I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 350 - 151: Dean Zhang, Stop Listening—This Isn’t Something You Can Learn (4)

Chapter 350: Chapter 151: Dean Zhang, Stop Listening—This Isn’t Something You Can Learn (4)

Lu Xuan explained again, "The Yang Support School believes that if the approach to treating illness is merely to eliminate heat evil, it is just addressing the symptoms and not the root cause. Spicy warmth to supplement Yang is the fundamental strategy for treating illness.

Lacking independent thinking, not seeking the root cause of illness, stopping a cough when seeing a cough, dissolving phlegm when seeing phlegm, cooling when seeing blood, and repeatedly using standard formulas, like using rhubarb, danggui, white peony root, honey, hemp seed, and bush cherry seed when seeing constipation, or using Akebia, plantain seed, and talc when seeing difficulty urinating; and regarding strong medicines as tigers, striving for mildness and stability. This may work for minor illnesses, but often misleads for major ones.

Doing so can indeed treat illness, but at the same time it harms the already insufficient true Yang.

Damaging true Yang is essentially harming the root, and it is easy to let evil penetrate internally.

On the surface, it seems fine, but in reality, the illness has only deepened.

The result is similar to modern Western medicine, where the condition repeatedly recurs; although there is short-term improvement after taking medicine each time, it soon relapses and becomes increasingly severe. Major illnesses themselves greatly damage the Primordial Qi and true Yang. Nowadays in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Circle, wherever there’s a fire, extinguishing it is the norm, which becomes more dangerous the bigger the illness.

Even renowned doctors immersed in Chinese medicine philosophy for decades find it hard not to harm the original Yang while extinguishing the fire. However, even so, it only treats the symptoms but not the root, pursuing the minor and losing the major.

If only the superficial symptoms are relieved and the original Yang is not supplemented, the root cannot be cured.

When talking about supplementing Yang, one has to mention the balance of Yin and Yang.

The so-called balance of Yin and Yang nowadays doesn’t refer to cold and heat, but a balance in function and nutrition.

For instance, supplementing Yang is not achieved in one step. While increasing Yang, can we consider appropriately reducing Yin? From a certain perspective, isn’t this also supplementing Yang? This is what is called balancing Yin and Yang.

Tracing the academic origins of the Fire God School, its theory is based on the Inner Canon, and its clinical practice uses Zhongjing’s Method. The changes in diseases cannot be fully addressed by a single approach; they transform in countless ways, but never go beyond the principles of Yin and Yang. Yang syndromes are treated using Yang syndrome methods, while Yin syndromes should nourish the source of fire, use sweetness and warmth to support Yang, or break Yin to return Yang—this is the essence of the Fire God School."

Huang Beishan and Zhang Jingcai listened with great interest. Although they weren’t of the Fire God School, they still understood these medical principles and could naturally develop some of their own thoughts by integrating them.

Meanwhile, Zhang Jiwei, standing to the side, was listening with a head full of sweat, feeling very frustrated.

Couldn’t understand!

Completely couldn’t understand!

What on earth was being said?

"Is this still medicine?"

"This is clearly metaphysics!"

Zhang Jiwei couldn’t help but complain.

Only to be met with Huang Beishan’s relentless critique: "Dean Zhang doesn’t understand, so he thinks it’s metaphysics, but for those who can understand, it’s invaluable. Dean Zhang, although I think saying this hurts your dignity a bit, I still have to say, stop researching this; you can’t thoroughly comprehend Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy in just ten or twenty minutes."

Zhang Jiwei glanced at Lu Xuan, seemingly asking, what about him?

Huang Beishan immediately pulled a long face: "He’s a special case, don’t consider Lu as an ordinary person; treat him as a prodigy. Everyone wants to be like Lu, but there’s only one such person like Lu."

Zhang Jiwei appeared to be deep in thought.

Seeing this, Huang Beishan added, "Dean Zhang, why don’t you listen to me? Stop listening; this is not something you can learn easily, why trouble yourself?"

"Mind your own business whether I learn or not."

Zhang Jiwei said irritably, "Even if I can’t learn it, that’s my own matter, none of your concern."

Huang Beishan wasn’t angry; instead, he looked at Zhang Jiwei with interest, "It’s not hard for Dean Zhang to learn."

Zhang Jiwei originally didn’t intend to pay attention to Huang Beishan, but upon hearing this, he couldn’t help but ask, "How?"

"How else, become an apprentice."

Huang Beishan spread his hands, "Look, a ready-made teacher."

The dean of City First Hospital apprenticing under a young Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner in his twenties—if this gets out, it would be quite a blow to Western medicine. Huang Beishan dared not say for the bigger picture, but he could ensure the impact would be maximized in Yong City.

It could expand the influence of Traditional Chinese Medicine, strike at Western medicine from another dimension, and allow Lu Xuan to accumulate fame and establish himself quickly—a win-win-win situation, so why not?

The question is whether this high-and-mighty Dean Zhang will take the bait.