I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 66 - 59: Quite a Few Problems

"Don’t be nervous, I’m a doctor, here to help you solve your problems."

Lu Jiu got straight to the point.

"Liver Wood, come out." Heart Fire called out.

"I’m so tired, what do you want?" Liver Wood said weakly.

"Is the drunkard seeing the doctor again?" Heart Fire asked.

"Yes." Liver Wood replied.

"The doctor can actually talk to us?" Spleen Earth was amazed.

"Doctor, then please solve it quickly." Hydronephrosis didn’t care about anything else now, as long as someone could fill its small store, it didn’t matter if he could speak or not.

Lu Jiu smiled, "Then when I ask you questions, you have to answer me truthfully, without any deceit. Can you do that?"

"Yes!" Hydronephrosis answered firmly.

After Hydronephrosis spoke, the other Five Viscera also tacitly agreed one by one.

"Alright, Liver Wood, besides feeling tired, have you noticed any other changes, like is bile secretion more or less?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Less." Liver Wood said.

"Is there any congestion?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Yes." Liver Wood replied.

"Where?" Lu Jiu asked.

"My brother." Liver Wood said.

The gallbladder?

"Did you make his shoulders hurt?" Lu Jiu suddenly asked.

"How did you know? We did that, but he wouldn’t listen and kept eating and drinking recklessly." Liver Wood was still angry when talking about Wei Jun.

"So, is there something inside his gallbladder now?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Yes, but not as much as me." Liver Wood replied.

Tsk!

Lu Jiu clicked his tongue.

Fatty liver is one thing, but this guy also has a gallstone.

The last patient with a gallstone was that aunt who wouldn’t take medicine.

Didn’t expect another one this time.

"Spleen Earth, what has he been eating lately?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Sigh, too much, barbecue, seafood, heavy-flavored foods, he eats them all, and drinks beer, often drinks at night. I’m clearly about to rest, but he drags me out to work. It’s too much!" Spleen Earth complained bitterly, "He even had a midnight snack last night, didn’t finish eating until one, and after he slept, I still had to keep working. I was so angry I wanted to strike with the stomach, but when food comes in, we have to process it or we’ll feel terrible. But at night, our efficiency is too low."

"I not only feel very fatigued now but also a bit cold. Doctor, please help me out."

No wonder there’s facial swelling.

Turns out he ate a midnight snack and stayed up late again last night.

This lifestyle is really something!

Is he trying to make his life shorter?

"Hmm, I see!" Lu Jiu said.

"Hey, why aren’t you asking me? Hurry up and ask me!!" Hydronephrosis waited for a long time, becoming anxious when Lu Jiu didn’t inquire about it.

Lu Jiu smiled, "Okay, where do you feel uncomfortable?"

"He’s draining my reserves!" Hydronephrosis complained.

Lu Jiu asked, "How is he draining them?"

"I don’t know, but he just keeps draining them every day, never stops!" Hydronephrosis replied.

Lu Jiu frowned, "Every day?"

"Yes, I’ve reminded him countless times, made him thirsty, made his back ache, made his knees hurt, made his ears ring, but he just doesn’t care!" Hydronephrosis said.

This... is clearly a symptom of kidney yin deficiency.

Kidney yin deficiency generally has many causes, either prolonged illness injuring the kidney, excessive sexual activity, or emotional injury, etc.

Based on observation and pulse diagnosis, Wei Jun has symptoms of phlegm dampness, and in the presence of liver excess, there will be liver blood deficiency.

Generally, liver blood deficiency doesn’t affect the kidney, unless it reaches a very severe level, but analyzing the various symptoms, Wei Jun’s liver blood deficiency undoubtedly affects the kidney, leading to kidney yin deficiency.

Liver and kidneys share the same source!

So his kidney yin deficiency is mostly due to long-term illness damaging the kidneys.

"Then it seems like there might be some issues with the heart fire as well," Lu Jiu said.

The kidneys are responsible for storing, and when something is missing there, it affects more than just itself, the heart is the first to be impacted.

Just like uremia, which happens because the kidneys fail to function, leading to toxin build-up in the urine that can’t be metabolized out, and these toxins then follow the blood circulation into the heart. The Western medicine treatment is dialysis, which is actually blood dialysis.

In reality, this blood dialysis isn’t cleaning the kidneys, but the heart, because blood dialysis involves drawing blood from the kidneys, processing it through dialysis machines to remove toxins, and then returning it to the body, allowing the blood to flow back into the heart.

This treatment process actually replaces the function of the kidneys with blood dialysis, completing an extracorporeal circulation, ultimately cleaning the heart.

