Chapter 135 Planting on fertile soil for spiritual herbs...

The medicinal herbs planted in the fertile soil matured gradually over two years.

Jade Glory Grass is propagated by division. As long as the spiritual energy is abundant, a small plant can grow into a large clump within half a year. Its medicinal efficacy is also linked to the spiritual energy content, so its propagation and growth rate is much faster than that of ordinary medicinal herbs.

Li Chang'an sent some more medicinal herbs to the two institutions.

Although these medicinal herbs are just ordinary items, they are nourished by the spiritual energy of the sacred mountain and the fertile soil of the medicinal herbs, so they all grow healthily and perfectly, with abundant nutrients and sufficient medicinal effects.

Li Chang'an had actually tried planting medicinal herbs in high-quality spiritual soil in an attempt to accelerate their maturation.

On high-quality spiritual soil, medicinal herbs do indeed grow very quickly, and some even mutate after only two rounds of planting, becoming low-grade spiritual herbs.

However, when these medicinal herbs are ordinary, their medicinal effects are not as good as those grown in the fertile soil of spiritual herbs. After they mutate into spiritual herbs, their medicinal effects become so powerful that ordinary people cannot withstand them.

Moreover, these spiritual-grade medicinal herbs require a long growth period, at least two years, which is similar to the growth time of ordinary-grade medicinal herbs in spiritual soil.

Therefore, Li Chang'an only set aside one mu of high-quality spiritual soil to grow spiritual medicinal herbs, while ordinary medicinal herbs were still grown in the spiritual medicinal soil.

Li Chang'an also planted some more goji berries, which are now ready for harvest.

The small ginseng is very good at processing medicinal materials. After picking the goji berries, it is processed and can be sold together with flower and fruit tea bags. Netizens have reported that it has a very good health-preserving effect.

In the past two years, tickets for Xuanling Immortal Mountain have continued to sell very well, and they are snapped up as soon as visitors arrive.

Visitors noticed it after the seal was broken at Wu Ying Mountain.

However, Wuying Mountain is not easy to climb, so when tourists come to visit, they simply take a bamboo raft down the Ningjing River to Wuying Mountain and enjoy the scenery on the river.

Wuying Mountain is very high, and the rocks are all bluish-green. When you come to the river here on a bamboo raft, it gets dark all around and extremely quiet. When you look up, you can only see a small area of ​​sky, and the sunlight pours down in a hazy beam.

At the end of the river is a very tall waterfall. There is a wooden bridge and boardwalk built by Li Chang'an on the riverbank. You can walk up the boardwalk to an open space in front of the waterfall. Li Chang'an built an ancient-style pavilion here, which is a popular spot for tourists who like to be alone to take pictures.

Occasionally, when people are riding Cloud Chaser Horses for leisure, they will fly up to the mountainside of Wuying Mountain and see the medicinal fields filled with herbs.

On this day, two people rode Cloud Chaser Horses to the top of the medicinal field.

There is a barrier over the herb field; those who come up there can only look at it from a distance and cannot go inside.

Even so, experienced people can tell the quality of medicinal herbs just by looking at the lush green fields and the branches and leaves.

“These medicinal herbs are indeed growing very well,” said the older of the two men after looking at the field of angelica below.

The young man smiled and said, "It wasn't for nothing that we waited so long; we finally managed to snag tickets to come here for tourism."

Both of them were doctors at a long-established medical clinic called Chunshengtang in Xia Kingdom.

With the development of technology, most of the medicines used in hospitals today are made by extracting the effective components of medicinal materials, and are called tablets.

Cultivators skilled in alchemy and medicine often use elixirs or decoctions when practicing medicine.

Traditional doctors like them prefer to use ancient medical techniques such as herbal decoctions and acupuncture, which distinguishes them from modern doctors and monks.

Of the two, the younger doctor was the older doctor's apprentice, and the older doctor was the director of Chunshengtang.

Not long ago, a young doctor bought some goji berries from Xianshan Farm and was amazed by their quality. He couldn't wait to show them to the older doctor.

They could tell from the goji berries that there must be other high-quality medicinal herbs in Xuanling Immortal Mountain, so they spent every day trying to get tickets to Xuanling Immortal Mountain, and finally managed to snag one yesterday.

