"My dad always said that traditional Chinese medicine is mostly a scam. The majority are Jianghu Doctors, purely focused on trickery and profiteering. The only exception is if you’re dealing with a great TCM master like Song Dezhong."
"After this, Zhang’s clinic is likely to go out of business."
The doctor at the clinic was a young man, not very tall—about 1.75 meters—with a refined and proper appearance. Surrounded by an angry crowd, he looked genuinely aggrieved.
"You didn’t follow my medical advice," he said. "I told you, if you were seeking treatment here, then after I prescribed medication, you shouldn’t have gone to a Western hospital for them to prescribe more. You mixed Chinese and Western medicines, and that’s what caused this mess..."
Li Yuelan, her heart aching for her daughter, refused to listen. "You’ve given my daughter cerebral palsy, and now you think you’re in the right?"
Beside her, an elderly woman, Li Yuelan’s mother-in-law, was crying even more pitifully. While crying, she described the situation to passersby, hoping they would judge in her favor.
"Damn it! For generations, our Sun Family only had sons. She was our only precious granddaughter, the cherished darling of our Sun Family, our little comfort from the moment she was born.
"Our little comfort has always been frail, suffering from frequent headaches since she was young. Western medicine treated her for five years with many drugs, but she was never completely cured. So, we thought about finding a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to help her recuperate.
"Through a referral, we heard that this Zhang’s clinic was run by a descendant of a renowned TCM master. They even said that the famous great TCM practitioner Song Dezhong himself was a disciple of the Zhang family.
"We originally wanted to ask the esteemed Elder Song Dezhong to see our child. Unfortunately, he’s very difficult to get an appointment with, so we came to Zhang’s clinic instead.
"Who would have thought that Zhang’s clinic would turn our perfectly healthy child into someone with cerebral palsy!
"She’s my only granddaughter!
"Damn it! This is going to be the end of daughters in our Sun Family!"
The elderly Mrs. Sun cried inconsolably.
Upon hearing this, the surrounding crowd began to accuse Zhang Muguang of being a quack.
Nowadays, aren’t girls in families treasured even more than boys?
After generations, to finally have a daughter, only for her to end up with cerebral palsy!
Anyone with a shred of honor wouldn’t let this quack get away with it.
Si Mingjing pushed through the crowd and softly asked the young man, who was clearly overwhelmed, "What exactly happened?"
The young man’s surname was Zhang; his name was Zhang Muguang.
He was the grandson of Si Mingjing’s master, Zhang Meimei, three years older than Si Mingjing, making him twenty-three this year.
The scholarly young man, faced with a flurry of complaints, was at a loss for words, his eyes red with urgency.
Hearing Si Mingjing’s question was like spotting a small boat in a raging flood; he was desperate to prove his innocence.
Zhang Muguang explained, "Half a month ago, this lady brought her nine-year-old daughter, Yuanyuan, to my clinic. The girl had been suffering from headaches for five years, and they were worsening progressively. My diagnosis determined that Yuanyuan had an insufficient generation of Qi and blood. This led to a deficiency in constructive blood, preventing it from nourishing the meridians of the brain and causing the headaches. Over time, the impaired circulation of Qi and blood resulted in Qi deficiency and blood stasis...
"I prescribed a decoction to tonify Qi, nourish blood, relieve stagnation, and unblock the meridians. I repeatedly warned them not to take it concurrently with medication prescribed by the Western hospital, but they didn’t follow my instructions. They took both the Chinese and Western medicines, and now the blood stasis is severe; the child has developed cerebral palsy."
Si Mingjing’s eyes narrowed slightly. "What exactly is in the decoction you prescribed for the child?"
Zhang Muguang said, "Ginseng 10g, Angelica 15g, Longan aril 20g, Polygonum multiflorum 20g, Chinese yam 20g, Astragalus root 30g, Angelica dahurica 15g, Corydalis 15g, Curcuma root 15g, Turmeric rhizome 10g, Chicken Blood Vine 20g, Gentiana 15g, and roasted licorice 5g. It was to be decocted in water, 200ml taken twice a day. Originally, 14 consecutive doses should have cured her, but now..."
Now, a perfectly healthy child had cerebral palsy, and the family was blaming him, even threatening to smash up his clinic.