Merchant and doctor

Chapter 670 Longan and Astragalus
Although the overall scale of this branch is not very large, the Chinese medicine cabinets are long and high enough. Bian Mu took a quick look and felt that as long as his colleagues in the city prescribe prescriptions, they can be prepared here.

Bian Mu was really undecided on whether "Bian's Clinic" should build a medicine cabinet of the same size.

Luo Zhanqi consciously lined up in the medicine collection area. In his opinion, Bian Mu just came in to do some research and could only buy two or three representative herbal medicines. Bian Mu's level was there, Take a peek inside the tube, it won’t take too long.

While waiting in line, Bian Mu was not idle. He borrowed the prescriptions held by the people in front and behind him. Each prescription corresponded to what kind of disease, how old the patient was, whether he had taken the medicine for the first time or had taken it many times, Whether it was effective... Bian Mu learned as much as possible about it.

Some of these prescriptions are prescribed by clinics, some are prescribed by the city's traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, and most are prescribed by traditional Chinese medicine doctors from surrounding tertiary hospitals. After a general comparison, Bian Mu felt that those colleagues were diagnosing, prescribing, and overall treating... There are many rough spots in every aspect. Compared with myself, the diagnostic accuracy of those colleagues is much worse.

After queuing for more than ten minutes, it was finally Bian Mu's turn.

"Astragalus, 30g!" Bian Mu said with a smile.

"Would you like to order anything else?" the young female cashier asked expressionlessly.

"No, just Astragalus!"

The female cashier quickly determined the price, then pulled off the order in her hand and handed it to another female colleague next to her.

Bian Mu consciously left the team and went to the side to wait for the other party to issue the ticket.

"Cash? Swipe your phone?" Another female cashier asked without raising her head.

"Swipe your phone! By the way, please issue a formal invoice." Bian Mu reminded with a smile.

"Pay first, then get the medicine. Go to the South District with your ticket and they will exchange it for you with a regular invoice." The woman explained with a flat expression.

"Okay, thank you!" As he spoke, Bian Mu brought up the payment interface and the woman scanned the payment code.

He found Luo Zhanqi and handed him the medicine list.

"You wait to get the medicine, and I will use this white ticket to exchange for a regular invoice." Bian Mu said with a smile.

"No one will reimburse us anyway, so why do we need that thing?" Luo Zhanqi responded with a smile.

"Let's understand all aspects. After a while, we will have to go through all these procedures!"

"That's right!" Luo Zhanqi responded with a smile.

There was no one in the South District waiting to change the invoice. Bian Mu handed over the ticket stub in his hand and quickly got the formal invoice, which was also stamped with the oval seal of the pharmaceutical company to which the pharmacy belonged.

As for the single-flavor medicine, the pharmacist naturally gave Luo Zhanqi the medicine first. After a while, Luo Zhanqi came over with a small medicine bag in his hand.

"Where shall we go?"

"Look for a smaller pharmacy that has been open for a while." Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"Okay!" As he spoke, Luo Zhanqi accompanied Bian Mu out and walked around on the street.

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"Shaqi Pharmacy... this is it! Judging from the plaque, it must be a few years old." Bian Mu stopped and pointed to a small pharmacy on a high platform in front of him.

"It looks like it was an old state-owned pharmacy. Could it have been contracted later?" Luo Zhanqi said casually after glancing in the direction of Bian Mu's fingers.

"Maybe! Let's go! Go in and take a look." As he spoke, Bian Mu walked towards the small pharmacy.

There were only two people in the store, a man and a woman. The man was in his 70s, skinny, tall, and wearing an old-fashioned single-layer hat. When Bian Mu and the others entered, the old man was sitting behind the counter using a medicine grinder. Press magnet.

Magnetite is also a traditional Chinese medicine. The oxide mineral spinel group magnetite can be used as medicine after removing impurities. It has the effects of calming the nerves and calming the nerves, improving ears and eyesight, relieving qi and relieving asthma... etc. It is a common medicine.

