Chapter 1410: Not a Good Teacher (November Monthly Ticket Plus 6)
Manbao doesn't have to worry about Zheng Gu for the time being. Xiao Shao is still studying a disease and there is no rush. But Doctor Liu has a good foundation and is smart, so she needs to learn a lot from Manbao.
Manbao took out the medical booklet that Bai Shan had copied from the medicine box and handed it to her, saying, "I wrote this during the New Year holiday. It contains all the medical records I have compiled."
Manbao hid their names and everything related to their identities, only noting down their pulse records, then wrote down the diagnosis method, and then wrote down the prescriptions she wrote, extending one or two other prescriptions, and some acupuncture techniques that would be needed...
"Take a copy. There's still some I haven't finished. You can copy it after I finish the manuscript."
This is a medical book!
Several doctors stared at the medical record in Doctor Liu's hand with sharp eyes, but did not speak.
Each family has medical books and medical records left by their ancestors, which are not easily shown to others.
Moreover, they have always known Zhou Man. If they dared to ask to see her medical records at this time, she would definitely ask to see the treasures left by their ancestors.
So wait a little longer, wait a little longer.
Doctor Ding and others looked at Manager Zheng with squinted eyes.
Shopkeeper Zheng was a little restless. He coughed lightly and asked, "Doctor Zhou, aren't you going to teach Liru how to identify medicinal herbs?"
"Oh, yes." The person who needs to be worried about the most at the moment is probably Zhou Liru, because she is like a blank sheet of paper and knows nothing yet.
Shopkeeper Zheng said with a smile, "It just so happens that a lot of new medicinal herbs were delivered today. I just checked them and haven't distributed them yet. Why don't you teach her how to distribute them?"
Manbao nodded and pulled Zhou Liru to identify the herbs. She looked at Xiao Shao and Doctor Liu who were idle and said, "You two should come too."
Many medicinal herbs are included in Manbao, and many of them are already in the encyclopedia. When she first started to identify medicinal herbs, she pulled out all the entries in the encyclopedia and wrote them down together with what Doctor Ji taught her and what was in the medical books.
Most of the medicinal properties written are the same, but there are always a few extra entries. Manbao knows that these are the effects discovered after accumulation of time.
Of course, Manbao couldn't remember everything clearly, her brain wasn't that powerful yet.
She only memorized the most important medicinal properties and usage, and wrote down the rest in her notes.
At this time, she felt around in the medicine box and actually took out a thick notebook from the space.
This book is different from the ones that Doctor Liu and the others have seen. The cover is very thick and looks like it is made of sheepskin to the naked eye.
It looks very expensive at first glance.
Zhou Liru was very familiar with this notebook. When she was a child, her aunt would go out to dig up her favorite flowers and plants and soon after she came back, she would lie on the desk and write down the appearance, medicinal properties, etc. of those flowers and plants in this notebook.
According to my sister-in-law, this notebook was bought by her and someone she was very close to, and it was not expensive at all.
Everyone in the family guessed that the man was Master Shan, because only he would sell such a valuable item to his aunt at such a low price.
Then the eldest aunt specially made meat patties for the younger sister to bring to Master Shan. At that time, they envied Master Shan very much, because the meat patties were made with a lot of white flour and meat. The meat filling was first stuffed into the meat patties and fried, and then put in the stove to bake. The taste...
It is not inferior to the meat pie shop at the intersection of Erhu Street in Mianzhou City, although the two kinds of meat pie are not the same.
Thinking of this, Zhou Liru swallowed her saliva, turned her head and said to Manbao: "Aunt, I want to eat my aunt's meat pie."
Manbao became sad when he heard this.
She turned to look at Zhou Liru and said righteously, "Don't mention sister-in-law here casually, especially when we are starving."
Zhou Liru nodded and admitted his mistake.
Manager Zheng: ...
He said to the waiter beside him, "Ask the cook in the kitchen to make some meat patties. We'll have meat patties for lunch today."
Doctor Gu: ...Please spare his life. The meat pie made by the cook has made his stomach feel uncomfortable.
Manbao coughed lightly, took the notebook and asked Zhou Liru to identify the simplest ones first. She picked up a piece of cut rhizome and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
Zhou Liru shook his head.
Manbao put it under his nose first and said, "Smell it and guess."
Zhou Liru: "...It smells quite good, with a... um, refreshing fragrance. But aunt, how can I guess? When you asked me to memorize the medicine's name, you didn't even tell me what it looked like."
"This is Astragalus membranaceus! You're so stupid! This is in the medicine Mom takes. Come, take a closer look and remember it."
Sanya looked at it and nodded, "I'll make a note of it."
Manbao didn't even need to look up the book, and told her directly, "This Astragalus is sweet and slightly warm. You should know this. People are divided into yin and yang, and this medicine is also divided into yin and yang. Yin can be divided into cool and cold, and yang can be divided into warm and hot... It belongs to the lung, spleen, liver, and kidney meridians. It can be used for spontaneous sweating due to deficiency of the exterior, night sweats due to deficiency of yin, edema caused by nephritis due to deficiency of yang, ulcers, and weakness caused by deficiency of qi. It can be combined with white atractylodes and saposhnikovia divaricata..."
"Wait, wait," said Old Zheng, the shopkeeper, his forehead sweating. Seeing that not only was Zhou Liru's eyes sparkling, but even Xiao Shao and Dr. Liu, who had a strong foundation, were having trouble following, he quickly interrupted her, "Little Doctor Zhou, is this how you teach children to identify medicinal herbs?"
Manbao said as a matter of course: "Yes, that's how Doctor Ji identified the herbs when he took me there. I haven't even told you the preparation methods yet."
Shopkeeper Old Zheng finally understood why Doctor Ji had not been able to produce a good student in all these years in Yizhou. The only one he produced, Zhou Man, was not even his student.
Shopkeeper Old Zheng tried his luck. Facing Zhou Man's gaze, he suddenly didn't want to say anything. He simply turned around and asked Zhou Liru, "Do you understand?"
Zhou Liru shook his head decisively, then nodded and whispered, "This medicine is called Astragalus."
Shopkeeper Zheng clapped his hands and said, "That's right, just remember it's called Astragalus."
He couldn't bear to see it, so he pulled Manbao over and waved his hand unceremoniously, saying, "Go, go, go, this is not how students are taught. Look, I'll teach her."
Manager Zheng turned his head, smiled at Zhou Liru, and pointed at the Astragalus membranaceus. He said, "Remember, this is Astragalus membranaceus, this is White Poria, this is Atractylodes macrocephala, this is Coptis chinensis, and these are Picrorhizon, Pinus longipi, and Gastrodia elata..."
Manager Zheng said the same thing, and Zhou Liru followed suit.
After he taught her to recite all the new herbs that had arrived today, he tested her again from the beginning. After doing this three times, Zhou Liru actually memorized most of the names.
Shopkeeper Zheng couldn't help but look at Manbao, then at Zhou Liru, stroking his beard and praising him: "Not bad, not bad, worthy of being from the same family, he is indeed smart."
Manbao tried to hold it in, but couldn't help saying, "You only teach us to recognize the names of herbs, but not their properties and usage?"
Manager Zheng nearly pulled his beard off. He said, "You have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. How can you expect people to remember so much right from the start?"
(End of this chapter)
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