Chapter 107: Chapter 86: The Origin of Breast Cancer

The two stories that Lu Jiu told are both real stories.

The first one happened twenty or thirty years ago, a time when many examination reports were handwritten. It wasn’t uncommon for names to be confused, and even the gender of babies in the delivery room was sometimes recorded incorrectly.

The second story took place over ten years ago and was even turned into a documentary by the television station.

The purpose of Lu Jiu telling these stories to the lady is simple.

Mood is very important!

No matter the disease, you should take it seriously, but you shouldn’t fear it.

Excessive fear can damage the kidneys, which store both our Innate Essence and Acquired Essence.

When you have a troublesome disease, it depletes your Acquired Essence heavily on its own; add fear to that, and it causes the kidneys to expend your Innate Essence directly.

What can cancer cells do?

They can multiply indefinitely, devouring crazily.

Both Acquired Essence and Innate Essence are nourishing to them.

If you don’t guard your essence and instead offer it up, they can only gratefully accept your generosity.

Therefore, Lu Jiu needs the lady to not fear the cancer anymore, or else no matter what methods Lu Jiu uses, it will be difficult to achieve results.

There is an ancient story that says, in the past, herbalists only passed down their Medical Skills to their offspring and generally kept it private.

In Nanyang, there was a renowned doctor named Shen Huai. He was over seventy years old and childless, constantly fretting about having no successor, unable to eat or sleep, gradually worrying himself into illness.

Local herbalists came to treat Shen Huai but all said that no one could cure his ailment.

As a result, Shen Huai’s condition worsened.

After Zhang Zhongjing learned about this, he went to Shen Huai’s home, assessed the condition, and diagnosed it as anxiety-induced illness. He immediately prescribed a remedy, using one pound each of various grains to make pills, coated with cinnabar, for Shen Huai to consume in one sitting.

When Shen Huai found out, he couldn’t help but laugh! He had his family members hang the grain-made pills under the eaves, and whenever someone visited, he pointed to the pills and ridiculed Zhang Zhongjing.

When relatives visited, he’d jokingly say, “Look! This is the prescription Zhang Zhongjing gave me. Who has ever seen grains cure illness? Ridiculous! Ridiculous!”

When friends visited, he would also mockingly point out, “Look! This is the prescription Zhang Zhongjing gave me. Who can eat five pounds of grain in one sitting? Truly absurd! Absurd!”

When fellow herbalists visited, he would seize the chance to say, “Look! This is the prescription Zhang Zhongjing gave me. I’ve been practicing medicine for decades and have never heard of such a thing! Hehe! Hehe!”

He fixated only on the absurdity, and all his worries fell away, unknowingly curing his illness.

At this moment, Zhang Zhongjing visited him and said, “Congratulations on your recovery, sir! I took the liberty.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Huai was suddenly enlightened, feeling both admiration and shame. He later taught all he had learned to Zhang Zhongjing.

When Lu Jiu first read this story, he only thought Zhang Zhongjing’s approach was unorthodox, using a self-deprecating method to make his seemingly muddled ’prescription’ effective.

But upon deeper reflection, he realized that emotions are truly crucial to one’s physical health.

Joy can overcome worry, worry can overcome anger, anger can overcome thinking, thinking can overcome fear, and fear can overcome joy.

This cycle of emotional counteraction actually originates from the Five Elements theory.

Zhang Zhongjing was able to heal Shen Huai by using joy to overcome worry.

This lady currently has cancer cells that have spread to her lungs, and continual worry will only exacerbate the cancer’s spread in her lungs. So Lu Jiu, emulating Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing, aims first to adjust her mindset. As long as he can make her happy, the treatment will have a good starting point.

It’s worth saying that facing such difficult cases is indeed quite challenging.

Lu Jiu himself is also full of energy.

“Aunt Sun, do you think the two stories I told are true or false?” Lu Jiu asked with a smile.

Sun Dan paused, “False?”

“Why do you think they’re false?” Lu Jiu asked with a smile.

Sun Dan shook her head. She couldn’t explain it, but she just felt that a person couldn’t be scared to death in a month, and cancer wouldn’t just go away like that. If that were the case, why would cancer be considered a terminal illness?

“Then let me ask you another question. Why do you believe the hospital doctors when they say you have only one year to live, but not me when I say you have only six months?” Lu Jiu asked.

“The hospital doctors are specialists…” Sun Dan responded instinctively, but halfway through her sentence, she realized she had misspoken, so she stopped herself abruptly.

Lu Jiu understood what Sun Dan meant. He wasn’t angry; instead, he maintained a smile. “You want to say that the hospital doctors are experts and professors, and I am just a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor in a small clinic, right?”

“That’s correct. This is indeed a fact, and I don’t oppose you for believing in authority. After all, most of the time, a person’s position does represent their capability. But now, you’ve tried everything, and the authorities in the hospital have clearly told you the outcome of this illness.”

