Dreaming about the world, embarking on the path of spiritual practice

Chapter 24 To practice martial arts, you must first learn medicine!
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The dinner table.

In addition to two meat and two vegetarian dishes, Yu Liang also saw a pot of medicinal food placed in the center.

This must be the great tonic that the master told his wife to prepare for him yesterday.

"Eat, finish it all!"

"Ok!"

After swimming in such a long circle, Yu Liang was already hungry. He first poured a bowl of medicinal soup to moisten his throat, and then ate heartily.

After dinner, Ma Wu took him to the study.

"Are you literate?"

"know a bit!"

"That's fine!"

Ma Wu took out a stack of books from the bookshelf and handed them to Yu Liang.

"Memorize it first. If there are any words you don't know, you can ask me!"

Yu Liang took it and read "Acupuncture Classics A and B".

"Medical book? Master, are you still a doctor?"

Ma Wu shook his head and said, "I am not a doctor, but I do know some medical skills."

"Those who want to learn martial arts must be knowledgeable in medicine!"

“It’s not just about being able to heal yourself when you get hurt.

It’s because there is a lot of knowledge in martial arts that is closely related to medical skills! "

Pointing at the stack of books, he introduced: "This medical book was compiled by Huangfu Mi of the Jin Dynasty by combining three books: "Lingshu", "Suxiang", and "Mingtang Acupuncture and Moxibustion Treatment Essentials"!"

"It contains all the knowledge about the meridians and acupuncture points of the human body."

“When you finish your basic study and start learning the internal skills and mind methods, you must have a clear understanding of the many meridians and acupuncture points in the body.

Otherwise, once there is even the slightest mistake in the operation of the skill, the body may be damaged at least, or the meridians may be reversed and go crazy. "

After hearing these words, Yu Liang nodded solemnly.

Thinking back to those nonsense martial arts novels, the protagonists in them are either beggars or peasants. After picking up a book of peerless martial arts, they can practice it and then dominate the martial arts world. It is simply nonsense.

The real protagonist of the story must receive a good education since childhood. Not only must he be literate, but he must also be proficient in various martial arts knowledge. In this case, it is possible to practice peerless martial arts!

Moreover, the rivers and lakes are very dangerous, and all kinds of poisonous drugs are emerging in endlessly. If you don’t know a little medical skills, how can you walk in the rivers and lakes?

Yu Liang picked up the first medical book and looked through it briefly.

"Acupuncture Meridians A and B" first outlines the twelve meridians of the human body: Ren Meridian, Du Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, Foot Queyin Liver Meridian, Foot Taiyin Kidney Meridian, Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian, Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, The Spleen Meridian of Foot Taiyin, the Large Intestine Meridian of Hand Yangming, the Lung Meridian of Hand Taiyin, the Heart Meridian of Hand Shaoyin, and the Small Intestinal Meridian of Hand Taiyang.

After that, these meridians are described and explained one by one.

Putting the medical books back in his hands, he counted 24 books in total.

By some estimates, it would take ten and a half days to read each of these books one by one.

Fortunately, Yu Liang had a photographic memory. If it were anyone else, it would have taken him three to five years to just memorize these books.

Yu Liang picked up the first book again, sat on a chair nearby, and read page by page.

Ma Wu did not disturb him, but also took down a book from the bookshelf and read quietly with him.

"Master, what is this word?"

Yu Liang saw an unfamiliar word. Although he could probably guess its meaning when placed in a sentence, he had to be careful when studying meridians and could not tolerate any mistakes, so he held the book and stepped forward to ask his master Ma Wu.

"This word is '痖', which means pain and illness!"

After a while, Yu Liang came forward to ask again.

"This character is '癓', which describes walking with a limp.

Disease, disease, disease, disease, disease, disease, disease, disease...

Yu Liang kept asking, and Ma Wu took the trouble to explain.

Before I knew it, it was getting close to dusk.

After dinner, Ma Wu rowed a boat to see Yu Liang back and promised to wait for him here tomorrow morning.

Heading home at a brisk pace.

When I was almost home, I saw my fifth uncle standing at the door.

