Episode 12.15
The next morning, they went to Norma's clinic.
Norma brought Lecan and Eda to the dicine prep room in the morning.
There are far more tools at Norma's place than Shira's.
This is partly due to Shira's usage of magic to help her work and partly because most of Shira's dicines have combined effects while Norma's are more specialized to a type of illness each.
"That's a lot of drawers."
"Haha. Eda, can you read?"
"Yes."
"OK. That's good. How about you, Lecan?"
"No problem."
There are only 35 letters so morizing them wasn't hard. But it gets much harder when several letters combine into different pronunciations like with the nas of herbs and stuff.
"Alright. Then first, please recite the nas on these drawers correctly. The to the left of the nas signifies dried herbs, while ans powdered ones. marks raw unprocessed herbs, but it's empty right now. We'll just go pick up a lot, wash and dry them off whenever the need arises. is for herbs that are half-life. There are so herbs that give off high efficacy in this state."
Lecan and Eda read all the drawers' nas aloud. Due to Eda's short stature, Norma allowed her to climb on a chair to read the taller drawers.
Then the examination started.
There's already more than ten patients waiting while having idle chatters between themselves.
During the examination, Lecan and Eda are told to stand next to Norma as she works.
Norma doesn't use .
She softly wraps her mana on her wand to examine the affected part on her patients. She speaks out loud which part is that and what problem does it have each ti.
She also examined chest and waist area of most patients besides the affected parts.
"Those of old age or suffer from long illness tend to have problems with their heart internals, breathing viscera, or eating organs. These internal problems get worse over ti, so we need to slowly heal it over ti. If we don't fix those up first, any treatnt is only going to relief their pain temporarily before worsening their condition quickly."
Norma's explanations were concise and precise, very easy to digest.
"Types of illness differ depending on the spot it crops up, so does the herb used to treat it. You'd figure out how to deal with them once you've got a good grasp on those."
Most of the ti, Norma imdiately made the dicine on spot right after examination.
Wounded patients often get salves, while sickly ones usually get decoction.
As for the salve, she uses either water or raw leaf's stickiness.
"This stickiness, y'see. Is the secret to heal wounds."
Which ans, to dical practitioners, the raw herb plants growing abundantly in her garden must look like a treasure trove.
Their lunch was bread and vegetable soup.
(Mu? This got herbs that recover mana inside.)
"Haha. Looks like Lecan's figured it out, yes, this soup does recover mana. Along with stamina. I really don't have a lot of mana you see, I've even used up all I've got during the treatnt earlier."
'Please excuse ', said Norma as she lay on a nearby sofa. She must be taking a short nap to recover her mana.
Norma's mana pool is indeed small. However, her mana control is a work of art. She had a complete control over the mana emitting out of her thin short wand, taking shapes like it was a real object.
In most cases, it looked like a thin string.
There were tis when it looked like a small sphere as well.
And tis when it took flexible shapes of the patient's entrails.
Norma commands a free reign over her mana.
Lecan kept his on as he observed Norma all the while.
is an ability to precisely grasp the movent of mana. The way Norma's mana went along the patient's bones, afflicted parts, muscles and blood veins during her scanning was a master work.
Human body is like a gigantic labyrinth. Entering the mini world to explore it fully was the very definition of an adventure.
Lecan joined Norma in her adventure in human body.
It was an experience he had never tasted in his life before, he was completely absorbed in it.
Of course, not being as knowledgeable as Norma in this kind of stuff, Lecan had no clue what caused sothing even though he knew there was sothing going on in the patient's body, nor he knew how to proceed. Actually he's virtually clueless in how body parts work. However, he intuitively knew how to make impaired parts work right again. So long as he knows the problem is, will take care of the rest.
Eda seed to also be learning Norma's examination in her own way as well.
She was observing Norma in a surprisingly earnest manner.
At first, Norma did everything from taking dicine out of the drawers to picking up herbs in the garden. Lecan and Eda only followed her around.
But halfway through, Norma began giving orders like telling them to bring specific amount of dicine on plates, or dicinal leaves.
"You've got to rember to always wash your hands whenever. It would be absurd if you mix in dirt and mud in the dicine you're making, in this world full of invisible weak poison. Makes it a habit to wash your hands off dicinal powder. This is the most important knowledge I can impart you."
"What is weak poison?"
"By eating food, your body takes it in and brings you energy. However, eating rotten food make you fall ill. In other words, they're poison. This world is loaded with graces that support human strength and existence. But those graces could also work similarly to poison under certain circumstances."
"Why aren't we allowed to talk when we're making dicine?"
"That's an inviolable rule common in the world of dical practitioners since old days. It's often expressed as 'taking your vitality away', or 'inviting evil spirits' and such. To tell you the truth, I don't understand the reason behind such rules myself. However, the act of not chattering off when you're making dicine itself is most likely sound. I want you two to follow this rule so long you are my apprentices as well."
"Got it. Also, I'm thinking of putting on the dicines during their creation, what do you think?"
"You an putting in all the dicine you're making? No, that's way too reckless. But, I suppose you two can do it. Just, unbelievable. Humm."
Norma pondered for a while before shaking her head.
"An attractive proposition, one that I have to decline."
"Why."
"It's unfeasible to have all the dicine I make put with your all my life. Which ans, there would be unevenness in quality. One dicine may be tenfolds more effective over the other. What do you think will happen if a person who has been using that tenfold dicine uses the normal one next."
"Fumu. It won't be as effective, I believe."
"Right. And that will have a negative effect on the patient's mind. And speaking personally, dicine that demonstrates better efficacy than what I've anticipated is a bit of a wild card to ."
"I see. Understood."
"Use your ti here in this dical center to observe and study how I treat and diagnose patients. Your help in preparing dicine is more than sufficient. Please keep your only for patients with serious conditions that are beyond . Though well, exceptional circumstances may arise where you have to use it in this dical center."
One such exceptional circumstances occurred the day after.
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