"Which hospital are you from?" Elder Huang frowned. Why were these doctors, with nothing better to do, coming to a clinic?
"We are from Ren'ai Hospital. My name is Wen Yuanzhou. I also recently successfully applied to join the American Medical Association and published my views on cancer." The doctor at the head of the group first bragged about himself, then pointed to the noblewoman and said, "This lady's daughter just had an examination at our hospital. The result is esophageal cancer. I heard that your small clinic can treat this cancer?"
"It can be treated!" Li Se replied.
"Heh!" Wen Yuanzhou laughed disdainfully. "Do you understand cancer? This is a disease that the world cannot conquer. You actually claim you can cure esophageal cancer. That's simply talking nonsense, especially from Traditional Chinese Medicine. Isn't that laughable?"
"Chinese medicine is becoming more and more unreliable."
"I heard a few old TCM practitioners talking about carrying forward Chinese medicine a while ago. Is this the way they do it?"
"Deceiving patients, letting patients seek TCM treatment, and then having another explanation if it's not cured."
"..."
The Western medicine doctors accompanying Wen Yuanzhou all began to sneer. They were confident in their medical skills and understood the current level of medical science, which made it impossible to cure cancer. At most, they could improve survival rates.
"It's because Western medicine can't cure it that Western medicine is inadequate. But Chinese medicine can cure it!" Li Se was somewhat displeased with Wen Yuanzhou's attitude. These doctors were too arrogant, thinking that if Western medicine couldn't cure a disease, Chinese medicine couldn't either.
"It's sheer madness!" Wen Yuanzhou rebuked. "Cancer cells are mutated cells, the source of cancer. Cancer cells are different from normal cells; they have three major characteristics: unlimited proliferation, transformation, and easy metastasis. They can proliferate limitlessly and destroy normal cell tissues. Even after surgery, these cancer cells will return. It's impossible to cure. At most, we can only standardize treatment and improve the patient's survival period. Curing cancer is completely absurd!"
Saying that, he quickly looked at the noblewoman and said, "You should still be hospitalized. With your conditions, buying some anti-cancer drugs can allow your daughter to live for seven or eight more years, which is not a problem at all!"
"Only seven or eight years?" The noblewoman's face turned pale. Her daughter was only twenty years old. Even if she lived for seven or eight more years, she would only be twenty-seven or twenty-eight.
"This is already the best outcome," Wen Yuanzhou sighed lightly. "Instead of believing in Chinese medicine, you should believe in authorities like us. Chinese medicine can only regulate conditions, no matter what disease it treats. Do you really think those Chinese herbs can cure cancer?"
Hearing Wen Yuanzhou say this, the noblewoman began to waver.
"No need for regulation; I can make her completely recover in an hour!" Li Se's confident voice rang out at this moment.
"An hour?" These Western medicine doctors were all stunned, but then they sneered. What a joke! A disease that they couldn't conquer, and he wanted to cure it in an hour? He wasn't even trying to hide his bragging.
"Are you joking?" Wen Yuanzhou was truly angry. "Young man, words must be responsible. At your age, you don't even know if you've mastered the basics of Chinese medicine, yet you dare to speak so boastfully, claiming you can cure esophageal cancer in an hour. I think you're a swindler. People like you should be arrested!"
Many onlookers thought Li Se was boasting. Although they all believed that Jishi Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic's medical skills were quite impressive, claiming to cure cancer in an hour was completely impossible.
Li Se stopped paying attention to Wen Yuanzhou and instead looked at the noblewoman, saying, "It only takes an hour. If it's not cured, you can send her to the hospital again. It won't cause any delay."
"Alright!" The noblewoman hesitated for a moment, then nodded. She had placed all her hopes on Li Se now.
"Very good, very good, I'd like to see how you cure a cancer that we cannot conquer in an hour," Wen Yuanzhou said with a cold sneer.
"Elder Huang, prepare the medicine!" Li Se no longer wasted time and said to Elder Huang and the others.
"Okay!" Elder Huang knew that the treatment was about to begin. At this moment, all the old TCM doctors in the clinic began to cooperate with Li Se.
"Sha Shen, Dan Shen, Fo Shou, Gua Lou, He Ye Di, Shan Dou Gen, Mai Dong, Sui Chuan Bei, Yu Jin, Ban Xia, Wei Ling Xian, Ban Zhi Lian, Bai Hua She She Cao... decoct with water."
As Li Se spoke, he had already taken out acupuncture needles to perform acupuncture on the girl.
Elder Huang and the others were busy gathering and decocting the herbs.
"You're going to perform acupuncture?" Wen Yuanzhou frowned.
"Yes!"
"You are completely toying with the patient's body. How can silver needles cure diseases?" Wen Yuanzhou said angrily.
"Shut up!" Li Se snapped, unable to bear it any longer. "The family has already handed the patient over to me. Within this hour, how I treat her is none of your business."
Wen Yuanzhou was very angry, but seeing that the patient's family seemed to believe Li Se, he didn't say anything further.
"Second prescription: Ban Zhi Lian, Yin Hua, Pu Gong Ying, Lian Qiao, Zi Hua Di Ding, Gua Lou, plus Ji Nei Jin, Yuan Hu, Hua Fen, Mu Li, Shan Dou Gen, Jiao Shan Zha, Dan Pi, Zhi Zi, Yu Jin, Da Huang, Chong Lou, then decoct with water..."
While performing acupuncture, Li Se recited a second prescription.
Elder Huang and the others began to busily gather and decoct the herbs again. When Li Se became the chief physician, Elder Huang and the others could only gather herbs. As for Huang Shanshan, she didn't even have the qualification to gather herbs at this moment. She could only watch from the side, unable to help at all, because the skill of gathering herbs now was much higher than hers.
Subsequently, Li Se recited a third and a fourth prescription, issuing four prescriptions in one go. This made Wen Yuanzhou dissatisfied again: "You are prescribing so many Chinese herbs, do you want the patient to have an accident? It's said that Chinese medicine has three parts poison. She already has esophageal cancer; this is nothing but adding insult to injury."
"You can rest assured about that!" Elder Huang explained coldly. "The prescriptions just given are called 'Jun Chen Zuo Shi' in our Chinese medicine. Jun is the drug that plays a decisive role in the formula, solving the main contradiction of the disease. Chen is the drug that plays a secondary role in the formula, solving the secondary contradiction of the disease. Zuo is to restrain the toxic side effects of other drugs, and Shi refers to the drug that guides all the drugs to the site of the disease, meaning to lead the herbs to the destination. Therefore, these prescriptions will not have any side effects, and even the toxicity of the herbs has been adjusted!"
"These consecutively prescribed formulas all embody the principles of Jun Chen Zuo Shi. We are all in awe!" Elder Hua and the others exclaimed. Li Se's medical skills were already superb. At least they couldn't prescribe such formulas. Each herb played a crucial role; without even one herb, it wouldn't work!
Yan Qizhi also exclaimed, "Not only that, but even these formulas themselves play a role of Jun Chen Zuo Shi. Even the contemporary King of Medicine might not be able to achieve this!"
Wen Yuanzhou's face turned red and he was flushed. He had naturally heard of this so-called Jun Chen Zuo Shi, but he was a Western medicine doctor and didn't believe in Chinese medicine at all. However, at this moment, he was powerless to refute and could only glare. But he still didn't believe that these few prescriptions combined with acupuncture could cure cancer. He was just waiting to see a joke!