Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 383: Chapter 379 Three Days Later

She could feel it. Estimating the reach of the Spiritual Energy, Huo Sining discovered that, although Lu Ruiqi’s condition seemed very serious, it was actually lighter than Huang Chengyi’s leg disease.

Although those doctors had been ineffective, they had at least managed to control his condition enough to prevent the neurons from being too severely damaged; a portion was still intact.

To see significant results in just three days was a challenging goal, but Huo Sining had already planned for it.

Just like the method used to treat Huang Chengyi, she would first repair the damaged neurons. This would allow Lu Ruiqi to feel soreness and pain in his lower limbs.

The process was cumbersome, but three days was sufficient.

As long as she fulfilled the three-day promise to the Lu Family, things would be easier afterward. She would then use Spiritual Energy to gradually stimulate the acupoints, promoting blood circulation and allowing the atrophied muscles to grow back.

Three days, neither slow nor fast. In the eyes of the Lu father and son, of course, it seemed slow, but for Lu Ruiqi, it was incredibly fast.

”Sister Huo, can you... massage me again?”

Lu Ruiqi felt as if he had been floating in the clouds these past three days. The bone-gnawing pain that often kept him from sleeping had not recurred once during this time. He ate well, slept well, and his whole body felt extraordinarily comfortable.

So, hearing that the three days had come to an end, he couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed. He wanted to relive the feeling of Qigong suffusing his entire body, so his words carried a faint hint of pleading.

Upon hearing this, Huo Sining immediately smiled and said, ”What, don’t you trust me? Don’t worry, for quite a while to come, I’ll be your personal physician. If you want more massages, that’s no problem at all!”

The promised time was today. Early in the morning, Chief Lu arrived with his son and daughter-in-law. Along with them came a four-person expert group led by Doctor Nie. Of course, these four were purely there to watch the excitement.

In the ingrained beliefs of these old experts, Chinese Medicine was all-encompassing, including herbal medicine, acupuncture, tuina massage, cupping, Qigong, and dietary therapy. Chinese Medicine used Yin and Yang and the Five Elements as its theoretical basis, viewing the human body as a unified entity of Qi, form, and spirit, and using the four diagnostic methods of observation, listening and smelling, questioning, and pulse-taking to explore the causes, nature, and location of an illness.

Huo Sining claimed to use the Qigong Massage Technique, which theoretically should fall within the domain of Chinese Medicine.

The difference between Chinese and Western medicine lies in the fact that Chinese medicine does not use chemical drugs, and therefore does not cause harm to the body, but it is much slower in effect than Western medicine.

Chinese medicine treatment requires many courses before an illness can improve. In the eyes of Doctor Nie and his expert group, a claim like Huo Sining’s, asserting results could be seen in three days, was unheard of.

Of course, the practice of Qigong healing that was rumored in the late 1990s had also been around, but it was later proven to be the trickery of charlatans, the chief culprit of which had fled to America to become a cult leader.

Because Huo Sining had snatched a patient right out of their hands, naturally, this expert group had a poor impression of her and even considered Huo Sining to be a swindler.

But not long after they entered the Lu Family Villa, the doctors were taken aback, their eyes widening in disbelief at the scene before them.

Huo Sining took a small wooden mallet and gently tapped it on Lu Ruiqi’s knee, and with each tap, his knee would reflexively bounce up.

”How is this possible?!” Doctor Nie was stunned, his mouth agape, utterly unable to believe his eyes.

The other doctors in the expert group also showed expressions of astonishment.

Testing the knee-jerk reflex is the best method for assessing whether the tendons in the body’s deep reflexes respond to stimuli, as the knee-jerk reflex process requires control by neurons and the spinal cord. Therefore, when the outgoing nerves and the spinal cord that control the reflex arcs are intact, the knee-jerk reflex can proceed normally.

Because Lu Ruiqi’s body had been infected by the poliovirus, his spinal cord was severely damaged, and neurons were blocked, his knee-jerk reflex had already disappeared when his lower limbs became paralyzed.

Now that Lu Ruiqi’s knee-jerk reflex had returned, it meant that at least the individual neurons in his lower limbs had shown signs of recovery, which also meant that his lower limbs were very likely to regain sensation and be able to feel soreness, swelling, and pain.

”Let me have a look!”

Doctor Nie wouldn’t believe it without seeing for himself. He had studied traditional Chinese medicine and clinical practice for dozens of years and had never encountered such a thing—it completely defied scientific logic!

Huo Sining knew that Doctor Nie would be skeptical and didn’t argue; she simply handed him the small mallet she had in her hand for him to conduct the test himself.

Doctor Nie took the mallet in his hand but didn’t test the same leg that Huo Sining had just tapped. Instead, he chose Lu Ruiqi’s other leg.

A gentle tap of the small hammer was met with Lu Ruiqi’s nearly deformed calf bouncing up unexpectedly. Although the extent of the bounce was much weaker compared to the knee-jerk reflex of a normal person, this was undeniably a natural response of the body.

Doctor Nie’s complexion turned ashen; he stubbornly picked up the mallet and tapped a few more times on the other leg, with the same responsive result.

Doctor Nie hemmed and hawed, wanting to say something but finding himself unable to articulate it.

Embarrassment and frustration flashed in his eyes, yet his heart was boiling with excitement as if something was about to burst forth from within him.

In his theoretical system, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine massage and Qigong focuses on the harmony of the five elements and Yin and Yang, allowing the body’s Qi to flow smoothly. But these effects are supposed to occur subtly and gradually over time. How could such results be achieved in just three days?

Doctor Nie was baffled, but there was one thing he was sure of: the method Huo Sining had used was definitely a major discovery beyond the realm of traditional Chinese medicine.

He did want to ask Huo Sining exactly what she had done and why Lu Ruiqi’s legs had shown such a significant change in just a short span of three days.

However, he couldn’t bring himself to ask this question because back on Yulong Mountain, Huo Sining had already mentioned that her Qigong Massage Technique was a secret technique, not to be disclosed.

At this thought, Doctor Nie felt somewhat defeated. He prided himself on practicing medicine for years, delving deeply into both Chinese and Western medicine, and was revered as a national medical expert. He had indulged in self-satisfaction and even became somewhat arrogant.

But today, he realized that his past pride and complacency were merely due to his narrow perspective, like a frog in a well—how could one know of the vast world beyond if confined to such a narrow view?

Looking at Huo Sining, Doctor Nie’s gaze was intense, his eyes flickered with light, and a hint of excitement grew within him.

Whether it was a secret technique or not, at this moment, Doctor Nie faintly realized that the martial arts of Huaxia Country, with a history spanning thousands of years, might flourish in the hands of this young girl and not fade away without successors.