Soon, the morning had passed.
Su Zhengnan sat leisurely for the whole morning, and then the students began their busy work after class.
The first student to come in was a boy, neither thin nor fat, with a rather robust physique.
However, the other person looked somewhat listless, as if they had stayed up for several nights in a row.
Su Zhengnan smiled and glanced at the boy, then greeted him, "Hello, are you feeling unwell?"
"I...I've been having trouble sleeping lately, it's been almost half a month now. I even saw a Western doctor and got some sleeping pills, but they haven't helped at all."
Chen Haoran sat down with a worried look on his face and handed over his medical records from the hospital.
Su Zhengnan took the medical record and glanced at it. He saw that it read:
"Patient: Chen Haoran, 22 years old, has been suffering from insomnia for half a month. He has tried medications such as lorazepam and midazolam maleate, but none of them have resolved the symptoms..."
Lorazepam and midazolam maleate are both sedative-type hypnotics, commonly used in Western medicine to treat severe insomnia.
However, none of these medications seemed to solve the other person's insomnia problem.
In a sense, Western medicine's sleeping pills are merely a kind of forced sedative, which has no direct effect on regulating the body's own sleep; it is simply a forced sedation to induce sleep.
Once the human body develops antibodies to these drugs, these so-called tranquilizers will completely lose their effect.
After glancing at the medical record, Su Zhengnan nodded and said, "Put out your hand, let me take your pulse first."
"Okay, sure."
Chen Haoran nodded and quickly extended his two wrists.
Su Zhengnan reached out and placed his hand on the other person's wrist, only to feel that the pulse was weak and feeble, lacking strength and substance. This weakness indicated a disharmony between the heart and kidneys, and an imbalance of yin and yang...
This condition is often caused by the spleen failing to produce nutrients, the liver failing to store blood, the kidneys failing to store essence, and the brain becoming empty.
Treating this type of insomnia is actually quite simple; just one medicine is enough.
Su Zhengnan couldn't help but smile slightly and said to Chen Haoran, "You shouldn't take those sedative sleeping pills anymore. I'm afraid your body won't be able to handle it if you keep taking them. Why don't you go and cook some sour dates for yourself?"
"Doctor, what should I cook? Sour dates?"
Chen Haoran felt a little confused and looked at Su Zhengnan with a surprised expression.
Su Zhengnan explained with a smile, "Your insomnia is mainly caused by the liver failing to store blood, which in turn leads to the blood not nourishing the heart. Sour jujubes are cooling in nature and can nourish the liver, calm the mind, and promote blood production and heart health when consumed."
"So just eat some sour jujubes and that'll be fine. If this remedy doesn't work, come back to me later."
"Huh? Is it that simple?"
Chen Haoran was somewhat incredulous. Was traditional Chinese medicine really that simple? Wasn't it a bit too hasty?
Su Zhengnan smiled and waved at him, saying, "It's that simple. Just go back and cook some sour dates, and that's it. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes diagnosis and treatment based on syndrome differentiation, not just prescribing medicine randomly!"
"This...this really will work?"
Chen Haoran blinked in surprise and asked.
Su Zhengnan nodded seriously and said, "Please trust my diagnosis as a doctor. If it doesn't work, you can always come back to me and argue with me."
"Uh, okay, I believe what you say, Dr. Su. After all, my classmates all say that your medical skills are good."
Chen Haoran stood up, thanked them, and then turned and left the school clinic, taking a few sour jujubes with him on his way back.
In traditional Chinese medicine, jujube has the effects of nourishing the heart and liver, astringing sweat, calming the mind and nourishing the heart, and promoting body fluid and replenishing blood.
Therefore, it is definitely effective for Chen Haoran's condition.
Tap tap tap...
No sooner had Chen Haoran left than a female student walked in.
"Cough cough cough..."
The female student started coughing incessantly as soon as she sat down, looking like she had a cold, but the sound of her cough didn't seem like that of a cold.
Su Zhengnan glanced at the other person, raised an eyebrow slightly, and said, "You've been coughing for a long time, haven't you? It sounds like there's a lot of noise in your lungs!"
"Cough cough cough..."
The female student coughed a few times, looking surprised, and said, "Doctor, you're amazing! I haven't even said anything yet, and you already know my cough isn't just a cold? Cough cough cough..."
As she spoke, the girl coughed for quite a while.
Su Zhengnan frowned and said, "Put out your hand, let me take your pulse first."
"Um!"
The girl nodded and extended her small wrist.
Su Zhengnan reached out and placed his hand on the other person's wrist, and felt that the other person's pulse was floating, slow and tight, with a slight hint of wind and heat.
Is this a sign of lung meridian damage?
As the saying goes, excessive internal heat depletes body fluids, and the burning sensation causes thirst, which is the cause of heat damaging the lung meridians.
After sensing the pulse, Su Zhengnan examined the other person's tongue coating and basically determined that the cough was caused by damage to the lung meridians.
This cough is not caused by a cold. Although the main symptom is in the lungs, the cause lies in the meridians.
Then, Su Zhengnan withdrew his hand and said, "You have a condition of lung yin deficiency due to burns in your lung vessels. Ordinary cough medicines will not work. I will prescribe a Chinese medicine formula for you!"
"Can this be cured by taking Chinese medicine?"
The female student looked at Su Zhengnan with a cute expression and said, "I've been to big hospitals several times and taken a lot of medicine, but my cough just won't get better, cough cough cough..."
"I've seen some traditional Chinese medicine doctors before, but the same thing happened... cough cough cough... it didn't work either..."
Upon hearing this, Su Zhengnan thought for a moment and said, "Then it shouldn't be a problem with the prescription, but rather with the Chinese medicine. If the prescription is correct, then the medicine will be effective and the medicine will be just right."
"However, many Chinese herbal medicines sold in pharmacies are not pure now, and this is the situation that traditional Chinese medicine practitioners fear most when prescribing medicines."
Do you have any prescriptions from previous TCM doctors? Can I take a look?
"Uh, yes, I happen to have one with me."
The female student nodded and took out several sheets from her bosom, which included medical records from Western doctors and prescriptions from traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.
Su Zhengnan did not look at the Western doctor's diagnosis and medical records, but directly opened the prescription issued by the traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
At a glance, Su Zhengnan realized that this prescription was for nourishing yin and moistening the lungs.
The medicine prescribed according to this formula should be correct.
But why is it that it doesn't have any effect after taking it?
Could my earlier guess have been correct, and there was something wrong with the Chinese medicine the other party had prescribed?!
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