Hu Yougen in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province： Keeping the quintessence of Chinese culture and writing legends (1)

　　Born in an ordinary peasant family, Hu Yougen lived a poor and simple life with his parents facing the loess and his back facing the sky. His poor family made him not well educated. However, Hu Yougen was very sensible since he was a child. He was filial and loved to work. He helped his parents to work, but he also loved learning very much. It's just that Hu Yougen is different from other children. What he loves is not the dull content in books. Knowing the sufferings of the people, he loves knowledge that can play an important role in real life, which makes him look realistic and strange at an early age ...

　　At the age of ten, one day he came across a yellow Compendium of Materia Medica, which was full of traditional Chinese characters. He eagerly studied it and remembered the story of Li Shizhen told by the teacher, so a seed for medicine was planted. With the growth of age, this seed gradually germinates into an ideal, and he wants to be a doctor who saves lives.

　　Finally, at the age of sixteen, Hu Yougen didn't want to wait any longer. He overcame all difficulties to persuade his family to let him go out to study medicine, and he began a difficult road to study. Due to poor family conditions, he can only travel to Beijing alone, and there are few places where his only friends can help. He has to work and buy books on traditional Chinese medicine to start self-study. While studying by yourself, I also visited the master. Later, by coincidence, Hu Yougen finally met a doctor named Zhang, who was a very famous local osteopath. Hu Yougen moved him with his hard-working spirit and sincerity, and Dr. Zhang finally accepted him as an apprentice. Since then, Hu Yougen has worked harder and made progress, and finally learned a skill.

　　Of course, among these skills, in addition to what the master taught, Hu Yougen was born with excellent understanding. He also realized a lot of Chinese medicine, and with his unremitting self-study, he could learn something. Looking back on the past, Hu Yougen couldn't help exclaiming that we folk grass roots were born without good conditions and educational resources. Only with unremitting efforts and indomitable beliefs can we catch up with others. Those with good conditions only need two or three points of efforts, while he needs ten times and one hundred times of efforts. Nevertheless, he still feels that he can surpass them because he feels that he who sets his mind on it will pay off.

　　Up to now, he has made small achievements, but he still retains the good habit of self-study and seeking advice, comprehending in reading and innovating in seeking advice. Because Hu Yougen has been studying Chinese medicine, he has made his own achievements and experiences in some fields of Chinese medicine. When we visited him, he was helping the patients with acupuncture. Hu Yougen said that acupuncture is the quintessence of the Chinese nation and cannot be lost or forgotten!

　　Xiao Zhou is a high school student, and there are more than 12 cystic masses in his body, which seriously affects his study. If he is not treated in time, he may even develop into a tumor. Not only that, but also accompanied by symptoms such as prolonged official holidays and easy fatigue, when Hu Yougen visited him, he was helping Xiao Zhou to get needles. His professional skills and skillful medical skills impressed people. In the process of chatting with Xiao Zhou, I learned that she had taken a lot of drugs for this disease, but it was ineffective. After coming here for acupuncture for a few days, the symptoms began to ease, getting better day by day. I believe that in another half month, she will be able to return to normal. It is said that acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine is a magical thing and the quintessence of the Chinese nation. It seems that this statement is true at all. There are many cases to prove Hu Yougen's medical skills. His office is full of banners sent by patients after recovery, and there are many stories to tell. When we met that day, another patient was being treated. She was an executive of an insurance company, surnamed Li. Ms. Li had a hysteromyoma operation in 2018, which was not complete, accompanied by a rich bag and thyroid nodules. It can be said that there are many difficulties. At the most serious time, Ms. Li said that she did not come to the holiday for nine months.

　　I came to see him last October, and after 17 days of careful conditioning with his help, many symptoms were alleviated, and I went to the hospital for examination and found that the problems were improved. Now that she has recovered more than half, Hu Yougen is helping her with the final rehabilitation. Ms. Li said that she is really grateful to Dr. Hu. Without his help, her road to recovery is far away. The magic of Chinese medicine, especially acupuncture, made her appreciate the charm of Chinese quintessence! Talking about acupuncture, Hu Yougen opened a chatterbox and talked endlessly about the various functions of acupuncture and the Chinese people's research on acupuncture since the Millennium. His understanding of acupuncture seems to be more full and thorough than that of a big professor in medical college. He is really a master among the people! Not only that, but he also has his own unique views and innovations on acupuncture. He said that ordinary steel needles certainly have good effects, but he prefers bamboo needles and porcupine needles. Needless to say, bamboo needles are clean and environmentally friendly, and more and more people use bamboo needles instead of steel needles. The use of porcupine needle is an innovation of Hu Yougen. As a blind Chinese herbal medicine, porcupine needle has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, yin beauty, treating pharyngolaryngitis, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. This is a fact that everyone knows. It is not surprising that many people use porcupine needle to soak wine, saying that it has certain effects of dredging meridians, promoting circulation of qi, consolidating kidney and astringent essence. However, it is the first time that Hu Yougen has used such a small porcupine needle as an acupuncture tool. It is not only an innovative move, but also a technique that is difficult to master. We laughed and said that Dr. Hu played acupuncture to perfection, and ordinary people simply could not control it!

　　Hu Yougen said with a smile, it's nothing, and the medical theory of traditional Chinese medicine remains unchanged. As long as the core medical theory is grasped, any needle can play a role, and the porcupine needle itself is a good medicinal material for clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. Its own role, combined with the magical function of acupuncture, can naturally play a better role! He said it was not that he was fierce, nor that the porcupine needle was fierce, but that the quintessence of the Chinese nation, which had been circulated for thousands of years, was fierce!

　　Hu Yougen said that people now believe in western medicine so much that traditional therapies are neglected, and some acupuncture techniques have begun to be lost or have no inheritors. He said that he would devote all his life to researching and learning acupuncture as a medical skill to inherit and protect this national quintessence. He said that his goal is to turn himself into a living acupuncture textbook, so that people can see the charm of the national quintessence in him and the strength of China's traditional medical skill. He hoped that more young people would learn and inherit this medical skill handed down by their ancestors. (Text/Photo: Cao Kaixin)