Insomnia

"That kid! Sigh."

Yang Tianzheng saw Su Ziyang run away, laughed angrily, and sighed to himself.

Let him rest for a day!

Yang Tianzheng didn't chase after Su Ziyang anymore and turned around and left.

Su Ziyang ran for a while and found that Yang Tianzheng hadn't caught up, so he quickly stopped and then walked back cheekily. He found that Yang Tianzheng was no longer at the place where they were practicing martial arts.

"Oh no, is she angry again?!"

Su Ziyang hesitated for a moment, then quickly took out his phone and saw a message from Yang Tianzheng.

"You're getting a day off today. Take a break!"

Upon seeing the message from Yang Tianzheng, Su Ziyang instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Master really knows how to take care of people!"

Su Ziyang grinned and quickly returned home.

Back home, Su Ziyang didn't idle around; instead, he practiced the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps in the living room.

As the saying goes, "Practice makes perfect."

Keep practicing and you'll develop skills.

After practicing for nearly an hour, Su Ziyang sent the date that Daoist Master Xiao Yang had chosen to Er Biao, and then went to wash up.

After washing up, Su Ziyang received Er Biao Er Biao's thanks and chatted with him for a few more minutes before starting his daily practice.

The group chat for Eight Trigrams numerology was buzzing with chatter all day, but Su Ziyang didn't pay much attention to it.

Nothing happened that night, and I went to work as usual the next day.

Su Ziyang tidied up the books on his desk in the consultation room and refilled his fountain pen.

At that moment, a particularly tall middle-aged woman walked in.

"Hello, doctor."

"Hey, hello! Have a seat!"

Su Ziyang offered his seat to the middle-aged woman. After she sat down, Su Ziyang glanced at her and noticed that she looked worried and had an indescribable sense of unease in her eyes.

"Doctor, I'm here to treat my insomnia," the middle-aged woman said to Su Ziyang, frowning as she sat down.

"Okay, no rush. Let me register you."

"Name," Su Ziyang, taking out the medical record book and beginning to make notes.

"Fang Linjing, Shuangmu Lin, Jing as in quiet."

Fang Linjing's brows were furrowed the entire time she spoke.

"Age."

54 years old.

"Phone number"

After registering a series of basic information, Su Ziyang gestured for Fang Linjing to place her hand on the pulse diagnosis kit.

After Fang Linjing put her hand down, Fang Linjing Su Ziyang began to take her pulse.

Five minutes later, Su Ziyang noticed something particularly strange about Fang Linjing's pulse.

Fang Linjing's right pulse was generally wiry. A wiry pulse is associated with the liver, and liver disease or conditions like tension and pain can cause a wiry pulse.

Fang Linjing's left hand pulse is also quite wiry, but her left hand Guan pulse is a bit special; it's missing a small portion.

It feels like you're pressing your finger on a straw, and there's a slightly damaged part of the straw; when you touch it, that part feels hollow.

Su Ziyang withdrew his fingers, carefully recorded the pulse, and then began chatting with Fang Linjing, which was also a consultation.

"You've been having insomnia for a long time?"

Su Ziyang asked softly, and Mr. Fang Linjing sighed and said, "Six years!"

"Do you have trouble falling asleep, or do you wake up easily once you're asleep?"

Su Ziyang continued to ask.

Here's a little background information about insomnia. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, insomnia is also called sleeplessness or insomnia. It refers to the inability to get normal sleep. Generally, insomnia is defined as a condition that lasts for more than three months. Occasionally not being able to sleep once or twice does not count as insomnia.

Su Ziyang had previously treated his uncle's insomnia using a famous ancient remedy for insomnia: Pinellia and Broomcorn Millet Decoction).

However, Fang Linjing's pulse this time was clearly different from that of her uncle at home.

"I've been having trouble sleeping. I might get about an hour of sleep around 5 or 6 in the morning, but it's always just a hazy, dreamlike state, and I wake up at the slightest sound."

Fang Linjing rubbed her forehead, then frowned again.

"If you can't sleep, do you feel energetic during the day? Are you tired? Does your head feel uncomfortable? Do you often feel dizzy?"

Su Ziyang continued to ask.

"Oh my god, I don't feel so bad anymore. I'm not dizzy, just a little lightheaded and weak. How can I have energy if I don't sleep well? I still have to go to work during the day, I'm just forcing myself to keep going! Oh my god, I feel so awful."

Upon hearing Su Ziyang's question, Fang Linjing's voice instantly rose.

"Ah, haha, so what caused your insomnia? Do you remember any special circumstances, like being startled while trying to sleep, or getting angry? Or some other reason that led to your insomnia?"

Seeing Fang Linjing's excitement, Su Ziyang chuckled twice and then asked again.

"Ugh, I used to sleep so well. Six years ago I had gallbladder removal surgery, and ever since then I haven't been able to sleep!"

Upon hearing Fang Linjing's explanation, Su Ziyang's eyes lit up. It turned out that Fang Linjing Fang Linjing's pulse had been slightly off because her gallbladder had been removed, which explained the small gap in the pulse on her left wrist.

"Ah. You developed this problem because of this surgery! Was it gallstones at the time?"

