Chapter 24 Sorting of medicinal herbs
Willy pondered for a moment, then asked Radas in a tentative tone, "Do you have any powder in your pharmacy that has been dried and crushed into jute grass?"
Despite the question, Willy did not hope that there would be jute grass in Ladas. Because in addition to being cheaper, jute grass, like glycerol grass, has a very narrow use, so few herb dealers do its business.
"Jute grass?" Ladas frowned, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Yes, it's just that it hasn't been crushed after drying, if you need it, I'll let Kull crush it into powder now." ”
Ladas would not have bought jute grass, a medicinal herb that had no market, but a few days ago, an old man in ragged clothes came to the shop with a handful of jute grass and wanted to sell it. It happened that Laddas was in a good mood that day, and when he saw that the old man was pitiful, and this medicinal herb was indeed not very common, he accepted it at a low price. Listening to Willy's tone now, it seems that this jute grass can play a big role.
"Very well, in that case, let's quickly grind it into powder and bring it over, and bring a large basin of water by the way. ”
Willy didn't expect that Ladas really had such a thing as jute grass, which would save him a lot of effort.
Kuhl didn't wait for Radas to command, and trotted all the way out of the courtyard.
In just five or six minutes, he came over with a large basin of water, and took out a ceramic jar from his bosom, the jar was open, and the inside was pale yellow powder. Willy didn't deliberately step forward to sniff, but he also smelled a faint pungent smell, it was jute powder.
"Is that enough?"
Kuhl handed the jar full of jute grass powder to Willy.
Willy looked at the dosage of jute grass powder and nodded, "That's enough." ”
"Brother Willy, what do you want this jute grass powder for?"
Radas was puzzled, he thought about it carefully just now, and he really couldn't imagine the connection between the jute grass and the leaves of these three mixed medicinal herbs.
Instead of responding to Radas immediately, Willy poured an entire jar of jute grass powder into the water.
The pale yellow particles did not sink directly when they came into contact with the water surface, but swelled into small blisters, which then exploded and merged with the water. Although the dose of jute grass powder was not very large, it still dyed a large basin of water into a dark yellow.
Then, under the stunned eyes of Radas and Kuhl, Willy poured all the entire box of mixed grass blades into it.
"Brother Willy!"
Radas was in a trance for a moment before he reacted, he suddenly jumped up and asked Willy in a shocked tone: "This will cause all the ingredients in the herbs to be lost! What the hell are you doing!"
After the jute grass powder is mixed into the water, the water has already turned into a potion, and if you put those mixed grass blades in it again, it will react violently with the potion, which will make all the mixed grass leaves lose their medicinal effect. Even if it is sorted out later, it is useless because the effect of the medicine has already evaporated.
Ladas felt the blood rushing to his head, and if it weren't for the only reason left telling him that the man in front of him was Thorpes's younger brother, he would have even thrown a punch at it. This Willy, he completely destroyed his batch of goods!
"Vali, you're ......"
Kull was a little overwhelmed, and he didn't understand why Willy was doing such crazy things.
Willy looked at Radas in a state of anger, and knew that this drug dealer had been immersed in the medicinal herb business for more than ten years, and he had not learned anything useful.
"Relax, Ladas. ”
Willy's face did not change, and he did not have any emotional fluctuations due to Ladas's questioning: "I need to correct you a mistake first, not all medicinal materials and potions will be fused together, which will cause the medicinal ingredients to be lost." ”
"What do you mean?"
Radas was a little dazed for a moment when he saw Willy's breezy appearance.
"The potion synthesized from jute grass powder, when mixed with seventeen kinds of ordinary medicinal herbs, will not produce the phenomenon of loss of medicinal effect, and these seventeen medicinal materials contain the mamma, vine incense and voka leaves that we need to sort. ”
"After soaking in jute herbal water, the mamma, vine and voga leaves will all change color for a short time, with the surface of the mamma turning pale yellow, the vine-scented surface turning dark green, and the voka leaves appearing a little whitish. This change in color does not cause the active ingredients to be lost in the slightest. Once they are re-dried, they will be the same color as before. ”
"But why did this happen......
It was Kuhl who asked the question, and he didn't understand what Willy was saying.
"The three herbs of mamma, vine incense and voka leaf all contain an ingredient called orchidin, but the content of each orchidin is different, which causes them to be different from the discoloration reaction produced by jute herbal water, which is the principle of my sorting of these three medicinal materials. ”
Veli expressed it as simply as possible.
"Brother Willy, do you still know pharmacy?"
By this time, Radas had come to his senses, and he looked at Willy with some hesitation.
Pharmacy was the most profound and extensive professional discipline in medicinal knowledge, accessible only to the aristocracy and a very small number of commoners. Only the big herb merchants would hire pharmacists as their advisors and pay huge sums of money for it. A small herb merchant like himself, the pharmacist would not give them a second glance at all.
"I'm just familiar with some of the habits of grass planting, and I don't know anything about pharmacy. ”
Willy was telling the truth, he really didn't know anything about processes like dispensing and developing drugs in pharmacy.
Radas nodded slightly, then smiled awkwardly, he clearly realized how inappropriate his agitated behavior was just now, it was the price of ignorance.
"I'm sorry, Brother Willy, I ......"
Radas wanted to express his apologies.
"I was so abrupt, I should have explained to you before I did it. ”
Willy also gave Radas a step down, saving everyone from being uncomfortable.
Kull's eyes when he looked at Willy changed again, this guy next door who he hadn't seen for a long time had become a figure that he couldn't guess. For a moment, he even felt that Willy was better than his big brother Thorpes.
"Now you can drain the water from the basin. ”
Willy himself stepped forward and tilted the basin, and the dark yellow potion was poured out continuously.
Ladas's heart was pounding, and it was about the future of his own pharmacy. Although Willy explained the principle to himself before, he still couldn't rest assured if he didn't see it with his own eyes.
Under Ladas's expectant gaze, the water in the basin kept flowing out, and soon the water was clean, revealing three blades of grass of different colors.