Lin Yan, a Chinese-American traditional Chinese medicine doctor, is in charge of the "Qing Nang Tang" in Chinatown, New York. He sticks to the copper pharmaceutical grinding and yellowing medical records passed down by his grandfather, and uses "syndrome differentiation and radical treatment" as the blade to break through the confusion of "only treating the symptoms but not the root cause." He goes straight to the business logic of "quick relief" of Western medicine and the capital monopoly of the pharmaceutical giant "Suyukang".
Her diagnosis and treatment are like a precise social CT, illuminating the health plight of people from all walks of life in New York: helping Chen Shu, a laborer who relies on painkillers, to relieve joint pain, helping Lila, a girl who is bullied at school, to relieve her depression and relieve headaches, clearing the brain fog of elites who are trapped by efficiency, and exposing the trap of Suyukang's "senior care package" tied to reverse mortgages and squeezing the wealth of the elderly. Faced with the encirclement and suppression of Suyukang from spreading rumors that "TCM has no certificate" to pressure from medical insurance, Lin Yan used the thousand-year-old wisdom in his grandfather's medical records as a shield and clinical efficacy as a sword to break through the situation step by step.
When the "long-term COVID-19" hits, Lin Yan's wisdom of "strengthening the body and eliminating evil" becomes the light of dawn. He integrates the advantages of traditional Chinese and Western medicine with the "triple burner elimination" plan to promote the two from confrontation to symbiosis. With the help of former rival Suyukang in its transformation, recovered patients have organized a network of "healthy network volunteers" - when meridians connect the body and mind and Eastern and Western civilizations, healing becomes the most profound civilizational dialogue.
