The Formula for Ren Years
Su Ziyang, filled with anxiety, finally heard the sound of the door opening.
As soon as the door opened, flower petals fluttered down, creating an exceptionally romantic scene.
When Fairy Li saw Su Ziyang standing in the living room, through the rain of flower petals, Su Ziyang saw the look in Fairy Li's eyes. He was startled, then his face lit up with joy.
"Zijun, you were the one who said we'd get together. But I'll propose."
The prepared lines were completely messed up due to Su Ziyang's nervousness.
Although the words were jumbled up, the effect was surprisingly good.
Even the usually composed Fairy Li had a few tears welling up in her eyes.
Su Ziyang slipped the ring onto Fairy Li's finger, and the proposal was successfully completed.
Just as Su Ziyang put on the ring, and Daoist Master Xiao Yang and Er Biao started teasing him to kiss,
A burly figure appeared in the room.
Seeing Fairy Li and Su Ziyang embracing each other, he paused for a moment.
"Trying to be romantic, huh!"
Su Ziyang looked towards the door and saw that the person was actually his brother-in-law...
"It's alright, you two go about your business! I'm lucky I went downstairs to buy some things, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to have any romance!"
Fairy Li's brother chuckled and gestured for the two to continue.
Fairy Li turned around and saw her brother's face flushed red. She stamped her foot and said, "Brother! What are you doing! You're so annoying!"
"Didn't you send me?"
Fairy Li's brother said with a smile.
"You said your Second Brother bullied Xiao Su, that's why you sent me!"
"Elder brother!!!"
At the dinner table, Su Ziyang learned that Fairy Li had first returned to the Daoist temple and then went home.
It was during this time that I was discussing my marriage with my parents.
To address this, Fairy Li's family even held a small family meeting.
So they decided to have the boss, who had already met Su Ziyang once, meet with Su Ziyang again.
The last time the two of them came, they tried to get Su Ziyang to drink, but Su Ziyang doesn't drink, so they used words to tease Su Ziyang.
This time, they came on official business, so Fairy Li's elder brother spoke much more seriously.
The group discussed the matter in detail, including engagement, inviting relatives and friends, and so on.
Although the specific details have not been finalized, the general direction has been set.
The more specific matter involves both sets of parents, and that's all the group could discuss up to this point.
After the hospitality was over and his brother-in-law and Er Biao had left, Su Ziyang stayed home with Fairy Li as the weekend was approaching.
Fairy Li lay on Su Ziyang's lap, flipping through an ancient book in her hand.
Su Ziyang was chatting with a patient on his phone.
The scene was quite peaceful and harmonious.
"You really touched me that day. Even a blockhead can have a moment of enlightenment!"
Fairy Li put the book she was holding aside, looked at Su Ziyang, and smiled.
"Really? Haha, that's good then. I just received guidance from a master."
Su Ziyang lowered his head and pinched Fairy Li's little cheek.
"Tch, excessive modesty is just pride."
Fairy Li pouted and went back to reading.
"What were you doing back at your sect?"
Su Ziyang put down his phone and asked curiously.
"What else can we do? We can talk to our master about it, about the two of us. We can also ask him to be our witness at the wedding. You're so important! I can't ask him, but as soon as I said I wanted to, he immediately agreed!"
Fairy Li couldn't resist showing a few moments of jealousy.
"Hahaha..."
The two were too lazy to go out and spent two days lounging at home. Su Ziyang went to work as usual, while Fairy Li got busy again, helping clients with interior feng shui design.
In addition to observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation, Su Ziyang now uses a small sign on his table when diagnosing patients.
The small sign contained information about the Five Movements and Six Qi for this year, along with some directions on medication.
Su Ziyang has many patients right now, so as soon as he opened the door, a young man came in.
Su Ziyang noticed that he looked to be about the same age as himself.
"Doctor, my main problem is an upset stomach; I keep having diarrhea. I've been to many places, but it hasn't gotten better. I've had all sorts of tests done, and I've tried both Chinese and Western medicine, but nothing's worked! I came to your Daoist Medicine Clinic to have another look, and if it doesn't work, I'll give up!"
Before Su Ziyang could even take his pulse, the young man started babbling on and on.
Just as Su Ziyang was about to take the young man's pulse, the young man clutched his stomach and rushed out.
About ten minutes later, the young man returned, sat down on the stool, frowned, and said to Su Ziyang, "Doctor, I'm so sorry. My stomach hurt again, so I had to go to the toilet. I'm really sorry!"
"It's okay. It's okay. Catch your breath first, let me see what's wrong."
After resting for a while, the young man's breathing gradually became even, and Su Ziyang began to take his pulse.
The pulse is generally weak and soft, which is indeed a sign of spleen deficiency.
"Your spleen and stomach are weak, which does correspond to your diarrhea symptoms. But surely it's not like so many medications haven't helped! Do you still have your Chinese medicine prescription? Let me see!"
Su Ziyang looked at the Chinese medicine prescription the young man was taking and found that most of the prescriptions contained herbs that strengthened the spleen and removed dampness. In theory, it should be able to cure the disease.
Actually, this disease is relatively easy to treat because the spleen and stomach are the primary organs for receiving medicine. So as long as the medication is appropriate for the symptoms, the disease will basically be cured.
Moreover, this diarrhea isn't a serious illness; it's just a bit of spleen deficiency...
When faced with a patient who had not improved after a long period of treatment, Su Ziyang was somewhat at a loss. However, after glancing at the small plaques on the table displaying the Five Movements and Six Qi, Su Ziyang immediately had an idea.
Qi Chu told Su Ziyang this when he was teaching Su Ziyang.
The Five Movements and Six Qi theory is generally applied in two aspects when guiding prescriptions.
The first is when the same symptoms appear on a large scale, for example, when many people develop the same symptom at the same time.
The second point is that when a difficult and complicated disease cannot be cured by conventional treatments, the Five Movements and Six Qi can be used.
This young man's condition is due to conventional treatments not working. Although the disease itself is considered a difficult or complicated illness, the fact that it has been difficult to cure for a long time makes it a difficult or complicated illness.
Therefore, the first thing Su Ziyang thought of was the formula from the Five Movements and Six Qi theory.
Although the earliest theory of Five Movements and Six Qi appeared in the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", it only provided directions and treatment methods, but did not provide specific prescriptions.
It wasn't until the Southern Song Dynasty that a Confucian physician Chen Wuze, the founder of the Yongjia Medical School, came up with sixteen prescriptions corresponding to the Five Movements and Six Qi.
This led to the development of formulas related to the Five Movements and Six Qi.
Su Ziyang thought that it was the Ren year, which is the Liu Ren year mentioned in the book. It was a year of excessive wood. When wood is excessive, wind is in the air. When wood is prosperous, it will restrain the spleen earth, so he will get diarrhea, rib pain, dizziness and vomiting, or some other diseases such as mood swings.
These are various illnesses caused by an excess of the Wood element.
For symptoms such as wind affecting the spleen and stomach, diarrhea, borborygmus, abdominal distension, heaviness and sluggishness in the limbs, irritability, dizziness, or pain in the left hypochondrium, Chen Wuze prescribed a formula called Poria and Atractylodes Decoction.
Having identified a direction, Su Ziyang immediately prescribed medicine.
15g of Poria cocos
Magnolia officinalis 15g
15g of Atractylodes macrocephala
15g of green tangerine peel
15g of dried ginger
Pinellia ternata 15
15g of cardamom
15g of roasted licorice root
5g ginger
Two dates