Miracle Doctor, Wild Empress: Genius Summoner

Chapter 158 - Treatment of Chronic Illness

Translated by Luxican

Edited by Leighann

Seeing that the other party was a girl and looked friendly, Lin Yao walked over.

"Miss Lin, I just heard you talking about your father's illness in the Medicine Association. Could he have rheumatism?" Yun Sheng asked amiably. She had glanced at the prescription of Lin Yao earlier. White Bamboo, Black Stone, and Pale Turtle Shell, all of which were medicines that stimulated Qi and blood circulation. In modern times these medicines were used by Chinese doctors for rheumatism patient.

"Rheumatism? This sister, I don't know what rheumatism is," Lin Yao looked at Yun Sheng, who was fifteen or sixteen-years-old and spoke elegantly. She would surely not be a bad person.

It seems like rheumatism was called differently in Wu Ji Continent.

Yun Sheng rolled her eyes and said, "I was insensible. Rheumatism is actually the term used in my hometown. Its symptoms are mostly red and swollen joints, they will feel sometimes hot other times cold, and over the years, the joints will turn black*, and you might be unable to walk at all. Especially these past few days, your father must have been in so much pain he couldn't even sleep at night."

As soon as she heard Yun Sheng finish speaking, Lin Yao's face lit up. She grabbed Yun Sheng's hand out of excitement, "You, how do you know? Miss, are you also a doctor? My father has been suffering from this disease for three or four year now, I have searched all over the country for famous doctors, read all kinds of prescriptions, but no medicines and potions could help him."

"Rheumatism is a chronic illness; medicine alone can't cure it. Take me to your father, I think I have a way to cure him," Yun Sheng and Lin Yao returned to the little Compassion Medical Center.

It was an old medical hall, and although it was in decline, it wasn't hard to see the scale of its early days when looking at it.

In the hall, there was only an elderly shopkeeper and a ten-year-old Medicine Apprentice.

Seeing Yun Sheng looking around the empty medical hall, Lin Yao said embarrassedly: "After my father became seriously ill and was unable to work, I could only take over the medical hall. But I'm not proficient in medicine and business has declined."

Although Lin Yao said so, from the tidy appearance of the medical hall and the respectful attitude of the people in the medical hall towards her, this thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl must be quite capable.

Lin Yao brought Yun Sheng into the inner room. In the room, which was hot and stuffy, were two magic arrays, one south and one north.

Rheumatism would worsen in the cold, so Lin Yao cleverly used fire magic arrays to keep the room dry and warm, which also helped ease the pain.

"You're a magician?" This elementary fire magic array could only be set up by magicians.

"Well, I studied at the Magic Temple in the neighboring city for a bit, but then I dropped out of class and went back to help my father when he fell ill," Lin Yao nodded in a good mood.

Lin Yao's father, Doctor Lin, lived here. He was forty-years-old and should have been in his prime, but the several years of illness had made him as thin as a skeleton, and his appearance was enough for him to be regarded as Lin Yao's grandfather.

Yun Sheng nodded inwardly; Lin Yao was a person who knew how to be flexible. Although she was from a family of doctors, she subconsciously integrated magic into her own medical knowledge.

Her views and practices coincided with Doctor Fan's.

Yun Sheng ordered Lin Yao to help her father up, and saw that the joints of his hands and feet were all swollen, almost twice their original size.

His ankles were in even worse condition, red with some black spots. If they were completely black, it would mean that nerves inside were necrotic, and Doctor Lin would never be able to walk again.

"Fortunately, it was discovered early and he can still be saved. You, go find a bath barrel and fill it with hot sand," although Lin Yao was not sure what Yun Sheng wanted to do, but she still followed her instructions, quickly preparing the bath barrel.

Lin Yao and Yun Sheng had merely spoken a few words, but she somehow had an inexplicable trust in Yun Sheng.

After the sand and barrel were ready, Yun Sheng and Lin Yao helped Doctor Lin into the barrel filled with hot sand, as if bathing him, causing him to wake up. Seeing his daughter with a strange young girl, he was inevitable a little surprised.

"Father, this is the doctor I found, Doctor Yun. She said that she can cure you," Lin Yao was not stupid, she had already inspected Yun Sheng's medicine token.

After Lin Yao's father sat down in the sand, he soon became red and the pain caused his face to distort.

"Doctor Yun ... what is this treatment, why have I never heard of it before?" Lin Yao saw her father suffer and also felt a pain in her heart, she only had her father as family left.

"Sand Therapy, you don't need to be nervous, just wait for another half an hour," Yun Sheng's demeanor was calm and she was not anxious at all.

After waiting half an hour, Father Lin's body was already as red as a boiled shrimp, but his normally extremely swollen joints were now smaller.

After he left the sand bath barrel, Yun Sheng took out the Fire Needle from the Four Seasons Glazed Needles.

When the tip of the needle pierced his knee, Father Lin only felt a wave of heat rushing through his body, as if a fire was burning inside him, then blood began to gush out of his knee, the blood was black and smelly, like poisonous water.

Yun Sheng repeated this process a few times with the joints of Father Lin's hands and feet, and Father Lin's expression changed from the initial painful look to a relaxed one, and his limbs, which had felt so heavy for a long time, felt normal again.

After being tortured by rheumatism for so many years, this was the first time Father Lin slept peacefully.

"Father?" Lin Yao was happy and a bit worried when she saw her father sleeping so soundly.

"Nothing unusual, the rheumatism in his feet is especially bad, so I will have to conduct the Sand Therapy and Acupuncture several times. But he will be able to move his hands freely in only three more days," Yun Sheng retrieved the needle, this was the first time she used the Four Seasons Glazed Needles, the effect was much better than expected.

Especially the magic elements contained in the needle, they enhanced the healing effect greatly.

"Thank you, Doctor Yun, for your great kindness, Lin Yao will never forget your grace. Lin Yao is willing to serve you for as long as she lives to repay your kindness," Lin Yao was tearful, after she had been repeatedly humiliated by Doctor Qi, she wanted to die.

But when thinking about her sick father and the people of the medical hall who needed her, Lin Yao could only hold on.

She never thought she would be lucky enough to meet a godly doctor like Yun Sheng.

Although Yun Sheng was only a Doctor, the treatment method she had just used was unheard of on the whole continent, and Lin Yao secretly thought that she must be a disciple of that amazing doctor, Guo Shou.

"I don't need you to be a servant. Nor will I charge you any medical fees, but I have a request, I would like to borrow the Compassion Medical Center," Yun Sheng, who could not bear to see people crying and kneeling, announced her request after pulling Lin Yao up.

*I wasn't sure if this is a true complication of rheumatism, so I googled a bit, the only thing I could find in this regard was: Necrotizing Fasciitis

I don't know much about medical conditions, everything remotely medical in the novel will be and is checked and discussed (as good as I could) with Doctor Google lol

So, I'm very sorry if I get anything wrong