Master Doctor in the City

Ye Chen was going to visit Chicago's Chinatown. Annie was going to follow her. Originally, Ye Chen wanted Annie to breastfeed the baby at home.

Especially since this is just a few days old, it is better for babies to take breast milk.

Of course, many Americans are fed milk powder, which is normal.

Since Annie was going, Ye Chen and Annie drove a Lincoln trolley to leave the ranch and head towards Chicago.

After more than an hour, I came to the center of Chicago. I already saw high-rise buildings and went to Chinatown.

Ye Chen found the parking place and got out of the car with Annie. Annie hugged Ye Chen's arm and followed him to Chinatown.

Chicago has three major Chinatowns, and there are also some small gatherings of Chinese people, but none of them are as many as these three major Chinatowns.

Now Ye Chen came to the first Chinatown, on Clark Street, but this was the first time he came.

When he first saw the archway, Ye Chen knew that he had come to Chinatown. There were indeed a lot of people. The special feature was the special architecture of the Hakka people in Guangdong. The billboards above were all in traditional characters.

Ye Chen took Annie into it, knowing that now that Annie became a mother, she could eat more, but if she wanted to breast-feed her child, she still couldn't eat a lot of things.

With Ye Chen here, he took Annie to look over and bought some edible snacks.

Walking along the street all the way, I saw a medicinal shop. Ye Chen and Annie went inside. When they saw Ye Chen coming, several pharmacists asked, "Sir, what do you want to buy?"

It is quite popular among Chinese medicinal stores. Many people come here to buy some medicinal materials and proprietary Chinese medicines.

Of course, many Chinese patent medicines here are produced in Hong Kong, such as some Baihua oil, active oil, etc., which are very effective for some swelling and pain, muscle cramps.

However, Ye Chen wanted to ask him about the medicines of his Chinese medicine factory.

"Hello, I would like to ask if there is medicated oil for removing dampness?"

Now the traditional Chinese medicine factory is no longer damp-removing medicinal oil, damp-removing ointment, there are hemostatic powder, hemostatic ointment, and other medicines like collateral oil. These are all prescriptions that Ye Chen gave to the Chinese medicine factory.

Medicinal oil for removing dampness?

"Yes, we have several versions here, Hong Kong and mainland China."

"You all come over and take a look."

After the pharmacist took a look, Ye Chen found that there are really several versions, in addition to his Chinese medicine factory, there are also Hong Kong versions, but this Hong Kong antidampness medicinal oil must be related to his secret formula different.

"Then which effect do you think is good?" Ye Chen asked.

"It feels good, but the mainland version now works better."

For example, the anti-dampness medicinal oil produced by Ye Chen’s traditional Chinese medicine factory is very popular in common developing countries such as Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. On the one hand, it may have a lot to do with the local environment. On the other hand, this The price of the medicine is not high, and it is cheaper than some western medicine. Moreover, a bottle may take a long time, so those black people who come to China will buy large quantities of these antidampness medicinal oils and sell them to other people.

Ye Chen must know his own medicine oil for removing dampness, but he still wants to buy a few bottles of the Hong Kong version and take a look.

Both Chinese and Western medicine in Hong Kong have developed well now, and there were many Chinese medicine practitioners who came to Hong Kong back then. Therefore, Hong Kong now even produces medicines such as Angong Niuhuang Wan.

After buying the bottle, Ye Chen asked, "Miss, do you think the Hong Kong version is selling well, or the mainland version?"

"It's almost the same, but the mainland version has many repeat customers," said the pharmacist.

After Annie took out US dollars to pay, Ye Chen discovered that these Hong Kong version of the antidampness medicinal oils were not cheap either. They cost twenty dollars a bottle and exchanged for RMB, which would be more than one hundred.

If it is the mainland version, it may be twice as cheap as ten dollars.

This makes Ye Chen wonder, why is the mainland version so much cheaper, while the Hong Kong version is more expensive?

"Why is this so expensive?"

"This Hong Kong version has a small quantity, so it is expensive," the pharmacist said.

Ye Chen asked about some of the medicines produced by his Chinese medicine factory. Basically, they are all imported. Of course, these are imported from the mainland because they have to pay taxes and freight, plus those from the U.S. The higher the salary, the higher the cost.

In fact, Ye Chen knew that it would not be much worse if it was changed to purchasing power.

Coming out of that kind of Chinese medicine store with Annie, Annie said: "Last time, I remember that you gave my parents those antidampness medicinal oils. They thought it was pretty good."

Ye Chen remembers coming here for the first time. It was indeed bought in Chinatown in New York, as well as those ceramic ones. At the big farm, there are more mosquitoes and itching when bitten. This moisturizing medicated oil is very effective. .

"Annie, I'm buying it back now to see how effective the Hong Kong version is. This is from the Hong Kong company."

It turned out to be so.

Ye Chen and Annie continued to walk, seeing many acupuncture clinics on the road, but they didn't know how effective they were.

Ye Chen's most fear is that those people use the name of Chinese medicine to make money or mess up the name of Chinese medicine.

In fact, there are many such things in China, let alone the United States.

Now Ye Chen went to an acupuncture clinic, looked inside from the door, and saw many whites and blacks performing acupuncture there.

Because those people took off their clothes, Ye Chen also asked Annie to wait outside.

"Annie, you are waiting for me outside."

While asking Annie to sit in a chair and wait for him, Ye Chen opened the door and went inside.

In fact, Ye Chen’s influence in the TCM circle in the United States is not enough. In addition, Ye Chen is still relatively low-key in China. Therefore, when the several acupuncturists in there see Ye Chen coming, one of them is responsible for receiving Came over and asked: "Sir, do you want acupuncture?"

The other party spoke English and thought Ye Chen was Chinese.

"I'm Chinese and I can speak Mandarin. Which acupuncture master is here?"

"Our master has very little acupuncture now, but our acupuncturists here have been studying acupuncture with my master for a long time."

Ye Chen could smell the medicine inside. Not only acupuncture and moxibustion, but also cupping, scraping, and moxibustion.

However, like cupping, Ye Chen rarely treats people, or even treats them. After all, he contacts patients.

Like those of cupping, many of them have nothing to do with the body and go to the doctor to proceed.

However, many people don't know that not everyone's constitution is suitable for cupping or Gua Sha. Some people cannot bear it and are prone to death.