The An Application Method

The pediatric massage techniques were finally explained, and Su Ziyang had almost mastered them.

"Master, you've finished explaining everything. I've written it all down, and I've almost learned it all."

Su Ziyang put away his notebook and said to Daoist Jin, Daoist Jin nodded, "It's almost there, but not quite. I hope you can master it."

For some unknown reason, during the two days that Daoist Jin and Professor Su Ziyang were together, both of their patients decreased significantly.

As if by divine intervention, just as the explanation of pediatric massage techniques was finally finished, a middle-aged man carrying a small child entered the house through the doorway.

As soon as the child entered the door, Su Ziyang heard the child coughing, the phlegm in the child's throat sounding like a saw being pulled.

"Cough, thick phlegm."

Su Ziyang immediately made a judgment.

Daoist Jin took a sip of tea and said calmly, "Ziyang, you may go."

"Doctor Jin, my child has had nebulizer treatments, but the effect is so-so. Could you please help? It happened last year too, and you cured it. This year, while staying at her maternal grandmother's house, she suddenly developed a cough, and her grandmother took her for nebulizer treatments..."

The man, deeply in love with his daughter, launched into a long, rambling speech, which gave Su Ziyang time to think.

Daoist Jin asked Su Ziyang to push, Su Ziyang immediately got to work.

"Have my young apprentice give your child a pediatric massage, and I'll go get some medicine."

Daoist Jin had cured his child's illness last year, Daoist Jin's words were like sacred decrees to him. So, as soon as Daoist Jin spoke, the man immediately handed the child to Su Ziyang.

Su Ziyang took the child, gently comforted her for a moment, and then placed her on the crib, letting the child's father half-hold his daughter. Su Ziyang then turned around and retrieved some lubricant.

When starting pediatric massage, the first thing to diagnose is cough, followed by excessive phlegm in the lungs.

First, perform the Separate Yin and Yang two hundred times.

Then Push the Three Gates, one hundred times.

Push Down the Six Fu Organs, one hundred times.

Massage the lung meridian two hundred times.

Massage the Feishu acupoint two hundred times.

Pinch the joints of your five fingers twenty-four times.

Pinch the Hegu point twenty-four times.

Repeat the Eight Trigrams movement one hundred times.

Rub the base of your thumb one hundred times.

Heavenly Gate Enters the Tiger's Mouth, fifty times.

After doing all this, Daoist Jin came in from outside, holding a strange little pancake in his hand. Daoist Jin kept kneading it in his hand for a while.

Daoist Jin instructed the parent to take off the child's shoes, then stuck the white dough into the soles of the child's feet, and then put the socks back on.

"Take it off again at this time tomorrow, and the phlegm will naturally disappear."

After Su Ziyang finished applying the treatment, the child's coughing and phlegm sounds had subsided considerably. After Daoist Jin finished applying the treatment, the man thanked him repeatedly, went downstairs to pay, and left.

"Master, what did you just stick on the child?"

Su Ziyang was puzzled as to what Daoist Jin had pasted on his face.

"This is a phlegm-relieving medicine, commonly used for children. Applying it to the sole of the foot helps the child clear the phlegm. It's much more convenient and safer than nebulizers."

While washing his hands, Daoist Jin explained to Su Ziyang, "Take one ounce of raw alum, grind it into powder, add one ounce of wheat flour (or rice flour), mix it with vinegar to make a paste, because alum dissolves in vinegar and becomes sticky after adding flour. Apply it to the soles of both feet, wrap them with cloth, and the phlegm will naturally come down overnight."

"Oh, right. I can tell you another An (first tone) method today." Daoist Jin said, as if knowing that Su Ziyang didn't understand, and directly took a pen and wrote a very complicated character on the white paper on the table.

"I've never even heard of it, Master." Su Ziyang scratched his head as he looked at the complicated characters.

"Yes, this is similar to a hot compress, but the difference is that this one is made with medicine. After you make this compress, you can apply it to different parts of your body to achieve different effects. I'll explain some methods to you below. Take notes first, and then try them out one by one later."

Scallion and fermented black bean sauce method.

Take equal parts of scallion whites, ginger, and fermented black soybeans, add a little salt, pound them into a paste, and place it on the navel. This method is mainly for dispelling wind-cold, regulating stagnation, and treating constipation and urinary retention.

Buckwheat cake making method.

Stir-fry buckwheat bran with vinegar into two cakes, then alternately place them on the forehead to induce sweating. This is used to dispel wind-heat and treat headaches caused by wind-cold.

The method of cooking snails with scallions.

Grind soapberry, raw pinellia, and musk into powder, fill the navel with the powder, and cover the outside with a paste of pounded snails and scallions. This treats urinary retention.

The method of using nitrates and flavonoids.

Pound rhubarb, Glauber's salt, and scallion into a paste, apply to the chest, and it treats chest congestion caused by heat. It can be used to treat both children and adults.

This is the method of using croton oil.

Pound croton seeds and wheat flour together into a paste, apply it to the chest area, and place a thin cloth on top when applying it (to prevent the croton oil from blistering near the flesh). Iron the paste on with an iron to treat chest congestion caused by cold.

This is the method of using rhubarb.

Mixing rhubarb powder with vinegar into a paste and placing it on the navel is very effective in treating vomiting blood; this is called the "removing the firewood from under the cauldron" method.

This is the method of preparing scallions and ginger.

Finely grind scallions and ginger, rub them together in an adult's palm until warm, and apply to the fontanelle. This can treat colds, nasal congestion, and convulsions in infants under one month old.

This is the method for preparing black beans.

Boil one liter of black beans until they are mashed and then apply to the lower back. This treats kidney meridian sores, lower back pain, and general body aches.