat..."
He was indeed too arrogant these days and had fallen into trouble twice in a row because of Su Tang.
It seems that it is time to reflect on himself. The development of his career in recent years has indeed made him a little overconfident.
While eating, Wei Yan silently reviewed himself in his heart.
He had no idea how painful and distorted the expressions of the bodyguards, drivers, chefs, and private medical team in the two houses upstairs were.
As a dozen people who were specifically serving Wei Yan, they were evenly arranged in two houses, but arrangements were made.
We still have to eat together...
Since the place is not big, there are only two chefs in total, one is responsible for preparing food for Wei Yan, and the other is responsible for bodyguards and others.
In order to improve the work efficiency of the bodyguards and others, Wei Yan directly asked Secretary Zhao to arrange another high-paid chef in the kitchen for them.
This chef was previously only responsible for Wei Yan's personal meals, but now he also started to cook big pots of rice.
Chef: I didn’t want to do it at first, but the boss gave me too much!
In the chef's opinion, the food for a dozen people is a lot.
But cooking in a big pot also saves time and effort. In addition, the bodyguards and private medical team staff in the room every day have nothing to do except taking care of Wei Yan. Most of them will take the initiative to help wash dishes, cut vegetables, etc., which greatly reduces the burden on the chef and makes cooking more labor-saving.
Everything was fine yesterday morning and everyone enjoyed lunch very much.
But yesterday afternoon...
Waves of unique medicinal aromas, accompanied by the summer evening breeze, kept flowing into the room.
Among them, there is a medicinal dish with an overbearing aroma, which sweeps the entire place the moment it appears!
The chef, bodyguard and others were directly stunned by the smell.
Is this a medicinal food? How can a medicinal food smell so good? If it is not a medicinal food, then what is it that they smell?
Therefore, that night, all the bodyguards, chefs, and staff in the room had pale faces and could not eat.
Even if the food in front of them is cooked by a well-paid chef, it cannot make them happy.
Even with every bite, a blurred picture of the medicinal food with a fragrant aroma would flash through their minds.
"Hey, whose medicinal food is this... Why does it smell so good every day at mealtime? This is too much!" A bodyguard was filled with indignation, feeling that the braised spareribs he had just picked up in his bowl had lost its soul.
The driver glanced at the bodyguard and said, "People don't eat medicinal food at mealtimes, so when should we eat it so that it's not excessive?"
As a driver who has a closer relationship with his boss than an ordinary bodyguard, he already knew that the overbearing aroma of medicinal food came from Dr. Su's house downstairs.
Dr. Su is their boss's benefactor, how could he allow others to complain about him so easily?
But the bodyguard didn't realize the driver's idea at all. Instead, he said shamelessly: "Of course, the medicinal food should be used as a midnight snack! Especially I think this person should close the doors and windows at home and hang curtains!"
Driver: “…………”
Other people around: “…………”
Good guys! They called them good guys! They had never seen such a shameless person who allowed others to eat medicinal food as a midnight snack!
Let’s not talk about whether this thing can be used as a midnight snack. If people really eat the medicinal food as a midnight snack, will they be able to sleep at night?
The driver said fiercely, "Little bastard, don't think too much about this kind of thing. We are here to work, not to let you enjoy delicious food."
"When a top chef cooks for you, you are still here complaining? Do you and your family plan to cook for yourself every day in the future?"
bodyguard:"…………"
The bodyguard didn't dare to say anything. He sat back in his seat dejectedly and ate his meal sporadically.
This kind of meal prepared by a top chef would have been snatched up by a large group of people like hungry wolves in the past. But today, everyone seemed like obedient rabbits, eating in small bites, sometimes even stopping after eating, quietly putting on a mask of pain.
The driver looked at the crowd and couldn't help but sigh deeply...
He felt that if they continued to live like this, they would lose 10 kilograms in less than two months.
Suddenly I felt that these three houses could be transformed into three holy houses for weight loss after their boss recovers and leaves.
You can order takeout fried chicken as you like, as long as these people set daily meal times, which must be synchronized with the Su family...
He believed that within a few days, those people would lose a lot of weight.
The driver shook his head and sighed, "Oh... forget it, it's none of my business..."
Anyway, these three houses are not his assets, so the boss should figure out how to make money himself!
………………
The Su Tang family was very satisfied with their dinner, and they were completely unaware that their neighbors upstairs and downstairs, as well as those next door, were almost going bald from jealousy over the aroma of the medicinal food.
Su Tang still went to work diligently every day, and Shen Yuqi came to the outpatient clinic of the Sixth Hospital early the next day as Su Tang had agreed.
At the same time, the nanny, Aunt Zhao, also accompanied Shen Yuqi to the Sixth Hospital to register for medical treatment.
Aunt Zhao and Shen Yuqi came together. Looking at Aunt Zhao's cautious look, it was obvious that she had done this job many times before.
"Please take a seat, please take a seat..." Su Tang and Shen Yuqi greeted each other, and then quickly asked the two to start examining and taking the patient's pulse.
Just like Su Tang, Shen Yuqi was in very good health and the fetus was in good condition, except that there was a minor problem with the fetus' position.
So Su Tang didn't waste any time. After just a brief chat with Shen Yuqi, he started treating her with moxibustion.
