Chapter 507: Chapter 215: The Decision of Huian Pharmacy, Expert Consultations_2

When it’s serious, both her father and I have to hold her down, but we can’t keep her down. She keeps struggling and looks very uncomfortable. She doesn’t respond to questions and won’t drink water, just restlessly making a fuss.

After visiting the hospital, the doctor said that from the outside it looks a bit like a mental disorder, but not quite. Although my daughter makes a scene during episodes, she doesn’t curse or hit people, and doesn’t cry or laugh.

She doesn’t resist when taking her pulse, that’s basically the situation.

I knew her situation was a bit special, so I planned to take her to a large hospital in the province to have her checked out."

When she said this, Lu Xuan understood the implication behind her words; she was basically saying that if you don’t know how to treat her, don’t just prescribe anything.

Lu Xuan didn’t get angry but instead turned to the girl who had just spoken, surprised.

He observed her face, particularly red on the cheeks; he examined her pulse, which was slippery and large.

Lu Xuan judged in his heart that this might be a symptom of phlegm disturbing the body, although he hadn’t encountered such patients before. However, he seemed to have encountered those Chinese herbs before, and "Heart’s Voice" kept echoing in his ear. He listened quietly, and after a while, he showed a look of sudden realization.

This patient’s condition seems like madness, but it’s actually caused by phlegm coagulating and obstructing the qi.

The "Spiritual Pivot Cold and Heat Disease Chapter" mentions the disease of "sudden obstruction of qi," where because of qi blockage, one cannot speak.

Before falling ill, the patient had sweated and caught a cold while chopping wood, resulting in a cold. Coupled with eating raw pears, it led to an internal and external combination of factors, causing phlegm to congeal and qi to become obstructed, making speech impossible.

However, when she is normal, she is fine; it’s just during episodes that she’s almost mute.

Because of stubborn phlegm accumulation, the patient experiences extreme discomfort and an inability to speak, hence she struggles to escape the pain, which two or three people can’t restrain. Phlegm causing illness was called a strange condition by the ancients, and this is an example.

Lu Xuan had never seen such a disease before or even heard of it, and he was somewhat interested for a moment.

Facing the mother’s reminder and skepticism, Lu Xuan, after understanding the situation, looked at her and said, "Auntie, there’s no need to worry. Prior to this, I actually treated similar patients. During an episode, the patient said they felt turmoil inside, very uncomfortable. When taking their pulse, they would grab the doctor’s hand and shout for help. Such a case can be cured with phlegm treatment."

To gain the mother’s trust, Lu Xuan decided to tell a small lie.

As expected, no sooner had Lu Xuan finished speaking than the mother exclaimed with delight, "Really?"

"Doctor, then could you please have a look at my daughter?"

"What medicine does she need to take?"

Seemingly having predicted the reaction, Lu Xuan smiled slightly: "Based on past experience, you should use the Platinum Pill, Little Chaihu with Longmu Soup, and Wendan Decoction combined."

He finished speaking, took a piece of paper, wrote down the prescription, and handed it to her: "You can’t get the medicine here; you’ll have to find a place to get it yourselves. If you’d like, I can recommend a place, Huian Pharmacy. The quality of Chinese medicine there is quite good. Of course, if you’re concerned that I have ties with Huian Pharmacy, you can go elsewhere. As long as the quality of the materials isn’t poor, your daughter’s condition isn’t too serious."

The mother looked at the prescription with a face full of doubt.

After reading it, she was confused: "I can’t quite understand it, but I recognize the characters. It’s not like those doctors at the hospital, where I can’t recognize a single word they write on medical records."

Lu Xuan smiled slightly and patiently explained: "The prescription primarily uses the Platinum Pill, with Curcuma to circulate upward lightly, being fragrant yet not intense, entering the heart and liver meridians, and also the lung meridian, to move qi, relieve depression, cool blood, and break madness; Dried Alum dries dampness and transforms phlegm.

Chaihu with Longmu Decoction serves as a complement, primarily treating mixed evil qi where the interior and exterior are not distinguished, with evil heat affecting the chest.

