Merchant and doctor

Chapter 2478 The Elderly Must Protect Their Own Lifeline

Ordinary people's understanding of traditional Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis mainly falls into several categories. One is blind faith: how many other schools of thought in the world can compare to the essence passed down from our ancestors for over 3400 years?! To question it?! That's called forgetting our roots!

If our ancestors hadn't been so wise, not to mention natural disasters and man-made calamities that led to dynastic changes, the disease alone would have been enough to cause suffering for Chinese civilization!
However, the proportion of such people is decreasing year by year. As people become more aware, they gradually realize that any medical diagnostic method has its historical, practical, and technical shortcomings and can never be 100% accurate.

The second type completely rejects this, claiming that what you feel when taking a pulse is nothing more than a heartbeat, at most related to heart rate. They say that believing that is worse than watching more short videos and learning how to interpret an electrocardiogram.

Can a perfunctory examination of heart rate really cure all diseases?! That's utter nonsense!
The third type is the skeptical type. When they get sick, their first reaction is to make an appointment on their phone to go to the best local tertiary hospital and see a famous Western doctor who charges the highest consultation fee. Of course, if they have acquaintances at home, it's even simpler. They can go directly to their home for medical advice and treatment, so that the experts and professors don't take their lives lightly.

As a result, the experts and professors informed them that there is currently no cure. They could either have surgery or take medication for conservative treatment. If they were even less lucky and their condition was more severe, the experts and professors would sometimes directly suggest that they see a good traditional Chinese medicine doctor. In such cases, most of them would regard the traditional Chinese medicine doctor as their last straw! Their high hopes would soon turn into boundless trust.

There's another type: those who are sometimes convinced, sometimes skeptical. When they fall ill, their first focus is on the treatment costs: "Can I get it covered by medical insurance?! What percentage will be reimbursed in the final section?! Would paying out of pocket be more cost-effective?! Which treatment plan offers the best value?!" As for pulse diagnosis! That depends on who you consult. Some are very accurate, others are not. It varies from person to person, doesn't it? Repeated comparisons and weighing of options are necessary. Don't just look at the pulse diagnosis results; focus on the treatment's effectiveness!
If all else fails, let's try a different hospital and a different doctor!
Clearly, the five elderly patients who came today can be broadly categorized into the third type: those who are skeptical and hesitant!
It's simply that Western medicine lacks corresponding outpatient departments; otherwise, they wouldn't believe that there are truly divine beings in this world who can roughly determine how many years an elderly person will live simply by taking their pulse.

Bian Mu's explanation was indeed somewhat unexpected. At least, the five elderly patients present had recently realized that "longevity pulse" might indeed exist, but it was not the kind of quack trick that predicted the exact number of years a person would live or die. Rather, it was a very sophisticated mathematical overall control of the countdown to life.

At the same time, it is also a kind of conditioning of the life cycle, a very clever conditioning method.

Without prior agreement, these five elderly patients became even more convinced that the young, renowned traditional Chinese medicine doctor, who was extremely popular, was likely able to "connect the pulse of longevity"!
In front of the other four elderly patients, Bian Mu bluntly revealed the awkward situation within Mr. Gai's family, which made Mr. Gai feel somewhat embarrassed.

"Good medicine tastes bitter but is good for the disease! Judging from your pulse, you must eat a lot of bitter and cooling vegetables and fruits! You must have some trust in the basic concepts of traditional Chinese medicine, such as using bitter and cooling herbs to reduce internal heat and balance yin and yang, right? Hehe... Some things, if you don't say them out loud... in the end, it's you elders who will suffer. Everyone, don't you think that makes sense?" Bian Mu said with a smile, looking around.

"That's absolutely true! The older generation is too shy! They can't bring themselves to speak up to the younger generation eight out of ten times... In the end, it's us who suffer!"

"That's right! Doctor Mingming advised me to travel at least once a week, saying that changing the magnetic field and harmonizing the five elements and yin and yang of a different place would be of great benefit to me. But he just had the nerve to leave my grandson, who's in his final year of high school, with me. I cook him two meals a day, lunch and dinner. Too oily is no good, he says it will increase the metabolic burden; too bland is even worse, he says the nutrition won't be enough and his college entrance exam scores will plummet! Pshaw! What nonsense! Old Gai, huh?! Your family might be a little better off than mine, at least your children don't have to be as blatantly lazy as we are! Sigh! When you get old, you're still a bit inferior!"

“Every family is pretty much the same. They completely ignore the fact that two generations live on completely different wavelengths. If there's any overlap, it's assumed the children are just taking advantage of us for free… Honestly! Think about it, what kind of ridiculous logic is that!” One of the older men even got angry.

The atmosphere at the scene immediately became much more lively.

Upon hearing this, the construction worker's expression relaxed somewhat.

“Gai Gong! When people reach a certain age, their own energy, magnetic field, and information metabolism have their own unique operating cycle. In many ways, they won’t be in sync with their children! It’s human nature and sociality that make it this way. It has nothing to do with whether the elders are kind or not, or whether the children and grandchildren are filial or not! If you really want to live a more comfortable life in the future, you should at least regulate your own pulse smoothly. Even if you take a step back, you can’t let your pulse be twisted like a pretzel. If something really happens in the future, it won’t be good for generations of your family!” Bian Mu took the opportunity to offer a few words of advice.

Upon hearing this, the construction worker turned his head away and remained silent.

Seeing that Gai Gong's expression was somewhat gloomy, the other four elderly patients wisely kept their mouths shut and said nothing.

Having explained the basic medical principles, Bian Mu figured he should give the elderly some time to digest them. So, with a click of the mouse, Bian Mu brought up the prescription section and prepared a prescription similar to "longevity pulse" maintenance for each elderly person based on their specific situation.

“Dr. Bian! Actually… my children are all quite excellent, but their schedules are not coordinated… It’s really my fault. I just wanted to share some of their burdens, nothing else… The children are actually quite understanding, it’s really my fault for handling things poorly! So… if we let it continue like this, are there any bad symptoms that might appear in the future?” the construction worker said.

“Oh… the pulse is twisted together like a pretzel, which will inevitably create some kind of combined force. This combined force is not the kind that the human body is born with; it belongs to a kind of external evil. Because it is completely incompatible with the human body, it can only go and cause trouble wherever the Qi system is weakest in the direction of the torque! In the end, it will breed new lesions. In this process, blood sugar metabolism, blood pressure compensation, blood lipid transport… and so on will naturally become disordered. The new lesions may gradually develop. If you don’t check, it’s fine, but once you check, it’s not a minor illness!” Bian Mu warned solemnly.

This trick really worked; the builder immediately shut up.

"So what I'm saying is: instead of giving small favors all the time, it's better to be upfront and uphold the basic rights of us elderly people. If we can protect our own health, we might not end up bedridden in the future. What options will elderly patients have then?!" Bian Mu earnestly advised.

Judging from the expression on his face, the construction worker probably understood what he had just said.