Chapter 193 Yang Family Acupuncture
Yin Xizi was surprised.
Everyone was exhausted these days, and she specially asked everyone to go back to rest tonight. Who could be the one who came to visit in the middle of the night?
Yin Xizi opened the door, and outside was an old man with a gray beard, and behind him was a middle-aged man who looked similar.
He was a folk doctor summoned by the court to help during this epidemic, Doctor Yang Lianting, and the middle-aged man was his son, Yang Yu.
"Doctor Yang, it's so late, do you two come to see me for something?"
Yang Lianting and his son walked in.
"Doctor Yin, Houttuynia cordata, is it still not found?" Yang Lianting asked first.
In the past two days, the court came to deliver medicine, and several other medicines were available, but Houttuynia cordata was missing.
The stock of Houttuynia cordata was limited, so they had to reduce the amount of Houttuynia cordata in the preventive soup and save it for the epidemic patients.
But the Houttuynia cordata was running out, and even if the preventive soup for the imperial army was stopped, there would be no more Houttuynia cordata.
The doctors were not stupid, and although they did not get a clear answer, they guessed that there was a problem with the supply of Houttuynia cordata.
Yin Xizi nodded, his eyes full of worry.
"Now I won't hide it from you. Today, His Majesty sent someone to report that there were some problems and the Houttuynia cordata would not arrive for a while, so we should think of a way to solve it and see if we can change the prescription."
"Have you thought of a solution?" Yang Lianting asked again.
Yin Xizi frowned and said, "I checked a lot of medical books overnight. Although other heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs can be used to replace Houttuynia cordata, the efficacy will be greatly reduced."
"What I am worried about is that patients whose conditions have improved will relapse after changing the medicine."
"Doctor Yin, don't worry. My father and I are here to help you." Yang Yu comforted him.
"Help me?" Yin Xizi's eyes flashed.
Yang Lianting's mouth curled up slightly: "Yes, Doctor Yin, I am here to give you advice."
Yin Xizi looked at the Yang family father and son eagerly, waiting for them to come up with a solution.
"You should know that our Yang family ancestors practiced medicine and passed down a set of Yang family acupuncture methods from our ancestors."
"Yes, I know." Yin Xizi nodded.
Yang Lianting looked serious, but his eyes were filled with pity: "There is a method in Yang family acupuncture that can stimulate the patient's own internal organs' ability to detoxify."
“If you are infected with an epidemic or poisoned, and oral medications are not satisfactory, using this acupuncture method in combination can greatly enhance the effect.”
Yin Xizi’s eyes lit up: “You mean, after replacing Houttuynia cordata with other medicines, use it in combination with Yang family acupuncture for treatment?”
Yang Yu smiled and said, “That’s exactly what my father meant.”
Yin Xizi’s brows immediately relaxed, but then locked again: “But Doctor Yang, your Yang family only has two sons, and with you, there are a total of three people who can use the Yang family acupuncture method. Now there are hundreds of patients in the inner city and the imperial guards. Even if you work day and night, you can’t cure them all.”
The Yang family acupuncture method is very famous in the capital, but everyone knows that this set of acupuncture methods is a family secret method, and it strictly adheres to the tradition of being passed down from generation to generation and from males to females.
Yin Xizi was also born in a medical family, so he naturally understood the strict inheritance of these family secrets.
Many secrets passed down from generation to generation in a family would not be sold even if an outsider offered a high price.
If a prodigal son occasionally appeared and went against the ancestral teachings and exchanged the family secrets for money, he would be scolded by the clan members.
Yang Lianting looked at Yin Xizi's frown and smiled: "Who said that only the three of us father and son can perform acupuncture? Now in the imperial army camp alone, not counting those imperial doctors, there are more than 20 civilian doctors."
Yin Xizi was even more confused: "But...but..."
Yang Lianting immediately understood Yin Xizi's doubts.
"I will gather everyone together and teach them this acupuncture method. Then everyone can give acupuncture. Wouldn't it be faster?"
Yin Xizi was stunned when he heard this: "You mean, in order to treat the epidemic, you voluntarily teach this acupuncture method to everyone?!"
"Yes, that's what I mean." Yang Lianting smiled.
Yang Yu looked at his father with respect in his eyes.
"But...but...this is the secret method of your Yang family that is not passed on to others!" Yin Xizi stuttered because he was too excited.
Yang Lianting sighed: "If it were in the past, I would never have been willing to pass on the Yang family acupuncture method. But it's different now."
"Doctor Yin, I want to thank you for winning honor for us folk doctors and clearing the name of our folk doctors."
"If it weren't for you, I'm afraid that my old bones would be looked down upon by those people in the Imperial Hospital until I die."
At this point, Yang Lianting's tone was a little difficult. His eyes stared out the window in a daze, as if he was recalling something.
It was just a few days ago that the Yang family father and son, along with other folk doctors, were summoned by the court and sent to the Imperial Army Camp to treat the epidemic.
Yang Lianting was originally a famous doctor with a good reputation among the people, especially famous for the mysterious Yang family acupuncture.
Many people came to him to treat difficult and complicated diseases.
But as soon as they arrived at the Imperial Army Camp, they were immediately bullied by the imperial doctors.
The group of imperial doctors, headed by the Imperial Medical Bureau Director, relied on the fact that they were doctors in the palace who treated the emperor and his concubines, and they were arrogant and looked down on others. They did not regard these civilian doctors as human beings at all.
Yang Lianting and other civilian doctors were usually dignified doctors in their own clinics and were respected.
But when they arrived at the Imperial Army Camp, the imperial doctors actually arranged them to do rough work such as collecting medicinal materials, boiling medicine and feeding medicine.
Famous doctors with superb medical skills were reduced to running errands and doing rough work.
Yang Lianting was upright in character. He argued with the Imperial Medical Bureau Director for a few words, but he did not expect that instead of changing the status quo, he was slapped twice by the Director's apprentice.
Yang Lianting was old and suffered such humiliation. It was not
until three days later that Yin Xizi won the prescription competition with the director of the Imperial Hospital and was appointed by Emperor Mingxi as the chief of the Imperial Army Camp to treat the epidemic. The situation of these civilian doctors changed. Yin Xizi
immediately grabbed the director of the Imperial Hospital and his apprentice to give Yang Lianting gifts and apologize in person, admitting his mistake.
That day, Yin Xizi spoke in a sonorous and powerful manner in front of all the doctors.
"No matter they are civilian doctors or imperial doctors, they all cure diseases and save lives. As long as they have superb medical skills and valuable medicines, they should be respected by everyone. As doctors, there is no distinction between high and low!"
These words warmed everyone's hearts, and also made those imperial doctors feel jealous.
The director of the Imperial Hospital felt ashamed and took his apprentice back to the Imperial Hospital. Even if the other imperial doctors were still in the imperial army, they did not dare to act rashly as before.
Yin Xizi stood up for the civilian doctors, reallocated the work, and gave the low-tech work to the medicine boys, so that these civilian doctors could diagnose patients like the imperial doctors.