After she became proficient for a couple of days, she could learn how to prescribe medicine and take a pulse. She needed more practice, and it didn't matter if he was watching her.
Liu Yuhan breathed a sigh of relief after her master finished asking the questions. Her master was really strict. Every time he taught her medicine, his aura and attitude changed.
Although she felt somewhat confident, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous because it was not a territory she was truly familiar with.
Liu Yuhan mainly followed Ah Fei to get prescriptions and medicines. When he had some free time, he would open each medicine cabinet, look at it carefully, smell it carefully, and identify it carefully.
There are some differences between well-processed and unprocessed medicinal materials, and the efficacy will be very different. These need to be remembered.
There are even some medicinal herbs that are in short supply. She needs to remember whether other herbs can be used to replace them and what the effects will be.
For example, Chinese medicines with the same efficacy as Ophiopogon japonicus include Polygonum multiflorum and Lycium barbarum. Although Chinese medicines have similar efficacy, their applicable populations, usage, and dosage still need to be reasonably selected and matched according to individual circumstances.
For example, gypsum and rhizome of Anemarrhena. Gypsum is pungent, sweet, and extremely cold, benefiting the lungs and stomach. Used raw, its pungent properties can relieve muscle tension and reduce fever, while its cold properties can clear heat and purge fire. Its sweet and cold properties can relieve restlessness and quench thirst. It is a key herb for clearing excess heat in the lungs and stomach, clearing lung heat and purging stomach fire, and after calcination, it can astringe and promote tissue regeneration.
Zhimu is bitter, sweet and cold, and it nourishes the lungs, stomach and kidneys. It clears the fire in the lungs, stomach and kidney meridians, and its sweet and cold nature moistens the yin fluids of the three meridians; it clears the excess heat in the qi and clears the fire in the phase to reduce the deficiency heat.
For example, safflower and salvia miltiorrhiza. Salvia miltiorrhiza is bitter and slightly cold, and is a key herb for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is widely used to treat various blood stasis conditions. Its cold nature also cools the blood, making it particularly effective for treating blood heat and stasis. It's said that "a single salvia miltiorrhiza drink has the same efficacy as a Four-Ingredient Decoction." However, salvia miltiorrhiza doesn't have a blood-tonifying effect. It promotes blood circulation and regulates menstruation, making it a key gynecological herb, cooling the blood, eliminating carbuncles, and calming the mind.
Safflower is pungent and warm, and it affects the heart and liver meridians. It promotes blood circulation, unblocks menstruation, removes blood stasis, and relieves pain. Besides treating gynecological and postpartum symptoms, it can also treat accumulation of lumps (zhēng jiǎ) [a term used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, corresponding to uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts in Western medicine], chest pain, heartache, and injuries caused by falls, among other symptoms of blood stasis.
These still need to be memorized, and Liu Yuhan is learning with both pain and joy.
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