Hearing Qin Jiang say this, Wang Rong replied sheepishly, “I find breast pumps really painful. And as for my husband… well, he’s never really been able to help much.”
She put it delicately, but Qin Jiang understood what she meant.
In fact, many couples who’ve had children know that the husband is often the most effective solution when it comes to relieving engorgement. But if someone can’t get past their own mental block, then there’s just no way around it.
Qin Jiang said to Wang Rong, “Put your hand here. Let me take a look and see what’s really going on.”
From what he could tell just by looking at her, Wang Rong shouldn’t be experiencing engorgement at all.
Wang Rong placed her hand on the pulse pillow. The moment Qin Jiang took her pulse, his brow furrowed.
“Have you been staying up late recently?”
If Wang Rong had been the one taking care of the baby, Qin Jiang would have considered that normal. But hadn’t she said from the start that Song Xia was the one watching the child?
Wang Rong nodded. “Sometimes I can’t fall asleep at night, so I’ll scroll through my phone and watch some short videos.”
Qin Jiang pressed on, “Staying up late is bad enough, but you’re also having late-night snacks?”
Wang Rong’s eyes went wide as she stared at Qin Jiang.
She hadn’t expected him to be so skilled—he could even tell something like that just from taking her pulse.
Wang Rong continued, “Yeah, because I get hungry when I can’t sleep at night, so I ask my husband to order takeout for me. Sometimes he cooks himself—it’s all pretty healthy stuff.”
Qin Jiang said bluntly, “You just gave birth. Your body is at its most vulnerable right now—how can you be both staying up late and eating at night?”
“Staying up late seriously damages your liver and gallbladder. When you should be resting but you don’t, sleeping in the next day to ‘make up for it’ simply doesn’t work—you can’t recover what you’ve lost.”
“Also, by nightfall, your stomach’s qi has already begun to weaken. Your stomach needs rest too. But by forcing it to keep working and ‘clock in overtime,’ do you really think that’s good for your body?”
Qin Jiang’s tone was stern as he said all of this.
Young people these days really don’t understand anything about health preservation—they just recklessly abuse their bodies.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, staying up late causes the most damage to a person. After all, when you don’t rest during the hours you’re supposed to, trying to catch up on sleep later simply won’t restore you.
Chinese medicine emphasizes aligning with the natural rhythms of time. There are twelve two-hour periods in a day, and doing the right thing during each one means following heaven’s timing.
And Wang Rong was a new mother who had just given birth—doing this was only draining her body’s vital energy even further.
The netizens in the live stream started chiming in.
“Staying up late can’t be that harmful, right? Is Dr. Qin exaggerating a little?”
“Okay, so you’re staying up late—ordering a midnight snack isn’t too much to ask, is it? And since you’ve got your snack, watching a movie or binge-watching a show isn’t unreasonable either, right?”
“Now think carefully about what you just did—didn’t that get your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys all fired up? All your internal organs that should be resting ended up working overtime just to keep you awake. So tell me—is that damaging to your body or not?”
“If you want to know whether staying up late really harms your body, just look at the nurses who work rotating shifts in hospitals. Very few can stick with it long-term, and even if they do, hardly any of them age well.”
When you’re young, you take advantage of your good health and act without restraint.
But by the time you actually start feeling weak, it’s already too late.
After getting scolded by Qin Jiang, Wang Rong quickly nodded humbly in acceptance.
“I understand, Dr. Qin. I won’t stay up late anymore from now on. So… does my engorgement have anything to do with staying up late?”
Qin Jiang glanced at her and explained, “The reason you’re experiencing engorgement—aside from your own physical constitution—is mainly because your liver qi isn’t flowing smoothly, which causes the swelling and pain.”
“People with poor liver function also tend to have bad tempers. Do you have ‘waking-up irritability’?”
Ning Qi, standing nearby, nodded repeatedly.
“Yes—my wife has the worst temper when she wakes up in the morning. If anyone provokes her, she’ll start cursing them out.”
Qin Jiang noted this down in the medical record and then asked further, “The liver and gallbladder are closely connected. If the liver isn’t healthy, the gallbladder can’t be problem-free either. Is your wife also easily frightened?”
Wang Rong said awkwardly, “I am pretty timid, but that’s not something I developed later in life, right? Shouldn’t that be something I was born with?”
“Seeing mice or cockroaches really scares me, and I usually can’t watch horror movies or anything like that.”
Wang Rong’s understanding here was actually incorrect.
A person’s courage changes along with their physical condition.
Why do people say “alcohol gives courage to cowards”?
It’s because after drinking, a person is in a state of mild intoxication, and the qi dynamics of all their internal organs are thrown into disarray. At that point, someone who’s normally timid can become bolder under the influence of alcohol.
Similarly, some people are terrified of graves or ghosts.
But why does that fear often lessen when passing by a martyrs’ cemetery or visiting their own family graves?
That’s actually a matter of perception.
When you realize there’s no reason to be afraid of something, your courage naturally rises.
So there’s really no such thing as being born timid—only being born with insufficient gallbladder qi.
After figuring out Wang Rong’s condition, Qin Jiang said to her, “I’ll prescribe some medicine for you. Take it home and stick with it consistently—it will soothe your liver and regulate your qi, helping to resolve your engorgement issues.”
“However, for the time being, don’t stay up late at night, and don’t eat late-night snacks either. If you absolutely must eat something, you can boil some plain eggs in water.”
“Also, treat your mother-in-law better. She’s here to help you take care of the baby—be kinder to her. Don’t fly off the handle at the drop of a hat. Learn to rein in your temper.”
Wang Rong nodded repeatedly at Qin Jiang, promising that she would definitely improve from now on.
Qin Jiang pointed to the QR code on the table and said, “Pay up—that’ll be 1,500 yuan.”
Wang Rong had been suffering terribly from the engorgement. Without a moment’s hesitation, she quickly pulled out her phone and made the payment.
Ding.
【Detected that the host spoke frankly to the patient, pointed out their hidden condition, and greatly assisted them. Mission complete.】
【Congratulations, host. You have received the reward: Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill (Foundation-Strengthening and Vitality-Nourishing Pill).】
After confirming the payment had gone through, Qin Jiang stood up and walked into the pharmacy, where he filled a bag with over forty Soothing-Liver and Regulating-Qi Pills.
Just then, medical staff from other hospitals arrived. They loaded the now-stabilized Ning Guang onto an ambulance to take him to another hospital for further examination.
After all, the baby had been deprived of oxygen for quite a while, which had likely already caused some damage to his brain.
Qin Jiang handed the Soothing-Liver and Regulating-Qi Pills to Wang Rong, and the family of three promptly followed the ambulance out.
