For the latest and fastest chapters, please visit <NieShu Novel Network www.NieS>. Reading is a pleasure, and we suggest you bookmark it.
Chapter 172 White Cloud Pill
Please remember our website domain name <www.NieS>, or search for "NieShu Novel Network" on Baidu.
Lin Yao was very busy, working with Gou Xiaogou to design the database system, putting forward all the requirements he could think of, and then letting Gou Xiaogou program and improve it.
He accidentally used the "Nourishing Life Pill" formula to refine elixirs and produced the "Life-Giving Pill," a superior elixir. This gave him a direction in elixir refining. These days, he is busy searching for ancient formulas. There are many formulas in the Pharmacopoeia, and the process of verifying and designing them is very complicated and time-consuming.
He had to first prepare the prescription, then refine the finished medicine for Xiaocao to taste before he could find a better formula. After many trials, he finally selected the final formula and used pseudo-elixir fire to refine the elixir.
Even with this method, success is not guaranteed. According to Xiaocao, it is very difficult to succeed in refining such inferior medicinal materials with alchemical fire. If one is not careful, they will all be refined away, and there will be no trace of the pill. Only formulas with truly high medicinal properties can barely withstand the refining of alchemical fire, and the finished products are all pills with great efficacy.
Gou Xiaogou was even busier, often staying up all night coding. But he was very passionate about his work, and seeing his girlfriend's complexion improve day by day, and her sunken cheeks becoming fuller, he felt happy and fulfilled.
The future happiness is given by Lin Yao, so he will naturally put in his best effort to help Lin Yao build a super database system. He has gathered some experts who are proficient in database architecture and programming to work together for the future massive database system of Minhong Pharmaceutical.
Of course, Gou Xiaogou requires all programs written by others to provide source code and comments, and checks them line by line to prevent backdoors from being installed. These people in the hacker world naturally or unconsciously add a few backdoors when writing programs, even if they are notified beforehand. They often forget this, which is a kind of professional habit.
Lin Yao made many strange requests.
The data collection and verification modules are quite standard, but there's an additional evaluation and verification system. This system, which directly publishes customer information online for evaluation and verification by customers' friends, family, colleagues, and anyone they know, is unprecedented in China.
Although he didn't understand why Lin Yao insisted on making things so complicated, Gou Xiaogou strictly followed all of Lin Yao's requests at this moment without uttering a single complaint. His girlfriend's life was still in Lin Yao's hands, and besides, his physical condition had clearly improved after taking the "Life-Giving Pill," and he had gained several pounds in just a few days.
This is simply a miracle. As for Lin Yao, who created this miracle, he can only bow down in worship. Raise objections? That's not something Gou Xiaogou would do.
Authentic traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions place great emphasis on the decoction process. There are strict restrictions on the water temperature, the type of medicinal materials to be decocted, the decocting time, the timing of adding more medicinal materials, and so on. Only by combining the raw materials with the strict decoction process can a decoction with the expected medicinal effect be produced.
Nowadays, most traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions involve putting a large amount of herbs into a pot and then simmering it over a coal or gas fire. As a result, the effects are of a very basic quality, and the medicine can only treat common diseases. It is slow to take effect and has increased side effects.
Based on Lin Yao's high school chemistry knowledge, he believes that decocting medicine is a complex chemical process. Water serves as both a solvent and a carrier of the medicinal components, and the water temperature determines the temperature required for the chemical reaction. Each type of Chinese medicinal herb is an extremely complex mixture, containing a vast array of organic and inorganic components, potentially numbering in the tens of millions. Therefore, the decoction process becomes even more crucial.
Two or more medicinal materials undergo complex organic chemical reactions at a specific temperature to synthesize other active ingredients. Then, new medicinal materials are added for processing to generate numerous other components. Only after all the medicinal materials in the formula are boiled down can the finished decoction be obtained.
The effective components in traditional Chinese medicine decoctions are usually only a few dozen, while the others are byproducts. Some of these byproducts are toxic, while others are not. The toxic components are the source of the drug's toxic side effects.
