After watching the play, Kerry said to Zhang Cheng: "Let's go, go to the restaurant to eat something, didn't you just say that you were hungry?" ”

Originally, I wanted to go out to eat. Zhang Chengxin said that the food in the restaurant can only be described as a kind of goods. Forget it, I haven't eaten anything. So he nodded in agreement: "Restaurant!" All right! ”

Accompanying Kerry in the restaurant, Zhang Cheng followed Kerry to get a bottle of soda and a large roasted pork. After sitting down, Zhang Cheng looked at the veal inside and said, "It's a pity, it's not donkey meat." ”

Listening to Zhang Cheng's words, Kerry, who drank the soda, almost squirted out: "Whose burger uses donkey meat, even Europe is also a horse meat burger." ”|

Zhang Cheng: "Yes, if you have time to travel to China, I will invite you to eat a donkey meat burger." ”

"Never." Carey again stated: "I mean I would never eat donkey meat. ”

Zhang Cheng: "That's a pity, we have a saying in China called dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground." ”

"Dragon meat?" Carey asked, "Has anyone ever eaten anything like this?" ”

Zhang Cheng thought for a while: "If dinosaurs are also a subspecies of dragons according to genetics, the taste of chicken and dragon meat in our family today should be the closest to the taste of dragon meat." ”

Carrey: "I've had a chicken burger, and it doesn't taste as good as the school beef burger." ”

Zhang Cheng could only say: "Actually, it's because the kinship between chicken and dragon meat is far away......"

Halfway through speaking, Zhang Cheng's mobile phone began to vibrate in his pocket, Zhang Cheng opened it and saw that it was his tutor calling, and as soon as Zhang Cheng answered it, he heard a message from the other side: "I saw you in the cafeteria from the mobile phone map, come to the school infirmary as quickly as possible." ”

"Okay." Zhang Cheng hung up the phone and complained: "High-tech is trouble." ”

In fact, there are only a few dozen people who can find Zhang Cheng from the location of Zhang Cheng's mobile phone, at least the salesman can't find it.

Zhang Cheng hurriedly ate the hamburger, drank all the soda, kissed Kerry on the cheek, said goodbye, and drove to the school infirmary.

When I arrived at the school infirmary, the tutor, a doctor and a nurse in the infirmary were all waiting for Zhang Cheng here. In the office of the infirmary, Zhang Cheng found a chair and sat down and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Mentor: "I know you have a deep understanding of Chinese medicinal herbs. You should also know some about traditional Chinese medicine, right? ”

Zhang Cheng: "Of course. ”

Mentor: "Can you explain to us the theory of traditional Chinese medicine?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "No problem, do you want to listen to the long or the short?" ”

Mentor: "How long does it take?" How long does it take to get short? ”

Zhang Cheng said truthfully: "If it is long, it will take three or five months or more than a year to explain it clearly, and it will take three or five minutes to make it short." ”

Mentor: "Very good, be short." ”

Zhang Cheng: "To put it simply. Traditional Chinese medicine divides drugs into four types according to their pharmacological properties, cold medicine, warm medicine, hot medicine, and poison. The method of Chinese medicine is to treat fever with cold medicine, treat cold with hot medicine, and nourish and regulate the body with warm medicine - it should be mentioned here that American ginseng is a cold medicine, but it is also a tonic. ”

The doctor on one side asked first, "What about the poison?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "It is used to treat poisoning." In traditional Chinese medicine, this is called fighting poison with poison. ”

Teacher: "It's a very simple and scientific method, and when the poison has a chemical reaction with the poison, it becomes non-toxic. But how do you say you know which poison to neutralize the other? ”

Zhang Cheng: "In traditional Chinese medicine, this is called a prescription, which has not been demonstrated, but it is clinically effective. In the past, one of the reasons for the decline of Chinese medicine was that many doctors only relied on a few prescriptions handed down by their grandfathers and fathers - they could only treat a few fixed diseases. Nothing can be done about other conditions. ”

Doctor: "What's this?" Modern medicine is not also very finely divided, brain is brain, and chest is thoracic surgery. Gynecology, Internal Medicine ......"

Zhang Cheng: "You don't know the situation in ancient China to say that, in the past, the success rate of Chinese medicine was very low. It takes about 10 years of study for an apprentice to start learning to heal diseases - but even so, it may not be able to become a talent, because Chinese medicine relies on experience. Of course, it also has something to do with the individual's comprehension ability and talent.

So, at that time, there were very few doctors in each county town - it would have been nice to have one or two doctors in the larger towns. But you know, China has always been the most populous country in the world, and it used to be. The number of people who need medical attention is quite large. They don't care what kind of illness you can see, they need a doctor to treat all the conditions they are experiencing.

