The old man asked in a thick northern accent, "Oh! Little doll, you wrote this prescription. He looked at her with a sharp look in his eyes, the older he is, the more experienced he is, the more he can win the trust of patients, and there is obvious surprise and disbelief in his sharp eyes.

At this time, there are many Chinese in the United States with southern accents, and there are really few northerners, listening to his slightly familiar native accent, Fang Menan feels very cordial. "What, is there anything wrong with this prescription?" Fang Monan raised his eyebrows and asked. She looked at Agnes and said, "Give him your hand and let him take the pulse." Seeing that she was indifferent, Fang Monan said again: "Don't you don't believe me, it's not better to have one more person to diagnose your pulse." ”

Agnes smiled sheepishly and sat down on a stool in front of the counter, putting her hand on the counter.

The old man looked at this posture and knew that this blonde and blue-eyed white man was the patient, so he took his pulse seriously with bated breath. After about a quarter of an hour, the old man let go of his hand, and then his frowning brows also let go, and he looked at Fang Monan in a daze.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?" The girl standing next to the old man pushed him and asked anxiously.

The old man came back to his senses, and he looked at Fang Monan, his eyes undisguised his eagerness. "Ugh! Female doll, let's talk. ”

"Good!" Fang Monan nodded, the two began to talk as if no one was around, the language was in Chinese, the girl could understand, Jerry knew half-understood, it sounded very laborious, but also listened carefully. Only Agnes was not interested, looked at the drugstore, smelled the strong smell of medicine, pouted, and looked unwilling. If it weren't for her illness, she wouldn't want to stay here for a moment.

"In fact, cancer is not a terminal disease that cannot be cured, as long as you find the right root cause and starve the cancer cells, it is not difficult. It's better than surgery and chemotherapy. Kill together, for better or worse. Fang Menan said with a smile.

"Haha...... You're so right, I'm disgusted with Western medicine. It is still the wisdom left by our ancestors, after 2,000 years of tempering, it is better than the hundreds of years of history of the development of Western medicine. The old man said with a laugh. It's better to listen to you than to read a book for ten years. ”

"Where, I still have to ask the old-timers for advice." Fang Monan bowed and said, he could see that the prescription she prescribed was extraordinary. Presumably, the medical skills are also very good.

"Female doll, be modest, you don't have to come to these vulgar rites." The old man waved impatiently. The bold and hearty atmosphere is fully displayed.

"Hehe......" Fang Monan smiled, it seemed that the old man was very bold. We learn from each other and make progress together. ”

The girl stood beside the old man, listening to her grandfather's hearty smile, opening her mouth wide and looking incredulous. She rarely saw her grandfather's smile in her memory, he was introverted and never exposed. Today is really unprecedented. I don't know what charm this little girl has that makes the old man so happy.

Agnes knocked impatiently on the counter, "You two don't talk, you two speak Chinese, we don't understand, it's not polite at all." Hurry up and grab the medicine! I'm still waiting to go! She lifted her wrist and looked at her watch again.

"Oh! Ah Yuan, hurry up and decoct the medicine here. The old man urged, "I want to see how good it works." ”

"Ugh! Good! The girl, named Ah Yuan, turned around and began to grab the medicine from the lattice. After weighing the medicine, go to decoction again.

Fang Menan said to Agnes: "It's good to decoct the medicine here, the procedure is very troublesome, and it will save you trouble." ”

"That's just right!" Agnes looked at the old man and asked tentatively, "This prescription ......." ”

"This prescription is specific to your illness and suits you well." The old man said solemnly that he was most disgusted by this kind of person, but because the person who prescribed the medicine was too young, he didn't care so much.

During Ah Yuan's decoction, Fang Monan and the old man sat down to talk further. Fang Monan knew that the old man's name was Tang Yaoxian, and it turned out that he was also a well-known Xinglin family in the mainland, and he immigrated to the United States to escape the war and came here for more than 40 years. The children have been educated in the United States for a long time, and they are unwilling to accept the pharmacies and medical skills of the elderly. In order to pass on the things of the ancestors in his hands, he broke the family's ancestral training of passing on men and not women. Now only his granddaughter Tang is willing to follow her to learn Chinese medicine. It's also old and comforting.

Tang Yaoxian also knew in the chat that the female doll's name was Fang Monan, and she was a family medicine.

Fang Menan carefully observed his expression, grabbed Donald's wrist, and gently put his cool and moist fingers on Tanglao, and in less than a moment, he said lightly, "You often have angina today, you have restless sleep, you are tired, but your spirit is in a state of excitement, am I right?" ”

Donald looked at her in surprise and nodded.