Su Ziyang's words were meant to ease Fang Linjing's tension, because Su Ziyang noticed that Fang Linjing always spoke with a nervous air and spoke very quickly, making her seem very anxious.

This kind of anxiety is actually normal. Anyone who can't sleep for five or six years would feel tense and anxious.

"Yeah, gallstones. At the time, I just felt pain in my ribs, and then the pain became unbearable. My son took me to the hospital, and when they checked, the stone was huge! The hospital said my gallbladder had lost its function and they wanted it removed. So I had it removed!"

After talking about what happened before, Fang Linjing's emotions calmed down a lot, and she began to tell Su Ziyang about her medical experiences over the years.

"After being discharged from the hospital, I found that I would wake up whenever there was any noise in the room, and it got worse over time. Eventually, I couldn't sleep at all! So I went to the hospital for treatment. At first, they prescribed some sleeping pills in our city. They worked for the first few days, and I could sleep a little longer, but after less than a week, they stopped working. Later, I went to the provincial hospital and then to Beijing, and they prescribed almost the same medications, mostly sleeping pills, I think. Oh my god, I've forgotten the names of those pills. Taking these medications has made my memory worse!"

"Haven't you ever tried traditional Chinese medicine?" Su Ziyang interjected.

"I tried it, I tried it. That doctor told me to eat those sour jujube seeds, they're so sour and taste awful! But they didn't work at all, not a single thing. And you know what, those so-called experts are bastards! I went to get treatment, and before I even finished explaining my medical history, they were kicking me out, saying there were so many people behind him. The medicine I got in the city was the same medicine I got in the provincial capital, and I told that expert from the province that I had that medicine. He didn't listen to me at all, he just kicked us out! Can you believe that's what you call an expert?!"

Fang Linjing's few words revealed the helplessness she had felt after years of seeking treatment, and also truly reflected the real faces of some doctors.

"Haha, that wasn't easy," Su Ziyang remarked.

"Absolutely! You call this a doctor? I've seen so many doctors, and you're the first one to ask me why I started having insomnia. If these doctors can't figure out the cause, how can they cure me?!"

Fang Linjing sighed several times, expressing her deep helplessness about the matter.

Having learned the cause of the illness, Su Ziyang had a general idea of a treatment plan in mind.

"I'm also prescribing you some herbal medicine. Why don't you try some?" Su Ziyang gestured for Fang Linjing Fang Linjing relax, and then said he would write her a prescription.

"Come on, doctor. Forget about medicine, just tell me what you want, as long as you can cure the illness, we'll eat anything!"

A slight smile appeared on Fang Linjing's face when she said those two sentences.

"Okay!" Su Ziyang nodded and began preparing the prescription.

The prescription that Su Ziyang was going to prescribe was called Mume Pill, which is a prescription in the nineteenth chapter of the "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet" on the pulse diagnosis and treatment of limb swelling, muscle spasms, inguinal hernia, and ascariasis.

This prescription is for treating ascariasis, which means there are roundworms in the human body. In the "Essential Prescriptions of the Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet," this disease is called "Ascariasis Syndrome."

At the same time, Mume Pill can also treat internal cold, that is, there is cold inside. The medicine tastes sour and bitter overall, so it mainly works by purging with sour and bitter flavors.

However, we must understand that there is a reason why the prescriptions of Zhang Zhongjing, the Sage of Medicine, are called classic prescriptions.

The prescriptions in his book are just a guideline; we can use the prescriptions in his book to treat the diseases listed in the book according to their corresponding symptoms.

At the same time, we can also adapt the prescriptions and formulas to treat a wide variety of diseases.

This is the difference between method and technique. Just like when you understand a mental technique, you can respond to any situation with unchanging principles; that's true mastery.

Su Ziyang considered using Mume Pill for two reasons. First, Fang Linjing's insomnia was caused by her gallbladder removal surgery.

The gallbladder is considered the "upright official" in the human body, from which decisive actions are taken.

People usually praise someone by saying they have courage and boldness! If a person loses their gallbladder, their courage will decrease, and all sorts of problems will arise. Therefore, under normal circumstances, gallbladder removal should be avoided.

Of course, this statement also applies to any organ in the body. Even the appendix, which was considered useless by Western medicine a dozen years ago, was removed in some Western countries at birth.

However, with the advancement of science and technology, Western medicine has discovered in the last two years that the appendix is an important immune organ and should be avoided if possible.

Anyway, whether it's black or white, they're the ones who call the shots.

That's settled for now; let's get back to the main topic.

Returning to the second point, Mume Pill can treat diseases such as diarrhea, and also insomnia.

Why do I say this? It has to do with the origin of the human body, or with the Six Channels Diagnosis System in the book Treatise on Treatise on Cold Damage.

"For Jueyin disease, the time for resolution is from Chou (1-3 AM) to Mao (5-7 AM)."

This sentence is from the original text of the Treatise on Cold Damage. It means that if Jueyin disease is to recover or be cured, it will happen during the three hours of Chou, Yin, and Mao, which is from 1 a. m. to 7 a. m.

Mume Pill is used to treat Jueyin disease. Because Fang Linjing had trouble sleeping all night and said that she could doze off for an hour and a half at five or six in the morning, Su Ziyang chose this prescription.