Chapter 75: Collect medicinal materials
Chapter 75 Collecting medicinal materials
“What a tragedy!” Doctor Du covered his face and cried bitterly, thinking about the scene where his family members were killed.
The third grandfather comforted him: "Things are over. You still have grandchildren to take care of. For their sake, you can't think too much about the past. You have to move forward and raise them up."
When Dr. Du heard this, he finally stopped crying and said, "Brother Gu said that for them, I can't be so happy or sad."
Happy and sad, he wants to live a good life and raise his grandchildren.
He wiped away his tears and said with a smile: "Fortunately, I will be the doctor here from now on, and my livelihood will be no problem."
Doctor Du is a refugee who fled the famine. Logically, no medical clinic or pharmacy would dare to use him. However, he is a medical craftsman registered in the government office, and he has a brand and documents from the government office.
This brand and document are his proof. This is something that is recognized by medical clinics all over Dachu, so Xuanhufang dares to use him.
"Although it cost ten taels of silver to get this sign and the clerk, now it seems that the ten taels of silver were well spent!" If he hadn't spent that money, he would have been away from home and would not have been able to find a job.
In addition to strict household registration management, the yamen in Dachu also managed doctors and craftsmen.
The doctors of Dachu refer to real doctors. As for those barefoot doctors who only know a few medicinal materials and have a few folk recipes, even if they want to spend money to register at the Yamen and get documents and brands, they are not allowed.
As Dr. Du spoke, he thanked Dr. Wu again: "Old Dr. Wu is also kind-hearted. If other medical clinics or drug stores don't dare to use me, a refugee who fled the famine, I'm afraid."
Da Chu pays attention to the method of sitting together. There are no clansmen in the local area. Even if you have skills and documents, few people dare to use you. They are afraid that one person will make a mistake and use you to cause harm to everyone.
Old Doctor Wu said: "Why are you talking about this? Who doesn't have a hard time? Moreover, the registration of doctors and craftsmen in the yamen is recognized by all the major medicine shops. Since it is recognized, you have the documents and the brand, and our Xuanhufang is short of doctors, so naturally Use it."
Doctor Du was still very grateful. Dr. Wu gave him this job, which was equivalent to saving the lives of his family.
Old Doctor Wu couldn't bear Doctor Du's repeated thanks, so he quickly pointed at Gu Jinli and said, "Little girl, take a look at your medicinal materials."
Gu Jinli hurriedly got up, took an empty round sieve, opened the sack containing the dry medicinal materials, took out the bundles of dried medicinal materials, and the dried bamboo tubes, and placed them on the round sieve.
Old doctor Wu saw those dry bamboo tubes and asked, "Are they also filled with medicinal materials?"
Gu Jinli nodded, picked up a dry bamboo tube, opened the wooden stopper with a cloth strip on it, and poured out the sliced medicinal materials inside to show to old doctor Wu: "Grandpa Wu, these are Dipsacus sinensis, they have been prepared, you see look."
Dipsacus Dipsacus is a versatile medicinal material with a wide range of uses. It has the functions of tonifying the liver and kidneys, preventing miscarriage, treating sores, treating carbuncles, and connecting tendons and bones.
Old Doctor Wu picked up the Dipsacus tablets and saw that the medicinal materials were well preserved and not affected by moisture. He nodded slightly, put the medicinal materials to his nose and smelled it, then put it into his mouth and chewed it a few times, and said: "The cooking temperature is good. , can be considered a top-quality medicinal material.”
When Gu Dashan heard this, he narrowed his eyes with a smile and said, "Xiaoyu made it himself according to what is written in the medical book."
“Oh, did you concoct these medicinal materials yourself?” Doctor Wu looked at Gu Jinli and was surprised that the skinny girl in front of him, who looked no more than ten years old, could actually concoct the medicinal materials and could even read.
Gu Jinli nodded and said with a smile: "When I was fleeing from famine, I met a grandfather named Bai. He knew medical skills and told me a lot about medicinal materials. When he died, he gave me a medical book. I I just looked at it when I had nothing to do. There were pictures of herbal medicines on it, which was easy to recognize. My family members got colds on the way, so I followed the instructions in the medical books to find the medicinal materials and tried to boil them for my family to drink, which really cured them. " Old Doctor Wu's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he told Gu Jinli: "Don't prescribe medicines to people randomly in the future. These medicinal materials are about the combination and weight. If you use a different dosage or mix the wrong medicine, big trouble will happen."
Gu Jinli responded seriously: "Yes, junior, remember. From now on, I will only dig out medicinal materials to sell, and will not prescribe medicines to people indiscriminately. My medical skills are not good, and it will harm people."
In fact, her medical skills are very good, but this body is too young, and she is not from a medical family. If she really prescribes prescriptions to treat people, or discusses various prescriptions and diseases with Dr. Wu, how can the people here Burn her as a monster.
The ancients believed in this. The third grandmother and Lao Yan would pray to the sky and say God’s blessings when they had nothing to do, so she had to take it step by step and let everyone slowly accept that she could not only prepare medicinal materials, but also cure diseases.
Old doctor Wu nodded with satisfaction: "You can teach children."
Old Doctor Wu checked all the medicinal materials in Gu Jinli's sack and sighed to himself: This little girl has found so many types of medicinal materials, such as Rehmannia glutinosa, White Fu, Angelicae Sinensis, Safflower, Chuanxiong, Tribulus Terrestris, Eucommia Eucommia, Ephedra, etc. …
Old doctor Wu was dazzled. He picked up a dry bamboo tube and poured out dried centipedes.
"You dare to catch this." Old doctor Wu liked this little girl Gu Jinli a little bit. Most people would not dare to catch centipedes easily.
Gu Jinli said with a smile: "We fled all the way, covering the mountains and plains. We saw a lot of these things. If we saw them, we would kill them and roast them. It's not difficult."
He then handed a dry bamboo tube to old doctor Wu and said, "Grandpa Wu, this contains dried snake gallbladder."
Old doctor Wu took it, looked at it, nodded and said, "Yes. It's winter now, and many people suffer from rheumatism, cough, and asthma. It's just the time when they need it."
Gu Jinli took the opportunity to take out another sack, pointed at it and said, "Grandpa Wu, there are forty-three hibernating snakes in it."
Old doctor Wu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and asked: "Is there a bloated-neck snake? Its snake gallbladder is a good thing."
Gu Jinli said: "There are three."
The swollen-necked snake is a cobra. The whole body of the cobra is full of treasures, and it is particularly effective in treating rheumatism and gout.
When Dr. Wu heard this, he couldn't wait to find an iron pliers, opened the sack, used the iron pliers to clamp the head of a two-finger-wide snake with a swollen neck, and took it out of the sack: "This snake's skin is very shiny. The snake teeth are also clean, not bad.”
"We have collected all your medicinal materials." Old Doctor Wu said, and shouted: "Cornus, Mutong, you two, come here, weigh these medicinal materials, and give them to the Gu family according to the price of the best medicinal materials."
“Master is here.” Two of Dr. Wu’s apprentices ran to the backyard and began to count and weigh Gu Jinli’s medicinal materials.
Old doctor Wu looked at the snakes in the sack again, picked out the rarer and more useful snakes, put them in a wooden barrel, closed the lid, pressed them with stones, and carried them into the house.
These snakes are precious, and he wants to collect the gallbladder and venom by himself. As for the common snakes: "Xiao Liu, come over and work."
Snakes, toads, deer and many other animals are used as medicinal materials, so each medicine shop will have a person who kills animals to obtain medicinal materials.
(End of this chapter)
