♫ Not meeting each other, not meeting each other That one person, that one glance ♫
♫ Not resenting the years we wasted ♫
♫ In a certain year, that one gaze, who is nostalgic, who is silent? ♫
♫ Brushing past each other's shoulders, do not argue about our fate ♫
♫ If not for that one look, the fleeting sense of yearning ♫
♫ I would be unaware I had loved that person for a lifetime ♫
♫ Until now, even if the city is abound with rumours, do not explain ♫
♫ Using up the world's medicine, it is still hard to cure the affections of the mortal world ♫
♫ The heavy rain is coming and the ground is damp The memories are fading in front of my eyes ♫
♫ Many years later, all the stories turn out to have similar endings♫
♫ Don't say you love someone, don't say but Please do not overdo the tears ♫
♫ Gains and losses will always come around in a cycle ♫
The Imperial Doctress Episode 5
All medicinal references used in the episode are based on fiction, do not try at home.
Thank you, Your Excellency.
Do you know what you should do?
I know, I know. Your Excellency, don't worry.
I definitely will arrange a good place for her.
Thank you. Thank you.
Get up. Let's go.
- What's wrong? - Stop asking so much. Move.
What is it?
Get in!
Miss Hang, sorry to see you suffer.
However, I see that you're an important person.
I will think about lighting up one more light.
Oh right. Don't you treat sickness?
I believe the hardships here
shouldn't be too hard on you.
I... My surname is Hang.
Yet another person waiting for death here.
What are you looking at?
You thought that because you're dressed cleanly
you can live a few days longer?
I'm telling you
Here, drink some water.
Slowly.
You have a fever.
Who here hasn't gotten a fever?
Here, lie down.
Exogenous fever.
Your Highness! I've come to bring you some pastries.
Stop!
Come in.
Your Highness. Your Highness.
What's the situation like outside? Did the Empress Dowager give my mother a hard time?
It was okay.
Consort Dowager was only reprimanded a little.
That's good.
I've also thought of a way to pass on some news to the outside.
However, they indeed look really strict.
That's fine.
The Emperor will find it strange that I didn't show up at the appointed time.
When it's time he definitely will send someone to look for me.
But, right now Empress Dowager is locking you up here.
What if the Emperor still hasn't found out? Empress Dowager will...
That won't happen.
Although my legal mother is not that close with me
but I know inside she's not bad.
She must have been influenced by people to act so rashly.
In short, no matter what she won't kill me.
That's good. I was worried sick.
Your Highness, why don't you try some of these pastries first?
All these are made by Consort Dowager herself.
Pea curd?
I haven't eaten this in so many years!
Consort Dowager told me to pass on her message.
She wants you to
apologise to Empress Dowager.
She also said... She said...
Also said what?
Madam also wants Your Highness to be cautious here.
If Empress Dowager send someone here,
you absolutely must not provoke his anger.
It seems like my mother is still upset at me.
Tell my mother that I understand.
Oh right. What other news are there from the outside?
The Eastern Depot has caught Eunuch Fan Hong for attempting to assassinate Empress Dowager.
He has already been imprisoned.
Fan Hong?
Isn't he Empress Dowager's person?
Why would they specifically kill him?
This matter, help me and look into it.
Are there other news?
That...
That Lady Hang to whom you asked me to send the pearl flower...
She...
She seems to have murdered someone through her medical treatment.
Right now, she is locked up in Shuntian prefecture's prison.
-What did you say? -I...
Governor Xu forgets kindness and even takes vengeance.
Miss hang is such a kindhearted person why would she kill anyone?
- There is definitely a misunderstanding. - Yes.
Little boy.
Hurry, take this jade ornament and go find Official Zheng from the Ministry of Justice.
and tell him to investigate the case properly.
Yes.
I will definitely not allow Miss Hang to be wrongly accused.
Stay there. Check him.
You can leave.
Wait a moment.
Taking out personal belongings.
Give him twenty beatings!
Yes! Come with me!
Your Highness save me! Your Highness!
Your Highness save me!
Your Highness, such an expensive treasure must be kept safely.
Rice is here.
Hurry!
Your Excellency, may I ask you for a favor for something?
What thing? Help with what?
I want to ask you to pass on some words to my family.
Have them send a medicine called "a thousand gold reed stem soup" here tomorrow.
A thousand gold reed stem soup?
One look at Miss, I can tell you are a kind-hearted person.
To give them medical care, that's a charitable act. Amitabha Buddha. Amitabha Buddha.
But my lady, I heard that your household's mansion is really far.
