Chapter 12 pt.1

Waiting area of traditional Chinese Medicine Department of the third Hospital

There were still a few minutes to work in the afternoon, but some patients were waiting for the doctor to go to work.

In the first row, a middle-aged couple was sitting. Her husband’s face was white, his eyes were black and his lips were chapped.

An old woman sitting next to them was bored and said: “Which doctor do you come to ask for a consultation? where did you feel uncomfortable?”

The wife closest to her replied: “Director Xie, my husband has fainted twice in the past two weeks and then was ill.”

“It seemed that his complexion was not very good, did you know his disease? If he were in an emergency, go to see a Western medicine doctor.” The old woman advised ,she felt that one should be given first aid when suffering fainting.

His wife said Intermittently, “Well… we will still consult Director Xie, It was nothing…”

The old woman moved her body and was very interested in seeing her husband. There was saying that goes,”One suffering long-term illness could become a doctor.” She also knew a lot of minor illnesses. ” Hey, Judging from your face, your kidneys seemed not very good…” The old woman said.

Her words had not been finished yet. The man suddenly had a very unnatural mouth. The whole tongue spit out and hang to the chin. His expression was also twisted, the tip of his tongue with slaver flowing out of his mouth.

“Ah!” The old woman was so scared that she sat down with her heart covered by her hand. “Old hanging!!” The old woman screamed

The Old hanging was the “hanging ghost” which was commonly known in Haizhou City. The patient’s eyes in the waiting area were attracted by this sound. When someone saw one’s whole tongue exposing unnaturally, and his eyes were blue and the expression was unnatural. It was like a hanging ghost? !

This voice was really resounding. At one time, the patients in the waiting area were screaming, the old hanging? Where was the old hanging in the daytime?

Until they turned to see the man, who couldn’t get his tongue back for a while, and his tongue was still moving, very strange. They suddenly realized, that definitely was the old hanging!

In this place of Haizhou, the ancient days were not good. When the trouble was coming, the poor were going to hang themselves, and the tree was full of corpses. Therefore,there were also many folktales which were related to the hanging ghosts, and even the place names of ‘Old Hanging Mountain’.

“When your husband had changed like this after fainting, it was a Hanging disease! This was being hanged up by the old hanging man.!” The old woman was obviously a local, familiar with all kinds of stories, and she said soon after the shock .

The folks had a saying about the evils striking, which referred to all kinds of evils striking . In Haizhou, the most famous sequel desease after evils striking was the Hanging disease, but it seemed to be rare in the new era.

Other patients also knew some weird anecdotes in Haizhou, and replied: “It was said  that if one was. .h.i.t by evils ,he should  go to kneel for three days in Old Hanging Mountain!”

And everyone kept still a distance away from that man, what if they were contaminated with evil ?

There were also younger ones who don’t believe this, and they were just onlookers  because there were many heated discussions .

“I, we also went to Old Hanging Mountain ,burned the paper, but it didn’t work.” Knowing that everyone realized, the wife said helplessly, “He stunned himself, tempered, and can’t speak clearly,and even the tongue suddenly hangs out, at least seven or eight times in a day, and then slowly retracted  back for a long time.”

The nurse at the consultation desk heard the sound and came out of the duty room. “What happened?”

She just went to drink a cup of water, then they began quarreling.

“It’s him, he got a Hanging disease!”

With this explanation, the husband turned around ,spitting a long tongue, faced to the nurse.

“Gee” The nurses took a step back.

“This was the old hanging body…”

“hanging disease.”

Many people just heard the name and had never seen the real example, so they were enthusiastic .

“This was ill, do not think too much.” The nurse quickly reacted and said, raising her voice.

“Obviously you were a outsider, do you know Old hanging mountain?”

This was a strange tale in Haizhou City. Although the nurse was a foreigner and has heard it after work, she was a medical staff member.  She said: “It’s  in the hospital.

Why do you still say things like evils? What were the hanging ghosts? This was just a illness that one cannot control himself.”

