The end of the month came in the blink of an eye.
Lin Miao resumed his routine of going out early and returning late for consultations, occasionally making house calls. Everything seemed to have calmed down.
Of course, the issue of patients buying medicine wasn't resolved, especially for certain special herbs. If they couldn't be purchased, substitutions had to be made.
If it didn't work, one could run to a pharmacy farther away to buy, as long as it wasn't an urgent illness, this bit of time delay is bearable.
Even when substituting, it might reduce the efficacy of the medicine, but sometimes, it led to good discoveries, some herbs were not available in his original world.
The efficacy of medicinal herbs could be analyzed and estimated based on their environmental characteristics besides testing the medicine. In what environment, what kind of herb with what characteristics could appear...
