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Sakari listened to the terms coming from Jados's mouth, his eyes full of confusion.
Strange spellings, tongue-twisting words-he had no idea what any of them meant.
You're really making things difficult for this old druid!
One look at him told the doctor that he had never heard of Roland or the Seris School, so Jados began explaining.
Unlike the current arcane community, which focused on cultural history, Jados was more interested in the development of medicine.
In the Annals of the Five Emperors, Shennong was only briefly mentioned as part of the background, yet the single tale of "Shennong tasting the hundred herbs" surpassed countless others in his eyes.
The Compendium of Materia Medica, which he later learned about through his conversations with Roland, left an even deeper impression.
It was a work on Chinese medicinal substances written by the renowned Ming-dynasty physician Li Shizhen. Divided into sixteen sections, it covered 1,897 medicinal substances and over 11,000 prescriptions, also drawing on numerous earlier herbals and medical texts to systematically organize and classify the theory of Chinese medicine.
The book's classification of medicinal substances represented the most advanced approach of its time, progressing from inorganic to organic and from lower to higher forms. It comprehensively and systematically explained the medicinal knowledge it contained, with dedicated entries covering names, history, appearance, identification, collection, processing, medicinal properties, effects, indications, and use in prescriptions. (Note: summarized from encyclopedia material.)
The old druid Sakari gradually understood what the doctor intended.
"You want to use the framework he proposed and fill it with the knowledge and experience you and other herbalists possess?"
"Exactly! That's the right way to read the Compendium of Materia Medica!"
An unusual gleam shone in the doctor's eyes as he said, "Mr. Sakari, you know me.
"I've always believed that practicing