106 Simple, Yet Powerful Medicine (1/2)

”What does your friend do?” Wang Yao asked as he put away the medical case and diagnosis report.

”At first he was selling seafood, but now he is doing mariculture. The business isn't small. There's a big mariculture farm in Hai Qu city,” Wang Mingbao said.

”I'll have a look at this case when I get back. Lately, these days I haven't had any free time. I need to keep treating that child.” According to Wang Yao, the most important patient now was Zhou Xiong's son.

”It's ok. No rush. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it,” Wang Mingbao said smiling. ”It's just that he and I have a few business dealings. You can say that he has money. He is making some money now as we speak.”

”Oh, I understand.”

The two friends chatted for a while, then Wang Yao departed soon after. After getting back to Nanshan hill, he soon started thinking of a way to make up a drug strong enough to ease pain.

Currently, the medicine shop wouldn't provide him with any medication or prescriptions, probably because his rank wasn't high enough.

After consulting a traditional Chinese medicine shop, Wang Yao eventually only selected a few medicinal herbs.

Corydalis, Dahurian, and licorice were chosen. From the first two: Corydalis, which could normalize the flow of Qi, improve circulation, and ease pain and Dahurian, which could remove colds and chills, and remove obstructions from the flow of Qi to stop pain. As for licorice, it had a neutralizing effect on the medicine.

Add in some anise tree root, which also had the effect of pain relief.

The medicine was simple, yet very powerful. Its focus was on killing pain.

Now, Wang Yao needed to go to town to get some Corydalis. Since he never grew any himself, he needed to go buy some.

In the blink of an eye, soon after spring came, it was already March. This was seen as the true springtime. The weather was clearly getting warmer. The willow trees on the riverbank began sprouting and the village people also started going up the hills to begin plowing the fields.

Spring plowing was light work. Autumn plowing required more effort. Spring plowing was like flipping a pancake, whereas autumn plowing was like digging a well.

As the number of people on the hills grew, Wang Yao started thinking about his work on the herbal fields. Now was the right time to try planting licorice roots. However, protection was needed all around in order to prevent people with bad intentions from causing trouble.

The fertility of the soil had already shown signs of having too many difficulties to work with. One needed to consider deploying a layout. First, assemble the licorice, then produce the licorice.

To treat illnesses and save people, herbs must be planted. One also must think about how to tactically deploy the right layout for planting. That's enough to keep one busy!

Taking care of the herbal fields, practicing religion, and reading scriptures every day was already so much to do. With any time left over, a traditional Chinese Pharmacist had to treat illnesses and think about how to tactically lay out the herbs for planting. During this time, they also needed to go out on trips. Because of this, Wang Yao drew up a schedule for the day: arrange reasonably, plan reasonably.

That day, Wang Yao went to Lian Shan county. First, he went to the place where Zhou Xiong and his son lived. During this meeting, Zhou Wukang's complexion, compared to the last time they met, had obviously improved for the better.

His complexion became better and his eyes had life in them again. Wang Yao had improved his life.

”It's getting better.” A little while later, he turned his head to one side and said to Zhou Xiong, ”Yes, yes, yes. Ever since he drank the sedative you brought last time, he can finally go to sleep at night!” The way Zhou Xiong said yes three times clearly showed how excited and moved he was.

Now he was completely convinced by Wang Yao. With only two bags of medicine and no more than a week's time, his son's illness clearly started turning around for the better. Before, he wouldn't even dare to imagine it such a way. Because of this, yesterday, he particularly called his family to tell them the good news. His family was very happy upon hearing this.

”Does the child still have pain in his abdomen?”

”Yes, his headache has gotten a lot better, but he still has abdominal pain,” Zhou Xiong said. Now, his son can sleep every night for more than three hours. He would get up every day three or four times. It sounded like he wasn't sleeping very well. But, compared to before, that was already a big improvement. It gave him joyful and incomparable change.