I practiced medicine in ancient times

Polygonatum odoratum is even more complicated. It is harvested in spring, when the weather is clear after rain and the soil is slightly dry. The stems and leaves are cut off, and then they are dug in the same direction with a toothed rake. Also, care must be taken to prevent the roots from being broken or injured.

The next step is to dry it in the sun. After the fresh rhizomes are graded, they are exposed to the sun for 3-4 days. When the surface becomes soft and mucus oozes out, use a bamboo stick to gently knock off the root hairs and mud. Continue to dry it in the sun. When it turns from white to yellow, rub it with your hands or repeatedly step on it with your feet. Repeat this several times until it is soft and smooth, without a hard core, and yellow-white in color. Cover it at night after it cools thoroughly.

The second method is steaming. After the fresh product is softened in the sun, steam it for 10 minutes, use high temperature to make it sweat and let the sugar juice seep out, then put it in an airtight plastic bag. After about 30 minutes, rub it with your hands or step on the whole bag with your feet until it turns yellow and translucent, then take it out and spread it in the sun until it is dry. Avoid rubbing too much, otherwise the color will turn black and affect the quality.

The second method of processing is more time-consuming and laborious. However, the Polygonatum odoratum needs to be weighed after processing, and the price is not cheap. The inferior one is priced at ten cents per catty.

However, it is not suitable to dig it in winter. In the spring of next year, Polygonatum odoratum will be the main harvest for Xu family.

As for Scutellaria baicalensis, it is much simpler. Just remove the stems and leaves, dig out the roots, shake off the soil, dry them in the sun until they are half dry, and quickly dry them in the sun or oven after removing the outer skin. But avoid rain. The best ones are those that are solid without holes and bright yellow inside.

After lunch, the Xu family went to the mountain to harvest Ligustrum lucidum.

The third sister was left with the fourth brother and the fifth sister to look after the house, while the second brother also followed Xu Qingyi up the mountain to harvest Ligustrum lucidum.

It is troublesome to harvest Ligustrum lucidum. One person needs to hold a bamboo pole and knock the Ligustrum lucidum off the tree. Several people need to hold a piece of cloth under the tree and knock the fallen Ligustrum lucidum down.

Many of the fallen Ligustrum lucidum fruits still have impurities such as branches and leaves, which need to be picked out. Then they should be slightly steamed or scalded in boiling water and then dried; or they can be dried directly. These are inferior Ligustrum lucidum fruits.

There are two ways to prepare Ligustrum lucidum fruit: wine preparation and salt preparation. Both can be considered excellent if prepared properly. However, there is a big difference in the prices of the auxiliary materials used in the two preparations, with wine being much more expensive than salt.

This time, Xu Qingyi planned to teach the family how to prepare the fruit of Ligustrum lucidum by salting and directly drying it.

Xu Qingyi did not spend much time at home. On the first day, after picking out the impurities from the fruits of the Ligustrum lucidum, Xu Qingyi started to prepare the fruits with salt overnight. He taught them step by step and explained every detail to everyone in the Xu family about the areas that required special attention.

After she prepared a batch of Ligustrum lucidum, Xu Qingyi would let her grandmother, mother, and aunt personally prepare the second batch of Ligustrum lucidum. She would watch from the side. If there were any mistakes in the preparation process or something was not done well, Xu Qingyi would point it out immediately and ask them to correct it, so that they could get started preparing Ligustrum lucidum faster.

The work of preparing Ligustrum lucidum is simple. After Zhang, Zhu and Xiao Zhu have tried it a few times, they can quickly get the hang of it. They will become proficient in it the more they do it.

As for the Scutellaria baicalensis, after digging it up, the dirt was shaken off. Xu Qingyi couldn't wait for it to dry naturally, so he used firewood to dry it until it was half dry. Then he taught the Xu family to peel off the skin, then quickly dry it and cut it into slices. The processing of the raw Scutellaria baicalensis was completed.

As for the Atractylodes lancea that the Bai family picked, it was also simple. After digging it up, Bai Yan also taught them in an orderly manner.

After Xu Qingyi and Bai Yanmu finished their training, both families also understood how to prepare Atractylodes lancea, Ligustrum lucidum, and Scutellaria baicalensis, and gradually mastered the techniques in the process of preparing Chinese medicine.

They handle the herbs and ensure that the processing does not destroy the efficacy. As the number of processing increases, they become more skilled and the quality of the herbs they process becomes higher and higher.

"After this separation, the next time you come back it will be the New Year. Grandma, mother, and aunt, you all know how to prepare Ligustrum lucidum and Scutellaria baicalensis, so just follow my instructions.

Next time you send it to the pharmacy, I will inspect it. If there is anything lacking, I will tell you so that you can improve it in the future.

Second brother, third sister, fourth brother, you should learn to read with Old Zhang, and try to learn all the characters next year. When eldest sister has established a firm foothold in the pharmacy, eldest sister will bring you to the pharmacy to learn medicine and make medicine. At that time, you will not be selling your bodies to learn medicine in the pharmacy. "After Xu Qingyi explained to Zhu and the others, Xu Qingyi smiled and touched the heads of Xu Qingping, Xu Qingan, Xu Qingwu and the others, then turned around and walked with Bai Yan to the road leading to the town from the village entrance.

Xu Qingping and Xu Qing'an chased after Xu Qingyi for a few steps, with red eyes, until they could no longer see their eldest sister's back, and then they turned around and went home.

"Grandma, Dad, Mom, let's earn back a hundred taels of silver as soon as possible and redeem our eldest sister!" After Xu Qingping could no longer see his eldest sister, he turned around and looked at his grandma, dad, and mom seriously.

"Okay." Zhang's eyes were red. She opened her mouth and the word "Okay" came out of her mouth.

She was sorry for her daughter. When there was a drought, the family had no food to eat, and she sold her daughter for a little food, which enabled them to survive. Not only Zhang felt guilty about her daughter, but Zhu, little Zhu and the Xu Dafu brothers also felt guilty towards Xu Qingyi.

But for their family, earning a hundred taels of silver was something they dared not even think about.

Because throughout the year, their family worked so hard, from morning to night, and only earned a few taels of silver.

Even if their family went without food and drink, it would still take them 20 to 30 years to earn a hundred taels of silver.

Zhang didn't even dare to think about what Xu Qingping said about earning the hundred taels of silver as soon as possible.

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In a room of the Rejuvenation Clinic.

"Our clinic must sign up for the Chinese medicine dispensing competition held every three years. This is an order from the higher-ups. Now we're selecting those people to participate in the competition." The shopkeeper Hou of Huichun Clinic looked at Master Li, Master Zhang, Doctor Li, Doctor Wu, and Doctor Li in the pharmacy and asked.

There are two large pharmacies in Tianshan State, one is Huichun Clinic and the other is Miaoshou Clinic. It is said that these two pharmacies were previously one Miaoshou Huichun Clinic, which was co-founded by two brothers decades ago.

However, the two brothers parted ways for some reasons, and the Miracle Rejuvenation Clinic was divided into the Rejuvenation Clinic and the Miracle Rejuvenation Clinic.

The two brothers had a quarrel and a rift, and both wanted to be better than the other, so they set up a medical competition. They chose a prefecture to hold a medicine competition every three years and a medical competition every five years.

For pharmacy competitions, participants are selected to be under 18 years old, but there is no such requirement for medical competitions.

The content of the medical competition is to treat patients, and the competition is based on observation, listening, questioning and palpation.

The medicine competition involves reviewing prescriptions, identifying Chinese herbal medicines, adjusting, preparing and refining Chinese herbal medicines.