Shen Yuqi's belly is very big. When she lifts up her coat, one can even clearly see the blood vessels on her belly, as well as the stretch marks caused by pregnancy. Each line is reddish-brown, and is significantly different from the normal color of the abdomen.
Su Tang looked at her stretch marks carefully, and memories from her past life came to her mind.
As the imperial physician, Su Tang saw the concubines, palace maids and eunuchs the most.
It was impossible for any palace maid or eunuch to get pregnant, let alone worry about stretch marks.
But some concubines in the harem attached great importance to these, especially those who wanted to give birth to a second child. Those concubines who wanted to win the emperor's favor worked even harder.
For this reason, the Imperial Medical Bureau had quite a few precious prescriptions for these concubines.
Su Tang also learned a lot from the imperial physician in those days. Some of the prescriptions were even palace secret recipes passed down from generation to generation in the previous dynasty.
only……
Su Tang thought about it carefully.
Most of the prescriptions for treating stretch marks require pregnant women to start using them as soon as they become pregnant, so as to minimize the unsightly stretch marks during pregnancy.
However, Shen Yuqi in front of him was different from these concubines. Her belly was now covered with dense scars, and it would be difficult to treat her...
But there is a solution...
But the most important thing at the moment is to quickly change the position of the fetus in the pregnant woman's body.
Su Tang took out the moxa stick, asked Shen Yuqi to lie flat on the treatment bed, and slowly fumigated her.
The burning moxa starts from the Yin acupoint of the calf, slowly fumigating and stimulating, and then step by step approaching the uterus. The heat stimulates the baby in the belly to increase its activity, thereby adjusting the fetal position.
As long as she can change the fetal position from breech presentation to head presentation within two or three weeks, she will be successful.
During the first two or three minutes, Shen Yuqi didn't feel anything. She only felt that the area being treated by the moxibustion was a little warm, which was not very comfortable. The smell of the moxa was not very pleasant either, and Shen Yuqi didn't like it very much.
After all, in this hot summer, even if the hospital turns on the air conditioner, people will instinctively fear anything that produces hot air.
Although the moxa stick is small, the heat it emits and the scent of mugwort that permeates the entire room after it is lit are very strong. It was this smell that made Shen Yuqi frown on the spot.
But neither the warm moxibustion nor the strong and unpleasant smell of mugwort moved the baby in Shen Yuqi's belly.
The baby in the pregnant woman's belly seemed to be asleep, lying quietly in the mother's belly without moving.
However, after four or five minutes, Shen Yuqi's stomach showed obvious changes.
At first, there were tiny waves on the belly, as if a baby's little hands and feet were moving slightly inside the mother's body. The amplitude of the movement was not large, but it was enough to surprise people.
As time goes by...
This fluctuation is even becoming more and more obvious.
The feeling is like my butt is on fire, and I always want to turn over and change position quickly.
It's a pity that the mother's belly is so small and the baby that is about to be born is also quite big. It is obviously impossible for the other party to change position in a short time.
The more this happens, the more anxious I become.
The baby in Shen Yuqi's belly moved more and more instinctively. Shen Yuqi put her hands on her belly, her face full of disbelief.
Could it be that...
Is this moxibustion stimulation really that magical? !
But if it wasn't so magical, why did the baby in her belly react so violently after the moxibustion was ignited?
It's a pity that the fetus is still in the mother's womb, and its strength and energy are limited...
In less than 5 minutes, the fetus in Shen Yuqi's belly seemed to have used up all its strength. It no longer struggled hard to turn around, but instead touched its mother's belly from time to time, looking very tired.
So Su Tang took a look at the condition of the fetus in Shen Yuqi's belly and stopped the moxibustion without waiting for 15 minutes.
Let Shen Yuqi lie on the treatment bed and rest for a while, there is no need to get up in such a hurry.
"Oh... this is too amazing."
Shen Yuqi's voice was crisp and sweet, and her eyes were filled with amazing joy: "Doctor Su, this moxibustion seems to be even better than what you said before. When I was doing moxibustion just now, the baby moved more than he did all day...Doctor Su, do you think this baby can really turn his head before delivery?"
Today, although the fetus in my belly moved back and forth for about five or six minutes, it did not completely change from breech presentation to head presentation.
"The probability of success is quite high. Your child is very sensitive to moxibustion. Judging from the condition today, we may see obvious results in a week." But the baby is alive and in the pregnant woman's belly, so Su Tang couldn't guarantee it completely. Therefore, after thinking about it, he tried to give a more pertinent result that would not disappoint the other party.
"Really? That's great!" Shen Yuqi was not disappointed even though she didn't get a guarantee.
Anyway, it was her luck that the baby's fetal position could be changed. If it couldn't be changed, the most she could do was a caesarean section as originally planned.
Su Tang told Shen Yuqi to come to the hospital every day during this period. If she was not working in the outpatient clinic, she would make an appointment for someone else and ask her colleagues in the department to call her, and then she would come to the outpatient clinic to help with the moxibustion.
After all, her shifts each week were somewhat different. On average, she had to spend at least one day in the operating room and one day in the department.
Alas, the general internal medicine department is indeed too small, with so few doctors that it is impossible to take full care of all the patients who come for consultation every day.
Unlike patients with other chronic diseases, the baby's fetal position cannot be delayed. The bigger the baby gets in the mother's belly, the harder it is for the baby to turn around. In the end, Shen Yuqi had to have a caesarean section.