Douluo Continent: From Seven Treasure Glazed Tile to Crescent Moon's Solemnity

Chapter 7 Bug Detection

However, improving a prescription requires a certain level of pharmacological knowledge.

Therefore, Ning Feiliu still plans to go back and systematically study the pharmacology of Douluo Continent before trying to improve the prescription.

"Okay, thank you, Master Ji." He smiled and nodded at Ji Boda, then prepared to leave.

"Young Master Ning, please take care." After learning that Ning Fei was a direct disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Ji Boda became even more humble and quickly said.

Ning Feiliu left the clinic directly, holding the "Compendium of Materia Medica," and had some ideas in mind.

Now that he has this prescription, he can use the answer to find the "question".

Simply put, he can pretend not to know and go to various medical clinics to find the common elixirs listed in the "Compendium of Materia Medica," and then refresh the quest.

Then he looked at the detailed prescriptions in the "Compendium of Materia Medica," which would allow him to complete the task reliably.

Moreover, Ning Feiliu discovered that after completing the mission, the detailed contents of those prescriptions seemed to be engraved in his mind, and he remembered them very well.

So completing this task is actually equivalent to helping him memorize the prescription.

Without hesitation, Ning Feili went directly to another clinic.

Inside the clinic, he pretended not to know as he inquired about various medicinal pills from the waiter, which resulted in a series of new tasks appearing.

[Search for detailed prescriptions for the Cold-Dispelling Decoction and gain six months of experience from Singed]

[Search for the detailed prescription for Jin Dan wound medicine and gain access to Singed's three years of experience]

[To find the detailed prescription for the Divine Turtle Elixir, gain a year's worth of Singed experience.]

[Search for the detailed prescription for Ice Crystal Ointment and gain access to Singed's two and a half years of experience]

……

One task after another was generated by Ning Feiliu, and he completed them with ease.

This was a way to complete the task by exploiting a bug, which made him extremely happy.

Gradually, Singid's experience seemed to be almost completely drained, accumulating to a full fifty years of experience.

After sixty years of acquiring Singed's alchemical experience, finally, what appeared was no longer Singed's experience.

Instead, it became: [Query the detailed prescription for Golden Jade Powder and gain six months of alchemy experience from Lenata.]

Is it the Alchemist Baron Renata?

Ning Feiliu was slightly taken aback, but in the background story, Lenata also came from an alchemy family that started with alchemical medicines, and was an alchemy master in medicine alchemy who was slightly inferior to Singed.

So he continued completing the tasks without stopping at all.

Singed and Lenata's alchemy experience was instilled into Ning Feiliu's mind as she completed each mission.

But soon...

As the last line of small characters before Ning Feiliu's eyes shattered, they transformed into experience and knowledge that flooded into his mind.

He also completed the task of writing the last prescription in the Compendium of Materia Medica.

"There are no more missions..." Ning Feiliu took a deep breath, then shook her head and said helplessly.

Under the strange gaze of the apprentice at the medical clinic, he bought the pill in front of him for five copper soul coins and then left the clinic.

After leaving the clinic, Ning Feiliu muttered to herself, "Next, I'll have to look at other prescription books and grind for more quests and experience."

However, he now possesses sixty years of alchemical experience from the alchemist Singed and thirty-eight years of alchemical experience from the alchemist Baron Lenata.

With so much experience and knowledge, he suddenly gained an understanding of several prescriptions in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in his hand.

"First of all... this method of using herbs is too outdated. We can use methods for extracting medicines to extract the active ingredients from the herbs."

Ning Feiliu muttered to herself, "If we could make them into pills or potions, the effects of these elixirs would be even better."

This is how, after gaining the experience and knowledge of Singed and Lenata, Ning Feiliu's understanding of the medicinal prescriptions in Douluo Continent shifted from the traditional medical perspective to the modern medical perspective of her previous life.

In the traditional medical approach, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, it tends to focus on abstract concepts such as mutual generation and restraint, or balance and harmony.

It is relatively more empirical and idealistic.

For example, bloodletting therapy in traditional Western medicine, and the yin-yang balance and five-element balance in traditional Chinese medicine.

It's something rather mystical, but without any scientific basis.

Especially in the area of ​​drug treatment, traditional medicine does not explore what the active ingredient of the drug is or why it works.

For example, the calming soup used in the royal palace in my previous life to soothe the minds of princes and princesses.

Like the princes and princesses in the palace.

The people in the palace didn't want them to be too active, lest they cause trouble.

Therefore, the concubines in the imperial harem often gave this calming soup to their children.

Its prescription consists of five herbs: cinnabar, realgar, scorpion, stir-fried silkworm, and licorice!

The truly useful component of cinnabar is mercury, while the main component of realgar is tetraarsenic tetrasulfide, which can be oxidized in the air to the highly toxic component arsenic trioxide, i.e., arsenic, when heated to a certain temperature.

Using these two heavy metals as herbs... well, you can imagine the result.

Therefore, after the princes and princesses took it, they developed symptoms of heavy metal poisoning, which naturally achieved the effect of calming their nerves.

This is the drawback of traditional medicine, although many of its empirical findings are useful.

For example, traditional Chinese medicine uses the stems and leaves of Artemisia annua to treat malaria, and boils willow branches in water to dispel wind, promote urination, relieve pain, and reduce swelling.

However, from the perspective of modern medicine, the stems and leaves of Artemisia annua can treat malaria because of the artemisinin in the herb.

Willow twigs boiled in water can dispel wind, promote urination, relieve pain and reduce swelling because they contain salicylic acid.

Extracting them actually makes them more effective.

Therefore, there is still a certain gap between traditional medicine and modern medicine's rigorous scientific approach to extracting the main components of drugs.

The pharmacology currently practiced in Douluo Continent is clearly based on traditional medicine under the empiricist framework.

The alchemical experience that Ning Feiliu absorbed into her mind through the mission was a very systematic and standardized concept of modern medicine.

He is now planning to go back and try to extract the active ingredients of the drug using scientific methods.

Although this world doesn't have many sophisticated instruments, he can still use some relatively early methods to extract the active ingredients of drugs.

For example, water-soluble methods, leaching methods, solvent extraction methods, distillation methods, etc.

These are all capable of extracting drug components, but determining which specific component is effective requires further experimentation.

Later, when he has the necessary resources, he can also use the knowledge in his mind to create some more sophisticated alchemy experimental instruments.

As Ning Feiliu was walking and thinking, she suddenly heard whispers from the side.

(End of this chapter)