I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 179 - 150: Lung Cancer, Terminal Stage! [Double-Length] (3)
"Spleen Earth, aren’t you usually the best persuader? Why are you silent today? Come out." Liver Wood said.
"Aren’t you the one always shouting about giving up? Why are you so eager now? Anyway, I’m already beyond repair. The medicines she used have completely ruined most of my functions, and now I can’t work normally at all. My brother’s energy is dwindling more and more. Since there’s no hope in sight, why bother trying?" Spleen Earth said.
"Hydronephrosis, Hydronephrosis, what about you? Do you not care anymore?" Liver Wood said.
"Don’t bother me, I’m just waiting to die. The small essence repository is gone, what is there to care about or not care about, huh!" Hydronephrosis said.
This...
Not only is there an insufficiency of Heart Yang, but the Kidney Essence is also depleted, and even the Gastric Qi seems to be dissipating.
It’s a dead end!
Lu Jiu initially held a glimmer of hope, but after taking the pulse, even that last glimmer of hope was thoroughly shattered.
His best skill, acupuncture, couldn’t be applied, and he had no clues from prescription formulas. How could he save the patient?
No, there must still be a way.
Look at the whole picture, look at the whole picture, look at the whole picture!
Lu Jiu silently repeated in his mind, trying to completely forget all the symptoms he just diagnosed.
Now, treat this patient in front of him as an ordinary patient with lung disease spreading to the liver, and then think about how to treat it.
Lu Jiu began searching through various treatment strategies in his mind.
Yang Replenishing clearly won’t work!
So how to use the medicine?
If one of the Five Viscera is sick, it passes to what conquers it.
Lung disease spreads to the liver, Metal overcomes Wood.
Therefore, to stop the disease from spreading, you have to bypass the lung to treat the liver.
And to treat the liver, one must strengthen the spleen!
Hmm?
Lu Jiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, suddenly recalling something.
He immediately walked to the cabinet, opened one drawer after another, and then continuously took out various books from inside.
"Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet," "Thousand Gold Formula," "Four Saints Heart Source," "Classical Texts," "Qin Que’s Heart Book," "Treatise on the Sources and Manifestations of Various Diseases"...
Shi Zixiong watched Lu Jiu frantically searching for books, momentarily puzzled.
He seemed to recall from the internet that if a skilled Chinese medicine doctor needs to refer to books while diagnosing you, it means your condition is already quite serious.
Half a minute later, Lu Jiu finally stopped at a book.
"The Difficult Classic"
This is it!
Lu Jiu immediately opened the pages, continuously searching, and momentarily, his gaze settled on the seventy-fifth difficulty.
"It says: The classic states, when the east is full, the west is empty; drain the south and supplement the north. What does this mean?"
"Indeed: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth should balance one another. The east is Wood, the west is Metal. When Wood wants to be full, Metal should balance it; when Fire wants to be full, Water should balance it; when Earth wants to be full, Wood should balance it; when Metal wants to be full, Fire should balance it; when Water wants to be full, Earth should balance it. The east is the Liver, therefore one knows the Liver is full; the west is the Lung, therefore one knows the Lung is empty. Drain the south Fire, supplement the north Water. The south is Fire, Fire is the child of Wood; the north is Water, Water is the mother of Wood. Water overcomes Fire. The child can make the mother full, the mother can make the child empty, thus drain Fire and supplement Water to prevent Metal from balancing Wood. The classic says: If you cannot treat the deficiency, how can you question the rest, this is what it means."
This is one of the most classic acupuncture strategies in Chinese medicine, known as draining the south to supplement the north, also called the strategy where the child can make the mother full and the mother can make the child empty.
The only key to this strategy is balance, specifically treating excess syndromes.
Lu Jiu had just thought of this, but sometimes it’s like that, things you usually remember by heart somehow evade your memory at critical moments.
Even someone with a good memory like Lu Jiu can experience such moments.
Now, knowing this treatment principle, Lu Jiu could attempt something.
Based on the balance strategy of draining the south to supplement the north from "The Difficult Classic," to treat the lung, one should drain the kidney and supplement the spleen.
However, this aunt’s Kidney Essence is already depleted, won’t draining the kidney accelerate kidney failure?
This problem also made Lu Jiu hesitate.
To be honest, he was a little scared!
Though the theory might be sound, what if something goes wrong in practice? 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Lu Jiu couldn’t bear the responsibility!
Not save?
Lu Jiu found himself in a dilemma.
Rationality told him, this person cannot be saved. For a patient condemned to death by Western medicine, failing to save her wouldn’t attract blame. However, if he attempted to save her and failed, the consequences could be significant. Yet the moral aspect of his heart didn’t want to give up so easily.
After weighing the options for a few minutes, ultimately, rationality triumphed over morality.
He walked outside the medical hall and called Shi Zixiong over.
"What’s your name?" Lu Jiu asked softly.
Shi Zixiong immediately introduced himself, "My name is Shi Zixiong."
"Shi Zixiong, you should be very clear about your mother’s situation, right?" Lu Jiu said.
Shi Zixiong nodded; how could he not understand what Lu Jiu meant, but he still held onto a faint hope, "Dr. Lu, do you... have a way?"
Lu Jiu shook his head, "I can’t say for sure, I can only say that I could try, but the risk is very high, and I can’t bear it. It’s possible that after trying, your mother might see some improvement, but how long she can sustain it, I don’t know; whether she can return to a normal life, I don’t know; whether this cancer can be cured, I also don’t know. It’s also possible that after trying, your mother’s condition may rapidly deteriorate, becoming worse than it is now, or even directly... All in all, my abilities can only give you such an answer, whether you can accept it is entirely up to you."
"Of course, if you dare to gamble, I’d be willing to accompany you. I can pledge my life that I will do my utmost to treat her, only before trying, you have to sign a waiver for me, so I can treat without worries, and after trying, no matter the outcome, I hope you won’t blame me."
