At eight o'clock in the morning, the special training class of traditional Chinese medicine started on time in a lecture theater of the Provincial Medical College.

The lecturer was a well-known acupuncture master in the province named Shen Kaitang. He was nearly sixty years old. He was energetic, his face was glowing, and his voice was very loud, which could be heard by everyone in the classroom.

"Today we will talk about the nine-needle method of acupuncture to nourish deficiency and reduce excess.

Tonifying deficiency and purging excess is not a patent of acupuncture. Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, massage, massage and scraping all focus on tonifying deficiency and purging excess.

So, what exactly is nourishing deficiency and purging excess?

Deficiency and excess mainly reflect the strength of the body's healthy qi and the rise and fall of disease-causing evil qi in the process of disease. Tonifying deficiency means to support healthy qi, and the treatment should be tonic; to purge excess qi, it is to remove the evil qi, and the treatment should be diarrhea.

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The replenishing and purging techniques used in acupuncture, massage, massage and scraping all follow one principle: going along the meridians is for tonifying, and going against the meridians is for purging.

The two most basic replenishing and purging techniques in acupuncture are the lifting and reinforcing and reducing techniques and the twisting and relieving techniques.

In the method of reinforcing and reducing by lifting and inserting, inserting heavily and lifting lightly is called tonifying, and inserting lightly and lifting deeply is called diarrhea.

In the twisting and reinforcing and purging method, the tonic thumb is heavy forward to restore lightness, and the purging thumb is heavy backward to restore lightness.

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What Mr. Shen talked about were the most basic knowledge points in acupuncture. Li Jiagan was already familiar with these knowledge points, so he was somewhat distracted while listening.

In fact, what he wanted to hear most was a detailed discussion of righteousness and evilness, which is the most basic and critical point for acupuncture and many treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine.

It is no exaggeration to say that the accurate understanding and grasp of righteousness and evil directly affects the therapeutic effect of acupuncture, massage, massage and scraping!

But it is obvious that Mr. Shen ignored this point.

Or maybe even Mr. Shen can't explain clearly what is righteousness and what is evil?

In fact, there is still a big question mark as to whether anyone today can accurately recognize and grasp righteousness and evil!

In many Chinese medicine textbooks, the discussion of righteousness and evil qi is very general, and righteousness is summarized as the general term for all the body's disease resistance, recovery, adaptability and control capabilities, while evil qi is regarded as all disease-causing factors.

Regarding this explanation, Li Jiagan could only laugh.

Doesn't it serve as a guide at all?

Under the framework of this general theoretical system, it is actually completely impossible to guide Chinese medicine doctors to perceive the righteousness and evil energy in the human body. What ordinary Chinese medicine doctors can do is probably to automatically recognize the patient's condition after diagnosing it. The patient's disease may be filled with evil qi and deficient righteous qi.

Then, based on this understanding, we can replenish deficiency and reduce excess, strengthen the body and eliminate evil.

The treatment effect and efficiency of this kind are understandably poor.

Unless there are some very spiritual doctors of traditional Chinese medicine, with many years of acupuncture experience, they may be able to sense the righteousness and evilness in the patient's body to some extent, and then carry out targeted replenishing and purging.

Li Jiagan felt that with Mr. Shen's magical acupuncture technique, he might be able to vaguely sense some righteousness and evil in the human body. Otherwise, he would not be able to use acupuncture to treat many difficult and complicated diseases that cannot be solved by Western medicine. Already.

However, Mr. Shen may only have a vague sense of the righteousness and evilness in the human body, but he cannot accurately interpret that sense.

Traditional Chinese medicine, which is based on almost metaphysical theories (many so-called metaphysics should be just future science that cannot be explained by current science), has too many things that can only be understood but cannot be explained in words.

In fact, Li Jiagan himself now has a vague perception of righteousness and evil, but he cannot accurately explain his perception.

However, when he is giving people acupuncture now, he can indeed vaguely sense the righteousness and evilness in the patient's body with his strong magnetic field!

This time he came to study to deepen his understanding and grasp of righteousness and evilness. This was one of his most important goals. As long as he could make a breakthrough on this point, his acupuncture skills would surely make a qualitative breakthrough!

This hope is pinned on in-depth communication with Mr. Shen. Therefore, an important task for Li Jiagen next is to secure some opportunities for in-depth communication with Mr. Shen!

But it is difficult for him to win such an opportunity by himself, because Mrs. Shen is busy, and it is difficult to find time to have an in-depth exchange of profound and mysterious issues such as righteousness and evil with an unknown junior like him alone.

Yes, but Professor Tang had promised to help him talk to Mr. Shen last night. With Professor Tang's recommendation, if he works harder, he might be able to get some opportunities for in-depth communication with Mr. Shen.

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This special training included big classes, two in the morning and one in the afternoon, each class lasted nearly two hours.

In the first acupuncture class, Mr. Shen gave a theoretical lecture and then began to demonstrate and guide various replenishing and purgative techniques of acupuncture. Then many students started practicing acupuncture directly on their own bodies.

Li Jiagen, Qi Zhanfa, Fan Jun, and Zhang Linwei sat together. The four of them also took out needle packs and practiced on themselves. Whether it was true or not, they still had to show their seriousness in studying.

Qi Zhan started. Fan Jun and Zhang Linwei practiced for a while before shrinking the needles. However, Li Jiagen worked hard to enter the state of emptiness. In the state of emptiness, he inserted needles into himself while trying hard to capture the vague feelings of righteousness and evil.

Perception of appointment.

He wanted to capture that perception as clearly as possible so that he could have an in-depth discussion with Mr. Shen on this issue.

It is best if you have an in-depth communication with Mr. Shen and he can explain the righteousness and evilness as accurately as possible.

Seeing Li Jiagen's serious look, Qi Zhanfa and the other three smiled a little in their hearts. After Li Jiagen retracted the injection, Qi Zhanfa asked Li Jiagen with a smile: "Brother, do you feel angry?"

Li Jiagan smiled and said, "Yes."

Qi Zhan looked down upon him by asking this question, probably because he was young.

"Getting Qi" in acupuncture is the basic skill of acupuncture.

The so-called "Deqi", from the patient's perspective, means that after the acupuncturist inserts the needle into the acupuncture point, the patient will feel soreness, numbness, swelling, and heaviness at the injection site. Sometimes this feeling will also move in a certain direction.

The wave spreads and conducts, which is why the patient gets Qi.

From an acupuncturist's perspective, it means there is a tight feeling under the needles.

If the patient does not have Deqi, he will feel nothing except a slight pain when inserting the needle.

If the acupuncturist does not gain qi, he will feel empty under the needle. At this time, he needs to adjust the direction of the needle or redefine the acupuncture point before inserting the needle.

Li Jiagen learned such basic skills when he was studying in medical college. Otherwise, he would not have received repeated praise from Professor Tang. At that time, he had achieved certain results in acupuncture for the patients brought by Professor Tang in class.

But now, Li Jiagan is naturally no longer satisfied with this. What he now emphasizes on "Deqi" is to truly sense whether what goes under the needle is righteous or evil!
Chapter completed!