Aunt Qiu had fully recovered by now. She thought Tian Cai had been holding his left and right hands because he couldn't find the cause of his illness, so she consoled him, "Don't worry about it. This is an old problem. I've seen many doctors over the years, but they were all useless. But you're really good at acupuncture. The pain today was shorter than usual."
Tian Cai forced a laugh and said, "This is only temporary. In the end, I still can't help much."
Qiu Xiaohuan glanced at Tian Cai and said nothing.
After Aunt Qiu returned to her room, Jiang Zhiyuan couldn't wait to go to the main hall to find Tian Cai, "Doctor Tian, have you figured out what's wrong with my mother?"
Although Qiu Xiaohuan didn't say anything, her eyes were fixed on Tian Cai.
Tian Cai knew what he was about to say was rather unbelievable, so he decided to change his words. "I'm basically certain that Aunt Qiu's chest pain isn't caused by a physical condition. If it were, she would have reacted to the painkiller I just gave her."
"But didn't my aunt say that I feel much better after the acupuncture?" Qiu Xiaohuan asked in confusion.
"This is just Aunt Qiu's feedback, which is different from what I learned from taking her pulse."
She, on the other hand, trusts her own hands more.
"Then my mother's heart aches—are you saying she's faking it?"
Jiang Zhiyuan is not a fool, how could he not understand what Tian Cai meant, but he did not believe this conclusion at all.
"How is this possible? Absolutely impossible!"
Jiang Zhiyuan had seen his mother fall ill many times. Every time, she would turn pale in pain, break out in cold sweat, and couldn't even stand up. How could such a reaction be fake?
"My mom has been sick for several years. If she was faking it, we wouldn't have missed it all these years. And what's the point of my mom faking chest pain? Your assumption is totally unreasonable."
Jiang Zhiyuan no longer had the gentle and polite demeanor he had just had. No mother would be in a good mood if she was accused of faking illness.
Although Qiu Xiaohuan didn't believe it, she had known Tian Cai's strength for so many years, so she would never brag.
Tian Cai knew that the two had misunderstood, and further explained, "I may not have been clear enough. I didn't say that Aunt Qiu's chest pain was fake, but that the pain might not be due to illness, but psychological factors."
Tian Cai gave an example. "I don't know if you've heard of this before, but I encountered it in a military hospital. A patient's leg had been amputated, but he still felt pain in that leg. Everyone thought it was impossible at the time, but it actually happened. We later studied this with Western medicine. This condition is called phantom limb pain. 'Phantom' refers to fantasy, and 'limb' refers to limb. You should understand what it means when you hear it."
Jiang Zhiyuan was stunned. Does this mean that his mother's heart pain was an illusion?
Tian Cai continued, "This should be related to Aunt Qiu's psychological trauma. You are her family. Do you know when she started to show this condition and what happened during that time?"
Jiang Zhiyuan only remembered that his mother had always said that her heart hurt for many years. He couldn't remember exactly when it started, but it was probably when he was a teenager.
And what happened to him when he was a teenager, could it be that——
He glanced at Qiu Xiaohuan, but seeing her confused face, he felt a little uncertain.
"When my father comes back, I'll ask him if he has any impression!"
Jiang Zhiyuan could only say this in the end.
Qiu Xiaohuan also planned to go home and ask her parents.
Tian Cai looked at the time. It was already half past eight. Since today was already like this, she said, "Think about what happened first. It's late today. I'm going back to school first."
"I'll take you there." Qiu Xiaohuan said first.
She had a vague guess and wanted to ask Tian Cai.
Jiang Zhiyuan also noticed that it was indeed very late, so he said, "Don't bother sending him off. It wouldn't be safe for you to send Dr. Tian off at night. Let me take you there."
Qiu Xiaohuan puffed up her cheeks and gave her third brother several looks in a row, but he didn't respond, which made her roll her eyes in anger.
I'm not worried about Cai Cai's safety. With her strength, why should I worry? If I really meet someone looking for trouble, I'd rather worry about the other person.
I just wanted to say something private, but Third Brother is really tactless.
In the following days, Tian Cai attended classes as usual, but she did not forget about this matter. She discussed it with several senior professors during breaks.
She could still clearly remember Aunt Qiu's pulse condition, and after several discussions, everyone tended to agree with her idea.
"The patient must have been under great shock at the time, and she has been immersed in this shock for so many years, unable to get out of it. On the surface, she looks like a normal person, or maybe she subconsciously doesn't want to worry her family and friends, but in fact she hasn't gotten over it yet."
"It's actually very painful. I've discussed similar situations with Western medicine before. Many people suffer psychological trauma after experiencing great stimulation. After years of struggling with this trauma, some people may recover, some remain at the starting point, some people actively forget about this part of the experience after some self-adjustment, and some people will be affected and develop mental illness."
Cheng Zhaoxing took a sip of tea and continued, "Many of the people we see who have gone insane rarely have it caused by trauma or fever. Aren't most of them caused by great stimulation?"
Several people strongly agreed with this.
"The human spirit is something that cannot be seen or touched, but there are many mental illnesses. In fact, the tranquilizing decoctions we usually prescribe for people are also soothing decoctions for the mind, aren't they?"
In the end, everyone came to the same conclusion.
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