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Sir! Sir!

I finally... finally...

have hope to return to the palace!

I'm going to be a physician I'll be a physician!

The court trains chosen physicians from regional offices

I can stay in the palace if I'm good

Yes. I know that system Yes. I'll return to the palace

Then, I'll... Then, I'll... Take revenge on the ones who did this!

(Episode 30)

I want to learn about medicine

Please teach me

That's why I brought you here

Excuse me?

You said you wanted to go back

Being a physician is the only way for a maidservant to go to the palace

That's why I brought you here You seem obedient now... so learn

You don't even know my story or reasons

Why did you want to send me back?

None of your business I just...

Stop mumbling and just write down the color of the patients' faces

The color of their faces?

That's right. Write down whether it's pale, red, brown, white or black

Write down which part of the face is so...

And write down any abnormalities you see...

in their nails or toenails

Sure

What? You're so bad

What do you mean? It took me 5 years to sit in this room

How could you start teaching some witch who just came in?

Yes. You didn't make her pick ingredients or clean patients

Does she know about medicine or how to look at a sick person?

What's this? I'm asking, what's this? You girls don't know either?

What's this? You don't know?

It's tetragonia

What is it good for?

It grows on seashores and it's good for stomach illnesses

You can also eat it as food

Satisfied?

I do accept her knowledge of medicine...

but you told us that the attitude towards the patient is...

The attitude... I'm glad you brought that up

She spent her own money to prepare medicine

And she knew the medicine shouldn't be prepared with salt water

She climbed the mountain to get fresh water

You couldn't be bothered to go there, so you prepared...

medicine with salt water from the local well

But... I told you so many times that...

medicinal lilies can damage the heart

but you failed to remove the core But they were small mistakes...

One may get holes in their hearts because of your mistakes!

Be quiet. I just pick those with potential and only teach them

That's me. Got that? But even so, we have more experience

Experience is something she can build and...

I find Jang-Geum's experience much more valuable!

Anyhow, be quiet now and if you utter such words again before me...

I'll kick you out of here! Get out!

I can't teach anyone who doesn't understand me

Do you understand? Yes

She's so bad... This is so unfair!

Why are you pouting?

How can she do this? What?

How can she favor that servant who tried to run away so much?

You mean Jang-Geum?

Yes. She has put us aside when we have worked for over 5 years...

and put Jang-Geum right next to her

And Jang-Geum listens to Jang-Duk? She gave in and asked her to teach her

Really? Really?

Did you write it all down? Yes

Let me see it Is this how you write them?

There are five facial colors:

Blue, red, yellow, white and black

Blue can mean gout, extravasated blood or convulsions

It can be detected by observing the face, skin, nails and lips

If it's red, the patient has a fever

Severe symptoms signify high temperature

and mild symptoms signify low energy

When the person has serious symptoms...

the face looks red including the eyes, lips and tongue

With mild symptoms only the cheek area looks red

You memorized it all, right? Huh?

Memorize them all

How could I... and it's the first time so I can't even understand them all

I don't speak twice

From now on, memorize as soon as you hear me

Memorize everything by tomorrow

Yellow means weakened immune system, bacterial infection, jaundice

White means weakened immune system, hemorrhage, exhaustion

Black means weakened lower organs, prolonged pain, internal bleeding...

What are you looking at?!

I should be studying faces...

What are you looking at?

How dare you, a mere servant, look at my face?!

I'm sorry. The physician gave me an assignment...

Even so, that's the easiest way to get beaten!

What is it?

What is it?

This nurse will look at your face and determine your health condition

So show her your face while you take your food. Understand?

What's your name? It's Hong Mak-Dol

OK, thank you

What's your name? It's Han-Dol

OK, thank you

What? You're so pretty

Huh? Never mind

What's your name? It's Dol-Swe

I'm making requests even in Jeju

How can showing the soldiers' faces be work?

Besides you're checking the soldier's health

It's my duty to care for their health

The physician lady is so unique, she makes everyone's head spin

Maybe that's better for now

But how could you do that? Huh?

You checked all the soldiers but how come you aren't checking me?

Please go ahead OK

How is it?

You're red

Red means you have a fever

I do have a fever

White means weakened immune system, hemorrhage, exhaustion

Black means weakened lower organs, prolonged pain, internal bleeding

If it's red, the patient has a fever

Severe symptoms signify high temperature

and mild symptoms signify low energy

When the person has serious symptoms

the whole face looks red including the eyes, lips and tongue

With mild symptoms only the cheek area looks red

How is he? Huh?

Don't look at me

OK... he's kind of red

What is it?

He is so red, he seems to have a high fever

Since his forehead is red, he may be sick due to pent-up anger

Next

Her face and eyes are yellow

It could be weakened immune system, bacterial infection or jaundice

This person has jaundice What can you tell me about that?

Jaundice is caused by viruses affecting both liver & gall so bile can't flow OK

Clear yellow is positive and dark yellow is negative for jaundice

Next

What illness does she have?

