Chapter 11: Differences Between East and West

reat pain until they die a terrible death!""Who is it Who's out to get my father Find out for me!" Upon hearing what Old Zhuo said, Zhong Jianguo abruptly stood up with wide eyes and shouted loudly.Zh...Chapter Eleven: The Difference Between Chinese and Western Medicine

In this moment, he saw that Xiao Yu merely took the patient's pulse before diagnosing him. Could it be that Xiao Yu also possesses the skills of a national master But is such a possibility realistic Aren't all national masters those who have devoted decades to their craft Nevertheless, he had started to look at Xiao Yu with less disdain.

Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Xiao Yu didn’t elaborate much and calmly said: "The patient doesn’t have anything serious. I’ll use acupuncture to help him soon, followed by a few doses of medicine."

"Who do you think you are So boastful! This is no child’s play!" Chen Jinghai, upon seeing Xiao Yu’s confident demeanor, was thrown into a panic and angrily retorted.

"Shut up!" Director Hu immediately frowned, sternly glancing at Chen Jinghai: "Are you the doctor or is he"

Seeing how confident Xiao Yu spoke, and when he said that with just acupuncture and some medicine the patient could be cured, a trustworthy aura emanated from him. This was very similar to the feeling Director Hu had once experienced in the presence of a national master. Could it truly be possible that Xiao Yu possesses such skills

Subsequently, turning towards Xiao Yu, he asked: "Doctor Xiao, can you explain why the patient is suffering from this illness and what’s happening inside his intestines And why does he still have a fever despite all efforts to bring it down" Director Hu posed these questions in his heart, also taking the opportunity to test whether Xiao Yu truly possesses skills on par with those of a national master or if he was merely bluffing.

Xiao Yu walked to the patient's bedside and showed his honest, harmless smile: "Teacher Cai, were you always not good with your stomach and intestines in the past And didn't you eat something cold yesterday"

"Nonsense!"

When Chen Jinghai was called out just now, he no longer dared to speak loudly. He only muttered to himself in the crowd: If letting him touch your wrist means he can say that your stomach and intestines have always been weak and you ate something cold yesterday; what if he touches your ankle Will he then be able to tell what you ate in a past life

“Ah!” Teacher Cai, who was extremely weak from illness, showed an expression of extreme surprise upon hearing Xiao Yu say this.

The look on the patient's face made everyone in the room realize that Xiao Yu had hit the mark. They all wore a shocked expression.

Chen Jinghai’s face instantly turned liver-colored; he never expected him to be able to guess correctly like this!

Teacher Cai has been weak in his stomach and spleen since childhood, unable to eat raw or cold food regardless of whether it's winter or summer. Therefore, he had always taken good care of his gastrointestinal health from a young age and never ate any cold food. He hadn't suffered from gastric issues for many years. However, yesterday, due to the hot and muggy weather at the airport, he drank a bottle of slightly cool mineral water when feeling thirsty. Because it has been so long since he had such problems, he didn’t think much about it. Even Teacher Bai and Teacher Mao were unaware of these details.

"What does this have to do with my current illness" Teacher Cai asked. Even as Xiao Yu was taking his pulse, he didn’t believe that Xiao Yu could help him. Teacher Cai wasn't unfamiliar with traditional Chinese medicine; in fact, one of his friends was a practitioner. However, the typical image of an elderly person with white hair and wrinkles made it instinctual for him to doubt Xiao Yu’s ability to cure him. But since Teacher Cai was very kind-hearted, he didn’t want to discourage the young man, so he let him proceed with the treatment. However, at this moment, he believed that the other party could definitely cure his illness.

"Your condition is called Wet-Cold in the Stomach and Intestines leading to Diarrhea Syndrome. It’s caused by Cold Pathogenic Factors invading your meridians. If I’m not mistaken, you originally have a constitution prone to Yin-Cold, so when you suddenly feel hot, it’s because some reason has caused internal heat to rise within your body. After drinking cold water, combined with the fact that you’ve never eaten raw or cold food for years, your body can’t tolerate them at all, leading to Cold and Heat clashing in your meridians."

Teacher Cai nodded after listening; indeed, it was because of the heat that he had drunk a bottle of cold water and then started feeling abdominal pain.

Huo, the chief doctor, although not very knowledgeable about traditional Chinese medicine, found some logic in what Xiao Yu said. "Does this mean Western medicine’s diagnosis is incorrect"

"I don’t know much about Western medicine either, but I believe that Chief Doctor Huo's diagnosis wouldn't be wrong! However, Western medicine only treats symptoms!" Xiao Yu smiled with his characteristic harmless smile.

"The patient's condition arises from Cold and Heat pathogenic factors invading the stomach and intestines meridians. If you just treat the intestinal inflammation, even if it’s cured, Yin-Cold Qi still exists in the meridians, so the gastroenteritis will recur!"

"Like the patient's gut, on the surface, there is a bacterial imbalance, but have you considered this: compare the intestines to land and bacteria to crops. If you put ice underground, no matter how many crops you plant in that soil, they won’t survive. This is also why chronic diarrhea persists."

Western medicine treats gastroenteritis with anti-inflammatory drugs and adjusts the bacterial flora if it is disrupted, without considering what causes the inflammation or the disruption of the bacterial flora. This is why Western medicine is often said to treat symptoms rather than the root cause.

In contrast, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) addresses the underlying issue, like removing underground ice blocks before treating the condition, which represents TCM's approach to addressing the root cause.

The crowd was taken aback when Director Hu, a nationally renowned expert, began discussing the case with Xiao Yu. Everyone was dumbfounded. Especially Chen Jinghai, who had invited Director Hu as an expert specifically to counter Fangyuan and Xiao Yu. He couldn't believe that the two were actually discussing the patient's condition. Chen Jinghai really wanted to go up there and give Xiao Yu a good scolding, but he was also called by Director Hu earlier and knew that this wasn't someone his sister-in-law would want him to offend. So all he could do was worry on the sidelines.

Director Hu paid no heed to these thoughts as he turned to look at Xiao Yu and said: "You're saying that cold qi has condensed in the patient's meridians, causing severe coldness in their large intestine, which is why they have persistent diarrhea."

"That’s correct," nodded Xiao Yu.

Director Hu pondered for a moment before asking: "According to what you've said, the patient was invaded by cold qi. How do you explain the persistent high fever then"

"Didn't the patient initially drink cold water because they felt hot The patient has a cold constitution. If such a person feels hot, it means there's already a lot of internal heat in their body. And since they have a cold constitution and cannot tolerate extreme changes between cold and hot environments simultaneously, drinking cold water after feeling hot causes the two cold elements to combine and intensify the cold qi, driving the internal heat outward onto the surface of the body, causing persistent high fever."ng Erxi and Yuan Chao cleaning the toilet.Xiao Hongyang furrowed his brows in thought. Why was Xiao Yu shaking his head There didn’t seem to be anything wrong with what Erxi and Yuan Chao were doing;...