♫ 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 DoctressEpisode 19
All the traditional herbal therapies and prescriptions are only intended for usage in this drama. Please do not test or imitate.
Miss.
That's enough, that's enough. If you keep going, you'll leave the palace.
Kunning Palace is in the opposite direction.
Sorry.
I lost my mind for a moment.
You haven't lost your mind. Walking like yourself is right.
Nobody can handle Consort Dowager's attitude.
Now that it's mentioned, it's strange.
Why must you marry Prince Cheng?
They all say he is highly capable, and that Princess Anhe has gone crazy thinking about her possible marriage with him.
But I think he still can't compare to the Emperor.
Seeing how much the Emperor is concerned for you, why don't you marry the Emperor instead?
Dingxiang, what nonsense are you saying?
- i'm only friends with the Emperor. - Friends?
The Emperor probably doesn't think that.
You don't know, but this is spreading everywhere throughout the palace.
That the Emperor admires someone outside the palace.
But for some reason, it just disappeared.
The Emperor was upset for several days.
Because of this, he didn't even attend the higher court and upset the Empress Dowager.
If I didn't guess incorrectly...
That person of interest... is you.
Dingxiang, this is still the royal palace.
You absolutely cannot speak of such nonsense.
- Oh... - Do you understand?
Yes.
- Let's go. - Yes. - Going.
My mother speaking that way...
was over the top.
But how could you disregard her and just leave?
You also say that healers are kind-hearted.
My mother is already in that condition.
Your mother... wasn't ill at all.
That day she fainted... was feigned.
When I checked her pulse,
I found out.
Impossible.
Would two physicians judge incorrectly?
Cheng Shisan said it himself, that
My mother went through shock and her heart couldn't take it.
Even Supervisor Liu was standing there.
Why would I lie to you?
Yunxian please don't be like this.
I know you've endured injustices.
I'm considering our future too.
You can't just concur for a moment?
Do you... also think I should give up medicine?
Not give up.
You learning medicine,
wanting to remain as a physician, I naturally wouldn't resist that.
But if you think for a moment,
your grandmother was also skilled in medicine, but she didn't practice on patients.
My mother's words are a bit too much.
But her thinking is still correct.
You will one day be a royal consort.
Qiyu...
That time at Xiuo Tower, what did you promise me?
You once said you won't cry for others.
You said you would respect my decisions and allow me to continue practicing medicine.
- Have you forgotten about all of this? - Yes.
I did promise to let you study medicine.
But I didn't let you go out and cure other people.
Yunxian,
It's okay if you want to go out in secret to cure other people.
It's just now!
You can't just promise my mother for now?
To prevent you from becoming upset...
I even promised to do something as shameful as changing my name and family.
But why...
Do you still have to coerce me like this?
I didn't coerce you.
I'm thinking of ideas.
I don't want to argue with you either!
- Yunxian-- - You're not thinking of ideas at all, you're just cornering me!
Your mother said I lacked guidance.
lacking discipline, what did you say?
Didn't you say,
that you wouldn't let me suffer injustices anymore?
Yunxian can you please calm down?
Calm down?
How else do you want me to calm down!?
Your Highness.
We are inside Kunning Palace. In a while, the noble ladies will be greeting the Empress.
This arguing just isn't appropriate.
- Miss Hang is still upset, so it's best if you return now. - Go back for now.
This is a matter between us.
I am a maid sent by the empress to serve Miss Hang.
My words are also Her Highness the empress' words.
Yunxian.
I saw that Miss Hang has starved herself for two full meals. I came to notify Your Highness because I didn't know what to do.
Bastard!
he dares treat Yunxian that way.
- Your Majesty, Your Majesty!
Don't bother.
Your Highness, do you want me to go look?
No need.
Yunxian.
What is it?
It's nothing.
Wang Zhen reported it to me.
There's only 32 people in the Imperial Medicine Bureau
that match your descriptions.
However, no one has a birth mark on their hand.
I told Wang Zhen to continue searching.
There may be someone inside who committed a crime or something. No matter what, I'll definitely find out the truth.
Thank you.
If you're angry at Prince Cheng, I can reprimand him for you.
How would you?
Even if you're the Emperor,
you can't tell him to disregard family.
He's already told me.
He's already been unhappy with Consort Dowager Wu.
This Consort Dowager Wu only knows to irritate the Empress.
She wants to follow through with her own plans.
So later she an become the Empress Dowager.
No wonder the only person she wants is Princess Anhe.
In her heart, only a person of noble birth like her
is the best match for Prince Cheng.
How can Wang Meilin compare to you?
