I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 242 - 209: Beauty-Enhancing Remedies?

After a minute, Lu Jiu released his hand.

Yesterday's acupuncture combined with herbal medicine had already cleared a lot of the phlegm in Zhang Xixi's body.

Because acupuncture has the effect of tuning the spirit, Zhang Xixi's sleep at night was particularly deep. At the same time, the Four Reversals Decoction's effect of raising yang also helped restore her internal organs significantly during the night.

At dawn, when yang qi begins to be born, the five viscera and six bowels start to work in accordance with nature, and start continuously repairing Zhang Xixi's body.

Clearing phlegm is one of these steps.

Although acupuncture works quickly, it doesn't go very deep. Herbal medicine can follow the meridians and reach the innermost parts of the organs, clearing phlegm-dampness, and eliminating phlegm-fire more thoroughly.

It can be said that just this one treatment is enough for Zhang Xixi to no longer rely on medication to suppress her emotions.

This kind of efficacy is unique to traditional Chinese medicine.

No matter what kind of bipolar disorder, depression, claustrophobia, schizophrenia, and so on, similar mental illnesses essentially stem from problems with emotions.

Emotions are a natural state that we humans inherently possess.

They cannot be suppressed!

Just like when someone is extremely sad, they can't cry at all, as if something is blocking their emotions inside their body. When this emotion can't be released, once it reaches a critical point, a person can go crazy from the pent-up negative emotions.

Don't think this is alarmist talk!

There was once a mother who went out with her three-year-old daughter, but the daughter was abducted by traffickers. After returning home, the mother didn't sleep for three days and nights, and not a single tear was shed, eventually becoming completely insane.

Another case was a father whose son died of a terminal illness three months after birth. While his wife and mother wept daily, he seemed unaffected, comforting his family. However, after they recovered from their grief, the father developed a strange condition where he felt cold whenever he touched water, even warm water of thirty or forty degrees felt like it was freezing. He had to wear a heavy coat even in the summer when it was thirty-seven or thirty-eight degrees, never breaking a sweat.

This actually results from emotional repression to the extreme, disturbing the body's balance of yin and yang, and thereby giving rise to various strange symptoms.

Why does Western medicine usually have significant side effects in treating mental illnesses, and many doctors explicitly tell patients they can't cure mental disorders?

It's because all Western medicines are damaging to the liver and kidneys, especially those targeting mental illnesses, which inflict serious damage to the liver.

The liver governs the regulation and release of emotions. When you damage the liver, it's like blocking the patient's channel for emotional release, and of course the patient will feel uncomfortable.

Many patients who are slightly depressed often experience body swelling, and their faces turn a bluish-black color after taking antidepressants, which is what we call dullness. Additionally, their eyes turn yellow, and they seem to become uglier.

Because after liver damage, it cannot cleanse the toxins from the blood, the accumulated garbage in the blood then goes through the heart and spreads throughout the body. As the toxins accumulate more and more, the features of the face begin to change, starting with complexion, then skin, and finally a change in shape.

There's a saying that a person's appearance is shaped by their heart - if someone is in a perpetual state of depression, the thoughts in their heart are already skewed, and as such, their face will become askew.

Upon closer inspection, those with malevolent thoughts may have their philtrum and nose not aligned along a central line when viewed as such.

Those with simple and kind thoughts, harboring righteous qi, regardless of their beauty or ugliness, have a straight philtrum and nose.

This is why someone might appear good-looking but gives off an uncomfortable vibe, while others may appear ordinary but evoke a sense of freshness.

Of course, these malevolent thoughts are not merely bad intentions, like habitual self-gratification.

Such practices belong to the realm of debauchery, which only harms oneself, not others.

Yet, once such thoughts arise and persist in action for several, even over ten years.

Becoming uglier is inevitable.

It's the same for girls.

Zhang Xixi's slight misalignment of her nose and philtrum isn't due to debauchery, but to resentment.

"Not bad, things have improved a lot. You can continue taking the medication prescribed yesterday. Of course, aside from medication, you also need to make changes yourself. Starting from today, engage in more outdoor activities, expose yourself to some sunlight, and don't stay cooped up at home. As for your diet, keep it light, eat a little less during this period, just ensure you're not starving yourself," said Lu Jiu.

"Doctor, how long will it take for me to recover?" Zhang Xixi asked.

"In your case, adjustment is not a matter that can be resolved overnight. However, looking at the current state of recovery, it should be at most a month or two, and your basic life could return to before. Of course, the side effects from those antidepressants you've been taking will have to be slowly rectified by yourself, as medication is quite limited in this respect," said Lu Jiu.

A month or two?

It doesn't seem that long.

But just as she was about to feel happy, Zhang Xixi suddenly thought of herself and touched her face, feeling a surge of self-doubt.

She doesn't dare look in the mirror much anymore.

She doesn't want to see that face.

It's too unpleasant.

Both puffy and swollen, covered with pits.

Blackheads on the nose are clearly visible, and the hair on her lips rivals that of a man.

"Doctor, will the swelling on my face go down?" Zhang Xixi asked.

Lu Jiu understood too, as girls surely pay particular attention to their appearance.

Previously, there was a patient who was more concerned about their figure than their health.

"Of course it can, as long as you adjust your mindset, maintain an optimistic attitude every day, it could take two to three years at most, or as little as a year, and your appearance should be restored to a significant extent. So, don't panic," said Lu Jiu.

The recovery of appearance is certainly achievable.

However, to return to the youthful years is certainly not possible.

Even without illness, many people also suffer damage to their looks from the ravages of time, let alone Zhang Xixi who has this illness.

"Does that mean I'll never return to how I looked before?" Zhang Xixi said dejectedly.

Lu Jiu found it both amusing and exasperating, "Not just you, even I can't go back. Only that male celebrity with the surname Lin seems to maintain his eighteen-year-old looks. We are all regular people, and genetics dictate that our looks will grow older with time. If you manage to recover significantly, it's already considered a normal state, so be content."

Zhang Yu couldn't help but ask, "Dr. Lu, I read online that in ancient times, the Imperial Physicians in the palace provided the Empress and concubines with beauty-enhancing medicine. Does this mean that traditional Chinese medicine has insights into beauty? Do you know of any beauty treatments?"

Beauty?

Lu Jiu hadn't delved deep into this aspect.

However, with Zhang Yu's question, he did recall some beauty-enhancing formulas...