Chapter 244 - He Could Do Bonesetting?!
Chapter 244 He Could Do Bonesetting?!
The next day, just as Xu Miaolin had planned, Fang Qiu began to see patients by himself.
A short while later, the first patient came.
It was an old man in his sixties.
“Dr. Xiao Fang, please give me a checkup.”
As soon as the old man entered the clinic, he walked towards the clinic table immediately, scratching his body as hard as he could, just like a monkey, but with a painful face.
“What’s wrong with you?” Fang Qiu immediately asked, “skin issues?”
“Yes,” the old man sat down and immediately said, “I have got rubella for several months and feel quite itchy. Although it got better after having an intravenous drip in the hospital, I felt itchy again a short time later. Do you think that I can be cured? I can’t always suffer from this repeatedly. It will torture me to death.”
“Rubella?” Fang Qiu was dumbfounded and then said, “let me see where it is.”
As Fang Qiu returned to the clinic table, the third patient sat down.
“Doctor Fang, please have a look at me. I always feel uncomfortable in my belly.”
It was a man in his mid-thirties.
“What’s the matter? Do you have any feelings or symptoms?” Fang Qiu inquired carefully.
“I always have abdominal pain. Every time I go to the toilet, I have loose bowels. Especially when I accidentally catch a cold or eat something raw and cold, the pain is worse,” said the patient.
“Have you ever been to a hospital for treatment?” asked Fang Qiu.
“Yes, but the effect is not very good. It always reappears,” the patient replied.
“Well, what’s the color of your stool? Do you have blood in your stool?”
Fang Qiu continued to inquire.
“I don’t know. Seems that it has some red and white slime,” the patient replied.
“How many times do you go to the toilet a day?” asked Fang Qiu again.
“Three to four times,” the patient answered truthfully and said, “but I always can’t defecate, and it hurts when I press my underbelly.”
Fang Qiu nodded with understanding.
Then he began to feel the pulse for the patient.
A moment later.
“Your pulse is strong, and you have a yellow coating on the tongue.”
“Although the symptom is caused by insufficiency of Qi and blood in the spleen and stomach, it also involves Yangming stagnation of the damp evil. If the damp evil isn’t removed, you will have loose bowels, and it can’t be stopped.”
Speaking of this, Fang Qiu began to write a prescription and murmured, “The prescription is to use the rheum officinale to connect the Qi in the viscera and sweep the rot and dirt in the intestine.”
A short while later, the prescription was done.
“9 grams of cassia twig, 18 grams of paeonia lactiflora, 9 grams of ginger, 10 jujubes, 6 grams of radix glycyrrhizae preparata, 6 grams of rheum officinale. A total of three doses.”
After filling the prescription, Fang Qiu handed the medicine to the patient and advised him, “Fry and boil these three doses of medicine together and then drink the decoction several times after ladling it out.”
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Here, Xu Miaolin looked at Fang Qiu and kept nodding his head.
He did not check again but just judged the patient’s physical condition through the inquiries of Fang Qiu to see whether the prescription that Fang Qiu gave was right.
As a result, he found that every diagnosis of Fang Qiu was correct without any error, which made him very satisfied.
And Feng Xuexin, who had been staying beside the medicine cabinet, also watched Fang Qiu see patients alone. He watched more carefully, especially when Fang Qiu filled the prescriptions for the patients.
As a result, he found that Fang Qiu not only made correct diagnoses and wrote correct prescriptions, but also measured the medicine precisely.
This made Feng Xuexin very speechless because Fang Qiu’s progress was too fast.
Feng Xuexin remembered that when Fang Qiu just came to the clinic, he could not even master the four diagnostic methods. However, in a trice, Fang Qiu had become familiar with seeing patients by himself.
“This strength is almost as good as mine. But the thing is that I have been studying for many years while Fang Qiu has only been studying for a few days.”
Feng Xuexin sighed helplessly.
At this time, no sooner had Fang Qiu returned to the clinic table and sat down than another patient arrived.
“Excuse me, what’s wrong with you?”
It was a middle-aged man. Before he walked inside, the middle-aged man clamped his hands over the back of his neck and rubbed it hard.
“My neck hurts,” the patient frowned and said in pain, “doctor, please give me a checkup. It hurts badly.”
“Besides the pain in the neck, is there any other symptoms?” Fang Qiu asked as he got up and went around beside the patient.
“Sometimes I get dizzy,” the patient replied.
“OK.”
Fang Qiu nodded. As he walked behind the patient, he stretched out his hands to touch the patient’s neck and said, “This is cervical vertebra dislocation.”
“Ah?”
The patient was startled.
“Nothing serious. I’ll just do bonesetting for you,” Fang Qiu patted the patient on the shoulder, laughed, and said, “it might be a little hurt.”
“OK,” the patient answered.
“Keep your neck straight.”
While speaking, he placed his hands on both sides of the neck to do bonesetting.
“What is Fang Qiu going to do?” Feng Xuexin asked Xu Miaolin while looking at Fang Qiu in surprise.
“Crack, crack…”
Before Xu Miaolin answered, the sounds of two joints rubbing was heard.
The bonesetting had been done.
“Hmm, it doesn’t hurt?”
The patient stood up and looked at Fang Qiu in surprise. He kept stroking his neck and found that he was really cured, so he was immediately overjoyed.
Here, Feng Xuexin was also stunned.
“Fang Qiu could actually do bonesetting?”
Feng Xuexin opened his eyes wide because he couldn’t believe what had happened in front of him.
“I have watched Fang Qiu’s growth personally, but he has never learned bonesetting. He just learned the four diagnostic methods and how to write prescriptions and fill them. How could he do bonesetting?”
Feng Xuexin was extremely shocked. However, there were so many patients in the clinic, so he didn’t dare to ask in public for fear of frightening the patients and affecting Fang Qiu’s reputation. He could only look at Xu Miaolin with unbelievable and doubtful eyes.
“Before he was apprenticed to me, he had been a physician of bonesetting in the First Affiliated Hospital of University of Jiangjing Chinese Medicine. He has cured many people,” Xu Miaolin explained with a smile.
“What?”
Feng Xuexin looked at Fang Qiu in great surprise, as if his eyes were about to fall off. Then he turned around and asked, “A freshman became a physician?”
“Yes.”
Xu Miaolin nodded his head as a matter of course.
“Is Fang Qiu… from a bonesetting family?” Feng Xuexin asked again.
“I don’t know,” Xu Miaolin shook his head and said, “but according to my judgment, he shouldn’t be.”
“Then how did he learn bonesetting?” Feng Xuexin said in confusion, “he is not from a family of bonesetting and is only a freshman. I do not believe that there is a university which teaches freshmen bonesetting, let alone learn it. The students at his age do not even know what the bonesetting is.
“Unless he has learned from others before being apprenticed to you!”
Feng Xuexin was very sure.
“Fang Qiu can never learn the bonesetting without being taught. What’s more, he does so well.”
“No,” Xu Miaolin nodded with absolute certainty and said, “as far as I know, he did not study medicine from anyone before he entered the university, nor did he study under a teacher after being admitted to University of Jiangjing Chinese Medicine.”
“No way?”
Feng Xuexin was dumbfounded.
“While he wasn’t apprenticed to a teacher and there was no chance for him to engage in bonesetting, he has not only learned bonesetting but also has become a physician of bonesetting.”
“This guy is so outstanding that he makes me jealous.”
Feng Xuexin couldn’t help sighing with emotion in indescribable shock.