Take a Door with You

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cao Xin was preparing to study medicine.

This decision is not random.

Cao Xin had been thinking about it a long time ago, probably since the time when his brothers and his father Cao Kun died of illness on the way to flee famine, he had already had this idea.

In today's world, there are many good doctors and more quack doctors.

Whether it is for the sake of your own health in the future or for your family, it is of course the best plan to train yourself to be a good doctor, a famous doctor or even a miracle doctor.

On the other hand, Cao Xin himself is very interested in medical skills.

A hundred years of life.

There must always be some pursuits, some dreams, and some hobbies from the heart.

If you only practice martial arts all your life, you are a martial artist and a martial idiot.

Not a normal person.

Cao Xin can't devote all his attention to martial arts in his life.

Useless is a scholar!

Why not Wufu?

In addition to practicing martial arts, you must have a good skill and other hobbies to adjust.

medicine.

practice medicine.

This is an excellent choice.

Earn a lot of money, and the status is not low.

Although in Daliang, powerful and influential figures could indeed order doctors to drink, even a well-known doctor could get a few compliments at most, so he dared not disobey, lest he would cause disaster.

But Cao Xin is different.

"I practice martial arts myself, and I have the 'Bronze Immortal Gate', so my attainments will not be too low in the future."

"Based on this foundation, I am studying medicine and practicing medicine. In the future, I will be able to compete with such figures as 'Famous Killer Doctor' Ping Yizhi, 'Butterfly Valley Doctor Immortal' Hu Qingniu, 'Hell's Enemy' Xue Muhua, and even 'Peach Blossom Island Master' Huang Yaoshi."

If you have excellent medical skills, you will make friends widely, and you will be friends everywhere in the world.

If the medical skills are mediocre, they will not show it to others, and study silently to pass the time.

In short, as long as you have force, you are not afraid of disaster.

However.

It is not easy to study medicine.

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"I've inquired. Hongjitang, Renxintang, Shanxin Medical Bureau and other big-name medical centers have their own requirements for recruiting apprentices, and they have to be recommended by connections."

"This is especially the case for smaller medical clinics. They are usually inherited by nephews and nephews. Even if apprentices are recruited, they are selected from the clan and neighbors who are clean and smart."

On August 18th, Cao Xin brought back bad news.

Want to study medicine?

There is no way to learn!

There is no place to learn at all, and you will not be accepted at all.

As for the practice of medicine, without a master to guide you in, teach you carefully, teach by precepts and deeds, and rely on self-study by reading medical books, you will be ignorant of the sky and the earth.

Cao Xin's great ambition to study medicine was stuck outside the door at the first hurdle.

"Don't worry, there are no more than 200 pharmacies in the medical bureaus and clinics in Xijing City. I will go to inquire in the next few days, and there will always be one that can be done."

Cao Ren comforted his younger brother, but he didn't have much hope in his heart.

From ancient times to the present, it is not easy to learn medical skills.

For example, in the smaller medical clinics and pharmacies in Xijing City, many doctors followed their parents or were sent to the master when they were very young. First, they had to go up the mountain with the master to collect medicines, go to the medicine and pesticide dealers to collect medicines, and also process the medicinal materials by hand. At the same time, we must also recite various books on Chinese medicine enlightenment.

For example, "Ode on the Nature of Medicine", "Four Hundred Flavors of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Binhu Pulse Jue", "Soup Song Jue", "Lei Gong Pao Shao Lun" and so on, one master teaches one method, this period is actually a process of recognizing medicine, and it is also a long-term process. And there is a boring process, which takes about five to ten years.

As a young student, he almost knew the forms and types of fresh medicine, crude medicine, dried medicine, and processed medicine.

This is the first step.

At this time, you can go to the front of the stage and grab medicine in front of the hall. At the same time, the master will recite a book. This set of books is basically the "Huangdi Neijing", there will be no difference. "Lingshu", until the Huangdi Neijing has been recited.

In the next step, different schools of thought will give different books. For example, the Shanghan School will give "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", the Yishui School will give "The Origin of Medicine" and "Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach", and the Warm Disease School will give "On Plague". "Warm and Heat Theory", "Warm Disease Article Debate", "Warm and Heat Jingwei" and so on.

In addition to reading and endorsing, one also needs to be familiar with all kinds of human relationships in front of the stage, the dosage and proportion of various traditional Chinese medicines, etc. If you are smart, this process will take another three to five years, and you will not pass another test until you have memorized all the books given by the master.

In fact, at this time, a large number of people have already been eliminated——

Recite medical books and understand medical books.

In front of and behind the scenes, people are so sophisticated.

This is not simple, even if you are smart and clever since childhood, not a few people are stopped.

Those who stopped here, some of them switched careers to work as pharmaceutical workers, and a larger part could only find another way out.

And those who pass the first two tests and can continue to the next step can follow up with the master at this time. Daily life is to copy medical records, write prescriptions, clean up, and serve tea and water.

Occasionally, the master will let the apprentice feel the pulse personally, and then ask how, how, how, how.

This process is about another three to five years.

Most of the people were also sent away at this time, and it was no problem to treat a minor illness or disaster at this time.

The master teaches the art.

Apprentices start out as teachers.

One has the ability to support his family, and the other has worked as an apprentice for more than ten or twenty years for nothing.

It can be regarded as everyone gets what they need, so they can get together and get together.

There may be some who have truly learned part of the master's mantle and can establish themselves.

But those who can stay are, after all, a minority.

Generally, there are two disciples, the first disciple and the second disciple, who can inherit all the mantle of the master, including connections.

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Study medicine!

Practice martial arts!

The two are very similar in terms of perseverance.

If you want to succeed in your studies, most of them will take more than ten or twenty years of hard work.

"Twenty years."

"If I learn from now, I will be 28 years old at that time, still very young."

Cao Xin is not afraid of difficulties.

He will have no shortage of money and silver in the future, and he will have a lot of time.

Idle is also idle.

In addition to practicing martial arts, it is not bad to study medicine to cultivate one's morality and self-cultivation. It is not bad to be a good doctor if you are not good.

"Since I can't find a place to go for a while, I can buy a medical book and read it first."

Cao Xin is a man of action.

The next day, I asked my elder brother to go to the bookstore to buy medical books——

"Medicinal Fu", "Four Hundred Flavors of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Binhu Pulse Jue", "Soup Song Jue", "Lei Gong Pao Shao Lun".

"Huangdi Neijing Suwen", "Huangdi Neijing Lingshu", "Medical Three Character Classic", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Great Physician Sincerity", "Health Preserving Maxims".

These books involve many aspects such as medical ethics, medical history, medical theory, diagnostic methods, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, health preservation, etc., and basically cover the common sense and principles that must be understood for the entry into medicine.

Cao Ren went around to inquire about the list of books, and bought back one after another the books he could find.

Add slowly.

Thanks to the popularity of movable type printing in this dynasty, the prices of Daliang's books have been greatly reduced compared with those in the previous dynasty, and if they go further, they can fly into the homes of ordinary people.

Even though it was still expensive, Cao Xin sold more than 100 catties of fresh fish to Sun's restaurant through Xu Dazhi every day, earning 2,000 Wen per day.

It's nothing to buy a book.

then.

In the future.

Cao Xin spared time every day to raise chickens, catch fish, and build a house in the original fairyland. Besides the time of delivering fish in the morning and evening with his eldest brother, buying food, and household belongings, he had at least three hours left to read medical books every day.

First read through, then understand, and then recite.

Cao Xin took the energy to sprint for the college entrance examination and wandered in the sea of ​​medical books.

Until this day——

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