Chapter 251 Treating Lin Ruhai
Dr. Yu stroked his beard, pondered for a long time, and then wrote down the prescription.
"Mr. Yuan, use this prescription for three days first. After three days, we will check your pulse and then revise the prescription."
Yuan Hongqu took the prescription, which was very detailed, even including dietary restrictions written clearly at the end.
Although it was already late, families like the Lin family all had their own physicians and pharmacies, and they had all the common medicinal herbs at home.
More precious herbs, such as Ganoderma lucidum, Polygonatum sibiricum, and Cordyceps sinensis, are things that Yuan Hongqu regularly buys. These herbs are rare and are often given as gifts or kept for personal use.
In addition, for these three days, one can only eat bird's nest, and it must be golden snow swallow, which coincidentally is something the Lin family also has.
Last time, Fan Huaiqing brought it back from overseas, saying that this stuff was better than the bird's nest they usually ate. Knowing that the household used a lot of bird's nest daily, he specially brought it back to show his respect to the master.
Yuan Hongqu put these bird's nests into the Lin family's storeroom, making it more convenient for Daiyu to eat them.
Now it's Lin Ruhai who benefits.
The Lin family's physician, who had been assisting them, also looked at the prescription and brought out all the medicinal herbs in the house for Physician Yu to review.
The Lin family preserves their medicinal herbs well, and even ordinary herbs cannot reach their pharmacy.
"These are all usable, but the ginseng is a bit young. Doesn't your family buy ginseng year-round?" Doctor Yu asked, puzzled after examining the herbs.
"How can you keep such old ginseng in the pharmacy? If something goes wrong for no reason, I won't be able to explain myself no matter how hard I try." The physician of the Lin family was honest and very cautious.
When Yuan Hongqu bought a large quantity of ginseng and had it placed in the pharmacy, the Lin family physician didn't even touch it and immediately sent it back.
At this moment, Granny Jin brought over a box and asked, "Doctor Yu, do you think these are suitable?"
Grandma Jin opened the boxes. The first box, a long, flat one, was filled with rows of ginseng roots. Judging by their thickness and rootlets, they were all over three hundred years old.
Among them were a few that, according to Physician Yu, were over five hundred years old.
It's so old, how come it hadn't become a spirit before being dug up by someone? What a pity.
Looking at the other box, when Granny Jin opened it, even the well-informed Physician Yu was taken aback.
A red Ganoderma lucidum the size of a washbasin—even the Imperial Hospital doesn't have one this big. The Lin family truly lives up to its reputation as a family of four generations of marquises; their wealth is truly substantial.
With these words, Physician Yu was even more confident that Lin Ruhai would recover his health as soon as possible.
"Doctor Yu, I have a few bottles of ginseng hydrosol at home. They are concentrated ginseng essence. Do you think they can be used? Compared to eating ginseng directly, ginseng hydrosol is more easily absorbed and may be more effective."
"Ginseng hydrosol?" Imperial Physician Yu remembered that the Imperial Hospital had once obtained a bottle of it, which was sent there by the Emperor for research and analysis.
After several days of research, the many physicians of the Imperial Medical Academy finally calculated that the medicinal effect of ginseng hydrosol was dozens of times higher than that of ginseng. If properly combined, ginseng hydrosol could be a life-saving medicine!
Unfortunately, there was only one bottle. The Emperor forbade them to use too much. They wanted to try if the Imperial Hospital could replicate it, but unfortunately, they didn't get the chance.
The Lin family actually has such a good thing, and several bottles of it at that?
Physician Yu immediately said with delight, "Mr. Yuan, I shamelessly beg you to part with a bottle of ginseng hydrosol for me."
"Uh, it's nothing. I hope Physician Yu will take good care of Lord Lin's health in the future." Yuan Hongqu was slightly taken aback, then said loudly.
She couldn't possibly treat Lin Ruhai's illness herself, let alone examine him. This old doctor was readily available, and his medical skills were top-notch.
Just when you're about to doze off, someone offers you a pillow. Yuan Hongqu was originally thinking about how to get Imperial Physician Yu to come more often to help Lin Ruhai recuperate, but now that there's ginseng hydrosol, Imperial Physician Yu is happily coming on his own.
Once the medicine was prepared, the young apprentice immediately began decocting it in the adjacent tea room.
Daiyu was not idle either. She heard that her father had to eat bird's nest every day for the next few days and could not eat any other food that was even slightly oily.
So, regardless of how late it was, she stayed by the stove and personally stewed bird's nest for her father.
At this time of day, Daiyu would usually be fast asleep, but today, no matter who came to invite her, she insisted on waiting until her father had eaten bird's nest and taken his medicine before speaking.
The last time I saw my father, although he was thin, he was not as thin as he is now, almost unrecognizable.
Granny Yuan asked the people who were with her father, and they all said that her father had hardly eaten a single grain of rice on the journey. He would vomit whatever he ate, and sometimes he would even vomit water.
They even wondered if their father was seasick.
But for my father, traveling by boat was as common as eating a meal. How could he possibly get seasick?
They barely made it to the capital by relying entirely on ginseng pills and ginseng hydrosol.
Yuan Hongqu knew that Lin Ruhai was indeed seasick, vomiting everything he ate.
Lin Ruhai's health was generally good in the past, and he was used to traveling by boat, so the idea of seasickness was pure nonsense for him.
His health has deteriorated drastically, making long-distance travel unsuitable, yet he still came by boat.
They arrived a few days earlier than expected, so they must have been traveling day and night without stopping to pay attention.
Lin Ruhai's body couldn't take it!
Physician Yu was experienced and, after listening to the servant's description of Lin Ruhai's condition and his own diagnosis, he was able to accurately determine Lin Ruhai's condition. Therefore, the prescription he gave was a gentle one that would help Lin Ruhai recover steadily.
Lin Ruhai was not unconscious, but he felt weak and wanted to lie on his side. He barely had the strength to speak.
A maidservant came and fed him water just now, and this time he didn't feel nauseous or want to vomit. Could it be because he got ashore?
Lin Ruhai also heard Daiyu's voice. He wanted to open his eyes to see Daiyu, but his eyelids felt as if they weighed a ton or were glued shut, and he couldn't open them no matter what he did.
"Granny, my father will be alright, right?" Daiyu asked, her eyes red and moist, as if they had been washed.
Yuan Hongqu knew that the little girl must have been unable to hold back her tears and had just cried.
"Daiyu, don't worry, Lord Lin is fine."
Yuan Hongqu comforted Daiyu.
Daiyu sniffled twice, "Granny, I'm scared..."
"Silly girl," Yuan Hongqu said gently, embracing Daiyu.
"I'm here! Your dad will definitely be fine this time!"
Yuan Hongqu spoke with great righteousness, but what she was really thinking was:
Lin Ruhai passed away three years later in Yangzhou.
This time, if he wanted to die, it wouldn't be easy for him to go to Beijing.
Once he got off the ship and came home, with Yuan Hongqu there, even if Lin Ruhai had become a living dead, he would still have to live!
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