The leisurely life of rebirth

The old man asked with a strong northern accent: "Oh! Little baby, this prescription was written by you." He looked at her with a stern look. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that the older and more experienced you are, the more trustworthy you can win the trust of patients.

There was obvious surprise and disbelief in his eyes.

There are many Chinese who come to the United States with southern accents at this time, and there are really few northerners. Listening to his slightly familiar accent, Fang Monan felt particularly friendly. "What, is there something wrong with this prescription?" Fang Monan asked with raised eyebrows.

.She looked at Agnes and said: "Extend your hand to him and let him feel your pulse." Seeing that she was moved, Fang Monan said again: "Don't you believe me? Wouldn't it be better to have one more person check your pulse?"

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Agnes smiled sheepishly, sat on the stool in front of the counter, and put her hands on the counter.

Looking at this posture, the old man knew that this white man with blond hair and blue eyes was the patient, so he concentrated and held his breath and carefully felt his pulse. After about a quarter of an hour, the old man let go of his hand, and then his frown relaxed, and he was stunned.

He looked at Fang Monan blankly.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?" The girl standing next to the old man asked anxiously.[

The old man came back to his senses. He looked at Fang Monan, his eyes not concealing his enthusiasm. "Uh! Girl, let's talk."

"Okay!" Fang Monan nodded, and the two of them began to talk in a nonchalant manner. The language was in Chinese, which the girl could understand. Jerry understood only a little. It sounded very laborious, but he listened carefully. Only Aige listened.

Nisi was not interested and looked at the pharmacy. She smelled the strong smell of medicine and curled her lips with a look of reluctance. If it wasn't for her illness, she wouldn't be willing to stay here for a moment.

"Actually, cancer is not a terminal disease that cannot be cured. As long as you find the root cause of the disease and starve the cancer cells to death, it is not difficult. It is always better than repeated surgeries and chemotherapy. No matter whether it is good or bad, kill them together." Fang Monan said with a smile.

"Haha... You are so right. I am disgusted with Western medicine. The wisdom left by our ancestors is better. After two thousand years of hard work, it is better than the hundreds of years of development of Western medicine." The old man said with a smile.

"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading."

"No, I still want to ask the elders for more advice." Fang Monan bowed and said. It can be seen that the prescriptions she prescribed are extraordinary. She must also have very good medical skills.

"Girl, be humble, you don't need to do these vulgar etiquette." The old man waved his hand and said impatiently. His bold and cheerful spirit was fully displayed.

"Haha..." Fang Monan smiled. It seemed that the old man was very generous. "We learn from each other and make progress together."

The girl stood next to the old man, listening to her grandfather's hearty smile, her mouth wide open, with an incredible look on her face. She rarely saw her grandfather's smile in her memory. He kept his emotions introverted and never showed them. Today is really unprecedented. I didn't know this.

What is the charm of the little girl that makes the old man so happy?

Agnes knocked on the counter impatiently, "Stop chatting, you two. You are speaking in Chinese, which we cannot understand and are not polite at all. Hurry up and grab the medicine! I am still waiting to leave!" She said

He raised his wrist and looked at his watch again.

"Oh! Ah Yuan, hurry up and boil the medicine here." The old man urged: "I want to see its efficacy."

"Uh! Okay!" The girl named Ayuan turned around and began to grab the medicine from the grid. After weighing the medicine, she went to decoct it again.

Fang Monan said to Agnes: "Just cook the medicine here. The procedure is very troublesome, but it saves you trouble."

"That's just right!" Agnes looked at the old man and asked tentatively: "This prescription..."

"This prescription is for your disease and is very suitable for you." The old man said seriously. He was most disgusted with this kind of people, but because the person prescribing the medicine was too young, he didn't care so much.

While Ayuan was cooking the medicine, Fang Monan and the old man sat down for further conversation. Fang Monan knew that the old man's name was Tang Yaoxian. It turned out that he was also a famous Xinglin family in the mainland. He immigrated to the United States to escape the war and had been here for more than 40 years.

The children have received American education for a long time and are unwilling to accept the old man's pharmacy and medical skills. In order to pass on the things from their ancestors, they broke the family's ancestral tradition of passing down the inheritance from male to female. Now only his granddaughter Tang Yuan

Learning Chinese medicine from her is a comfort to me.

Tang Yaoxian also learned during the chat that the girl's name was Fang Menan, and she had a family tradition of medicine.

Fang Monan observed his expression carefully, grabbed Mr. Tang's wrist, and gently placed his cold and moist fingers on Mr. Tang. Within a moment, he said lightly, "You often have heart cramps today, you have restless sleep, and you feel tired all over."

