Physician's Odyssey

Chapter 700 - Greater Yang and Deceased Yin Condition

Translator: Thyaeria

Taking a deep breath, Su Tao walked over to Mamoru Onizuka, placing his fingers on his wrist. His expression immediately turned grave before Su Tao made another check on the whites of Mamoru Onizuka’s eyes and the fine lines on his hand. In the end, he sighed, “Mr. Onizuka, you should understand your condition well. You’re suffering from one of the six meridian conditions, the Greater Yang Syndrome.”

There are a total of six meridian conditions, the Greater Yang, Clear Yang, Lesser Yang, Greater Yin, Lesser Yin, and the Lost Yin Syndromes. In the Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Disease, they were meridians for patients who suffered the invasion of air-drying. They will be classified differently according to six different conditions.

“Your diagnosis was right, but I wonder if you have any treatment solution?” Mamoru Onizuka sighed.

Smiling bitterly, Su Tao replied, “It’s not just an ordinary difficulty. There was once this phase in the Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Disease, those who have Yang-related condition with Yin pulse will die, and this is your current situation.”

The Medical Saint, Zhang Zhongjing, believes that if the patient suffers from a Yang-related condition, such as the Greater Yang, Lesser Yang, and Clear Yang Syndromes, their pulse will be vigorous in the beginning before it slowly weakens with deterioration from Yang to Yin.

Those with such pulse are already in dire condition, and there will be a ‘dead’ sign.

Putting it in a nutshell, it will be like a life-review flashback before death.

In that moment of flashback, the last Yin energy in the body would explode like a firework before it was replaced by Yin energy. At that time, there will be no return.

Judging from the surface, Mamoru Onizuka’s complexion showed no signs of haggardness and witherness, but an unordinary radiant. In the eyes of physicians, this sort of complexion was also known as an abnormality since the Yang energy was too strong.

It’s not difficult to treat an ordinary Greater Yang Syndrome. As long as it’s detected on time, it can be put to control with acupuncture and medicine.

However, Mamoru Onizuka’s condition wasn’t normal. Aside from having vigorous Yang energy in his body, his pulse showed signs of suffering the invasion of Yin energy, showing Yang-related condition with Yin pulse, and this was the reason why Su Tao was put into such a difficult situation.

Standing beside Su Tao, Amaki Hamasaki wore a grave expression. Evidently, Su Tao had a more accurate diagnosis of his master, Mamoru Onizuka. He had also sensed a trace of Yin energy in Mamoru Onizuka’s chaotic pulse. However, it was faintly discernible. If one doesn’t have a strong foundation of Qi, it’s hard for any doctors to sense it.

In the process of diagnosis itself, Amaki Hamasaki realised that he was lacking compared to Su Tao.

He had just performed the Ghastly Thirteen Needles in hope to control the chaotic Yang energy in Mamoru Onizuka’s body. But ultimately, he suffered the disruption of a faint Yin energy that made him suffer a backlash.

“The Medical Saint, Zhang Zhongjing, had great accomplishments in the field of TCM, and his words were the words of wisdom.” Mamoru Onizuka sighed before he added, “I know my current situation well. The reason why I’ve secluded myself over the years and refrained myself from leaving the house is to prevent any possible pathogens from entering my body. But even so, I’m still suffering from the Greater Yang Syndrome. I only managed to live till today by taking medicine for an extended period of time.”

Letting out a sigh inwardly, Su Tao lamented for Mamoru Onizuka’s medical skills.

If an ordinary person had the Greater Yang Syndrome condition, most of them would have collapsed from their illness by now.

Those who suffer from the Greater Yang Syndrome will show symptoms such as sweating, aversion to wind, and slow pulse. There’s also another naming for it, stroke. There are many varieties to the Greater Yang Syndrome, and the most commonly seen would be Greater Yang with weakness, or in another term, stroke.

Furthermore, Amaki Hamasaki’s judgment was right. For patients with Greater Yang with weakness, their middle Qi and blood to the heart will be lacking.

Truth be told, Mamoru Onizuka had already shown signs of stroke, but he had been relying on TCM to maintain his current state.

However, Mamoru Onizuka ultimately met a bottleneck. He wasn’t bedridden like many stroke patients, but he could only make basic movements with his four limbs. It’s impossible for him to perform massage or acupuncture anymore, and this was also the reason why he made the decision to retire.

“Not only is the Yang energy in your body vigorous, your pulse is also chaotic as a result of you taking numerous medications.” Su Tao sighed as he did not have any treatment for Mamoru Onizuka in his mind at this moment and continued, “I wish to use acupuncture to sort out your pulse.”

Mamoru Onizuka sighed as he replied, “That child, Amaki, had just tried it. My pulse is too chaotic, and you will suffer a backlash if you are careless.”

Nodding his head, Su Tao responded, “The reason why you’re suffering from this condition is related to your treatment method. When treating patients, you would often use your Yin energy, and as time passes, it resulted in the lacking of Yin energy in your body. In the end, it had developed into the Greater Yang Syndrome. Amaki Hamasaki used the Ghastly Thirteen Needles, but ultimately, he’s still using Yin energy for treatment. On the surface, it might seem to be an appropriate method to replenish the Yin energy in your body, but your body is akin to a blackhole, and Hamasaki couldn’t replenish it, and this had also resulted in him suffering a backlash.”

