Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1276 Three Original Medicines

In the dead of night, the humidity gradually dissipated, and the Wu family's old house seemed unusually fresh. Outside the window, the stars and the moon shone brightly, and floating clouds were lined up along the horizon all the way to the west, looming.

It’s a cool autumn day!
In the study, under the desk lamp, Bian Mu folded his arms, leaned back in his chair, stared at a pile of fine copper abacus beads on the table, and was pondering over some of the fragments of traditional Chinese medicine left by Situ Jianqing...

"He's so old now, there's no need for Mr. Mi to play tricks with me. What he said is true... it should be pretty close. What's more important is that there are some explanations and supplements from Director Yuan interspersed every few paragraphs. If someone really wants to forge it, there's no need to do this according to daily logic, right?!" Thinking of this, Bian Mu preliminarily determined that the essence of Chinese patent medicine hidden in the sofa's mezzanine was genuine.

It's a coincidence that the retired head nurse upstairs actually has a personal relationship with Director Yuan. If we follow this logic... the retired head nurse upstairs should be able to recognize Director Yuan's handwriting.

"There are only two types of handwriting on the sheepskin and mulberry paper. The pharmaceutical secret recipe uses the small seal script, which is all traditional Chinese characters. I think it should be a means of anti-theft. After all, it is still a bit difficult for people with low cultural level to read. After the layman succeeded, he had to find an expert to "translate" the small seal script into simplified regular script. As a result, it must have alarmed many people... Then who wrote this set of small seal script? Situ Jianqing?! It doesn't look like him at all! Director Yuan?! Is it necessary to go to so much trouble? What is he worried about..." Thinking of this, Bian Mu had the idea of ​​finding an expert to authenticate the handwriting.

Uncle Yang, the owner of the "Huatian Ghost Market", has a wide network of contacts, so the old man should be able to help with this kind of thing.

Qi Yuewei has some status. At her level, it is not a big deal for her to find a few top-level handwriting identification experts to verify it. Although she has some small connections with the medical community, it should not have any negative impact on Bian Mu's future business.

Unfortunately, Qi Yuewei has been very busy recently, and Bian Mu has hardly seen her.

Tao Wenjie has always been very powerful, and handwriting identification is nothing to her. However, Bian Mu dare not alarm this god. With Tao Wenjie's keen business sense, she will be able to find out the truth within three days. If the remaining prescription falls into her hands, Bian Mu will definitely be in trouble. Get rich?! Dream on!

Forget it! I can't afford to offend you!
……

After much thought, Bian Mu felt that Uncle Yang was the most reliable.

Once the handwriting identification results came out, many things became clear.

"As for Old Hou, what Mr. Mi said is right. We should just wait and see what happens! The interpretation of the residual formula is not a simple matter. He will not be informed before the authenticity identification results come out. When people walk on the street, they should be on guard against people like him with whom they don't have much relationship!" Bian Mu couldn't help but think in his heart.

Situ Jianqing was very famous back then, so it shouldn't be difficult to collect his handwriting. Guan Yuelin, San Qiangzi, Situ Yu...even the herbal farmer Lao Pei can help, so this is not a big deal right now. After many calculations, Bian Mu finally got a little idea of ​​Situ Jianqing's ideas and logical habits in making medicines.

People who have come into contact with Bian Mu only know that he is an excellent doctor. He usually sits in the clinic to treat patients. From time to time, Bian Mu will take out a few small medicine bottles, made of glass, porcelain, stainless steel, small gourds... There are all kinds of pills, powders, pastes, pills, medicinal incense, medicine ropes... It can be said that the categories are complete and everything is available. Except for a very small number of patients who ask casually out of curiosity, most patients don't care at all.

Every household that sells dumplings and steamed buns on the street has its own secret recipes! Who doesn’t have their own secret medicine when they run a clinic?
Those who know the business can guess that Bian Mu is actually an invisible master of pharmacy!
It is obvious that Situ Jianqing is good at cooking medicine with medicine, or removing toxicity, or enhancing medicinal properties, or filling the five elements... In total, judging from the contents on the parchment at hand, at least 19 kinds of medicines have been found, and the pharmacology they are based on clearly reveals traces of the pharmacology of medical chemistry that was popular on the other side of the ocean in the early 19th century.

When it comes to academic research, even though Bian Mu has a relatively flexible mind, he seldom uses rigid dogma to measure the medical and pharmaceutical principles of ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. In his opinion, the medical chemistry principles of the early 19th century are not necessarily much behind the most advanced pharmaceutical principles today. The saying "the waves behind push the waves in front but beat them to death on the beach" is just a relative concept. As for which doctor, which pharmacist, which medicine, which new treatment concept... that is another matter.

In this regard, Bian Mu is already ahead of more than 90% of its domestic peers.

Traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy have been passed down for thousands of years. In modern times, they have been greatly impacted by Western medicine. There was a time when some people even proposed to completely abolish Chinese medicine. The basic logic they based their work on was nothing more than the simple cognition that "the new generation pushes the old generation forward."

At this moment, Bian Mu realized that Situ Jianqing was actually a medical practitioner with very advanced thinking. Maybe... the old man had studied abroad!
The abacus substitution method is quite useful and its efficiency in logical deduction is quite high. After several rounds of deduction, Bian Mu was surprised to find that the three Chinese medicines that Situ Jianqing valued most were: Ephedra, Pinellia, and Magnolia officinalis. In a sense, Situ Jianqing almost entirely used these three medicines as the "three original medicines" for pharmacological demonstration when making medicines. This was something that Bian Mu had never heard of before.

There are not many core Chinese medicines in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Disorders". Ephedra ranks first and is considered a "prince"-level medicine, the leading medicine. There is nothing to say about this. Pinellia is also very important and is considered the "chief"-level main medicine of the "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". This is nothing strange.

Then...what happened to Magnolia officinalis? !
What is even more bizarre is that there is actually some very special pharmacological logical connection between ephedra, pinellia and magnolia bark, and this logical connection can actually be used as a special reference system to verify the medicinal properties of other Chinese herbal medicines.

"The old gentleman is really creative! Is he deliberately trying to be mysterious?! Or does he really have some unique insights? This first hurdle is enough to give me a hard time... It seems that I have to go to the library to review the basic theories of medical chemistry on the other side of the ocean in the early 19th century!" Thinking of this, Bian Mu couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration like a "frog in the well".

The balcony window was slightly opened, and the night breeze was cool. After standing there for a while, Bian Mu's mind became much clearer.

Turning back to the study, with the help of the Internet, Bian Mu thoroughly researched Ephedra, Pinellia, and Magnolia officinalis... Especially the Magnolia officinalis, Bian Mu checked it over and over again for more than an hour until he found no more valuable information.

"It seems... I am still very immature in the preparation of Chinese patent medicine! Huang Boxi must be as profound as the ocean! I have to learn to be more humble in the future..." Thinking of this, Bian Mu suddenly felt that he seemed to have made some progress...