You see this, it's a little...
Here.
Hehe. Money can take care of problems.
I'm a soft-hearted person.
Wait for some good news from me.
Hurry, eat the porridge.
Wait!
Wait for the porridge to cool down, when a layer is formed. then you eat.
The porridge layer is also known as rice oil. It's good for replenishing strength and vitality.
She is very sick now. Let's give her the porridge layer first.
All right. Wait a second.
Qiyu said he wanted to go to Yongqing Convent.
How would you suddenly not see him?
Wang Zhen, you're not up to something again, are you?
Your Highness, your old servant wouldn't dare.
His Highness Prince Cheng really didn't go to Yongqing Convent.
Wu Consort Dowager's manor also does not have any sign of his presence.
I have also sent someone to watch over Wang's imperial manor.
There is absolutely no sign of him.
Under broad day light, a regular good person can disappear?
Forget it. I'll look for him myself.
Wait for awhile.
People from my household are certainly already on the way.
Endure it.
Here, look, they look well now.
I am a doctor, I will definitely cure you. Trust me, Ok?
In this world, where would there be female physicians?
Don't bother with me.
I've stayed here for three years.
The many people I've seen who got infected with diseases are all dead.
I've expected this day will come upon me.
You're a good person. Stay a little far from me.
Don't let me infect you. Stay a little far from me.
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. I'll cure you.
The medicine is here! It's here! It's here!
Rice is here.
Hurry up!
Amazing! There really are two who make it alive.
Official, where are the medicine?
The medicine? Um...
A thousand gold reed stem soup?
You had me ask about that thing, and I've really helped you and asked,
but there was no one in your manor, so me walking so far was in vain.
Impossible! My father and grandmother would definitely be there!
Really?
Then how did that happen? I, I don't know!
Don't you walk away!
You've accepted my things, so you have to help me manage this matter well.
I want the medicine to save someone. She is about to die.
Wait, wait, wait! Hold on!
Hearing you say it like that makes me unhappy.
I saw you as a noble and virtuous lady, which is why
I agreed to help you figure out a way.
When did I every say that I would give that medicine to you in prison?
Also, this is a prison, not the Emperor's palace. Everyday two people die, it's very normal.
How is this surprising?
I actually want to persuade you, Lady Hang.
If you really have leisure time,
just think about your own things.
Tomorrow you will have to go in front of the court.
Don't blame me for not reminding you. That Official Xu,
he has found solid evidence and will get you sentenced.
It will be impossible for you to escape.
You are despicable.
Despicable? How did you know my nickname?
Despicable!
Don't panic. Don't panic, please. Don't panic.
Take in a deep breath. Deep breath.
No medicine is okay.
I definitely can save you. I definitely can save you!
Sir! Don't you have eyes?
I deserve to die. I plead for punishment, sir.
You audacious slave. How dare you spill things onto our Director?
Here. Take this person back to the Eastern Depot, and hit her fifty times.
Yes.
Eunuch Wang, please pardon the sin. Please spare my life!
Spare my life, sir.
Audacious servant. How dare you not leave?
Madam.
Eunuch Wang, how could you have free time here?
Don't you have to accompany the Emperor going out of the palace today?
Replying to madam, you do know the Emperor's personality.
Whatever he wants to do, who can stop him?
Also, even if I did want to accompany him, if the Emperor doesn't give the order
I don't dare to.
Oh right Empress, I have something important to attend to in the East Depot,
I will have to leave you.
Wang Zhen always appears to be so eccentric.
I've never liked him.
He always indulged the Emperor, allowing him to leave the Palace in plain clothes.
What about the Emperor then?
He always treats him as a teacher.
However, Empress Dowager blocked quite a few of the Emperor's decisions.
The Emperor must not be happy about it.
Why not let the Emperor take a stroll?
It is better than being suffocated inside the Palace.
Take a deep breath!
Take in a deep breath.
Sister!
Sister! Sister!
Sister!
Dajie, wake up!
Wake up!
Dajie!
She...
Wake up.
Wake up!
Wake up...
I couldn't save her...
I thought as long as I'm hardworking,
as long as I study medicine well, I can cure people.
But now,
a person perhaps died because of me.
This one, I already gave my all, but I still couldn't save her!
Why are you crying over this?
Get up.
Get up!
What are you doing?! She's already dead!
Who said that?
Dajie, dajie.
This is water from a deep well. It's cold and relieves internal heat.
As long as someone has a fever,
if I pour her with a scoop of this water,
she'd return even if she's already halfway to the underworld.
