The common peopleâs understanding of Chinese medicine is outrageously wrong. If Chinese medicine werenât medicine, it wouldnât be called medicine. All Chinese doctors need to pass certification exams through healthcare departments to practice, just like obtaining a medical practitionerâs certificate.
Some Chinese medicine, once administered, can be more potent than Western medicine. Medicine, seven parts poison.
Chinese medicine is profound and diverse, with countless varieties. All of these require professional Chinese doctors to study diligently and research for many years. Fraudsters outside flaunt themselves and spout "royal secret recipes" to deceive the public who doesnât understand Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine doesnât have secret recipes, only tested formulas. What is a tested formula? Like Western medicine, itâs derived from clinical trials where many doctors have used it on specific diseases to obtain effective data, and then categorize the medication schemes.
The so-called "royal secret recipes" should be called "tested formulas effective on royalty." How can a few folk remedies compare to the comprehensive repository of Chinese medicine collected by the nation since ancient times?
Like her, who studies Western medicine, she learns the system of Western medicine and wouldnât dare to prescribe Chinese medicine. Some doctors cross fields to prescribe Chinese or Western medicine, but they have to learn anew from scratch; otherwise, they wouldnât dare prescribe it at all.
Sister Weng was truly scared, saying with a choked, sobbing voice: "You havenât married, so you canât understand my pain. My husband says heâs out there doing business, but heâs actually indulging in pleasures. During the time I was pregnant and postpartum, he was rarely at home. My mother-in-law is also someone who loves to make things difficult for people."
These things are personal emotional issues and family matters, something doctors canât interfere with. Xie Wanying repeatedly emphasized: "I can only say, you should see any doctor you prefer. If you donât want others to know about your illness, a doctor wonât disclose it. However, you must not lie to the doctor, as it concerns your own life. If the doctor believes your lie and makes a mistake in judgment, the consequences could be disastrous."
"I understand." Sister Weng nodded and made a request, "Can you accompany me to Guoxie? Youâre a student there, so you should know the teachers there and could help me find a familiar doctor for my ailment. My thanks in advance, Dr. Xie."
Remembering her motherâs words, if you can save someone, you should, because itâs a human life.
Xie Wanying noted down the address mentioned by Sister Weng, planning to take a taxi to pick up the patient and head to Guoxie together.
After finishing the call, she walked out of the kitchen, quickly put on a coat when she returned to her room, changed into outdoor shoes at the entryway, and prepared to leave.
Unexpectedly, a little one woke up at this moment.
Xiao Duoduo stood at the door of the room, her small eyes appearing dazed as if she were sleepwalking, looking vaguely at her cousin standing in the living room, her little mouth murmuring: "Auntie?"
Seeing this, worried she might have unwittingly disturbed the child, Xie Wanying returned to gently coax the little one back to sleep.
The room door opened again, and Shang Siling came out to hold onto her daughter who had climbed up in the middle of the night: "Duoduo, do you need to go to the bathroom?"
Xiao Duoduo nodded with her small chin at her mother.
Shang Siling pointed her daughter towards the bathroom.
Before heading to the bathroom, Xiao Duoduo told her mom: "I had a dream, I saw Auntie here."
Xie Wanying faced her cousin-in-law, feeling awkward.
"Yingying, arenât you going to sleep?" Shang Siling continued, startled by her fully armed appearance, "Are you going out? What time is it now? Why are you going out?"
"Thereâs a patientâ" Xie Wanying briefly explained to her cousin-in-law.
Upon hearing this, Shang Siling immediately turned around to call her husband to get up.