I really don't know
how it's become likes this now.
No matter what you plan to do, I'll support you.
I have my principles, and he has his own way of doing things.
If he forces me to give up medicine,
I won't compromise for anything.
Instead of spending every day as a slave in order to please others.
I might as well concentrate on learning medicine well.
Well said. This is the Yunxian I know.
Let's do this. Tomorrow, let's bring your family to the palace.
You can stay in the palace, keep me company, and chat a little.
It's for you to settle your worries, how's that?
That doesn't sound like a good idea.
Now the Empress Dowager no longer needs my treatment.
I should still leave the palace tomorrow
How is that okay?
How could you leave the palace alone?
Moreover, Duke Wang isn't a kind person.
It's still safer for you to stay in the palace.
But I'm neither a courtesan nor a bureaucrat.
It;s not appropriate to just stay in the palace like this.
Additionally, I'd have some freedom outside the palace.
I can find Physician Wan and really study medicine.
That can be done in the palace as well.
Isn't Wan Ning from Huimin Apothecary?
I'll transfer him to the Imperial Medicine Bureau.
If you want to learn medicine, I'll put you in charge of prescriptions.
This title has been here since Emperor Yongle's time.
You can continue living in Kunning Palace
and act as if you are treating the Empress' health.
Take good care of yourself as well.
This won't do. I am simply a common lady.
How could I suddenly become a female bureaucrat?
Moreover, the empress lives in Kunning Palace.
How could I stay there?
Then how about this? Find another place close to the Imperial Medicine Faculty.
It'll also be convenient for you to continue discussions with Liu Ping'an.
if Imperial Physician Liu is willing to guide me,
Then that'd be wonderful.
My grandmother once told me that if I want to refine my skills, I must find another well-known physician.
That's easy to do! I'll call Liu Pinan here tomorrow.
Don't you remember what you promised me?
You said that you don't mind the rumors.
You said you will respect my decision and let me continue learning medicine.
Don't you remember this?
Matters are heavy, Your Highness should go rest early.
It's late, why are you still in the palace?
The Empress Dowager had me stay the night.
She also instructed me just now to give a snow ginger to Consort Dowager.
Thank you.
Your Highness doesn't need to be so courteous.
When I found out Hang meimei was well,
I was thrilled for you.
Thank you.
There are rumors that my father caused the travesty of the Hang family...
I know you haven't been seeing me these past few days because of this.
You're mistaken.
Your Highness, no need to explain.
Now that I've seen you, I feel normal again, and I'm satisfied.
Meilin also heard, today you and Lady Hang were arguing in Kunning Palace.
Meilin thinks, it wasn't easy for the two of you to be reunited,
why should you be unhappy because of trivial things?
I believe that Lady Hang is an educated and well-rounded virtuous lady.
She definitely must have misunderstood.
In time, she will be able to understand that
as a woman, your husband is your world.
She is just really stubborn.
Even so,
Your Highness still can't stop thinking about her.
Sometimes. it is normal to imagine crazy things.
Miss Hang and I are alike.
We are both stubborn.
Is it possible that...you like me?
I didn't mean that. Please forget what I just said.
Goodbye.
Yunxian,
How great would it be if you could treat me like her.
Your Majesty, I cannot keep her as my apprentice.
Minister Liu, do you mean you want to disobey orders?
If Your Majesty must issue a command, then I must comply.
It's just that I fear I will teach her nothing.
Minister Liu, you've been kind to me and directed me in the past,
complimenting my talent, but why won't you take me as a disciple?
Providing direction and accepting a disciple are two different things.
Even though I see your talent, you are still a woman.
I have sworn that if I was to accept an apprenticeship, he would have to be a Physician.
In my whole life I have only accepted two apprentices.
Eldest deciple has returned to his home town to mourn for his parent's death, but was already a member of the medical bureau.
The other one is a current Imperial Physician, Cheng Cunxia.
Old Liu, I know your love for being a doctor,
so I don't argue with you.
But Yunxian's medical skills are the best I've ever seen.
Wasn't the Empress Dowager was cured by her?
Your Majesty is naturally not wrong.
It's just Miss Hang is still far from the Medicine Bureau.
Every person in the Medicine Bureau
is all from families with a strong background in medicine.
And all are very capable. Aside from gynecology and pediatrics there is also
all are well versed in blood capillaries, vessels and arteries.
Even if it's a boy from a medical family,
to be a top rate doctor, they would need at least 15-16 years of practice
Lady Hang is not even 2 decades old so she lacks the necessary conviction.