So. Doctors who can only see a few fixed conditions also treat patients with other conditions - and so a new word appeared, quack. Because the effect of a placebo does not last forever - especially when the patient is very sick. Prior to this, they were often not sent to the hospital for financial reasons. ”

Doctor: "It turns out that 90 percent of people spend 90 percent of their medical expenses in the last month of their lives, and this sentence was also common in ancient China." ”

Zhang Cheng: "That's pretty much it. It's much more standardized now, and I remember that when I was sick, Chinese medicine and Western medicine worked very well together - of course, the two medicines were taken separately. ”

Doctor: "What are the obvious defects of Chinese medicine?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "As far as I know, there is no prescription for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, and most of them actually have an additional burden on the kidneys. But traditional Chinese medicine is not only limited to traditional Chinese medicine, such as acupuncture, cupping, and acupressure that are also available in the United States. Not to mention gua sha, it's actually not that painful. ”

Mentor: "Very good, we now have some understanding of Chinese medicine. Dr. Dawson, do you say? ”

Dr. Dawson: "Because the school's health insurance coverage is limited, and some international students don't have health insurance at all. Therefore, some volunteers are willing to try the effect of TCM at a lower price. ”

Zhang Cheng stood up and excitedly shook Dr. Dawson's hand, shook it a few times and asked, "Where is the patient?" Being able to save lives is one of my life's aspirations. ”

Zhang Cheng also knows a little about the medical situation in the United States, not to mention that there is no medical insurance, that is, there is medical insurance - Xiao Aohei's mother also has medical insurance, but the hospital feels that the treatment price is too high and refuses to continue to treat Xiao Ao's mother to death, which is why Xiao Ao Hei has been committed to the reform of American medical insurance since he came to power.

If you don't have medical insurance in the United States, it can only be even worse, and you have a 911 emergency. The cost of emergency medicine in the United States is really not cheap. At a time, it cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to go in - the emergency department must be a headache doctor, and you want to treat it systematically......

If you think about it, people who can't afford to pay a few hundred dollars a month for medical insurance are basically bankrupt after seeing a doctor -- the only good news is that the United States allows personal bankruptcy, but foreigners can't go bankrupt when they see a doctor in the United States, and it will not be so easy to leave the country if they owe money to the hospital.

Dr. Dawson pulled his hand out a few times. Hurriedly said: "Wait, we invite you to come, mainly because you understand Chinese medicine, and explain the principles of Chinese medicine to us and the volunteers in scientific language - you must know that if the patient does not believe the doctor at all, the effect of the medicine will be reduced." But you don't have any experience in seeing patients in Chinese medicine, you just said that Chinese medicine is an empirical medicine...... Let go ......"

After Zhang Cheng let go, he did not hesitate to put the experience of the King of Medicine on himself: "When I was a child, my body was very weak. I often have to see a doctor and take medicine, Chinese medicine also looks at Western medicine, and after a long time, I gradually understand the pharmacology and medicinal properties. Let me tell you, I dare not say that in China, in the United States, no, you can't find a better choice than me in the area of Chinese medicine in the Americas. ”

Mentor: "You can let him try." The student I took with me was not a liar. ”

Dr. Dawson thought for a moment before saying, "I can let you try." But you want to make sure that the volunteer patient doesn't get worse. ”

Zhang Cheng took out a box of cigarettes and wanted to send them to everyone, but none of them smoked (the nurse was also a man) but he didn't mind Zhang Cheng smoking (the office where several people talked was a smoking room), Zhang Cheng lit one himself as if to cheer himself up and said: "You can rest assured that I will do things." ”

Dr. Dawson: "......"

The instructor asked, "You don't have only a few prescriptions and only a few diseases, right?" ”

Zhang Cheng pinched his cigarette: "You underestimate me too much, let's put it this way." Gynecology and children's medicine, incurable diseases, there is nothing I can't cure. Even if it really can't be cured, there is a way for me to delay the condition, and at least it will not get worse for a long time. ”

Mentor: "Since he's confident, I think he'll give it a try." ”

Dr. Dawson: "Okay, let's go see the volunteer patients. ”

The three of them got up and left the room. When Zhang Cheng arrived at the door, he found that the male nurse had not gotten up, and asked him, "Aren't you coming along?" ”

Nurse: "I'm resting here." ”

Sorry, Zhang Cheng closed the door and followed the footsteps of the mentor and Dr. Dawson, and went to the clinical room of the infirmary, where there were eight people lying in two rows - Zhang Cheng didn't know if they were all volunteers.

Dawson walked to the first volunteer's bed, picked up his case from the bedside and handed it to Zhang Cheng: "This is his case, you can take a look at it first." ”

"No, you don't." Zhang Cheng refused to look at the medical records, and first observed the patient's face - it was so white, and from Zhang Cheng's impression, except for the white man, it would take three or five hours to soak in water to be so white.

