At one in the morning, the library director comes by for the fifth time to remind him: “Zheng Guanren, you really can't sleep on the Treatise on Cold Damage shelf!”
Zheng Qinan rubs his dark circles and gives a sheepish grin as he agrees. As soon as the director leaves, he pulls a faintly medicinal-scented ancient seal from his pocket. The five characters “Imperial Physician of the Great Tang” glow hot in his palm. When the warmth of his hand brushes over the seal script, the entire library crashes down, transforming into the upturned eaves of history.
In this parallel world, even night watchmen have to memorize the Supplement to the Materia Medica. A modern graduate of traditional Chinese medicine is forced into an advanced course from hell. The Medicine King, Sun Simiao, drags him out before dawn to recite formula verses. Meng Shen quizzes him on the roles of ingredients in dietary therapy while holding a candied hawthorn skewer. Even when he performs acupuncture on Cheng Yaojin, he has to dodge the General's pair of wildly swinging Xuanhua axes. Worst of all, Cheng Zhongling takes him to study visual diagnosis, while Wu Youxing wants to bring him along to treat an epidemic! Thanks to Zheng Qinan's efforts, the hourglass in the library connects to the modern library's borrowing system. When Zheng Qinan's diagnostic notes are projected onto scrolls of the Tang dynasty, all of Chang'an passes around “The Zheng School's Divine X-ray Method.”
“This is called a mind map! It's not some ghostly scribble!” Zheng Qinan passionately annotates the blank pages of the Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold with a marker, while a group of white-bearded imperial physicians frantically takes notes behind him. From using the principles of medical imaging to explain “the art of observing qi,” to discussing health and longevity with Master Jianzhen over a thermos of goji berry tea, he eventually shoulders an AED and charges into a battlefield medical tent as An Lushan's rebel army bears down...
It's good-looking, very good-looking. This book is an anatomy of a case. Unlike other books, he was sick and then recovered with an injection. Nothing can be seen. Moreover, the description in this book does not feel superior to others.
Clear thinking, rich knowledge, logical and interesting