Traditional Chinese medicine differs from Western medicine. Western medicine has simple ingredients, often just one or a few, with high purity, resulting in a single and significant effect. Its toxic side effects can also be clearly identified through pharmacological experiments.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a complex composition. Many of its components work by utilizing the principles of Yin and Yang, which have mutual generation and restraint. However, some of its ineffective components can also produce toxic side effects by affecting the balance of Yin and Yang in the human body. This is where the highly targeted nature of TCM comes into play. The effects of TCM vary from patient to patient. Therefore, TCM treatment requires a face-to-face diagnosis between the doctor and patient. The doctor uses the four diagnostic methods of "observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation" to adjust the dosage and prescription for each individual patient.
In traditional Chinese medicine, some prescriptions are good medicine for some people but poison for others. When the toxic reaction reaches a certain level, what is good medicine for some patients becomes deadly poison for others. This is one of the important reasons why traditional Chinese medicine is difficult to promote and popularize.
Only those formulas that have general effects and mild side effects can be made into standardized traditional Chinese medicines for public distribution and sale. Truly effective medicine formulas cannot be sold without a doctor's prescription.
The "Compendium of Traditional Chinese Medicine" records many prescriptions, but rarely details the procedures involved. As a comprehensive work on the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, it focuses more on analyzing the balance of Yin and Yang in the human body to formulate drug prescriptions. This hindered Lin Yao's alchemy work, because figuring out the procedures and studying cases on his own required a lot of time and practice. What he lacked most was the opportunity for practice. No patient was willing to test the medicine on themselves, except for the patients who had been poisoned by the toxic beverage last time. They knew that the damage to their health was unavoidable, so they were willing to sign an agreement to test the medicine.
The successful refining of the "Life-Giving Pill" gave Lin Yao a temporary shortcut: to improve upon a proven formula and then refine the pill.
Having figured out this method, Lin Yao set his sights on the most famous Yunnan Baiyao.
Yunnan Baiyao is a famous traditional Chinese medicine from Yunnan Province, successfully developed in 1902 by Qu Huanzhang, a folk doctor from Yunnan. It is highly effective for treating bruises, sprains, and traumatic bleeding. Made from precious medicinal herbs, this medicine possesses properties that promote blood circulation and stop bleeding, relieve pain, detoxify and reduce swelling, reduce inflammation, increase myocardial nutritional blood supply, enhance immunity, and have anti-cancer effects. For over a century since its introduction, Yunnan Baiyao has been hailed as a "Chinese treasure and a holy medicine for trauma" for its unique and miraculous effects, thus gaining worldwide fame.
This medicine, originally called "Qu Huanzhang's Panacea," made Lin Yao suspect that Qu Huanzhang might also have the ability to refine pills. However, when he thought that Yunnan Baiyao also contained toxic ingredients and that some patients with sensitive constitutions might experience allergic reactions or other poisoning symptoms, he dismissed his suspicions.
Xiaocao quickly analyzed the twenty-two raw material components. With numerous readily available medicines, Xiaocao immediately provided detailed production and processing procedures and improved the formula, adding or removing several medicinal herbs and adjusting the proportions according to the medicinal properties of the herbs. The improved formula by Xiaocao essentially eliminated toxic side effects and greatly enhanced efficacy.
After refining the improved formula of Yunnan Baiyao using pseudo-elixir fire, he produced crystal clear, milky-white pills. Lin Yao named these pills "Baiyun Dan" (White Cloud Pill), distinguishing them from the original name of Yunnan Baiyao, "Wanying Baibao Dan" (All-Purpose Treasure Pill). He didn't want anyone to know that the Yunnan Baiyao formula, which was listed as a national top secret, had been cracked.
Each "Baiyun Dan" pill is only the size of a mung bean. It retains the consistent characteristic of pills that it melts in the mouth, but its medicinal effect is nearly a thousand times stronger than ordinary Yunnan Baiyao. The white rabbits used in the experiment were pulverized by the true qi, but as long as they took the medicine in time, they were able to save their lives, which made Lin Yao feel extremely surprised.