I am tired but my spirit is in a state of excitement. Am I right?"

Mr. Tang looked at her in surprise and nodded.

Fang Monan smiled slightly, picked up the paper and pen on the doctor's desk, wrote a few big characters in a flourish, and said softly, "This Chinese medicine can be taken after simmering it for three hours, once a day.

You need to take more, and your pain will definitely be relieved after five days."[

Elder Tang took the prescription and saw the medicinal materials inside. He frowned and gradually relaxed. He saw some tricks, but he still couldn't figure it out.

After asking carefully for a long time, she still couldn't find the answer, so she asked Fang Monan to explain in detail the Taoist medicine she had learned. Taoist medicine's Five Elements theory believes that everything in the world is composed of wood, fire, earth, metal,

It is generated by the movement and changes among the five basic substances of water. At the same time, the relationship between the five elements is also used to explain the interconnection between things. It is believed that nothing is isolated and static, but is constantly changing.

This is the basic meaning of the Five Elements theory. Ancient thinkers used these five substances to explain the origin of all things in the world. Traditional Chinese medicine also uses the restraint of the Five Elements to explain and analyze physiology and pathology.

many phenomena on.

Because there are four seasons and four elements, there is soil. Earth represents the steady movement of Qi. When plants sow seeds, they are called crops, and when crops are harvested, they are called crops. Soil has the function of sowing crops, harvesting grains, and transforming all living things. It is further extended to

Earth has the characteristics of growth, carrying, metamorphosis, nurturing, and nourishment. It nurtures biochemistry and embodies all things. All things or phenomena with such characteristics can be attributed to soil. The spleen and stomach belong to soil, and the spleen and stomach open to the mouth.

Disharmony is reflected in the mouth. The Lord of Earth believes: Earth has the ability to carry things, produce and store things, so the earth carries all directions, is the mother of all things, and has the nature of heavy contribution. Its nature is heavy, its emotions are thick, and the person with strong earth in the hexagram,

Round waist and smooth nose. Beautiful eyebrows, strong eloquence, loyalty, filial piety and sincerity, courage and generosity, words must be followed, deeds must be resolute, willing to contribute and be inclusive. Too much soil is a taboo, introverted, stubborn, stubborn by nature, and ignorant.

Those who are not good enough will have a slanted face, a depressed look, a sluggish expression, do not believe what they say, are vicious, stingy, selfish, and unreasonable.

Deduction method: that is, based on the known five-element attribution of certain things, deduce other related things to determine the five-element attribution of these things. For example: it is known that the liver belongs to wood (major premise), because the liver combines with the gallbladder and governs tendons, its

The flower is in the claws, and the opening is in the eyes (minor premise), so it can be deduced that the gallbladder, tendons, claws, and eyes all belong to wood; similarly, the heart belongs to fire, so the small intestine, pulse, face, and tongue are related to the heart, so they also belong to fire

; The spleen belongs to earth, and the stomach, muscles, lips, and mouth are related to the spleen, so they also belong to earth; the lungs belong to metal. The large intestine, skin, hair, and nose are related to the lungs, so they also belong to metal; the kidneys belong to water, bladder, bones, and hair.

, ear, and two yins are related to the kidneys, so they also belong to water.

The Five Elements Theory is based on the characteristics of the Five Elements and uses the methods of analogy and deduction to classify various things and phenomena in nature into five categories: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, and each category of things

and phenomena have the same or similar specific attributes, forming a certain connection with each other.

Under the guidance of the idea of ​​correspondence between heaven and man, traditional Chinese medicine is centered on the five behaviors. With the five directions of space structure, the five seasons of time structure, and the five internal organs of human body structure as the basic framework, it combines various things and phenomena in nature as well as physiological and pathological phenomena of the human body.

. Summarize according to its attributes, thereby connecting the life activities of the human body with things or phenomena in nature, forming a five-element structural system that connects the internal and external environment of the human body to illustrate the unity of the human body and the natural environment.

"Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are what Taoists call the Five Elements. They believe that the world and all things are composed of them. They are mutually reinforcing and interfering with each other. This is the truth of the origin of all things. As long as we study it thoroughly, any disease or hardship will be easily solved." Fang Monan said calmly.

He looks like a 'magic stick' no matter what.

The more Mr. Tang listened, the more surprised he became. How could he see the shadow of feudal superstition? What on earth is going on?

