The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 362

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Chapter 362

The appendix was a simple line drawing by Kawasaki Yumi, with content that didn’t stray far from what the title suggested.

The characters were Author K, Editor T, and my character, Doctor H.

Author K goes to an art exhibition to reminisce about his old works, experiences wrist pain while signing autographs, but gets startled and inspired while receiving wrist and arm treatment from Doctor H.

It also included the process of Author K and Editor T having idea meetings that developed into this work, and finally a brief account of the interview when they came to our Oriental Medicine Clinic.

In the middle, there was a gag scene where Author K insists the title must be 【I Was Banished from the Aerial City, but When I Realized It, I Had Become Humanity’s Only Hope ~The Strongest and Most Fearsome Air Current Master~】.

And Editor T gets on his knees desperately trying to dissuade him was definitely included too.

‘The misunderstanding must finally be cleared up.’

That part was fine.

But they used a design similar to the protagonist for Doctor H’s character, and even directed the acupuncture scenes to look similar to shooting air currents.

Moreover, whenever Doctor H said something or took action, there were multiple scenes of Author K and Editor T exclaiming ‘It’s a divine physician!’ and ‘You’re a divine physician!’ in amazement.

[Our god… has become globally famous ㄷㄷ]

Where on earth did the word ‘Divine Physician’ come from?

Although I did use Divine Physician as my game nickname, I’m sure I never mentioned it out loud otherwise.

[That’s right. With so many Japanese patients coming, the clinic might burst at the seams…?]

It gave me slight goosebumps, but that much was something I’d already experienced once in the Martial Arts World.

Since it could be exaggerated for comedic effect in manga, I responded calmly.

[No, no, I’m serious. Look at this too!]

But Young Master Chungpung’s barrage of links wasn’t over.

I thought he was just teasing me, but he sent several more links to Japanese websites.

I clicked page translate and checked the content.

[If you go to Kawasaki-sensei’s account, there are more manga.]

[Editor T-san! I’m truly sorry for saying your title sense was poor!]

[Is it really okay to publicly reveal the editor’s genital itching to this extent?]

[Let us pray for Editor T-san.]

[I’m embarrassed to say I’m also suffering from that problem. Is it possible to obtain something called Yongdamsa Gantang at Japanese hospitals too?]

[The Oriental Medicine Clinic that Takahashi-san went to seems to be this one. It appears Japanese tourists are also visiting.]

What is this about?

I couldn’t understand anything except the title story, but Young Master Chungpung belatedly sent a link to Kawasaki Yumi’s SNS account too.

“Huh?”

Following the link, there was more manga depicting the aftermath.

Saying the appendix had limited space so it could only be included briefly.

With the same art style and composition, it detailed Editor T receiving treatment.

From the pathology of liver fire inflammation to Yongdamsa Gantang.

[Without even being told… the Divine Physician noticed the illness and cured it!]

After reading all the manga, it seemed Takahashi had been experiencing itching in his groin area long before this headache occurred.

With the author beside him and the doctor being female, he didn’t bother mentioning it.

But after taking Yongdamsa Gantang, even that area was completely healed.

‘Ah, Yongdamsa Gantang is indeed more commonly used for genital pruritus.’

I had used it to treat headaches and congestion.

But genital pruritus was also one of the symptoms that could occur when there’s excessive real fire in the liver and gallbladder along with damp heat.

The fire energy surging upward was acute, but it seems there were some underlying problems in the lower burner.

It was an unintended result, but Takahashi and Kawasaki were so impressed they drew manga about it, making it a topic among Kawasaki’s fans.

[Did you really notice just by looking at his pulse?]

Young Master Chungpung asked.

I naturally answered no.

[Of course not. It’s not like I can read minds. This result happened because it was coincidentally an illness that uses the same prescription.]

[That’s even more amazing…]

[Anyway, it’s good that everything was cured. But this person… was embarrassed when he had the illness, so why did he speak about it publicly after being cured?]

[He must have been happy. When my hemorrhoids were cured too-]

[I don’t want to hear it.]

Kkyu Kkyu interrupted and cut off Young Master Chungpung’s message.

It didn’t seem like Young Master Chungpung had spread it around the neighborhood that much.

[Anyway, Divine Physician, you’ve really become famous. There are people asking when the popularity vote will be held because they want to cast one vote for you.]

[Ridiculous.]

More than that, I was curious how Young Master Chungpung knew about what was happening on Japanese websites in such detail.

Does he go to overseas sites out of necessity to follow works that haven’t been officially released in South Korea yet?

After telling him to hang in there, I also used the translation function to roughly browse the web.

Posts about visiting our Oriental Medicine Clinic’s Jeju branch were somewhat trending, with reactions of people wanting to visit.

Of course, very few patients would decide to travel to South Korea based on this alone, but patients who come to South Korea anyway might increase slightly if they visit once while they’re here.

Since both our headquarters and Jeju branch already have many foreign patients, nothing special should happen.

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– Clinic Director, have you been well?

Three days later, I received contact from Takahashi.

His purpose was to confirm the address to send me the physical magazine with the appendix included.

“I saw Kawasaki-sensei’s account first. If you had told me, I would have properly considered it in the prescription.”

– Eh, no! I didn’t expect it at all, I was just happy! I’m embarrassed that you saw it, haha.

Since he said he was really 100% cured, there was nothing more to do.

I purely congratulated Takahashi on his recovery.

