Chapter 184 Back again
Yingbao looked at the medicine cabinets and saw medicine cupboards with three medicine names written vertically on them.
Each medicine bucket has three compartments, and the pills inside correspond to the names of the medicines outside the medicine bucket.
Commonly used tablets are placed in the middle and upper layers of the bucket rack to facilitate weighing when dispensing. Such as angelica, white peony root and chuanxiong; astragalus, codonopsis licorice and so on.
Tablets that are lighter in texture and used in smaller amounts are placed on the upper levels of the bucket rack. Such as rose flowers, white plum blossoms, bergamot flowers, etc.
Tablets with heavy texture, such as minerals and shellfish, and charcoal medicines that are easy to cause pollution are placed on the lower level of the bucket rack. Such as magnets, ocher and amethyst, keel, dragon teeth and oysters, etc.
Loosely soaked medicines with large dosages are placed in the large medicine bucket at the bottom of the bucket rack.
Such as rushes, Tongcao; reed roots, grass roots; artemisia, money grass; bamboo root, mint, mulberry leaves, lotus leaves, etc.
Ying Bao checked the names of the medicines one by one. Li Xihua opened the medicine bucket and showed her the cut tablets inside.
The pills are different in size and shape, which makes them easy to identify at first glance, but in fact they are not.
So Yingbao also wanted to see the whole uncut medicinal plant.
"Is there any medicine without cutting?" she asked.
Li Xihua nodded: "Yes, they are all in the medicine warehouse. I will take you to see them tomorrow."
The next day, Yingbao officially started his apprenticeship.
She started identifying the medicines from the bottom of the medicine cabinet, smelling each one, identifying its color and shape, and then comparing it with the entire medicinal plant.
In one day, she was familiar with more than twenty kinds of medicine.
When I compared it with the prescriptions I had learned, I already had some clarity in my mind.
But there are so many medicines here, hundreds or thousands of them, that if you want to recognize them all clearly and remember them all, you need repeated exposure and practice.
Due to the busy summer harvest and farm work recently, not many people came to the medicine hall for medical treatment and medicine, so Li Xihua and her two brothers had some time to spare.
Only Yingbao still writes down the names of medicinal materials in a homemade notebook and charcoal pen.
In order to deepen the impression, she also used charcoal to draw the shape of the medicinal materials and wrote several suitable prescriptions next to them.
Mr. Li walked over and couldn't help stroking his beard and smiling when he saw the little baby being so diligent.
The senior brother wrote a letter asking him to take more care of the child and teach her how to practice medicine. He also said that she was very talented and would have great potential in the future.
As soon as he received the letter, Langzhong Li went to Jiang's house to pick up the baby. He did not expect that she would be so self-disciplined at such a young age, which was beyond his expectation.
"Yingbao, come here." Mr. Li sat down on the chair, waved to Yingbao, and asked, "What medical books have you read?"
Ying Bao came to Li Langzhong and answered seriously: "I have read the Nei Jing, Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Diseases, Shen Nong's Herbal Classic, as well as the Pulse Meridian and Qian Jin's Prescription."
Master said that these are the basic knowledge for studying medicine, and you must be able to memorize and write them down.
Now she has just read through all those books, barely memorized a few volumes, and only written down a few prescriptions.
Li Langzhong nodded: "Yes, I will test you now. Therefore, those who cure diseases must know geography. Why do you understand this?"
Ying Bao thought for a moment and suddenly realized.
Isn't this just asking her to recite Su Wen's theory of Yin and Yang, and she can do it.
"The sky is not wide enough in the northwest, so there is yin in the northwest, and people's right ears and eyes are not as bright as the left. The earth is not full in the southeast, so there is yang in the southeast, and people's left hand and foot are not as strong as the right..."
Ying Bao finished reciting it, then looked at Li Langzhong eagerly and asked, "Is that right?"
Mr. Li smiled and nodded: "Yes, I will test you again..."
In this way, Yingbao was forced to memorize several paragraphs of Suwen content.
