Her expression turned slightly serious, then she asked with curiosity, "I heard that if a child doesn't like to eat, it might be due to a deficiency in some element. Haven't you thought about taking her to see a doctor?"
The woman paused, then touched her child's head. "My husband and I are usually busy with work, so we send our child to daycare. The teacher just said that he's a picky eater and doesn't like to eat much, but all the spoiled kids in our compound are like that, so we didn't think much of it."
“It’s all because kids these days have such a good standard of living,” an auntie on the upper bunk said, peeking out. “Back in our day, we were lucky to have even a cornbread bun to eat. We couldn’t afford to be picky.”
“Yes, kids are like puppies, picky eaters. If they go hungry for a few days, they’ll be like little pigs, rooting and gnawing at anything they see!” Another old lady sitting next to her nodded in agreement. “City kids are raised too delicately; they’re weak and sick all the time. They’re nothing like the robust country kids, running and jumping around in thin coats even in winter, and they grow up healthy and strong.”
The woman sighed, "It's no use. We've tried starving her before, but skipping meals only makes her stomach smaller. Several bottles of digestive pills haven't helped at all. We're also worried she might have worms, so we give her pagoda-shaped sugar pills every year. We've tried everything."
Ke Meiyu said with a smile, "We also have children like that in our town. They are picky eaters with poor appetites, have poor sleep, and like to grind their teeth."
“Yes, yes, that’s exactly what my Jiaojiao is like,” the woman nodded quickly. “Could it be an illness?”
The couple became nervous.
They were childhood sweethearts and had a very good relationship, but after five or six years of marriage, they only had this one precious child. Moreover, their careers were both on the rise, and with the organization starting to promote family planning, they did not have any plans for a second child in the short term.
Ke Meiyu nodded and then shook her head: "It was a skilled old Chinese medicine doctor who examined me and said that I had worms growing in my body."
"No, our child eats pagoda-shaped sugar twice a year," the woman said with some disappointment.
In her opinion, the child must have had worms inside him because he hadn't taken deworming medication.
“That child also ate pagoda-shaped sugar,” Ke Meiyu’s words shattered her conjecture. “Traditional Chinese medicine says that pagoda-shaped sugar can only target parasites in the intestines and stomach. Parasites can also infest other organs and the blood. If they are not detected in time, they can affect growth and development and intelligence, and even endanger life.”
The question startled everyone present, and the young couple stood up, asking anxiously, "Comrade, do you know how that traditional Chinese medicine doctor treated the patient? Where is he? Can we visit him?"
Ying Yan leaned against the railing, watching his little wife showing off, a faint smile on his lips.
Ke Meiyu also sensed it, and secretly glared at him from the side, then continued to say to the young couple, "The old Chinese medicine doctor came during the Great Cultural Revolution. Nobody knows where he's from, but I learned a few tricks from the doctor in the mountains before."
"If you trust me, I can give it a try."
Ying Yan sat up straight, took out his identification and letter of introduction from his pocket and handed them over, "We are students from the Provincial University of Science and Technology, and we are visiting our relatives at the military base."
People at that time were very naive; seeing the big red stamp, they subconsciously trusted them.
However, since this concerns their daughter's health, they are still a little worried. "I wonder how the comrade plans to try it?"
“Drug therapy combined with acupressure,” Ke Meiyu patiently explained, “Some medications target parasites in the intestines, while others target parasites in the blood or other organs. Acupressure can apply pressure to blood vessels and promote drug flow.”
"It's not a serious illness, but it can't be delayed. If you agree, I can take a look at her now."
The couple usually have heavy workloads, sometimes without even weekends. When they come home, they are faced with a child who doesn't like to eat and is getting thinner and thinner. They are so worried that they are pacing around in circles. Now they are just trying their luck, thinking that they have no other choice.
"Alright, then I'll trouble you, comrade."
The man slammed his hand off the bed and agreed.
Ke Meiyu smiled and waved to the child.
The little girl ran over excitedly, "Sister, are you going to give me candy?"
“Yes,” Ke Meiyu gently pinched her little face; she was indeed very thin, like a little monkey.
The child has parasites that have entered the bloodstream and, as they travel through the blood, some have already settled in the brain, where they grow and multiply.
She redeemed some antiparasitic drugs from the system store, took out one for her to eat, then wiped her hands and rubbed them together, sometimes massaging the child's back, sometimes her chest, and sometimes her head.
Even though it's not visible to the naked eye, her hands are rapidly drawing talismans in the air to expel the parasites that are starting to proliferate in the child's body.
Ke Meiyu performed a full-body cleansing on the child and also applied several nutritional talismans. After applying the last talisman...
The child immediately clutched his stomach, looking pained, and cried out, "Mommy, my tummy hurts, I need to poop..."
The child's father quickly picked up the child, took the paper from his wife, and rushed to the toilet at the junction of the carriages.
About ten minutes later, the father and daughter returned looking relaxed.
"Comrade," he asked somewhat embarrassedly, "is this deworming medicine different from the others? Why is the child... the child..."
The little girl couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Sister, my dad wants to ask you, why are there no worms in my poop after I took the deworming medicine?"
Ke Meiyu laughed, "Regular deworming medicine targets the intestines, but my deworming medicine dissolves the worms directly. Otherwise, wouldn't your blood vessels be blocked?"
The family of three was still somewhat skeptical, but it wasn't long before the little girl started complaining of being hungry and wanting to eat, and she accepted all the food her parents brought her. This astonished everyone present.
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