Yingbao looked at the medicine cabinets and saw medicine bowls on them with three medicine names written horizontally and vertically on them.
Each medicine bucket has three compartments, and the pills inside correspond to the names of the medicines outside the bucket.
Commonly used medicine tablets are placed in the middle and upper layers of the bucket rack for easy weighing when dispensing, such as Angelica sinensis, white peony root and Chuanxiong; Astragalus, Codonopsis pilosula and Licorice root, etc.
Tablets with lighter texture and less dosage are placed on the upper layer of the frame, such as roses, white plum blossoms, and bergamot flowers.
Heavy-textured tablets, such as minerals, shells, and charcoal medicines that are easily contaminated are placed at the bottom of the rack, such as magnetite, ochre, purple quartz, dragon bones, dragon teeth, and oysters.
Medicines that are loose and required in large quantities should be placed in the large medicine bucket at the bottom of the bucket rack.
Such as rush, tongcao; reed root, imperata root; wormwood, moneywort; bamboo shavings, mint, mulberry leaves, lotus leaves, etc.
Yingbao checked the names of the medicines one by one, and Li Xihua opened the medicine drawer and showed her the cut tablets inside.
The pills are of different sizes and shapes, so they may seem easy to identify at first glance, but this is not the case.
So Yingbao also wanted to see the whole herb before it was cut.
"Are there any uncut medicines?" she asked.
Li Xihua nodded: "Yes, they are all in the medicine storehouse. I will take you to see them tomorrow."
The next day, Yingbao officially began his apprenticeship.
She started identifying the herbs from the bottom cabinet, smelling them one by one, identifying their colors and shapes, and then comparing them with the whole herb.
At the end of the day, she was familiar with more than twenty kinds of medicine.
When I compared it with the prescriptions I had learned, I became more clear about it.
But there are so many medicines here, hundreds or even thousands of them. If you want to recognize and remember them one by one, you need repeated exposure and practice.
Due to the recent busy summer harvest season, not many people come to the pharmacy to see a doctor or get medicine, so Li Xihua and her two brothers have some free time.
Only Yingbao was still using a homemade notebook and charcoal pencil to record the names of medicinal herbs.
To deepen the impression, she also drew the shape of the medicinal materials with charcoal and wrote several suitable prescriptions next to them.
Doctor Li came over and couldn't help but stroke his beard and smile when he saw the little boy working so hard.
His senior brother wrote to him and asked him to take good care of the child and teach her how to practice medicine and identify drugs. He also said that the child was very talented and would have a great future.
As soon as he received the letter, Doctor Li went to Jiang's house to pick up the baby. He did not expect that she was so self-disciplined at such a young age, which was beyond his expectation.
"Yingbao, come here." Doctor Li sat down on the chair, waved to Yingbao, and asked, "What medical books have you read?"
Ying Bao went to Doctor Li and answered earnestly, "I have read the Neijing, the Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Various Diseases, Shennong's Herbal Classic, as well as the Pulse Classic and Qianjin Prescriptions."
The master said that these are the basic knowledge of studying medicine and must be memorized and written out.
She had only read through the books, barely memorized a few, and memorized only a few prescriptions.
Doctor Li nodded and said, "That's right. Now I'll test you. A doctor must know the laws of nature and geography. What does this mean?"
Yingbao thought for a moment and suddenly realized.
Isn't this just asking her to recite Su Wen's Treatise on the Correspondence of Yin and Yang? She can do it.
"The sky is not full in the northwest, so the northwest is yin, and people's right ears and eyes are not as bright as the left. The earth is not full in the southeast, so the southeast is yang, and people's left hands and feet are not as strong as the right..."
Ying Bao recited it crisply, then looked at Doctor Li eagerly and asked, "Is it correct?"
Doctor Li smiled and nodded: "Not bad, I will ask you another question..."
In this way, Yingbao was forced to memorize several passages from Su Wen.