Of course, this kind of elixir is not a miraculous cure-all in mythology. The experimental rabbits could only be kept alive. The injuries to their internal organs would take time to heal. During this period, the injured body must not be moved and could only rely on intravenous drips to maintain their physiological needs. If combined with "Bigu Dan" (a traditional Chinese medicine for fasting), a person's ability to survive in the wild would be greatly improved. After being injured, they could find a safe place and recover their health on their own.
Considering Qingying's help and the risks of his mission, Lin Yao gave Ge Yong a bottle of "Baiyun Dan" and a bottle of "Bigu Dan" to pass on to Qingying, along with the statement that the "Baiyun Dan" was 500 times more effective than Yunnan Baiyao, leaving Ge Yong dumbfounded.
As a retired special forces soldier, Ge Yong naturally knew the immense military value of this "White Cloud Pill." He opened his mouth to speak, but stopped himself from uttering the request because of Shen Ruohua's example. He then turned and left, determined to deliver the "White Cloud Pill" to Qingying as quickly as possible. This pill could save ten lives in a critical moment, as the jade bottle contained ten "White Cloud Pills."
Lin Yao didn't explain the specific effects to Ge Yong; his goal was to give Qingying another chance to survive. Ge Yong already knew the effects of the "Bigu Pill" and would definitely explain them to Qingying in detail. The combination of the two pills would naturally be discovered by Qingying in a difficult situation. Lin Yao worried that explaining it in more detail would only create more trouble.
The cost of "Baiyundan" is not high. Lin Yao calculated that each pill costs 2,100 yuan, which is the same as the market price of drought-resistant beverages, but its efficacy and value are incomparable.
Lin Yao knew what Ge Yong wanted to say, but the complicated alchemy process and the huge amount of medical energy required meant that this kind of pill could not be mass-produced. He could only refine some occasionally for emergency use. Each time, he could only refine eight pills, but it would take a whole night. This state of exhaustion after alchemy was very dangerous. At this moment, he could only rely on the protection of the grass. If he encountered a greater blow, he might not even be able to escape.
The more he understood his own abilities, the clearer he became about the dangers of the future. As for alchemy, Lin Yao decided to do it only occasionally. Unless alchemy would not consume too much of his medical true energy, he had to control it. He could not define his future as staying at home and becoming an alchemist. Healing the sick and saving lives and improving his personal abilities were the ideals he wanted to achieve.
==
I am deeply grateful to "Phantom Dragon Soul" for becoming the leader!
Thank you to "清泉0901182318" for the donation!
Thank you "醉月秋风" for helping design the name of the medicine. "白云散" is a traditional Chinese medicine made by stir-frying old quicklime, so it was changed to "白云丹".
For the latest and fastest chapters, please visit <NieShu Novel Network www.NieS>. Reading is a pleasure, and we suggest you bookmark it.
Chapter 173 The Yi Family's Repayment
Please remember our website domain name <www.NieS>, or search for "NieShu Novel Network" on Baidu.
Fifteen days after Gou Xiaogou arrived, Yi Yang came to Chengdu, accompanied by the First Elder Yi Potian, the First Elder under the First Elder Yi Dao, and another middle-aged man in his forties.
The news brought by the Yi family was very encouraging. In addition to the five southern provinces, Minhong Pharmaceutical's network of branches had been established in the other eighteen provincial capitals and four municipalities across the country, and all of them had been renovated.
Five of the acquisitions were small hospitals, while the remaining seventeen were medium-sized private clinics. The Yi family spent nearly 300 million yuan on this, most of which was financed through bank loans.
After the Yi family acquired more than a hundred disciples at the prefectural level, the major aristocratic families quickly adjusted their policies towards the Yi family. As a result, the previous suppression from various aspects was quickly withdrawn, including financial suppression.
Although most of these hundred-plus Earth-level experts were only at the early Earth-level stage, their sheer numbers made up for it. Moreover, other aristocratic families were more optimistic about the future of the Yi family. Since the Yi family could produce so many Earth-level experts in batches, it meant they had found a way to resolve bone and muscle injuries, and more and more experts would emerge in the future.