Do you want to cure her?
Ma'am, do you have a way (to cure her)?
Give your hand to me.
Give your hand to me!
Your fingernails are long enough. Bite them. Hurry.
Hurry!
Go to the window and take a look. See if there's any sparrow guano.
Hurry up and go! Don't you want to save her?
Help me a bit.
-Is there any or not? -There is.
Be careful. Scrape the white thing above your head.
What..?
I'm telling you to scrape, so scrape it!
Ma'am... You...
Are you making a spell?
Someone come here!
You. Make a bowl of clear porridge.
Mix this with the porridge.
Grind your fingernails, the finer the better.
Pour it all into the porridge.
I'm telling you, grind faster! Do you really want to save her or not?
-Have you ground it well? -I have.
Pour it into the porridge.
Also put in the bird droppings.
Hurry!
Good.
It's an earthworm!
You recognize it. Good.
You, what are you doing?
What am I doing? I spent so much time making this tonic. She's going to eat it!
We can't! Inside there are fingernails and guano.
And there's an earthworm. How could we let her eat something this dirty?
Why can't we have her eat it? She's about to die soon!
What's wrong with eating this? You two, hold her up.
Bring her closer.
Keep drinking, keep drinking.
Think that it's disgusting.
If you have the skills,
tell her to give you some magical soup.
Whether she recovers will depend on her fate.
Yu'er, it wasn't easy for mother to beg the Empress Dowager to allow me to see you.
Listen to my words. Admit to your mistakes in front of the Empress Dowager.
Mother, you came here to see me,
but never once asked if I'm healthy, also didn't ask if I'm used to it here.
All you want is for me to beg for forgiveness from Empress Dowager.
Yu'er. Didn't Xiao Ma'zi say you were almost fully recovered?
Yes, what you said is correct.
Yu'er.
You just follow Empress Dowager's plan.
She's the one with real political power in court.
It's our good fortune that she deems you worthy.
Enough.
Mother, how about this?
You help me on one thing and the day after tomorrow I will go see Empress Dowager to apologize.
What is it?
There's a Miss Hang, daughter of General Hang Gang.
She was the one that saved me from the Eastern Depot.
She was wrongly imprisoned, and she's now at the Supreme Court.
Mother, as long as you can think of a plan to save her,
Wasn't it Princess Anhe that saved you?
It was Miss Hang.
Mother, I want her to be safe
and not suffer from anything.
This
Mother, I just have this one request.
Cough more lightly. Be careful of damaging your lungs from coughing.
Don't worry, You don't have a fever anymore.
Thank you for saving me.
It wasn't me who saved you. It was that Aunt Luo who sends food that did.
Time to eat.
Lowly lives must be cured with inexpensive methods.
Here.
Wait.
Aunt, it was me who failed to recognize your great talent at noon. You must not take it to heart.
But your way of treating illness, I really have never seen it before.
Can you tell me the medical principles behind it?
Why could using fingernails and bird droppings bring down a fever?
I can't even recognize any big words. What do I understand about that thing called medical principles?
I just saw that you are kindhearted, so I helped you a little.
The people who are locked up here lack medical treatment and medicine.
What to do? Just use dried-up leaves,
insects, etc., and make do. Treat them randomly.
Moreover, God also never says that only ginseng could save lives.
Ginseng could save lives?
You are a medicine woman.
What? It's not ok?
No. No.No. I didn't mean that.
Can you teach me? Other than fingernails, etc.
are there any other things we usually see and get that can treat diseases?
Me? Teach you?
Seeing your appearance, you're the precious daughter of someone rich and important.
It's better for people like us to be far from people like you.
Aunt! I sincerely want to learn from you.
I..
I want to become a doctress
Doctress?
I really didn't listen to this before.
Are there still female physicians?
Really? I'm not lying to you.
My grandfather was an imperial physician before.
When I was little, my grandfather told me that medicine woman also know medicine and also was a good person.
Really?
He said that even though you didn't read book about it
but the ability for a single person to see patients truly comes from practice.
So I really envy you guys.
Then...
Then your grandfather was an imperial physician.
Then why have you been stuck in here?
I...
I am contained here for a case of misdiagnosis.
Forget it.
I killed someone with my treatment. What else can I learn?
It can be considered that I've learned.
People's fingernails are called "jintui".
It tastes sweet and salty.
It can alleviate fever,
treat skin ulcers, asthma.
Also, I'm telling you. Originally there was a physician locked up here.
He told me that bird droppings, chicken poop,
bat guano, these are all ingredients for medicine.
