Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

The Dong family lived in the east wing, with six people living in two rooms. Their living environment was not as spacious as Master Liu's.

However, Mrs. Dong is a good housekeeper. She keeps the house very clean and tidy, and you can tell the character of the family members at a glance.

After the greetings, as soon as they sat down, without waiting for the pulse, Doctor Dong asked, "Is this child a premature baby? He was born with congenital deficiencies. Was he almost not saved when he was born?"

The old lady nodded repeatedly, "Yes, that's what happened. I heard from her mother that the child didn't even cry when she was born. The midwife slapped her thirteen times, and she didn't spit up a drop of amniotic fluid. She was almost thrown away.

Her father was so exhausted that he had to lean back to look at her. Then she made a few sounds like a kitten. When her father looked at her, he was shocked. She was angry!

Thinking that this child was a good thing, they took her home. She was born into their family. If it were in another family, let alone a girl, even a boy would have been thrown away long ago because he would have been dying.

There is such a thing? Han Zhaozhao was shocked. Wu Ni had just walked through the gates of hell when she was born?

"When the baby was born, the body fluid (amniotic fluid) was not completely drained, so the lungs were not fully developed at birth."

After feeling the pulse, he asked, "This child doesn't sweat much all year round. Do his hands and feet have coldness all year round?"

The old lady thought about it and nodded, "Yes, her mother said that when the weather gets cold, she dare not let the child get off the kang. No matter how many layers of clothes she wears in winter, she still complains of being cold.

Doctor, is this child's illness difficult to cure?"

After the consultation, Master Dong smiled and comforted the old lady, "It's okay, it's not a big problem!"

He took out a silver needle from the medicine box and, before anyone could react, gave the patient two injections.

Han Zhaozhao's eyes lit up: What a quick technique! When will she be able to do this?

The patient was awake with the acupuncture while Doctor Dong had already written the prescription.

Han Zhaozhao took the medicine from Master Liu and took a look. There were only two herbs on the prescription: roasted dried grass and dried ginger.

This is licorice and dried ginger soup that strengthens the heart and lungs!

In this prescription, dried ginger can warm the lung yang, and roasted licorice can strengthen the heart yang.

"Take it for three days first, and then come to Yongding Clinic for a follow-up consultation."

Doctor Dong said very little. He removed the needle, gave them a list of prescriptions, and sent them out.

The old lady felt uneasy, "I haven't even finished explaining his condition to him yet, and you've finished examining him already?"

Master Liu smiled, "Doctor Dong is known as a pediatric expert in the field. He can see through everything just by looking at the patient. He has checked the patient's pulse and given him acupuncture. He has already put your family members at ease!"

After that, he handed Han Zhaozhao the list and said, "Here, Doctor Dong gave Zhang the Qigong formula. Go back and teach that girl to practice more.

Congenital diseases can be cured later. You, a medical student, don’t need to tell her. Just give the child more rice porridge or millet porridge.

The best is the rice oil mentioned above. During the treatment period, you don’t have to go through the trouble of buying meat and eggs. Not only are those things expensive, but they are also hard to buy. Drinking rice oil is better than taking supplements to nourish the body.”

Master Liu is doing this for the good of her family. She is just an old lady with two little girls, one of whom goes to school and the other is sick. Life must be difficult for her, so she should save as much as possible!

He didn't know that he knew this cheap little apprentice was very capable. Not to mention meat and eggs, she had plenty of beef, mutton, chicken and fish.

It’s just that there’s no excuse to eat as much as you want!

The old lady believed what Master Liu said, "That's right. When the soldiers were recuperating in our house, I often found rice and millet to make porridge for them.

In the countryside, babies are born without milk, so they are fed with rice oil to stay alive.

After getting some medicine from Tong Ren Tang, the three generations of grandparents and Master Liu went home. When they got home, the old lady went out to look for the medicine jar.

After boiling the medicine, the old lady was still angry, "If the Xue family comes to borrow medicine jars again in the future, I will not lend them anything no matter what.

I have never seen such an uncaring person. He doesn't even wash the medicine after use. When I went to ask for it back, there were still dry medicine residues in it.

Take it back, they don't even want to put a pinch of salt in it, this family is really unruly!"

Han Zhaozhao listened to her grandmother's nagging. She was not superstitious but she did not refute it. There are some customs that you cannot stop others from believing in even if you do not believe in them.

Especially the elderly in the family, who attach great importance to various customs passed down from generation to generation. If you try to stop her and tell her that this is not allowed, believe it or not, she will be upset!

If there is something in the world that is easy to borrow and not return, it should be the medicine jar. In their hometown, the medicine jar is regarded as a symbol of illness and cannot be returned after being borrowed.

This custom mainly stems from the traditional concept of the common people, who believe that medicine jars represent disease. Borrowing them means sending away the disease, while returning them may mean bringing the disease back.

The owner of the medicine jar knows that the person who borrows the medicine jar will not be angry, but will happily lend the jar out.

Usually, after the medicine jar is used up, the owner has to go to the jar to get it back if he wants to use it. When he takes it back, the borrower will put something in the medicine jar, such as rice, noodles, wheat, etc. This means that what the owner takes home is not disease, but food.

However, if the person who borrows the medicine jar is reluctant to put grain in it, a pinch of salt will do. In any case, it must not be left empty.

Soon, the neighbors in the alley knew that there was a patient in the old Han family. It was not because of the smell of medicine wafting from the yard, but because the old Han family dumped the medicine residue at the crossroads every night to symbolize that the disease was sent away.

Just two days later, several groups of people came to the house one after another, including the Zhang family (Chun Ling), the Li family (Li Yan and Li Cui), and Qi Mudan, all came to sit with us.

Mr. Guan, Aunt Qian, and Aunt Niu each sent twenty eggs to the Han family.

Don't underestimate these twenty eggs, they are enough for a large family for a month.

For example, Mr. Guan now only has a supply of one pound of eggs per month, twenty eggs. Needless to say, we know that the old man must have asked someone to exchange some things for him.

The old lady was very touched. Even though her old sister came to her house empty-handed and her grandson took away a big steamed bun before leaving, she didn't get angry at all.

In the past, the old lady would nag for several days!

With the help of traditional Chinese medicine, Han Zhaozhao started practicing qigong with Wu Ni every night, took her for a walk to the park in the morning, and asked Lao Jintou to help find an old lady to teach her the "Five Animal Exercises".

Doctor Dong's Qigong theory summarizes the arguments that "essence, energy and spirit are the three treasures of human beings", "regulating Qi to accumulate essence and concentrate the spirit", as well as the 16-character formula for practicing Qigong: namely, "calm the mind and sit quietly, forget about the world and yourself, let the heart and breath depend on each other, and breathe naturally".

According to his article published in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, this Qigong can be used in clinical practice to cure diseases, regulate the mind, and often cure serious illnesses.

Han Zhaozhao didn't take it seriously at first, but after practicing with Wu Ni for six days, she felt the benefits.

I didn’t develop the legendary sense of Qi, but I did learn to empty my mind and meditate silently.

Don’t underestimate this meditation. Every time after practicing it, she feels like she has had a sweet sleep and just woken up. She feels clear-headed and comfortable, and her body becomes full of energy.