Chapter 75: Golden Needle Acupuncture
Lan Mo knew it must be that pregnant woman who had run into trouble. Now that she was on duty, she couldn’t just wander off to see what was happening.
Wang Min was also an obstetrician. The moment Li Jing stepped out, she followed right behind. The male doctors from other departments exchanged glances, but none of them moved.
Just a few minutes later, Wang Min suddenly rushed into the office, grabbed Lan Mo’s hand, and said, “Doctor Lan, you know how to administer hemostatic injections, right? Hurry, come with me!”
Over the past few days, Lan Mo had been practicing acupuncture on her colleagues in the office whenever she had free time, using silver needles.
Li Jing had been suffering from dysmenorrhea a couple of days earlier, and Lan Mo had given her an analgesic acupuncture treatment. In less than ten minutes, her stomach pain had subsided.
“What’s wrong, Doctor Wang? Take your time and explain!”
“That Tian Xiuxiu, I don’t know how she managed it, but she fell off the bed. Now she’s bleeding nonstop, and the situation is extremely critical. If this goes wrong, it could really be a case of two lives lost.”
Some things really shouldn’t be said lightly—what you fear often comes to pass.
But saving a life is a greater merit than building a seven-story pagoda. She did know how to perform simple hemostatic acupuncture, so she should first go see what condition the patient was in. Stopping the bleeding was the priority!
“Doctor Wang, you go ahead first. I’ll pack up and be right there.”
Severe hemorrhage was no ordinary dysmenorrhea. This time, she might need to use golden needles for acupuncture. Who would have thought that the golden needles she had just acquired a few days ago would be put to practical use so soon?
When Lan Mo arrived at the ward with her acupuncture kit and alcohol swabs for disinfection, everyone was already in a panic.
The overwhelming smell of blood filled the room, and Lan Mo couldn’t help but furrow her brow.
A young-looking woman with a puffy face was lying on the bed, her legs bent, clutching the sheets tightly as she groaned in pain, “Ah…! It hurts so much, doctor, save me…”
Seeing her daughter in such agony, Xiuxiu’s mother grabbed Li Jing’s arm and shook it desperately. “Doctor, please, save my daughter!”
Li Jing was just an obstetrician in the town, and her skills were only slightly better than those of a typical midwife. Seeing Tian Xiuxiu bleeding profusely, she was now flustered as well.
Wang Min, who had been observing the pregnant woman’s bleeding, quickly explained, “Comrade, your daughter’s cervix is already dilated to three fingers, but her bleeding isn’t under control. We need to find a way to stop the bleeding first before we can send her to the delivery room.”
“Then hurry up and stop the bleeding!”
At that moment, Lan Mo stepped forward and said, “Doctor Wang, could you please help the patient take off her socks and lift the clothes on her stomach? I’ll perform acupuncture to stop the bleeding.”
As for the pants on her legs, they had already been removed earlier.
Lan Mo gently opened the golden needle case, which was filled with gleaming golden needles of various shapes.
The woman was startled by the thick needles in the case and exclaimed, “Doctor, are you going to use these needles on my daughter? Won’t such thick needles kill her?”
“Comrade, each of the nine types of needles has its own usage and purpose. Your daughter won’t need those thick needles today. There’s no need to worry! She only needs the filiform needles and the long needles for now.”
Lan Mo picked up a thin, short filiform needle and showed it to the woman to ease her concerns.
“Little Useless in the Cultivation World” had custom-made a set of nine golden needles for Lan Mo in their Mortal World and even provided her with a copy of the “Nine Yang Golden Needle Technique.”
The Nine Needles are: the chisel needle, round needle, pressure needle, lance needle, sword needle, round-sharp needle, filiform needle, long needle, and large needle.
Each type consists of nine needles, making a complete set of gold needles exactly eighty-one in total. Each needle has a specific shape and specific indications for use.
Among them, the round needle and pressure needle are used for acupoint striking and pressing on the body surface; the sword needle is used for incision and drainage of pus; the lance needle is used for bloodletting; and the remaining needles are used for acupuncture or bloodletting at different locations.
