After Su Qingming entered the Imperial Hospital, he seemed to have become an apprentice again. His daily work was to collect medicinal materials, organize them, boil medicines, decoct them, and make pills. Sometimes he was also responsible for calculating the inventory situation.
It was never his turn to see the nobles, but this did not dampen his enthusiasm at all, because the Imperial Medical Bureau had many more books than his own. After finishing his work every day, he would immerse himself in these books.
There were very few people in the Imperial Hospital that day because spring had arrived and many people had caught colds due to the sudden warm weather, so everyone went to the various palaces for medical treatment.
Doctor Xiao hurried back and shouted, "Is there anyone who wants to go with me to the Princess's house?"
Su Qingming immediately put down the herbs in his hand when he heard it, "Doctor Xiao, I can go with you."
Doctor Xiao was not very familiar with Su Qingming. He only remembered that he was a new medical assistant. However, after looking around and seeing no one else to choose from, he nodded in agreement.
Su Qingming picked up his medicine box and quickly followed Doctor Xiao.
On the way, Doctor Xiao instructed: "When we get to the princess's palace, just follow behind and watch. No need to say anything. Just do whatever I tell you to do."
"good."
When they arrived at the palace, Zhenzhu led them in. Princess Mingman was sitting by the bed waiting to be seen.
Doctor Xiao stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, I need to take your pulse first."
Mingman stretched out her arm unhappily to cooperate with the imperial physician's diagnosis and treatment.
"Princess, you are still quite weak. Spring is here, and the pollen in the air will increase. Try to go out less and stay indoors. You must continue to take this medicine."
Ming Man turned her head away and said, "I don't want to drink that bitter medicine. Can you give me another one?"
"Good medicine tastes bitter!"
"Xiao Su, go and make medicine for the princess according to my prescription."
Su Qingming took the prescription and left, going to the next room to boil the medicine.
Doctor Xiao was watching in the room, but suddenly a palace maid ran over and said that the Empress Dowager had a cough and needed Doctor Xiao to go and see her quickly.
The Empress Dowager's affairs were more important, so Doctor Xiao couldn't take care of them. Coincidentally, Ming Man also wanted him to leave quickly. "My grandmother's affairs are more important. Doctor Xiao, please go quickly. There is another doctor here."
Doctor Xiao bowed and withdrew. Before leaving, he told Su Qingming to prepare the medicine and quickly serve it to the princess, and then he left in a hurry.
Although it was Su Qingming's first time to accompany Mingman to a medical consultation, because the Imperial Hospital would record every consultation as a pulse record, Su Qingming also understood Mingman's condition.
It would be better to say that she is weak rather than sick. Although Mingman looks lively, active and playful, her body is still relatively weak. She may get sick just because of a gust of cold wind.
It is said that last year Mingman went to Jizhou for fun. On the way back, it rained heavily and he accidentally fell off his horse. His legs bled a lot. When he was rescued by the imperial guards, he looked very weak.
Fortunately, she met a kind person who bandaged her wound well. So, during that period, Mingman spent almost every day holding ginseng slices in her mouth.
There were imperial physicians on duty morning and night because the weather was cold and humid those days, and they were afraid that Mingman would catch a cold again. Fortunately, Mingman finally recovered.
Since she was eight years old, Mingman had to see a doctor every three days and drink a large bowl of bitter medicine every time, which was said to increase her resistance.
You have to drink it even if you don't want to. You can say that you are a child who grew up in a medicine jar.
As a result, he was particularly loved by the emperor.
Although there are many roses in the room, they are all covered with transparent covers, for fear that Princess Mingman will sneeze if she smells them too much.
The medicine was ready, and Su Qingming brought it in. Zhenzhu took it and walked behind the screen. Mingman asked about the taste and felt like vomiting because it was so bitter.
"Pearl, I don't want to drink it. It's too bitter."
"Princess, you will feel better with this candy."
"I don't drink it. It's bitter even with sugar."
Su Qingming heard everything clearly outside the screen. He also felt that the medicine was too bitter. Even he, a doctor, could hardly drink it.
But this was not something he could control. The job had been done. Su Qingming took his medicine box and left. It was his first time in the Princess' Palace and he was a little lost. As he walked, he smelled a familiar smell. Following the smell, he saw a smell of medicine in the soil under a plum tree. Even the color of the soil was different from the ones next to it.
Isn’t this the smell of medicine that I just brewed? Could it be that Princess Mingman poured out all the medicine?
I looked up at the window and bumped face to face with Mingman who had just opened the window.
Mingman was holding the medicine bowl with half a bowl of medicine in her hand. Su Qingming immediately understood.
Ming Man withdrew her hand and said, "You've already discovered it, right? I don't want to do this, but this medicine is too bitter. I can only drink half a bowl at most. If I drink more, I will vomit. But if I don't drink it, my father and mother will definitely be worried, and they may even blame Doctor Xiao."
Ming Man lowered her eyes. "So this is the only way I can do. I know my body, and I just hope to live a carefree life while I'm still alive."
Su Qingming paused. In his memory, Princess Mingman had always been bright and vigorous, but now she was filled with helplessness and frustration. He didn't know how to comfort her, and he felt that he was not qualified to comfort her.
After thinking for a while, he said, "I didn't see anything."
After saying that, he quickly walked away with the medicine box. Mingman looked at Su Qingming's back and smiled dejectedly.
After returning to the Imperial Hospital, Su Qingming began to study Mingman's prescription. He wanted to see if he could change the prescription, but after studying it for a few days, he found that although this prescription was bitter, it was indeed the most effective.
Why not change your thinking? If you can make the medicine juice into pills, wouldn’t that be enough? You can just swallow it in one gulp.
He told this idea to Doctor Xiao, who rejected it without a second thought. "The pills are not as effective as the juice. The difference is too great. No, no."
But Su Qingming did not give up. He had read in a book that although the effect of decoctions was better than that of pills, the effect of pills was more lasting and could also be used for subsequent consolidation.
Princess Mingman's illness is not acute, it is just to regulate the body, so it can be treated with pills.
Doctor Xiao still stubbornly disagreed.
In that case, he had no choice but to do it himself. Su Qingming consulted various materials and wanted to combine the decoction and pills. If he could take out the bitterest herbs in the decoction and roll them into pills, they would not be difficult to swallow.
Jiang Tuantuan, who knew about this, even went to the trading mall to buy two books on related medical skills and gave them to Su Qingming, and encouraged him: "Keep going, I believe you will find the most suitable prescription."
Encouraged, Su Qingming became more confident and would use his time after work to study.
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