As the saying goes, gold is valuable but medicine is priceless.
Medicine not only refers to the knowledge and skills possessed by doctors, but also refers to the commercial value of medicinal materials as physical materials.
In particular, it is not surprising that some rare but life-sustaining medicinal materials are worth more than gold.
But Guan Lang was not trying to make some elixir of living dead human flesh and white bones today. He was just buying some common Chinese medicinal materials, so he just went to the Chinese medicine store in this city.
But having said that, you can’t just choose pharmacies randomly. If you want to buy genuine and high-quality medicinal materials, it’s best to go to some time-honored brands or large chain brands.
Oranges grown in Huainan are called tangerines, and those grown in north Huaibei are called tangerines. The leaves are similar, but the actual taste is different. So why? The water and soil are different. Liu Xiang’s water and soil debate about tangerines and tangerines is not only applicable to fruits, but also very suitable for Chinese medicinal materials. .
The same kind of medicinal materials grown in the soil of different regions often have significantly different qualities.
Guan Lang searched through rating websites and finally decided on a time-honored brand with good reviews.
After a ten-minute drive, Guan Lang looked at the imposing plaque of Shouren Hall in front of him with some surprise.
He originally imagined that a time-honored Chinese medicine store should be a quiet and quiet small building in a deep alley. However, although the Chinese medicine store in front of him has a deliberately antique design, he can still feel the brand-new environment of the store.
Get off the car and walk into the store.
A fresh and mellow herbal fragrance filled the whole room. The wood-colored displays and the quiet lights hitting the mahogany floor created a peaceful atmosphere.
Either it was an illusion, or Guan Lang was more sensitive to his body's senses. As soon as he entered the store, he felt an indescribable feeling of comfort coming from within his body.
There is an old pharmacist in Shouretang and several young people who help review prescriptions and prepare medicines. They are probably medical college students doing part-time jobs.
"Amomum villosum, platycodon, white lentil, white poria, ginseng, licorice..."
After receiving Guan Lang's prescription and finding out that it was a nourishing prescription, he didn't ask any more questions and neatly asked Zhu Zi to weigh and package it for him.
I picked up the purchased medicinal materials and went to the vegetable market to buy the ingredients before returning home.
After flipping through the medical books, the memory of what I had read quickly came to mind.
Traditional Chinese medicine is an empirical medicine. Studying existing TCM books that can be found is a way to quickly improve your knowledge and skills.
Because those works on traditional Chinese medicine are also knowledge summarized by predecessors through massive medical records.
The D-level mental attributes greatly enhanced his memory, so he was able to cram a lot of basic knowledge into his head.
However, just reading works has its upper limit.
Guan Lang's current Chinese medicine skill has only reached level 2 (410).
It is still only a good stage among amateurs, and there is still some distance from professional level 3.
It is also understandable that if such a complex skill-based knowledge as medicine could be solved by talking on paper, there would not be such a shortage of medical talents.
"Ding dong, we have detected an accessible side mission, the road to refining medicine. Do you want to accept it?"
Just when Guan Lang was putting the medicinal materials in preparation for processing, a long-lost voice came from his mind.
He hadn't received a side mission in a while, and learning Chinese medicine was one of his current plans, so he certainly wouldn't miss it at this time.
"Mission details on the road to refining medicine: upgrade Chinese medicine skills to level 3."
It's not too difficult, and there's no time limit for completing the task. It's a very conscientious side mission.
After Guan Lang finished reading the task, he closed the system task panel. He did not rush to boil the medicine to understand its properties. Instead, he grabbed the Chinese medicinal materials at hand, crushed them into small pieces, took them one by one and chewed them gently.
This is also his unique advantage. He can accurately grasp the effects of medicinal materials on the human body through his unparalleled perception of the body.
The understanding gained through personal experience and analysis of medicinal effects one by one is far beyond what can be compared with a few lines of efficacy text in a book.
A small piece of white poria was broken into pieces while Guan Lang was chewing, and an extremely subtle bitter taste spread in his mouth.
The concoction mixed with saliva goes down the throat and enters the digestive system.
Guan Lang closed his eyes, his thoughts seemed to sink into his body.
With a high degree of mental concentration, the scene of the internal organs becomes clearer and clearer, as if the legendary inner vision effect has been achieved.
White Poria is a medicinal material with mild medicinal properties, so in Guan Lang's perception, there is almost no change in the body after the medicinal liquid enters.
But in the end he still felt a slight throbbing, and there was an imperceptible squirm in some areas of the spleen and stomach, emitting a faint warmth.
Wisps of misty white Qi are rising in the spleen.
The white energy here is not the ordinary mist in reality, but an invisible energy similar to inner energy. He was able to capture it only in a state of extremely concentrated mental power.
During the subsequent drug testing process, this kind of smell continued to appear frequently.
The number and degree vary, and the organs and parts that emerge are also different.
But one thing is similar, that is, they are often born in the organs where the medicinal effects of medicinal materials are mainly exerted.
It can be inferred that the special energy generated by medicinal materials acting on human organs is neither stored in medicinal materials nor simply contained in the human body.
If we insist on classifying this energy into broad categories, it can be roughly divided into white and black energy. Black and white are not colors, but the perception it brings to spiritual power.
A kind of gentle Yang Qi, and a kind of cold Yin Qi.
Moreover, the two are not completely contradictory, but coexist with each other.
Throughout the morning, Guan Lang was in the process of constantly trying, sometimes chewing it dry, sometimes boiling it into a concoction and taking it, and sometimes crushing it into a paste for external application.
Coupled with the review of medical books, some previously unclear knowledge gradually became integrated.
In this kind of research and pondering, his ability to master the combination of different medicinal materials and the harmony between pharmacology has been greatly enhanced.
The results reflected on the skill panel are the most intuitive.
Chinese Medicine Level 2 (810).
The proficiency level increased by four points.
The learning-feedback intuitive display mechanism also made Guan Lang a little addicted to practice, until the set alarm clock sounded.
Only then did he wake up from his tireless state.
After swallowing, an extremely bitter taste reverberated in his mouth.
Thanks to the abnormal digestion and transformation ability, the medicinal materials are decomposed extremely quickly in the body, leaving no poisonous deposits, but the mixed taste in the mouth does not dissipate easily.
After brushing my teeth, the bitterness of the medicine was replaced by the mint flavor of the toothpaste.
Guan Lang walked out of the bathroom, looked at Qianqiu playing with a fur ball in the corner of the living room, and shook his head.
This cat is a bit snobbish. Before making the medicine, she thought he was preparing to cook, so she stayed by his side and refused to leave. She looked like a caring little cotton-padded jacket.
But after the smell of the medicine spread, he immediately ran away, fearing that he would not be able to avoid it.
Cats are warm and cold, but the world is cold and cold.