I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 246 - 213: If You Ask Him, He Will Surely Treat You

Ever since Feng Yuan consulted Lu Jiu for his illness.

In just over a month, his rheumatoid arthritis never flared up again.

Not only did the pain cease, but the deformed joints also started to recover slowly.

It was precisely this personal experience that made Feng Yuan more curious about traditional Chinese medicine.

So much so that every day after work, he would study Chinese medicine at home.

Having learned Western medicine for most of his life, transitioning to Chinese medicine, he found many of its theories extremely difficult to understand.

Obviously, when evidence-based medicine meets abstract concepts, it's hard to bridge this logical gap.

It's like asking someone who's always studied the micro world to suddenly switch to a macro perspective to observe the world; the leap is too great and could easily strain him.

However, being a native of Huaxia, although he hadn't systematically studied ancient texts, he could understand some of their meanings after reading them a few times.

After delving into the Yin Yang Five Elements, meridians and acupoints, and the nature and channel tropism of Chinese herbs, Feng Yuan began to understand why traditional Chinese medicine could treat illnesses.

When practicing Chinese medicine, the focus is not on the symptoms, meaning that regardless of how many symptoms a patient exhibits, it doesn't matter to Chinese medicine. It requires an overall assessment of the patient, identifies the key symptoms corresponding to the viscera, and then uses medication to balance the organs, thus resolving the symptoms naturally.

For them, Behçet's disease is a chronic terminal illness.

This is because there are simply too many symptoms, and currently, there are no medications that can address all the symptoms of Behçet's disease.

Moreover, these medications have side effects, so when patients take them, they control certain symptoms but can also create new ones. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, and sometimes it makes things worse over time.

"Does the Chinese medicine doctor you know can treat this disease?" Xu Lang asked.

Feng Yuan shook his head, "I'm just giving you a suggestion. I don't know if it can be treated, but my rheumatoid arthritis was treated by him. Although it's not completely cured, at least it's not painful anymore."

"And it's almost the new year, you'll have more than a week where you can't leave Jianghan. During this time, your mom will surely be in a lot of pain because of the illness, so instead of waiting until after the New Year to go to a big hospital in the province, why not try Chinese medicine in these few days?"

"Regardless of the outcome, at least you'll have one more opportunity, don't you think?"

Xu Lang nodded, "Director Feng, I'll listen to you."

Feng Yuan said, "Alright, I'll send you the address later, you can just go directly."

Xu Lang asked, "Should I mention your name?"

Feng Yuan smiled, "No need, as long as you ask him, he will definitely treat you."

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Afternoon.

Lu's Clinic.

It was just three days before New Year's Eve.

The number of patients coming to the clinic was dwindling.

Lu Jiu seldom needed to see only a dozen patients in a day.

Previously, in his peak times, he saw fifty to sixty patients a day.

Compared to those times, Lu Jiu now had much more leisure.

With some spare time, he was petting a cat while browsing forums.

Since the clinic became popular, he hadn't visited the forums again.

But when he reopened those threads, he found a hot post related to him still pinned on the forum's homepage.

The content of the post seemed to mention a person, after seeing Lu Jiu's warning signs for sudden death, went to the hospital for a check-up and was found to have cardiovascular issues.

They even attached the hospital examination report.

The initial replies to the post were normal, but after a dozen comments, other users reported going for check-ups as well and were also found to have heart problems, which attracted a lot of attention.

Then, someone noticed similar posts appearing on the web-writer forum, and under that post, many users were posting their check-up results—apart from those with no significant issues and some onlookers, at least forty or fifty users were diagnosed with heart-related diseases.

As a result, netizens took screenshots of the content from the writer's forum and posted them in the thread on the Chinese Medicine Home.

Thus, the internet started to debate again whether Lu Jiu's warning signs for sudden death were true or false.

Some said even if Lu Jiu was just an amateur, he contributed by prompting many people to get hospital check-ups and pay early attention, which was somewhat useful.

Others claimed that amateurs are just amateurs, leading people astray is wrong, citing internet influencers who craft inspirational stories, post videos of children washing parents' feet, or kneel to their parents upon getting into college from impoverished backgrounds as examples.

Lu Jiu didn't pay attention to these arguments.

He just kept looking at the replies from users who posted their examination reports confirming diseases.

Even though he knew the patients matching the four warning signs already had more issues than just heart problems and solely treating the heart might not effectively cure them.

But since these users didn't seek his help, he wouldn't proactively offer advice. Moreover, their awareness of their bodies' issues and the need to change unhealthy habits would help in their recovery.

This indirectly counts as Lu Jiu's assistance.

He closed the forum, and with no patients yet, he began reading medical books.

Just as he picked up a book, the clinic's door creaked open, letting in a not-too-cold breeze.

"Excuse me, is this Dr. Lu?" Xu Lang asked.

Lu Jiu looked at the three people who entered and promptly got up with a smile, saying, "That's me, please take a seat here."

Xu Lang and his wife helped their mother-in-law over to Lu Jiu.

With just one glance, Lu Jiu noticed the old lady had issues with her Spleen and Stomach.

The hue of her nose was slightly off.

"Ma'am, what's going on, where does it hurt?" Lu Jiu asked.

Xu Lang replied, "The doctor said my mom has Behçet's disease, very rare. I don't understand it too well either."

Behçet's disease?

Uh…

Lu Jiu had never heard of it.

After all, he studied traditional Chinese medicine. Although he had some knowledge of Western medicine, it wasn't comprehensive.

Plus, there are too many disease names in Western medicine, some even named after people in English, and not even all Western doctors remember them, let alone him.

"Alright then, let's start with the pulse," Lu Jiu said.

Since it couldn't be explained clearly, he might as well see what the Five Viscera had to say.

After gesturing for the lady to extend her hands, Lu Jiu placed his fingers on her wrist.

As he read her pulse, the voices of the Five Viscera echoed in his mind...

"It's so hot, Liver Wood, help cool me down," said Spleen Earth.

"Why do you complain about heat every afternoon? Haven't we already cleared it?" Liver Wood replied.

"Nope, it's not cleared completely, this heat comes with dampness, and what you cleared isn't enough," said Spleen Earth.

"Then you should find Hydronephrosis for help, I'm a bit exhausted from clearing your heat," Liver Wood said.

"I'm blocked here, can't help, find Heart Fire," said Hydronephrosis.

"Every single day you pass the buck, am I the only one who can solve problems? Then what use are you?" Heart Fire said.

"Don't get mad, Heart Fire, they really can't help," said Spleen Earth.

"Can I be of help? Do you think I haven't helped when you didn't ask? Your damp-heat has blocked the paths, and as for the conditions of the meridians you're responsible for, aren't you aware?" Heart Fire replied.

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