Notes from a Taoist Medicine Clinic
Chapter 332

Induced Vomiting Method

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The method Su Ziyang was going to use was Induced Vomiting Method.

There are eight methods in traditional Chinese medicine: sweating, vomiting, purging, harmonizing, clearing, warming, eliminating, and tonifying.

Therefore, this method is Vomiting Method.

This illness originates from vomiting, and it also arises from vomiting.

Inversion of the Liver Lobes indicates that the liver lobe is not functioning properly.

Vomiting can cause the five internal organs to churn, and the liver lobe to open.

When the liver lobes open, they become congested in the upper part of the body, causing the liver lobes to tilt and vision to be upside down.

The Vomiting Method here is very ingenious, because this little boy contracted the illness through vomiting, so the illness should also be treated through Vomiting Method.

However, vomiting is not something that can be done casually; it must be done in moderation.

Because there are many Vomiting Method, such as using Salt Decoction Probing Vomiting Method, or Bitter Melon Root Emesis Method...

If all else fails, you can try gagging your throat with your finger and vomiting it up.

But how to make someone vomit, how to cure the illness through vomiting, and how to vomit without harming the body—there are subtleties involved.

Vomiting is very harmful to the body. For example, young people often drink alcohol and vomit incessantly after getting drunk, which is a severe blow to the body.

The damage may not be apparent when you are young, but as time goes by and you get older, the discomfort will gradually show up.

Without further ado, Su Ziyang turned on the computer and prescribed emetic medicine for the little boy.

15g of Ginseng and Reed Whip

Melon stems (7)

10g of licorice

6g of Schizonepeta tenuifolia

1 payment.

"I have to watch the child take this medicine here; you can't take it back. After taking the medicine, he'll vomit again, but after he vomits, he'll be better."

Su Ziyang told the woman to come downstairs to pay, and then brought the medicinal herbs back up.

Because Su Ziyang had accurately diagnosed her son, the woman didn't ask Su Ziyang any further questions. She simply took the receipt and went downstairs to pay.

After the woman brought the medicinal herbs up, Su Ziyang led the two of them to the treatment room upstairs.

Take out the decoction pot and put the medicinal herbs in it to boil.

Su Ziyang wasn't busy at the moment, so he kept an eye on the medicine pot. Once the medicine was ready, Su Ziyang poured a large cup full.

This method of decocting medicinal herbs is not likely to frighten children, because most children are terrified at the sound of injections.

Once the medicine had cooled down enough, Su Ziyang handed it to the little boy. "Aren't you a real man?"

The little boy nodded.

"Alright, then it's time to prove you're a real man. Come on, bottoms up!"

Su Ziyang handed the medicine to the little boy. After taking the medicine, the little boy first looked at it, then pinched his nose and drank the whole cup of medicine in one gulp.

This kind of emetic doesn't taste very good. From the moment the little boy was talking to his mother to now drinking the medicine in one gulp, Su Ziyang secretly cheered for the little boy!

Su Ziyang had already prepared the trash can by then.

If the medicine isn't enough to induce vomiting, then you'll have to use a tongue depressor to poke the back of your throat to successfully induce vomiting.

The medicine tasted awful, and the little boy was probably a bit nervous, so less than three minutes had passed since Su Ziyang handed the wastebasket to him.

"Ugh! Whoosh!"

He spat out a mouthful of medicine.

Then, a large cup of medicine was completely spat into the wastebasket. The medicine soup was brownish-brown, but the spat-out medicine contained dark green stuff and strands of flocculent matter.

The woman watched her son vomit violently and gently patted his back with heartache.

After vomiting for about ten minutes, the little boy stopped vomiting and retching.

The little boy was vomiting so violently that he was crying and his nose was running.

Su Ziyang handed over a tissue so the woman could wipe her son's face.

"You're alright now, you're all better!"

Looking at what the boy vomited, Su Ziyang concluded that his condition had completely improved.

The woman was skeptical, so she took out the paper and pen she had brought with her.

The boy wrote several symmetrical characters in a row, and he got them all right.

"Son, Mom misunderstood you. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. What do you want to eat later? Mom will make it for you! And that toy you wanted, Mom will buy it for you later!"

The woman held her son and began to cry again.

"Mom, don't cry. I don't blame you at all, as long as you're not angry anymore!"

The boy very considerately wiped away his mother's tears.

"Doctor, thank you so much! I'm so grateful, otherwise I would have regretted it for the rest of my life! Thank you! Thank you!"

The woman bowed repeatedly to Su Ziyang in gratitude, but Su Ziyang waved his hand and said, "I don't object to buying toys for our son, but let's wait a few days before indulging in anything too delicious. His stomach and spleen are still a bit weak after vomiting, so a light diet is best! We can eat whatever we want in another week!"

"Okay, okay! I understand! Thank you, doctor. Does my son need any other medication? Is this just for this one dose?"

The woman, still somewhat worried, hugged her son and asked.

"Hmm! Your child's spleen and stomach are a little weak. I'll teach you a pediatric massage technique in a bit. Massaging your son every day can strengthen his spleen and stomach, which will help him absorb nutrients better and prevent him from being so thin!"

Back in the consultation room, Su Ziyang taught the woman several pediatric massage techniques to strengthen her spleen and stomach. The woman thanked him repeatedly before leaving.

After the two left, Su Ziyang found the case novel and it subtly matched some of the illnesses he had read in ancient books, so Su Ziyang quickly wrote down the treatment plan.

Vomiting Method, unlike other treatment methods, are rarely used.

The prescription used by Su Ziyang is also from the book "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet".

However, Su Ziyang did not use the original prescription, but rather a modified version.

It is based on the original formula "Melon Pedicel Powder" with the addition of ginseng, reed whip, licorice, and schizonepeta.

The reason for adding or subtracting is that children's bodies are weak and cannot withstand Vomiting Method, since Vomiting Method is very harmful to the body's vital energy.

Therefore, tonics are added to it, and emetics are used to induce Vomiting Method while tonifying it.

Even when vomiting occurs, these medications are used to unblock the body's meridians, preventing further damage to the internal organs and their qi and blood.

The Vomiting Method is rarely used, but Su Ziyang is no stranger to it.

When Su Ziyang was a child in the village, he saw a village doctor use it. Of course, at that time Su Ziyang did not know that it was a profound Vomiting Method in traditional Chinese medicine.

The story is that a woman drank a bottle of pesticide because of a family conflict.

When he was found, he was lying in the yard vomiting white foam and rolling around on the ground due to poisoning.

Upon seeing this, the village's barefoot doctor immediately ran to the toilet.

Because rural areas all have dry toilets, they are full of excrement.

The barefoot doctor took a basin, filled it with a large bowl of excrement soup, and forced it down the woman's throat.

The woman vomited violently after being given the soup containing feces; ironically, this is how she survived.

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