Chapter 1276 Three Original Medicines
In the dead of night, the humidity gradually disappeared, and the old house of the Wu family seemed unusually refreshing. Outside the window, the stars and the moon shone, and the floating clouds lined up along the horizon all the way to the west, looming.
It's a good autumn with cool weather!
In the study, under the desk lamp, Bian Mu folded his arms, leaned back on the chair, stared at a pile of fine copper abacus on the table, and was there trying to figure out some of the fragments of the essence of traditional Chinese medicine left by Situ Jianqing...
"You are so old, there is no need for Mr. Mi to play tricks with me. He said it was true... It should be more or less the same. More importantly, every other paragraph is interspersed with Director Yuan's explanation and supplement. If someone really wants to forge it, there is no need to play it like this according to daily logic, right?!" Thinking of this, Bian Mu initially determined that the essence of traditional Chinese medicine hidden in the sofa interlayer was genuine.
It was also a coincidence that the retired old head nurse upstairs actually had a personal relationship with Director Yuan. If we deduce it logically... the old head nurse upstairs should be able to recognize Director Yuan's handwriting.
"There are only two types of handwriting on sheepskin mulberry paper. The secret recipe for medicine is in small seal script, all in 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. After a while, it must have alarmed many people... Then who wrote this set of small seal script? Situ Jianqing?! It doesn't look like it! Director Yuan?! Is it necessary to spend so much effort? What is he worried about..." Thinking of this, Bian Mu had the idea of finding an expert to identify the handwriting.
"Huatian Ghost Market" business owner Grandpa Yang has a wide network of contacts, and the old man should be able to help with this matter.
Qi Yuewei has some status. At her level, it is not a big deal to find a few top-level handwriting identification experts to verify it. Although she has some small intersections with the medical industry, 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 met her.
Tao Wenjie has always been very powerful, and handwriting identification is not worth mentioning to her. However, Bian Mu dare not alarm this venerable god. With Tao Wenjie's keen business sense, within three days, she will be able to find out the truth quickly. If the remnant square falls into her hands, Bian Mu will definitely be out of luck. Getting rich? ! Dream on!
Forget it! Can't afford to offend!
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After thinking about it, Bian Mu felt that Uncle Yang was the most reliable.
Once the handwriting identification results came out, many things became clear.
"As for Lao Hou, what Lao Mi said is right, let's wait and see! The interpretation of the remnant square is not simple. He was not notified before the authenticity identification results came out. People walking on the street should be more cautious of him who has no friendship with him!" Bian Mu thought in his heart.
Situ Jianqing was very famous back then, so it shouldn't be difficult to deliberately collect the old man's handwriting. Guan Yuelin, San Qiangzi, Situ Yu... even the herbal farmer Lao Pei can help, so this is really not a problem at the moment.
After many calculations, Bian Mu finally got a little understanding of Situ Jianqing's ideas and logical habits in making medicine.
People who have come into contact with Bian Mu only know that he is very good at medicine. He usually sits in the clinic to treat people. 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 them, 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 opens a shop on the street to sell dumplings and steamed buns has a secret recipe for ingredients! Who doesn't have an exclusive secret medicine when opening a clinic!
Those who know the subject can guess that Bian Mu is actually an invisible pharmacist!
It is obvious that Situ Jianqing is good at using medicine to stew medicine, or removing toxicity, or enhancing medicinal properties, or filling the five elements... There are so many things. Judging from the content on the parchment at hand, at least 19 kinds of medicines have been seen, and the pharmacology based on them clearly reveals the pharmacological traces of medical chemistry that was popular on the other side of the ocean in the early 19th century.
In terms of academic research, even if Bian Mu has a more flexible mind, he rarely uses the rigid dogma of "one-track mind" to measure the medical principles 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 may not be much behind the most advanced pharmaceutical principles today. The Yangtze River's back waves push the front waves, but beat the front waves to death on the beach is only a relative concept. As for which doctor, which pharmacist, which medicine, which new treatment concept... that is really another matter.
In this regard, Bian Mu has already led more than 90% of his peers in China.
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 on was nothing more than the simple cognition of "the waves behind push the waves ahead".
At this moment, Bian Mu realized that Situ Jianqing was actually a very avant-garde medical practitioner. Maybe... the old man had studied abroad!
The abacus substitution method is quite useful and the efficiency of 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 bark. In a sense, Situ Jianqing made medicines, almost all of which were based on these three medicines as the "three original medicines" for pharmacological proof. This was something Bian Mu had never heard of.
There are not many core Chinese medicines in "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases". Ephedra ranks first and is considered a "prince"-level medicine. There is nothing to say about this. Pinellia is also very important and is considered a "general"-level main medicine of the "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". This is not surprising.
Then...what's the matter with Magnolia officinalis? !
What's even more bizarre is that there is a very special pharmacological logical connection between ephedra, pinellia, and Magnolia officinalis. Moreover, this logical connection can be used as a special reference system to verify the medicinal properties of other Chinese herbal medicines.
"The old gentleman is really ingenious! Are you deliberately making a mystery?! Or do you really have some unique insights? This first hurdle is enough to make me drink a pot... It seems that I have to go to the library to review the basic principles of medical chemistry across the ocean in the early 19th century!" Thinking of this, Bian Mu couldn't help but feel a little frustrated like a "frog in the well".
The balcony window was slightly open, and the night breeze was cool. Bian Mu stood there for a while and his mind became much clearer.
Turning back to the study, with the help of the Internet, Bian Mu looked up ephedra, pinellia, and magnolia bark... Especially the magnolia bark, Bian Mu checked it over and over 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 medicines! Huang Boxi is probably as profound as the sea! 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...