Fortunately, it was really a white man -- a white woman in her twenties. The white man's face was inaccurate, Zhang Cheng directly grabbed the patient's hand, shook it for a while, probably had a plan in his heart, and looked at the person's tongue and eyes before letting go.

"She had inflammation in her eye, and it was already recurring," Dawson said. I was tested for scleritis and prescribed new eye drops and anti-inflammatory drugs, but it still did not improve. ”

Zhang Cheng said: "In my opinion, this disease is a real attack, and I must not eat less fried food, and the disease is caused by anger." What you say about ocular inflammation is just a façade. ”

Mentor: "Can it be treated?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "Of course, the good news is that as a person who is ready to save lives at any time, I have some standing Chinese medicine in the car, just give her a dispensing room." Borrow it. ”

In fact, the medicinal materials were all on Zhang Cheng, but in order to avoid the shocking changes in the medicinal materials, Zhang Cheng still went out and opened the car door, and then brought two large suitcases. The inside of the box is full of all kinds of small compartments filled with Chinese medicines, one box has 50 compartments, and the two boxes are a total of 99 kinds of standing Chinese medicine and a small juicer.

In the dispensing room, Zhang Cheng carefully selected four medicinal materials by hand, put them into a small juicer, added mineral water, and turned on the machine.

Stirring timeZhang Cheng said to the instructor and Dr. Dawson who were looking at this qiē: "Originally, Chinese medicine is usually boiled for several hours to fuse the medicinal properties, but after years of research, I found that adding water to fully crush can also have the same effect. ”

Teacher: "What kind of Chinese medicine did you just put in?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "Rhubarb, coptis, skullcap, licorice. I have grown them in my own farm, and they have been concocted for the first time. ”

The tutor and Dr. Dawson nodded and did not speak, rhubarb was exported from China to Europe a long time ago, and it is a very good medicinal material for Europeans who eat a little greasy. Later, edible rhubarb was also developed in Europe - of course, medicinal rhubarb still had to be imported.

Seeing that the medicinal materials in the juicer had been crushed very sufficiently, Zhang Cheng stopped the machine and found the filter cover of the juicer from the box, and poured out a cup of bright yellow Chinese medicine solution.

Zhang Cheng looked at the cup of liquid: "It's him." ”

Taking the liquid medicine to the clinical room, Zhang Cheng handed the liquid medicine to volunteer patient A and said, "Pinch your nose and pour it in one go." ”

Patient A drank in one gulp, then gasped: "Oh my God, my tongue is so bitter." ”

Zhang Cheng: "If you usually have bitter gourd, almonds, and lotus seeds in your snacks, you don't have to take such a bitter medicine." ”

Patient A shook his head: "Those snacks you said are also very bitter. ”

Zhang Cheng took out a silver needle from his bag and stabbed the acupuncture points on Patient A's body a few times, then gently rubbed it, and said to the instructor and Dr. Dawson who were looking at the tip of the needle: "Adjuvant treatment, so that the effect of the medicine will go faster." ”

After taking the medicine for about 20 minutes and getting the needle down for 15 minutes, when Zhang Cheng was examining Patient B, Patient A said, "I feel much better now, and my eyes don't hurt much anymore." ”

The mentor and Dr. Dawson hurried over to see the situation, and Zhang Cheng waited for the second patient to be examined before coming over: "Oh, since the medicine has an effect, I'll bring you another cup later, eat and sleep, and you'll be fine tomorrow morning." ”

Zhang Cheng took out a small bottle from the box again: "This is the pure Chinese medicine eye drops I prepared myself, you can try it." ”

Patient A put the eye drops into his eye and said, "It's cool and comfortable." ”

Zhang Cheng: "This is the right symptom, you will have this feeling, otherwise your eyes will feel even more uncomfortable." ”

Dr. Dawson: "Anything like this?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "Of course, there are a few cold medicines in this eye drop I have prepared, if her eye disease is caused by cold, the drops will aggravate her eye pain - it's not a big deal, the tears will wash away." However, it appears that her eye pain is caused by a fever. ”

Dr. Dawson also learned to draw inferences: "Then after we sprain, is it also the truth that cold compresses are applied to the hot, swollen and painful sprained parts?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "Yes! ”

Dawson: "Why didn't we think of it before?" ”

Zhang Cheng knew that Western medicine used to be famous for believing in medicine and not believing in doctors - there were always some people who wanted to find some panacea for all diseases (no one should say anything about this kind of thing), and the most expensive panacea for all diseases sold in Europe during the period of the Great Geographical Discovery was the legendary unicorn horn (actually the narwhal's teeth).

Zhang Cheng said with a smile: "How can it be so easy, this is our ancestors who first learned the medicinal properties of herbs from tasting all kinds of herbs, and after thousands of years of improvement and inheritance, it was summed up with countless experiences." ”

Dawson: "I see, you're standing on the shoulders of giants!" Our medicine is not on the same path. (To be continued......)