Episode 12.15 (1/2)
The next morning, they went to Norma's clinic.
Norma brought Lecan and Eda to the medicine prep room in the morning.
There are far more tools at Norma's place than Shira's.
This is partly due to Shira's usage of magic to help her work and partly because most of Shira's medicines have combined effects while Norma's are more specialized to a type of illness each.
”That's a lot of drawers.”
”Haha. Eda, can you read?”
”Yes.”
”OK. That's good. How about you, Lecan?”
”No problem.”
There are only 35 letters so memorizing them wasn't hard. But it gets much harder when several letters combine into different pronunciations like with the names of herbs and stuff.
”Alright. Then first, please recite the names on these drawers correctly. The <Dry> to the left of the names signifies dried herbs, while
means powdered ones. <Raw> marks raw unprocessed herbs, but it's empty right now. We'll just go pick up a lot, wash and dry them off whenever the need arises. <Half> is for herbs that are half-life. There are some herbs that give off high efficacy in this state.”
Lecan and Eda read all the drawers' names aloud. Due to Eda's short stature, Norma allowed her to climb on a chair to read the taller drawers.
Then the examination started.
There's already more than ten patients waiting while having idle chatters between themselves.
During the examination, Lecan and Eda are told to stand next to Norma as she works.
Norma doesn't use <Recovery>.
She softly wraps her mana on her wand to examine the affected part on her patients. She speaks out loud which part is that and what problem does it have each time.
She also examined chest and waist area of most patients besides the affected parts.
”Those of old age or suffer from long illness tend to have problems with their heart internals, breathing viscera, or eating organs. These internal problems get worse over time, so we need to slowly heal it over time. If we don't fix those up first, any treatment is only going to relief their pain temporarily before worsening their condition quickly.”
Norma's explanations were concise and precise, very easy to digest.
”Types of illness differ depending on the spot it crops up, so does the herb used to treat it. You'd figure out how to deal with them once you've got a good grasp on those.”
Most of the time, Norma immediately made the medicine on spot right after examination.
Wounded patients often get salves, while sickly ones usually get decoction.
As for the salve, she uses either water or raw leaf's stickiness.
”This stickiness, y'see. Is the secret to heal wounds.”
Which means, to medical practitioners, the raw herb plants growing abundantly in her garden must look like a treasure trove.
Their lunch was bread and vegetable soup.
(Mu? This got herbs that recover mana inside.)
”Haha. Looks like Lecan's figured it out, yes, this soup does recover mana. Along with stamina. I really don't have a lot of mana you see, I've even used up all I've got during the treatment earlier.”
'Please excuse me', said Norma as she lay on a nearby sofa. She must be taking a short nap to recover her mana.