Chapter 326: Chapter 292: Willing to Teach, but Few Willing to Learn

Ritual Healing Skill is not superstition.

This thing actually has therapeutic effects!

For example, soul-calling!

There were times when children in the village went out and came back dazed and foolish.

At this time, if an elder could loudly call out the child’s name, their soul would instantly return, and they would regain clarity in that moment.

There’s also Bone-Dissolving Water, which involves filling a bowl with some water, placing the left hand in a Three Mountains Decision at the bottom, and putting two chopsticks across the top in a cross shape, followed by using a right hand Sword Point to write while chanting a spell.

After doing this, if the patient drinks the water, those with fish bones stuck in their throat often find that the bone goes down immediately with the water.

If you say it’s fake, it’s really effective. When Lu Jiu was in school, the teacher once showed them a video of Ritual Healing Skill curing a disease. The practitioner in that video was a National Master of Chinese Medicine in the country, who not only mastered this skill but could also use talismans and spells to treat hypertension, diabetes, and other conditions, all verified by many Chinese medicine professionals. Many high-ranking national officials, unable to cure their diseases by other means, would seek him out.

It is said that the hospital where he worked even set up a special Ritual Healing Department just for him.

But if you want to say it’s real, it’s hard to produce evidence. It’s unclear what exactly allows Ritual Healing Skill to achieve its therapeutic effects.

Current medicine acknowledges that Ritual Healing Skill is not superstition; it’s considered a form of spiritual therapy.

In fact, Ritual Healing Skill can manage not only mental illnesses but also physical ones.

Presently known “spiritual therapies” actually are not as effective as Ritual Healing Skill.

Thus, the only explanation for the therapeutic effects of Ritual Healing Skill might be the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor.

But what the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor describes as Ritual Healing involves the technique of shifting essence and transforming energy.

To speak of shifting essence and transforming energy carries a hint of superstition and seems quite esoteric.

How could ordinary people possibly achieve the shifting essence and transforming energy?

Drawing talismans and chanting spells?

Can drawing talismans and chanting spells in thin air truly change the nature of a bowl of water?

Obviously, viewed through the lens of modern science, water molecules remain unchanged.

Therefore, because the efficacy of Ritual Healing Skill is difficult to verify, and even more mysterious than meridians and acupoints, many who study Chinese medicine firmly believe that Ritual Healing Skill is superstition, unscientific, and incapable of curing diseases.

Lu Jiu doesn’t care, as long as it can cure diseases, who cares if it’s esoteric or not.

Doctors skilled in Ritual Healing Skill are extremely rare.

Each one, in Chinese medicine, is a national treasure, and Lu Jiu really didn’t expect Lu Mountain to find such an impressive Chinese medicine doctor for him.

It seems that the previously non-existent Ritual Healing Department could be established now.

“This way, Grandpa Wang, you can join the Bone Setting Department. Considering that you’ve never been involved in management, start as a regular doctor first. Once you’re familiar with the work, you can be promoted based on your performance. As for Grandpa Zheng, since you know Ritual Healing Skill, and our hospital currently lacks a Ritual Healing Department, you can start by consulting in our department of difficult and complicated diseases. I’ll arrange the establishment of the Ritual Healing Department immediately. You’ll be the head of the Ritual Healing Department in the future,” Lu Jiu said.

What!?

Wang Tong and Zheng Youli were dumbfounded upon hearing this.

Not only could he work there, but his position would also be enhanced. This was far beyond Wang Tong’s expectations, while Zheng Youli felt somewhat uneasy. From Lu Jiu’s words, it was clear he intended to create a department just for him.

The effort and attention Lu Jiu was giving them made them even more anxious and apprehensive.

Actually, before coming here, their biggest wish was to have a desk, a chair, and to be able to see patients openly and honorably, without caring about money at all.

At their age, their children didn’t need their money. What was the point of earning more?

As long as they could treat patients with dignity, it justified their lifelong practice of medicine, serving as affirmation of their identity and self-worth.

For them, nothing was more important than that!

Yet Lu Jiu not only provided them with that but exceeded their expectations.

“No, no, no. I’m not taking any position. All I want is to be able to see patients. I don’t need anything else,” Wang Tong said.

“Me too, I don’t have much ability, just a bit of Ritual Healing. Creating a separate department is too much,” Zheng Youli added.

Their attitude was determined and their refusal seemed genuine.

This left Lu Jiu somewhat amused.

The two elders clearly didn’t realize their capability.

Take Wang Tong’s family ointment, if it really achieved the results he claimed, not just at Lu Jiu’s place, even in a place like Jinling, he could easily become a department head.

This is no joke!

As for Zheng Youli, Lu Jiu wasn’t sure how effective his Ritual Healing Skill was, but as long as it worked, opening a Ritual Healing department for him to consult independently was not a problem.

After all, Ritual Healing was originally one of the thirteen departments of traditional Chinese medicine.

Many difficult and complex diseases include invisible illnesses, and these illnesses are indeed only suitable for Ritual Healing Skill adjustments.

Moreover, typically, such invisible and undiagnosable ailments respond better to Ritual Healing than acupuncture or medicine.

“Don’t rush, both of you. The reason I decided this way is that I have a request,” Lu Jiu said.

A request?

Wang Tong immediately responded, “Go ahead, tell us.”

Lu Jiu smiled and said, “I hope when you both join our hospital, you can share your medical insights, guide the younger generation, and help them get proficient quickly. Can you both do that?”

Lu Jiu knew that traditional family medicine had a notorious problem.

That is, things are not passed on; many good practices, even if family members aren’t willing to learn, are taken to the grave to prevent others from learning.

In today’s world, such thinking is clearly outdated.

But Lu Jiu also can’t disrespect the wishes of the elders.

Whether things are shared or not, they belong to the people who own them.

Lu Jiu naturally can’t force anyone.

Even if the seniors were unwilling, Lu Jiu would still offer the same conditions. But seeing the seniors seemingly feeling unworthy of such generosity, he framed it as a condition, which would make them feel more at ease.

To teach medicine?

Wang Tong and Zheng Youli exchanged a glance.

If they were younger, they would have stubbornly rejected and left with scowling faces.

How could family skills be easily handed over to others?

But over these decades, they realized, even if they were willing to teach, there might not be anyone willing to learn.

Throughout the years, even though many knew they had cured many people, none came to them to become their disciples.

Such an awkward situation made them reflect.

Perhaps what they held onto wasn’t as precious as they thought.

If that’s the case, why stubbornly take their abilities to the grave if someone needs them?

“Just one thing, as long as someone wants to learn, I’ll be willing to teach!” Wang Tong said.

“Me too,” Zheng Youli added.

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