The random test ended automatically only when several people ran into the pharmacy to see Doctor Li.
"Doctor, my son's arm was cut. Please take a look at him."
The middle-aged man was supporting a young boy, whose left arm was cut by a sickle and was bleeding profusely.
Doctor Li hurried out of the counter to check the boy's injuries and took out medicinal wine and needles and thread from the medicine box brought by his grandson.
He first cleaned the wound with medicated wine, then warmed the needle over candlelight, threaded it with catgut, and Doctor Li sutured the boy's wound himself.
After sewing it up, they sprinkled a layer of medicine powder on it and then wrapped it tightly with the clean cloth from the medicine box.
"I will prescribe another medicine for dissolving dead tissue and promoting flesh growth. Go back and boil it for him to drink. I will change the medicine for his arm tomorrow."
Doctor Li bent over his desk and wrote a prescription, then handed it to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man took the prescription tremblingly and asked, "How much is the medicine?"
Li Lin said: "The medicine for external injuries and internal medicine is 85 cents in total."
"Ah? So much..." The middle-aged man said in embarrassment: "Doctor, I, I only brought thirty coins..."
Doctor Li waved his hand and said to his grandson, "Prepare some medicine for him."
Then he looked at the middle-aged man and said, "Fifty-five cents, you can pay me back after you harvest the wheat."
The middle-aged man immediately bowed to Doctor Li and thanked him profusely: "Thank you, Doctor Li. I will definitely send the money after I harvest the wheat."
Yingbao looked at the middle-aged man, then at Doctor Li, and quietly asked Li Xihua: "Will he really send the money?"
Li Xihua also whispered: "Sometimes they will be delivered, sometimes not."
This kind of thing happens every few days and she is used to it.
Yingbao was thoughtful.
It seems that the plaque "Healing the World with Medicine" hanging in the pharmacy is not empty words.
The days passed as Yingbao diagnosed medicines and treated patients.
Soon the summer harvest was over and the town began to come alive.
Several fat grain merchants set up scales and measuring buckets on both sides of the town streets and began to purchase summer grain.
Many villagers lined up to sell their grain, carrying baskets of wheat on their shoulders, and quarreled with grain merchants from time to time.
The reason is that the grain merchants think that the grain is not dried or that there is a lot of sand and soil mixed in the grain, so they want to bargain for it.
The villagers believed that the grain merchants were deliberately lowering the price out of thin air, so the two sides began to argue.
They were about to start fighting, so the village chief came over to break them up.
For a moment, the crowds on the streets were so noisy that the roads were blocked, and several carriages were stopped on the side and could not move.
Yingbao lay on the counter and looked outside for a while, and suddenly saw several familiar figures.
Chen Changping and his wife Han got out of a carriage, with Han holding a baby in her arms.
Two girls also got out of another car. They were Chen Tiantian and Chen Zhao.
Not only that, even Chen Laoshuan came back, and so did his wife Feng.
Chen Tiantian and Chen Zhao supported Feng, and they went straight to the pharmacy.
"Doctor! Doctor Li!" Chen Laoshuan ran into the pharmacy and shouted to Doctor Li, "Go check on my wife! She's vomiting a lot!"
Doctor Li stood up, looked outside, and said, "Help her sit over here, I'll examine her."
Chen Zhao and Chen Tiantian helped Chen Fengshi sit down on a stool outside the counter and rolled up their sleeves to let the doctor feel her pulse.
When they looked up, their eyes met Yingbao's.
"You..." Chen Zhao almost didn't recognize that the little girl in the blue robe was Ying Bao.
"Why are you here?" Chen Zhao couldn't help but ask.
Yingbao raised an eyebrow: "Be an apprentice."
At this time, Chen Changping and Han, who was holding the baby, also walked in.
Yingbao casually glanced at the baby in Han's arms.
It looked like several months had passed, and he looked exactly like Chen Xu in his previous life.