I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 492 - 208: Huian Pharmacy’s Recruitment, My Grandson Is a Divine Doctor

At this moment, the staff didn’t dare underestimate Lu Xuan in the slightest.

Although this young man was not very old, his understanding of traditional Chinese medicine far exceeded that of most people.

"Your skill in identifying herbs is probably unmatched even by those chief physicians at the County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine." She looked at Lu Xuan and couldn’t help but praise him.

Lu Xuan humbly smiled.

"Xiuwen, is Xiaoxuan really that amazing?" Lin Yongzhen said softly.

Ji Xiuwen smiled without saying a word.

Comparing Lu Xuan to those doctors at the County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is underestimating him, isn’t it?

Never mind the County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine; with Lu Xuan’s skills, even among those national-level renowned Chinese medicine doctors, he would rank at the top, even comfortably within the top three.

However, he also knew that people like Lin Yongzhen had not interacted much with Lu Xuan recently, and many things they couldn’t really experience without direct involvement, without seeing it with their own eyes.

Ji Xiuwen didn’t say much about this.

Some things, no matter how much you talk about them, these people basically wouldn’t understand.

The staff at Huian Pharmacy, on the other hand, was very interested at this moment and directly placed the selected tiger cane in front of Lu Xuan: "What about this tiger cane?"

Lu Xuan picked up the tiger cane and glanced at it: "The quality is decent."

"I mean, how do you tell the real from the fake?"

Lu Xuan laughed and said, "Identifying tiger cane actually involves two situations: one for the raw medicinal material and another for the tiger cane powder. Let’s talk about the raw medicinal material first."

At this point, Lu Xuan paused, then continued, "The rhizome of the tiger cane is cylindrical, branched, with varying lengths, some reaching up to 30cm, with a diameter of 0.5-2.5cm. The nodes are slightly swollen.

The surface is brownish to grayish-brown with obvious longitudinal wrinkles, fibrous roots, and dot-like fibrous root traces. There are bud scars and sheath-like scales at the branch tips and nodes.

The internode length is 2-3cm, the texture is hard, not easily broken, the cross-section is brown-yellow, fibrous; the bark and xylem are easily separated, the bark is relatively thin, the xylem occupies most parts, are radial, with a pith or hollow in the center, with transverse partitions on the longitudinal section, and a faint smell and slightly bitter, astringent taste with thick and strong texture.

Tiger cane medicinal material with a firm texture and yellow cross-section is considered the best.

The tiger cane in my hand, the cross-section color is not too good, but it is not particularly bad either, the quality of the medicinal material is medium, and in a typical pharmacy, having this quality is considered quite good.

Poor quality is actually not a big deal; the worst are those who use sulfur-fumigated medicinal materials to pass off as high-quality raw materials."

Lu Ran heard this and leaned in for a look, "They really are identical. Do you remember the characteristics of all these herbs?"

"Barring any accidents, I definitely remember them all," Ji Xiuwen said with a smile.

Photographic memory, do you think he’s playing?

"Moreover, memorizing them and actually distinguishing the herbs in practice are different matters."

Ji Xiuwen’s words immediately resonated with Lu Ran and the others.

Lin Yongzhen nodded and said, "That’s true. Many characteristics of Chinese medicinal materials are similar, especially the gentiana Xiaoxuan just mentioned. They are too similar. Even if you know these differences, distinguishing the real from the fake is not an easy task.

I won’t even talk about ordinary people. Even if you ask those doctors from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital to identify medicinal materials, there probably aren’t many who could describe them in such detail.

However, it must be said that Xiaoxuan’s photographic memory is genuinely terrifying.

If he didn’t have this skill, he wouldn’t be able to remember the characteristics of these herbs and wouldn’t understand this field as deeply even after decades of immersion."

"Do we still need to talk about the tiger cane powder?"

"Forget it, knowing them doesn’t help us anyway."

Lin Yongzhen shook his head. He studied conventional Western medicine, having nothing to do with Chinese medicine, so it didn’t matter how much he knew. His curiosity was merely to see how impressive Lu Xuan’s photographic memory was.

Now that he knew, he no longer needed Lu Xuan to say more.

The pharmacy staff was curious, of course, but since Lin Yongzhen and the others said so, she didn’t feel it right to say more and had to bury her head in grabbing all the raw medicinal ingredients according to the prescription instead.

Lu Xuan checked each one.

Although the quality of traditional Chinese medicine at Huian Pharmacy wasn’t particularly good, overall, it was passable.

Of course, compared to the Chinese medicine procured by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, it was a bit inferior, but there was no sulfur-fumigated medicinal material, which allowed Lu Xuan to breathe a sigh of relief.

If the old man’s medicinal ingredients couldn’t be fully prepared at Huian Pharmacy, they would have to go to the city.

Once the old man’s medicine was prepared, Lu Xuan paid for it, picked it up, and was about to leave when he was stopped by the staff who had been handling the medicine earlier.

"Sir, wait a moment."

Lu Xuan turned back to the voice, showing a hint of curiosity: "What’s up?"

"It’s like this, I just mentioned your herb-identifying skills to our general manager, and he wants to know if you’re interested in working at Huian Pharmacy. Our manager said that if you’re willing, your monthly salary would be at least five figures."

As she spoke, she deliberately raised one hand to illustrate.

She didn’t seem to worry that Lu Xuan might refuse.

As a native of Anjiang and having worked in Anjiang County for seven or eight years, she knew a five-figure salary was a great temptation for anyone.

Even for her, she was only making four to five thousand yuan a month, which was considered relatively high in the whole of Anjiang County.

A monthly salary exceeding ten thousand was beyond her imagination.

But she also knew that this young man in front of her deserved it. His skill in identifying herbs would be valuable in any major pharmacy.

This is still Anjiang; if it were in some big city, she wouldn’t even doubt a monthly salary of twenty to thirty thousand.