Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 739 - 734: Immediate Results

When Lin Wanwan was in Chang’an, she once visited the acupuncture master Zhen Quan with Sun Simiao.

This divine doctor, already in his nineties, is renowned for his acupuncture techniques for generations.

Most of Lin Wanwan’s acupuncture skills were learned from his disciple, Chen Liang, and upon meeting the divine doctor himself, she naturally performed the disciple’s ritual.

However, the divine doctor was now old and rarely practiced acupuncture. Even the royal assignments he could resign from, he did, and naturally, he did not have the energy to personally instruct Lin Wanwan.

Fortunately, through the old Sun and the "Barefoot Doctor Manual", Lin Wanwan had the opportunity to borrow and transcribe his works such as the "Needle Scripture", "Mingtang Human Figure Map", "Acupuncture Formulas", and "Vein Classics".

These precious Chinese medicine books have unfortunately been lost, and only parts have been incorporated into other medical texts that have been passed down.

This is undoubtedly a great loss to the field of Chinese medicine.

As Lin Wanwan traveled through the Tang Dynasty and visited Chang’an, having the chance to come into contact with such texts, it was natural for her to document them.

However, her handwritten copies were difficult to believe in the modern era without endorsement from famous people, but naturally, she could study them herself.

The acupuncture technique she was currently using on Lu Dalang originated from Zhen Quan, with high intensity stimulation. Initially, Lu Dalang couldn’t help but make noises because of the pain, but gradually the sounds grew smaller, until they disappeared.

Lu Erlang, who stayed behind to take care of Lu Dalang, was dumbfounded as he watched the pain gradually disappear from his brother’s face.

Truly, seeing is believing. His brother’s condition, which the old doctor in Wanghai Town declared as incurable even by gods, was revitalized by the acupuncture from Village Lady Le’an.

Just before, his whole body was sweaty, and his face deathly pale, but now even his brows had relaxed.

"My stomach doesn’t hurt anymore, it really doesn’t hurt, it’s so comfortable!" Lu Dalang was also very excited; he felt he had come back to life.

He had thought he wouldn’t live many more days and would die in pain. After all, none of the doctors in the two drug houses he visited in town could help.

The witch doctors from other villages gave him talisman water, which almost made him vomit blood, and it didn’t help at all; in fact, the stomach pain worsened.

But Village Lady Le’an just did a round of acupuncture without administering any medicine, and he already felt seventy to eighty percent better.

Lin Wanwan put away her acupuncture kit. The effectiveness was so obvious, proving her recent diagnosis was entirely correct.

"Qing Dai, Zi Su, I’ll write a prescription for Da Huang, Peony Root, Peach Kernel, Winter Melon Seed, and Mirabilite. You two go and boil it and bring it over," Lin Wanwan said.

"Yes."

The two called maidservants, who were around ten years old, responded in unison.

These two were rewards Lin Wanwan received when she delivered fans and ice to Empress Xiao.

Empress Xiao understood medicine, and many of the maidservants around her also knew pharmacology, all personally trained by her.

To nobles, servants were no different than livestock under the law.

Seeing Lin Wanwan short-handed, Empress Xiao casually gifted them to her.

For Lin Wanwan, these maidservants were considered professional assistants, highly necessary.

However, since they weren’t of direct lineage, Lin Wanwan rarely let them handle anything other than managing herbs.

Judging by Lu Dalang’s condition, the Da Huang Peony Root Decoction from Zhang Zhongjing’s "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet" was perfectly suitable; it is a special formula for intestinal congestion.

This prescription has effects of dispelling heat and breaking stasis, dissipating swelling, and reducing inflammation.

Of course, not everyone’s intestinal congestion is suitable for this prescription; it’s important to differentiate between cold, heat, deficiency, and excess. Intestinal congestion caused by insufficiency of Yang energy with a cold and deficient nature is not suitable for Da Huang Peony Root Decoction.

As always, the challenge in traditional Chinese medicine lies in differentiation; a personalized prescription yields the best results.

Modern epidemics demonstrated the triumph of Chinese medicine, but individual prescriptions made widespread adoption difficult.

Lin Wanwan retrieved paper and pen from the barefoot doctor kit to write the prescription, then sent the maids to the luggage for the herbs.

After the maids took the prescription and left, Lu Erlang hurriedly approached, lifted his garment, and took out the Kaiyuan Tongbao hung around his waist, placing it all in front of Lin Wanwan without even asking about consultation or medicine fees, saying he’d fetch more if it wasn’t enough.

Lin Wanwan hadn’t kept track of herb prices; she had no energy to handle these things and was busy like a spinning top daily. Naturally, these matters were handled by her servants.

So, she instructed her female steward Yun Shang, "Go check the ledgers; don’t worry about the consultation fee, just collect the herb money."

Yun Shang bowed and replied, "Yes."

Lu Erlang expressed his gratitude profusely, kowtowing repeatedly.

Lin Wanwan gracefully left the pavilion and led everyone back to the main house.

Not long after Qing Dai finished boiling the medicine and Lu Dalang drank it, he felt unbearable stomach pain, and a flush of hardened feces and watery stool "gushed" out in the male servants’ exclusive privy, leaving him feeling instantly relieved.

He even felt like he could immediately return home without further troubling Village Lady Le’an.

Meanwhile, the Lu clan member sent back to Lu Family Manor had already informed Lu Dalang’s wife, You Shi, who was now carrying a bundle, following the clansman to the Lin Mansion’s entrance.

You Shi came to replace the second uncle; taking care of her own husband was naturally her duty.

Earlier, when they came to the Lin Family Manor to borrow a boat, she didn’t come along because, as a woman, accompanying a group of men to Xiaoxi Town was inconvenient, so Lu Erlang took on the responsibility.

Now that Lu Dalang was left in Village Lady Le’an’s residence for treatment, it was convenient for her to come over.

Though Lin Wanwan was renowned as a divine doctor, she rarely treated people outside of the Lin Family Manor and her household. Lu Dalang receiving her exceptional treatment this time was a stroke of luck.

In reality, if someone did seek help at Lin Wanwan’s doorstep, she would surely lend a hand. However, most people were spontaneously stopped by the Lin Family Manor’s clansmen.

The Lin Family Manor’s clansmen served as Lin Wanwan’s first line of defense, helping to filter out rural troubles.

After You Shi arrived, Lu Erlang prepared to head back home.

Before leaving, the two knelt outside Lin Wanwan’s main house, giving her a kowtow, not disturbing her inside.

At that moment, Lin Wanwan was taking a short nap in her room. Constantly traveling through time caused Lin Wanwan to struggle with time differences, feeling perpetually sleep-deprived. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Taking a brief nap whenever possible had become a habit.

For the evening’s welcome banquet, Lin Wanwan naturally wouldn’t avoid making any gestures, only eating with the family.

She distributed white-skinned piglets to the family, raised in the family’s communal pigpen.

Having openly shown the white piglets in Chang’an City, bringing them back to Mao County posed no hidden dangers.

Moreover, these piglets weren’t brought by Lin Wanwan from modern times, appearing out of nowhere in the Great Tang; they had been brought back from Chang’an City.

Along the way, a dozen or so became ill and were directly roasted as roast suckling pigs for a meal, a loss that Lin Wanwan could ignore.

By then, she would select a breeding pig from the group, while all others would be castrated.

Lin Wanwan was about to embark on another round of postpartum care for sows and theoretical teaching of castration techniques.