Chapter 8 counts the money for medicine

After Zuo Gui wrote about the cinnamon branch, he paused, and the next medicine was hawthorn, and then he was equipped with several flavors such as sulforaphane seeds, wood fragrance, and green bark to eliminate food and dissolve accumulation, and treat stagnation and stomach distension and pain. After writing the prescription, he handed it to Zuo Shaoyang: "Take the medicine according to the prescription." ”

Zhao Sanniang asked, "What is my disease?" ”

"Well......" Zuo Gui pondered for a moment and said: "You have stomach pain, vomiting acid water, nausea and anorexia, this is a proof of food and stomach stagnation!" ”

"However, you haven't given me a look at my tongue, and you haven't asked me carefully how to hurt the method, whether it is a labor pain, a stinging pain, or a dull pain, how do you know that this is the evidence?"

Zuo Gui felt a little hot on his face, the matter of rent made him extremely depressed, and his son fell, a long scar on the back of his head, although somehow it had healed, but he didn't know if he was injured, the landlord forced the rent, didn't care about careful inspection, and listened to his son's words to break the other party's main symptoms, the other party had already recognized, and in a state of confusion, he opened a party according to this symptom, and even forgot to look at the tongue to ask for a doctor. However, in front of the patient, he naturally couldn't admit it, let alone make up for it, so he could only use strong words, but fortunately, he couldn't see his blush in this dim light, but it didn't hurt, and he coughed lightly and said: "Your illness is not a big deal, you can conclude it without looking at the tongue and asking for a diagnosis." ”

Zhao Sanniang was skeptical: "Really? ”

"Don't worry, take my medicine, and your illness will be cured. ――Don't you like to eat hawthorn? ”

"Yes, I love to eat hawthorn the most, I eat everything when I have nothing to do, I heard that this hawthorn can be appetizing and digestive, I have a bad appetite, I eat hawthorn, I can eat."

"That's right, the second flavor in my medicine is hawthorn, which is still a gentleman's medicine. You'll love it! ”

"Really? That's a good idea! Then grab the medicine, I have to go back to eating quickly! ”

"Okay, but you're going to have to recuperate slowly, and you may need to take medicine for a while."

"Okay, it's okay to catch a dozen or so payments. I'm too lazy to run. Besides, if you can't pay the rent in the Chinese New Year's Eve, I still have to find someone else to prescribe medicine, trouble! Let you also make some money, just open more at a time. ”

When they were talking, Zuo Shaoyang listened to what his father Zuo Gui said about the medicine, and quickly picked up the prescription and read it, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, he now understands why their pharmacy business is so light, this Zhao Sanniang is because she usually uses hawthorn as a snack, and eats it indiscriminately before and after meals, which leads to stomach ulcers. Although she has not yet been consulted and the pulse has been cut, Zuo Shaoyang has already confirmed the cause of her illness, and the corresponding prescription is available, no matter what the final syndrome differentiation is, it should also be to nourish the stomach. But Daddy Zuogui's syndrome is dietary stagnation syndrome, which is already the opposite of each other, and one of the patient's complaints is anorexia, how can he still eat and drink stagnation? Moreover, the prescription is reused hawthorn, which is not to add insult to injury. It shows that Dad doesn't know what the cause of this disease is at all.

Zuo Shaoyang can't directly say that this recipe is not only wrong, but also aggravates the condition, then the father has no face at all, before the crossing, it was because he didn't take care of Director Wang's face, people couldn't hold their faces, and they came directly to quarrel with themselves. Now it's Dad, if he says so, even if he is cured, I'm afraid that the sign of Guizhitang will be smashed.

Zuo Gui glared at Zuo Shaoyang and said, "Why don't you grab the medicine?" ”

"Oh!" Zuo Shaoyang took the prescription and walked to the counter.

Zuo Gui raised his voice and said, "You don't take the lamp, how can you catch the medicine?" What are you doing without a soul? ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly came back and took the oil lamp, walked to the counter and put the lamp away, put the prescription on the counter, thought about it, and decided to grab the medicine according to his own prescription. Anyway, the prescription is not given to the patient, and Zhao Sanniang doesn't know what medicine Zuo Gui prescribed.

After grasping the medicine, he held the medicine well, took it and handed it to Zhao Sanniang, Zhao Sanniang asked, "How much?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang looked at Zuo Gui, Zuo Gui glared and said, "Didn't you count just now?" ”

"Am I?" In modern hospitals, the billing office and the pharmacy are separated, and Zuo Shaoyang only needs to find a prescription to grab the medicine, regardless of the price, so he has no habit of it.