Upon arriving at Xuanling Immortal Mountain, the two couldn't wait to find the Cloud Chasing Horse and go to the top of the medicinal field to take a look.

"The medicinal herbs are good, but whether Li Chang'an is willing to sell them is also a question," the old doctor sighed deeply.

"Let's ask anyway. Price isn't an issue."

The two lingered above the medicinal field for a long time before riding their Cloud Chaser back to Qingyao Mountain.

That evening, Li Chang'an saw a private message in the backstage from the two doctors from Chunshengtang who wanted to buy medicinal herbs.

The message in the private message essentially said that their Chunshengtang clinic has a thousand-year-old medicinal formula that is absolutely effective in treating illnesses. However, the quality of the medicinal materials and the processing methods are now quite different from those of the past, which is a real pity. Their clinic wants to purchase medicinal materials grown on Xuanling Immortal Mountain to treat more patients.

To show sincerity, Chunshengtang will sell the medicinal materials it purchases from Li Chang'an at the original price and will not make any profit from them. Patients will only pay the consultation fee for the doctor's examination and prescription.

This Chunshengtang probably doesn't have connections with the Xia Guo Academy of Medical Sciences and Ningshan Laboratory, so they wouldn't know that Li Chang'an had already provided the supply of medicinal materials for research and improvement of other medicinal materials.

However, it will probably take a long time for the research to show results. Before that, once the medicinal materials have grown and been processed, they can be sold to patients who need them.

The doctor who sent the message was very sincere.

Li Chang'an pondered for a while before replying: "Currently, the number of mature medicinal herbs is limited, and the variety is incomplete, making it impossible to supply the clinic in large quantities. If possible, please send me the prescriptions for seriously ill patients, and I will then handle the shipping."

The young doctor at Chunshengtang was surprised that Li Chang'an would reply to him so quickly.

He didn't waste any time and quickly showed Li Chang'an's information to the hospital director and senior physician.

“That works too, that works too.” The old doctor repeated excitedly twice. “As long as he’s willing to sell medicinal herbs, he can decide how to sell them.”

After calming down, the old doctor first thanked Li Chang'an for providing the medicinal materials, and then asked Li Chang'an what kind of medicinal materials he had.

After purchasing the medicinal herb seeds and seedlings, Li Chang'an made a list, which can now be sent directly to him.

Thank you very much. Could you please give us some of the medicinal herbs first? We'd like to test whether combining them with other herbs would affect their efficacy.

Li Chang'an naturally agreed.

After speaking with the director of Chunshengtang, Li Chang'an and Xiao Renshen went to collect some mature medicinal herbs, and Xiao Renshen helped the immature ones to mature, and then they were all processed together.

Li Chang'an also learned how to process medicinal materials from Xiao Renshen, and is now proficient in doing so.

The prepared medicinal materials were quickly sent to Chunshengtang.

The old doctor, along with his many apprentices, studied the medicinal herbs and wrote several prescriptions that proved useful, testing their efficacy.

After all, these are medicinal herbs imbued with spiritual energy. When mixed with ordinary medicinal herbs, they not only do not affect their own efficacy, but also stimulate the efficacy of other medicinal herbs.

In other words, the prescription is more effective, and the medicinal effects are not so strong as to harm the human body.

The old doctor was completely stunned.

He had a premonition that these medicinal herbs, whether from modern medicine or their traditional medicine, would likely be altered.

...

The old doctor did not hide the fact that Li Chang'an was willing to provide the medicinal materials.

In recent years, traditional medicine has not developed well. In order to preserve its traditions, some time-honored medical clinics are contacting and learning from each other. An old doctor mentioned this in several large groups.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

Is this true? Is Li Chang'an really willing to let ordinary people like us use what he grows in the sacred mountain?

"That's a lie... So Li Chang'an's vegetables are also being eaten by ordinary people. Besides, the Jade Radiance Pill was made from spiritual plants he provided, so I believe it's true."

"Would I lie to you? It's absolutely true, and the processing of those medicinal herbs was flawless; their effects are excellent."

"That's great! I have a very serious patient here who needs Astragalus membranaceus, Poria cocos, and Hedyotis diffusa, among other things. Does Li Chang'an have any?"

Yes, all of them. Here is a list of the medicinal herbs that Li Chang'an planted.

