I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 141 - 115: Can Deformed Joints Recover?

The process of brewing the medicine isn’t complicated, it’s just that you need to keep an eye on it for a long time.

Especially when brewing aconite honey, you must control both the heat and time well. If the medicine is brewed properly, its efficacy can be preserved greatly, ensuring maximum therapeutic effect when the patient drinks it.

Of course, Lu Jiu can only handle a few highly toxic formulas. For ordinary prescriptions, patients have to brew them themselves.

At this moment, Feng Yuan had nothing to do, so he stepped aside and quietly observed Lu Jiu’s consultation.

He didn’t know much about traditional Chinese medicine, but he didn’t think it was without merit. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have advised patients to seek traditional Chinese medicine in the first place.

Due to his lack of understanding, he had no clue about the underlying logic of traditional Chinese medicine in treating illnesses.

"Dr. Lu, I accidentally sprained my foot. Could you please take a look at it?"

"Hey, young man, how can you cut in line?"

"Sir, I have an emergency. I don’t need to wait in line."

Seeing Zhang Yu approaching, Lu Jiu immediately explained, "Sir, that’s true. Emergencies and critical conditions don’t need to register here."

Actually, the elderly don’t need to either. But since most of the patients Lu Jiu sees are older folks, emergencies and critical conditions are always prioritized.

"Then..." The old man had finally reached the front, and now someone cutting in line obviously made him a bit uncomfortable.

"Don’t worry, sir, it’s just a sprained ankle; it won’t take long." With that, Lu Jiu looked at Zhang Yu, "Stop dawdling and come in quickly."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu immediately hopped in on one foot and quickly sat down on a stool.

Perhaps because he tugged at his ankle when he sat down, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but sharply inhale from the pain, his expression twisted.

Watching this scene from the side, Feng Yuan saw Zhang Yu’s ankle swollen like a steamed bun and couldn’t help but ponder silently.

A sprained ankle falls under orthopedics. In the hospital, an X-ray is necessary to determine if there’s a fracture before figuring out how to treat it.

Feng Yuan wasn’t an orthopedic specialist, but he knew that reducing swelling and pain from an ankle sprain typically takes three to five days.

Lu Jiu saying it wouldn’t take much time seemed like he could cure it on the spot.

Hard to understand.

Feng Yuan instinctively expressed disbelief; under such public scrutiny, unless Lu Jiu had completely lost his senses, making this promise would bring him absolutely no benefit.

Forget it, Feng Yuan temporarily set aside his doubts and began to closely watch every move Lu Jiu made.

"What happened?" Lu Jiu checked Zhang Yu’s ankle and found no fractures.

"Yesterday, a girl running at the sports plaza bumped into me. I thought it was nothing, but today it swelled up so much that I can’t walk," Zhang Yu said.

"???" Lu Jiu looked at Zhang Yu in confusion.

You are an adult male, how could you get a sprained ankle from bumping into a girl?

Zhang Yu’s face turned red, "I was trying to protect her from getting hurt, that’s why I sprained my ankle."

Lu Jiu raised his hand, "No need to explain, I believe you. Take off your shoes and socks."

Zhang Yu quickly raised his injured left foot, just about to remove his shoe and sock when Lu Jiu said, "Not that foot, the right foot."

Zhang Yu said curiously, "But I injured my left foot."

Lu Jiu said, "If I explain, you won’t understand; just do as I say."

Alright then.

Zhang Yu quickly took off his right shoe and sock. Lu Jiu took a long needle and pierced it through the Shangqiu Acupoint and then down along the two large tendons of the foot to the other side at the Qiu Xu Acupoint.

This is a technique that pierces two points with one needle, specifically treating ankle sprains.

"Hiss~ Dr. Lu, you just pierced right through my foot." Zhang Yu fearfully looked at his foot, having just seen the needle tip poke through to the other side of his skin.

"Does it hurt?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Not really, it’s just that it looks a bit terrifying," Zhang Yu replied.

"Then just watch," Lu Jiu said.

A few minutes later, when Lu Jiu saw the energy had reached, he twirled the needle slowly and withdrew it. Then he pressed on Zhang Yu’s left ankle, "How does it feel?"

"Huh?" Zhang Yu curiously touched his left ankle. He had been wondering why Lu Jiu pressed his ankle, and found it didn’t hurt as much. Initially, he thought it was due to light pressure; as he pressed it himself, he realized it truly didn’t hurt as much, "Dr. Lu, what kind of technique is this?"

Puncturing the right foot to treat the left foot?

Reversal of Yin and Yang?

"Just a simple case of treating the left with the right. Come, let me reduce the swelling for you," Lu Jiu said.

Afterward, Lu Jiu took an alcohol lamp, and when Zhang Yu put his left foot on the stool, Lu Jiu roasted the Finest Needle over the lamp. When the needle tip turned red, he used extreme speed to prick the swollen area of the ankle, touching and going.

The Fire Needle doesn’t need to prick specific acupoints; its effect on reducing swelling is excellent.

A few minutes later, Zhang Yu’s ankle was covered in blood spots, but the ankle that was swollen like a steamed bun had reduced significantly. Of course, Zhang Yu was still cautious when moving his ankle, as there were still some limitations.

"Alright, stand up and try moving it around," Lu Jiu said.

That’s it?