Aside from that,
Minister Liu, Yunxian just wants some guidance from you
simply to augment her medical skills.
Then your Majesty, please ask someone else.
Those who are suitable for me to direct are
those who have a strong background in medicine.
A noble woman like lady Hang,
is not of the same path as me.
Minister Liu, I am not of merit, but I've heard before
that even a normal person not from a famous medical family...
that as long as they pass the Bureau's exam,
could still enter the Medicine Bureau and become a physician.
So what?
If I am lucky and pass the Medicine Bureau's exam
and become a physician, would you be willing to take me as your disciple?
You want to test into the Imperial Hospital?
Then, go prepare for it.
There will be 6 different physicians that will be judging whether you will pass
Could you do that?
I am not too bad, I am willing to try.
Your Majesty, I'll be leaving now.
This is madness!
A woman!
And she wants to enter our Medicine Bureau!
This is completely dirtying our refined culture!
But in the Medicine Bureau's doctrines,
there's not a single line that prohibits women from taking the exam.
But, teacher, this woman is a female doctor at one point
She came back from death; she's totally a liar and a fake!
Why didn't you dismiss her in front of the Emperor?
Enough!
Last time with Cholera, she did a lot to help,
and this time she cured Empress Dowager. It's the Emperor who allowed her to do this.
The Emperor is clearly doing this because he favors her!
Does he even have regard for our Medicine Bureau?
If a girl comes out of the medicine bureau
where would medical logic and cultural integrity go?
That's enough. Enough!
I am in charge of who enters the Medicine Bureau.
Since the Emperor gave us an order, I naturally complied.
You're all wasting time here blaming the heavens and Earth
so why don't you carefully think of exam problems?
Even if it's the Emperor, he still can't force us.
Medical logic is protected by doing!
Just talking doesn't matter at all!
Thank you sir for lecturing us.
Cunxia, since you are so unsatisfied
I'll put you in charge of the situation.
In 5 days, we'll be holding fair trial in the bureau's main hall.
Yes.
She wants to take the Medicine Bureau's exam?
It's still better this way. I feared if she couldn't marry Prince Cheng, she'd be trapped in the palace by the Emperor.
She really is a person focused and dedicated to medicine, even capable of giving up
the title of prince Cheng wang's consort.
If she really can pass the test at the medicine bureau, then it will be quite the anecdote!
Ru Xiang, find someone to take care of her.
Yes.
costus plant...
Why is it so hard to memorize?!
Now I finally know
gege passing the Imperial Medical Bureau's entrance exam at such a young age is so rare.
Gingiva
Your Majesty, you wanted me to come here hurriedly, what is actually going on?
Your Majesty, Wan Ning has been transferred here.
Greetings, Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty.
Rise.
Thank you.
Wan Gongfeng!
Yunxian, the Medicine Bureau's exam is not easy.
I know you are on friendly terms with Wan Ning,
so I especially invited him in.
He stayed at the Imperial Medical Bureau before after all,
it's just that he transferred to Huimin Apotechary afterwards.
I thought that if you learn with him for a few days, you'll definitely see improvement.
- Thank you, Your Majesty. - No need.
For the entrance examination for the Imperial Medicine Bureau,
the written component composes of six sections - an essay,
application, meridians, prescriptions,
methods and qi.
The practical component
includes choosing three cases, and letting you diagnose them on the spot.
As for the books, Suwen (Basic Questions),
Treatise on Difficult Medical Problems, and Theories on Causes and Effects of Various Diseases
will definitely be tested.
Canon of the Pulse and Treatise on Cold Damage are also essential.
Then are the medical literature and clinical skill exams evenly graded?
No.
The Imperial Medical Bureau emphasizes acquiring clinical skills first before literature knowledge,
so as long as your clinical skill exam score is outstanding,
if your medical literature score is a little low, it's okay.
The literature score is generally classified into three grades,
as long as you get a second grade average or above, you will pass.
But you are a woman after all,
so this exam might have
stricter requirements.
Wan Gongfeng,
Do you also believe, me testing into the Imperial Hospital, is an unthinkable event?
If it were any other women, I definitely would think that way.
But I've seen with my own eyes how you have saved so many patients,
so I don't look at you the same way I look at ordinary women.
When I had heard that you had met your end, i was very sad
I never thought that this morning when the Emperor called me,
A living and breather Physician Hang
was in front of me. I was really surprised.
Thank you for caring, Wan Gongfeng.
I left the Imperial Medical Bureau at that time
because there were too many arrogant people.
Physician Hang, if you can pass the exam smoothly this time,
we can really test these people's drives.
