The next day, Li Duanyang was going to take his last final exam - Prescription Science - with the senior students.
After passing this exam, he would have earned enough credits, and then he would have to defend his graduation thesis.
The unified graduation thesis defense for the fifth year has actually passed long ago, so this time the school will organize a specially organized thesis defense for Li Duanyang.
The upcoming graduation thesis defense specifically for him will definitely not be as standardized as that of ordinary fifth-year students, and the difficulty will definitely be different.
However, Li Duanyang is not nervous about this. After all, the difficulty of this graduation thesis defense cannot exceed the level of professors at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
At 7:50 in the morning, Li Duanyang walked into the examination room calmly, found his examination number under the attention of all the senior candidates, sat down in his seat, quietly closed his eyes and rested, waiting for the examination to begin.
He could feel many eyes intertwining on him, but he was used to it.
He doesn't know any of these candidates, but I'm afraid these candidates all know him.
After all, he is now quite special in the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is very famous and has become a hot topic in school forums. Even his photos have been posted again and again.
When he first enjoyed the treatment of being a "famous star in the school", he was somewhat uncomfortable, but now he takes it calmly.
The highest state of health preservation is to nourish the heart, and the highest state of life is to guard the heart.
As long as I guard my heart, I will remain calm and unaffected by everything.
This is probably what the ancients meant by "Mount Tai collapses in front but remains unchanged; elk rises to the left but does not blink".
The invigilator walked into the classroom, announced the exam rules according to the script, and then handed out the papers and started the exam.
After receiving the test paper, Li Duanyang, like other candidates, first wrote his name and test number, then reviewed the entire test paper, and then began to answer the questions.
He answered the paper very quietly and quickly. After all, the prescription examination for college students was still too easy for him.
When the invigilator had just handed out the papers and turned to him to look at his test paper, he had already answered the last multiple-choice question.
The composition of Xiaoqinglong Decoction contains: a. Aster b. Almond c. Baiqian d. White peony root e. Ginger.
This kind of question is a no-brainer for Li Duanyang.
However, it is still somewhat confusing for ordinary Chinese medicine students.
Because in this question, in addition to memorizing the recipe of Xiao Qinglong Tang, you also need to understand the meaning of Xiao Qinglong Tang, and you also need to understand the difference between ginger and dried ginger, white peony root and red peony root to answer this question correctly.
The formula of Xiaoqinglong Decoction consists of: ephedra, peony, asarum, licorice, dried ginger, cinnamon twig, schisandra chinensis, and pinellia.
Students who memorize by rote but don’t ask for a thorough explanation will be in trouble at this time, because in terms of words alone, there is no correct answer among the options for this question!
The two closest answers are naturally ginger and white peony root.
How to choose between these two options, then you have to understand what Xiaoqinglong Tang does. It relieves the surface and dispels cold, warms the lungs and transforms the drink.
Next, you need to figure out what dry ginger does in this prescription?
In Xiaoqinglong Decoction, dried ginger and asarum are used as ministerial herbs, which are used to warm the lungs and transform the drink, and also help the pair of monarch herbs, ephedra and cassia twig, to relieve symptoms and eliminate evil.
In other words, the main function of dried ginger in Xiao Qinglong Decoction is not to relieve the external symptoms. There are ephedra and cinnamon twigs to relieve the external symptoms. It is mainly used to warm the lungs and dissolve drinks.
The main function of ginger is to relieve external symptoms, while the main function of dried ginger is to warm the body!
Therefore, ginger is naturally not the correct option in this question.
(Of course, the functions of ginger and dried ginger have many things in common. For example, ginger can also warm the lungs and transform the drink, while dried ginger can also help relieve inflammation, but you have to pay attention to the focus of their functions!)
Then you can examine whether the peony in Xiao Qinglong Soup is white peony or red peony.
The compatibility characteristics of Xiaoqinglong Decoction are that the pungent powder and sourness are combined, and there is a combination in the powder; the warming and lung-condensing combinations are in harmony, and there is a combination in the opening.
In other words, the peony in Xiaoqinglong Decoction mainly plays the role of "astringent" and "condensing the lungs"!
So which one of white peony root and red peony root has such function?
It’s obviously white peony root!
Because red peony root has greater dispersion than white peony root, it is used to clear away heat, detoxify, activate blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis and relieve pain.
So it goes without saying that the answer to this question is white peony root!
Of course, students who memorize by rote also have a high chance of answering this question correctly, so they can only draw lots between the two options of ginger and white peony root.
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It only took Li Duanyang more than forty minutes to finish the exam. Then he put down the paper and stood up and walked out of the exam room in the eyes of all the candidates gnashing their teeth. As soon as he got into the car parked in the parking lot, his cell phone rang.
Yes, it's Tu Shi calling.
Well, this Tu Shi was the Kyoto liver disease guru who came to Li Duanyang's clinic with Zheng Wenqiang at the National Academic Society of Liver Diseases to compile his speech at the meeting into a paper for publication.
Now he called to talk about this matter. He and Zheng Wenqiang had completed the first draft of the paper and now wanted to send it to Li Duanyang for his opinion.
"I'm being targeted right now. If you collaborate with me to publish a paper, aren't you afraid of being targeted too?" Li Duanyang said jokingly.
"It's just a little fly buzzing around, don't care what he does!" Tu Shi said disapprovingly.
It seems that he also knows about this matter, and he may have searched for information about him, Li Duanyang, recently.
"Hahaha." Li Duanyang smiled, "Then please send me the manuscript. I just have some time now."
Tu Shi immediately sent him the manuscript. Li Duanyang sat in the car and spent more than an hour adding some revision comments, and then sent it to Tu Shi.
"Ah ah ah, you still have something new!"
After more than half an hour, Tu Shi carefully considered Li Duanyang's opinion and called him again.
Then the two discussed it for a while, and Tu Shi sent the manuscript to Zheng Wenqiang for reading.
At this point in this paper, Li Duanyang has completed his task. As for other matters such as publishing, he naturally does not care about it.
In his opinion, this is not a big deal. At most, it will earn him a little reputation in the Western medicine community.
Of course, this is a good thing after all. A Chinese medicine doctor who knows a lot about Western medicine may be more convincing.
After finishing this matter, Li Duanyang drove to Jiaotong University. Qin Linlin also had a graduation exam today. The two of them made an appointment to go back to Qin's house at noon today. First, Qin Linlin's father, Qin Chang'an, returned from the south, and his body may need some medical treatment.
I've taken care of myself. First, if I don't go, I'll have to tell Grandpa Qin and Grandma Qin.
When he arrived at Jiaotong University, Li Duanyang had just parked his car in the parking lot where Qin Linlin often parked. Another call came on his mobile phone. This time it was from Peng Xiangdong, who was going to be his apprentice yesterday. This man was really strange.
A fifteen-year-old or sixteen-year-old actually wants to change his profession to study Chinese medicine!
If the family conditions were average, they would not be so willful!
Yesterday, Li Duanyang briefly explored his family situation, and it was probably considered a middle-class family in Chang'an, so Li Duanyang would not have much pressure to take him away. After all, he still had a way out.
"Master, I have talked it through with my parents. If you don't believe it, I will call my parents for you and let them talk to you?" Peng Xiangdong said with a smile on the phone.
This guy even called his master.
"That's no need. You can come to the clinic to experience it for a while first." Li Duanyang said briefly, "That's it, I still have something to do."
It's okay to meet Peng Xiangdong in person, let's talk about it after getting to know him for a while.