Live Broadcast: My Blunt TCM Practice and My Patients Are Dying Online - Chapter 24

The viewers in the live stream had already witnessed Qin Jiang’s miraculously skilled acupuncture before.

And doesn’t acupuncture have an anesthetic effect?
The truth was, Qin Jiang really could have done it; he just genuinely forgot.

After all, his focus was entirely on solving the root cause of the patient’s illness, and it never crossed his mind to try and reduce the patient’s pain.

It took Liao Fei a full five minutes to recover from the intense agony after tearing off the patch.

“Doctor Qin, am I better now?” Liao Fei’s voice was noticeably higher-pitched when he spoke.

Anyone unaware of the situation might have thought Liao Fei had just become the last eunuch in China.

Even Qin Jiang felt a twinge of pity. He pointed towards the outhouse and said, “You just need to go urinate now, and then you’ll be fine.”

Liao Fei nodded, feeling like he had finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel.
He pulled up his pants and shuffled towards the outhouse like a quail.

“Wait a moment.”

Qin Jiang took out a roll of sterilized gauze and handed it to him.
“If it hurts too much later, bite down on this. It might help a little.”

Liao Fei looked at Qin Jiang as if he’d seen a ghost.
“Doctor Qin, are you saying… it’s going to hurt again?”

Qin Jiang explained patiently, “The patch dissolved the bone into bone fragments. But those fragments have to come out, right?”
“These bone fragments are irregularly shaped, and they can only pass with your urine, so…”

Qin Jiang didn’t need to finish. Liao Fei understood perfectly.
With a heart full of grim determination, Liao Fei, biting the gauze, entered the outhouse.

It wasn’t long before an even more blood-curdling scream erupted.
So many people in the residential buildings around the clinic even opened their windows to look over,
wondering if someone had been murdered.

The live stream was flooded with another wave of prayer and condolence emojis.
In the hearts of these fans, Liao Fei was undoubtedly a true warrior.

Just as Liao Fei was relieving himself, Liu Fang finished her phone call.
She walked back over to Qin Jiang meekly and said, very apologetically, “I’m sorry, Doctor Qin. I was wrong to doubt you.”

“I just asked my friend. He said that for surgeries involving the cauda equina nerves like this, the success rate is less than 25%, and the cost would be at least three hundred thousand.”

Qin Jiang gave an “Oh,” unsurprised.
With Western medicine’s treatment approach of “where it’s sick, cut it open,” high costs were normal.
After all, the human body isn’t modeling clay that you can just slice however you want.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, once the body is cut open, the meridians are inevitably damaged, causing inherent harm to the person.
This was also why Western surgeries often have side effects.
Sometimes, the side effects can be worse than the original disease.

“So, have you made a decision?” Qin Jiang asked.

Liu Fang nodded solemnly.
“I’ve decided, Doctor Qin. I’ll get treated here with you. If it doesn’t work here, then I’ll consider Western medicine.”

Liu Fang was a woman of action.
Once she decided to get treated by Qin Jiang, she didn’t hesitate.
Liu Fang directly scanned the code to pay, and the system triggered the reward notification.

Ding!
[Detected that the host was forthright with the patient, clearly stating the patient’s private condition, greatly assisting the patient. Task Complete.]
[Congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: Neural Repositioning Technique!]

Seeing the system’s reward, Qin Jiang’s eyes immediately lit up.
This was the Neural Repositioning Technique!
Nerves were the most complex, delicate, and troublesome things in the human body.
At the level of modern medicine, successfully reconnecting nerves was nearly impossible.
That’s why the success rate for the cauda equina surgery Liu Fang asked about was so low.

Knowledge about the Neural Repositioning Technique flooded into Qin Jiang’s mind.
It felt as if he had practiced it tens of thousands of times; he was now brimming with confidence.

Qin Jiang pointed to the nearby sickbed.
“Alright, lie down over there. I’ll treat you right now.”

“Ah?” Liu Fang was very surprised to hear this.
“Doctor Qin, how are you planning to treat me?”

Qin Jiang said while putting on gloves, “First, bone setting to fix your lumbar disc herniation. Then, meridian alignment to reposition your cauda equina nerves.”
“Finally, acupuncture to stimulate your vital energy and guide it through the meridians throughout your body.”

Liu Fang listened in astonishment.
It could be treated without surgery?
Half-believing, half-doubting, Liu Fang lay prone on the sickbed.
She was starting to doubt Qin Jiang’s skill again.
Her friend on the phone had made this condition sound very serious.
But looking at Qin Jiang’s expression now, why did it seem as easy as treating a common cold?

“Ready?” Qin Jiang asked.

Just as Liu Fang was about to answer, Qin Jiang’s hands pressed down sharply on her lower back.

Crack!

A series of bone-cracking sounds followed. Liu Fang’s eyes widened, and her mouth opened to scream, but no sound came out!
It was a very strange sensation.
It was like it hurt, but it happened so fast that her body didn’t have time to react before the pain was already gone?

A look of amazement sparkled in Liu Fang’s eyes.
So this is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Impressive!

She could clearly feel her lower back had become much more relaxed.
It was as if her spine had been slightly misaligned before, and now it was suddenly back in place.

“Next, I need to reposition your cauda equina nerves. It might hurt a bit, so bear with it.”

Hearing this, Liu Fang immediately tensed up, her hands gripping the pillow tightly.
When Qin Jiang said “a bit” of pain, he really meant a lot of pain.
Hadn’t they just seen Liao Fei, who still hadn’t emerged from the outhouse?

Qin Jiang placed both thumbs on Liu Fang’s spine, then manipulated them with a specific technique. Liu Fang’s eyes shot wide open!
The feeling was as if someone was using two pairs of tweezers to grab hold of the nerve tissues inside her body one by one and forcibly straighten them out!

“Doctor Qin, no! It’s too painful!”

Liu Fang instinctively tried to struggle. In response, Qin Jiang swiftly drew two silver needles and inserted them into Liu Fang’s back.

Liu Fang instantly became as if under a immobilization spell; her whole body lay prone on the bed, completely unable to move!
Though judging from her profuse sweating and flushed face, it was definitely painful—she just couldn’t control her body anymore!

Once sure that Liu Fang’s cauda equina nerves were repositioned, Qin Jiang took out three more silver needles and inserted them into points around her lower back.

Liu Fang felt a wave of warmth surge from the acupuncture points, then travel along her meridians, circulating throughout her entire body.
She had never felt so comfortable in her life!
She even felt a strange, tingling sensation stirring within her heart!

“All done.”

Qin Jiang removed the silver needles, sterilized them, and put them back into his needle case.

Liu Fang sat up on the bed, her face glowing with a rosy hue.

Just then, Liao Fei returned, hobbling and supporting himself against the wall.

Seeing this, Liu Fang, completely ditching her former ‘tiger-wife’ demeanor, hurried over proactively to support him.

In a coquettish tone she had never used before, Liu Fang said, “Oh, you. You should have called me when you came out! I’m your girlfriend. Shouldn’t I take care of you when you’re sick?”

Liao Fei stared at Liu Fang as if she were a ghost.
“Are you feeling okay? Did you take the wrong medicine?”

Instead of getting angry, Liu Fang just poked him playfully on the chest with her finger.
“Oh, you~ Silly you!”

Liao Fei shuddered, breaking out in goosebumps all over.