It was lively outside, and Xu Yang was dumbfounded inside the acupuncture practice room.

He was very familiar with this person in front of him, and their school had a photo and sculpture of this gentleman, because this was the first principal of their Southern Chinese Medicine.

Xu Yang didn't expect that he was actually fortunate enough to learn acupuncture with Cheng Lao.

You must know that Cheng Lao is not only an acupuncturist, he is also a great educator. More than half of the existing Chinese acupuncture masters came from his disciples, and the Chengjiang school was widely spread at home and abroad.

Cheng Lao nodded at Xu Yang: "Comrade Xu Yang, all your acupuncture exercises will be carried out on him next." ”

Xu Yang turned his head to look at the other person who was standing, this person had a dull gaze, an expressionless face, standing straight, and did not speak, making it look like a wax figure.

Xu Yang was a little confused: "This is ......"

Cheng Lao said: "This is a tool man for you to practice, not a real person!"

Xu Yang was a little surprised, the things in the system felt more and more powerful.

Cheng Lao said: "Let's start, the patient has stomach pain, let's diagnose and treat." ”

As soon as Cheng Lao's words fell, the tool man immediately covered his stomach.

Xu Yang's eyes lit up, hey, it's really smart. He stepped forward and began to look and smell, and diagnosed, acupuncture is also a cure, to cure the disease, you must first understand what the pathogenesis is.

Xu Yang made the same diagnosis in the past, and the four diagnoses were combined, and the final conclusion was that the patient had just been angry and angry, and the liver was depressed and turned into fire, and the wood was prosperous and took advantage of the soil, which caused the liver fire to rebel against the stomach, and the stomach was distended and painful.

Cheng Lao asked, "How is it, how to diagnose and treat?"

Xu Yang thought for a while and replied: "This disease is in the liver, and the liver is a rigid organ, so it is appropriate to vent it." The stomach is one of the six intestines, and the intestines are hollow, laxative but not hidden, so the stomach is supplemented by passing. ”

"The treatment should be to soothe the liver and clear the intestines. Take the recruitment acupoints of the liver and the yin pericardium meridian of the hand and the yin pericardium meridian through the golden acupoint to soothe the liver qi, and take the original acupoint of the yang meridian of the hands and feet, the acupoint of the combination and the recruitment of the stomach to pass through the intestines. ”

"Acupuncture period door, middle belly, intermediate, Hegu, Zusanli, Liangqiu. The period gate is the recruitment point of the liver, which has the effect of soothing the liver wood. Because the liver is depressed, it will turn into heat, so take the hand of fire and the yin pericardial meridian to soothe the liver and clear the fire. ”

"Zhongguan is the recruitment point of the stomach, and Zusanli is the combination of the stomach meridian of Zuyangming, these two acupuncture points are the key points for the treatment of all stomach diseases, and have the effect of clearing the stomach. ”

"The stomach must cleanse the intestines, so take the hand Yangming large intestine meridian valley to cleanse the intestines. Liangqiu is the acupoint of the stomach meridian of Zuyangming, which has the effect of relieving pain, and is especially good at treating acute stomach pain. ”

Cheng Lao nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, yes, let's apply the needle." ”

"Good. Xu Yang was also very excited, and he asked the tool man patient to take off his clothes and lay down on the consultation bed.

After Xu Yang got the needle, he asked, "Do you feel sore?"

The tool man hasn't answered yet.

Cheng Lao said: "Wrong. ”

Xu Yang looked up in amazement.

Cheng Lao explained: "The acupuncture points in Chinese medicine are based on deqi, not simply asking the patient if he feels sore. The healer should rely on the feeling of his own hands, whether he feels the needle sinking tightly or there is Xu under the needle. ”

"If you only rely on the patient's feelings, it is often easy to make mistakes, because when you don't align the acupuncture points, the patient often feels sore, so you must consider it comprehensively. ”

Xu Yang nodded and said seriously, "I wrote it down." ”

Cheng Lao said: "The way of acupuncture and moxibustion is practice. This practice room is an environment that ordinary Chinese medicine does not have, and you must study carefully and practice more. ”

"Yes. Xu Yang replied.

Cheng Lao Youzai carefully taught Xu Yang how to use needles, anyway, the one lying down was a tool man, with no temper and no feelings.

In fact, acupuncture and moxibustion have always had tool people, and in the Song Dynasty, acupuncture and moxibustion bronze men were also made to teach acupuncture. Students who study Chinese medicine know that when they take acupuncture, the most difficult thing is their roommates. After-class practice is to tie each other.

But either way, it's not as good as Xu Yang, after all, this is the black technology of the system.

Cheng Lao demonstrated to Xu Yang and said: "The word "deqi" was first seen in the "Neijing", inhaling is the inner needle, there is no anger in the order, it is quiet to stay for a long time, there is no evil cloth, and the needle is turned when it is sucked, so it is the reason for the qi. ”

That is to say, when the needle is pierced into the acupoint, through twisting, turning, lifting and insertion, etc., the acupuncture site produces a special feeling and reaction, which is called deqi and vibration. This is when both the patient and the doctor will feel it. ”

"In addition, it is necessary to distinguish clearly that the qi and the qi are not the same, the "Neijing" once said, 'The thorn is essential, the qi is effective and effective, the letter of the effect, if the wind hangs the clouds, if you see the sky, the way of the thorn is complete. ’”

"In fact, Qi Zhi is the key to the needle, but our generation of Chinese medicine confuses the two concepts of Qi Zhi and Deqi, and generally believes that Qi Zhi and Deqi are the same. ”

Cheng Lao sighed slightly, and his face slowly became a little lonely.

