I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 392 - 164: Treating Upper Faintness from Lower Deficiency with the Method of Raising Yin and Subduing Yang

Chapter 392: Chapter 164: Treating Upper Faintness from Lower Deficiency with the Method of Raising Yin and Subduing Yang

American ginseng was quickly decocted and administered.

In this regard, the efficiency of the decoction room is still very high, and coupled with the fact that the decoction room uses high-pressure decoction techniques with intense heat, it speeds up the process.

Moreover, unlike some difficult-to-decoct Chinese herbs, American ginseng can even just be steeped in hot water for drinking. However, given the patient’s condition, simply steeping it would not extract the necessary potency, so it must be decocted.

In less than fifteen minutes, Gu Huahua hurriedly brought the decocted American ginseng over.

"Dr. Lu, here’s the decocted American ginseng, as per your instructions, 9 grams quickly decocted."

"Is it cooled down?"

"Almost, it’s warm, should be just right for drinking."

Lu Xuan nodded and looked at the patient’s son: "Give me a hand and help your dad sit up so he can drink the medicine."

"Okay, okay."

The young man was not as panicked as at the beginning and followed Lu Xuan’s instructions.

Fortunately, the patient hadn’t passed out, just slightly incoherent, but still able to take the medicine. Otherwise, things would have been much more dangerous. In such cases, relying solely on acupuncture without medication would struggle to restore the patient’s Primordial Qi.

"Dad, drink the medicine." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Although the patient was incoherent, he was fortunately cooperative and drank the medicine rather quickly.

"Dr. Lu, is my dad going to be okay?" the young man asked worriedly after his father finished the medicine.

"Let’s wait a little while."

Lu Xuan wasn’t sure if the American ginseng would be effective or buy more time to administer other medications; the use of American ginseng was a critical step, essential for the subsequent treatment.

Though anxious, the young man could only suppress his worries for now.

After a while, the patient regained consciousness. Looking at himself lying on the ground being supported by his son left him a bit dazed.

"Son, what happened to me?"

"Dad, you just collapsed and became incoherent. It was Dr. Lu here who saved you."

The patient clearly had some memory of the event. Hearing his son reminded him of falling earlier, though he couldn’t recall what happened afterward. But he trusted his son wouldn’t lie, so he turned to Lu Xuan, expressing gratitude: "Dr. Lu, thank you!"

"It was a small effort."

Lu Xuan gestured dismissively: "You’re not out of danger yet. Go to an empty consultation room and rest on a small bed for a while. I’ll prescribe you something, and we’ll have it decocted immediately in the decoction room. Once you’re out of danger, you can go home."

After finishing, he looked at the young man: "First, take your dad to the empty consultation room for a rest. Gu Huahua, please look after him. I’ll prepare the prescription for you, and you go pay for it so the decoction room can get started immediately. I’ll inform them there."

The young man nodded quickly, helping Gu Huahua to escort the somewhat weakened patient to the vacant consultation room to rest.

Meanwhile, Lu Xuan grabbed the patient’s social security card and went to room 249 to write up the prescription. After notifying the young man to make the payment and start the decoction, Huang Beishan and Zhang Jingcai, among others, entered the room.

Huang Beishan immediately said, "Lu, we’re lucky to have you here; otherwise that old man might not have survived."

"He was lucky not to pass out, just incoherent. Otherwise, even I might not have been able to do much," Lu Xuan shook his head.

After speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and looked up at the group: "Aren’t you going back to attend to the patients?"

The group exchanged glances, and finally, Huang Beishan spoke: "You know, most of the ailments we usually deal with are chronic ones requiring dietary and lifestyle adjustments. We rarely, if ever, encounter life-threatening emergencies like the one just now. This was the first time seeing such a situation, and until we understand what happened, how do you expect us to focus on other patients?

Moreover, the patients are all talking now, very curious. Lu Xuan, your reputation is spreading among the patient community at the United South Chinese Medicine Association.

The situations that Huang Beishan and Zhang Jingcai could not handle were resolved by Dr. Lu, so I think your appointments next week might just get fully booked."

"Why don’t we discuss this somewhere after work?"

However, Huang Beishan and the others seemed indifferent.

Seeing this, Lu Xuan knew they wouldn’t let it go easily, so he resignedly said, "Alright, I’ll explain."

"Before that, check the prescription first. Feel free to ask any questions anytime; otherwise, it’ll be hard for me to cover everything thoroughly."

Huang Beishan and the others quickly passed the prescription around, memorizing it before looking at Lu Xuan.

Facing their attention, Lu Xuan showed no pressure; instead, he calmly said: "You saw the patient’s condition just now. In traditional Chinese medicine, it’s categorized as ’Lower Deficiency and Upper Reversal,’ caused by the failure of Yin to guard and Yang to function.

The heart is said to be the ’sovereign of the organs, from which the spirit is expressed.’ But for the heart to express this spirit, it relies on the mutual support of the true water of the kidneys and the fire of the heart, achieving harmony through the balance of water and fire and consequently yin and yang.

If my guess is correct, he must be someone overexerting himself mentally, resulting in insufficient heart fire, losing its mutual support relationship with kidney water, leading to failure of yin to rise and yang to descend, causing such symptoms as flushed cheeks, floating large and forceful pulse, but empty and weak pulse upon deep pressure, cold extremities, and retracted penis forming an empty shell syndrome."

The group was thoughtful.

The reason they eagerly came was due to seeing the patient’s retracted penis, stunned by the sight.

Even after decades of practice, it was the first time they encountered such a case.

They had heard of it before, but hearing about something and witnessing it firsthand creates entirely different levels of impact, leading to their urgent curiosity.