Chapter 178: Chapter 150: Lung Cancer, Terminal Stage [2-in-1]

This sentence is from “Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet,” Chapter Seven on Consumption and Lung Abscess with Cough and Dyspnea.

It means that the patient is short of breath, has facial swelling, and their shoulders move when they breathe, with a floating and large pulse, which is an incurable symptom, and the addition of diarrhea makes it even more dangerous.

Without a doubt, aside from not knowing the pulse condition of this aunt, Lu Jiu observed that her other symptoms were basically consistent.

The lung governs qi and controls breathing, while the kidney governs the reception of qi. When the lung and kidney work together, breathing is smooth.

If the kidney qi is deficient, then the reception of qi is abnormal, resulting in shallow inhalation and qi accumulating in the upper body, manifesting as cough, dyspnea, and difficulty breathing, even causing shoulder movement during breathing.

The kidney governs water and the lung regulates water pathways. If both the lung and kidney are deficient, water retention occurs, and the qi ascending can cause facial swelling.

If the pulse is also floating and large, it indicates that the qi of the lung and kidney is almost gone, a sign of qi reverse and dispersing, which is difficult to treat.

If accompanied by diarrhea, which means incontinence, there’s no doubt that the yang qi is dissipating upward and the yin fluid is draining downward, creating a separation of yin and yang, a dire situation.

Like those who hang themselves before death, they often experience incontinence.

Firstly, the lung qi is exhausted. The lung is exteriorly related to the large intestine. When lung qi is exhausted, the large intestine cannot control waste, and it must naturally discharge. Secondly, when kidney qi is exhausted, as the kidney governs two lower orifices, without kidney qi, it cannot contain wastes.

Therefore, incontinence is enough to demonstrate the danger of this illness.

“You must have already undergone radiotherapy and chemotherapy, right?” Lu Jiu spoke a nearly rhetorical question.

“Yes, the hospital can’t treat it anymore. They said… treating it further is a waste of money…” Shi Zixiong held back tears, his voice gradually choking.

It is precisely because both radiotherapy and chemotherapy were done, and still the cancer cells couldn’t be controlled, that it has now metastasized to the liver, bones, and multiple other places.

Otherwise, Shi Zixiong wouldn’t have traveled all the way from West Shaanxi to Jianghan.

Lu Jiu frowned, “Then why do you think I can treat it?”

Shi Zixiong wiped his tears, “I saw a video. The blogger said Dr. Lu, you had cured breast cancer before. I thought… perhaps there was still a glimmer of hope.”

Video?

Lu Jiu suddenly thought of Zhang Zhengli, who claimed a few days ago that he was running a self-media operation, searching for traditional Chinese medicine practitioners everywhere.

It seems they exaggerated the publicity a bit.

But now isn’t the time to question that.

Despite knowing he couldn’t cure the illness, Lu Jiu felt he must give it a try.

Doctors shouldn’t make no effort just because the books say it’s incurable.

As long as the patient hasn’t died in the clinic, the doctor must not give up on treatment.

“Sigh… come in with me.” Lu Jiu opened the clinic door again.

Shi Zixiong’s face lit up with delight, and he quickly helped his wife and sister support his mother into the clinic.

Seizing the opportunity, Lu Jiu poured each of the three a glass of water, except for Shi Zixiong’s mother.

The reason for this was that his mother simply couldn’t drink too much water, not even hot water.

People experiencing yang depletion inherently have insufficient yang qi, not enough to transform water.

With her having diarrhea as well, if she drank, she might urinate immediately on the spot.

This was also the most troublesome part.

It was possible that even before the medicinal effects of herbal medicine were fully processed by the spleen and stomach, they would be expelled as waste through the large intestine.

Fortunately, Lu Jiu was skilled in acupuncture, but for a patient with advanced lung cancer who had undergone radiotherapy and chemotherapy, he truly didn’t know how to proceed.

Yang Replenishing?

Given the aunt’s current physical state, it seemed that acupuncture couldn’t be applied.

Since there were many contraindications for acupuncture: no needling if the patient has consumed alcohol, is sweating, after sexual activity, and especially when one’s vitality and blood and qi are severely depleted, it also cannot be done.

This aunt had obviously been rendered completely debilitated by the radiotherapy and chemotherapy, her condition incapable of withstanding the stimulation of acupuncture.

It’s difficult!

Seeing that the aunt was seated, Lu Jiu then moved a stool beside her, grasping her emaciated hands.

Cold!

The sensation from her palm was icy.

This was definitely not the temperature a normal person’s palm should be.

The cold palms also indicated insufficient Heart Yang.

Though this was no surprise, as cancer patients generally suffer from Heart Fire deficiency, not to mention this aunt’s condition was advanced.

“Did you drive here?” Lu Jiu naturally held onto the aunt’s cun, guan, chi pulses.

“Yes.” Shi Zixiong replied.

“How many hours?” Lu Jiu asked.

“More than ten hours, with a short break in between.” Shi Zixiong said.

Lu Jiu glanced at his dark circles, thinking to himself that it wasn’t easy.

“You all rest there for a while; I’ll check the pulse and assess the situation first.” Lu Jiu said.

“Alright, dear, Shiyu, you rest a bit first, I’ll sleep at the hotel later.” Shi Zixiong immediately said.

Upon hearing this, the two women didn’t refuse. Indeed, coming this far, they had been quite tired caring for the situation, so they lay down by the small bed in the clinic to rest.

At this moment, Lu Jiu was wholly immersed in the conversation with the Five Viscera.

“Why can’t we get rid of these damned things, it’s so frustrating, Heart Fire, please help, Fei Jin has already collapsed, I’m going to rot, we’ll all be destroyed by these cold pathogens!” Liver Wood complained.

“It’s useless, they’ve already established a stronghold; I can’t intervene in Fei Jin’s organ location. Unless these cold pathogens are eradicated, even if I help you, we’d still all perish, so don’t struggle.” Heart Fire responded.

“Are we just going to sit here doing nothing, not handle it at all?” Liver Wood asked.

“It’s not that we’re doing nothing, it’s that we can’t handle it. If she hadn’t been constantly worrying, losing sleep night after night, I might have been able to manage all those negative emotions, but her excessive worrying led to Fei Jin always being in a weakened state. Originally, at the very start of the cold pathogen invasion, we could have driven it away, but she held us back—what can be done? It’s all self-inflicted. If this is the case, then let’s all not survive!” Heart Fire exclaimed.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep