The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 184

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Chapter 184

 

‘Energetic morning bowel movement!’

 

Jin Baram rushed to the restroom as soon as he woke up and relieved himself refreshingly.

 

After finishing his lightning-fast face wash and coming out of the restroom in less than 5 minutes, he couldn’t feel more refreshed.

 

The Jin Baram who used to sit on the toilet playing mobile games until recently was no more.

 

To think he wasted almost 30 minutes in that cramped space!

 

His past routine was to sit down first, turn on games under the excuse of waiting for the signal, intending to just collect login bonuses but then starting daily quests.

 

This game’s daily quests are quick, ah just one more game login, let me just set up auto-hunt… and before he knew it, time would evaporate and the bus timing would become tight.

 

‘Ha, my goodness! Sitting on the toilet for too long causes blood to keep pooling in the hemorrhoids!’

 

When blood was already clotting in the varicose veins, it was an extremely terrible act that worsened the condition.

 

Moreover, since he had developed a habit of playing games instead of immediately relieving himself, like Pavlov’s dog, it took even longer for the signal to come.

 

Very fortunately, the habit was quickly corrected.

 

After having a smooth bowel movement and leaving home immediately, he even had time to spare for commuting.

 

‘The weather’s nice, should I exercise a bit?’

 

Unlike arriving at the company in a half-asleep state every day, he even had the leisure to get off one station early and walk for 10 minutes.

 

‘Thank you!’

 

Even bowing to the Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic sign he saw along the way.

 

’30 minutes! Stretching!’

 

While he couldn’t help it on the bus for safety reasons, at the company he set vibration alarms and stretched his back every 30 minutes.

 

Of course, he also purchased a hemorrhoid cushion and a sitz bath, too.

 

The sitz bath he took as soon as he got off work also became a habit, so it wasn’t that bothersome.

 

Rather, he looked forward to that time of warming his body from before leaving work.

 

The scent of herbal medicine that warmly treated his body from the very bottom was quite addictive.

 

As he corrected his lifestyle habits while simultaneously repeating treatment with ointment and pills,

 

changes gradually appeared.

 

‘Today’s fine too!’

 

It didn’t hurt.

 

There was no blood either.

 

The days of swallowing tears at the sight of bright red blood were no more.

 

Now the bleeding had stopped, and it didn’t hurt every time he had a bowel movement.

 

He had recovered remarkably, making the 3 months spent in shame and fear seem meaningless.

 

“The congestion has almost completely subsided. You’re about 70% there. You must continue treatment to the very end like this.”

 

While stopping by the clinic to get additional prescriptions for ointment and pills, he also had a condition check.

 

“Huuuuung! Thank you! Clinic Director!”

 

He knew he was getting better, but to think he’d already come that far?

 

Jin Baram burst into tears in his heart.

 

“I’m glad you showed immediate improvement. How frightened you must have been.”

 

He nodded vigorously.

 

“I was really so scared, embarrassed, and struggling! I worried every time I went to the restroom, thinking ‘Tomorrow will be okay, right? It’s probably just a small wound,’ but! Sob sob, thank you!”

 

“I understand that feeling. Don’t worry about anything now.”

 

“Thank youuuuu!”

 

Jin Baram ran straight to the bakery.

 

He was someone who couldn’t understand why people bought gifts when hospitals or other businesses were just doing their job for money anyway.

 

But today, something welled up greatly from his heart, and he absolutely couldn’t just stay still.

 

To express even a little of this feeling, he bought and brought a gift.

 

‘Hahahaha! My bottom is clean!’

 

Though it wasn’t 100% completely cured yet, he was very happy with the smooth progress.

 

And the next day.

 

“Just how long do you sit in the restroom? You go to the restroom for 30 minutes after coming to work, that’s 10 hours a month! At this point, shouldn’t you be getting less salary?”

 

The manager pointed toward the restroom direction and scolded sharply.

 

Fortunately, it wasn’t something Jin Baram heard.

 

“I’m sorry…”

 

A coworker from the same hiring class, who wasn’t particularly close, hung his head low and got scolded.

 

When the manager returned to his seat, the coworker who soon lifted his head had a bright red face.