Xu Yang's heart suddenly tightened: "You...... Are you alright?"

Cheng Lao smiled bitterly: "I once crossed thousands of miles across mountains and rivers to learn their new acupuncture theory, and explained our ancient meridian acupuncture points into the nerve theory of Western medicine. ”

"I have been running around for this, but when it comes to clinical diagnosis and treatment, this set of theories is difficult to work. Especially in the face of some tortuous and difficult diseases, it is still necessary to often rely on ancient methods. ”

"When I got old, I realized that the road had gone astray. Cheng Lao raised his head and looked at Xu Yang, and asked cautiously, "You junior Chinese medicine practitioners...... You haven't been misled, have you?"

Xu Yang's heart was suddenly sour, tears were about to come out, and he hurriedly said: "Don't say that, if it weren't for you, Chinese medicine and acupuncture would have perished long ago." ”

Cheng Lao waved his hand and shook his head.

Acupuncture and moxibustion have been passed down for thousands of years. It has always been the housekeeping skill of traditional Chinese medicine, and it has flourished for thousands of years. It was not until the second year of Daoguang that the Qing government suddenly ordered the abolition of acupuncture.

The reason is very simple, because Emperor Daoguang said that when acupuncture and moxibustion, you need to bare-chested and bare-backed, which is not the way to serve the king, and then he was worried that the doctor would use a needle to prick.

The Ming Dynasty was the peak of the development of acupuncture, and it came to an abrupt end here in the Qing Dynasty, and the art of acupuncture and moxibustion declined instantly.

In the Republic of China, it was popular to study Western culture in an all-round way, and a group of people of insight demanded the complete abolition of traditional culture. Traditional Chinese medicine, as one of the representatives, bears the brunt.

Throughout the Republican period, several policies were introduced to completely abolish traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture, which uses meridians and acupuncture points as a means of diagnosis and treatment, is even worse.

In that most tragic era, acupuncture was almost on the road to extinction, and no one learned it.

It was at this most critical time that the old man stood up, turned the tide and helped the building to collapse. He ran the first acupuncture correspondence institution in China, the first acupuncture professional school, and the first acupuncture magazine.

On the basis of inheriting the theories of his predecessors, he actively connected with Western medicine, and also traveled across the ocean to translate their acupuncture works.

He also studied Chinese medicine before, and they were called Chinese medicine. But since the Meiji Restoration, the medical profession has also been reformed, and they have also destroyed the Han and Fuyang, and the Chinese medicine has almost become extinct.

The same is true of acupuncture, in order to survive, they actively changed the guiding theory of acupuncture, combining the meridians with Western neurological theories, so that it was scientific and finally retained.

It was on this basis that Cheng Lao combined with each other to confirm that he took a step forward on an impossible road of success, and finally retained the technique of acupuncture and moxibustion, which inspired the spirit of Chinese medicine people at that time.

The art of acupuncture, which was almost extinct, was finally revived again in the hands of Cheng Lao.

Not only that, Cheng Lao has also cultivated a large number of acupuncture talents, improved acupuncture techniques, improved acupuncture equipment, and developed clinical treatment of acupuncture, all of which are beneficial improvements.

It can be said that Cheng Lao is definitely the person who has contributed the most to acupuncture in modern times, and there is no one!

But Cheng Lao is still worried about whether his actions will have a bad impact on Chinese medicine in future generations!

So Xu Yang was very sad.

It's just that in those days, there was really no way, if you were not scientific, you could only be exterminated by the policy. Therefore, at that time, the leaders of these Huitong schools of Chinese medicine were all well-known masters of traditional Chinese medicine, such as Tang Rongchuan, Zhang Xichun, and Cheng Lao.

In their later years, without exception, these people all found that they had taken the wrong path. So they all came back again on the way from the west to the west.

Later generations of Chinese medicine often criticized the Chinese and Western Huitong schools, but in fact, this is not objective, because you are not in the context of the times at that time.

In that era, in that era when it was necessary to make a whole Western science, if you didn't reform, you would die. And they were the ones who struggled to stick to that most desperate era of Chinese medicine.

These healers deserve our respect!

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the original theory of relying on neurological theory to guide acupuncture and moxibustion was changed back and the meridian theory was reused.

Qi Zhi and Deqi are confused because of the guidance of the Neurological Theory.

However, these two confused concepts have not been corrected, and in layman's terms, Deqi is to pierce the acupuncture points, and you can perform manual treatment. When the qi is reached, it means that it is effective, and the treatment can be ended with the needle.

Now that the two concepts are mixed together, and being angry is equal to being angry, there is no sign of an end. Therefore, the general clinical standard now is to leave the needle in for 30 minutes.

Cheng Lao sighed: "The problem we don't understand needs to be explored by your next generation, and the future of Chinese medicine is yours after all." ”

Xu Yang nodded seriously.

Cheng Lao glanced up at Xu Yang, slowly lowered his eyebrows, raised his eyes again, and asked carefully, "You guys later...... Do we also have to ask for the verification of TCM in the way of Western medicine?"

Xu Yang's expression froze slightly, and then he immediately changed his smile: "How could it be...... That's it. ”