Fang Monan smiled slightly, picked up the paper and pen on the doctor's table, brushed the dragon and the phoenix danced to write a few big characters, and said softly, "This pair of Chinese medicine can be taken after boiling for three hours, once a day, no need to take more, and it will definitely relieve your pain after five days." ”

Donald took the prescription, saw the medicinal materials inside, frowned and gradually loosened, he saw some doorways, but he still couldn't do it.

After asking carefully for a long time, she still couldn't figure out what to do, and asked Fang Monan to talk in detail about the Taoist medicine she had learned. The Five Elements Theory of Taoist Medicine holds that everything in the world is generated by the movement and change between the five basic substances of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. At the same time, it also uses the relationship between the five elements to explain the interconnection between things, believing that nothing is isolated and static, but maintains coordination and balance in the continuous movement of mutual generation and restraint. This is the basic meaning of the Five Elements Doctrine. Ancient thinkers used these five substances to illustrate the origin of all things in the world. Traditional Chinese medicine also uses the restraint of the five elements to explain and analyze many physiological and pathological phenomena.

Because there are four seasons and there are four elements, there is earth. The earth represents the smooth movement of qi. The sowing of plants is called the harvest, and the harvest of crops is called the harvest. Soil has the function of sowing crops, harvesting grains, and transforming all things. It is further extended that the soil has the characteristics of growth, bearing, metaplasia, gestation and long-term nourishment. Nurturing biochemistry and spitting out the image of all things. Anything or phenomenon that has such properties can be attributed to earth. The spleen and stomach belong to the soil, and the opening is in the mouth, and the disharmony between the spleen and stomach is reflected in the mouth. The soil has the ability to carry things, biochemical storage, and the soil carries all directions, which is the mother of all things, and has the ability to make heavy contributions. Its sex is heavy, its affection is thick, and the hexagram is prosperous, with a round waist and a moist nose. Clear eyebrows, eloquence, loyalty, filial piety and sincerity, courage and generosity, words must be done, deeds must be fruitful, willing to dedicate and eclectic. Too much dirt. Jealous, introverted, stubborn, and stubborn by nature. Those who do not understand the reason, those who do not reach it, have a low nose, look sad, do not believe their words, are vicious and stingy, and are selfish. Unreasonable.

Deduction method: that is, according to the known five elements of some things, deduce and summarize other related things, so as to determine the five elements of these things. For example, it is known that the liver belongs to wood (major premise), because the liver is combined with gallbladder, the main tendon, its bloom is in the claw, and the opening is in the eye (minor premise), so it can be deduced that the gallbladder, tendon, claw, and eye all belong to wood; In the same way, if the heart belongs to fire, then the small intestine, pulse, face, and tongue are related to the heart, so they also belong to fire; The spleen belongs to the soil, and the stomach, muscles, lips, and mouth are related to the spleen, so they also belong to the soil; The lungs are golden. The large intestine, skin, hair, and nose are related to the lungs, so they are also golden; The kidney is water, and the bladder, bones, hair, ears, and two yin are related to the kidney, so they also belong to water.

Based on the characteristics of the five elements, the theory of the five elements uses the methods of analogy and deduction to classify various things and phenomena in nature into five categories: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, and each type of thing and phenomenon has the same or similar specific attributes, which constitute a certain relationship with each other.

Under the guidance of the corresponding ideology of heaven and man, traditional Chinese medicine is centered on five behaviors. Based on the five directions of spatial structure, the five seasons of time structure, and the five organs of human body structure, various things and phenomena in nature and physiological and pathological phenomena of the human body are taken as the basic framework. According to its attributes, it is summarized to connect the life activities of the human body with things or phenomena in the natural world, and form a five-element structural system that connects the internal and external environment, which is used to explain the unity of the human body and the natural and natural environment.

"Gold, wood, water, fire and earth, Taoists call it the art of the five elements, that all things in heaven and earth are composed of it, and that it is the truth of the origin of all things, as long as it is studied thoroughly, any disease and suffering will be solved." Fang Monan said lightly, how do you look like a 'magic stick'.

The more Old Man Tang listened, the more stunned he became, how to see how there was a shadow of feudal superstition. What the hell is going on?

