"Uncle, are you usually thirsty?"

"Thirsty."

"Would you like to drink hot or cold?"

"It's cold, it's hot... I can't drink it."

"Does your bowel movement go smoothly?"

"Uh... not very good."

"What's wrong? Can you be more specific? For example, do you have endless urination, or do you have short and urgent urination?"

"Just pee... stop for a moment."

"What about the color?"

"It's yellow, and it has bubbles."

"Where's the poop?"

"Ouch, I haven't had sex in three or four days."

"Will your stomach feel bloated?"

"Yes, I feel it right after eating... and it lasts for a long time... and I can't get rid of it."

"Well, stick your tongue out again and let me see. Yes, grow up..."

Red tongue with yellow coating.

This uncle's face is red, he has bad breath, his gums are slightly swollen, and he has short hiccups from time to time.

This is obviously an upset stomach.

This disease is easy to treat by regulating it. All you need to do is clear the fire and lower the ni, and harmonize the stomach to stop the hiccups.

The prescription is Bamboo Leaf Gypsum Decoction, a prescription in Treatise on Febrile Diseases.

A total of seven traditional Chinese medicines were used, including bamboo leaves, gypsum, pinellia, Ophiopogon japonicus, ginseng, licorice, and japonica rice.

Of course, Lu Jiu did not copy the prescriptions. He still asked the patients to choose from the book. If they had a smartphone, they would take pictures. If they didn’t, they would copy them with pen and paper. If they didn’t know how to read, they would ask someone to copy them for them.

In short, Lu Jiu was very strict and did not give anyone a chance to seize the opportunity.

Who knows if anyone in this crowd used a mobile phone to record the video, right?

"Uncle, drink less alcohol in the future and eat less fatty, sweet and tasty food. Otherwise, even if your problem is cured now, you will still have it in the future, and if you don't change your eating habits, it will directly hurt you.

Stomach, if this thing hurts you, then I can only congratulate you on the business, and then you will be their most loyal member." Lu Jiu said.

The uncle was dumbfounded, "No, uh... it's not that exaggerated."

"Exaggeration?" Lu Jiu looked around, "Everyone, please recall, if an elderly person passed away at home, did they not eat much before they passed away?"

Among the onlookers, there were several uncles and aunts in their forties and fifties who nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, when my mother left, she couldn't eat for two or three days."

"My dad was the same. He could only eat half a bowl of porridge for a week before he left. One day, after two or three days, he couldn't eat anything. At that time, we felt that dad couldn't hold on any longer."

"Dr. Lu, what's the reason for this?"

"..."

The uncle, like everyone else, looked at Lu Jiu curiously.

Lu Jiudao, "Traditional Chinese medicine attaches great importance to stomach qi. We say that if we have stomach qi, we will live, and if we don't have stomach qi, we will die. To put it simply, stomach qi is equal to appetite. Having appetite means that our body can still absorb nutrients. At this time, whether we are eating

Even if you take medicine, your body can digest them, but once you lose your appetite, can't eat anything, or can't digest anything, if you get sick again, it will be difficult to treat?"

If the spleen is deficient, all kinds of diseases will arise; if the stomach is weak, all kinds of medicines will be difficult to treat.

Why?

You can’t even eat food with very low medicinal properties, let alone traditional Chinese medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine does not work just by eating it. It must be transported and transformed by the spleen and stomach before it can move along the meridians.

This is also why when many Chinese medicine doctors treat acute and severe cases, they don’t care about the patient’s disease. They just ask you if you can eat. If you can’t eat, I will adjust the food until you can eat. If you still can’t eat after a long time, many Chinese medicine doctors will do this.

In this case, treatment will be given up.

Because when a person can't eat anything, his internal organs will lose their nutritional supply, and at this time, they are basically beyond salvation.

Frequent eating of rich, sweet and rich foods and overeating will always make the stomach full, which is constantly consuming our stomach gas.

These actions are undoubtedly seeking death!

"But uh... Doctor Lu, I have a good appetite, uh... ah." The uncle said.

Lu Jiu smiled and said, "Having a good appetite doesn't mean you can eat whatever you want. Your stomach fire is caused by eating too much spicy and greasy food. If the stomach fire goes up, it will take away your stomach qi.

, after a long time, see if your appetite can still improve."

"You can't just uh... eat everything. I think some people eat uh... things. Isn't it OK if they don't?" The uncle burped several times every time he said a word.

Lu Jiu smiled and said, "That's why everyone's physique is different, and we live in the plains, which is not suitable for eating these things all year round. If you go to the Sichuan Basin, just pretend that I didn't say it, but in Jianghan

, you can’t eat like this.”

