Snow Pearl Fruit

Once you find it, dig a couple of times with a hoe. The Furball Beast will sense the threat and usually jump out on its own.

Jian Mo needs to hold it down with her gloved hand, grab it, and shake it a few times to collect its fur powder.

The giant wolf is also very skilled at digging holes. After digging out the Furball Beast, just hold it down and wait for Jian Mo to deal with it.

Purple Flower Plateau is dotted with caves of all sizes filled with Furball Beast. Jian Mo and Wu Jiong spent the whole morning collecting and harvested a whole jar of hair powder. Xi Lu and Xuan Yin had almost the same amount.

After searching through so many holes, Jian Mo's eyes were getting tired, so he suggested, "Why don't we go back for today? We can come back to collect it after we've determined the purpose of the pollen."

Xi Lu had no objections. "Okay."

The giant wolf and the red fox each carried people back to the tribe.

Xi Lu didn't want the collected hair powder; instead, she directly handed the jar containing the hair powder to Jian Mo.

Jian Mo had originally intended to thank him, and after receiving the fur powder he gave her, she specially sent them a small jar of honey.

Xi Lu was a little embarrassed to accept it. He told Jian Mo about the honey powder only to help more people, not to profit from it, especially since honey blocks were so rare.

Jian Mo insisted on giving it to him, saying that when she treated people from other tribes, she also charged for medical services, and that she had to put in the effort and receive payment in order to make the business last.

Xi Lu then put it away.

Looking at the two jars of collected wool powder, Wu Jiong asked, "Does the wool powder need further processing?"

Jian Mo: "Yes, I want to. I'm not sure if it's even usable. If it is, how effective will it be? Can it only be used on the skin or mucous membranes? What will it feel like to use? We need to find out all of these things."

As someone educated in modern medicine, Jian Mo cannot simply introduce a new drug, even if it is a local herbal medicine.

So he had no choice but to bring out the little Pack-Pack Beast again for the experiment.

This time he used two smaller Pack-Pack Beast instead of the two he had tried with the anesthetic last time.

After experimenting for a few days, Jian Mo discovered that the fur powder from the Furball Beast was indeed effective.

When wool powder is applied to relatively severe wounds, even in less-than-clean environments, the wounds heal very well, with minimal redness, swelling, or inflammation.

As a control group, Jian Mo applied ordinary herbs to the wound of another Pack-Pack Beast. Under the same care conditions, the wound of the other Pack-Pack Beast became infected and suppurated. Only after applying fur powder did the wound slowly improve.

Jian Mo thought that the freshly collected pollen had not been disinfected and might contain various microorganisms, which was not very safe.

So he heated and sterilized the wool powder in a clean earthenware pot, and then compared it with unsterilized wool powder in a comparative experiment. The results were about the same.

Therefore, he determined that heating would not destroy the medicinal properties of the powder.

If conditions were better, Jian Mo would know how to conduct a double-blind experiment, but unfortunately, the conditions weren't right, so she had to abandon that idea for now.

It wasn't a secret that Xi Lu helped find the Furball Powder. After everyone learned that Jian Mo had used the Furball Powder and given Xi Lu honey as payment, they all sought out Jian Mo to provide their own unique medicinal formulas.

Jian Mo collected a considerable number of medications in a short period of time.

Although there is no modern medical system here, there are still quite a few traditional medical prescriptions.

As for whether it's effective, we'll have to Jian Mo on experiments to gradually determine that.

As Jian Mo's reputation grew, more and more people came to him for treatment of their ailments.

He gained a lot of experience as a result.

Aside from the people of the Riverside Tribe, he would charge a certain amount of supplies as medical fees for treating people from other tribes, usually based on the complexity of the treatment.

He didn't accept many gifts, but patients would often bring him their best things from home. If they didn't have what they had, they would even exchange it with someone else and bring it over.

The most popular items here are limited to a few items, mostly cloth, animal hides, and animal meat.

Jian Mo collected a lot, but felt it was a bit wasteful as she couldn't use it all.

That afternoon, seeing that no one came to his door and that he had nothing else to do, he simply went to the woodpile and peeled off several large pieces of bark.

When people in the tribe chop firewood, they tend to cut the branches of large trees, so the bark they peel off is wide and large.

Jian Mo trimmed the bark flat and then pieced it together to form a large flat panel.

When Wu Jiong returned, he saw him writing and drawing on the tree bark with charcoal and asked, "What are you doing?"

Jian Mo: "I want to write a bill and put it on the wall."

Wu Jiong walked over and saw that various patterns had been drawn on the tree bark. Without even looking at the text labels, he could recognize them as wild vegetables, stems, firewood, and even pottery shards.

Jian Mo pointed to the pattern and said, "Besides cloth and animal hides, I also want to collect some supplies that we can use in our daily lives."

Wu Jiong: "Why did you put the pottery shards in there too?"

Jian Mo: "Qing Kuo said that even crushed pottery shards can be used to make pottery, so I wrote that down as well. See if there's anything else you want? I'll write that down too, and when the patients come, they can just give us whatever they need. There's no need to specially bring us new cloth or anything like that."

Wu Jiong checked the list and suggested, "Don't you like fruit wine? Add it too."

Jian Mo's eyes lit up. "This is good."

Their Flour Fruit hasn't fermented properly yet, and since they've been using a lot of fruit wine for cooking lately, it's definitely time to switch to a different batch.

After finishing writing, Jian Mo looked at the tree bark beneath her hands. "Once this winter is over and spring arrives, we'll probably have even more to our hands than we do now."

Wu Jiong: "Doctors are always more popular. However, those who see this sign you wrote may not necessarily understand it."

Jian Mo: "I'll explain it to them then. After the explanation, they'll know what I need that I happen to have at home, so they won't have to go through the trouble of finding someone to exchange it."

Chapter 36 Snow Pearl Fruit

That day, Jian Mo was preparing to collect the fish traps early in the morning when Ban Ming suddenly appeared from the path. "Jian Mo!"

Jian Mo stopped and waited for him when she heard his enthusiastic call, "Why are you up so early today?"