Chapter Eleven: The Difference Between East and West

  At this time, he saw that Xiao Ye had only cut off the pulse and gave out the cause of the disease. Did he also have the skill of a national master? However, is it possible? Which national master did not go through decades of hard work to become a master? However, in his heart, he also put away that thread of contempt for Xiao Ye.

  Seeing the puzzled faces of the crowd, Xiao Yu calmly said without much explanation: "The patient is not seriously ill. I will use acupuncture to help him with a needle later, and then open a few medicinal patches for him to eat."

  "What are you talking about? You're so arrogant, this isn't a game of house." Chen Jinghai said angrily, his face flushing with rage as he saw Xiao Ye's confident expression.

  "Shut up!" Director Huo's eyebrows suddenly stood on end, he glared fiercely at Chen Jinghai: "Are you a doctor or is he a doctor?"

  Director Huo saw Xiao You say so confidently, and when he said that he could recover with just acupuncture and a few medicinal patches, his whole body emitted an aura of trustworthiness. This aura was very similar to the one he had felt from that national hand in Apricot Forest Country back then. Could it be that he really did have the skills of a national hand?

  Then, turning to Xiao Yu, he said: "Dr. Xiao, can you tell us about the cause of this disease and the situation in the patient's gut? Why does the patient have a persistent high fever?" Director Huo asked the question that was on everyone's mind, and his colleagues also wanted to test whether Xiao Yu really had the skills comparable to those of a master doctor, or if he was just pretending.

  Xiao Yu walked to the patient's bedside, revealing his silly and harmless smile: "Teacher Cai, didn't you have stomach problems before? And didn't you eat something cold yesterday?"

  "Nonsense!"

  Chen Jinghai was just called, and from then on he didn't dare to speak loudly anymore. He only whispered in the crowd: "If you touch his wrist, you can say that his stomach has been bad since before, and yesterday he even ate cold food; if you touch his ankle, can you even tell what he ate in his previous life?"

  "Ah!" The weak and frail Mr. Cai on the hospital bed heard Xiao Yu say this, and suddenly revealed an extremely surprised expression.

  Seeing Mr. Cai's expression on the hospital bed, everyone in the room knew that Xiao Yu had hit the nail on the head. They all showed a hint of shock.

  Chen Jinghai's face instantly turned into a liver color, didn't expect that he could also be deceived like this!

  Mr. Cai has had a weak spleen and stomach since he was young, so whether it's winter or summer, he can't eat raw, cold things. Therefore, he has been paying attention to maintaining his intestines and stomach since childhood, never eating raw and cold food, and hasn't had gastrointestinal problems for many years. Yesterday, the weather was sultry, and at the airport, he drank a bottle of slightly cool mineral water because he was thirsty. Because it's been many years since he last had gastrointestinal problems, he didn't take it seriously. Even Bai Laoshi and Mao Laoshi don't know about these things.

  "What does this have to do with my current illness?" Mr. Cai asked, just as Xiao Yu was taking his pulse. He didn't think much of Xiao Yu's abilities, not because he hadn't seen traditional Chinese medicine before - on the contrary, one of his friends was a TCM practitioner, but that person was an old man with white hair and many years of experience. So when he saw Xiao Yu taking his pulse, he instinctively believed that he wouldn't be able to diagnose him properly. But Mr. Cai was a very kind-hearted person, and he didn't want to discourage the young man, so he let him continue with the diagnosis. Yet at this moment, he somehow believed that the other party could definitely cure his illness.

  "This illness of yours is called gastrointestinal wet-cold plus diarrhea syndrome, caused by the invasion of cold evil into the meridians. If I haven't misdiagnosed, your physical constitution originally belongs to yin-cold, so your intestines and stomach are not good. Suddenly feeling dry heat is because some reason causes fire energy to rise in your body, so after drinking a bottle of cool water, plus you've never eaten raw and cold things for years, your body has no tolerance to raw and cold things at all, triggering cold and heat in the meridians."

  Mr. Cai nodded and recalled that it was indeed after drinking a bottle of cold water due to the heat that he started feeling severe abdominal pain.

  Although Director Huo didn't quite understand traditional Chinese medicine, he listened to Xiao Ye's words and found them somewhat reasonable, so he said, "Is the diagnosis of Western medicine incorrect?"

  "I don't quite understand Western medicine, but I think Director Huo's diagnosis won't be wrong! However, Western medicine only treats the symptoms!" Xiao Yu said with his standard harmless smile.

  "The patient is suffering from both cold and heat evils, invading the stomach and intestines meridians. If you only treat the intestinal inflammation, even if it's cured, the yin-cold evil will still exist in the meridians, and the enteritis will relapse!"

  "Just like a patient's gut, the manifestation is an imbalance of the flora, but if you think about it, the gut is like a piece of land and the flora is like crops. If you put a block of ice in the soil, no matter how many times you plant crops on this land, they won't be able to survive. This is also why diarrhea can persist for so long."

  Western medicine treats gastroenteritis by eliminating inflammation and adjusting the bacterial flora, but it does not consider what causes the inflammation and bacterial imbalance, which is why Western medicine is often said to only treat symptoms.

  Traditional Chinese medicine treats this soil, removing the ice block that exists underground and then regulating the disease. This is the root treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.

  Everyone was stunned, and Director Huo, as a nationally renowned expert, was actually discussing the patient's condition with Xiao Yu. They were all dumbfounded. Especially Chen Jinghai, Director Huo was an expert he had invited to deal with Fang Yuan and Xiao Yu, but he didn't expect them to be discussing the patient's condition together. Chen Jinghai really wanted to go up and scold Xiao Yu, but earlier he had been called by Director Huo, and this Director Huo was someone even his sister-in-law wouldn't dare offend, so he could only anxiously stand there.

  Director Huo ignored their thoughts and turned to look at Xiao Ye, saying: "You're saying that the patient's cold energy is condensing in the meridians, causing the large intestine to become cold, which is why they have unstoppable diarrhea."

  "It is indeed," Xiao Yu nodded and said.

  Director Huo sank into thought for a moment before saying: "According to what you said, the patient was invaded by cold air. How do you explain the high fever that won't subside?"

  "The patient wasn't originally drinking cold water because of the heat, was he? The patient has a cold constitution, and if this type of person feels hot, it means that the fire energy inside is already very strong. Also, due to the cold constitution, cold and heat cannot coexist, so after the patient drinks cold water, the two colds combine into one, causing the cold air to surge, driving the fire energy to the surface, resulting in his high fever not receding."

  After listening to Xiao Yu's explanation, Director Huo sank into thought for a moment and nodded, saying: "Mm, what you said makes sense."