Chapter 118 — A Master Physician
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"I believe so..." Liu Tianyi nodded. "The day before yesterday, when we first arrived, we were strolling in the commercial district when my father suddenly fell ill. We had no medicine with us, and just at the critical moment a doctor performed massage and tuina on my father, and he recovered very quickly..."
"Massage? He cured angina with nothing but massage?" Guan Xuemin was all the more astonished. He knew that Chinese medicine was a wondrous discipline — truly a field in which one learns until one dies. Even though he enjoyed fame at home and abroad, Guan Xuemin was well aware that he had only glimpsed the threshold of Chinese medicine's profundity; mastery was still far off.
But he knew even better that angina could not be resolved by massage alone. Acupuncture might possibly bring it under control — the odds were not great, but there was hope. Even he himself would use Western medication for the emergency, and only after the patient had recovered would he use acupuncture to keep the condition in check.
"Yes, he massaged him just a few times, and my father gradually recovered..." Seeing Guan Xuemin's astonished expression, Liu Tianyi felt a chill at heart. He knew nothing of Chinese medicine, but from Guan Xuemin's face he understood just how extraordinary that doctor's skill had been — even Guan Xuemin could scarcely believe it.
"How is that possible..." Guan Xuemin knit his brows. "Tuina massage, with such miraculous effects? Did he use no other means?"
"None. I was right there beside him. And he only happened to be passing by — if he hadn't known the young woman who was driving... I doubt he would have troubled himself at all..." Here Liu Tianyi flushed with embarrassment and shot his wife a venomous glare. If not for the Wu family, he would have divorced this wife long ago. She was utterly humiliating — a thoroughly unreasonable shrew. He had no idea what sort of upbringing she'd had.
Fortunately, Guan Xuemin cared about nothing beyond the massage. Hearing Liu Tianyi's words, he mused for a moment. "Chinese medicine is vast and profound. I once read in a medical text that in ancient times there were those who treated illness by combining qigong with massage, and that such effects could indeed be achieved. But the technique has long since been lost... I cannot say for certain whether the man you describe knows it..."
"Oh? If that's so, then isn't this man quite formidable?" Liu Tianyi felt some regret. Had he known the young man possessed such wondrous skill, how could he have let him go? He would have begged him, if need be, to ask whether there was any hope of curing his father's illness. But he had not known at the time. Ah...
"If everything you say is true, then this man's medical skill may well surpass my own... But when did such a formidable Chinese physician come to Songshan City? How is it I never heard of him?" Guan Xuemin searched his memory for any such talent among his acquaintances, but to his regret there was none — he had not even heard the name.
"A young man of about twenty, somewhat lean, but with very proper bearing..." Liu Tianyi carefully recalled Wei Zhao's appearance at the time.