Seventy-nine yuan and two!
Heh heh, including the two patients in the morning, Lu Jiu's gross profit for the day was nearly two hundred yuan!
If a few more patients came, just the consultation fees would let Lu Jiu earn three to four hundred.
Working non-stop all year, even a hundred thousand isn't an unachievable number.
But that's all gross profit; Lu Jiu still has to pay for utilities and rent, plus he needs to stock up on various medicinal materials. With the store rent being five yuan per square meter per day, making a net profit of over thirty thousand from a hundred thousand gross is already not bad.
Running a business these days is basically just working for the landlord!
Fortunately, the shop Lu Mountain rented has a pretty good owner; in twenty or thirty years, the rent has only increased three times.
Garden Street is one of the main streets in Jianghan City, and rents here are quite high; some places with high foot traffic can go for more than a hundred thousand a year. The pharmacy next door to Lu Jiu's, for example, reportedly pays a rent of a hundred ten thousand a year.
Though I've heard the branch on the pedestrian street has even higher rent!
After the father and son, Gong Huo, left, Lu Jiu continued practicing acupuncture.
In the blink of an eye, an entire afternoon had passed.
Although Lu Jiu regretted not having a couple more patients, he happily clocked out on time, closed the clinic, and after dinner at home, logged onto a forum called Chinese Medicine Home.
This forum was personally funded by National Master of Chinese Medicine, Huang Fusheng, aimed at promoting classical prescriptions and allowing more people to understand Chinese medicine.
Because Huang Fusheng graduated from Jinling University of Chinese Medicine and has a great reputation, most graduates from there frequent this forum.
Besides students, there are also folk practitioners of Chinese medicine appearing here, and the numbers have increased in recent years, likely related to Master Huang Fusheng's many years of lectures.
Of course, apart from the majority who are Chinese medicine practitioners, many users are also patients who, upon learning of this forum, post for medical advice.
For some minor ailments, remote diagnoses can be effective, and as word of the results spread, the site's reputation grew, currently boasting two to three hundred thousand registered users, with daily active users around several thousand.
The reason Lu Jiu logs onto this forum daily is that he needs to continuously study Chinese medicine. Though he has his grandfather as an old celestial being for guidance, one person's thoughts are always limited. Listening to outside voices and integrating the strengths of many is the true path of Chinese medicine.
Didn't people in ancient times study medicine under many teachers?
But today, he wasn't here to learn; he was looking for patients seeking medical advice online.
Hospitals now have cloud doctor apps for online consultations, an experience Lu Jiu had when he worked there. Now that he's left the hospital and become an unconventional, independent practitioner, he naturally can't use hospital resources anymore.
Since curing a patient gives him some rewards, this forum is undoubtedly the best place for Lu Jiu to earn some "side income."
After logging into the Chinese Medicine Home forum, Lu Jiu clicked on the Jianghu of Medical Dao section.
This forum has four sections: Jianghu of Medical Dao, Medical Skill Exchange, Classical Literature and Famous Lectures.
Jianghu of Medical Dao is a place for chit-chat, mostly gossip, but also many patient inquiries. As its name implies, Medical Skill Exchange is where everyone seriously discusses academics.
Classical Literature is where Master Huang Fusheng's team has scanned and uploaded collected classical texts online, offering a trove of original works of famous Chinese medicine practitioners.
The last one, Famous Lectures, features open lectures by various modern Chinese medicine experts, also announcing real-time details of when and where certain masters will give talks.
Among the four sections, Jianghu of Medical Dao has the most posts; people do love a lively scene.
"The Qi sinks in the chest, using Astragalus for bloating, stomachache, can anyone help me?"
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"Today's prescription: Ophiopogon 12, roasted Atractylodes 12, Astragalus 10, dried tangerine peel 9, ginseng 9, malt 10, Danggui 9, white peony 9. After taking, bloating, slight stomachache, body feels cold, cold wind at the lower back."
"Can anyone take a look?"
"Aconite can resolve it."
"Your diagnosis is faulty."
"Qi sinks? From the tongue appearance, I don't think so. I feel it's phlegm dampness blocking yang in the chest, possibly accompanied by chest tightness, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and fatigue."
"With inherently heavy phlegm dampness, using such tonics will only make it worse. If above is blocked, the middle Qi can't rise; if below is blocked, turbid Qi can't descend. Disrupting ascending and descending leads to 'bloating after ingestion, slight stomachache.' Phlegm dampness obstructs meridians, making it difficult to circulate Qi and blood to warm the body, hence the 'body feels cold, cold wind at the lower back' symptoms."
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"What should I do if the sow can't stand up?"
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"Craving meat without being able to eat it leads to bad breath, does anyone know why?"
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"After drinking Chinese medicine for rhinitis, I feel dizzy, could someone experienced take a look at the prescription?"
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"The doctor gave me a prescription with more than 40 flavors, can anyone help me see if it can cure the disease?"
Hmm?
More than 40 flavors?
Which deity prescribed such a prescription?
Selling medicine right?
Curious, Lu Jiu clicked into the post.
"Since the beginning of last month, I've been excessively sweating, and after diarrhea, stools are always unformed. Appetite is poor, often feeling fatigued and short on energy. Today, the chief physician at Shangjing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine prescribed a large prescription with over 40 flavors. I only realized the count after paying and getting the medicine, feeling a bit uneasy, would appreciate help looking it over..."