The old doctor from Chunshengtang sent out the list, and the various groups were quiet for a while.

The doctors carefully examined the names of the medicinal herbs in the table, and immediately had their apprentices write down any herbs they needed.

After a long while, the group chat became lively again.

The doctors from various clinics were discussing how to uniformly purchase these medicinal materials from Li Chang'an. They couldn't all send private messages; Li Chang'an would be too busy just reading them.

Ultimately, they came up with a plan: to establish an association, with government officials sending people to contact Li Chang'an and obtain the medicine.

In this way, not only can we prevent people from impersonating doctors to get medicine from Li Chang'an, but doctors from various medical clinics in the association can also communicate on prescriptions to ensure that the good medicinal materials from Xuanling Immortal Mountain are not wasted and are used by those who really need them.

Most people in the group agreed with the plan, so the director of Chunshengtang found several directors of medical clinics to register together.

According to the laws of Xia State, the establishment of any large association must be registered with the state, and the state will send people to supervise the process.

Before this, the Xia Kingdom government had considered gathering these ancient medical physicians into an association for easier management and inheritance, but each medical clinic had its own remedies and was unwilling to share them, so the matter was dropped.

The registration staff were somewhat bewildered as they looked at the directors of several major medical clinics in front of them. Why were these clinics now willing to voluntarily form an association? Weren't they afraid of their folk remedies being leaked?

In response, the directors of the medical clinics who came to register patients simply said, "Good medicinal materials are more important than folk remedies."

Moreover, the establishment of the association can help make traditional medicine more standardized, allowing doctors to register and preventing folk remedies from accidentally harming people without supervision and then blaming traditional medicine.

From any perspective, this is a good thing.

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Shortly after the establishment of the Ancient Medicine Association, Li Chang'an received some prescriptions from the association's staff and supplied the medicinal materials according to the list on the prescriptions.

A kite delivered goods to the clinic, and they arrived in just a few hours.

High-quality medicinal herbs are not easy to obtain. In most cases, doctors will choose the herbs that are available in their own clinics. Only when a patient's condition is truly critical will the prescription be sent to the association, and the association staff will then contact Li Chang'an to obtain the medicine.

To Li Chang'an's surprise, the little ginseng was also exceptionally skilled in medicine. It could tell the patient's condition from the prescriptions and occasionally offer its own opinions.

It won't rashly change the doctors' prescriptions; most of the time, it will only suggest reducing the quantity of a certain common medicinal herb and increasing the quantity of a certain medicinal herb that Xuanling Immortal Mountain can provide.

This way, the prescription will be more effective.

The prescriptions guided by the little ginseng have actually pulled some terminally ill patients back from the brink of death!

The doctors at the clinic were overjoyed. Those clinics that had previously hesitated to reveal their own folk remedies now wished they could show all the prescriptions to Little Ginseng and chat with him.

In a short time, more and more clinics joined the Ancient Medicine Association.

Other countries in the Cangxuan Realm also have physicians who specialize in ancient medicine. Upon learning about the Xia Kingdom's Ancient Medicine Association, they also wanted to join.

Thousands of years ago, we were all citizens of the Cangxuan Realm, and since it involved healing and saving lives, the Xia Kingdom Ancient Medicine Association had no reason to refuse.

As the association grew, physicians from all over the Cangxuan Realm frequently discussed treatment plans.

Although they came from different countries, Little Ginseng had traveled all over the Cangxuan Realm with the Boundless God Venerable in the past, and had come into contact with many ancient medical methods. He was even able to talk about some of the ancient medical methods of other countries.

Li Chang'an also bought seeds and seedlings of the herbs needed by doctors in those countries, planted them, and provided them with the prescriptions as soon as he received them.

In just three years, many difficult and complicated diseases have been cured. Diseases that were originally considered incurable can be cured with the medicinal herbs from Xuanling Immortal Mountain.

The two institutions that obtained the medicinal materials for research also replied to Li Chang'an, saying that the medicinal materials grown in the fertile soil of spiritual herbs could improve other ordinary medicinal materials. When batches of improved medicinal materials grow, medical technology will reach a new level.

Moreover, with the help of these improved medicinal herbs and hybrid crops, the lifespan of ordinary people may be extended.

As the director of Chunshengtang had predicted, these medicinal herbs brought about a radical change in the medical field.