A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

Chapter 220 Helping Doctor Qin

When Shen Jiaren arrived at the office, it was still empty. When Shen Jiaren had tidied up her desk and was sitting there, thinking about what to do, other people in the office came in one after another.

Doctor Wu, "Xiao Shen, come in for a moment."

When Shen Jiaren heard Doctor Wu calling her, she hurried into the office. After all, he had only introduced the office environment yesterday, but had not mentioned the specific tasks.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Shen Jiaren entered the room, Doctor Wu handed her two books. Shen Jiaren took a closer look and found that they were "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicines". Shen Jiaren asked curiously, "Director Wu, what are these?"

Doctor Wu, "You probably didn't have any knowledge of Chinese medicine before. According to the normal procedure, you should memorize the prescription first, then recognize the medicine, and then do other things. But now is different from the past, and we are a warehouse for Chinese medicinal materials, mainly responsible for collection, processing, drying, and storage.

Since you are dealing with medicine, you should first learn from these two books.

Your job during this period is to help organize the warehouse. As for the rest of the time, you should memorize these two books and learn by comparing them while organizing the herbs.

Is there a problem? "

Shen Jiaren quickly shook her head and replied, "No problem, no problem."

Doctor Wu, "Okay, then you can go out. Go out and find Doctor Qin and tell her that you have been helping her recently. Also, this book is from the hospital. I got it for you, but I don't know what will happen next. I suggest you go to Xinhua Bookstore and buy two copies for yourself."

Shen Jiaren nodded and left the office to find Doctor Qin.

Shen Jiaren walked up to Director Qin, who was introduced yesterday, and said to Doctor Qin, "Doctor Qin, good morning. Doctor Wu said that I will be your assistant during this period."

Doctor Qin raised his eyebrows, looked at Shen Jiaren, and then looked at the book in Shen Jiaren's hand. "Do you know what I've been doing recently? Just say you're helping me."

Shen Jiaren shook her head. "I don't know. I just got here yesterday, so I'm not sure."

Director Qin, "I've been organizing the warehouse recently, and I have to take out some medicinal herbs that need to be dried, and I also have to prepare the herbs that have already been dried.

It's easier to say how to prepare it, because I don't think you know how to do it.

But drying and organizing the warehouse is tiring and hard work, are you willing to do it?

Can you bear the hardship? This job requires climbing up and down and organizing things.

Don't just run away halfway through doing something, that won't work.

If you can't do it, please tell me in advance so that I can ask Dr. Wu to coordinate someone else."

Shen Jiaren didn't know what to say. After all, she had never done this before and didn't know if she could do it. But as for hardship, Shen Jiaren felt that it would be no problem, so she said, "Doctor Qin, can you try for a few days? If my performance in these few days doesn't satisfy you, or if I'm not competent for this job of climbing up and down, running around, can you negotiate for a replacement?

After all, two or three days won’t delay many things.”

Although Doctor Qin somewhat disagreed with what Shen Jiaren said that two or three days would not delay much, he had to give face to Doctor Wu, and he could not but give Shen Jiaren a chance. After all, this girl had just started to recognize herbs.

Doctor Qin said nothing, but nodded coldly.

When Shen Jiaren saw that Doctor Qin agreed, she happily walked to her seat and prepared to read a book first.

As soon as Shen Jiaren turned around, she heard Doctor Qin say, "It's still early now. If you move the herbs to dry, they will easily get wet. You read a book first, and then at half past nine, you and I will go to the warehouse to familiarize ourselves with the location of the items in the warehouse and prepare for drying them."

Shen Jiaren turned around and nodded, then hummed twice, then returned to her seat and started reading.

While reading the book, Shen Jiaren was still wondering, what preparations are required for drying the Chinese herbal medicines?

Isn't it just drying things? Why do we need to do this preparation work?

Out of curiosity, Shen Jiaren followed Dr. Qin to the warehouse behind the office.

After entering the warehouse, Shen Jiaren realized that she had thought too simply.

Why? Because it is a medicinal herb.

Not to mention that drying clothes does not mean spreading them on the ground, but you have to put out the brackets, stools or supports below first, and then put out the drying tools.

And because it is a medicinal material, and there are many types of medicinal materials, when drying the medicinal materials, it is necessary to consider the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials and the corresponding drying methods. Even more, it is necessary to carry out targeted drying according to the current storage conditions of the medicinal materials in the warehouse.

Therefore, there are several ways of drying and several times of drying. Even when drying medicinal materials, due to their shape or size, there are requirements for the thickness and method of spreading them.

Because Shen Jiaren had just started, to be honest, she really didn't understand, so she moved whatever Director Qin told her to move.

Although Shen Jiaren was still very curious about why they had to do this during the process, seeing that Doctor Qin seemed very busy, she did not say anything and planned to ask after it was done.

After the two of them finally filled all the displayed items with medicinal materials, Doctor Qin led Shen Jiaren to move a stool and walked to the door of the warehouse, and said to Shen Jiaren, “Aren’t you curious?

Aren’t you curious about why some herbs are placed in the sun, some in the shade, some spread out, some poured out and spread out, and some hung to dry?”

Shen Jiaren turned around and looked at Director Qin with sparkling eyes, "I'm curious, very curious, but I see you're busy and sweating profusely, I guess we have to rush, so I'll ask you after you're done."

After listening to Shen Jiaren's words, Doctor Qin smiled and said, "Yes, we are racing against time. Due to the drying requirements, we can only dry the clothes for a few hours a day. Considering the wind, thunder, rain, and storage conditions in the warehouse, we can only dry the clothes for a few days.

So whenever we have the opportunity to dry the clothes, we will basically rush to do it.

After all, the better you dry it, the better the medicinal properties will be preserved during preparation.

Although many people say that processing is the first step and the key factor in the medicinal properties, I think that drying is the first step. "

Shen Jiaren nodded without saying anything, because what the other person said did indeed touch upon her blind spot.

Doctor Qin saw Shen Jiaren staring at him with curious eyes, and continued, "These things are actually also mentioned in the books. But because of the current situation, I don't know if the prepared books have been affected. When you have time, go to our hospital library and the warehouse of the logistics department to see if you can find relevant books. If you find them, read them when you have nothing to do.

If you can't find it, then carry a notebook with you. If someone teaches you, write it down. After all, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen.

You are now in a good time, so I asked you to take notes. When I was studying before, we had to recite and remember by ourselves, and we were not allowed to take notes while listening. However, it is okay for you to take notes privately.

Hahahaha, I've gone too far. Now that I'm old, I love reminiscing about the past."

Shen Jiaren, "Doctor Qin, I love hearing this. You are not very old, really not very old. You look the same age as me."

After hearing what Shen Jiaren said, Doctor Qin smiled coquettishly and said, "I didn't realize that you are quite sweet.

Well, I didn't bring a notebook today, so I'll test your memory. Let's start with the drying method. It depends on your ability to remember as much as you can.

There are generally several ways to dry Chinese medicine, namely, sun drying, shade drying, and oven drying. Because each drying method is different, it is further divided into sun drying, spreading and drying, kang drying, shade drying, stove drying, etc.

The choice of each method is closely related to the medicinal properties of the herb.

For example, the sun drying method has a wide range of applications, so it is often used. The common practice is to spread or spread the medicinal materials on reed mats, bamboo dustpans and other tools, and use sunlight to dry them, but you must pay attention to the drying time, turn them over in time, and also adjust the sun drying time according to the weather and seasons.