C158 Someone Came to Find Fault (1/2)
”Oh? This was a novel, but what book was it? Take it out and let me see, ”Cang Xuande raised his eyebrows, as if he was curious about this idea.
Lee Yifann took out a medical book that was not that thick, ”This is the book, the description on the thirty-seventh page. I've drawn it with my brush.”
This was the first time he had heard of this kind of medical book, so he could not help but ask curiously, ”Where did you get this kind of medical book?”
Lee Yifann scratched the back of his head in embarrassment and laughed: ”I bought this from a small stall a few days ago. I felt that it was written in quite an interesting manner so I bought it.
”It's not expensive,” Cang Xuande said as he opened the medical book and read a few pages. Moments later, he threw the medical book on the table, ”This book, there are a few points of view that are quite novel, but some of these novel points of view are wrong. Some of them have not been verified and do not know if they are true.”
”Huh?” Lee Yifann was shocked, ”Wrong?”
”Yes!” Cang Xuande nodded his head, ”Actually it cannot be wrong, it is just one-sided. Take the first page to say that the body has a foreign body, and you must remove it or it will affect your health. This is not the case. ”
”There is a foreign body in my body. Shouldn't it be cleared out?” Lee Yifann did not understand. In his opinion, as a human body, having a few more foreign objects would definitely affect one's health. Clearing out was the safest way.
Cang Xuande looked at him, shook his head and laughed: ”Wrong! Foreign body was originally an inaccurate term. Traditional Chinese medicine was different from Western medicine. Western medicine believed that as long as it was not something that the human body originally existed in, it would be a foreign body. Foreign body must be removed. However, TCM believes that only those who affect health are called foreign bodies, and those that do not affect may be foreign bodies or beneficial objects. ”
”Benefits? This... ”How could it be useful?” Lee Yifann fainted.
Does a foreign body also have benefits to the body?
No matter how he looked at it, it seemed like he was just speaking nonsense.
”Originally, you hadn't learned all these, so it isn't strange that you don't know,” Cang Xuande took a deep breath and explained. ”Let me give you an example, do you know about symbiotic tumors?”
”I've heard of it.”
”There are many types of tumors, but sometimes they grow very special, together with the nervous tissue, and do not affect your health. It would be better if this tumor could not be removed, otherwise it would lead to death. ”
At first, Lee Yifann did not understand, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized something. ”Master, you mean to say, the tumors and the tissues of the body are interdependent and bound together. If you want to remove the tumor, you have to remove the nerve tissue at the same time, and once the nerve tissue is removed, you will actually die on the spot?”
”This kid is worth teaching!” Cang Xuande nodded.
”There's such an illness?” Lee Yifann was surprised, he had only seen this term before in the medical books, he never thought that the illness would be so strange.
”This disease, according to the treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine, if the malignant tumor is not harmful to one's life, it would not be defined as a foreign body and would instead become a beneficial object. What would happen if we were to remove it as a foreign object? ” Cang Xuande said with a smile.
Lee Yifann seemed to have thought of something, ”In other words, there are many other similar situations?”
”Yes, like a stone. When a person is born, his body will more or less produce various stones, such as bladder stones, kidney stones, etc., but most of those stones will not affect one's life health in the end. ”Western medicine would probably advise you to perform laser surgery to remove the stones, which is harmful to the human body …”
”I understand. In other words, a foreign body is a relative concept. We have to look at it together with the illness.”
Seeing that Lee Yifann's perception was not bad, Cang Xuande nodded his head in satisfaction, ”Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the whole, so looking at a part of it alone won't make an accurate judgement. Like this medical book you bought, you can read it. However, the opinions and knowledge contained within must be looked at through dialectics. ”You can't go back on your word. You have to read more medical books and corroborate with each other before you can come to your own conclusion. Do you understand?”
”I understand, thank you master!” Lee Yifann was incomparably grateful. Just a few words was enough for him to point out many things despite Cang Xuande's high standards.
Cang Xuande thought for a while, ”Oh yes, from the last time I gave you the medical manual, there should be more than a few days right? ”Let me think for a bit, I'll find a few medical books for you to read later.”