Chaihu focuses on unblocking the evil between interior and exterior, Longmu focuses on calming the chaotic qi movement.

Wendan Decoction is an adjunct, focusing on treating qi stagnation that generates phlegm, where phlegm and qi clash, producing various symptoms.

Besides, various flavor-enhancing drugs are all phlegm-transforming, orifice-opening, heart-clearing, and mind-settling substances.

Whether the subsequent prescription needs to be changed will depend on your daughter’s recovery and symptoms at the time."

The girl’s mother still didn’t quite understand, but Lu Xuan’s earnest attitude made her beam with trust. After repeatedly expressing her gratitude, she paid the consultation fee and left with her daughter.

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Huian Pharmacy.

Today Huian Pharmacy wasn’t exactly crowded, but there was a constant flow of people coming and going to buy medicine.

As soon as one person left, another came in with a prescription to get medicine.

The middle-aged woman responsible for dispensing medicine looked at the identical papers in her hand and that all-too-familiar handwriting, sinking into contemplation.

She had lost count of how many times she’d seen this same handwriting, but just this morning, she’d already dispensed medicine to nearly twenty people. Though most only got two or three days’ worth of medicine, Chinese medicine isn’t cheap; two or three days’ worth still costs dozens since there’s no insurance reimbursement. For those who need a week’s worth, the cost starts at one or two hundred.

If the prescription includes some of the more expensive herbs, the cost is even higher.

She roughly calculated that morning and found she had sold at least two or three thousand yuan worth of Chinese medicine.

Before this, such an amount was typically sold over a month.

Yet now, a single morning had completed the previous month’s volume, which was undeniably astounding.

Just after finishing with a prescription, when yet another person came in with the same paper, she became somewhat desensitized and couldn’t help but ask for the first time, "Did you all get this prescription from that Dr. Lu? I don’t recall there being a clinic in Anjiang for him?"

Ye Feifei, though in her thirties, had lived in Anjiang County for many years and worked at Huian Pharmacy, so she knew how many clinics there were to some extent.

Moreover, there weren’t many Chinese medicine clinics, making a mistake unlikely.

And considering Lu Xuan wasn’t very old, still in his twenties, if he were so talented, his reputation would have spread throughout Anjiang County long ago, not just blowing up today.

Thinking this made Ye Feifei increasingly puzzled.

"There’s no clinic!"

The person picking up the medicine replied immediately: "I don’t actually know very well, but I heard from others that Dr. Lu seems quite famous around Yong City, so I searched for his name online and found out. Although relatively young, Dr. Lu has a big reputation in Yong City’s Traditional Chinese Medicine Circle; I even heard he’s a visiting doctor at the United South Chinese Medicine Association."

"United South Chinese Medicine Association?"

Ye Feifei frowned: "What’s that place?"

The person picking up the medicine shrugged: "I don’t know either, but it’s supposedly very prestigious, considered a temple by Yong City’s Chinese medicine practitioners. And Dr. Lu is said to be a director of the Yong City Chinese Medical Association, and his medical skills are exceptionally good. Every day, hundreds of people seek his consultation."

Hundreds of people?

This was too exaggerated!

Ye Feifei couldn’t help but marvel; she certainly didn’t believe it.

Not that she doubted many people sought out Lu Xuan, but a day only has so many hours, and even if he worked non-stop around the clock, it would be impossible to see that many.

"Could you fill my prescription first? I want to go back and brew the medicine. If you’re curious, you can ask the next person."

Ye Feifei was helpless but couldn’t argue, so after filling the order, during the lull before the next customer arrived, she moved aside and called the manager.

She needed to report this situation to the manager.

"Feifei, what’s up?"

Once the call connected, the manager’s familiar voice came through. Ye Feifei didn’t mince words and got straight to the point: "Brother-in-law, I need to tell you something important."

"Go ahead."

"Do you remember that Dr. Lu I mentioned yesterday?"

"Yes, what about him?"

Without delay, Ye Feifei relayed everything she had observed that day.