Chapter 726: Sharing

Chapter 726: Chapter 726: Sharing

The students in the audience couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Senior Brother Li was truly hardcore, using himself as a guinea pig.

What Li Xu was talking about had happened before he gained any intelligence from the system. At that time, his father had just passed away. Business at the clinic was dismal, and days would go by without a single patient. Sitting in the empty clinic, his heart had been filled with confusion and uncertainty.

But he didn’t give up on himself. To improve his medical skills, he often pored over ancient texts. He scrutinized classics mandatory for medical students, such as the *Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Warm Pathogenic Diseases*, *Qian Jin Fang*, and *Treatise on Warm Diseases*, studying them word for word. When doctors treated patients, caution had to come first; a patient’s health was never something to joke about. Therefore, Li Xu had indeed tested some of the seemingly harmless prescriptions and folk remedies recorded in the books on himself.

That Li Xu could achieve his current astounding level of skill in just over two years was undoubtedly related to his system "cheat." However, it was also absolutely inseparable from his own diligence, hard work, and a determination bordering on obsession. The system provided intelligence and knowledge, but integrating that knowledge and turning it into instinct required repeated personal practice. At the very least, certain pharmacological principles could only be profoundly understood by personally preparing and tasting the medicines.

Once the laughter subsided, Li Xu turned serious.

"Don’t brush this off; there are profound medical principles embedded in this," Li Xu analyzed. "Why can raw scallions and honey relieve constipation? Clinically, can we use this principle to treat diseases? Using the white part of scallions to treat urinary and bowel blockages follows this exact logic.

"The scallion tube is hollow and permeable, with a spicy, warm, and dispersing nature. It excels at unblocking Qi. Whether it is the Qi of the internal organs, the pores, or the blood vessels, the scallion white can open and clear them all. Meanwhile, honey is sweet and neutral in nature, excelling at moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, and lubricating the intestines to relieve constipation...

"One clears and the other lubricates. Combined, they naturally become a sharp weapon for cleansing the stomach and intestines."

Tapping the podium, Li Xu summarized, "An old saying goes, ’Seeing something a hundred times is not as good as doing it once.’ This is especially true on the path of medicine. Only when we personally verify seemingly inconspicuous common sense or folk remedies can our understanding of medical and pharmacological principles deepen to the point where we won’t easily forget them in this lifetime. Later, in clinical practice, when we actually encounter patients with intractable constipation who are too weak to handle aggressive purgatives, these methods will naturally pop into our minds."

Li Xu picked up his cup, took a sip of water, and slowed the pace. At this moment, another student in the audience raised a hand. It was a sharp-looking female student.

"Yes, please go ahead." Li Xu gestured to her.

The female student stood up and asked in a crisp voice, "Senior Brother Li, earlier Director Liang mentioned that you’ve only been out of school for three years, yet you’ve already obtained the title of attending physician and even serve as a vice president. Your clinical skills must be incredible, right?"

Although all the medical principles and study methods Li Xu had shared earlier were very useful, for these medical students who were more focused on practical application, many were more curious about his true clinical level. Li Xu’s brief display of diagnosing illness by sound a moment ago had awed the entire room, but it seemed insufficient to completely satisfy the swelling curiosity of these top-tier students.

"Senior Brother Li, could you share some specific, slightly more complex, difficult cases you’ve personally treated right here on the spot?" she asked, voicing what everyone else was thinking.

The school had handed the entire morning over to Li Xu. The atmosphere in the seminar room wasn’t as rigid as a tiered lecture hall, and the learning schedules for postgraduates were flexibly adjusted by their mentors based on practical circumstances. These four hours this morning were Li Xu’s stage, entirely dedicated to deep discussions with the students.

Looking at the eyes shining with a thirst for knowledge in the audience, Li Xu smiled. Since everyone wanted the real stuff, he’d give them something exciting.

"Just listening to me talk about cases might not give you an immersive sense of participation." Li Xu pressed his hands down to signal the female student to sit, then swept his gaze across the room and asked with a smile, "Do any of you sitting here have any physical discomforts right now? Even if it’s just a minor issue you usually think is inconsequential, like insomnia, acne, or frequent soreness somewhere, feel free to bring it up. Let’s do an on-the-spot ’syndrome differentiation and treatment.’"

Hearing Li Xu’s slightly provocative question, the audience broke into whispers. Soon, a somewhat thin male student sitting on the edge of the front row raised his hand.

Li Xu nodded, motioning for him to stand.

"Senior Brother Li, I do have an issue that’s been bothering me lately," the male student said with some distress. "My right armpit, right next to the ribs here, often has a dull ache. Especially when I read and study for a long time, or when I overthink while writing papers or pondering issues, my armpit throbs with pain.

"I went to the physical examination center at the affiliated hospital for a check-up. I had a color ultrasound and even a chest X-ray, but the doctor said there was nothing wrong with my liver, gallbladder, or lymph nodes. There were no fractures or muscle strains either. In the end, they just prescribed some pain-relieving patches, but they didn’t help at all."

"You went to the Western medicine department of the affiliated hospital, didn’t you?" Li Xu understood immediately and asked with a smile.

"Yeah," the male student replied rather gloomily.

"Look at us. We study traditional Chinese medicine and are future TCM doctors. Yet when we get sick, our first reaction isn’t to visit the TCM department. Instead, we run to Western medicine for all sorts of instrumental tests." Li Xu shook his head helplessly, speaking half-jokingly, half-seriously. "It’s obvious that deep down, you still don’t have much confidence in the craft you’re learning."

Hearing this, the students in the audience let out good-natured yet awkward laughter.

The male student who asked the question also scratched the back of his head. Blushing, he explained, "It’s not entirely a lack of confidence. Mainly... if we go to the hospital’s TCM department for treatment, it’s very easy to run into our clinical instructors or familiar classmates.

"If a teacher bumps into us, we might just get dragged in as a ’guinea pig’ for on-site teaching, analyzed for ages in front of a whole crowd. That would be social suicide."

As soon as he said this, an even louder burst of laughter erupted in the seminar room. Everyone clearly related to this deeply. When students from Feng City Medical College went to the hospital to see a TCM doctor, they mostly went to the medical college’s affiliated hospital. It was extremely easy to run into teachers and classmates. And if they did, those teachers and classmates definitely wouldn’t treat them like actual patients.