Chapter 32 1. Find a doctor

In July 1939, the Japanese Air Force's air raid on Chongqing was escalated again, bombing day and night, again and again. Chiang Kai-shek was irritable and insomnia. Several Western medicine experts made different diagnoses. Some said it was a heat cold, while others said it was neurosis.There is nothing to be done about Chinese medicine.Several times of medication, no effect. Hearing that Liu Zhongyu, a famous doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in Wuhan, was opening a clinic in the main street of Shandong in Chongqing, Soong Meiling decided to ask him to see him in plain clothes.

Personal Secretary Zhang accompanied him.Because he had acquaintance with Dr. Liu once. The sun was scorching hot, and the alarms were raised one after another. Fortunately, the area around Geleshan and Eagle Rock never ran away to give an alarm.She ordered the car to stop on the street of the cave, then put on big-frame sunglasses and walked to Liu Zhongyu's clinic. Doctor Liu is a middle-aged man in his early fifties with broad shoulders and a big face.When Song Meiling came to the clinic, he was holding a golden needle coil like a copper wire coil in his left hand, and twisting the golden needle into the patient's waist with his right hand.

Secretary Zhang took a step forward and was about to speak when Song Meiling made a gesture.At this moment, the doctor's attention must not be disturbed. So they sat quietly on the bench to the left of the doctor. Song Meiling had never seen such a golden needle coiled like a copper wire, so she watched Dr. Liu's movements curiously.I saw that he twisted the golden needle in for more than an inch in an instant, I couldn't help holding my breath and concentrating on it, like watching a magic trick. Dr. Liu continued to twist the golden needle. The needle is finally stuck. The patient stood up, tried to turn his body, twisted his waist, stepped on his feet, and refreshed himself: "Ah, ah! It's done! It's done! It's completely cured! Dr. Liu, you are really a miracle doctor, a miracle doctor! A miracle doctor! Thank you!"

At this moment, Dr. Liu turned around and asked Secretary Zhang, "Is this lady seeing a doctor?" Secretary Zhang said that this lady came to hire a doctor.The patient is a male over fifty years of age.In this way, the course and treatment of Chiang Kai-shek are briefly described. "You know, I don't go out to see a doctor. Once I make a doctor's visit, I have to see many patients!" Secretary Zhang begged repeatedly, but he insisted on making no exception. Finally he said, "Show me the Chinese medicine prescription." He looked at the prescription carefully, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said: "This is the list, you can grab another pair. When boiling the medicine, pour out the juice of the first two decoctions, and only take the third time." Take the decocted medicinal juice and take a pack of the powder I gave you, and you’ll be fine.”

He personally went to the pharmacy to fetch a medicine bottle, and picked out two medicine spoons of the gray powder, estimated to be less than one gram.Wrap it up carefully and hand it over to Song Meiling. "Only once?" Song Meiling asked. Liu Zhongyu said: "You only need to eat it once. You will fall asleep ten minutes after taking the insurance, don't disturb him, let him sleep enough, and everything will be fine when you wake up." Song Meiling asked: "What kind of powder is this? Morphine or sleeping pills?" Liu Zhongyu said: "Your wife is a bit funny. If Mr. Zhang hadn't brought it, I would have lost my temper. Will our Chinese medicine sell morphine and sleeping pills? My powder is designed to treat the kind of disease you mentioned. Good constitution People can eat it as fried noodles. Here, let me eat it for you!"

After finishing speaking, he picked up five or six spoonfuls of the medicine and put them into his mouth, took a sip of tea, and swallowed it down. Song Meiling immediately apologized: "I'm sorry, Dr. Liu, I lack knowledge of Chinese medicine, please forgive me!" Dr. Liu also advised: "It is best to use mulberry branches as firewood for the decoction. If you can't find mulberry trees, use cypress wood." He carefully instructed the main points of decocting and taking medicine. After leaving the clinic, she went to a furniture workshop not far away, bought a small piece of cypress wood, and asked the carpenter to saw it into short joints and split it into small firewood.

After returning to the villa, she immediately asked her servants to find new bricks and set up a temporary stove in the kitchen. After the stove was set up, the servants and maids came up to get the medicine, but she dismissed them all.Aunt Cai, the housekeeper, wanted to do it for her, but she also blocked her. "I'll do it myself!" Song Meiling said. Soong Meiling decided to act in accordance with the code of conduct for a good wife and mother in ancient China - parents, in-laws, and husbands are sick, and they have to serve soup and medicine. She squatted in front of the stove, adding firewood to fan the fire.

Smoking and roasting, sweating profusely... She doesn't care at all. She strictly followed Dr. Liu's instructions: boil the head on a high fire, boil it for the second time, discard the medicinal juice, boil it for the third time on a slow fire, and seal the lid of the medicine jar with soaked mulberry paper.After decocting and extracting the juice, pour it into Dr. Liu's small packet of powdered medicine, stir it carefully, taste it for yourself, and confirm that the temperature is right before serving it to Chiang Kai-shek to drink. More than 20 minutes later, Song Meiling came out.With joy on his face: "He fell asleep, he fell asleep! He slept very soundly and very quietly! This Liu Zhongyu is indeed a good doctor! ——Thank God, God guided Xiao Zhang to recommend this good doctor; It is God, who agreed on such an opportunity, and just let me see Dr. Liu's special technique of piercing golden needles, which made me believe in this doctor. Otherwise, I would not dare to adopt his prescription and use his medicine powder !"