Chapter 244 - 138: Midwifery, Poisonous Woman_2
Those people who come to seek help from the immortals or for healing are called the afflicted. Once the person’s illness is cured, it is considered the disaster is alleviated.
As long as the disaster is alleviated and the illness is cured, the Galloping Immortal Disciple and the immortal have completed their task.
Xu Qing felt a stir in his heart when he heard the mention of Moonlight Mountain.
He remembered that the Immortal Hall Master of Moonlight Mountain was a highly cultivated white python named White Immortal. When Xu Qing resolved the issue with the shepherd and the red-clad ghost woman, White Immortal had invited him to visit the Hundred Herbs Cave in Moonlight Mountain.
White Immortal’s hall excelled at healing and disaster alleviation, and most Galloping Immortal Disciples were traveling healers.
What is a traveling healer, you ask? Traveling healers, wandering doctors, or rural doctors are examples.
Traveling healers roamed the countryside, without a fixed place to practice, often using bells or hanging gourds, or carrying medicine pouches to attract patients.
These traveling healers often had many folk remedies, but their medical skills varied greatly. The less skilled might only know a single remedy, such as treating a child’s cough or dealing with some women’s diseases.
However, the upper echelon was extremely high. Some unmatched practitioners who wandered the world also loved to shake bells, hang medicinal gourds, and treat people all around. Their medical skills could even surpass those of the Imperial Physicians.
Xu Qing had never seen a Galloping Immortal healing someone before. With nothing else to do, he took Huang Xiaoliu along, swaggering towards the home of the afflicted person.
When they arrived at the scene, many villagers had already gathered at the door; some were there to spectate, and some were anxiously seeing if they could lend a hand.