Notes from a Taoist Medicine Clinic
Chapter 278

Have You Heard of the Yue Family Spear?

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Su Ziyang was stunned, but Doctor Zhou Su Ziyang was even more stunned.

After two needle pricks, not a single drop of blood came out of the patient's eye.

"Young man, you have a lot of cold in your body. Cold causes stagnation and congestion, so your blood is basically frozen. You need to get this treated properly to expel the cold before your back pain and waist pain can get better."

Doctor Zhou spoke very seriously to the young man who was lying face down.

"Okay, doctor. Go ahead and do it. I can handle it!"

The young man gritted his teeth and persevered, mainly because the bloodletting tool was a bit too damn exaggerated, gleaming coldly.

Not to mention the patient was scared, Su Ziyang stood to the side, fearing that Doctor Zhou might use this thing as a dart and throw it at him again.

Listening to Doctor Zhou's words, the theory that cold causes stagnation and blockage, and that excessive cold leads to free flow, is not wrong.

However, Su Ziyang noticed that neither of the two needles had produced any blood, and looking at Doctor Zhou's serious expression with his glasses on, it all sounded like a scam...

"Okay. Please wait a moment."

Su Ziyang saw Doctor Zhou take a windproof lighter out of his pocket and then go back to his medicine cabinet to rummage through something.

"Oh! This requires moxibustion."

Su Ziyang pondered this in his heart, but Su Ziyang was wrong.

Doctor Zhou took out a large red box with the words "Always ready to help" written on it.

Then, after Doctor Zhou opened the lid, he pulled out... a stick of incense!!!

"What are you doing? Are you... inviting a deity?"

Su Ziyang felt that his inner thoughts had never been so complicated as they were today.

Doctor Zhou lit the incense, and the fragrance was wonderful. Su Ziyang immediately recognized it as a rather fine sandalwood incense...

I saw Doctor Zhou turn the incense upside down, with the lit end facing down, and then remove the two cups that had just been applied.

Then, holding the incense stick in your right hand, aim the tip at your spine and stop it about ten centimeters away from your spine.

Then, holding the incense stick, slowly move it down from the cervical spine to the lower back.

When the incense stick was moved to a position about an inch below the Shenzhu acupoint, Doctor Zhou suddenly stopped moving and pinched a mark with his fingernail at that spot.

Then, Doctor Zhou continued moving the incense stick downwards, as if Doctor Zhou were searching for something. He paused twice more and then made two marks at two different locations.

Doctor Zhou casually placed the incense sticks into a small incense burner on the table, then turned to the young man and said, "I'll do another bloodletting for you. After this, you'll feel completely refreshed."

Having said that, he took out the miniature red-tasseled spear from the sterilization tray on the table.

He poked three holes in the three spots he had just found.

Strangely enough, the wounds I just pricked didn't bleed when I used the suction cannula, but now, in these three places, as soon as the needles were removed, dark black blood immediately gushed out.

The same method was used with a cupping device, and streams of black, very viscous blood oozed from the opening.

The bleeding stopped first at night, when light red blood started to seep out from her waist. Doctor Zhou quickly removed the jar and wiped away the blood with a sterile cotton swab.

It's described as blood, but it doesn't quite look like blood.

When Su Ziyang watched Doctor Zhou wipe away the blood, it looked like snot or phlegm, very thick and even stringy.

It's like spitting out a wad of bloody phlegm in the morning, or having a bloody lump of snot in your nose after a nosebleed.

The most blood came from the thoracic spine area, but the blood from all three areas had the same texture, with the blood from the thoracic spine area being the most exaggerated; Su Ziyang even saw something resembling jelly.

"Doctor Su, look. This is the body's stagnant blood, what we commonly call blood stasis and phlegm. Do you think it's good for this stuff to stay in the body for a long time?"

Su Ziyang initially thought that Doctor Zhou was just trying to fool the young man, but seeing the texture of the jet-black blood, Su Ziyang realized that Doctor Zhou might actually be telling the truth.

"Alright. Get up. Don't shower for two days after you get back. Don't eat cold food or drink cold water for a week. Then it won't hurt anymore."

Doctor Zhou asked the young man to stand up. The young man stood up, stretched, and loosened his back. "Doctor, my uncle was right, you really are amazing. My back feels warm and comfortable now, and it doesn't hurt anymore."

"Okay. Just don't keep the air conditioning on when you get back."

Doctor Zhou patted the young man on the shoulder. "Young man, don't always indulge in cold things like drinking cold beer or eating ice cream. It's not a good thing! Be careful!"

"Okay, okay! Thank you, doctor!"

The young man took his backpack and left.

"Doctor Zhou is brilliant!"

Su Ziyang gave Doctor Zhou a thumbs up.

"Hey, hey, hey. Don't be like that. My skills are just trivial, nothing to brag about. You're a true master of traditional Chinese medicine; I can't compare to you."

Doctor Zhou was about ten years older than Su Ziyang. He was also an interesting person to talk to, otherwise Su Ziyang wouldn't have wandered into his clinic.

"Doctor Zhou, you're making fun of me."

Su Ziyang chuckled and started chatting with Doctor Zhou.

"No, no, not at all." Doctor Zhou waved his hand, then placed the miniature red-tasseled spear in his hand into the curved plate.

"Doctor Zhou, I'm quite curious, what is this thing? I've seen you use a three-edged needle for bloodletting before, why is it a dart today?"

Su Ziyang was mainly curious about the "darts" in Doctor Zhou's hand.

"What kind of dart? Do you know what this is?"

Doctor Zhou wiped the blood from the gun tip and said with great pride.

"What?!" Su Ziyang perked up at the sight of Doctor Zhou's mysterious demeanor.

Have you ever heard of the Yue Family Spear?

Doctor Zhou handed the "red-tasseled spear" to Su Ziyang.

"Yue Family Spear? Yue Fei!"

The moment Yue Family Spear was mentioned, Su Ziyang immediately thought of Yue Fei.

"Yes, yes, that's it!"

Doctor Zhou spoke to Su Ziyang with great excitement and mystery.

"Is this a replica of the Yue Family Spear? A miniature version of the Yue Family Spear?!"

Su Ziyang stared intently at the small, red-tasseled spear-shaped bloodletting needle in his hand and exclaimed in surprise.

"No!"

Just as Su Ziyang was getting excited, Doctor Zhou said, "No."

"Huh??? Why are you talking like that?!"

Su Ziyang was speechless. This older brother had been talking nonsense for so long, but it turned out he was nothing at all.

"Although it's not the Yue Family Spear, this item is extremely related to Yue Fei."

Not only did Doctor Zhou speak in suspense, but he also breathed heavily, making Su Ziyang extremely anxious.

"Brother, just say what you want to say! What is it? Are you trying to suffocate me?"

Su Ziyang couldn't stand Doctor Zhou's mysterious demeanor any longer, and his voice became a little excited.

"Young people are too impetuous."

Doctor Zhou took the small red-tasseled spear back from Su Ziyang's hand and calmly sat back down in his chair.

Su Ziyang...

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