Courtyard House: Starting by inheriting the tradition and suppressing the barbarians.

Hongxing Hospital, Operating Room No. 1.

Under the stark white light of the operating lights, the atmosphere was oppressively suffocating.

The electrocardiogram monitor emitted a rapid "beep beep" sound, as if counting down the end of life.

Lying on the operating table was a woman in her forties, her face ashen and covered in cold sweat.

Because of the dangerous placenta previa, she could experience severe bleeding at any time.

Even worse, the anesthesiology department delivered devastating news—the patient was severely allergic to all common anesthetics!

This means that if surgery is to be performed, her abdomen will have to be forcibly cut open without anesthesia!

From the perspective of modern medicine, this is simply an impossible task.

Pain can kill a person!

At this moment, Li Xuan had already changed into sterile surgical gowns and was wearing a mask, revealing only a pair of calm eyes.

He stood at the head of the surgery position, his hands raised in front of his chest, waiting for his assistant to lay out the towel.

On the other side.

In a corner of the operating room, Jack Liu stood with his arms crossed, his face bearing his usual arrogance and mockery.

He came here today specifically to "supervise the execution"!

He wanted to see with his own eyes how Li Xuan would botch the surgery and how he would be utterly disgraced.

"A madman! He's absolutely insane!"

Jack Liu stared into the recording pen, as if he were taking notes on the spot.

"It's 10:00 AM Beijing time now."

"Li Xuan, the director of Hongxing Hospital, insisted on performing a cesarean section without anesthesia on a high-risk pregnant woman."

"As the vice dean, I have clearly expressed my opposition!"

"And predicted that this would be a horrific medical malpractice!"

"Li Xuan will bear all the consequences arising therefrom!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at the nervous nurses beside the operating table and Old Zhao, the head of surgery, whose face was ashen.

"Director Zhao, it's not too late for you to back out now."

"If we cut this open, the patient will be in excruciating pain, and you'll be the one primarily responsible."

Old Zhao's hand holding the scalpel trembled violently, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

He looked at Li Xuan, his eyes filled with pleading and hesitation: "Is the dean really... going to operate?"

"This is like cutting open a belly..."

"Shut up."

Li Xuan's voice came through the mask.

Although he was somewhat stifled, he possessed a calm demeanor. "How can you wield a knife steadily if your mind isn't at peace?"

He ignored Jack Liu's noise and lowered his head slightly.

Looking at the pregnant woman whose consciousness was already somewhat blurred and who was trembling all over with fear.

"Big sister, can you hear me?" Li Xuan's voice softened.

The woman in labor struggled to open her eyes; they were the eyes of a drowning person grasping at the last piece of driftwood.

"Dr. Li... Dr. Li... I'm afraid... am I going to die...?"

"With me here, even the King of Hell won't dare to take you."

Li Xuan extended his gloved hand and gently pressed it against the new mother's forehead. "Trust me! Give your body to me!"

"Hang in there for the sake of the children."

Looking into those powerful eyes, the woman in labor miraculously stopped trembling.

Then, she nodded slightly: "I believe...I believe in the miracle doctor!"

"Xiao Zhang, the golden needles!"

Li Xuan extended his right hand.

Xiao Zhang, the disciple who was already prepared behind him, immediately handed over the specially made gold needle that had been disinfected.

"Look! The witchcraft has begun!"

Jack Liu shrugged dramatically beside him, "A few needles like a substitute for anesthetic?"

"That's absolutely unbelievable!"

Li Xuan's gaze was sharp as lightning, and he held his breath in concentration.

"Acupuncture anesthesia, first needle, Hegu (LI4)!"

brush!

With a flash of golden light, the long needle precisely pierced the Hegu acupoint on the back of the new mother's hand.

"Second injection, Neiguan!"

"The third acupuncture point is Zusanli (ST36)!"

Li Xuan moved with lightning speed, inserting a total of twelve gold needles into specific acupoints on the woman's limbs and ears.

Then, his hands moved swiftly, twisting and inserting the needle rapidly at its end.

The vital energy within the body flows continuously into the mother's body through the golden needles.

It blocked the transmission of her pain nerves while protecting her heart.

"Hmm!"

The woman's tightly furrowed brows miraculously relaxed, and her previously rapid breathing became steady.

"How are you feeling?" Li Xuan asked.

"My body feels numb...tingly and warm..."

The new mother said weakly, "My stomach... doesn't seem to hurt as much anymore..."

The audience was shocked!

Old Zhao's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as he quickly glanced at the monitor.

"Heart rate 80! Blood pressure 120/80! This is incredible!"

Jack Liu's mocking expression froze.

