After a long time of consideration, Song Yan decided to bury the head in the suburbs late at night. He hid it in his closet for now and turned on the computer to search for information related to traditional medicine.
The current medical skills in the world were mainly divided into traditional medicine and modern medicine. The traditional medicine originated in the State of Yanhuang, a country with an ancient civilization of near 10,000 years, and was developed by a famous doctor, Mr. Dong Yang, who had been born more than 8,000 years ago.
According to historical records, Mr. Dong Yang had lived for nearly 200 years. He had written 18 books, but only 3 of them had been handed down to this day — Collection of Herbs, Treatments of Various Diseases, and Acupuncture.
Tens of thousands of herbs were recorded in Collection of Herbs with detailed explanation of their natures. Therefore, doctors of traditional medicine must learn this book in their college education.
There were 1,365 treatments of various disease in Treatments of Various Diseases, which was a widely spread book.
Twelve precious acupuncture methods were recorded in Acupuncture. However, as it had been written so many years ago, only eight acupuncture methods were remained and the other four were missing.
Modern medicine was also named instrument medicine, for doctors of modern medicine needed various medical instruments to check and treat patients.
In these days, modern medicine was springing up vigorously while traditional medicine gradually languished due to several reasons.
First, people just needed to learn the medical knowledge for about five years to become doctors of modern medicine, while it needed more than ten years to develop a qualified doctor of traditional medicine.
Second, the operation costs of hospitals of traditional medicine were much lower than those of modern medicine, as doctors of traditional medicine usually didn't need medical instruments, which would save a large amount of medical fees for patients. With less medical fees, the hospitals would have less incomes. Modern medicine, however, required the patients to go through various examination, which would create a lot of money for the hospitals.
Therefore, investors of hospitals would prefer to modern medicine. There was a lot of false news to discredit traditional medicine on the Internet, such as people being killed by traditional medicine. As a result, less and less people would believe in traditional medicine.
But to return, after learning about traditional medicine and modern medicine, Song Yan decided to learn traditional medicine, for there were many kinds of treatments in traditional medicine — herbs, acupuncture, massage, etc.
In people's eyes, traditional medicine was full of ancient mystery, which was perfect to cover up the Light of Life. He decided to give acupuncture first and then use the Light to Life to cure people, so that they would believe the acupuncture worked.
He began to search for the ancient books and records about traditional medicine, and hundreds of books popped up. The State of Yanhuang enjoyed a long history of near 10,000 years while the traditional medicine 8,000 years, but a large number of books and records about traditional medicine had been lost.
"Turn on the Extraordinary Retentive Memory!" he said silently and began to memorize a book.
After two hours, he had memorized three books. He believed that he could perfectly hide the Light of Life after mastering hundreds of books related to traditional medicine.