Back at the clinic.
Song Sisi was in front of her laptop, searching for information online and cobbling together her thesis.
Seeing Li Xu return, she mumbled, "Where did you go? You weren’t open yesterday, and this morning you ca in for a bit and then left again."
Li Xu went to the washroom to wash and disinfect his hands, then ca out wearing his white coat. "I was open yesterday afternoon, but there weren’t many patients. This morning was because..."
He explained the situation with the tick poisoning.
"Oh my, it was that serious?"
Song Sisi’s nursing program had covered infectious diseases, so she naturally knew how dangerous tick poisoning was.
The two then started talking about the Clearing Qi and Stabilizing Blood Formula developed by the team from Jinn University’s School of Life Sciences.
"Doctor Li, now that they’ve developed a formula like this, will they be able to make a lot of money?"
"Of course."
Li Xu recalled the relevant policies. "For modifying an existing traditional Chinese dicine formula, the national reward is a minimum of 500,000 and a maximum of 4 million. But for developing a completely new one, the reward is a minimum of 1 million and a maximum of 7 million."
"On top of that, if pharmaceutical companies comrcialize it, it could create a market worth one billion, or even ten billion."
"Of course, even though this tick-borne disease has a high mortality rate, the market for it is actually relatively small. Even so, it could still generate profits in the hundreds of millions."
"Wow..."
Song Sisi’s eyes lit up as she listened. "Doctor Li, when are you going to develop a new formula?"
Li Xu chuckled. "Maybe in a few days, maybe in a few years, or maybe never..."
With his own abilities, it would be extrely difficult.
But he had the Daily Intelligence System to help him.
Who knew when the system might provide a crucial piece of intelligence, allowing him to obtain a new formula.
"How’s your thesis coming along?"
"Ugh, don’t even ask. I was cooped up at ho all day yesterday. Just fixing the formatting took several hours. I sent it to my advisor a little after 6 p.m., but by 8 p.m., he’d sent it right back. He pointed out a ton of mistakes, chewed out, and told to redo it..."
Song Sisi said with a pained expression.
Li Xu recalled his own difficult experience writing his thesis.
He said sympathetically, "It’s always like that. Just have to grind through it..."
There were no patients in the clinic.
Li Xu took out the *Comntary on the Art and Literature Record* and continued his research.
He turned to a new page.
This page also recorded a type of massage technique.
It was called the Abdominal Rubbing thod.
Place the palm on the Shenque Acupoint, massage gently clockwise 36 tis, then counter-clockwise 24 tis. There were also so other very subtle points about applying pressure.
It was mainly used to regulate nstruation and aid in conception.
According to the comntator’s notes, this massage technique seed simple but was extrely difficult to learn.
However, once mastered, the effects were excellent.
It could clear the ridians and collaterals in a very short ti, resolving nstrual pain.
Half an hour of massage every day for a month could even cure nstrual pain without the need for dication.
As for the notes on aiding conception, the following section of text was blurry and illegible. After staring at it for a long ti, Li Xu could only give up.
"The Abdominal Rubbing thod..."
Li Xu thought to himself.
’This massage technique is good. I should learn it.’
’Looks like I’ll have to buy another practice dummy... I’ll get a full-body one this ti...’
He figured he might have to learn to massage other parts of the body at so point.
’Getting a full-body model will be a one-and-done deal, saving the trouble of buying parts pieceal later on.’
’I hear they have very realistic silicone models now, where even the blood vessels and ridians are just like the real thing... They’re just very expensive...’
Just as Li Xu was thinking this,
a teenage boy peeked his head into the clinic.
"Zhang He, what are you looking at? If you need sothing, co on in."
Li Xu called out.
"Oh."
Zhang He obediently walked into the clinic.
Li Xu had a strong impression of Zhang He.
He was the first patient to co see him on the day he’d just bonded with the Daily Intelligence System.
