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Chapter 459

Chapter 459

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Today was absolute chaos at the Green Ox Medical Academy's "Clinical Sweet Practice Day." Huwa handed out "Clinical Sweet Backpacks" to every apprentice. Inside were "navigation sweet candies" that could point the way, "pulse-diagnosis sweet patches" that could record audio, and best of all, "symptom-imaging sweet beans." Throw one at a patient, and it would project the corresponding sweet medicine formula based on their cough and tongue coating. Apprentice Wang from Luoyang held up a sweet bean and muttered doubtfully, "If I throw the wrong one... will I end up curing a cold as a heat-syndrome?" "What's to fear!" Huwa patted his chest. "I have my 'Sweet Diagnosis Error Corrector'!" With that, he pulled out a small bell carved with a lion pattern and gave it a ding-dong shake. The bell actually projected the apprentices' clinical sessions: Apprentice Kim from Silla was applying "anti-diarrhea Chinese character patches" to a peasant woman, but he had mistaken "montmorillonite sweet powder" for "laxative chili crystals." Huwa hurriedly shook the bell to correct him: "Stop! You put it on backward! You lick the blue characters for 'diarrhea,' and you only lick the red characters for 'constipation'!" At the junior-level clinical station, Zhang Dama's grandson Huwa (Little Huwa) ran into trouble. The grandfather he was treating complained of a "pain in the heart," but stubbornly refused to lick the "heart-nourishing longan candy." Huwa himself hurried over, shaking the "sweet spe…

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