Su Tao took a brief pause in his words before he continued, “Putting it in a nutshell, his Qi wasn’t as deep as yours, so he couldn’t treat you.”

Mamoru Onizuka had also thought of this fact, and this is the reason why he had never asked his disciple to treat him. He knew that his disciple was still lacking.

Amaki Hamasaki sighed inwardly as he finally knew that his master, Mamoru Onizuka, had probably predicted the outcome in his earlier treatment.

His heart tensed up as his master was a fatherly figure to him. Back then when Mamoru Onizuka taught him, not only was he strict, but he had also showered him in love. Hence, he felt regret and ashamed that he couldn’t do anything to help his master.

There might not be any terminal illnesses in TCM, but regardless of Kohei Koizumi or Mamoru Onizuka, both of their conditions are considered ‘dead’ conditions.

Mamoru Onizuka’s status in Japan was akin to Song Sichen and Dou Fanggang in China. Furthermore, his prestige on the international medical field might even be higher than the two elders. But even he was helpless with his own condition, which was why he said that a doctor couldn’t treat himself earlier.

“Forget it. The fact that you could diagnose my condition itself wasn’t easy.” Mamori Onizuka smiled as he continued, “We can never escape from the cycle of life and death. I have saved many lives in my lifetime, and I have already seen through death itself.”

“I might not have absolute confidence, but I would like to give it a try to sort out your chaotic pulse. But I have to give you a disclaimer as my treatment might worsen your condition instead.” Su Tao replied as he felt admiration for Mamoru Onizuka’s mentality.

As Mamoru Onizuka’s brows slightly raised, he pondered for a moment before he smiled, “You don’t have to be worried about that. You can come and give it a try.”

“What do you intend to do?” Amaki Hamasaki looked at Su Tao with a complicated gaze.

He had probed Mamoru Onizuka’s pulse, and he knew that his master’s condition was serious. It was similar to a dam that was on the verge of collapse. If anything goes wrong, then his master will die.

The reason why Amaki Hamasaki used injected Qi earlier was due to the fact that his Qi came from the same origin as Mamoru Onizuka, so he could inject his Qi into his master’s body easily. On the other hand, Su Tao did not practise their Qi, and if he had injected his Qi into Mamoru Onizuka’s body, the consequences might be dire.

“I wish to reforge his Taiyang Bladder Meridians of the Foot.” Su Tao answered.

“Ridiculous!” Amaki Hamasaki rebuked as he continued, “He already has a weak pulse, and if you were to reforge, wouldn’t you have to inject more Qi into his body? This will only worsen the damage to his meridians instead!”

Sweeping a glance at Amaki Hamasaki, Su Tao asked, “Mr. Onizuka had already agreed to the treatment, so why are you getting emotional here?”

“He’s my master!” Amaki Hamasaki immediately turned to Mamoru Onizuka and begged, “Please don’t agree to it. I will gather the Senior Brothers together to discuss the treatment of your condition. I might not be capable enough, but there’s definitely a way with so many of us gathered together.”

Shaking his head, Mamoru Onizuka smiled, “Don’t forget that this is a competition, and there are so many people staring at us. Since Su Tao wishes to give it a try, then we naturally have to let him try. He’s a physician, and he will definitely not make a suggestion that he wasn’t confident in.”

Listening to those words, Su Tao sighed inwardly. Mamoru Onizuka might be seriously ill, but his eyes were much better than his disciple.

“Thank you, Mr. Onizuka, for your trust. I will definitely do my best.” Su Tao sighed.

Mamoru Onizuka might be a Japanese, but Su Tao did not have any malice against him. The latter was also someone who had devoted his life to TCM, and he can also be considered a seed of China’s TCM. If he hadn’t advertised China’s TCM in Japan, there wouldn’t be a Chinese medicine industry, nor will people realise the worth of Chinese medicine.

Ultimately, Su Tao feels everyone in China’s TCM industry should learn from Mamoru Onizuka. Under the situation that TCM was banned in Japan, Mamoru Onizuka had relied on his capability to open up a new world.

Su Tao’s trip to Japan was ultimately to learn from Japan’s Chinese medicine industry, and his trip can be considered worthwhile. Not only did he poach Yu Omuri, but he even met Mamoru Onizuka himself.

Mamoru Onizuka’s current condition was related to the fact that he had been using the Ghost Physician Art, a forbidden technique.

Lying on the bed, Mamoru Onizuka looked at Su Tao and smiled, “I would have no regrets if I can witness the legendary Saint Hands of Xinglin.”

Listening to those words, Su Tao was stunned. At this moment, he realised that Mamoru Onizuka did not come here for Amaki Hamasaki, nor was he here for the dignity of Japan’s TCM. He only came with the purpose of witnessing the Saint Hands of Xinglin, the Heavenseizing Hands.

After all, anyone in the TCM industry would want to witness this legendary technique.

Taking a deep breath, Su Tao replied, “The theory behind the Heavenseizing Hands lies in the balance of Yin and Yang. Hence, one will have to cultivate both their Yin and Yang energies. You’re proficient in the Ghost Physician Art, relying on the Yin energy that you’ve cultivated in treatment. You might have reached great heights in your cultivation, but there’s always a time when you will use it all up. As time passes, it resulted in the damage of your Yin energy’s source, allowing your Yang energy to break the balance. I will be using a method to nourish the source of Yin energy in your body to seek a balance in the two energies. Perhaps it might be effective for your condition.”