Chinese medicine doctor Xu Yang

"How is it, Doctor Xu Yang, can my disease be cured?" Mr. Li asked Xu Yang with a smile.

Xu Yang had just finished diagnosing Mr. Li's pulse, and he said angrily: "If you continue to trouble like this, it will be useless even if Zhang Zhongjing comes."

Mr. Li has just recovered from his illness, but he still looks very tired and weak, and he has worked too hard. He was already very thin, but he has lost a lot of weight. At this time, he only weighs 87 pounds, and he is all skin and bones.

Xu Yang shook his head slightly and took up a pen to write: "Although the wind evil has been driven away, the remaining evil has not been cleared away and the body is still a little numb. Let's take a few more doses of medicine."

Mr. Li smiled and said, "Okay, I will listen to Dr. Xu."

Xu Yang said: "If you listen to me, just rest for a while. You don't even know how old you are. You travel all over the world and treat so many patients a day. How can you sleep before two o'clock? Not the way to live longer.”

The teacher's wife was also dissatisfied and said: "Yes, Xu Yang, scold your master properly. This bad old man won't listen no matter what he says. He scared me this time. If you don't rest, I will have the child tied up for you in the countryside." Go, let me see who can find you!"

Mr. Li gave a bitter smile, lowered his head and said nothing.

Before my wife finished speaking, the phone at home rang again. She said, "Look, another patient is calling. The phone at home has not been quiet all year round. Many people still call in the middle of the night. Your master Just talk to someone for a long time, and don't even think about sleeping for a whole night."

Mr. Li lowered his head and whispered: "If you call me so late, you must be seriously ill, right... It's hard not to answer the call."

The teacher's wife said angrily: "Without you, no one else can cure me?"

Mr. Li stopped talking again.

After the teacher's wife finished complaining, she went out to answer the phone.

After his wife went out, Mr. Li said to Xu Yang, "I'm not afraid of her, I just don't want to argue with her."

Xu Yang smiled, wrote the recipe and handed it to Mr. Li.

Mr. Li took it, took a look at it, and kept nodding: "Yes, yes, now your method of using medicine can be said to be extraordinary, and the level of diagnosis and treatment has far exceeded that of most traditional Chinese medicine doctors."

Xu Yang smiled.

Mr. Li asked again: "You have been staying in Lingshi all year round. Do you have any idea of ​​going out to have a look? For example, go to the south or Guangdong. The Chinese medicine environment there is pretty good and it is also a big city. It will be very good for your future development. "

Xu Yang shook his head: "I am still used to staying in the countryside. There are many inconveniences in the city, but the countryside is still free. Now the director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital is also very supportive of me. He is busy signing my signatures all day long."

Mr. Li also laughed. He also thought of the things he did back then. Xu Yang seemed to be the same person he was back then.

Mr. Li touched a cigarette and lit it: "This stroke was a near miss, but it did scare your wife. Fortunately, it's not serious. Western medicine diagnosed me as lacunar cerebral infarction."

"At that time, the right side of my body was numb, my tongue was hard, and it was difficult to speak. I quickly prescribed medicine and drank Xiuming boiled powder for a while. Now I am almost fine."

"Sun Simiao was also surrounded by patients and overworked when he was 100 years old and suffered a stroke, so he created the treatment of Xuanshou Powder. He also had a strong speech and a gluttonous limbs. He dictated the prescription and asked his apprentice to take the medicine, and he took four doses a day, ten doses He will be cured after ten days and ten nights.”

"In fact, both Xiao Xu Ming Decoction and Xu Ming Bo Powder are very good prescriptions for treating stroke, especially Xu Ming Bo Powder, which is mainly used to treat various winds, regardless of severity. But now it is used less. The reason is still Traditional Chinese medicine is moving in the direction of Westernization."

"Because of modern pharmacological research, aconite, ephedra, and cinnamon twigs all have the disadvantage of raising blood pressure, so no one dares to use them. My pearl is covered in dust, I feel it is necessary to help rehabilitate the Xiao Xuan Ming Tang. What a good medicine, it turns out that I was so wronged that no one dared to use it.”

Xu Yang said: "You also said that Sun Simiao was so tired that he had a stroke. Isn't it the same for you now? You faced many hardships in your early years and your foundation is weak. Now that you are so old and you are still working so hard, even young people can't stand it."

Mr. Li took a puff of cigarette and shook his head: "There is no way. The ancients often said that if a great doctor cannot come out, what will happen to the people. Although I am just a country doctor, it is rare to have such an opportunity. You let me live a long life. , I really can’t support it.”

"The current Chinese medicine community is indeed not a toy. All the mess is in the pond. The Chinese medicine community urgently needs to bring order to the chaos. I love Chinese medicine so much. I really don't want it to be so humble. I just want it to live with dignity!"

Xu Yang's heart trembled violently.

The teacher’s wife also came back after answering the phone.

Mr. Li asked: "Who called?"

The teacher’s wife said angrily: “Who else could it be? Of course the patient called?”

Mr. Li asked again: "Then what did you say?"

The teacher's wife said: "What else can I say? Arrange a time for someone to come and see the doctor."

Mr. Li smiled and nodded, lowered his head and took another puff of cigarette.

…

Mr. Li suffered a stroke this time. He took medicine for half a month and recovered. He began to travel south non-stop to teach and teach. He was determined to bring order to the Chinese medicine world.

At the same time, he has to treat a large number of patients every day. Mr. Li's whereabouts are updated online, and patients from all over the country are following him, causing his workload to be very heavy.

In June of the following year, half a year later, Mr. Li suffered another stroke.

