After about a chest piercing, all the ingredients in the prescription were sorted out by the apprentice and brought to the table.

Kraft sees the familiar and the unfamiliar in it - the familiar parts are mostly found in the kitchen and on the dining table as part of the seasoning.

The unfamiliar part is really completely unrecognizable, and Kraft can occasionally match it with a name he has heard by chance in Davy's explanation, and he can't tell them apart well.

After all, plant mummies are similar to human mummies, they are all shriveled ones, and it is difficult to look like before birth.

Sliced roots, knotted stems, rolled up leaves, and ground material.

With rare finesse, David took a small amount from each piece, weighed it on a smooth birch board, estimated the proportions, and scraped the crumbs away in its entirety with what could have been animal bones, striving for precision.

His movements are a little stiff, and he stutters from time to time, probably deliberately performing some standard operation that has not been used in a long time.

There are reasons to question the point of doing so. The difference in the amount of active ingredient in a naturally grown plant should be much greater than the mass left on the scale.

In a certain order, half of the medicine is added to the lead pot and stewed.

Noticing the difference in Kraft's expression, David explained, "Lead accelerates reactions and improves the taste of potions. ”

I don't know if it can promote the acceleration of reactions, but it is certain that it can promote the acceleration of life.

After simmering over low heat, the water in the jar was half evaporated, and David poured in the remaining medicine, filled it with water again, and continued to bake.

Kraft patiently and unknowably watched the whole process, and the water in the jar went from clear to yellowish and black, and finally condensed into a dark liquid that was less than a third of its volume and somewhat viscous.

The smell of cough syrup, mustard, and pot spills out from the inside, striking hard at the nasal mucosa, and it is powerful.

Using a spoon the size of a coffee spoon but deeper, the maker scoops up a little of the liquid and places it on the tip of the tongue to take a sip.

"Tsk." Davy made a tongue-smacking sound, his expression relaxed, and he was probably satisfied with the finished product.

The tongs removed the hot lead pot from the charcoal fire and pushed it to Kraft on a blackened cork mat, with a new spoon thoughtfully placed.

"Thank you." Kraft's politeness made him take the spoon and thank him, but his sense of security made it difficult for him to take a bite.

This thing looks like a man-made version of black liquor - black, sticky, and extremely suspicious, the biggest difference being that black liquor is tempting to touch, and its smell only makes people want to stay away.

It's hard to imagine what Mr. Bobble and the other patients were in to take this stuff, and perhaps the pursuit of certain functions would lead to madness.

"Actually, the taste is not as bad as the smell." Seeing Kraft's hesitation, David said, "Honey should mask some of the bitterness. ”

[No, it's not bitterness that I'm worried about]

The two eyebrows have a tendency to twist together. Don't taste it, as if I'm sorry David; Take a bite and be sorry for the body.

Craft scooped out a few with difficulty, held it up in front of him, his lips squirmed, and recalled the glorious deeds of the medical ancestors who tried the medicine themselves, but in the end he could not convince himself, and only put it under his nose and smelled it.

No miracles happen. The smell of the spices when heated masks most of the smells, and he is not a humanoid analyzer that can smell and distinguish molecular formulas.

"Haven't you thought about taking the pills out one by one and trying them?"

"Why do you think that?" Davy was a little surprised by the splitting argument.

"The reaction during the formulation process is difficult to predict, and one or two changes can have an impact, and only a very small number of people with a very high level of proficiency can make the optimization."

"Well, of course, I'm not saying that you're at a problem, it's just that drug compatibility is a very complex subject, and it's a test of luck, and even experienced physicians can invest a lot of time and get nothing."

It sounds a bit like alchemy, but it's actually pretty much the same.

Kraft gave up trying to dig up valuable information from David, but still had a glimmer of hope.

He doesn't know the dead medicine, but what about the living medicine?

"Can live ...... I mean, show me fresh ingredients? He also wanted to die before he had to try one by one, trying to evoke memories through the image of plants.

"It's more difficult, most of the fresh herbs can only be seen in the place of origin, but if you don't mind, I have this illustrated book."

Some people's "The Structure of the Human Body" is an old version, but his drug illustrated book is a new version.

High-grade skin cover, silver corners, pure paper color, small scripture scripture copying, and even colored patterns. Even the painting uses the latest style with point perspective techniques, and strives to restore the real color and image.

The corners of the pages show signs of being curled and re-flattened, indicating that the owner often flipped through and maintained them.

There is no table of contents in the book, but it does not prevent David from flipping to the corresponding position with his hands, and introducing these amazing plants, as well as some of the magical minerals and animals.

"It's pepper fresh, smooth green beads, which you don't usually see, after all, we use it mostly dry. Dried pepper is also sometimes used to delight the nose. ”

"Cinnamon too, it's actually the bark of a tree, and collecting it will cause a lot of damage to the tree, and it is rumored to have the effect of vigorous breeding ability, so it has been in short supply, and the price is not very friendly."

"But it is precisely because of the cinnamon in the recipe that I believe that it is not something that is made up randomly, at least a prescription that someone who knows a certain medicinal property has figured out."

Speaking of his profession, David talked a lot. Whether or not the correctness is to be considered, his knowledge of the direction of drugs is worthy of recognition.

Compared with the pharmacy professor at Rivers University, Davy's understanding of drugs may not be systematic enough, but he is more in-depth in some special details and non-mainstream applications, and is biased towards application.

David followed the prescription, turning out each medicine from primary to secondary," ...... And this, Purple Bell, is beautifully drawn, isn't it? ”

The shape matches the name, with purple bell-shaped flowers hanging in clusters on slightly thin branches, and dark spots attached to the openings, which are beautiful and have a subtle sense of danger.

"Actually, it's not all purple, there are some pale yellow and red varieties, and more rigorous prescriptions will indicate which one to use, but this one doesn't."

"It is worth mentioning that purple bells are toxic regardless of flowers and leaves, and it is not indicated in this prescription."

"Toxicity?" For natural plants, the other side of toxicity is often medicinal properties.

"There have been fatal cases of vomiting and dizziness and headaches caused by ingestion of this plant. Professional pharmacists will strictly limit the dosage. ”

"Do you have heart palpitations?"

"It's not very clear, because people who are poisoned by accidental ingestion are actually not very easy to encounter, and we don't use a lot of dosage, so there are not many detailed records."

A picture of a pharmacy class that was used to fill the courseware was found in the memory garbage heap, overlapping with the picture book pattern in front of me, which sparked a little inspiration.

Immediately, all kinds of relevant information responded to the demand and spread out in the mind, "Is there a visual problem, such as the patient said that the color of the scene has changed, and it is yellow and green?" ”

"Probably? Most of the poisoning is a bit of a hallucination. ”

"Hmm......" Kraft thought quickly, looking around the names of the drugs he knew, looking for various traits that could be used to describe David, "and this plant has a lot of fluff?" ”

Suddenly jumping from the poisoning symptoms to the description of the taste of the herb, David turned for a few seconds before he reacted, if he hadn't personally handled the herbs, he really couldn't answer, "Ah, yes, you've been exposed to it before?" ”

"I've never seen it grow in the ground, but I'd love to see it now."

(End of chapter)