“Now, when I offer you a different answer, you think I am deceiving you. Can I then understand it as you blindly believing in authority rather than the doctor? Because you don’t understand either Chinese or Western medicine, all your knowledge about this disease comes from doctors. In other words, you believe whatever the doctors say. But I am also a doctor, and you don’t believe me. I think your trust is based purely on identity, and you have no clear understanding of their medical skill, right?”

Sun Dan fell into deep thought.

She was already confused by Lu Jiu’s words.

But as she thought about it, she felt that Lu Jiu made some sense.

She truly understood nothing; she learned about breast cancer through the doctors.

She had been hospitalized for over half a year. Surgery and radiation therapy nearly consumed her life. The breast cancer was gone, but it had metastasized to lung cancer.

Even now, she doesn’t actually understand these illnesses, so she agreed with what Lu Jiu said.

“What should I do?” Sun Dan was lost.

Lu Jiu smiled and said, “It’s simple; it depends on whether you still want to live. Doctors aren’t King Yama; they can’t determine a person’s life or death. There are numerous cases in medicine where doctors issued death notices, yet patients lived much longer. So, you can listen to doctors about anything, but only you can decide how long you want to live!”

“I want to live!” Sun Dan’s voice was faint, but her will to survive was strong.

Lu Jiu smiled and said, “Then you have to trust me.”

“I do trust you,” Sun Dan said.

“Saying it isn’t enough. I need you to be happy now. Stop looking so miserable. You’ve heard comforting words many times, and I don’t want to repeat those platitudes. Anyway, the point is, if you’re happy, your family will be happy. If you recover, your family’s life and work can get back on track. If you want to live on without burdening your family, then smile. Even if it’s just pretending, can you do that?” Lu Jiu asked.

Is it enough to just smile?

Sun Dan didn’t understand Lu Jiu’s purpose, but she went along with it.

Yet, when she forced a smile, it looked even uglier than crying.

However, for Lu Jiu, this was already enough!

To make someone who has been suffering from illness for years genuinely happy in a short time is hard to achieve. Lu Jiu did this to divert her attention.

Even faking a smile would prevent Sun Dan from thinking about when she would die, at least for some time. Next, Lu Jiu had to use a series of methods to build her confidence to live on.

This is the most challenging part!

If this step fails, then all the efforts Lu Jiu made with his words would be in vain.

“Mom, think of Dou Dou. She’s waiting every day for her grandma to recover and come home,” Chen Muyao said softly.

At the mention of her granddaughter, a natural smile appeared on Sun Dan’s face.

After noticing this detail, Lu Jiu gave Chen Muyao a meaningful look.

Since Aunt Sun liked her granddaughter, showing her more things about her might lift her spirits.

Chen Muyao also understood Lu Jiu’s intention and nodded subtly in acknowledgment.

“Alright, enough small talk. Let’s get to the main topic. Regarding your breast cancer, I first need to explain why this disease occurs, so you can evaluate systematically and change some bad habits in the future.”

“Initially, breast cancer starts as mammary hyperplasia. Over time, lumps and hard knots form. Medically speaking, these are classified as benign or malignant. The fundamental reason for malignant tumors is that your body temperature has dropped.”

“During pregnancy, a woman’s menstruation stops, and milk flows out. After childbirth, when nursing ends, breasts may feel swollen and painful. This results from retained milk that can’t be expelled or transformed into menstruation, accumulating in the breasts to form hard lumps.”

“Some people’s bodies can absorb these nutrients, while others cannot, leaving the lump present. It becomes necrotic and can’t be absorbed by healthy cells. When does this lump turn malignant? When your body accumulates too much cold and dampness, creating turbidity. At this point, cell changes occur, and cells that thrive in turbidity proliferate. The necrotic milk clumps become their natural nutrient source, leading to breast cancer.”

“Of course, this is typical for post-pregnant women but another scenario occurs after menopause. Women may experience unpleasant physiological reactions such as feeling hot, dry mouth, irritability, anxiety, and crying. If these symptoms are considered hormonal imbalances and treated with estrogen supplements, breast cancer symptoms may also appear.”

“For men at 64 and women at 49, these ages are about storing. Just like the four seasons, humans at this age are in winter. The best remedy for unfavorable physiological reactions is internal retention of Qi and blood, rather than dispersing it. However, taking estrogen encourages growth and disperses Yang Qi, causing body temperature to drop sharply to a point friendly to cancer cells. In the 18th Century, foreign medical research found that one-third of breast cancer cases are related to estrogen use.”

“So, fundamentally, it’s about changes in your body’s environment that make it conducive for cancer cells to survive. You’ve probably noticed during your hospital stay that cancer patients fear the cold without exception. So, resolving breast cancer isn’t impossible. Do you understand?”

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