The Fragrance of My Hot Patients

Chenyang knew Liu Yun was testing his abilities.

He answered with a serious expression, "Your heart meridian pulse is short, your lung meridian is stagnant and heavy, your kidney essence is vigorous but damp, and your spleen energy is exhausted and dry."

After hearing this brief answer, Liu Yun’s beautiful eyes blinked, a hint of surprise on her face.

But Su Qianqian and the others just looked on in confusion. "What does that even mean?"

"Simply put, it means Aunt Liu’s heart, lungs, kidneys, spleen, and liver all have varying degrees of pathology. The ’short heart meridian pulse’ is a symptom of meridian tension imbalance caused by long-term mental and emotional exhaustion. The ’stagnant and heavy lung meridian’ is due to prolonged emotional suppression, which leads to blocked lung Qi. The common symptoms for these two are chest tightness, shortness of breath, and intermittent coughing, accompanied by sharp pains in your back during the coughing fits.

"As for ’kidney essence is vigorous but damp,’ it means the essence within your kidneys has become potent because it isn’t being properly expressed and circulated. If it were just a case of normally vigorous kidney essence, the symptoms would be minor, like a few pimples on your cheeks. However, in your case, Aunt Liu, not only is your essence vigorous, but you also have dampness in your kidneys due to heat and dryness in your liver and spleen.

"And the heat and dryness in the liver and spleen, as well as the kidney yang deficiency and yin dampness, are mostly related to medication. If I’m not mistaken, you must have taken a lot of hormonal drugs recently. Taking too many hormones usually leads to weight gain. To prevent that, you then used Chinese herbs like cassia seed, safflower, plantain seed, rhubarb, and alisma to counteract it."

"Is he right?" one of the friends asked.

Liu Yun nodded, looking at Chenyang with admiration. "You’re so young. I thought you were just a novice practitioner of traditional medicine, but I didn’t expect that just by taking my pulse, you’ve already gained an almost comprehensive understanding of my body’s condition."

"Thank you for the compliment, Aunt Liu."

"Don’t be so quick to thank me. What you just described are all conditions that any licensed doctor at a hospital could diagnose. But you haven’t said a single word about the strange illness hidden inside me."

"About that strange illness of yours..."

Seeing Chenyang hesitate, Liu Yun frowned. "What’s wrong? You couldn’t diagnose it?"

Qin Fei’Er chimed in to help him. "It’s normal if he couldn’t. Chenyang just graduated, after all. It’s already impressive that he could diagnose your other conditions. As for your strange illness, many of the other traditional medicine doctors you saw before—even some well-known ones—couldn’t figure it out either, right?"

"That’s true."

Liu Yun sighed, a look of disappointment on her face.

But just as she was about to pull her hand back, she heard Chenyang say, "You’ve misunderstood. It’s not that I couldn’t diagnose it... It’s just... it’s a bit awkward to discuss in front of everyone."

"What’s so awkward about it? We all know what her illness is."

"You might know what the illness is, but I doubt you know about its hidden peculiarities, or the specific method of treatment, do you?"

"Of course we don’t know the treatment! If we did, why would we have let Liu Yun suffer for so long...?" Su Qianqian trailed off, then suddenly froze. "Wait a minute. From the sound of it, are you saying you know how to treat it?"

Chenyang nodded. "I do."

"Really?"

"Of course. Would I joke about something like this?"

"You..."

After hearing Chenyang’s words, Su Qianqian and the other beautiful women instinctively broke into excited smiles.

But just as they were about to ask for the details of the treatment, their smiles faded.

"Impossible."

"So many famous doctors were helpless. How could an unknown doctor like you possibly know the treatment method?"

"Young man, it’s not that we’re looking down on you. It’s just that your Aunt Liu’s illness is not only special but also extremely rare. There are only a few cases in the entire country, or even abroad, and none of those few cases have ever been cured. This means it’s essentially an incurable, non-fatal disease."

Seeing their disbelieving expressions, Chenyang just smiled, the corners of his mouth turning up. "This illness is indeed rare. But just because it’s rare or has no record of being cured doesn’t mean no one knows how to treat it. And it certainly doesn’t mean no one has ever been cured of it before."

"What do you mean? Are you saying you’ve seen this illness before, and you’ve cured it?"

"That’s right."

"Impossible! If this disease had really been cured, it would have been front-page news the next day. Some of us work in the medical field, and others own businesses related to it, but we’ve never heard a single whisper about this."

"Beautiful ladies, not every new discovery makes the news. Besides, this isn’t a widely recognized complex illness; it’s an obscure and rare condition that few people know about. It’s not contagious, and there’s no academic necessity to conquer it. Unless it appeared on a massive scale, even if you presented it as a research topic at a medical conference, no one would bother to study it, let alone lecture on it."

Liu Yun nodded in agreement. "Chenyang is right. This illness isn’t well-known or common. Even if someone you know had it, others wouldn’t think much of it. Furthermore, if a cure was found by someone who didn’t know or understand its rarity, neither the doctor who could treat it nor the patient who was cured would likely give it much thought. They would probably just treat it like any other ordinary, unheard-of sickness. To put it simply: it only seems difficult to those who don’t know how; for those who do, it’s simple."

The women mulled this over, nodding at first, but then their brows furrowed again. "But didn’t all those doctors who examined you before say this disease is completely incurable?"

"That’s what confuses me, too." Liu Yun looked at Chenyang. "The most difficult part about this illness is that it’s impossible to find the root cause, so there’s no starting point for treatment. Many senior experts in the medical field have concluded that it’s non-fatal, but also untreatable. So, I’m very curious. When you say you can treat it, where would you even begin? And what kind of treatment method is it?"