I actually have never thought of this.
I just want to prove my true ability.
You should sleep, it's late.
You can't.
But cramming won't work.
I only have these two days.
There are too many materials for the Imperial Medical Bureau's examination, so I must multiply my efforts.
Is Lady Hang inside?
Your Highness, the Emperor and Empress have instructed
that these few days Lady Hang must concentrate on preparing for the exam, cannot be disturbed.
Why would she suddenly want to enter the Medical Bureau?
Isn't she provoking criticism like this?
Tell her that I must see her.
Lady Hang already said that she doesn't want to see anyone.
Then tell her that it's best for her to not take this evil exam.
Your Highness, this morning I heard Lady Hang was reading a book.
In that book there is a sentence that I don't understand.
I don't know if Your Highness can tell me
what this sentence actually means.
What sentence?
How can a sparrow know the will of a swan?
Imperial Medical Bureau
I have come to ask to be admitted to the Imperial Medicine Bureau on the imperial edict of His Majesty.
Any commoners who want to enter the Imperial Medicine Faculty
must pass the entrance examination. Do you know that?
I already know, and am determined to try.
There are six written problems on this document.
You must answer all of them within the burning time of one incense.
Light the incense.
How do you tell the difference between febrile diseases and infectious diseases?
Suppose that a patient is panting heavily,
tired and with a face that showed signs of blackness,
with a heavy yet fast pulse, what is he suffering from?
What should the prescription be?
Look over it.
The written component is complete. Colleagues, Miss Hang's grade is as follows:
Out of the twelve judges,
seven gave high scores,
three gave medium scores,
and two gave low scores. On average, Miss Hang has been graded a high score.
Hold on.
I feel that these topics are not comprehensive enough.
What is he trying to say?
Miss Hang, I would like to ask you an additional topic.
Physician Cheng, past entrance examinations have never had a Q&A component.
It may not be fair if you insist on adding it.
Physician Liu, our Imperial Medical Bureau has no precedence of women taking the exam.
I'm adding a topic for the sake of fairness.
It's reasonable.
No need to worry, Minister Liu. I'm willing to be further examined.
Good. Then Hang, I'm going to ask you.
If someone had a hard and painful lump
on their tongue,
What medicine should be used to treat this?
This should be fungus of the tongue.
It will begin as a pea-size, then gradually grow.
In the end, it will hurt, become red, and swell..
It would have been caused by toxic heat in the heart and spleen.
Use wine-soaked armadillo as a medicine pact.
What if this person had a deficiency of qi and red blood cells and can't use that prescription?
Then the patient can use 2.5 grams each of sodium borate and calamitas urinae hominis.
Then add 5 grams each of moss, Orostachys fimbriatus and chicken manure.
Seal it with mud, and cook it on coals.
Puncture the lump, then add a piece of ice and some musk before covering the lump with this paste.
The patient should drink a two cured decoction that has been boiled with rhizome of Chinese goldthread, root of large-flowered skullcap and mint.
Calamitas urinae hominis and chicken manure
are disgusting. How can we present this to the nobility in the palace?
No wonder you're from a common family reduced to poverty.
You are only able to use the most lowly ingredients.
Emperor Hongwu once ordered the Imperial Medicine Bureau to make pills out of calamitas urinae hominis,
and gave it to Xu Da, Duke of Wei.
Duke Wei is the father of the deceased Empress Xu. Isn't he nobility?
You are right. I also read about that in medical texts.
That's right. Me too.
If a woman was six or seven months pregnant,
yet her entire body is swollen. What is your diagnosis and prescription?
Swelling at six or seven months would be caused by abdominal fullness.
It should be healed by drinking poria soup,
including pawpaw, costus root
areca seed and tangerine skin. Properties include soothing the stomach and lungs and it is useful in improving moisture.
Miss Hang. Let me ask you.
As an unmarried lady, you know so much about pregnancy matters.
Where did you get this experience?
Didn't you just ask me
As for a prescriptions to heal fungus on the tongue,
commoners believe that people
who have sinned with their mouths suffer from it.
Perhaps you are also feeling guilty about something,
So that's why you asked me the question?
Miss Hang!
All right, all right.
The Q&A will end here, otherwise there will be no time for the three practical applications.
Miss Hang, you leave first.
Wait for our decision as we discuss now.
Yes.
The first problem of practical application tests your skills in feeling pulse.
When feeling the pulse of nobility, you cannot be distracted.
You will have to know their illness through a string tied around their wrist.
You will not be tested on that today.
However, you must cover your eyes,
and find out the patient's gender, age and the root of the problem.