They can alleviate fever,
and they can treat women's morbid leucorrhoea*. T/N: a disease symptomized by persistent excessive mucous vaginal discharge.
They can also treat skin ulcers, etc.
I look at you, soft and lithe.
You don't look like someone who can bring back someone from the dead.
Tell me
I have been bringing in prison food for over 10 years,
maybe I can give you some ideas.
Letter: ...Please help her escape severe punishment...
Please go tell your Lord,
I am an imperial doctor. My primary concern is to obtain evidence.
If Miss Hang really killed someone because of her wrong prescription,
Even if you give me more money,
I won't be a witness.
- I shall go then. - Doctor Cheng.
They even sent someone to bride me,
Even ordered someone to persuade me, she really wasn't a good woman.
Reporting to madam. Cheng Cunxia didn't accept the money.
He said, he will do things according to the law.
Really? He won't accept the money.
Yes, Yes.
Then it will be difficult now.
You can go now. -Yes.
My child, it is not that Mother hasn't tried,
it's just that that Miss Hang is unlucky.
And then that night
Official Xu rushed straight to my house
and said that Mrs. Xu had already...
but I don't understand, he is a governor,
why would he wrong me?
how can you not understand this?
It must be Mrs. Xu,
taking the medicine indiscriminately, and then she died.
Taking the medicine indiscriminately?
Think about it
When I was a medicine woman before, I heard about these things.
While she takes your prescription,
she also takes other prescriptions,
Two kinds of medicine gets eaten at the same time, then she dies at the end.
So It was like this...
Why wouldn't it be like this?
I think you should ask about it when you are on the court tomorrow.
If you say it like that, I feel more confidence.
If you want to know my prescriptions, I can teach you some.
But when you use it,
You should check the medical book.
We, the medicine women, women doctor,
aren't educated and don't know medical books,
will often get it wrong.
Sometimes we make mistakes,
ended up killing the patients. Then those men curse at us,
saying we kill from door to door.
Let me tell you
Avalokiteshvara Clay is white.
Avalokiteshvara Clay is good for curing loose bowels,
and loquat leaves
are good for eliminating phlegm and stopping cough.
Let me tell you, after you have been bitten by poisonous bug,
nothing digests well. No problem! Just have a kid pee for you!
Also the ash from the bottom of the pot can treat some illness too!
Pot ash too?!
Of course! Do you know what we call the pot ash?
We call it soot!
If you apply it on your wound,
it will stop the bleeding. If you drink it, it will help indigestion!
Wait...Wait a second. Let me write this down
Keep talking.
I know a lot more herbal medicine.
Like plantain, Chinese chive,
and wild bitter gourd etc.
Every one of them has different medical purposes.
Toad! Toad can treat illness too.
And a lot more!
For an example, like snakes
After you eat it, you won't get heat rash. Snake galls improve eye vision!
Right. I remembered something.
Earthworm is also called "ground dragon".
No wonder, you would use them.
Right!
Miss, it is late.
You still need to attend the court tomorrow.
Come. Don't worry.
Remember what I told you. Ask the questions on the court tomorrow.
Official Cheng, all the details of this case, you presumably have already understood.
Because I don't have any medical knowledge,
So I asked you to investigate in this
The licorice root and dried ginger water that this Miss Hang said
Is it Madam Xu's cause of death?
Both are not poisonous and cannot kill.
No, Before my wife was fine
If her medicine didn't have anything wrong, then why she got shortness of breath when she drank it.
I am only making this judgment in accordance with pharmacology.
Things outside of medicine, I still ask Your Honor magistrate to adjudicate.
Minister Qi, I have a question
for Madam Xu's servant and I ask you to bring her on.
Is it me who is judging the case or you?
Minister, this concerns my reputation and life.
I hope you can allow it.
Fine. Bring Xu Manor's servant!
Bring Xu Manor's servant!
Greetings, Your Excellency.
Ok, go ahead and ask. -Ok.
Yes.
Miss, I want to ask you
After Madame Xu drank the medication,
did she take any other medication?
No.
No, she really didn't?
Does previous medication count?
What does that mean?
Madame... Madame wasn't feeling very good for a month already.
Before, she was taking the medicine that Wan Gongfeng prescribed,
but because her body never seemed to improve,
so she took the prescription that Miss Hang wrote and had me make up the prescription.
What medicine did she eat?
This...I don't really remember.
It seems like, what was it, one Yuan two Yuan*, T/N: One Yuan is homonym with the actual name of the medicine.
and had ginseng tree, etc.
