Jianghu Langzhong is also known as the walking medicine, traveling doctor, is a general term for some people who wander in all directions and practice medicine and sell medicine, and belong to the "tired door" among the "eight gates of the jianghu". Tired people claim that their grandfathers are Bian Que and Hua Tuo. Like other doors, Pimen has a distinction between true and false, and the "Holy Hand who can heal" who has the real ability can naturally reach the realm of "gunshots and birds falling, medicine to the disease" when it comes to illness. On the contrary, there are also some people who do not learn and have no skills, but with a clever mouth and the deception of concealing the sky and the sea, they are mixed in the rivers and lakes, and indeed they have harmed many good people, (cheating a little money is small, delaying the treatment of patients, that is big. This kind of overdose makes up the vast majority of fatigue.
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Because of the jianghu langzhong, the methods of curing diseases are uneven. There is absolutely no shortage of true healers, so the tired tricks mentioned below are just the right thing and the wrong person.
No matter how pretentious and high the jianghu langzhong is, scolding others as "a set of jianghu", or bragging about it, hiring people to publicize and cite some fake medical cases, posing a lot of thank-you letters, or paying money to buy a few pairs of pennants to hang high, or even saying that he has practiced "Heavenly Eye Pass", you can see the condition at a glance, and some say that they are old doctors who have lived for 120 years and 1 morning, and have been taught by a certain immortal mountain, a certain stranger, etc., as long as he uses jianghu techniques to treat diseases, they are all fake doctors who abuse the number of people. On the contrary, they are all really good doctors, and you can't miss them.
The teacher inherits the origin, and the magic hand rejuvenates
The method of recruiting patients in the jianghu lang is nothing more than to first tell a set of his own teacher's origins. Call yourself a famous teacher to point out, and how many "successful medical cases" and "legends". He flaunts his superb medical skills and superb medical skills. They will also spend money to hire "drummers", pretend to be patients and lobby around, bragging everywhere, handing out leaflets, posting advertisements, boasting in all directions, attracting customers, spending money to hire people to send gold plaques, couplets, and pennants, and naturally write some humorous words on them, such as "magic hand rejuvenation", "Sai Bian Que", "Xiao Huatuo" and so on. As for some charlatans with thin financial resources, it is difficult to spend money to invite people to put on a show, and in addition to boasting about themselves, they will use "preferential prices" and "installment payments" to win customers and expand their influence.
The ten stunts of practicing medicine and selling medicine in Jianghu Lang
First, the preparation of unique drugs
The jargon is called "grabbing and nibbling". It is to mix your own unique drug, which generally has a bottom medicine, and then mix a lot of things that have nothing to do with the treatment of the disease, the purpose is to reduce costs. Let me give you an example, such as the configuration of cough medicine, which is not all "real herbs", but mainly batter, incense ash, mud, etc., and then mixed with some opium to make pills. Opium was first used to treat diseases, as early as the 16th century, doctors found that opium has a good labor pain effect, where stomach pain, heartache, overwork, red and white dysentery, cough, asthma and other diseases, take a sip and immediately manage things. But he only took care of it for a while, ate the steward that day, and did it again the next day. In order to make money, Charla Langzhong deliberately prepared two kinds of pills, one with opium and one with not, so that the patient's condition was good and bad, so that the patient had to buy his pills many times, and The jianghu Langzhong could also make more money from it.
Second, attract passers-by and attract customers
The jargon is called "round sticky." Charlatan Langzhong will show off his clever mouth, and show off some "drama", "drama" is some strange-looking or strange-looking medicinal herbs, as well as some precious medicinal materials, such as tiger bone, Ganoderma lucidum, etc., in order to attract customers.
Third, find out the pathogen and act opportunistically
The jargon is "round sticky strips". As long as a "sticky string", he can say the patient's pathogen, so that the patient has a sense of trust, believe in his medicinal power and medical skills, and then buy his medicine. When explaining the pathogen, Charla Langzhong has a set of words, which can scare people. For example, the pathogen of "stomach pain": "There are nine kinds of abdominal pain, eating pain and burping, cold pain and cold weight, qi pain two rib attacks, water pain, insect pain stomach acid, six accumulation pain, seven poly pain, eight pain, nine fistula (reading jia false) pain." Another example is the pathogen of "sores": "The blood vein is like a Yangtze River, less than one wound, the cold place becomes a disease, and the blood fever becomes a sore." "And so on, and so on, and so on, and so on.
Fourth, the process of asking for money
The jargon is called "Gui Baokou". When doing business, the jianghu langzhong starts from the "round and good sticky", the mouth is like a hanging river, the tongue is like a spring, the vibration has words, the gushing is endless, from saying the pathogen to the process of asking for money, and this Cheng jargon is called "Baokou", the process is all based on a clever mouth in the jianghu lang.
Fifth, prompt onlookers to buy medicines
The jargon is called "gnawing". It is after the "return to the bag mouth", urging onlookers to buy medicines, the jianghu langzhong often take advantage of people's love of greed and cheapness when urging, to reduce the price of drugs, but in fact, they themselves will not lose at all.
