As agreed with Sergei and his wife, on Tuesday evening, Sergey came to the youth apartment on time to pick me up and take me to his house to give his father acupuncture. Danya said that she had never seen me for acupuncture and that she wanted to follow me to see it, so I took her with her to Sergei's house.

Sergei's house is somewhat similar to Yuri's house, located in a Khrushchev-esque five-story house in the center of the city. A three-room house, a bedroom for Sergeizhina and his wife, a room for their daughter Natasha, and the remaining one as a living room. Now the living room has been converted into the bedroom of Sergey's parents.

On the sofa bed in the living room lay an emaciated old man, staring at the ceiling with cloudy eyes, and the old man was paralyzed on the left side. Sergey said that this was his father Mikhail. Sergei said to the old man: "Dad, the doctor who gave you acupuncture has come." The old man's eyes just moved, as if he did not hear what Sergei was saying to him clearly, and a muffled sound came out of his throat. Sergey said: "My father is now always in a state of delirium, staring at the ceiling like this every day. I asked: "How is Mikhail's sleep?" Sergei's mother said: "My husband can only sleep two or three hours a day, and that's how he spends the rest of the day. "I asked Mikhail again about his appetite and urine? Sergei's mother replied to me: "Mikhail eats only a small liquid diet every day, and he is completely incontinent in both urine and urine. After saying that, Sergei's mother wiped her eyes and asked me: "Peng, can acupuncture help Mikhail?" His attending physician has said that he can live for a year at most. ”

I did not immediately answer Sergei's mother, but touched Mikhail's left hand and foot, which was a little cold, but the muscles had not yet atrophied, and they were still elastic to the touch. I took out an acupuncture needle, disinfected the middle finger of Mikhail's left hand, pricked it with a needle, and a few black drops of blood slowly came out of the fingertips, and after a few seconds, Mikhail made a loud sound and his eyes looked over to me. It seems that although Mikhail is paralyzed on the left side of his limbs, his nervous system is not completely necrotic.

I was a little sure, so I nodded to Sergei and his mother, who were staring at me nervously, and said, "Mikhail's left limb muscle has not atrophied, and the nervous system has not died, so acupuncture will definitely have an effect." When they heard me say this, they took a long breath, and Sergei asked me: "Peng, how long does it take for acupuncture to take effect?" I thought about it and replied: "At least three courses of treatment, each course of ten days, the first course of treatment I will first adjust the problem of sleep and appetite and incontinence for him, I will travel for two or three days this weekend, so I will acupuncture for five days, and wait for me to come back for ten consecutive days of acupuncture." Sergei nodded and said, "Okay, Peng, look at the arrangement, I still have a question for you." With that, Sergei pulled me into the hallway, "Peng, how can I pay you?" I smiled and said, "I don't need money, I'm not a full-time doctor in the first place, as long as I can help your father." Sergey shook his head and said: "Peng, I must give you the money, we have a saying in Russia that free treatment has no effect." Listening to Sergei say this, I thought that they were not poor anyway, and I would take the money, so I said: "Okay, you can just watch and pay for the treatment." Sergei took my hand and said, "Peng, in this case, you cure my father, and I will give you a thousand dollars." "A thousand dollars is not much, but it is not a small number, Sergei pinned all his hopes on me, and I suddenly felt a little stressed, "Sergey, it is impossible for your father to fully recover, and the best result of acupuncture is that he can walk on crutches." Sergei shook me hard and said, "Peng, if my father can walk on crutches, I will thank God, do I still want him to return to the way he was?" The way he is now, he himself is in pain, my mother is also very hard, my heart is even more uncomfortable, and we have pinned our hopes on you. I shook Sergei's hand just as hard: "I will definitely do my best to help your father." ”

Back in the living room, I began to give Mikhail acupuncture, I had one needle in each of Mikhail's two sides of the Shenmen Sanyin Jiaowaiguan Zu Sanli, one needle in one side of Hegu, and then one needle in the middle of the belly and the sea of qi, leaving the needle for 20 minutes, and one needle in the middle, because Mikhail's body was very weak, so he did not dare to use strong stimulation techniques. Tanya saw my acupuncture for the first time and was curious to watch. When she saw me plunge the needle an inch deep, Tanya let out a hissing breath and clasped her hands nervously together as if the needle had been pricked into her. After seeing that I pierced an acupuncture point, Dania didn't dare to look any further, and ran to the kitchen to drink tea and chat with Zina's mother and daughter.

Because Mikhail was delirious, I couldn't ask him if he had a needle sensation, so I had to judge for myself. When the needle pricked the foot of his right leg, as soon as the needle penetrated it, the muscles in his leg jumped significantly. I was secretly surprised in my heart, the seventy-year-old man's body is so weak, the needle feeling is so strong, and the other acupuncture points of the needle also have an obvious needle feeling. It seems that the meridians of the old man are still very sensitive, in this case, the effect of acupuncture will be very good, and I can't help but increase my confidence.

When I returned to the youth apartment, I found the acupuncture book I had with me and studied stroke, also known as stroke. Stroke is a general term for acute cerebrovascular diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a kind of cerebral blood circulation disorder with sudden fainting, unconscious, accompanied by crooked mouth and unfavorable speech, and hemiplegia as the main symptoms. Because of the rapid onset of the disease, the symptoms are varied, and the condition changes rapidly, which is similar to the characteristics of the number of good deeds of the wind, so it is called stroke and stroke, and the disease often leaves sequelae. When I was studying in the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the professor of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine once focused on the condition of stroke, and in clinical practice, as long as the stroke hemiplegia is not more than three months, acupuncture treatment will generally have a good effect.

In the days that followed, I came to Sergei's house every night to give Mikhail acupuncture, using a set of acupuncture points at a time. When Sergey came to pick me up at the youth apartment on the fourth night, as soon as he saw me, he happily shook my hand and told me: "Peng, good news for you, my father was very sober this morning, greeted me as soon as he saw me, and had a good appetite. My mother said that my father slept for four or five hours last night. It seems that the effect of acupuncture is indeed miraculous. "I was also very excited when I heard it, after all, this is the first patient I have met who is so seriously ill, if it is in China, where can I be an amateur acupuncturist who has the opportunity to give acupuncture to such patients." This is also a rare challenge for me.

When he arrived at Sergei's house, as soon as he saw me, Mikhail stretched out his right hand and shook hands with me and greeted: "Hello doctor! Sergei's mother was drawing a cross on the side, and at the same time she muttered: "God forbid, God forbid!" ”

Mikhail, the old man, was very humorous, and as soon as I plunged the needle into the foot of his right leg, he shouted: "Peng, is your needle electrified?" My legs are numb. I smiled and said, "The numbness is good, which means that acupuncture has an effect." Mikhail said: "Peng, you put more needles in me and ask me to get up quickly." Sergei's mother said: "Old fellow, why are you in such a hurry to get up?" Mikhail winked his eyes and said, "I want to go and dance with a pretty girl." We all burst out laughing.