I thought that this would be the end of any involvement with Japan for the time being.

There were a couple of patients with Japanese names who registered at the clinic, but they hadn’t come after seeing Kawasaki’s manga.

They were just Japanese people studying abroad or on business trips in Korea who had received referrals from acquaintances.

However, less than a month later, I received an email.

[Greetings. This is Hyeondo Library, a Japanese publishing company. We are writing to you because we would like to translate and publish your book.]

Hyeondo Library?

It certainly wasn’t the publisher of any manga magazine I was familiar with.

Standard Prescription Studies, Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Essays on Oriental Medicine, Case Studies Centered on Classical Prescription Medicine…

Looking at the titles of the books they had published, it seemed to be a publishing company that focused intensively on Oriental medicine, and it appeared to sell professional books for doctors rather than for the general public.

‘Huh, Inoue Genroku’s books were also published here?’

Inoue Genroku.

Korean translations of his works had already been introduced decades ago, and he was known among Korean medicine doctors as Jeongsang Hyeonrok, a renowned Japanese physician.

I vaguely remembered professors mentioning that we should read his works at least once.

In any case, Hyeondo Library had published numerous books written by Japanese doctors I didn’t know, including Jeongsang Hyeonrok.

I also noticed several translations of books by Chinese medicine doctors.

‘What? Did that manga become that famous?’

I got goosebumps.

When I read the publication proposal email in detail, it really was the case.

A certain professor who was in charge of translation work under contract with the publishing company had learned about me after seeing 【I Was Banished from the Aerial City, but When I Came to My Senses, I Had Become Humanity’s Only Hope ~The Strongest and Most Fearsome Wind Current Master~】 and its appendix.

Becoming interested, he looked into me and came across my book, then suggested to Hyeondo Library that they consider doing a Korean-Japanese translation.

If we’re talking about books I’ve published since coming to the modern era, there are only two.

【Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic Treatment Manual】 and 【Hanyewon’s PICK 100 Prescriptions】.

The proposal this time was naturally for the latter.

The result of their internal review was full of praise, saying it was good for various reasons.

‘They want to publish this overseas too…?’

I hadn’t written this book thinking it would be read so widely.

It started when I was distributing it to the directors of our branches, and I took reservations by adding 10,000 won to the printing cost, meaning that other Korean medicine doctors could read it if they wanted to.

‘Is this okay? No, it’s fine. I published it for many people to read in the first place, so there’s nothing bad about it.’

Without thinking long, I decided to send a positive reply saying I’d like to discuss a formal contract.

It wasn’t originally a profit-making venture anyway, and it was a book I had published for anyone to read widely.

As long as the basic conditions were met, there was no reason to refuse.

“Still, I should change the title a bit.”

Since it was something I had printed privately, I had just casually named it, but I was somewhat reluctant to sell it overseas with such a title.

Of course, I don’t have fans, so there’s no one to criticize the editor, but isn’t it a bit much?

If possible, something impressive like the books I published in the martial arts world.

Hundred Prescriptions Refined Analysis, Hundred Prescriptions Essential Points, Compilation of Prescriptions and Medicine, Hundred Selected Medical Prescriptions… Ah, they’re all good?

It’s difficult to choose just one.

Once the contract is decided, should I discuss with the Japanese publisher which one would be better?

[…So that’s how it happened, and it looks like we might be able to publish a translation overseas.]

Basically, I had written it, but I had received help with composition and editing.

I immediately informed the vice directors and branch directors about this matter.

[Oh! Congratulations!]

[This is the first time Hyeondo Library is translating a Korean book, right?]

[As far as I know, that’s right. It feels strange.]

Everyone congratulated me.

Kim Chunsik and Ryu Jinseong, who had encountered many medical books published by Hyeondo Library and then translated, were especially pleased.

[Since it’s being translated, is there any content worth supplementing?]

[Wouldn’t it be enough to just add a preface for the overseas edition at the beginning?]

I asked just in case, but there were no particular opinions.

It had been quite a while since I wrote it, so I thought about doing a revised and expanded edition with this opportunity and read it once myself.

【Hanyewon’s PICK 100 Prescriptions】 didn’t seem to have any parts that needed touching up.

My medical philosophy had been formed long ago.

The selection of 100 types was choosing prescriptions frequently used in the modern medical environment, and when I was writing this book, it had been some time since I opened my practice, so the data wasn’t insufficient.

Rather, there were parts worth updating in 【Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic Treatment Manual】.

As the number of branch directors gradually increased, there were often incidents where they didn’t know how to handle things that weren’t particularly problematic for me outside of medical treatment.

I’ve seen many cases of difficulties with staff management or problematic patients.

Since I can’t tell them to ‘overpower problematic patients with force!’, it would be good to receive cases and think about general manuals.

[So the 100 pick is done, and while we’re at it, I’m thinking of revising the manual. There have been many minor incidents, right? Even types of problematic customers that were difficult to handle would be good, so could you let me know if you have any cases?]

[Ah, if it’s something like that…]

[We have them at least once a week.]

In fact, since problematic customer issues are a common concern for all self-employed people, everyone seemed to have itchy fingers.

Should I create sections like response methods by type, or ways to answer strange questions?

[Then, please report them as you think of them.]

It was something I said with the intention of proceeding slowly.

But as soon as my message went up, Seon Nayeon started typing a message.

[Me!]

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