"Is there such a thing?" The uncle was very curious.

"Hey, you don't understand this. As the old saying goes, where the soil and water support the people, the customs and habits of each place have their own reasons." Someone said.

"Yes, we were born and grew up here. Our bodies have long adapted to the geographical climate here, and naturally our spleen and stomach have also adapted to it. Although our living conditions are better now, out-of-season fruits and vegetables, frozen foods that have been stored for a long time, etc., are no longer available.

In the past, only princes and ministers could enjoy it, but as long as we have money, we can eat whatever we want. However, if we don't pay attention to anything, don't exercise moderation, and eat and drink all day long, then the disease will come.

." Lu Jiudao.

"Dr. Lu, in other words, as long as a person has no appetite, it means that his stomach Qi is damaged?" someone asked.

Um?

Lu Jiu looked for the voice and found that the person was wearing a white coat. He looked like a doctor.

"Who are you……"

When Guan Wei saw Lu Jiu asking himself, he smiled and said, "You block my door and you don't even know who I am?"

The onlookers couldn't help but laugh, "Dr. Guan, why aren't you angry?"

Guan Wei smiled and said, "Why am I angry? I have been working in this clinic for five or six years, and I have never had so many people come to my place to join in the fun. It's too late for me to be happy."

After speaking, Guan Wei looked at Lu Jiu again, "Dr. Lu, you haven't finished teaching yet. Since Chinese medicine believes that stomach qi is very important, you must know how to nourish stomach qi."

Lu Jiu smiled and said, "Doctor Guan know about Chinese medicine?"

Guan Wei explained, "Actually, I majored in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Of course, after studying this major, I only know a little bit about traditional Chinese medicine. I know nothing about syndrome differentiation and treatment, yin and yang, the five elements, and those traditional Chinese medicinal materials. But

After learning some things about traditional Chinese medicine, I also know how to look at complexion. For example, if there is a problem with the spleen and stomach, sometimes people’s noses will have melanin, and this big brother’s nose is black.”

When everyone heard this, they immediately looked over.

It's true, the nose is a bit dark.

Many people thought it was the eldest brother's own mole. Guan Wei said that it was a problem with the spleen and stomach that caused the melanin on the nose.

When Lu Jiu saw what he said, he knew that Dr. Guan was not ignorant. He probably only knew some theoretical things and didn't know how to use Chinese medicine to treat diseases.

"The teacher didn't teach you this when you were in school?" Lu Jiu asked.

Guan Wei smiled and said, "The Chinese medicine teacher in our school is not a Chinese medicine doctor. When he took us to the Chinese medicine hospital for internship, I never saw him take the pulse. He only used instruments to check, and he was talking about stomach qi.

, and at that time, the teachers who taught Western medicine in our school generally looked down on Chinese medicine, especially the pharmacy teachers. Thirty minutes of the forty-five-minute class were spent criticizing Chinese medicine. What do you think I can learn?"

Guan Wei's self-deprecation is actually a common phenomenon in medical universities today.

Those who understand Chinese medicine don’t have time to teach, and those who have time to teach don’t understand Chinese medicine.

Many students who like traditional Chinese medicine are admitted to university, and after five years of wasting time out of school, how many of them still insist on traditional Chinese medicine in the face of the pressure of life?

Even if you persist, you end up going to a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in a third-tier city, and it turns out that all the equipment reports are there, what should you do?

Medicine, especially traditional Chinese medicine, requires a lot of practice to learn, just like Western medicine students have to do a lot of surgeries to become experts in this field, rather than relying on book knowledge.

There are so many hospitals across the country. How many pure Chinese medicine hospitals can allow Chinese medicine students to conduct practical learning after graduation?

The current teaching model and employment environment of Chinese medicine are completely incomparable with Western medicine. And on this basis, Chinese medicine still has to compete with Western medicine in terms of efficacy.

Is it fair?

Everyone knows this is unfair.

But what can be done?

Lu Jiu did not ask Guan Wei again, but continued to popularize science, "Haha, there are actually many types of people who have no appetite. The first one is food accumulation. If a person is full for a long time and eats too much food, the spleen will always be

If it works overtime, once it gets tired, the food stored in the stomach will remain, eventually forming food accumulation."

"The stomach is a fu organ among the five internal organs, and it cannot be full. If you always keep your stomach full, over time, it will hurt the stomach qi and your appetite will be poor. The second is insufficient spleen. What you take in

The amount of food is normal, but if you have fewer workers involved in digestion, it will still lead to a lack of appetite. The third is insufficient stomach yin, which is gastric juice according to Western medicine. Spleen is the kinetic energy that dominates digestion, but digestion requires more than just kinetic energy.
To be continued...