Grandpa Gong chuckled and said, "I don't know who you're talking about. There are many people in the Imperial Hospital, and it's been so many generations, who would remember who? Your illness, from the front, does indeed show a deficiency of kidney yang, but there's also an excess of yin fire. We need to extinguish the fire first, then replenish it, and then regulate the five internal organs. During your recuperation, abstain from sexual activity."
"I'll book you a room in a bit. Take five doses of medicine first, and then I'll adjust your diet. Within five days, find someone who knows acupuncture to insert needles into your meridians and acupoints according to what I've told you, to unblock your meridians and acupoints."
Xing Baohua looked at the prescription written by Grandpa Gong. The handwriting was so beautiful that he couldn't recognize a single character.
"Go to the main branch of Hongrentang to get the medicine. There are two ingredients that only they have, and the price is cheaper there," the old man kindly reminded him, then smiled wryly.
The other party must be someone who is not short of money.
After leaving Old Master Gong's place, Xing Baohua felt that spending over a million yuan was not worthwhile after hearing just a few words from Old Master Gong.
When they arrived at Hongrentang, Xing Baohua and Su Ya went to get their medicine. The clerk saw the prescription and said, "Who wrote this? I can't understand a single word. How can I get the medicine?"
Xing Baohua chuckled, saying, "Look carefully, don't give me the wrong medicine."
The shop assistant, grumbling, went to find a senior employee. The senior employee couldn't understand it either, but the font seemed somewhat familiar.
"Comrade, please have a seat. This prescription looks familiar, but I haven't seen it for many years. We have a retired clerk in our store who lives not far from here. Please sit down and wait a moment, and I'll call him over to get the medicine for you."
The shop assistant was very polite and even brought over two stools, inviting Xing Baohua to sit down and wait.
The polite employee went outside, got on his bicycle, and sped away.
Xing Baohua, who had nothing to do, said to Su Ya, "Just to get me medical treatment, he spent over a million to buy a bottle and give it away. Putting aside the bottle, I feel that this old man is not worth the price of that bottle."
“That bottle was passed down from his family. He just wouldn’t sell it back then. I found out about it after asking around. Luckily, the person you introduced me to is knowledgeable and knows about this bottle.”
"You said that bottle was used by the Empress Dowager and was given to their ancestors, but that doesn't make sense! Neither the Tongzhi Emperor nor the Guangxu Emperor had any children. Have we been deceived?"
Xing Baohua suddenly remembered this. He was indeed an imperial physician, but the problem was that he couldn't cure infertility! Otherwise, how come Emperor Tongzhi, Emperor Guangxu, and even the last one didn't have any direct descendants?
Back then, the imperial physicians would have been executed along with their entire families.
Su Ya tilted her head, thought for a while, and felt that Xing Baohua's words made a lot of sense. How could this be?
Why don't we try it first, take a few doses of his medicine and see how it works? If it doesn't work, I'll go and get the bottle back.
"Don't rush to seek medical help in the future. Medical technology is so advanced now. In a few years, we can try IVF. It's not like we can't afford to raise children. We can have them in batches."
These words made Su Ya blush slightly. Just then, the old employee who had just left came in, helping an elderly man in his seventies into the room. Waving a prescription in his hand, he said, "Who asked Old Master Gong to take action?"
Xing Baohua stood up and said, "It's me."
The old man looked Xing Baohua over carefully but couldn't discern anything, then shouted loudly, "Get the medicine."
The elderly man walked to the counter, stood to the side and began calling out the names of the medicines, while the older employee who had just left cooperated by taking the medicines and weighing them.
"3 qian of Coptis chinensis and Magnolia officinalis"
"Angelica sinensis and Sophora flavescens, 6 qian each"
"..."
"Dragon bone 8 qian, sea dragon 6 qian"
Hearing the important names being called out, Xing Baohua recognized some of them, but only heard of others for the first time. For example, he really didn't know about the two medicinal ingredients, dragon bone and sea dragon, mentioned at the end.
But when the shop assistant took out some things that looked like seahorses, upon closer inspection, they didn't look like seahorses at all; they looked more like straightened seahorses.
I initially thought dragon bones were snake bones or something, but they don't look like them.
It wasn't easy to ask around, and after a while, the old man who had called for the prescription came over, casually put the prescription on his person, and didn't intend to return it to Xing Baohua.
The rule is that the prescription belongs to the pharmacy, and it needs to be kept on file in case the customer gets sick from taking it.
The old man walked up to Xing Baohua and said, "Over the years, you're the only one who can get Old Master Gong to take action. You're remarkable. I have to tell you something: soak this medicine for at least eight hours, simmer it over low heat for one hour, pour out the first bowl, add water and boil for two hours, then add water again and boil for one hour. Mix the three bowls of medicine together and drink it warm."
Remember, while taking this medicine, avoid spicy food, beef, mutton, seafood, and... He glanced at Su Ya and finally said, "Sexual activity."
Xing Baohua didn't care about dietary restrictions. He did some mental calculations and realized that soaking the herbs alone would take eight hours, which would amount to 16 hours.
Including the several times the medicine was decocted, it's been four hours already. Wow! It's been 24 hours since I drank the medicine.
Who could stand this?!
There's no way around it; traditional Chinese medicine has many rules, especially regarding the concepts of principal, assistant, adjuvant, and guide herbs.
It is divided into principal drugs, assistant drugs, adjuvant drugs, and guiding drugs. The drug that treats the main disease is the principal drug, the drug that assists the principal drug is the assistant drug, and the drug that responds to the assistant drug is the guiding drug. They are collectively referred to as principal, assistant, adjuvant, and guiding drugs.
Who understands all this? Explaining it to ordinary people just leaves them confused. It's just a medical appointment, why all this talk of rulers and subjects? There's a strict time all about brewing medicine; if someone has a sudden illness, by the time the medicine is finished, they're already cold.
It seems that Mr. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Lu Xun also looked down on traditional Chinese medicine, and it is said that they would rather die than see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, but in the end they both died.
Xing Baohua doesn't know any special methods here. If you're sick, you can see a doctor. There are emergency treatments for acute illnesses and treatments for chronic illnesses. Whether it's traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, there are methods available.
Su Ya wrote it down and then asked, "Sir, Grandpa Gong said that we need to find a doctor who is good at acupuncture. Do you have any recommendations?"
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