Chapter 229 - Looking, Listening, Questioning and Feeling the Pulse! (1/2)
Chapter 229 Looking, Listening, Questioning and Feeling the Pulse!
The clinic was open.
Xu Miaolin, of course, sat before the only consultation table.
Fang Qiu sat beside him.
”Today, I'll talk about the four ways of diagnosis to you, and tell you how our doctors of Chinese Medicine understand a patient's physical condition through looking, listening, questioning and feeling his pulse,” Xu Miaolin said to Fang Qiu.
”Okay.”
Fang Qiu nodded. He had been expecting this for a long time.
He didn't wait a long time, and a patient entered the clinic soon.
Seen from afar, he was a middle-aged man at about 40. He had a little hunchback, and his face consumed away. He should have been at his vigorous age. However, he looked totally gaunt.
Entering the clinic, he raised his head and then got stunned immediately.
He had been here several times and was familiar with Feng Xuexin. But to his surprise, the man sitting at the consultation table today was changed.
And there were two people before the table?
Confused, he began to look around for Feng Xuexin.
At the same time, Feng Xuexin, who had been standing in front of the medicine counter, immediately walked out, asking, ”What are you looking for?”
”Cough, cough...”
”Doctor Feng, why are there two men sitting at your table?”
After coughing, the middle-aged man reached out to point at Fang Qiu and Xu Miaolin and asked Feng Xuexin.
”I don't see patients today.”
Feng Xuexin grinned and answered, ”You're lucky today. That is a highly skilled doctor who is much better than me.”
While speaking, he hurriedly pointed at Xu Miaolin.
”Really?”
The middle-aged man arched his eyebrows, looking happy.
Although Feng Xuexin's medical skills were very good, he was still not a famous doctor after all. Therefore, he knew some diseases of difficulty, but he couldn't cure them.
The middle-aged man suffered such a disease, which had troubled him for a long time.
Although Feng Xuexin could control his condition every time, it would relapse after a short period, which made him very helpless. He had even suspected that Feng Xuexin had done some tricks on him to earn more money from him. It was after he had gone to another doctor that his suspicion had dissipated.
Now, he heard that Xu Miaolin was more skilled than Feng Xuexin, so he would have the opportunity to cure his disease, wouldn't he?
”Of course yes. He's my father's friend. How can't he be skilled?”
Over there, while the middle-aged man and Feng Xuexin were chatting, Xu Miaolin was explaining to Fang Qiu as well.
”Look at this patient.”
Studying the middle-aged man carefully, Xu Miaolin said, ”It can be told from his face that he is listless and gaunt. His back is a little bent, and he often coughs.”
”Besides, looking carefully, you will find he breathes more than average people on his way into the clinic, which means he is short of breath.”
”Look at his lips. Unlike normal lips, they are purple. These are all symptoms.”
Xu Miaolin stopped here to look at Fang Qiu.
”Yes.”
Fang Qiu nodded. Everything that Xu Miaolin had mentioned was seen in his eyes clearly. But he also discovered something that Xu Miaolin didn't. He uttered directly, ”He is hurt in the lung.”
Upon hearing that, Xu Miaolin was stunned.
Even Feng Xuexin at the medicine counter also turned his head to Fang Qiu.
”Uncle Xu, didn't you say that he hasn't learned medicine?”
Feng Xuexin asked Xu Miaolin while looking at him with suspicion.
However, Xu Miaolin was looking at Fang Qiu with surprise, asking, ”How do you know that?”
”I know martial arts. I can hear it from his coughs,” Fang Qiu explained with a smile.
Indeed, he could tell from a person's voice that something was wrong with him.
Of course, it was limited.
He couldn't tell all the diseases, but only those related to voice. The most critical thing was that he could only tell the problem, but he didn't know the disease.
For example, upon hearing the patient's coughs, he knew that the other side was suffering from a lung problem, but he didn't know what disease he was suffering.
”Good!”
Xu Miaolin's eyes lit up. He said, ”I never thought you could do that.”
Fang Qiu revealed a humble smile.
He never told anyone that he knew martial arts.
If he hadn't let it slip unwittingly, he might have kept it secret.
”What a skilled doctor!”
The middle-aged man's eyes lit up. He came over to the consultation table immediately and said hurriedly, ”Doctor, you must take a look at me and cure my disease.”
It was the first time he had seen a doctor who could tell his disease without even questioning him.
Now, he had believed that these two doctors were both more skilled than Feng Xuexin.
He couldn't miss such a good opportunity to cure his disease.
”Sit down, please.”
Looking at the patient, Xu Miaolin smiled and invited him to sit down.
”Tell me more about your physical condition, please.”
After the patient had sat down, Xu Miaolin opened his mouth and asked.
”I can't tell it clearly.”
The middle-aged man replied with a frown, ”It's just that I always feel uncomfortable. Sometimes, I would be very afraid of coldness. Sometimes, I would have a fever and feel very hot. And usually, I would feel weak, refusing to use strength.”
Xu Miaolin nodded and continued to ask, ”How about your appetite?”
Fang Qiu, at the same time, was sitting to the side, listening and learning quietly and carefully.
”Not so good.”
The middle-aged man shook his head and said, ”I can eat. But always, I don't want to eat, because I have no appetite.”
”Do you sweat a lot?” Xu Miaolin asked again.
”Yes.”
The middle-aged man quickly nodded and answered. ”Sometimes, there would be a lot, but sometimes not so much. Anyway, in general, I sweat more than before.”
”Afraid of coldness, suffering fevers, weak and effortless, short of appetite, sweating...”