Tang Dynasty: Saving Lives and Helping Others, Li Lizhi Falls for Him

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Three hours later, in Shen Chang'an's courtyard.

The bronze stove in the pharmacy had cooled down, and twelve small porcelain bottles and fifteen oil paper packages were neatly arranged on the table.

The porcelain bottle contained wound medicine, and the oil paper package contained hemostatic powder.

Shen Chang'an picked up a bottle of wound medicine, uncorked it, and brought it close to his nose to smell it.

The medicine had a strong aroma, quite different from the ones he usually bought at the pharmacy.

He poured a little more onto his fingertip. The powder was fine and even, and its color was light yellowish-brown, much darker than that of ordinary wound medicine.

"The medicine should be quite effective; we'll do a comparison tomorrow."

After all, he used magic to refine it, so its effects are definitely different from normal wound medicine.

The wisp of magical power mixed into the medicinal powder, though minuscule, was enough to maximize the medicinal properties of the herbs.

But we'll have to try it to see how effective it is.

Shen Chang'an put the porcelain bottle and paper package into his medicine box, blew out the lamp, returned to his bedroom, sat cross-legged, and began to meditate and cultivate.

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The next morning, Shen Chang'an got up early as usual.

After a quick wash and a bowl of millet porridge, he shouldered his medicine kit and left the courtyard.

Just after dawn, a long queue had already formed in front of the free clinic booth.

When the people saw Shen Chang'an arrive, they quickly made way for him, calling him "Divine Doctor Shen" repeatedly.

Shen Chang'an sat down behind the wooden table and began his day of free medical consultations.

While taking the patient's pulse and prescribing medicine, he kept an eye out for suitable patients with external injuries.

The medicine I prepared yesterday needs to be tested by someone to know its effectiveness.

A short while later, a man with a full beard squeezed to the front and stretched out his right hand.

There was a fresh wound on his palm, cut by a sharp weapon. Although it was wrapped with a strip of cloth, blood had already seeped out.

"Dr. Shen, please take a look. I cut myself yesterday, and the bleeding just won't stop," the man said with a worried expression.

Shen Chang'an asked him to sit down and untied the cloth strip.

The wound was about two inches long, with the skin and flesh turned outwards and blood still seeping out; it looked rather frightening.

"This injury is nothing serious." Shen Chang'an took out a packet of hemostatic powder from the medicine box, tore open the paper packet, and sprinkled the pale yellow powder evenly on the wound.

The moment the hemostatic powder came into contact with the wound, the man's hand jerked back.

"Does it hurt?" Shen Chang'an asked.

"Dr. Shen, no...it doesn't hurt, it's cold!" The man's eyes widened as he looked down at his palm.

The pale yellow powder, upon contact with blood, quickly coagulated into a thin film, sealing the wound completely.

The bleeding, which was still seeping out, stopped completely within a few breaths.

"This...this..." The man opened his mouth wide, unable to speak.

Shen Chang'an took out a clean piece of linen and skillfully bandaged the wound, then instructed, "Don't get the wound wet when you get back. Check it in three days. If it has scabbed over, it's fine."

"Thank you so much, Dr. Shen! Thank you so much, Dr. Shen!" The man bowed repeatedly and took out a few coins from his pocket and placed them on the table.

Shen Chang'an did not refuse and accepted the few coins. It was the rule; accepting one coin was the same as accepting one coin, and not accepting it would only make the patient uneasy.

The local people witnessed the effectiveness of the hemostatic powder and immediately began to discuss it.

"Dr. Shen's medicine is amazing! It stopped the bleeding as soon as it was applied!"

"It works much better than the ones sold in the pharmacies in Chang'an!"

"That's right. The wound medicine I bought at Jirentang last time was still bleeding after I applied it for a long time."

Listening to the people's discussions, Shen Chang'an had already made a judgment about the efficacy of the medicine.

The hemostatic powder is indeed much more effective than that used in ordinary clinics.

Next, he encountered several more suitable trauma patients.

A hunter was slashed on the calf by a wild boar's tusks; the wound was so deep that the bone was visible.

Shen Chang'an first used silver needles to stop the bleeding, then applied wound medicine and bandaged it properly.

The hunter was able to stand up and walk around on the spot, and thanked him repeatedly.

A dockworker's hand was cut by a hemp rope; the wound was small, but it kept bleeding.

Shen Chang'an applied a hemostatic powder to his wound, and the bleeding stopped immediately.

The porters were extremely grateful, saying that this medicine was much better than the kind their foreman always kept on hand.

A woodcutter cut his finger while chopping wood, almost losing a section of it.

Shen Chang'an cleaned his wounds, applied ointment, bandaged them, and then told him not to chop firewood for the next few days.

The woodcutter held his bandaged hand, his eyes reddening.

For each patient, Shen Chang'an would silently record the drug's effects in his mind.

Hemostatic powder: It stops bleeding quickly, forms a film upon contact with blood, and results in neat scab formation after wound healing.

Wound medicine: It has a good pain-relieving effect. After application, the patient's expression is obviously relaxed, and the wound heals more than twice as fast as ordinary wound medicine.

"It seems that the Green Wood True Qi has a very obvious effect on stimulating the medicinal properties of herbs," Shen Chang'an thought to himself.

He silently noted down these observations and then glanced at them on the system panel.

The merit points were credited much faster than with regular free clinics. For those patients who used hemostatic powder and wound medicine, the merit points were credited to their accounts one after another after their wounds healed.

It seems the medicine is effective and the merits are quickly accumulated. He can prepare more of this medicine in the future, which will also improve the speed of treatment.

It seems the medicine is effective and the merits are quickly accumulated. He can prepare more of this medicine in the future, which will also improve the speed of treatment.

Because of the remarkable effects of Shen Chang'an's two medicines, many onlookers wanted to buy some in case of emergency.

However, Shen Chang'an did not prepare much of these two medicines. It was unrealistic to buy them for every commoner, since he did not lack gold or silver.

But with so many people requesting it, he couldn't refuse, so he could only select some people whose daily work was dangerous and sell them some hemostatic powder and wound medicine.

This scene was also discovered by the guards that Li Chengqian and Li Shimin had arranged to observe from the surrounding area.

Not far from the free clinic booth, under a large locust tree, two men dressed in ordinary clothes were talking in hushed tones.

They were guards of the Eastern Palace, ordered to stand guard near Shen Chang'an's free clinic stall, and to report Shen Chang'an's whereabouts and movements to Crown Prince Li Chengqian every day.

"Did you see that?" one of them said in a low voice.

"I saw it! It's amazing!"

Another gaze was fixed on Shen Chang'an's direction. "That hemostatic powder, once sprinkled on, stopped the bleeding. I've been in the army for ten years, and I've never seen such a miraculous medicine."

"And that wound medicine, did you see the hunter's leg wound? After applying it, the hunter was able to stand up right away."

"This medicine, if used in the military, would be a lifesaver!"

"Indeed, if Your Highness obtains this medicine and presents it to His Majesty the Emperor, it would be a great service to Your Highness!"

"We must report to His Highness immediately."

The two exchanged a glance, and one of them quietly left the locust tree and hurried towards the East Palace.

Meanwhile, several people were rushing towards the palace, and behind them was Li Shimin.

As for Shen Chang'an, because there were too many people wanting to buy wound medicine and hemostatic powder, he couldn't pay attention to the situation too far away, so he didn't notice the few people who left.