Sixth, the trick "ghost inserts the leg"
This is a common deceptive method used in jianghu langzhong, when doing business in jianghu langzhong, if you find that onlookers are not sincere in buying medicine, what to do? Own way. Let me give you an example, when the jianghu langzhong said in the "return to baokou": "Everyone, my medicine is very expensive, but the profit is very thin, I want to pass on the name today, so each person sends a pair of medicines, you take it home, if you take my medicine, do not cough, you know that my medicine is a good medicine." My medicine is only sent at home to filial piety to parents, and who loves to make friends outside, which one wants? Pick me up a ticket, and then I'll have one for you." After sending the ticket, he then said: "This kind of medicine configuration is not easy, don't take it lightly, someone took a pair of medicines from me before, and when he got home, he felt that things that did not cost money would not be good, so he threw it away, and then he heard others say that my medicine was effective, and he regretted it." However, gentlemen are easy to manage, villains are difficult to treat, and it is not good to eat and send away for free. Today I only charge one dollar of this, each pill, I send another pill, if it does not work, I refund the money, eat well, everyone give me a name. "First say white send, and then cleverly ask for money, in the daytime, rebellious, open the river, this method is called "ghost legs.".
Seventh, let the guests willing to double the money, "turn the steel stacked pestle"
When The jianghu Langzhong was selling medicines, someone bought medicine from him, if the customer had less money, he sent it away, if the customer had more money and was a rich man, Langzhong would ask about his condition and suggest that he buy a "double-material special medicine" that both treated the disease and replenished the qi. This means of overturning the price agreed upon earlier and making another negotiation is called "turning steel." After the success of the "steel turning", the patient pays to buy a "double-material special drug". After Lang Zhong finished giving the medicine, he asked the patient for twice as much money. Agitating the clever tongue and inducing him to obey, this trick is called "folding the pestle", turning the steel is the premise, and the stacking pestle is the purpose.
Eighth, cursed and swore "splitting thunder"
Charlatan Langzhong called the curse swearing "splitting thunder". This is a trick often played by the charlatans in order to deceive the trust of customers, in essence, this curse swears that it is worthless, as long as it can make money, scolding him does not matter.
Ninth, the "fairy mouth" that makes people believe
The jianghu langzhong said big words, exaggerated words, packed tickets, words that can make people believe are called "immortal mouths", for example: "I have this medicine to treat cough disease, no matter how long and recent, no matter the stubborn disease or new disease, eat the quasi-guarantee, if it is not good, it does not work, you will come to me, not only the original price is returned, I also compensate you for the cost of the car and horse." And so on, it is called "Immortal Mouth."
Tenth, leave the back road, withdraw the mouth, and pull the back door
Jianghu Langzhong first used the immortal mouth to reassure the patient, and after the patient paid for the medicine, Langzhong would say: "Hit the lifeless bird, and the disease is treated by a person." If it is not cured, it should be bad, and the 100-day disaster will not be better in ninety-nine days. If it doesn't work, don't spend that unjust money again, please be smart. This is called "withdrawing the mouth", after the patient buys the medicine and leaves, listens to the last few words of Lang Zhong, even if it is not cured, it will not come to find trouble, which is called "pulling the back door".
The treatment method in the jianghu lang can be summarized as "steep pumping, flat blocking, soft hook" seven words, "steep pumping" is a big brag, there is no disease that he cannot cure, there is no incurable disease, thus seducing the patient. "Flat block" refers to the use of peaceful medicine to treat the disease, cured, is his medical skills are smart, the effect is strong, the cure is not good, and will not poke out any basket. "Soft deeds" refers to the use of clever words to cover up his shallowness and ignorance in medical skills, if there is not much certainty about the disease being treated, the jianghu Langzhong will let the patient come to see it several times, so that he can act opportunistically, change the treatment method, and if it is not effective, let the patient ask for another clever. This is their work ethic, even if it is not cured, but it is not harmful.
In addition to the ten I mentioned above, in the process of practicing medicine and selling medicines, there are other tricks in the jianghu langzhong, such as describing minor illnesses as major diseases, describing serious diseases as terminal illnesses, alarmism, frightening patients, and taking advantage of opportunities to seek more money. Another example is to mix various deceptive magic tricks and blindfolds when displaying their own drugs, which are called "making the color" in the jianghu, so as to show off the magic and magic of the drug, lure customers to the bait, and so on.
Speaking of this, I want to remind you of the choice of the doctor, no matter how he says the sky is crazy, spitting out lotus flowers, you must take medicine to work, such as one or two times or one or two weeks of medication is ineffective, you still don't believe him anymore. You must not change people because he has many patients waiting, you know, the number of patients does not necessarily prove the doctor's medical skills.
Some patients asked if the disease could be cured, and the doctor said it easily, and he believed it. In fact, whether the disease can be cured depends on the level of medicine and what the disease is, not to listen to the doctor's reply. He said it easily, if you don't get it right, you are hooked to do experiments, which is not bad, some are basically for money, and when the patient is hooked, he will play the "sincerity and spirit" method, saying "as long as you believe in me, there will always be a way", so that you put your hopes on him, and he has no way. But then again, sincerity is the spirit, and there is really a certain degree of confusion in society.
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