It wasn't until a few people ran into the medicine hall to see Dr. Li that the random exam ended automatically.
"Mr. doctor, my son has been cut on his arm. Please show him quickly."
A middle-aged man was supporting a young boy whose left arm was cut by a sickle and was bleeding profusely.
Li Langzhong quickly came out of the counter to check the boy's injuries, and took out medicinal wine and needle and thread from the medicine box brought by his grandson.
First, he cleaned the wound with medicinal wine, then roasted the needle on the candlelight, put on catgut, and then personally sutured the boy's wound.
After sewing, he sprinkled a layer of medicine powder on it, and then wrapped him tightly with clean cloth strips from the medicine box.
"I'll prescribe another pair of medicines for dissolving decay and promoting muscle growth. You go back and cook it for him to drink. Tomorrow, you can replace the medicine for the injured arm."
Dr. Li wrote the prescription at his desk and handed it to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man shook his head and took the prescription, asking, "How much does it cost?"
Li Lin said: "There are a total of eighty-five articles for external injuries and internal medicine."
"Ah? So many..." The middle-aged man said, "Mr. Zhong, I, I only brought thirty coins..."
Langzhong Li waved his hand and said to his grandson: "Give him some medicine."
Then he looked at the middle-aged man and said, "You can pay back the fifty-five cents after you harvest the wheat."
The middle-aged man immediately saluted Mr. Li and thanked him profusely: "Thank you Mr. Li, I will definitely send the money after I harvest the wheat."
Yingbao looked at the middle-aged man, then at Mr. Li, and quietly asked Li Xihua: "Will he really send the money?"
Li Xihua also whispered: "Sometimes it will be delivered, sometimes not necessarily."
This happened every few days, and she was used to it.
Ying Bao was thoughtful.
It seems that the plaque hanging on the hanging pot in the medicine hall is not a lie.
The days passed day by day with Yingbao identifying medicine and seeing patients.
Soon the summer harvest is over and the town begins to liven up.
Several fat-bellied grain merchants set up scales and measuring buckets on both sides of the town's streets and began to buy summer grain.
Many villagers carried baskets of wheat and queued up to sell grain, and from time to time they had quarrels with grain merchants.
The reason is that grain merchants think that the grain is not dried or that there is a lot of sand in the grain, so they will lower the price.
The villagers believed that the grain merchants were deliberately lowering prices out of thin air, so they started to argue.
They were arguing and wanted to start fighting, so Xiangzhi came over to start a fight.
For a while, the crowds on the streets were noisy and blocked the roads. Several carriages were also blocked and blocked from walking.
Ying Bao lay on the counter and looked outside for a while, and suddenly spotted a few familiar figures.
I saw Chen Changping and his wife Han getting out of a carriage, and Han was holding a little baby in his hand.
Two girls also got out of another car, it was Chen Tiantian and Chen Zhao.
Not only that, even Chen Laoshuan is back, as well as his old wife Feng.
Chen Tiantian and Chen Zhao supported Feng, and they came straight to the medicine hall.
"Medical doctor! Doctor Li!" Chen Laoshuan ran into the medicine hall in three steps and shouted to Doctor Li: "Hurry up and see that hole in my house, she is vomiting badly!"
Mr. Li stood up, looked outside, and said, "Help her sit down here and I'll examine her."
Chen Zhao and Chen Tiantian helped Chen Feng sit down on the stool outside the counter, rolled up their sleeves and checked the doctor's pulse.
As soon as they raised their heads, they met Ying Bao's eyes.
"You..." Chen Zhao almost didn't recognize that the little girl wearing a blue robe turned out to be Ying Bao.
"Why are you here?" Chen Zhao couldn't help but ask.
Ying Bao raised her eyebrows: "Be an apprentice."
At this time, Chen Changping and Han, who was holding a baby, also walked in.
Ying Bao casually glanced at the baby in Han's arms.
It seems that it has been several months, and his appearance is exactly the same as that of Chen Xu in his previous life.