I Became the Oriental Doctor for Divine Beasts - Chapter 86

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A Doctor for Divine Beasts
#86
“There’s a different root cause?”
“Director Go Yeon-hee, what do you mean by that?”
The studio fell into restless murmurs.
I pointed to Yang Si-heon frozen on the monitor screen.
“Actor Yang has been drinking coffee continuously on an empty stomach and undergoing high-stress filming sessions for extended periods. That keeps the sympathetic nervous system in a state of constant excitation.”
“The sympathetic nervous system?”
At MC Han Seo-yoon’s question, I made a gesture of pressing the accelerator.
“Put simply, the sympathetic nervous system works like a car’s gas pedal. When it becomes overactive, your heart races, muscles tense up, and digestive function deteriorates.”
The panelists began focusing more intently.
“Even in diet herbal formulas, the ephedra family suppresses appetite precisely through this mechanism. That’s why you can’t just increase ephedra dosage recklessly.”
As I spoke, I deliberately glanced toward Oroji.
Her eyebrow twitched noticeably, as if stung.
Meanwhile, the expressions of the listeners grew increasingly serious.
“Wait. So what you’re saying is…….”
“It’s an autonomic nervous system issue rather than a muscle problem?”
“Exactly.”
I nodded.
“So right now, we need to release the tense stomach first—not just the back muscles.”
I looked at Yang Si-heon again.
“We need to stabilize digestive function, but more fundamentally, we need to bring down the excessively elevated sympathetic nervous system activation.”
The orthopedic surgeon panelist still looked skeptical.
“Mm… I’ll grant that referred pain is possible, but is it common for back pain to result from simply drinking some coffee during filming?”
Oroji chimed in immediately.
“Director Go, I think you might be interpreting this too broadly. Fundamentally, muscle fatigue accumulation seems like the more direct cause, doesn’t it?”
I shrugged calmly.
“We can just verify it with treatment right now.”
The studio fell silent in an instant.
I could see the Adam’s apples of several of the specialist panelists bob nervously.
I examined Yang Si-heon’s abdominal condition once more. The area below his epigastrium was rigid.
“Take a deep breath for me.”
Yang Si-heon inhaled as instructed.
But he couldn’t manage a full, deep breath—his brow furrowed slightly.
“Your breathing doesn’t go very deep, does it?”
“……Right.”
“When the stomach is tense or the sympathetic nervous system is activated, the diaphragm hardens and rib cage movement becomes restricted.”
He laughed softly, as if impressed.
“That’s remarkable. How did you spot that at a glance?”
I answered with a slight smile and picked up the needles.
Zhongwan, Inner Gate, Zusanli…….
I disinfected the acupuncture points in sequence—those that release abdominal tension and stabilize gastric function.
“I’m placing the needles now.”
Soon the fine needle tip gently pierced the skin.
I slowly channeled Spiritual Energy through the needle.
The tangled energy around his stomach began to unwind gradually.
“Mm…….”
Yang Si-heon’s breathing deepened progressively.
The studio was quiet.
Even those who had been murmuring earlier now sat with mouths closed, their attention fixed on my treatment.
After releasing the tension around his abdomen and chest cavity instead of his back muscles,
I withdrew the final needle and spoke.
“You can sit up now.”
“…….”
Yang Si-heon slowly rose.
Then he tentatively moved his back.
“……?”
His expression transformed instantly.
It wasn’t the mild “feels a bit refreshed” response Oroji had shown in the video right after her treatment.
“This…….”
He moved his back a few more times.
This time he even deliberately twisted his torso widely.
And drew in a deep breath.
“There’s no pain.”
The studio fell completely silent.
“Really?”
“For real? Even though the needles went in the abdomen, not the back?”
The male MC’s eyes widened in shock.
Yang Si-heon himself laughed in disbelief.
“Normally when I move my back like this, there’s persistent soreness and tightness under the scapula. But now…….”
Looking down at his own epigastrium,
“My back doesn’t hurt, and my stomach feels incredibly at ease?”
The instant those words left his mouth, the MCs erupted in excitement simultaneously.
“Wait, hold on! You’re saying you had needles placed in the abdomen, but your back stopped hurting!”
“Wow, this is genuinely amazing!”
Han Seo-yoon stared at me in amazement, then caught herself and resumed the broadcast.
“L-let’s run the diagnostics again right away!”
Staff members moved quickly.
The HRV equipment and portable EMG device were reset to compare with the baseline measurements taken before filming.
The diagnostics ran, and soon numbers appeared on screen.