Feng Yuan looked at his watch. It had been less than ten minutes for the entire process. A sprained ankle that was so swollen, how could it heal so quickly?

Zhang Yu wiped the blood dot on his ankle, put on his shoes and socks, then stood up and tried to walk a few steps. After feeling it was okay, he stomped his foot and twisted his ankle.

"How does it feel?" Lu Jiu asked.

"It still hurts a little bit, but it doesn’t affect walking anymore." Zhang Yu replied.

"Alright then, the rest is up to your own gradual recovery." Lu Jiu said.

"Thanks, Dr. Lu." Zhang Yu smiled.

"Alright." Lu Jiu didn’t have time to chat with Zhang Yu and immediately called the next patient, continuing his busy consultation.

But Feng Yuan on the side was unsettled.

He didn’t understand.

A person with a sprained ankle, how could it be treated by just inserting a needle on the foot, not even on the injured foot, and yet healing the injured foot?

Could it be that the symptoms were temporarily suppressed?

Uh... even so, within ten minutes, making someone with such a swollen sprained foot recover to a walking state, he was sure the hospital couldn’t achieve that. It wouldn’t even be enough time to check if there was a fracture.

The best they could do is to apply a splint and combine it with medication, with a recovery period of about one to two weeks.

Feng Yuan felt his mind was a little bit jammed.

Regardless of the treatment method or the healing speed, it was simply unbelievable to him.

However, he also understood why traditional Chinese medicine cannot be quantified scientifically; just this acupuncture method for treating a sprained ankle, how do you use science to explain it?

A sprained ankle, lateral collateral ligament injury, how could it rely on stimulating acupoints to relieve pain within a few minutes?

As time passed, Lu Jiu saw patient after patient while also taking time to prepare his medicine. After watching this whole process, Feng Yuan could say that Lu Jiu completely changed his view on Chinese medicine.

Previously, Feng Yuan thought Chinese medicine was indeed useful, but only for conditioning, not able to cure many diseases, and the effects were very slow.

However, after observing Lu Jiu’s consultation, he realized that Chinese medicine not only cures quickly but also seems to handle many diseases with ease.

Take neural headaches for example. There is generally nothing hospitals can do for patients, not just Feng Yuan, but all doctors think this way.

But with Lu Jiu, it could be healed on the spot. He witnessed with his own eyes an elderly woman in her sixties, holding her head as she entered and then leaving with a smile, all within about ten minutes.

Feng Yuan even felt that Lu Jiu alone was comparable to several departments; just in the span of an hour, he saw Lu Jiu handle cases related to orthopedics, gastroenterology, neurology, gynecology, and more.

If doctors were compared to a factory, then their hospital is like a large factory with clearly defined roles, every doctor doing their part. Patients would take a tour through this factory, entering relevant workshops based on their problems, and would exit after making the rounds.

Lu Jiu was more like a small workshop, where patients come, sit down, and the workshop will bring all kinds of tools for one-on-one repair.

Or in other words, Lu Jiu is a factory by himself, a tailor-made factory, just operating on a much smaller scale.

In the vast medical market, he is just a little bug.

Yet Feng Yuan greatly admired this little bug because his charging standards were very down-to-earth.

In today’s economic society, where everything revolves around money, Lu Jiu is practicing medicine at almost decade-old prices. This kind of integrity, it’s not something that is promoted, nor will many try to emulate it, but since he insists on it, Feng Yuan has no right to critique.

Everyone has their own ambitions. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Another hour passed, and Feng Yuan’s medicine was finally ready. Lu Jiu poured out the concoction and handed the bowl to Feng Yuan.

"Drink a bowl of this medicine first, and around seven o’clock, boil this medicine again. After drinking, come back tomorrow for another dosage. From today, you can stop taking painkillers and other Western medications."

"Basically, once you start drinking this medicine, the joint pain will begin to ease, and later, your slightly deformed joints will start recovering. But during this period, you should be careful, avoid air conditioning, eat a light diet, and get some sunlight and exercise in the morning." Lu Jiu instructed.

Can deformed joints recover?

Feng Yuan’s eyes widened as his breathing quickened.

No one understands how painful rheumatoid arthritis is more than he does. Especially after the deformation of finger joints, the inconvenience in movement causes him to live in anxiety every day.

Although medication has been keeping it under control, there will always be a day when it can’t suppress it anymore. Once the condition worsens, his career, life, and even family would all suffer different degrees of impact.

Now, Lu Jiu is telling him that not only the pain can be improved, but even the deformed joints can be restored. How could he not be excited?

"Dr. Lu, you can’t be lying to me!" Feng Yuan’s voice was full of anticipation. He clearly knew Lu Jiu wouldn’t deceive him, yet he still wanted an affirmation.

Lu Jiu smiled and said, "I wouldn’t say it if I wasn’t confident. Don’t worry, but also remember what I said. Whether you recover and how fast you do so depends on whether you’ve followed my instructions."

Receiving this promise, Feng Yuan was overjoyed, "Rest assured, I will definitely follow the doctor’s advice."

He’s a doctor himself, so he naturally understands that if you don’t follow medical advice, even a miracle doctor can’t cure you.

"Alright, take care." Lu Jiu said.

"Thank you..." Feng Yuan waved and turned to leave.

But at this moment, from the queue at the door, someone suddenly leaned forward and exclaimed, "Director Feng, you’ve come too?"

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