He rushed over to look at the instruments, then at the mother's reaction, and stubbornly said, "This...is impossible!"

"This must just be a placebo effect!"

"Once surgery is performed, the excruciating pain will cause her to go into shock instantly!"

"Old Zhao, make your move," Li Xuan ordered calmly.

"Huh? Oh! Okay!" Old Zhao gritted his teeth and steadily slashed down with his scalpel.

A bright red incision appeared, cutting through the layers of skin, fat, and abdominal wall.

Everyone's hearts were in their throats, staring intently at the woman's face, waiting for that heart-wrenching scream.

but.

There were no screams.

The new mother merely frowned slightly, even keeping her eyes open, calmly staring at the ceiling.

"Really...it doesn't hurt?" Old Zhao's voice trembled.

"Amazing! Absolutely amazing!" The midwife was so excited that tears almost welled up in her eyes.

However, the moment the uterus was cut open, a crisis arose!

"puff!"

A gush of blood suddenly gushed out, instantly staining the surgical field of vision red.

"Oh no! Massive bleeding! It's bleeding from the placental separation site!"

Old Zhao exclaimed in surprise, the hemostat in his hand could not hold those gushing blood vessels at all.

"Her blood pressure is dropping! She needs a blood transfusion!"

The monitor immediately emitted a piercing alarm sound, and the red light flashed wildly!

Jack Liu, as if grasping at a straw, shouted, "See! I told you it wouldn't work!"

"Without Western medicine's hemostatic drugs and clotting factors, she will bleed to death!"

"This is murder! Li Xuan, you're finished!"

"So noisy!"

Li Xuan's eyes sharpened, and he pressed his left hand firmly against the Guanyuan acupoint of the woman in labor, channeling his true energy to protect her vital energy.

Immediately afterwards, he took out a porcelain bottle from his pocket with his right hand—[Hemostatic Powder].

"Spread the medicine!"

Xiao Zhang took the porcelain bottle and quickly and evenly sprinkled the white powder inside onto the bleeding point.

A miraculous scene unfolded.

The powder solidified instantly upon contact with the blood.

It's like there's an invisible biological membrane sealing off those gushing blood vessel sections!

The bleeding has stopped!

In just a few seconds, the surgical field of vision became clear again.

"this..."

Old Zhao was dumbfounded; the hemostats in his hand fell into the plate. "What kind of medicine is this?"

"A hundred times more effective than imported hemostatic gauze?!"

"Don't just stand there! Take the child!" Li Xuan shouted in a deep voice.

Old Zhao suddenly realized what was happening and quickly reached into the abdominal cavity, skillfully lifting and pulling.

"Wow!--"

A loud cry echoed throughout the operating room.

"It's a baby! It's a big, healthy boy! Mother and child are both safe!"

Cheers erupted instantly.

On the operating table, the mother listened to her baby's cries and shed tears of happiness.

"Thank you... thank you Dr. Li..."

Li Xuan pulled out the golden needle, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He turned around, took off his blood-stained gloves, and walked towards Jack Liu, whose face was deathly pale.

By this time, Jack Liu had already dropped the recording pen in his hand to the ground.

He looked at the row of silver needles gleaming with a cold light, and at the woman whose wounds had been stitched up.

Then I looked at the empty porcelain bottle of hemostatic powder.

His worldview completely collapsed.

Can surgery be performed without anesthesia?

Can applying medicinal powder really stop severe bleeding?

This was completely beyond anything he had learned about medicine in the United States!

Is this what he calls "witchcraft"?

If this is witchcraft, then what is Western medicine?

"Dr. Jack Liu".

Li Xuan stood before him, looking down at him with a cold voice.

"The surgery is over. Mother and child are safe."

"Now, can you tell me what science is and what a placebo is?"

"this..."

Jack Liu stammered, sweating profusely, unable to utter a single word.

The feeling of being slapped hard in the face by reality made him feel utterly ashamed.

"Remember, arrogance is the greatest enemy of science."

Li Xuan didn't look at him again, turned around and walked towards the locker room, leaving only his tall back.

"Put your resignation letter on my desk tomorrow morning."

"Red Star Hospital doesn't need useless people like you who sentence patients to death before they even die!"

......

The next morning.

Jack Liu slunk away from Red Star Hospital with his suitcase.

This surgery became a legendary case at Hongxing Hospital and even in the entire Chinese medical community.

Acupuncture anesthesia has once again shocked the world!

Li Xuan saved two lives with a silver needle and some herbs.

It also preserved the dignity of traditional Chinese medicine!

This is a resounding slap in the face to those who questioned it and idolized foreign things!

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