Mr. Li wrote in the academic materials of his "Re-Ding Xuan Ming Bo Powder" sent to Xu Yang: "I went to Shenzhen after my work in Guangzhou and received patients after the lecture. I was overworked, had a stroke, dizziness, my mouth was crooked to the right, and my blood flow continued. . After treatment, all symptoms will subside, don’t worry.”

Ten months later, Mr. Li suffered his third stroke.

Mr. Li said: "In two years, I suffered three strokes due to overwork and lost the use of my right arm."

This time, the teacher's wife was really angry and scolded Mr. Li.

An 80-year-old man suffered three strokes in two years. Do you think it's scary or not?

Mr. Li kept his head down, not daring to talk back.

The wife asked the children to take Mr. Li to hide somewhere in Guangzhou to recuperate for a while, but Mr. Li came out again before he could recover. Before his right arm regained its dexterity, he started to undergo treatment again.

At that time, the Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine established Lao Li's academic inheritance base, and several of his disciples planned to open a TCM ICU in the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat critical illness using pure TCM methods.

Mr. Li rushed over in a hurry.

He was scolded again by his wife. A day stay in the ICU costs tens of thousands of dollars, while a pair of traditional Chinese medicines cost him two to three hundred dollars. He was said to be stealing other people's business and ruining their jobs. In the past, he was often jealous of others.

But Mr. Li refused to listen no matter what, and refused to retaliate even after being scolded. He still insisted on going. He told Xu Yang that this was an opportunity for the renaissance of traditional Chinese medicine and he had to go.

The teacher's wife couldn't resist him, so she could only ask the children to accompany him there. She was afraid that if something happened, she would be worried if there were no children around. She was frightened.

A traditional Chinese medicine ICU was established.

Later, with the approval of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, several academic inheritance bases of Mr. Li were established to pass on Mr. Li's medical skills. As a folk Chinese medicine practitioner, Mr. Li was delighted to be so valued, but he also became even busier.

He fell ill constantly in the next few years, but he refused to stop his busy pace no matter what. Even his wife could not persuade him.

Eventually he became ill due to overwork, and the 84-year-old Mr. Li came to the end of his life.

At that time, Xu Yanggang had just gone to the countryside to treat people. When he returned to the county, he suddenly heard the news and hurried to Li's hometown.

At this time, the lobby of Li's hometown was full of people.

Seeing Xu Yang arriving, Mr. Li's son said to Xu Yang: "Go in, dad is waiting for you."

Xu Yang hurried up to the second floor. Only Mr. Li and his wife were left in the room.

Xu Yang walked forward cautiously, looking at Mr. Li's appearance, his eyes could not help but feel sore, and he felt sad in his heart. Mr. Li's eyes were closed tightly, his whole body was as skinny as firewood, and he had lost a few ounces of flesh. He was as angry as a gossamer, and his face was covered with signs of death.

The teacher's wife stayed quietly at Mr. Li's bedside.

Seeing Xu Yang coming, the teacher's wife said in Mr. Li's ear: "Xu Yang is here."

Mr. Li twitched a few times before slowly opening his eyes. He looked at Xu Yang blankly, feeling strange for a moment. After a while, he came back to his senses. His voice was very soft and somewhat unclear: "He's here."

Xu Yang quickly walked to his bedside, squatted down and nodded: "Here he is."

Mr. Li looked at Xu Yang and whispered: "Doctor Xu, check my pulse..."

Xu Yang took Mr. Li's hand and pressed three fingers on his pulse.

Mr. Li's anger was like a thread and he said slowly: "Do you still remember what I taught you? If you can't rely on your words, you should diagnose Fuyang, Taixi, and Taichong meridians to wait for stomach qi, kidney qi, and liver qi."

Xu Yang let go of Mr. Li's hand and went to diagnose his three pulses.

Mr. Li asked: "How is it?"

Xu Yang's fingers trembled slightly, and he smiled with tears in his eyes: "The three meridians have been extinguished, and there is no more life."

Mr. Li smiled and said: "Heh...heh...your pulse diagnosis has always been so good."

Mr. Li said to his wife: "Help me sit up."

The wife put a pillow on the head of the bed, then lifted Mr. Li up a little and let him lean on the pillow.

Mr. Li looked at his wife, then at Xu Yang, and he said slowly: "I have three blessings in my life. The first one is that after I was imprisoned, I accidentally studied Chinese medicine and found the direction of my lifelong pursuit. Although I have gone through a lot of hardships and suffered many hardships, but I have never regretted it and I am very satisfied.”

Mr. Li looked at his wife and said slowly: "The second thing is that I have the honor to marry you. In my life, you have suffered a lot with me."

"If there is an afterlife, I'm afraid I will still be a Chinese medicine doctor, and you will inevitably have to worry and be afraid of me, and I will suffer you again. I will find you earlier in the next life, and you will scold me a few more times to make up for the two lifetimes. of debt."

"Anyway, everyone says I'm afraid of my wife. There's nothing wrong with being afraid of my wife. If you don't scold me, I'm not used to it. It's just that I have to take the first step. You have to live well."

The teacher's wife burst into tears for a while.

Mr. Li looked at Xu Yang again and said in a trembling voice: "Xu Yang, you are really an excellent Chinese medicine doctor. I'm leaving. I'm afraid I won't be able to see the Chinese medicine community in the future. Without great doctors, what will happen to the people?" Because. With your current medical skills, you can do more! You must remember that you must be a true Chinese medicine doctor, and you must not let Chinese medicine die! Let Chinese medicine live with dignity!"

Xu Yang nodded desperately.

Mr. Li slowly raised his trembling hand, grabbed Xu Yang's hand, and said, "The third blessing I want to say is that having you as my disciple is a blessing in my life."

Xu Yang could no longer hold back and cried bitterly.

On this day...the great doctor passed away.