I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 119 - 97: Milk and Eggs vs. Rice Porridge and Fried Dough Sticks

"Dr. Lu, it’s my turn now, right?"

Rong Jisheng had just left, and before Lu Jiu could call the next number, a man in his thirties sat directly in front of Lu Jiu.

Lu Jiu glanced at the number card and, seeing he wasn’t cutting in line, smiled and said, "What’s bothering you?"

Xu Biao’s mouth seemed a bit unnatural, "Toothache. It started last night, and it got worse this morning. By lunchtime, I could barely open my mouth. It hurts like hell whenever I tried to put in any effort."

Lu Jiu asked, "Which side is the toothache on?"

Xu Biao pointed to his right cheek, "This side."

Lu Jiu smiled and took a finest needle from the drawer, "Reach out your hand, left hand."

Not suspecting anything, Xu Biao extended his hand to the table in front of Lu Jiu.

Lu Jiu grabbed his hand and directly inserted a needle in the area between his thumb and index finger on the left hand.

However, the positioning was quite deep, reaching the junction of the bones of the index finger and thumb.

This place actually has a name, called the Toothache Hegu Acupoint.

Its position is more inward than the Hegu Acupoint and is specifically for treating toothache.

If it’s a left-side toothache, you needle the right Hegu, and it can relieve pain on the spot in tens of seconds. For a right-side toothache, needle the left hand. If it’s a front toothache, you do both hands.

The theory used here is: treat left-side illnesses with the right side, and right-side illnesses with the left side.

After needling, Lu Jiu did not twist the needle; he just watched as the skin under the needle slowly started to turn pink. Then he asked, "Does your tooth still hurt?"

Xu Biao closed his mouth and tried his biting function; he exerted a little effort and found that the stabbing pain was indeed gone. Then he applied more force, and his jaw muscle even formed contours, but the feeling of toothache still did not appear.

"It doesn’t hurt anymore..." Xu Biao was a bit suspicious if something was wrong with his sensation.

In just a few seconds, his toothache, which had lasted throughout the night and a whole morning, was amazingly gone on the spot.

Xu Biao looked at Lu Jiu and then at the needle in his hand.

Does this thing have such significant effects?

This appointment was initially grabbed by his wife yesterday, just for a casual Traditional Chinese Medicine consultation. He didn’t have any major issues.

But as the toothache grew worse in the morning, his wife handed him the number card and sent him to this Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic.

Initially, Xu Biao was quite skeptical because his wife purely came for Lu Jiu’s online fame and just wanted to get a number card. They hadn’t tried out Dr. Lu’s medical skills at all.

Xu Biao didn’t have much faith in Traditional Chinese Medicine. After all, the internet was full of people discrediting it. He never consulted a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner when he was ill, so how could he start believing now?

However, Xu Biao’s views on Traditional Chinese Medicine changed dramatically. At least, this immediate effect was definitely not something that could scam him.

"Hmm, do you enjoy sweets at home?" Lu Jiu asked.

"I do, a bit," Xu Biao admitted honestly.

His family always kept some snacks. Both he and his wife loved them, and even the refrigerator always stored some ice cream for them to enjoy after meals, when lounging around in the living room.

"Nowadays, sweets may seem sweet on the surface, but when ingested, they turn acidic inside the body. The acid enters the spleen, which can harm the spleen and stomach. When the spleen and stomach are harmed, the kidneys get affected. Kidneys dominate the bones, and teeth are considered the remnant of bones. So if you keep eating these sweets, your teeth will continue to hurt. My current solution is only temporary relief. Whether it can be cured depends on whether you change your lifestyle habits," Lu Jiu explained.

"I see... So does that mean I can’t have any sweets at all in the future?" Xu Biao asked.

"Of course not. You should just cut down on store-bought sweets. Things like sugarcane and sugar can be eaten. You can even hold a piece of sugar in your mouth when having a toothache, and it can relieve discomfort in two to three minutes. But if you eat those sweets sold outside, the more you eat, the worse the pain," Lu Jiu said.

"But don’t experts say that consuming sugar leads to tooth decay?" Xu Biao was puzzled.

"Experts also said eating lard isn’t healthy, as it can cause abnormal blood lipids and lead to cardiovascular diseases, and replacing animal oil with vegetable oil can lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Do you believe that?" Lu Jiu chuckled.

"Isn’t that true?" Xu Biao didn’t cook often; household matters like oil choices were his wife’s domain. He had always heard from her that vegetable oil was healthier, and he believed it to this day.

"In 2013, a researcher from the Ying Imperial Health Research Institute, along with their research team, dug up original data from a study by Nixi University comparing animal oil to vegetable oil. This project, called the Nixi Heart Diet Study, ran from 1966 to 1973, involving 458 coronary heart disease volunteers who were split into two groups: one consuming vegetable oil and the other animal oil."

"The final data revealed that the incidence of cardiovascular diseases was 17.2% in the vegetable oil group versus 11% in the animal oil group and for coronary heart disease, 16.3% in the vegetable oil group compared to 10.1% in the animal oil group."

"In the same year, our country also released a report named ’Trans Fatty Acid Dietary Intake Level and Risk Assessment of Huaxia Residents,’ which explicitly stated that around 50% of the non-natural trans fats consumed by our residents came from vegetable oils. Trans fats are certainly not new to you—it’s what lurks in cream cakes. They’re not beneficial to health and aren’t needed by the body. Overconsumption can even increase the risk of coronary heart disease."

"Guess how much trans fat animal oils contain? 0.48%! While rapeseed oil has 8.16%-9.49%, and blended oils rank at 6.25%-8.8%. With the internet’s advancement, fake news and false education spread massively. Some people mix fake with the genuine, and it’s common to see confusion. But who are we? Our ancestors have studied the things we eat for thousands of years. If they were all unhealthy, could Huaxia civilization endure until now?"