Open your mind

Author: flying de lazy cat

Open your mind

The enhanced vision made it easier for Ye Yan to find herbs, and the overall efficiency could be said to be significantly improved.

In addition, the herbs that Ye Yan wants are quite abundant around here. It can even be said that they grow everywhere. In this era, no one picks them at all.

This allowed Ye Yan to turn around and quickly pick a sufficient amount.

The group returned with a full load. Zhou Xu, who was understanding the situation with Ye Jinghong at the time, saw them and immediately walked over and took a look at the almost full baskets.

"It seems the harvest is not small."

"Yes, chief, there are many herbs growing near the camp, which should be enough for us to use."

The unexpected discovery of herbal medicine resources around the camp was a good thing for Zhou Xu and could be considered an unexpected surprise.

However, Zhou Xu's attention at this time was undoubtedly focused on the herbs in front of him.

"What are you going to do with these herbs?"

"How to deal with..."

This question made Ye Yan feel strange.

"Just eat it directly."

"..."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu was silent for two seconds, and then tried to say something...

"Ye Yan, have you ever thought about decoction in water and taking it?"

"Decoct it with water and take it?"

Ye Yan was confused when he heard this.

Obviously, Ye Yan has not studied this matter too deeply, and at the same time, his ideas have not been fully opened up.

But Zhou Xu is different. Herbal medicine is part of their traditional culture. When he was a child, he had rhinitis and took Chinese medicine for a period of time. He still knew the common sense that Chinese medicine needs to be decocted and taken.

At the same time, because there was a fee for cooking on behalf of others, it was cheaper for them to buy it and cook it themselves.

But it also benefited from this, which allowed him to master some relevant experience and knowledge.

"uh-huh!"

With a dry cough, Zhou Xu cleared his throat.

"When water is boiled three times, all poisons will disappear! Have you ever heard of this?"

There is no need for Ye Yan to answer, he must have never heard of it.

This is what the old Chinese doctor who treated him originally told him.

According to the words of the old Chinese medicine doctor, decoction of traditional Chinese medicine can effectively remove or reduce the toxic and side effects of the medicine.

At the same time, the decoction method helps the ingredients in the medicine to escape, and making the medicine into a decoction is also easier for the body to absorb.

Of course, even if these are ignored, Zhou Xu still has a very simple and crude idea in his mind.

That is something that has been passed down from the Great Celestial Dynasty for five thousand years, and it always has its own reason.

Although Ye Yan has the upper limit of five-star intelligence, he is still only at the two-star level after all, and primitive people do not have much knowledge and culture.

Based on what the old Chinese medicine doctor said to him, isn't it just a joke to suppress Ye Yan?

Today's Zhou Xu also copied what the old Chinese medicine doctor told him back then, and successfully improved Ye Yan's knowledge.

"I see."

After listening, Ye Yan looked completely inspired. The look he looked at Zhou Xu was filled with admiration, and at the same time, he felt a bit ashamed in his heart.

Ye Yan was originally very confident in his abilities, but now it seems that compared to their new leader in front of him, he is far behind.

"Please leader, teach me!"

Zhou Xu was not polite about this. Since he did know more than Ye Yan, he naturally didn't mind teaching him everything he knew.

"Come with me."

After saying that, he took Ye Yan and the two apprentices to the lake.

"First, let's clean these herbs."

The traditional Chinese medicine they use is basically dried. While it is convenient to store, it has already been processed.

But this fresh herb was obviously different, so Zhou Xu felt that it still needed to be washed.

After that, he was also very skilled in the process of cooking Chinese medicine.

The process of cooking Chinese medicine can be generally summarized as the process of continuously collecting the juice.

In the past, when prescribing medicine, doctors always said that three bowls of water can be boiled into one bowl, which is basically what it means.

During this continuous cooking process, the soup water gradually changes, and at the same time, the slightest medicinal smell begins to overflow with the steam.

This change made Ye Yan's eyes light up.

"Chief, is this good?"

"It's still early. The medicinal properties have just been brewed. It will take longer to fully utilize the medicinal properties."

Zhou Xu taught everyone his own experience.

It takes time to cook medicine, and naturally they will not sit idle during this process.

"Ye Yan, have you ever thought about growing these herbs ourselves?"

"Growing herbs?"

In this era, the concept of farming does not yet exist. Even a person like Ye Yan with five-star intellectual potential cannot understand this meaning without a concept.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu spoke quickly after thinking about it for a while...

"Weeds growing outside, even if they are pulled out, will grow back after a while. Do you know this?"

"Know."

Ye Yan nodded, and then seemed to come to his senses, vaguely understanding what their new leader wanted to express.

But he did not interrupt easily, but continued to listen.

"Just like these weeds, medicinal herbs can actually grow again, but if they grow outside, there are too many influencing factors, and you may not be able to pick them any day. On the other hand, if the medicinal herbs are moved in front of us...

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At this point, Zhou Xu no longer needed to say any more, because Ye Yan already fully understood what he wanted to express.

"Why didn't I think of it? At the same time, when needed, I don't have to go out and look for it so hard!"

While muttering to himself, Ye Yan's whole body became excited.

Judging from his posture, he wanted to take action immediately. Seeing this, Zhou Xu quickly signaled Ye Yan to calm down.

"Calm down, this is not something that can be done in a short while. We will make arrangements slowly tomorrow. The most important thing at the moment is this pot of medicine."

"Oh, yes, yes! The pot of medicine in front of me is more important!"

Under Zhou Xu's reminder, Ye Yan's attention quickly returned to the pot of medicine in front of him.

During this period, Zhou Xu certainly wouldn't mind distracting Ye Fan's thoughts for a while.

For example, dried medicinal materials.

For another example, you can try to boil medicinal materials with similar medicinal properties together, and achieve a better effect through the cooperation of multiple medicinal materials.

The ideas and ideas that Zhou Xu constantly put forward can be said to have quickly pushed Ye Yan's ideas on medicine and pharmaceuticals to maturity.

Invisibly, the traditional Chinese medicine system has formed a relatively complete outline in Ye Yan's mind.

Next, it depends on how far Ye Yan can practice it.

On this matter, Zhou Xu felt that he could not help much, so he could only rely on Ye Yan to use his clever mind to think it over.

In this process, the first pot of medicine is officially cooked.

"It's almost done when it's cooked like this. The medicinal residue needs to be fished out. The medicinal soup is divided into three bowls and given to the patients."
Chapter completed!