 

Of course, it could have been from embarrassment at being reprimanded.

 

But there came a strong premonition that could only be felt from a position of shared suffering.

 

“Jin-hyung, by any chance…”

 

“Don’t tell me Baram too?”

 

It was the correct answer.

 

“Let’s stop by here once after work today.”

 

Jin Baram immediately introduced the clinic.

 

“This sitz bath medicine is really good! Thank you. I had no idea about this and suffered all this time! My mother and father really like it too!”

 

“Hm? What are you talking about?”

 

“Oh, Baram recommended hemorrhoid ointment and sitz bath medicine to me, and it’s so good!”

 

But this friend was really diligent and good at work… but had no sense of discretion.

 

No, why would he talk about hemorrhoids in the company cafeteria of all places?

 

“~~~~~~!”

 

As someone who had suffered the same pain, I had let him know about it, but I didn’t want to be known around the company as a hemorrhoid patient.

 

I thought that kind of thing was common sense even without saying it!

 

And if he talked about such things during a meal, the department head would scold us again!

 

So I squeezed my eyes shut.

 

“What kind of sitz bath medicine is it?”

 

The female employee sitting next to us asked while turning on her phone.

 

“Oh, it’s not something you buy online, but something prescribed at a clinic. I got ointment, sitz bath medicine, and medicine that looks like this together.”

 

My coworker gave Jin Baram a look asking if it was okay to tell.

 

After going this far, you want to hide the clinic’s name?

 

You should either not get involved at all or just say it!

 

“Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic prescribes it. It’s near the company.”

 

Jin Baram said stiffly.

 

“Hahaha! I was at stage 3 and was told to try it once and get surgery if it didn’t work, but I’m already feeling like it’s getting a little better!”

 

It was really information I wasn’t curious about.

 

Why should I know about a coworker’s anal situation?

 

“Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic, you said?”

 

But the department head, who I thought would be angry, took out his phone and opened a map app.

 

These people… don’t tell me they all…?

 

“Oh, it’s not me but my wife who’s suffering!”

 

“Ah, even if that’s true, let’s just say it’s Department Head Kim!”

 

As if they had been listening from the next table, another department head butted in and scolded.

 

Even coworkers were TMI, but the boss’s wife was really too much.

 

But were there really this many hemorrhoid patients?

 

Was “nine out of ten people have hemorrhoids” not an exaggeration?

 

Including anal fissures, anyone could have temporary wounds that heal, but it was still surprising.

 

In the end, Jin Baram ended up sharing information about the clinic while listening to various TMI, so that even people who had been secretly perking up their ears could hear.

 

A few hours later.

 

[MaengjuMaengjuMaengju]

 

As soon as he got on the bus home from work, Jin Baram looked for Maengju in the guild group chat.

 

[Yes?]

 

[Can hemorrhoid medicine only be prescribed at Maengju’s network?]

 

He was just a regular patient with no connection to the clinic whatsoever, yet the department head had asked him all sorts of things.

 

Of course, it was understandable to wonder if his wife, who lived separately on weekends, could get a prescription in another region or if he needed to buy and send it to her.

 

But why ask Jin Baram about it? He wasn’t a clinic sales representative!

 

Of course, he didn’t show it and said he would find out.

 

Since he was friends with the general CEO of the Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic network!

 

[It was like that until last month, but from this month other clinics are also taking orders.]

 

[Oh?]

 

[Do they have a specific clinic they want to order from?]

 

[Oh no, a patient was curious. Our department head’s wife!]

 

When he explained the situation, Maengju gave him the names of several clinics.

 

[Oh, I’ll tell you about a clinic in Gwangju that placed an order. Tell them to go to the closest one.]

 

[Thanks thanks!]

 

[Yes. I hope Cheongpung’s department head’s wife gets better soon.]

 

Maengju was just purely wishing for healing.

 

But saying “Cheongpung’s department head’s wife” sounded like “my cousin’s friend’s bestie,” didn’t it?

 

It was all true, but it felt like lying by bringing in someone who didn’t exist.

 

‘It’s not something I need to hide that much! It just looks pathetic, doesn’t it?’

