She couldn't wait to go back to the room to try it on. It fit perfectly. She looked at herself in the small mirror again and again. Since she came here, she had worn such tacky clothes. Compared with those, she was so much more fashionable.
Luo Xiuyan sighed twice, "My aunt's craftsmanship is getting better and better. When I was a child, I loved wearing the clothes she made. She could even piece together small scraps of cloth into hair ornaments for me. The girls in the village always envied me. But later, when my mother made them for me, I stopped being envious."
"You are the most naughty. If you say that, your mother will beat you up when she gets home." Luo Fuying was overjoyed by the praise from her niece and tapped her forehead with a smile.
A few people chatted and laughed, and stayed for a while before leaving. After they left, Tian Cai carefully took off his clothes and put them in a wooden box. It would be a waste to wear them in a cotton jacket in winter, so he would wait until the weather got warmer before wearing them.
Luo Fuying's arrival seemed to turn on a switch. In the next few days, people who came to pay New Year's greetings to Tian Cai had all seen a doctor here. Even Hu Cuihua and her husband from Qingshan Village came with their children.
Tian Cai took Hu Cuihua's pulse and said, "You're still weak. Don't stop taking the pills I gave you. Remember to come get them when you're almost done."
Their son was also named Zhang Guangzong. Hu Cuihua said that she asked the team leader to name him. If they had a second child in the future, no matter whether it was a boy or a girl, they would name him Yaozu.
By the time Tian Cai was free, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had already passed.
That morning, after washing clothes, she opened the kitchen door and chopped firewood in the backyard. Half of the wood she had stored had been burned. Because she stayed at home most of the time, she couldn't help but keep the house warm.
She was chopping wood with great enthusiasm when she heard someone calling her in the yard. Tian Cai looked out and saw that it was Sister Xiaoju who had said she would come to see the doctor in the evening.
"Sister-in-law Xiaoju, I'm here! Please go in and sit down first, I'll be there soon." Tian Cai stretched out his hand and waved at her, speeding up and chopping out the last piece in his hand.
Tian Cai put on coarse cloth gloves, stacked the chopped firewood in layers against the wall, and used a broom to sweep all the wood chips on the ground into a dustpan and put it aside. Then he took off his gloves and went into the house.
She washed her hands, took out a cup and poured a glass of water for Huang Xiaoju, "Sister-in-law, drink some water first. Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Huang Xiaoju blushed slightly and didn't know how to start. She wanted to see a doctor for women's diseases, but she thought that Dr. Tian was still a little girl, and she was too embarrassed to tell her about her illness.
Moreover, her elder sister-in-law said that she had to take off her pants to see such a patient. She felt even more embarrassed. She put the cup on the table and was about to leave. "I, I don't want to see it anymore."
Tian Cai was about to say something to persuade her when she walked out without looking back.
Huang Xiaoju stopped at the door, hesitated for a moment, and then came back, her cheeks flushed, her head turned aside, looking at the table without saying a word. After a long while, as if she had made a big decision, she looked up at Tian Cai and said in a mosquito-like voice, "Doctor Tian, can you, can you treat a woman's disease?"
Women's diseases? They probably refer to gynecology, right? Tian Cai didn't overreact. "It depends on the situation. I can treat simple or mild cases, but if they're too serious, I can't. You have to go to a health center or hospital."
When Tian Cai mentioned the health center, Huang Xiaoju's face turned pale. She hesitated for a while before slowly sitting back on the stool and handing her wrist to her.
Tian Cai raised an eyebrow, but didn't feel the pulse. "Sister-in-law, can you tell me the symptoms first? Just how uncomfortable are you?"
Huang Xiaoju bit her lip. "It's itchy, it hurts, and something's leaking out."
If it weren't for Tian Cai's excellent hearing, it would be difficult to understand what she said. However, according to Huang Xiaoju's description, it was a bit like gynecological inflammation. This kind of disease should not show any abnormalities in the pulse, but Tian Cai still put his hand on it.
"Is the discharge colored?" she asked while taking the pulse.
Huang Xiaoju was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Yes, yellow, um, yellow-green."
"Does it smell?"
"Yes, yes, there is a bad smell." Huang Xiaoju slowly relaxed a little. Not feeling any strange looks made her feel much more comfortable. With Tian Cai's reminder, she thought of more details. "It's sticky."
Tian Cai already understood it basically, and to make sure, he said, "Come on, open your mouth and stick out your tongue."
Huang Xiaoju's tongue is noticeably redder than normal, and the tongue coating is thick and yellow, a typical sign of damp heat in the body. "Is the urine yellow? Do you feel a burning sensation there? It's like a burning pain."
"Yes! And the urine is also yellow!" Huang Xiaoju herself had never paid special attention to this, but she remembered it as soon as Tian Cai mentioned it. She did feel bloated and painful, but she didn't take it seriously. She always thought it was because of her man. But sometimes when the two of them didn't sleep on the same kang, she also felt burning and painful.
Tian Cai asked her to go into the room, take off her pants and lie on the examination bed. He looked at her carefully and said, "Put them on."
Tian Cai wrote down Huang Xiaoju's symptoms and physical characteristics on his pulse record. "Do you feel heavy and tired all the time, or do you have swelling and pain in your knees and ankles?"
Huang Xiaoju got over her previous embarrassment and nodded vigorously after hearing this. Doctor Tian was really amazing. She didn't even think it was a disease, but she said it all! "Then can my condition be cured?"
"Yes!" This isn't difficult. It's caused by damp heat. Just prescribe something to clear away heat, dampness, and stop vaginal discharge. "I'll prescribe some medicine for you, but you have to come back tomorrow to get the pills. I'll try to make them this afternoon."
Tian Cai returned to the study, opened the medicine cabinet, and picked out the herbs according to the prescription: Poria cocos, Poria cocos, Red Peony Root, Cortex Moutan, Rhizoma Alismatis, Cortex Phellodendri, Gardenia jasminoides, Ginkgo biloba, Plantago seed, and raw licorice. She spread them out on the desk and pointed them out to Huang Xiaoju, who had not yet left. "These all need to be ground into powder, then mixed according to the proportions and kneaded into pills. That's why I said I can only pick up the medicine tomorrow."
Huang Xiaoju looked at the table full of medicinal herbs and felt a little guilty. She couldn't help but wipe her hands on her pants and said, "Doctor Tian, how about you tell me how to grind them and I'll help you!"
Tian Cai thought it would be boring to do it herself, so she agreed. She took out the medicine grinder, washed her hands and taught her how to use it. This thing is very simple to use, you just need to master the skill.
Although Huang Xiaoju is shy, she is a good worker. Tian Cai only taught her once and she learned it. After a while, she was able to do it quite well. The two chatted while working, and her nervousness gradually subsided. She told Tian Cai when her health problems started and the discomforts she had been feeling during this period, which was why she thought of coming to see him.
"This kind of disease is very normal. My mother once said that nine out of ten women have gynecological diseases, and the severity of these nine people varies. It's unavoidable, so you don't have to feel embarrassed."
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