Chapter 113: Zhuge Liang's Secret Prescription for Curing a Fatal Illness

Zhuge Liang's secret prescription for curing a fatal illness.

197 chapters, Zhuge Liang's secret prescription for curing the fatal illness.

——Liu Guozong's Spring Diary, entry thirty.

In the latter half of a spring night, thin fog and thick clouds, stars cannot be seen, the moon cannot be seen. Only fog, fog, fog…… gentle fog, quiet fog, not knowing where it comes from or where it goes, the fog swallows the countryside, and also swallows the city, the fog.

Amid the thin fog and thick clouds, I recall things from a long, long time ago……

At that time, Zhou Yu's mood was very bad, and his qi was not smooth. When a person's mood is bad and qi is not smooth, they are most prone to illness.

Zhou Yu fell ill, and once ill he could not recover; it was an 'absolute illness', he was doomed to die.

No one could know the root of Zhou Yu's illness; his mother and wife grew anxious: 'This perfectly healthy person, how could he just fall ill?'

Zhuge Liang said: 'I can cure Zhou Yu's fatal illness.'

Zhuge Liang had long known Zhou Yu would fall ill, and the medicinal prescription had long been prepared for him: Cao Cao's 800,000-strong army massed at the city's gates, eyes gleaming, preparing to cross the Changjiang and swallow his state, and also to seize his woman, the first beauty of Jiangdong—Xiao Qiao—and take her as his chief lady of the camp.

Could Zhou Yu not fall ill?

This medicinal prescription: simply set fire to the Cao soldiers' large ships docked by the river, burning them, and destroy the troops that the old traitor Cao Zao brought.

Zhuge Liang certainly knew the root of Zhou Yu's illness.

Someone led Zhuge Liang to Zhou Yu's side; Zhuge Liang extended his hand toward Zhou Yu's face. Upon seeing the prescription in Zhuge Liang's hand, Zhou Yu, before even taking the medicine, recovered and his qi smoothed.

That prescription of Zhuge Liang's had long been memorized by everyone under heaven: borrow the east wind, set fire to the warships, destroy the Cao troops……

Zhuge Liang borrowing the east wind to set fire to Cao's ships was probably in winter, right?

Traditional Chinese medical concept:

When flow is unobstructed, there is no illness; when there is no illness, flow is unobstructed.

People fall ill mostly because their qi is not smooth, stagnation forms illness; if one can understand and let go of everything, then all diseases will be eliminated.

This is the enlightenment Zhuge Liang gave people regarding Zhou Yu's fatal illness.

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