I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 128 - 104: A Night of Growing New Flesh!

Just as expected.

The old man’s physical condition was exactly as Lu Jiu anticipated.

However, from the dialogue between the Five Viscera, the old man’s diabetes initially seemed to be merely middle wasting.

This is characterized by symptoms of intense stomach heat.

This symptom typically arises from a long-term diet of rich, greasy, spicy, and aromatic foods, leading to dryness and heat damaging the Spleen and Stomach. When stomach fire burns intensely, the Spleen Yin becomes insufficient, naturally resulting in thirst and excessive drinking, overeating, and a tendency to feel hungry. And when the Spleen Yin is insufficient, the Spleen Qi also becomes weakened. At this point, it cannot transport the essence of water and grain, which then deposits into the urine, resulting in sweet urine.

Eating a lot but absorbing little, the inability to transport and transform the essence of water and grain fails to nourish the muscles, leading to the appearance of getting thinner despite eating more.

This is the typical middle wasting, where the Spleen and Stomach fail to perform their functions, internal heat accumulates, dryness damages the fluids, leading to wastage after consuming grains, and eventually the symptom of diabetes arises.

High blood sugar is merely one manifestation among the symptoms of diabetes; fundamentally, if the Spleen and Stomach issues are not resolved and the body fluids continue to deplete, then no matter how you control blood sugar, it is only treating the symptom and not the root cause.

From this perspective, there is a clear difference in how Chinese and Western medicine view the disease.

Western medicine focuses on data, lowering blood sugar when it’s found high in diabetic patients. However, Chinese medicine looks beyond blood sugar levels and also considers the deficiency of body fluids in diabetic patients.

This is because a person is a whole organism, containing both blood and body fluids, with blood comprising only thirty percent of the body, while body fluids make up the majority of the body’s water.

With just a blood test report and no report on body fluids, such examination results are clearly not comprehensive enough.

High blood sugar in a person should manifest in one of two conditions: either too much sugar or too little water.

Therefore, in this disease, Western medicine treats the sugar, while Chinese medicine treats the water.

Western medicine burns sugar, whereas Chinese medicine restores the body’s ability to produce fluids, allowing the Five Viscera and Six Bowels to normally extract sufficient moisture from food to transform into body fluids, not merely replenishing water when it is scarce.

This is because the water in nature differs from the water within the human body.

However, right now, Lu Jiu has no way to resolve Bai Chuan’s diabetes.

Because twenty years of medication not only failed to resolve his middle wasting symptoms but also aggravated his lower wasting symptoms.

In other words, not only is his Spleen and Stomach unwell, but his Liver and Kidneys also have significant problems.

Twenty years of medication have taken over part of the function of the Five Viscera, and it can’t just be recalibrated overnight.

If Lu Jiu makes a move, he must also deal with the withdrawal reactions to the medicine.

Who can endure that?

Anyway, Lu Jiu doesn’t have that confidence.

The old man is now over seventy. As long as he does not need amputation and uses medication to control it for a few more years, living to eighty can be considered longevity. There’s no need to further exhaust him with Chinese medicine therapies; if it greatly saps his vitality, while the condition might be regulated, losing a few years of lifespan, what then?

During his time sitting in the clinic at Jinling Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lu Jiu once saw an old man with liver cancer, eighty-seven years old, who didn’t want radiotherapy or chemotherapy, just wanted to live peacefully for a few more years. At that time, Lu Jiu’s mentor asked about the old man’s lifestyle habits, and upon hearing he was still smoking every day, and that his family forbade him after his liver cancer diagnosis, well, the old man was in a torment. Cancer was already tormenting enough, let alone adding nicotine withdrawal; who could withstand that?

Within just half a month, the old man had lost a lot of weight, and his appetite was poor.

After hearing this, Lu Jiu’s mentor directly told the old man and his family to continue smoking, not to stop, smoke as he wished, as long as he feels good, as long as smoking allows him to eat, he can smoke as he pleases.

The old man’s family clearly did not understand this, but the old man was happy, as though he received an imperial edict, and immediately left the hospital to buy a pack of cigarettes.

Upon returning for a visit later, the old man still had liver cancer, but he could eat, drink, sleep, his mood was good, and over half a year, the cancer cells neither increased nor decreased, nor had they spread. So what difference does treatment make?

Chinese medicine has never been about focusing on the disease. As long as the patient can eat, drink, sleep, walk, and is not tormented by illness in daily life, does it matter whether they have a disease?

"The situation indeed isn’t very optimistic. I’ll be honest with you, I cannot cure your diabetes, but I will try my best to help reduce the wound on your foot. As for the effect, I can’t guarantee anything, since this kind of situation is a first for me too. So, I will treat it three times, and if after three times there’s no sign of closing, you should consult another doctor, alright?" Lu Jiu said.

Patients familiar with Lu Jiu had become accustomed to his rhetoric.

Basically, anyone seeing him knows they have three chances.

If there is no noticeable improvement after three treatments, whether by medication or acupuncture, Lu Jiu would refuse further treatment.

Even if the patient pleaded with him to continue, Lu Jiu remained firm.

The patients might not understand why Lu Jiu acts this way, but only Lu Jiu knows that medicine, especially Chinese medicine, is a very subjective discipline. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

If he cannot identify any problem during diagnosis but sees no effect during treatment, it proves there’s a flaw in his diagnosis, and if all three attempts fail, then undoubtedly he cannot find the real pathogenesis, the root cause of the illness.

Because no patient can fall ill precisely as described in textbooks, no one sustains only one or two symptoms. The majority of people embody seven, eight, or even a dozen symptoms.