"Uncle Wu!" When he saw Yu Liang coming back, Uncle Wu came up to greet him and said with concern: "Oh, Yu Liang, you are back!"

"I saw you going out early in the morning and not returning home until dark, so I thought something had happened to you!"

Yu Liang smiled and replied: "Thank you Uncle Wu for your concern. I didn't encounter anything. I just came back late!"

"That's good, that's good!"

"In this case, it's getting late, so I'll go back first!"

Just as Uncle Wu was about to turn around and leave, Yu Liang immediately called out to him: "Uncle Wu, please wait a moment!"

When he got home, he took out all the dried fish and gave them to Uncle Wu.

"This~"

Uncle Wu excitedly wanted to return it, but Yu Liang reached out and stopped him: "Uncle Wu, just accept it!"

"I can't finish it all by myself. Plus you've taken so much care of me during this period. I, as a junior, should treat this as my filial piety to you!"

The two pushed each other a few more times
Uncle Wu couldn't resist Yu Liang's kindness, so he reluctantly accepted the dried fish.

"Alas, my uncle has taken advantage of your nephew again!"

"Uncle Fifth, it's getting dark, go back early, I want to rest too!"

"Hey, okay, I'll leave first!"

After bidding farewell to his fifth uncle, Yu Liang returned to the house to rest.

Day two.

Before Yu Liang woke up, someone knocked on his door.

"Who?"

"Yu Liang, it's me, my fourth uncle!"

He stepped forward and opened the door. In addition to his fourth uncle, there was a man standing behind him.

Although Yu Liang didn't know this man, he had met him several times in the village.

"What's wrong with my fourth uncle?"

"Yu Liang, you can really speak! This is really gratifying. When Yu Laowu told me yesterday, I still didn't believe it!"

Taking this as a topic, the two started chatting. The man following the fourth uncle coughed twice, as if to remind him of something.

"Oh, I almost forgot about business!"

The fourth uncle patted his forehead with his hand, and then said: "Yu Liang, the daughter-in-law of the Wei family has a strange disease. Can you go over and have a look?"

Hearing this, Yu Liang's face changed slightly, and he said calmly: "Fourth uncle, I really don't understand gynecology. It's useless to go there. Talking nonsense will only hurt people!"

The fourth uncle replied: "Just go and have a look. At least you know some medical skills. I am completely helpless!"

"In this way, you can just prescribe her any medicine and don't care whether it works or not. At least we are trying our best, right?"

"Ah~"

After hearing what his fourth uncle said, Yu Liang sighed, secretly thinking that people in this era are really pathetic, it is so difficult to treat diseases!
He said this, and the other party also asked him to treat it and entrusted him with life-critical matters, which proved how helpless they were.

"Okay, let's go and have a look!"

Following the two men to the Wei family, since the patient's illness was a bit special, outsiders could not check it, so they could only learn about the condition through questioning.

The daughter-in-law of the Wei family had just given birth, and she always had some dark black filth coming out of her lower body, along with abdominal pain, fever, headache and other symptoms.

There was too little information, and Yu Liang was not a regular doctor, so he could only search for related conditions in his mind.

Fortunately, the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook" is a comprehensive treatment guide. Finally, after repeated comparisons, we concluded that the patient may be suffering from postpartum blood stasis and heat, and should clear away heat, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

Yu Liang said to his fourth uncle, and at the same time, he also let the patient's family hear: "Fourth uncle, I'm just trying to get the ducks on the shelves. If anything goes wrong, you have to take care of it for me!"

The fourth uncle replied seriously: "Yu Liang, just feel free to treat me. We are all from the same village. If there is a problem, no one will blame you!"

Yu Liang looked back at his family members and expressed their attitude with silence.

"Three qian of angelica, one qian of chuanxiong, one and a half qian of safflower, one tael of motherwort, three qian of schizonepeta, five qian of forsythia, one tael of dandelion..."

After writing the prescription, Yu Liang left directly.

He has done what he can. As for what will happen next for the patient, it depends on her fate.

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(End of this chapter)