Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 23 Bleeding Heart
"You wandered around for a while and just bought some corn grits?"

Seeing Li Yancheng coming back with a cloth bag in his hand, Zhou Guotao opened his eyes and asked with some surprise.

"I also received two pounds of meat coupons."

Li Yancheng spoke in a very low voice, like a thief.

Yes, collecting tickets is just like stealing.

Zhou Guotao glanced at the four half-pound meat tickets with amusement.

"Why don't you find a way to spend it quickly? Are you keeping it as a souvenir when you go back?"

"Ah? What do you mean?" Li Yancheng was a little confused. What the hell was this as a souvenir?

"My brother, please take a closer look. This is the meat ticket from Yishun County. We can't use it when we return to the city. Are you planning to take a bus to Yishun County just to buy two pounds of meat?"

? ? !

After hearing what Zhou Guotao said, Li Yancheng hurriedly raised his hand and looked at the four meat coupons. Only then did he notice that it was clearly printed on them that they were special meat coupons for Yishun County. Once outside the county, these things were just a piece of waste paper, not even big enough to wipe your butt.

No wonder the man sold it so cheaply just now. A pound of meat tickets was the same price as a pound of meat. He remembered that the price of meat tickets in the ghost market in the city was basically between one dollar and one dollar and twenty cents per pound. He thought he had gotten a bargain.

Thinking of this, he shook his head with a somewhat amusing look.

"I didn't even look at it. I thought it was from the city."

As he spoke, he placed the meat in his hand directly on Zhou Guotao's desk.

"Here, Brother Zhou, go around and weigh two pounds of meat and see if they want meat coupons."

The two pork sellers at the market now are representing the village and don't need meat tickets at all. If he is not careful, these four tickets might really become souvenirs.

"I don't have the ability to spend it." Zhou Guotao shook his head and refused without even thinking about it.

The meat stalls in the town had already been closed by now, so the meat coupons were of no use at all.

He had already turned around as he should have, and it was freezing outside, so he was too lazy to go out again.

"You should get up early tomorrow morning to buy meat. If you can't find it, ask Lao Liu and Lao Ma for help. By the way, how much did you pay for it?"

"70 cents a pound"

"One dollar and four cents. Well, that's OK. If it doesn't work out, let's see if they want it. You can give one dollar to whoever wants it."

Li Yancheng really felt like crying but had no tears at this moment. What happened? He had already lost 40 cents. He had suffered a huge loss.

Feel free to show off. You seemed quite happy just now, but now your heart starts to bleed.

Is forty cents a lot?
Not a few already.

The corn grits he bought were only 20 cents per pound. No one knew where the man got them from, but they were quite a lot. He just bought five pounds for only one dollar.

There are very few people selling grain these days. It is not enough to eat, so how can there be any surplus to sell?

At most, some people would take fine grains to the ghost market to exchange for coarse grains, and one pound of fine grains could be exchanged for two to three pounds of coarse grains.

Forty cents you can buy two pounds of corn grits, add some wild vegetables, and it's enough for a family of three, all of whom are hard workers, to eat for a day.

If Li Yancheng were to eat it all by himself, it would take him several days to finish it. How could he not feel bad?

It has been almost a month since this guy came here. He has now learned to accept this era and think with the mindset of this era. When buying things, he no longer thinks everything is extremely cheap like he did in the first few days after he came here.

Of course, he is not the type of person who would hold people hostage, and he cannot learn the skill of holding people hostage like Comrade Lao Jia.

So, I was just upset for a while and then I let it go, and just at that time a patient came.

The patient was an old lady in her sixties. She was not from the countryside, but one could tell at a glance that she had worked hard all her life.

The one who brought her here was her youngest son and daughter-in-law, both town cadres who worked at the town animal husbandry station. The old lady usually lived in her eldest son's home in the county town. Half a year ago, she was doing housework as usual. While she was carrying a bowl, it fell with a "pop" sound and broke all over the floor.