“What kind of illness was that, even it can still become a ghost. ”

“Oh…” But diagnose was not the strength of the nurse. Fortunately, the Chinese medicine doctors who finished the meeting at this time came back together. She immediately lifted her feet and said. “Director Xie, there was a patient with a strange disease!”

The little nurse ran over and gave Xie Min an introduction. ” It was this. They said that he had been hit in Old hanging mountain.”

Xie Min said a sentence that Zhou Jinyuan had also said to others, “Hundred evils were all illness!”

Other doctors had also echoed, “What Hanging disease, don’t be superst.i.tious.”

There were also some young interns who whispered, “was it a neurosis?”

This was the name of disease in western medicine because they don’t know what it was.

Liu Qi has not seen this disease, and whispered to Zhou Jinyuan: “Big G.o.d, do you know what was going on?”

Zhou Jinyuan put his hands in the white coat and whispered: “I used to have a patient when I was an apprentice with my father. His tongue was always out, and kept stirring. It was h.o.m.ologous to him. It was a ‘tongue disease’. but this was not moving, just spit his tongue. The spit tongue disease was rarely seen clinically, you were lucky today!”

This kind of rare disease can be considered as “good luck”. As a doctor, it was necessary to acc.u.mulate experience.

The presence of doctors has made many people who have fallen into the legends and unable to extricate become awake, but they were still curious and surrounded to watch.

At this time, Xie Min was also frowning: “was the patient’s temper  getting bad?”

The family said with great joy: “Yes, yes, he was particularly violent after he gets sick.” But they all thought that it was the reason of the evil . “Doctor, can this be cured?”

Xie Min said faintly: “Yes, spit tongue disease,  can be cured by acupuncture treatment .”

Hearing that Director Xie also said this. Liu Qi took another look at her.She thought that she was not lucky enough to encounter a rare case today, but she was lucky in the same clinic room with the Big G.o.d.

The family quickly said, “Thank you, Director, we had registered your number, so please give a cure.”

Xie Min’s photo was on the wall, so they recognized it with a few more glances.

The sick husband was also ambiguous and nodded, “Hey, hey!”

“I would like to recommend you another doctor here, he was very suitable.” Xie Min turned back and shouted, “Doctor Zhou.”

Other doctors: “………”

Everyone’s psychological activities were instantly enriched.

Wow, It wast suitable for little priest to cure ‘hanging disease’ ……….You were so nice ,director……….

Zhou Jinyuan, who was stared strangely,said: “…”

Xie Min saw their look and immediately said in a rush: “Mr. Zhou’s acupuncture was very good!”

In fact, she also wanted to preach for Zhou Jinyuan, and the couple’s order of registration was relatively latter. If the man was transferred to Zhou Jinyuan, he could be treated immediately, it’s quicker and better for them.

Who knew what these people was thinking! She even didn’t have time to draw a symbol from Zhou Jinyuan!

Everyone: “Eh…”

Even so, but it was more appropriate for priest to cure Hanging disease*.

to cure Hanging disease* to dispel demons and devils

However, when Zhou Jinyuan came out, he still received the suspected eyes of the patient.

Xie Min observed their reactions,not waiting for the patient to speak,said, “Doctor Zhou, tell the patient about the condition first.”

So young a man? The patient couple continued to hesitate.

“Okay. Come, come to my clinic room we can talk while walking.” Zhou Jinyuan calmly said, “The patient maybe have lost great temper before the onset of illness, then his entire tongue spit out uncontrollably and took a long time to take back, several times a day or even dozens of times.

“Our Chinese medicine doctors said that the heart was open to the tongue, if the heart was full of anger fire, and the kidney Yin can’t be risen, so the tongue spits out. After his anger, his mood was getting stagnation, and it will turn into a fire. And this fire does not emanate, also It leads to more violent people. So Director Xie will ask you if the patient was not tempered.”

Not only the patient couples, but also some patients who were not in a hurry, as well as intern trainees and instructors who lack of experience, can’t help but follow him to the clinic and listen to him explaining his condition.

Although it was only a face-to-face, Zhou Jinyuan understood the things before the onset of the disease, and the explanation was clear, and there was no relations.h.i.+p with Evil.