In fact, her medical kit also contained a very ordinary set of silver needles. The original owner rarely used them, and she only practiced with them.
Lan Mo used alcohol cotton to wipe the gold needles while disinfecting the skin around the acupoints.
She picked up two short filiform needles and swiftly, accurately, and firmly inserted them into the Dadun and Yinbai acupoints, gently twisting them a few times. Then, she took another short filiform needle and inserted it into the Xuehai acupoint on the left leg.
Next, she picked up six long needles, disinfected them, and inserted them one by one into the six acupoints: Shenque, Qihai, Guanyuan, Chongmen, Guilai, and Sanyinjiao.
Lan Mo’s needle insertion was fast and precise, leaving Li Jing and Wang Min utterly stunned.
Two minutes later, after gently twisting the gold needles clockwise a few times, Lan Mo quickly flicked the heads of the needles, causing them to emit faint buzzing sounds one after another.
If she had used her spiritual energy to simultaneously activate the nine gold needles, the effect might have been even better. However, with others present, it was not convenient for her to do so at the moment.
Wang Min had been observing Tian Xiuxiu’s bleeding condition. In less than three minutes, the bleeding had significantly improved. Truly, traditional Chinese medicine is profound and extensive.
“Doctor Lan, the needles today look so special! What kind of needle technique is this?”
“It’s the Nine Needle Acupoint Hemostasis Method for treating metrorrhagia! Let’s wait a few more minutes. If the patient’s bleeding stops completely, I can remove the needles.”
Li Jing and Wang Min both sighed in relief, and Tian Xiuxiu and her mother also relaxed.
So many women have lost their lives, along with their babies, due to postpartum hemorrhage. Thankfully, Doctor Lan is highly skilled.
Wang Min asked Tian Xiuxiu, “How are you feeling now?”
Tian Xiuxiu weakly replied, “I feel much better, and my stomach doesn’t hurt as much anymore.”
“Tian Xiuxiu, the fall you just had has already stimulated uterine contractions. The baby might be born today. When you feel the pain of contractions again, let me know.”
Tian Xiuxiu frowned and asked, “Doctor, do I still have to give birth to this child?”
“If you don’t, do you plan to die along with the child?”
At this point, Tian Xiuxiu’s mother also began to panic. Whether to give birth or not was no longer important; ensuring her daughter’s survival was now the top priority.
She hurriedly comforted her daughter, saying, “Xiuxiu, for your safety, let’s give birth to the child first. We can deal with everything else later.”
The expectant mother surnamed Liu in the neighboring bed, seeing that the patient was temporarily out of danger, quickly spoke up, “Doctor, the woman in the neighboring bed was walking while hitting her own stomach earlier, saying she wanted to force the baby out herself.”
“But she wasn’t paying attention while walking, bumped into the foot of the bed, and fell. I didn’t push her when she fell, so please don’t blame me.”
She didn’t want to gossip about others, but since she was also staying in this ward, what if they unreasonably shifted the blame onto her?
Lan Mo shook her head. This person truly brought this upon herself!
The child’s father had been working tirelessly to make ends meet and ultimately died at sea, leaving his young wife bewildered and seemingly unaffected.
The child is already over eight months old, and she still wants to induce labor. Could it be that the arranged marriage couple truly has no affection for each other? This really is the sorrow of impoverished couples in all matters!
If the man’s family had money, her relatives would probably advise her to do everything possible to give birth, right? That way, they could fight over the inheritance left by the deceased.
Lan Mo glanced at Tian Xiuxiu’s lower body and noticed the bleeding had completely stopped. She quickly removed the golden needles, sterilized them one by one, and placed them back into the golden needle case.
“Doctor Wang, Doctor Li, the patient’s bleeding has stopped. I’ll head back to the office now. You two carry on.”
“Alright, thank you, Doctor Lan.”
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Ever since Lan Mo took the Soul-Tempering Pill and the Soul-Nourishing Pill, her five senses had become much sharper. Even back in her dormitory, she could still hear the agonized cries of a woman in labor.
She wondered which expectant mother had just given birth.