Chapter 513 - 514: Do You Dare?
For the entire day, Song Xiaodong, He Wenbai, and Lin Su’er were all busy in the laboratory.
It wasn’t as simple as one might imagine, just putting various herbs into the heater and then waiting for the results.
A truly skilled doctor has extremely strict requirements for brewing medicine; which herb to put in first, which to put in last, at what heat to put them in—all these factors produce vastly different effects.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a miraculous thing, unlike ordinary chemical and physical reactions; one could even say it contains some profound mystery within.
Like humans up until now, our own understanding of ourselves is just a tiny fraction. The function of various organs is a miraculous thing, how to maintain the operation of a living organism, every part working in close coordination, definitely more flexible and at ease than any precision instrument in the world.
But in fact, the composition of the human body is just ordinary water and carbohydrates, which create this miraculous performance.
Humans are living organisms, and so are animals and plants; they too have their miraculous aspects, which cannot be explained by ordinary elemental analysis.
Traditional Chinese Medicine utilizes these various wonderful properties within living organisms to serve humankind.
Unable to comprehend just one thing, let alone the combination of so many, that level of complexity is like permutations and combinations, impossible to calculate. Song Xiaodong could only try over and over again, seeking the advantages and disadvantages within.
When it comes to the complexity of medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine is definitely hundreds, if not thousands, of times more complex than Western Medicine. But because of the loss of heritage, many of the precious experiences accumulated by predecessors have become untraceable. Song Xiaodong and his team now have to find the true methods from the limited prescriptions they have.
He Wenbai was very excited as he worked. Song Xiaodong had already told him about the possible efficacy of this medicine; it was a completely new field, which for an old scholar was like encountering a great fortune.
As for Lin Su’er, there’s no need to mention, being able to be with Song Xiaodong made any hardship bearable. Moreover, it wasn’t tiring at the moment; her main responsibility was to do the recording work properly.