What the old man was crushing at this time belonged to the "forged magnet" category. As far as Bian Mu knew, it was a medicinal magnet made using a method called "forged quenching method" and adding vinegar.The woman looked to be in her thirties, and she was sitting behind the cashier counting some accounts.

Apart from these two people, there were no other customers in the store.

Bian Mu and the woman bought 30g of astragalus. When paying, the woman looked at Bian Mu deliberately. She was not interested in Luo Zhanqi at all and did not look at him seriously at all.

Bian Mu suspected that the woman in front of him knew him.

Luo Zhanqi took the ticket from Bian Mu, walked to the counter and asked the old man to grab medicine.

The old man raised his head and looked at the two of them carefully. Without saying anything, he weighed 30g of astragalus with a spoon, wrapped it and handed it to Luo Zhanqi.

"Master! Can you let me see the forged magnet you were processing just now?" Bian Mu asked with a smile.

"How much?"

"Sorry, I don't need the medicine now, I just want to see how it looks." With a smile on his face, Bian Mu was polite to the old man.

"Don't buy it... Medicinal materials are considered special commodities! It's best not to pass through people's hands frequently. If you have too many people, it won't be good for subsequent customers. I'm sorry! I'll see you next time when you need it. Let’s go.” Okay!The old man declined directly.

"It's okay! Let's talk about it next time! See you later!" After being polite, Bian Mu exchanged official invoices with the woman and greeted Luo Zhanqi to leave the pharmacy.

For the third place, the two went to the branch of "Qiqingtang", a century-old store.

There are also many customers taking medicines, and they have to queue up.

When it was Bian Mu's turn, he found that the medicines sold in this pharmacy were quite expensive.

The same, still 30g of astragalus.

……

Afterwards, the two went to seven or eight pharmacies one after another. They all bought 30g, and all of them asked for formal invoices from the pharmacies.

This trip took the two of them two or three hours. By the time they returned to the clinic, it was already 11:26 noon.

They found a larger table and spread out all the astragalus they bought one by one. Luo Zhanqi also placed a small piece of paper in front of each pile of medicine, indicating which pharmacy he bought it from. , which street is that pharmacy located on?

"How's it going?" Luo Zhanqi asked with an indifferent expression.

For most Chinese herbal medicines, Luo Zhanqi could only have a rough understanding of them. He knew very little about the place of origin, medicinal properties, quality, price... and other drug information.

"The quality of 'Qiqingtang' is the best. Take a closer look... the calendula, the silver plate, the chrysanthemum heart... the color is warm and lustrous, the medicinal smell is strong, the size is uniform, and the quality is first-class. Unfortunately, it is the most expensive, except for ordinary people. If you have special needs, you will not come easily; this is a civilian pharmacy, and it is one or two levels behind in every aspect. Look! The middle of the first slice is empty, and they even call it "longan and astragalus", which is simply You are deceiving the world and stealing your reputation! Look again, the grade has been lowered, and the price of the medicine has not dropped at all. Strictly speaking, this is enough to meet the reporting standards." Bian Mu threw a few pieces of the so-called "longan and astragalus" into the small pile of medicine, and Bian Mu explained in detail After a while.

"How much worse is the performance of this so-called 'longan and astragalus' medicine?"

"This is old medicine. It may be overstocked by farmers, medicine warehouses, pharmacies, etc. If it is kept for a long time, the 'chrysanthemum heart' in the middle will naturally wither, and the silver plate part will also shrink a lot. It has medicinal properties! At least! 20% lower.”

"Oh...then what's the quality of that 'Shuki Pharmacy'?"

"Look! What is this?" As he spoke, Bian Mu randomly picked out a pill from the pile of medicines belonging to Shuqi Pharmacy and handed it to Luo Zhanqi.

"This one feels quite thin, what do you think? Is the quality worse?"

"That's not astragalus, it's a slice of mulberry branch. You can break it gently and try it." Bian Mu guided with a smile.

Luo Zhanqi pressed it with the combined force of his right thumb, index finger, and middle finger. With a soft "bang..." sound, the piece of mulberry branch was broken. Thinking that Shuqi Pharmacy actually sold fake medicine, Luo Zhanqi was heartbroken. I couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

(End of this chapter)