The Herbalist's Manual — Season 1, Episode 18: Episode 18
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes
Episode synopsis
SUNG accuses CHUN of treating the empress in private. Fortunately, the empress arrives in time to save him. YUNG can see that CHING and HIN get along very well with each other. She therefore encourages CHING to go out with HIN but CHING rejects her suggestion. CHUN feels uneasy when he learns that YUNG wants to pair up CHING and HIN. YAT wants to buy a new house so that her mother-in-law could come to the capital and live with her but she cannot afford one. KWO offers to give her some help. A local grocery is purchasing a vast amount of mineral from the villagers. In order to earn more money, KWO works as mineworker. SUNG is in fact the boss behind the scene. He set up the grocery to look for a subject to try out his pills. CHUN finds out that CHIT uses mineral in the production of the pills. He tries very hard to find a way to stop CHIT, fearing that the emperor will be poisoned. YUNG is busy pairing up CHING and HIN……
About The Herbalist's Manual
LI SHI CHUN (LAM MAN LUNG, FRANKIE), who has studied herbs since he was a little boy, loves a girl TUNG CHING (YE, MICHELLE). However, he is already engaged to NG MO YUNG (LEE SZE WAN). He plans to break off the engagement and reveal his feelings to CHING after taking the imperial civil examination. Unfortunately, when he returns home after the examination, CHING has already agreed to marry his brother (AL WAI). CHUN has no choice but to marry YUNG. He becomes the student of a renowned doctor LITTLE BUDDHA, who turns out to be CHING’s adopted father. CHUN finds out that the old medical books are full of mistakes. There are also all kinds of fake herbs in the market. Therefore, he decides to write a book called the Compendium of Materia Medica. He is appointed as an imperial doctor in the palace by the Duke of Chor...