The Medic Taoist Chapter 7

Vice President Xiao was very hesitant. Although he had a family background in traditional Chinese medicine, no matter how experienced the Chinese and Western medicine doctors in their hospital or the experts from other hospitals were able to treat this disease. Mason was only 21 years old. A 60-year-old master of traditional Chinese medicine still considered young. Could he be better than the old experts?

But since his old friend had spoken, he still had to give him some face. The young man was also concerned about him, and it was good enough that he could make a bold diagnosis. So Vice President Xiao encouraged the young man and said, "Okay, thank you, Xiao Zhou."

Mrs. Xiao opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything. She just stared at Mason's actions.

At this time, Xiao's mother was leaning on the sofa with her eyes half closed. She was still hiccuping and covering her abdomen with her hands, making uncomfortable sounds from time to time.

Mason held Xiao's mother's pulse with both hands for more than a minute before releasing her hand. He looked at her tongue coating and asked, "Has Grandma Xiao been suffering from hiccups and abdominal distension these past two days?"

Vice President Xiao was about to say, no.

"Yes, yes!" Mrs. Xiao replied without thinking. Vice President Xiao was busy and didn't know. She had just accompanied her mother to see a specialist, but she knew that she had been feeling a little bloated and stuffy since last night.

Vice President Xiao looked at Mason in surprise. Mason didn't ask any questions, but he was able to determine such details just by taking the patient's pulse?

Although he is not a Chinese medicine practitioner and is now doing more management work, at least there is a Chinese medicine department in the hospital, and he knows that few young people nowadays have such pulse diagnosis skills. This thing is easy to get started but difficult to master. There is a saying that "it is easy to understand in the mind, but difficult to understand in the hands", which also shows some skills.

"Then tell me, what's wrong with me?" Xiao's mother asked weakly and intermittently.

Others also stared at Mason. Unconsciously, their attitudes changed because of his pulse diagnosis skills. They all knew that Chinese medicine had four diagnostic methods: observation, auscultation, listening, questioning and palpation. Mason hadn't understood all of them, but he mentioned something that even Vice President Xiao didn't know.

Now, no one would think that he was just being shown around.

"It's still hot, I'm afraid I got a little cold from the air conditioning, which caused the yin and yang in the stomach to be out of balance, and the stomach qi went up and came out of the throat, which caused the hiccups. Western medicine is ineffective in treating the nerves because the root of the disease is the coldness. If the spleen and stomach are not properly regulated, the hiccups will not stop.

"As for the ineffectiveness of Xuanfu Daizhe Decoction, it was because the previous doctor misjudged the pathogenesis and did not know that Grandma Xiao had cold in her body. The Daizhe stone in the medicine can calm the hiccups, but it is bitter and cold in nature. Ordinary people should not use more than one dose of it for hiccups, let alone Grandma Xiao. Xuanfu Daizhe Decoction should not be used, especially Daizhe stone. More dried ginger should be used, and white atractylodes, codonopsis and other medicines should be added. Warming the spleen and stomach is the main treatment, and calming the hiccups is the auxiliary treatment. This way, the disease can be cured."

Mason knew that no one present understood Chinese medicine, so he tried to explain it as simply as possible.

After he explained it, the stubborn hiccups were clearly analyzed, and even Mrs. Xiao, who had complained before, nodded repeatedly.

Cold, heat, yin and yang are all theories of traditional Chinese medicine. If you think about it from this perspective, even if you haven't learned it, you can tell that changing the prescription of Xuanfu Daizheshi Decoction to Ganjiang Baizhu to treat Xiao's mother's cold spleen and stomach, lowering the stomach qi, and thus calming the hiccups, is indeed logical, right?

Hope appeared in Xiao's mother's cloudy eyes. She had been tortured for a long time and had not slept well. The dried ginger and codonopsis mentioned by him were all familiar to her and would not cause any illness. She immediately looked at her son and said, "Then give it a try."

Vice President Xiao still had some hesitation in his heart, so he asked Mason: "How many days will it take to see the effect?"

If possible, he would like to find other experts. It would be best if they could quickly relieve his mother's discomfort.

Mason didn't think about it at all and said, "The symptoms of hiccups can be stopped with one dose. You can eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach to nourish your body with food therapy. The spleen and stomach of the elderly are weak."

Vice President Xiao almost thought he had misheard: "One dose can stop it?"

If one dose could stop the symptoms, then why would he be in such a hurry? But isn't this a difficult disease? Usually, his colleagues in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine would prescribe three or four days' worth of medicine for patients with colds.

"One dose?" Mrs. Xiao was also dumbfounded. Wouldn't this effect be comparable to that of Western medicine? The guy who prescribed Xuanfu Daizhe Decoction said that it would take six doses to be effective. Of course, Mrs. Xiao's condition worsened before she finished taking the medicine.

Mason was very calm. He said that Chinese medicine is slow in treating diseases, but that is only the opinion of people who do not understand it: "There is a saying that if the medicine is right for the condition, it is like a sip of soup; if it is wrong, it is like a boat. It is just a hiccup. As long as the diagnosis is correct and the right medicine is used, one dose is enough."

"Then Xiao Zhou, write down the prescription and I'll have someone get the medicine!" Vice President Xiao also showed courage. He really appreciated the attitude Mason had just used when he said this.

Mason immediately took a pen and paper and wrote down the medicine, dosage, and decoction method clearly.

But after all, she is his biological mother, so Vice President Xiao also showed his meticulous side. When he called to ask someone to prescribe medicine, he first asked the people in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine to confirm the medicinal properties of these medicines, and whether there was any danger in the combination and dosage.

After confirming that everything was correct, I got the medicine from the Chinese medicine pharmacy of the Third Hospital, boiled it and sent it over.

The Xiao family lives in the hospital's family quarters, adjacent to the hospital. In just over an hour, the medicine was already on the table.

Mrs. Xiao supported Xiao's mother and divided the bowl of Chinese medicine soup into several portions, and drank it slowly.

Mother Xiao only felt that as the medicine went down her throat, it seemed as if there was a warm current soothing her gently, and the bloating feeling she had suffered for days was greatly relieved. She expressed her feelings.

Vice President Xiao smiled after hearing this. It seemed that the medicine was indeed effective and the symptoms had begun to ease.

Because of hiccups and abdominal bloating, Xiao's mother had a poor appetite. Now that her stomach felt better, she could eat. The medicine seemed to have some appetite-stimulating effect, and she took the initiative to ask for some food.

As a result, after eating half a bowl of hot rice, Xiao's mother found that the hiccups that had troubled her for many days had gradually stopped. Unconsciously, after finishing the meal, the hiccups were completely gone!

Mrs. Xiao was surprised and delighted: "It stopped, it really stopped."

Xiao Zhou said that the effect was immediate after taking one dose. The difficult and complicated disease that several experts had not been able to cure was actually cured with just one dose.

Master Qin Guan nodded with satisfaction. He had thought that the saying that the medicine would be effective after one dose was just used to boost the patients' confidence. It would be good if the condition could improve after taking the medicine. He believed that the Xiao family would also be very grateful. Who knew that the medicine would really work and the patient would be cured after one dose.