"You’re quite a capable doctor, being able to see that I have a problem too." The heart fire, like a big brother showing off, spoke with a hint of arrogance.

"Tell me, where does it feel uncomfortable?" Lu Jiu asked with a smile.

"It’s not really uncomfortable anywhere, just sometimes the blood flow isn’t fast enough, so I speed it up a bit," said the heart fire.

"Speed up the blood flow?" Lu Jiu frowned.

High blood pressure?

Got it!

Kidney dysfunction can indeed lead to what Western medicine calls high blood pressure.

When kidney function issues start with yang deficiency, which gradually leads to yin deficiency, the blood vessels within the kidneys contract. When blood enters these contracted kidney blood vessels, the normal volume becomes larger for the smaller vessels, much like how pressure decreases when a large pipe turns into a smaller pipe; when the blood exits the kidneys, it turns back into a larger pipe, making it difficult for the blood to flow, and the heart receives less blood.

At this time, to self-rescue, the body increases heart pressure to speed up blood flow, so that blood can move quickly through the kidney blood vessels, delivering what used to be the normal blood volume.

So, high blood pressure isn’t really a disease; it’s just a manifestation of the body’s self-rescue mechanism, fundamentally still a kidney function issue.

But now hospitals treat high blood pressure as a disease, and the prescribed antihypertensive meds are mostly diuretics.

However, the kidneys are responsible for urine, meaning urination is managed by the kidneys. Diuretics indeed can lower high blood pressure but also replace kidney function.

High blood pressure initially results from kidney function inadequacy, and if you take antihypertensive meds that replace kidney function, can you really stop taking them?

Not only can’t you stop, but you also have to keep taking them until the kidneys fail, leading to kidney stones, uremia, tumors, renal cell carcinoma, and so on.

Because since the birth of humans, nothing in this world can replace the function of any human organ, nothing!!

Phew~~

Lu Jiu sighed lightly.

There really are plenty of problems! 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

According to the names of illnesses in Western medicine, Wei Jun not only has fatty liver but also gallstones, chronic gastritis, nephritis, hypertension, and more.

Similarly, based on the observation of symptoms in Chinese medicine, Wei Jun’s symptoms are abundant, but the pathology is still yang deficiency.

Whether it’s liver blood deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, or gallbladder excess, they all involve situations of yang deficiency.

Chinese medicine doesn’t treat diseases by simply supplementing where it’s deficient. For example, if there’s liver blood deficiency and you prescribe blood tonics without enough qi to transform, those medicines are useless, as qi and blood share the same source; strengthening qi is essentially strengthening blood.

"Dr. Lu, why are you sighing? Is my brother-in-law’s condition very serious?" Xie Fang, Mao Dawei’s wife, couldn’t help but become nervous.

"Sis, I know my own body, it’s definitely not serious," Wei Jun said with a laugh, looking carefree.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jiu released the hand he had been using to check the pulse and asked, "Have you been to the hospital before?"

Xie Fang replied, "Yes, yes, the first check-up showed moderate fatty liver, but the hospital couldn’t cure it, so it’s been delayed until now."

Lu Jiu said, "Impossible, this is treatable in the hospital. The fact it wasn’t cured is entirely due to his own reasons."

Though Lu Jiu is a practitioner of Chinese medicine, he has a certain understanding of Western medicine. According to Wei Jun’s disease progression, if initially, the medical equipment only detected fatty liver, it wouldn’t usually spread to the kidneys with proper treatment.

Earlier, Wei Jun’s description of the Five Viscera already confirmed to Lu Jiu that this person hasn’t recovered because he hasn’t changed his diet and lifestyle habits at all.

Upon hearing Lu Jiu’s words, Wei Jun couldn’t help but laugh, "How is that possible, I have been taking medicine continuously."

Xie Fang nodded, "Yes, his wife even told me that he’s been taking the medication the whole time."

Lu Jiu said, "Did you change your diet habits?"

Wei Jun said, "I did, ever since I fell ill, I’ve rarely touched oily foods."

Lu Jiu stared at Wei Jun, "Are you sure?"

Your Five Viscera already confessed to me, are you still pretending?

Wei Jun felt a jolt inside, not knowing why Lu Jiu’s gaze suddenly made him a bit anxious. Yet, his mouth remained stubborn, "Of course, why would I lie to you?"

Lu Jiu waved his hand, "You can lie to me, but don’t lie to yourself. You stayed up late for a midnight snack just last night, and you’re telling me you’ve rarely touched oily foods?"

What!?

The three of them, Wei Jun, Xie Fang, and Mao Dawei, appeared as if question marks had popped above their heads. In the next second, the couple Mao Dawei and Xie Fang looked at Wei Jun, with eyes hinting at doubt.