Chapter 268 Unexpected Gains
Of course, this is just Li Quan’s personal guess.
After all, the medical skills of the ancients often seem clumsy, but in fact they contain great wisdom and can often turn decay into magic.
Modern anesthesia technology, whether it is inhalation, intramuscular injection, subcutaneous injection, intravenous injection, etc., is already very mature in terms of technology.
But in the final analysis, it has only one use, and that is to make people lose their sense of pain.
At the same time, any modern anesthesia technology has risks and certain negative effects.
However, this negative effect is relatively harmless to the human body and can recover on its own after a period of time.
What did ancient anesthesia look like? What was its effect? No one knows.
Perhaps the conditions in ancient times were simple, and the ancients' anesthesia techniques, in addition to making people feel no pain and sleepy, may also have the effects of stopping bleeding and preventing infection.
At least from what Li Quan learned about treating children's diseases and pulse diagnosis, the ancients' medical skills were not as bad as people think. It can even be said that their concepts were many years ahead of modern medical skills.
For example, pulse diagnosis can diagnose difficult and complicated diseases that cannot be detected by modern high-tech instruments.
I have strayed off topic. What Li Quan wants to learn most now is the "Five Animal Play" technique.
Because Sophie needs it now.
Qian Yi specifically mentioned the Five Animal Exercises in his book on the treatment of blood diseases in children, which shows that it must have its outstanding features.
Otherwise, how can it be compared with the Taoist breathing and guiding methods?
I walked quickly to the TCM research office, which was very deserted. To put it bluntly, it was just a sign. Currently, there were only three people in this department: Professor Liu, Professor Tang, and Li Quan.
The two professors are just figureheads.
Li Quan is the only one who truly engages in research on traditional Chinese medicine.
Again, the hospital is not a charity. Even if the prospect is extremely bright, it is a dream to expect the hospital to invest a large sum of money and mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources to conduct TCM research before there are any results.
The current research department of Traditional Chinese Medicine is actually quite difficult.
When Li Quan makes some achievements, this place will gradually become lively.
He took Hua Tuo's "Zhenzhong Moxibustion and Acupuncture Sutra" and went back to the ward to accompany Sophie. These days, he and Sophie's mother still had a clear division of labor and took turns to accompany Sophie.
Never take it lightly.
At this moment, Sophie had fallen asleep. Li Quan sat beside the bed and opened the "Pillow Moxibustion and Acupuncture Sutra" to read.
This medical book records the medical skills of acupuncture.
"For men, it is nine fen long, for women, it is six fen long. It may be in the lower Dantian, two inches and four fen below the navel; it may be in the Dantian in the Jiang Palace and Jinque below the heart; it may be between the eyebrows, one inch away, which is the Mingtang, two inches is the bridal chamber, and three inches is the upper Dantian..."
Others will definitely have a headache when seeing this content.
Li Quan's acupuncture skills have been promoted to the master level, so he can easily understand these obscure words.
What we are actually talking about are some acupuncture points.
He knew exactly where each acupuncture point was located on the human body and how deep the needle should be inserted to achieve the desired effect.
Since it was not difficult to read, the only thing he needed to think about was the acupuncture theory and the purpose of acupuncture in the book.
To treat the same disease, Hua Tuo mentioned two or even three methods of acupuncture.
The medication is also different.
But their ultimate effect is the same, which is to restore the patient to normal.
However, during the treatment process, different methods will result in different recovery times for patients. For example, for the same chest tightness, Hua Tuo proposed two different acupuncture plans, AB .
Theoretically, both methods can cure the patient.
Method A emphasizes steadiness. The entire acupuncture process is very safe, and the treatment process is very slow. And it takes multiple treatments to be cured .
Method B is a shortcut that can cure the disease quickly and only requires one or two treatments. However, the risk of method B is very high, and if you are not careful, you may kill or cripple the person.
Hua Tuo's ideas on acupuncture gave Li Quan a lot of inspiration.
He gradually immersed himself in the book.
Before I knew it, I had read more than a dozen pages.
"If acupuncture is needed, it is only in one or two places. After inserting the needle, the patient is told, 'It should be inserted to a certain point. When it reaches a certain point, let the patient know.' The patient says, 'It has reached a certain point.' Then the needle should be removed and the disease will be cured.'..."
When Li Quan first read this passage, he felt that it was somewhat different from the dozen pages he had read before.
It's like the first twelve are all beautiful women with nice faces and good figures. When you see the thirteenth one, although she is also beautiful, you always feel that something is wrong.
What exactly is wrong?
Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the first twelve are all natural beauties, and only the thirteenth one has had plastic surgery.
It has lost its naturalness and looks a bit artificial and stiff.
The content on page 13 that Li Quan was reading now was very similar to the beauty who had undergone plastic surgery. He always felt that it had lost its original flavor and was out of harmony.
"No, this thirteenth page should not be written by Hua Tuo. It is very likely added by later generations. But compared with the previous content, it seems to come from the same source. The content of this thirteenth page is more likely to be written by Hua Tuo's students after learning Hua Tuo's medical skills."
After Li Quan read it carefully, this speculation popped up in his mind.
As soon as this speculation came to his mind, his eyes blurred.
A line of light-shaped text appeared that made him familiar and excited.
[You have successfully discovered the flaws in the book "The Pillow Moxibustion and Acupuncture Sutra", and gained Hua Tuo's favorability +10. Gained Fan A's favorability +10. ]
Li Quan was stunned for a moment.
I even forgot to feel excited and happy.
Because he had been reading ancient famous doctors' books for such a long time, he had gained favorability quite a few times. But he had never gained favorability from two people at once like he did now.
The way of gaining favorability this time made Li Quan dumbfounded.
Just because he found that the content on page 13 of the book was different from the previous 12 pages. But when he read it, he felt that it had some connection with the medical skills on the previous 12 pages. So, he received a favorability bonus.
First of all, it is certain that his guess is correct.
Otherwise, it is impossible to gain favorability.
Who is this Fan A?
Li Quan's eyes were fixed on one point, and the information he had read about Fan A emerged in his mind.
Fan A (164-272 AD) was from Pengcheng. Fan A once studied medicine with Hua Tuo. He was good at acupuncture and was brave in exploration. The Records of the Three Kingdoms said that ordinary Chinese medicine practitioners dared to insert acupuncture no deeper than 4 centimeters into the chest and back of patients, but Fan A dared to insert several inches deeper and the disease was cured.
This person was a disciple of Hua Tuo, and was quite famous for his medical skills in acupuncture.
Even Huangfu Mi, who was revered by later generations as the founder of acupuncture, was most likely taught by Fan A, which enabled him to achieve such high achievements in the field of acupuncture.
Speaking of this matter, there is another story.
Hua Tuo offended Cao Cao and was beheaded. Everyone knows this. There is a story that Hua Tuo wrote down all his life's learning before his death and compiled it into a book called "Qing Nang Jing".
In order to prevent the medical book from being lost, he secretly gave it to the jailer in prison.
Some people said that the jailer was afraid of being implicated and refused to accept it. Hua Tuo got angry and threw the precious medical book into the brazier and burned it.
Just thinking about it makes me feel that this statement is not credible.
Hua Tuo was imprisoned, so where did he get a brazier? Cao Cao hated him so much, so why would he be so kind as to make a brazier to keep Hua Tuo warm in prison? It's ridiculous to think about it.
So this statement cannot be accepted.