 

Even when his coworker had loudly blabbed about it, no one had laughed at him.

 

‘Well, I did get better thanks to Maengju’s introduction.’

 

Jin Baram decided to just come clean about it.

 

[The department head’s wife is real, and I also got better thanks to that. Thank you!]

 

He proudly revealed his diagnosis and treatment.

 

[??????Cheongpung had hemorrhoids?]

 

[Shivering/Trembling]

 

[Ugh hahahahaha what was that supposed to be hahahahaha]

 

But there was something he had misjudged.

 

Unlike the company employees who had either suffered from hemorrhoids at least once or had acquaintances who were hemorrhoid patients, the guild’s average age wasn’t that high.

 

Laughter burst out immediately.

 

– Prince of Hemorrhoids! Don’t get too far ahead of us!

 

– Is it okay to eat horse meat? Won’t it make them thick like horse dung?

 

Even after logging into the game and connecting voice chat, the teasing continued.

 

…If only Maengju had been with us today, he would have stopped them. The young guys kept finding opportunities to tease me throughout the entire hunt.

 

“You guys probably won’t get it!”

 

Still, well, it was fine.

 

Since I was all healed!

 

It actually felt refreshing!

 

* * *

 

It had been exactly one month since opening the external herbal medicine site and writing promotional posts.

 

I had recovered the research costs in an instant.

 

‘If I continue until next month, I’ll break even on the website creation costs too!’

 

While the expenses weren’t that high, the order volume was much higher than expected.

 

Not only An Juhui’s life-or-death candy, but also popular products like topical pain relief patches and purple ointment received quite a few orders.

 

And hemorrhoid ointment and sitz bath medicine became unexpected hits.

 

[Story of treating hemorrhoids after 3 surgeries]

 

It was thanks to someone who saw tremendous results and posted their story online.

 

Looking at the treatment period mentioned in the story, it seemed to be a patient treated at one of the existing network locations, and it became quite a topic that was even posted in the Oriental Medicine Practitioner Community.

 

Comments on the anonymous site where the post first appeared were updating a list of Oriental Medicine Clinics where hemorrhoid ointment could be obtained, so people began thinking about stocking even small amounts.

 

“Teacher Juhui, we really need to hire staff now, don’t we?”

 

“Yes…”

 

Until now, An Juhui had handled all external herbal medicine work alone, from product development to herbal preparation and packaging, but now it was physically impossible.

 

Since she finally gave up her stubbornness, we’d start by hiring packaging part-timers, and maybe even need to hire another Traditional Medicine Pharmacist.

 

‘The business keeps growing.’

 

Not only product orders but also network inquiries were increasing.

 

Since I put my name on promotional posts for the external herbal medicine opening in the Oriental Medicine Practitioner Community, several people sent me messages.

 

[Do you happen to accept network memberships?]

 

Of course, some people were just testing the waters, but there were also clinics genuinely interested.

 

[What region are you in?]

 

[Gwangju Metropolitan City. It’s far from the existing locations!]

 

[Please leave your contact information and I’ll reach out personally.]

 

One of them very actively requested a meeting.

 

While not directly acquainted, they said they had heard about Kim Chunsik and Chu Miyoung’s cases and wanted to proceed with consulting together as well.

 

“Hello, Clinic Director! You must have had a hard time coming all the way here!”

 

Although the problems were somewhat identified through phone calls, nothing beats seeing things directly.

 

I decided to take a business trip to Gwangju.

 

The clinic’s location was in Sangmu District.

 

It was a major downtown area of Gwangju formed as a new city, with both high residential and floating populations.

 

Of course, there were many Oriental Medicine Clinics too.

 

“Nice to meet you. The clinic’s interior is really nice, isn’t it?”

 

“Right? I fell in love with it at first sight when I was taking over the lease.”

 

And the director of this place was a middle-aged woman in her 40s.

 

“The location is good and the interior is the best, but I have many shortcomings.”

 

She was an Oriental Medicine Doctor who had paid hundreds of millions in key money to take over the clinic, but was in a major crisis as she wasn’t even making half the revenue the previous director claimed to have generated.

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