Fang Monan looked at him confused, "To put it in layman's terms, 'medicine and Taoism are of the same origin', the medicine of medicine, the Tao of Taoism, 'the same origin of medicine and Taoism', you can explain it clearly, and there is also 'Ten Dao and Nine Doctors', almost all famous doctors in history, they are either medical saints and medical kings who are respected by Taoism; Either he is a Taoist priest himself; Either he is a believer in Taoist culture, just like the familiar Bian Que, Hua Tuo, Sun Simiao, and so on. ”

"Oh!" Old Man Tang nodded, "It's kind of interesting." ”

"The four major philosophical theories of Chinese medicine are the holistic theory, the yin and yang theory, the five elements theory, and the essence and qi theory. The theory of yin and yang and the five elements are all of the same root and origin as Taoism, and the old man must understand it. Fang Menan saw him nodding, and said: "The essence theory, it comes from the understanding of life in Chinese Taoist culture, Chinese Taoist culture has entered everyone's mind, Chinese will say a sentence, called essence and spirit, say you are good or not, often say that essence and spirit are insufficient, right, there is also a holistic theory, this is the biggest difference from Western medicine This overall theory, it is actually the theory of the unity of heaven and man in Chinese Taoist culture, Taoism has long said, Zhuangzi said in the "South China Sutra", ' This holistic theory not only refers to the fact that we are a whole of life and looks at ourselves with a holistic concept, but also that the body and the universe are inductive, that heaven and man are one, and that heaven and man are one, and that the medical system of Taoism, the medical system of Taoist culture, has always been an empirical system of Chinese medicine. ”

Fang Monan looked at the obvious change in his expression, why didn't he know what he was thinking? After experiencing that chaotic era, everything was learning from the Western style, and of course thinking that everything was feudal dross. It is not a matter of time and a half to change people's preconceived notions. Even the textbooks of the current College of Traditional Chinese Medicine are compiled by Western medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, which can be said to be a halfway monk, which is not right from the root.

Fang Monan said: "To put it simply, people's bodies are the same as heaven and earth, changing all the time, so sometimes healthy, sometimes sick. There are many causes of illness, including the influence of the external environment (i.e., external feelings), the deterioration of internal conditions (i.e., internal factors), the decay of the function of physical organs, and the decadence of mental state. External and physical factors are important, but internal factors and spirits play a more important role. ”

"Hmmm! It makes sense that mental factors and attitudes also play an important role in physical health. Sun Simiao's "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions" said: "The husband cultivates the sex, so he is accustomed to the nature,...... Sex is self-sufficient. Sex is self-benevolent, internal and external diseases are not born, and disasters and disasters have no reason to do, and this great scripture of health preservation is also'" said the old man Tang.

"Those who do good deeds will bring spiritual happiness to themselves, and those who accumulate virtue do not seek personal gain, do not suffer from gains and losses, and their minds are peaceful, their qi and blood are harmonious, and their bodies and minds are comfortable." Fang Menan said with a smile. "Such a strange disease, such a terminal illness, in fact, are easy to treat. The most difficult thing in the world to treat is people's 'heart disease'. The heart of man is higher than the sky, and he longs to give the treasure of the world to himself. People's hearts are deeper than the sea, and no one knows what he wants to do? Some people don't learn well, they specialize in harming others, and their hearts and livers are blackened, so of course they have to get strange diseases. If you don't scold him, expose his shortcomings and the root of the disease, and drink it as a stick, scaring him into a cold sweat, his illness will not be cured. Therefore, when treating a person, he must first cure his heart and ask him to change his evil and convert to righteousness. Repent and renew, and then give a little medicine, and the hand will be cured, and it will work naturally. ”

Fang Monan smiled, turned his head and saw a big man running in from outside in a hurry, with a young man on his back, he couldn't tell what illness the young man had, but he could hear his muffled snort in pain from afar.

When the two saw Old Man Tang, they hurriedly stepped forward, as if they had seen a savior. Both of them are Chinese, they both speak Chinese, and hurriedly "Donald, Donald help!" He put the patient down on his back, grabbed the old man's hand, and cried out anxiously in a thick southern accent.

"What's going on? Big mountain. Old Man Tang asked, "Look......" Dashan stretched out the young man's hand.

"Ahh Agnes screamed in fright, quickly covered her mouth, and nodded embarrassedly to the crowd, and the others also expressed understanding.

The young man's left hand was injured, and the four fingers that were originally straight and straight were now like soft noodles, drooping at 90 degrees, and the wind seemed to tremble when it blew, which looked very scary. Donald asked, "What's the matter with your hand?" (To be continued) RQ