The eldest son happened to be at home. When he heard the noise, he ran over and asked what happened. The old lady said that she might be tired, her fingers were weak and numb, and she couldn't hold anything.

Her eldest son noticed that the old lady's fingers were shaking violently, so he took his mother to the hospital for a check-up.

I was prescribed a lot of western medicine, and I've been taking it for half a year. I spent a lot of money, but it didn't work.

The reason she came to the town this time was because her youngest son and daughter-in-law did not have a holiday for the New Year, so the old lady thought of coming over to see her grandson.

The young daughter-in-law noticed that the old lady's fingers were shaking more and more violently, so she urged them to come over to check it out. She didn't expect to be able to cure her, but just wanted to try her best, after all, none of the doctors in the county could cure her.

When Zhou Guotao heard that the old lady had seen a Western doctor with no effect and there were no examination equipment here, he asked Li Yancheng to treat the old lady.

Li Yancheng had been observing the old lady since she came in. He found that the patient's face was pale and her head was shaking slightly. After seeing her, he asked her carefully and found out that the old lady often felt palpitations and panic.

If you listen carefully, even the voice is trembling a little.

"Come on, old lady, open your mouth."

"what"

He observed the old lady's tongue and took her pulse carefully.

The tongue is red, the tongue coating is white, and the pulse is thin.

Blood deficiency causes wind.

Li Yancheng made a diagnosis quickly.

Blood deficiency can be diagnosed by observing the tongue, pulse, palpitations, and pale complexion.

The patient has worked hard all his life, so how could he not suffer from anemia?

This problem is particularly common among women who reach their fifties or sixties.

Because of decades of menstrual bleeding, when people reach middle age or old age, they suffer from kidney deficiency, insufficiency of spleen and stomach, and the blood in the body is even more insufficient than before. Add to that the worry and work, and they are particularly prone to blood deficiency.

There are many problems caused by blood deficiency, limb discomfort is one of them, such as finger tremors, numbness, and fatigue.

In this case, you need to nourish the blood and promote blood circulation.

As usual, acupuncture was used first to increase the confidence of the patient and his family, which also helped to activate blood circulation and unblock meridians. Fifteen minutes later, the acupuncture needles were removed and another prescription was given.

Rehmannia glutinosa, white peony root, Chinese angelica root, Chuanxiong root, Gastrodia elata, Uncaria rhynchophylla, scorpion, and earthworm.

Rehmannia glutinosa replenishes blood, Angelica sinensis activates blood circulation, White Peony Root nourishes blood, and Chuanxiong promotes blood circulation. These four herbs can improve the problem of blood deficiency.

Gastrodia elata and Uncaria rhynchophylla can calm the wind, while scorpion and earthworm can clear

In this way, nourishing blood and replenishing blood can cure the root cause, calming wind and unblocking meridians can cure the symptoms, and both the symptoms and the root cause can be cured.

In fact, after the acupuncture needles were removed, the old lady’s youngest son and daughter-in-law were both a little stunned.

The old lady herself didn't notice it, but the two men saw it clearly and it was very obvious that her fingers had stopped shaking.

This... No wonder he was able to come down to provide medical services. Despite his young age, he is really capable. Are all the doctors in the city so capable?
"Come for two more injections tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You only need to take this medicine for three days. Let the old lady do less work and take more care of herself."

"Oh, I get it, doctor. We don't let her work, but she just can't sit still." The youngest son hurriedly explained, worried that the doctor would misunderstand that they were being mean to the elderly.

"You can't be idle, old lady. Do less work in the future. Only by taking good care of yourself and being healthy can you be the greatest help to your children.

You see, you are sick now, and they have to worry about their work, and they also have to worry about you. There must be children at home, so they are always worried. How tiring it is, don’t you think?”

"Yes, yes, doctor, you are right. I will remember it."

(End of this chapter)