His eyes had been red and his vision blurry, and Western dicine had diagnosed him with chronic conjunctivitis.
In reality, it was a symptom of Yang deficiency.
Following the information from his intelligence, Li Xu had used True Martial Soup with Asarum and successfully cured Zhang He’s eye redness.
"What’s wrong? Are your eyes bothering you again?"
Li Xu had Zhang He sit down in front of him.
"No."
Zhang He shook his head in distress. "After taking your dicine, my eyes got better a long ti ago, but now my vision is getting worse."
"I want to get glasses, but my mom won’t let . She says wearing glasses just makes your nearsightedness worse."
"She saw a video online from so social dia influencer who said foxtail grass can cure nearsightedness. Lately, she’s been boiling foxtail grass water for to drink every day. Now, just the sll of it makes want to throw up. I wanted to ask, can foxtail grass water really cure nearsightedness?"
"Oh, that video you’re talking about? I’ve seen it too."
Song Sisi’s attention shifted from her laptop, and she chid in enthusiastically.
"Which video?"
Li Xu asked.
"Let find it for you. I even left a comnt on it."
Song Sisi took out her phone and quickly found the video on a short-video platform.
Li Xu took it and pressed play.
In the video, a woman said she saw online that foxtail grass had vision-improving properties, so she boiled it in water for her child to drink.
After drinking it for a week, the child felt that he could see the words on the blackboard from the sa seat, which he couldn’t see clearly before.
Therefore, the vlogger concluded that foxtail grass could cure nearsightedness.
The video was very popular, with likes and shares both exceeding 100,000.
Comnts and saves were in the tens of thousands.
Many netizens left comnts in the comnt section, eager to try it themselves.
So other netizens raised doubts.
The debate was intense.
Both sides stuck to their guns, and neither could convince the other.
"Doctor Li, is what the video says true or false?"
Song Sisi was also curious.
Li Xu shook his head and explained, "Anything can be used as dicine. Although foxtail grass is a weed, it is also a traditional Chinese dicinal herb. It can clear heat and drain dampness, expel wind and improve vision, and detoxify and kill parasites."
"From that perspective, it does indeed have a vision-improving effect."
"However, neither traditional Chinese dicine nor Western dicine has any evidence to prove that it can cure nearsightedness."
"Nearsightedness is a refractive condition caused by the elongation of the eyeball’s axial length, which increases the anterior-posterior diater of the crystalline lens. It is difficult to treat with dication alone."
"If the woman in the video wasn’t lying, I’m more inclined to believe her child had pseudomyopia, and the foxtail grass simply had a vision-improving effect."
"However, the dicinal components in foxtail grass are limited, and all dicine is toxic to so degree. Drinking it occasionally is fine, but drinking it every day can actually harm your body. So, tell your mom to stop boiling foxtail grass water for you."
Zhang He excitedly took out his phone. "Brother Li, can you say that again? I want to record it to play for my mom."
"Alright."
Li Xu repeated himself.
"Thanks, Brother Li."
Zhang He left happily.
"Doctor Li, you know so much."
Song Sisi rested her chin in her hands, her face full of admiration.
Li Xu’s confidence was greatly satisfied. "If I didn’t even know this basic dical knowledge, then my past few years of study would have been for nothing."
Ti passed, and before he knew it, evening had arrived.
Li Xu thought about Wang the Third’s situation.
He @’d Miaoli in the group chat: "How’s the patient?"
Miaoli: "We gave the patient another dose of the dicine this afternoon. His fever has broken, but the virus is still attacking his internal organs. According to our Director Guo, it seems the Clearing Qi and Stabilizing Blood Formula is relatively weak when it cos to protecting the organs. Even if the patient recovers, his organs will sustain so damage, and he won’t be able to do heavy labor in the future."
"Sigh."
Li Xu sighed.
He had been thinking of asking Wang the Third to help take care of his dicinal herb field in Tang Mountain after he recovered.
Now, it seed he would have to find soone else.
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