Are you afraid?
It's not that I don't want to. It's just that, with a blindfold, how will I
know I picked right or wrong?
You don't need to worry about this.
After you reveal your answer, the screen will open.
We will all be able to see
if you did right or wrong.
Okay.
Give me your other hand.
This person's chi pulse is rather weak, while the cun pulse is more visible.
The chi pulse is layered on top, and there have been six movements between a full breath.
The patient should be a child who is around seven or eight years old,
suffering from symptoms of tuberculosis.
Open it.
Correct.
Miss Hang hasn't said if this child is a boy or a girl,
so this cannot be considered to be correct.
This is unfair.
Next problem!
It hurts.
Doctor.
This person is your second question.
You will only pass if you cure this patient's sore within fifteen minutes.
Go in. I will
I will be grading you on your skills out here.
I understand.
Physician
Why is the Physician not here yet?
Physician!
Why is the Physician not here yet?!
Quickly find a physician for me!
This person's swollen hand scares people but it's not considered hard to heal
It will be successful if we can puncture the swelling lump and then cover it with herbal medicine tape,
But, why do they use him for the second question?
Doctor.
Why hasn't the doctor come?
Grandpa, I am the physician. I am here to heal your infected acne.
Let me take a look.
Can you heal me?
Don't worry, once I am able to get the puss out,
it won't hurt anymore.
No, no, no!
I'm telling you, Mister Zhang told me before
that within one year, I can't touch knives,
needles, or swords!
Or I'll certainly die!
Go get me some medicine.
And don't touch the scalpel!
Don't be scared.
I'll be very careful when using the scalpel.
You can't!
Go! Grandpa! Listen to me
Grandpa! Hurry and go!
Get me a new physician!
What kind of physician is this? Must she use a scalpel?
You can't use knives...
That's a good question.
She thought getting the puss out will heal him,
But this question is not to test how to heal a patient, but how to convince them.
As long as the person in there refuses to let her cut,
even if she has god-given hands, she can only watch.
Not bad.
Healers should be benevolent
Ten minutes have passed. You have five minutes to complete this.
You have one incense left.
Why isn't the physician coming?
Physician... It hurts so much...
Physican...
Why won't the physician come yet?
It hurts...
Mister--
Get out! I won't let you examine me.
Don't worry; I only brought powdered medicine this time.
I didn't bring anything else.
You must have hidden the scalpel somewhere.
I didn't, look.
There's no needle or scalpel. Look for yourself.
I won't look.
Grandpa, I will use another way to heal you.
What method?
I will just put the medicine on you and it won't hurt anymore.
- Really? - Really.
I'll apply the medicine for you.
Here.
What medicine is this?
It's a secret medicine.
Ah...
What is that thing?
You lied to me!
I didn't lie to you.
Look, I used a silver pin.
I didn't use a scalpel, and definitely didn't use a sword.
So you haven't violated Physician Zhang's orders.
Do you feel like it's better now?
It is a little better...
That's right. After the puss and blood are squeezed out,
and this anti-bacterial powder is applied,
I promise you'll be all better in three days.
Okay, really?
It really doesn't hurt anymore.
She must really be gifted to think of that strategy!
No wonder she cured the Empress Dowager's bizarre illness.
Minister Liu, I'm not sure if I've passed this exam.
You naturally passed.
Is the third problem prepared?
It's already prepared, Master.
This way.
The third practical activity tests your knowledge of meridians and acupuncture.
You need to use silver needles and puncture ten pressure points to pass.
Yes.
I guessed correctly indeed.
An examination using the bronze man.
But between the ten points, not a single one can be wrong.
This really is difficult.
We agreed on using a bronze man.
How did it suddenly become a live man?
I'll explain.
Master Liu, the bronze man suddenly broke.
We really didn't have time to change anyone out.
Miss Hang, you don't need to worry.
He's just a eunuch, so you won't sacrifice any of your dignity.
Also, I heard when you were at Yongqing Covenant
you treated many men.
This doesn't even matter.
Minister Cheng, this might be crossing the line.
Miss hang is still a woman.
Shut your mouth!
As physicians, can we only treat women?
If you can't even handle this kind of small matter,
then what kind of physician are you?
Miss Hang, if you cannot perform acupuncture,
you can choose to forfeit.
I won't forfeit!
Please present your exam problems.
Acupoint 'Waiguan'.
Completely correct.
Acupoint "Shentang".
Shs is correct.
Acupoint "Shentang".
She is correct.
The gate of vitality.
She is correct.
Use acupuncture on his waist.
♫ 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 ♫