"This is the decoction," Wang Yao said. "The way he takes it stays the same. Do you still have the formula I gave you last time?"
"Yes, I've been using it since," Wu Tongrong said.
Wang Yao prescribed a formula with herbs of a warm nature to improve the patient's fundamental health. Wu Tongxing's father had been taking it.
"Have him take the decoction first," Wang Yao said.
After the old man had taken the decoction, Wang Yao treated him with acupuncture. He slowly inserted needles into the old man's body. He kept the needles away from the old man's heart and lungs. The family doctor sat to the side observing the treatment. As a family doctor with high social status, he was very good at what he did. He knew both Western and Chinese medicine.
