Chapter 2589 - 2563: I Made It Myself

Imperial Doctor Liu sighed, "Ah, this is spring~"

If only it were winter or autumn?

Otherwise, summer would work too.

Imperial Doctor Liu merely sighed and continued using medicinal solutions to clean his wound. He then examined the exposed area, shook his head and said, "We can see the outside, but what about the inside?"

Manbao was also pondering; at this moment, merely stopping the bleeding and reducing swelling clearly wouldn’t suffice.

Manbao said, "Let’s try using Jishi Hall’s Chinese ginseng ointment."

Imperial Doctor Liu thought for a moment and nodded, "It’s worth a try, but what about the inside?"

Manbao pondered for a long time, finally gritting her teeth and said, "Let’s wait a bit longer; I see the temperature can still be controlled. If it rises more, then we can only use strong medicine."

This time, even if the person isn’t made foolish by the injury, curing them might turn them into a fool.

But Imperial Doctor Liu didn’t point this out. Both knew that compared to the consequences of being foolish, as an imperial doctor, saving a life was the priority.

Director Xiao clearly thought so too, but he still informed the emperor, preparing him for the possibility that Young Master Zheng wouldn’t wake or would wake up as a fool.

Emperor: ...

What could the emperor do? He could only quietly tell the Prince of Hejian to prepare for the same.

The Prince of Hejian sighed deeply.

Manbao watched Young Master Zheng nervously, and while cleaning his wounds, took the opportunity to collect some decayed flesh to send to Teacher Mo.

Upon examination, Teacher Mo said, "The treatment environment where you are is too harsh."

Manbao had exchanged with Teacher Mo while taking a moment to visit the lavatory after evening meals. She sat frustrated in the classroom, saying, "I know, this is the first patient with a cranial injury I’ve seen. I didn’t expect it to be so difficult. Teacher Mo, is there really no way to save him?"

Teacher Mo thought for a while and said, "There are still two options; directly giving him a vial of revival potion will do. It can well curb and eliminate bacteria and restore bodily functions to some extent."

Teacher Mo pointed straight to it, and upon looking, Manbao found it very familiar, "This green potion, it looks like the one I bought for my mother."

Teacher Mo laughed, "Revival potions all have similarities."

"What is the other option?"

Teacher Mo said, "It is something I intended to teach you; today we will learn formulas such as Yin Qiao Powder combined with Baihu Decoction and Qingjie Decoction..."

Manbao stayed in the lavatory for a full two quarters. When she opened the door and went out, the palace maid waiting outside looked at her with a different gaze.

Who would’ve thought that an imperial doctor would also have constipation? And so severe...

The palace maids looked at Zhou Man with sympathy; she’s still so young...

Manbao, still immersed in the medicinal formulations, hadn’t noticed their looks.

When she returned to the ward, the room was filled with the smell of mugwort.

She waved her hand, allowing air to circulate, and walked in to ask, "How many times have you sprayed this?"

Imperial Doctor Liu held up three fingers, saying, "Better to have more than less, It’s a bit stifling, but I feel at ease."

A decoction of mugwort, atractylodes, and realgar sprayed can clean the room somewhat.

Manbao touched Young Master Zheng’s forehead; the fever persisted, and the trend was rising.

Manbao hesitated for a moment, then decided to change the prescription, so she took Imperial Doctor Liu to find Director Xiao, and the three discussed it for a while before settling on a prescription.

Once the prescription was made, a medical assistant immediately went to collect and boil the medicine, then administered it to Young Master Zheng, while Manbao applied acupuncture to reduce fever and swelling.

The sky darkened, Manbao glanced at Young Master Zheng, feeling that his fate would be determined tonight, then said to Imperial Doctor Liu and Director Xiao, "You two should go rest first; I’ll guard during the first half of the night."

The two were exhausted from running around all day, so upon hearing this they didn’t argue and nodded, then went together to squeeze into a bed.

Manbao sat by Young Master Zheng’s bedside, bored, then deliberated in shifting her focus to check her points. Unconsciously tapping her knee, she felt reluctant to spend so many points, hence sought Teacher Mo.

Teacher Mo hadn’t logged off either; he had been researching Young Master Zheng’s case, and using his data and pulse records conducted multiple humanoid model treatment experiments, based on Zhou Man’s world medical level, all inevitably resulted in death.

Later, he simply advanced medical technology by over a thousand years, proceeding with instrument and surgical treatments. In a sterilized environment, the survival rate was still only 60%, with three surgeries conducted: one resulted in survival, one in death, and another although survived, suffered irreversible brain damage.

Teacher Mo believed that based on Zhou Man’s era’s medical level, saving a person was impossible. The challenge wasn’t the swelling reduction and bleeding cessation, but in sterilization environment and timely hematoma treatment.

Without achieving the latter two, even if bleeding stops, swelling is controlled, the person still wouldn’t survive.

Especially since now is spring.

He remarked, "Seems like revival potion is the only option?"

Manbao asked, "Is revival potion only purchasable from the mall?"

Seeing her reluctance, Teacher Mo laughed, "I know you’re reluctant, but no need to buy from the mall. Haven’t I mentioned that I planned to teach you about cranial injuries and meningitis over this period? Revival potion is used among them; I’ve made two simplified versions in the lab."

He said, "Might not be as good as what’s on the market but definitely more effective than any prescription you’re currently using."

Manbao was astonished, eyes wide open, finding her voice only after a while, "Teacher, you are too amazing, do you know how many points a potion costs? Even a simplified version would cost at least half the points, right?"

Manbao was restless, wanting to ask whether he could teach her to make such potions.

Teacher Mo looked at her calmly, "Revival potion is just an ordinary potion. Your senior brothers and sisters, as long as they reached a doctorate level, would know how to make it. What’s the big deal?"

Manbao felt very curious, "Teacher, haven’t you said that there’s patent protection at your place, similar to our protection of our own pill recipes? Is revival potion so widespread already, that one can find the recipe anytime?"

"Not at all," Teacher Mo said, "Currently, those who can make it are confined to my laboratory, of course excluding those despicable figures who secretly took my potion for their own study."

Manbao heartened, "...Teacher, whose potion is this?"

Teacher Mo glanced up at her, "Mine, of course; the formula was my discovery."

He frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "Around when I was thirty, during my research on ancient Chinese medicine, due to a severe lack of cases, I could only start with herbs. Unfortunately, many plants in this world are missing or mutated, and eventually, I extracted the revival potion from the herbs I studied."

Manbao’s eyes shone brightly, "So I’m not short of raw materials?"

"Correct, you’re just short of a vacuum machine, quantum extraction machine, high-magnification biological microscope..." Teacher Mo listed a bunch, causing Manbao’s excitement to vanish, becoming entirely expressionless, "Teacher, let’s discuss the simplified version of the revival potion then; will you give me a few vials?"