Fang Monan looked at his confused look and said, "To put it simply, 'medicine has the same origin', medical medicine and Taoism have the same origin, 'medicine has the same origin', and there are 'ten ways and nine doctors',"

Almost all famous doctors in history are either medical saints or medical kings revered by Taoism; or they are Taoist priests themselves; or they are believers in Taoist culture, just like the familiar ones like Bian Que, Hua Tuo, and Sun Simiao.

etc."

"Oh!" Mr. Tang nodded, "It's interesting."

"The four major philosophical theories of traditional Chinese medicine are the holistic theory, the yin and yang theory, the five element theory, and the essence theory. The yin and yang and the five element theories all have the same origin as Taoism. I must understand it," Fang Monan said.

Seeing him nodding, he added: "The theory of essence and energy comes from the Chinese Taoist culture's understanding of life. The Chinese Taoist culture has entered everyone's mind. Chinese people will say a word called Jingqi Shen, saying whether you are well or not.

, it is often said that the essence, energy and spirit are insufficient, right? There is also a holistic theory, which is the biggest difference from Western medicine. It is actually the theory of the unity of nature and man in Chinese Taoist culture. Taoists have long said that,

Zhuangzi said in the "Nanhua Sutra" that "heaven and man are one." This holistic theory not only refers to our individual life as a whole, but also uses a holistic concept to view ourselves, and this body and the universe are connected.

It is the unity of nature and man, and the Taoist medical system, the medical system of Tao culture, has always been the empirical system of traditional Chinese medicine."

Fang Monan looked at the obvious change in his expression. Why didn't he know what he was thinking? After experiencing that chaotic era, everything was learned from the West. Of course, he thought that everything was feudal dross. People cannot be changed in a short time.

Inherent thinking concepts. Even the current textbooks of traditional Chinese medicine schools are compiled by Western doctors converted into traditional Chinese medicine. It can be said that they became monks halfway, which is fundamentally wrong.

Fang Monan said: "To put it simply, the human body is the same as the heaven and the earth. It is changing all the time, so sometimes it is healthy and sometimes it is sick. The causes of illness are multifaceted, including the influence of the external environment (i.e. exogenous infection),

There is also the deterioration of the internal condition (i.e. internal factors); there is both the functional decline of the body's organs and the decadence of the mental state. External factors and physical factors are important, but the role of internal factors and the spirit is more important. "

"Well! It makes sense. Mental factors and life attitude also play an important role in physical health. Sun Simiao's "Qian Jin Yao Prescription" said: 'He who cultivates his nature, so he becomes accustomed to it,... nature is good by itself. Nature is good.

Since you are kind to yourself, all kinds of internal and external diseases will not occur, and disasters and disasters will also occur. This is the great sutra of health preservation," said Mr. Tang.

"Those who do good will bring themselves spiritual happiness. Those who accumulate virtue do not seek personal gain or worry about gains and losses. Their minds will be peaceful, their qi and blood will be harmonious, and their body and mind will be comfortable." Fang Monan said with a smile. "Strange diseases like this, like that

In fact, all terminal diseases are easy to cure. The most difficult thing to cure in the world is people's "heart disease". The human heart is higher than the sky, and I wish I could take all the treasures in the world for myself. The human heart is deeper than the sea, and no one knows what it wants to do. Some people don't

Learn well, specialize in teasing and harming others, and if your heart and liver are completely black, of course you will get a strange disease. The strange disease must be blamed on the doctor. If you don't scold him, expose the root of his shortcomings, give him a slap in the face, and scare him into a cold sweat,

His illness requires forensic medicine. Therefore, when treating a patient, one must first cure his or her heart and ask him to change his ways and make a new beginning. Then he will give some medicine and the disease will be cured naturally, and it will be effective. "

Fang Monan smiled, turned around and saw a big man hurriedly running in from outside, carrying a young man on his back. It was hard to see what illness the young man had, but he could hear his pain from a distance.

The muffled sound.

When they saw Mr. Tang, they hurried forward as if they had seen a savior. Both of them were Chinese and both spoke Chinese. They hurriedly said, "Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang, help me!" He put the patient down on his back and grabbed hold of him.

Holding the old man's hand, he shouted anxiously with a thick southern accent.

"What's going on? Dashan." Mr. Tang asked, "Look..." Dashan stretched out the young man's hand.

"Ah!" Agnes screamed in fright, quickly covered her mouth, and nodded to everyone in embarrassment. Others also expressed their understanding.

The young man's left hand was injured. The four fingers that were originally straight were now like soft noodles, drooping at 90 degrees. They seemed to tremble when the wind blew, which looked very scary. Mr. Tang asked: "What is this hand of yours?"

What's going on?" (To be continued)