"Nonsense! If you don't count, don't you let your father help you calculate the money? ”

"Oh!" Zuo Shaoyang returned to the counter and picked up the formula, his head was a little confused, there was no price on the square, he looked at the counter left and right, and he didn't see the price list, how can this be calculated?

Fennel hurriedly came over and whispered, "What's wrong?" ”

"I don't know the price of medicine!" Zuo Shaoyang also said in a low voice.

Fennel thought that her brother's amnesia was not good, her face was full of worry, she glanced back at Zuo Gui, and saw that Zuo Gui was looking at them, and she was also puzzled, so she hurriedly lowered her voice and said: "The price of medicine is written on the medicine cabinet, and it is also in the drawer where the account book is placed below." ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly leaned over with an oil lamp and checked on the medicine cabinet, and sure enough, the price was written in small letters on the labels on the four legs of the medicine pump. He thought about it, he couldn't calculate it according to the price he took the formula, otherwise Daddy Zuogui would know that it was wrong when he heard it, and he had to follow his prescription. Hurriedly turned around and picked up Zuo Gui's prescription, after grabbing the two flavors of medicine first, he suddenly got stuck, there was a medicine I didn't know, you know, there are tens of thousands of kinds of traditional Chinese medicine, no one can remember them all, it is great to be able to remember the hundreds of flavors that are commonly used. It's normal not to know, he took the prescription and scanned the label on the medicine cabinet blankly, looking for it slowly, but hundreds of flavored medicines, where can I find them for a while.

"What's wrong again?" Zuo Gui raised his voice and asked.

"No ......, nothing" Zuo Shaoyang continued to look for it, feeling anxious, and it was even slower to find it one by one.

Fennel was in a hurry, hurriedly got into the medicine counter, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang handed the recipe to fennel, pointed to the medicine "Shegu" on it, and said in a low voice: "Where is the medicine 'Shigu'?"

Fennel pointed with her hand: "Where!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang took a look in the past, and sure enough, the word "Shegu" was written, and he opened the medicine to take a look, and he really couldn't cry or laugh, this Shegu turned out to be the commonly used medicine "Banxia" to warm cold phlegm!

The name of traditional Chinese medicine is very confusing in ancient times, the same medicine often has several or even dozens of titles, the same name of different drugs is also very common, after the introduction of the pharmacopoeia of modern Chinese medicine, the name of the drug is unified, and the hospital doctor prescribes the regular name specified in the pharmacopoeia, when Zuo Shaoyang was studying, he also learned the formal name, as common sense, and also understood some commonly used aliases, such as Banxia, called "Diwen" or "Shuiyu" in the "Shennong Materia Medica", which Zuo Shaoyang knows, but the alias of "Shigu", It appeared in the "Famous Doctor's Catalogue" in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and there are more than a dozen aliases, where did Zuo Shaoyang remember so much, naturally he didn't know, but when he saw the medicinal materials, although they were concocted pieces, he immediately knew them.

After finding the price of the medicine, Zuo Shaoyang wrote it down with a brush, in ancient times, there was no computer or calculator to help you settle the account, so you could only do it yourself, he found a piece of kraft paper, and saw that there was an inkstone on the table, and there was a brush on the pen stand, and he wanted to write it, but the tip of the pen had been frozen, and he remembered that his father had a pen on Zuo Gui's table, and he was still writing a prescription just now, so he was busy getting a brush.

"What are you doing with a pen?" Zuo Gui stared at him with wide eyes.

"Settle accounts!"

"Reckoning? Settle accounts with a pen? Zuo Gui was dumbfounded and said, "How do you settle accounts with a pen?" ”

The ancients carried out addition, subtraction, multiplication and division four operations, the earliest was to use the calculation chips, that is, to use a short stick to form a variety of prescribed graphics to represent the numbers, with fixed rules for calculation, often to count people, will carry a small bag at any time, containing the calculation chips, can be calculated at any time. Although the abacus was invented as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was not popularized in the Tang and Song dynasties because the calculation method of the abacus was not perfect, and the speed was slower than that of the abacus and it was not convenient to carry. Zuo Gui and they all use the calculation chip to calculate, where have they seen the pen column addition, subtraction, multiplication and division formula calculation, naturally very surprised.