“Huh?”
The MCs’ eyes went saucer-wide.
“Wait—heart rate has stabilized and stress levels have dropped significantly!”
“Wow, the before-and-after difference is enormous!”
At that moment, one of the internal medicine specialists studied the screen carefully and spoke.
“At this level, it means the sympathetic nervous system activation has stabilized quite substantially.”
He continued with admiration in his voice.
“Usually it doesn’t change this quickly. For autonomic nervous system response to be this stabilized immediately after acupuncture treatment is quite impressive.”
The revealed EMG results also showed change.
After my treatment, the back muscle tension had decreased more than after Oroji’s.
“Goodness……!”
“You treated the stomach, yet the muscle tension dropped more than from treating the back directly!”
The MCs vied with each other in astonishment,
and the orthopedic surgeon’s expression shifted noticeably.
“……Mm.”
He remained silent for a moment before conceding.
“Director Go Yeon-hee, you saw more accurately than expected. You hit the precise core of the issue.”
“!!”
Oroji’s face hardened in shock.
I could see her lips quiver.
She felt it too.
The atmosphere that had been centered on her just moments ago had reversed completely.
‘If you’d treated the patient with genuine sincerity, you wouldn’t have found yourself in such a defensive position.’
Oroji was a sharp person; had she invested the time to diagnose carefully and deliberately, she would have easily caught the inconsistency.
Likely her mistake was reaching a hasty conclusion in her eagerness to produce faster, more visible results than I did.
But medicine isn’t a game.
A patient can’t be the object of a wager.
“……!”
Perhaps sensing my sympathetic gaze, Oroji flinched and turned her face away, flushing.
Just then, Yang Si-heon, having adjusted his clothing, spoke leisurely.
“I’m not particularly surprised, honestly.”
That single remark drew the entire studio’s attention to him.
Yang Si-heon continued without hesitation.
“I’ve long known that Director Go Yeon-hee is skilled. Recently, Baek Ho Hospital officially selected her as a collaborating Korean medicine doctor.”
“What did you say?”
The physician panelists’ voices rose in unison.
“Baek Ho Hospital?”
“Are you referring to that Baek Ho Hospital?”
“They have an external Korean medicine doctor as a collaborator?”
All wore expressions of disbelief.
“I’ve never heard of such a precedent……. Is that truly so?”
“How is such a thing even possible?”
Yang Si-heon answered with composure.
“I can’t speak to the details, but Director Go personally treated one of their critical patients.”
His gaze turned briefly toward me.
“After that, I understand Baek Ho Hospital approached her directly with the request.”
With those words, the studio’s entire atmosphere inverted.
The skepticism in the panelists’ eyes transformed.
“Wow…… They requested her first, no less?”
“A collaborating doctor at Baek Ho Hospital at such a young age? She’s far more accomplished than I thought.”
“A true master of her craft.”
Oh my. This is embarrassing.
I had to work hard to maintain an expressionless face.
Thus “Doctor Inside”
concluded its filming with the studio’s atmosphere completely reversed.
* * *
When Go Yeon-hee’s treatment began on set, honestly, PD Kang Tae-wook was irritated from the start.
Because Go Yeon-hee insisted on conducting the treatment directly in the studio, he’d had to outfit an entire section of the set like a Korean medicine clinic.
‘Ugh, she’s really something.’
Kang Tae-wook clicked his tongue inwardly.
Moreover, Go Yeon-hee had done something absurd—she didn’t treat Yang Si-heon’s back at all.
She pressed on his abdomen, checked his pulse, and said she’d place needles in his belly?
‘Treating the stomach when the guy’s back is in pain.’
To Kang Tae-wook, it sounded like reaching for clouds.
So, expecting nothing from the treatment, he’d whispered to the camera director:
“Forget about Director Go—make sure you get good shots of Yang Si-heon’s abs. That’ll boost viewership.”
But things began to unfold strangely.
After Go Yeon-hee placed needles in Yang Si-heon’s abdomen,
“My back doesn’t hurt, and my stomach feels incredibly at ease?”
He really said his back wasn’t in pain!
Kang Tae-wook’s mouth fell open in bewilderment.
‘What? Seriously?’
And that wasn’t even the end.
The diagnostic results that followed were even more stunning.
The elevated sympathetic nervous system readings had stabilized, and the back muscle tension had genuinely decreased!
By now, even if he wanted to disbelieve it, he couldn’t.
“PD…….”
The main writer beside him whispered in alarm.
“What do we do now? We were supposed to push Director Oroji…….”

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