Vitality Powder (Yi Yuan San) and Ginseng Soup.
Yes! Yes! Yes! That's what's its called.
That's not right.
These are ingredients that vitalise the yin.
Minister Xu, do you know Wan Gongfeng?
I do. Wan Ning, Dr. Wan of the Drug Bureau of Huimin county.
He came to my manor often.
Your Honor, I think Madam Xu perhaps took another drug simultaneously.
The two were antagonistic and would cause a sudden death.
Physician Cheng, mixing licorice, dried ginger, vitality powder and ginger soup -
would it have toxicity?
No it is not poisonous.
The first two are things that boost Yang, the latter two are things that increase Yin.
Boosting Yang and increasing Yin? They're completely opposite.
Then Miss Hang and Wan Ning, one of them must be incorrect.
Someone! Summon Wan Ning to attend the court!
Your Honor, Wan Ning was sent out of town by the Drug Bureau of Huimin to do something.
He won't be back for a while.
All right, then court is adjourned for the time being.
Wait until Wan Ning come tomorrow, then we can continue with the trial.
Court adjourned.
You are mighty.
What does this have to do with Wan Ning?
Uncle, I've thought of this thing from beginning to end.
I feel that it wasn't Miss Hang's fault.
Before Madam Xu took the medicine, she was already down with dysentery for more than ten days.
Down with dysentery for more than ten days?
On top of that, coughing and night sweat.
Madam Xu should be down with an Yin deficiency for a long time.
Therefore Wan Ning gave her Yiyuansan and ginger atractolyde soup to increase Yin.
But when Madam Xu found Miss Hang, the dysentery was already gone,
so she only said her conditions were coughing and night sweats.
Miss Hang doesn't know the whole story, so she thought it was only inadequate Yang and would prescribe dried ginseng and licorice root soup.
And Madam Xu already stopped taking the increasing Yin drug, so it was hard to avoid excessive loss of Yin.
In the end, she naturally died from having Yang to the limit.
That makes sense.
I really hate the patients who randomly eat different kinds of medicines.
Then when something goes wrong, they would just blame it on us.
If it's this way, then Miss Hang is innocent.
Should I explain it tomorrow?
Fool!
It's already like this
we have to protect Wan Ning now
because Wan Ning is someone I recommended to go to Huimin's Drug Bureau.
If Miss Hang is innocent,
people will think Wan Ning is wrong
When the time comes, I would be implicated.
How can you do this? She is innocent!
innocent?!
She is a woman, recklessly practicing medicine, messed with Confucian values.
This will let her get a taste of her own medicine,
and it will remove the danger to the profession of Chinese medicine.
Enough. Look at yourself.
At any rate she is the daughter of an official, she won't be beheaded.
-But... -Cunxia!
Do you dare not listen to my words?!
I dare not.
I know that you are kind.
However, the water in the Imperial Medical Bureau truly is too deep.
Your Teacher was able to become Supervisor due to luck.
Think about it yourself.
Who is as crazy about medicine as he is?
He even dare rebuts Empress Dowager and the Emperor.
You are different from him. Your surname is Cheng.
If I, your uncle, have even a little dishonorable reputation,
In this lifetime don't even think of climbing up to the top position of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Do you understand
why after all these years
I'm still a Supervisor?
This is all because our Cheng family is not an imperial physician aristocratic family.
Therefore, even if Empress Dowager wants to promote me,
I can't be more than your teacher.
Cunxia,
you are our Cheng family's second generation.
You are our future.
Our hope. Therefore,
you have to work hard
sit on the top seat in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Uncle here absolutely won't allow you
make the slightest mistake!
I understand. I will listen to your words, uncle.
That's it.
Good boy.
♫ Used to think the winter had always been this cold, ♫
♫ unrelated to my stubborn obsession ♫
♫ If the heavy snow froze everything ♫
♫ I will wait at the beginning, waiting for you to appear. ♫
♫ Perhaps our vows will change, as will the times ♫
♫ Constant, yet ever changing even if the world changes ♫
♫ Even if my complexion ages with time, I am still the young one in white ♫
♫ until the day I return to meet you ♫
♫ When that day arrives, we will return to familiar places ♫
♫ Appreciating the colourful world, and watching the light dance across your face ♫
♫ When that day arrives, we will return to the first snowfall ♫
♫ Forgetting our obsessions and the past we have lost ♫
♫ Even if my complexion ages with time, I am still the young one in white ♫
♫ until the day I return to meet you ♫