The nose, eyebrows, lip areas are blue

It's written it could be caused by irregular blood flow...

and thinning of the vessels

It's a symptom before paralysis

Looking at the face is only one of the ways to diagnose a patient

It is not absolute

These are basic medical books Read them all

What? All of these? Why?

Oh, never mind... I'll ask if I have any questions

Just read it all... And memorize everything you read

All of these?

Yes, all of them Don't leave out a single line

But... Stop talking back

Just memorize everything first

You'll understand once you know what I'm saying

You will value the experience with the patients

But don't I have to understand what I'm memorizing?

You don't have to understand

Huh?

You'll understand later once you memorize everything

Hey! What are you doing?!

How dare you do such things not knowing that the King is walking by?

Besides, this is a gift pet from China for the King!

It's alright

I'm sorry, Your Majesty

You must've cried

Why were you crying?

Tell him quickly!

He is asking you a question!

Tell him quickly!

That's enough She must have her reasons

Let's go

What?! Yeun-Seng...?! Yes, that's right

Did you... for real?! What?

I heard you were crying not knowing that the King was passing by!

Yes

It's big trouble!

Why?

Do you know what that dog is?! You idiot!

Lady Choi will send us away again when she finds out about this

My life is so miserable because of you!

I'm already sad being here, so where could we go from here?!

Why did you touch that dog anyway?

Now that everyone has found their place our businesses are flourishing

Yes...

Sir Oh is having a good time, too

By the way, is Sa-Ryun doing well? Yes, Keum-Young is training her well

OK. She'll take Keum-Young's place later

Do I really have to do this? Can't I just learn to cook?

No, you can learn to cook later

It's important to learn the basics about food first

Learning how things taste and how things combine to make taste...

and which ingredients don't make a good combination

I'm going to learn from the beginning while training you...

and we'll even read medicinal books if we have to

So trust me and try boiling, steaming or frying the grains...

so we can find out how the methods change the taste. Get ready

What were you doing?!

I don't even want to think about them!

So why should we follow their method?! What do we lack?!

We have...

Iost

Lost?! Who did?! Who's sitting in this position?

The person who has obtained this position has won!

We didn't win with our talent

Except for once when Jang-Geum made a mistake...

we lost 3 out of 4 rounds

And every time we lost because of their passion towards food, not taste

Keum-Young!

If we hadn't lost, we didn't have to be that harsh with them

We didn't even need such schemes if we had won with our talent

I'm going to start over

What you have learned through the competition is wrong

The lesson we must learn is that we need more power!

If we had greater power a mere court lady like Lady Jung...

couldn't have started such nonsense!

We must have greater power so that this will never happen again

Madam

I'm going to obtain greater wealth and power than any of...

our ancestor Highest Court Ladies, so no one can look down on us again!

You should do the same

No, thank you

No?

You think the heart of Colonel Min which has gone to Jang-Geum...

will come back somehow?

Madam!

Colonel Min went all the way to Jeju for Jang-Geum

And you said you'll follow our family for saving Colonel Min's life

I'm going to That's why I'll start over

You're the one who put the family in danger

You have lost, Madam

I'm not going to lose

I'm going to be the best kitchen lady

You can't have his body, heart or will...

and you shouldn't

We'll start the training at 8 p.m. Tomorrow

I thought you'd be different from Lady Choi or Choi Pan-Sul...

even if you're from the same family

I thought you'd be different from those who send kidnappers to Lady Han...

and profited with Sir Oh Kyum-Ho I never thought of you that way

Hey!

Are you going to keep this up? Huh?

Shall we argue like before?

I can't stand this!

I'm the King's attendant lady

You're Yeun-Seng, right?

Follow me

First of all, you must not smile or reject his touch

No matter what he does you must not make a sound

We're clipping your nails to prevent any harm to his body

Wait here

Why were you crying?

It's OK. You can tell me

Even as a king, I feel lonely at times So I guess you feel so at times, too

Oh my... Then Young-Ro...?!

Yeah

Yeun... Yeun... Yeun-Seng!

Madam!

As you can see, Yeun-Seng has won the favor of the King

Until yesterday, she was a worker lady just like you

but now she has become a special lady

because of the King's favor You must show respect to her

Congratulations, ma'am

Congrats! Congrats! Congratulations!

Cool... Great

Yesterday, a kitchen lady... I heard of it already

Get her a separate place with furniture...

an attendant lady and a kitchen lady as well

Your Majesty, she's still a court lady Is this necessary?

Really? OK, then

Then you take care of it according to the customs

Yes, Your Majesty

It's so good here!

Isn't that right? The room is so big!

Yeun-Seng, as you've become a special lady...

Madam, how can you call her Yeun-Seng?

You have to show her respect

Please sit, ma'am

You think I can change that so quickly?

I did the right thing, eh?

Yeun-Seng, this is so good

You saw Lady Choi's face this morning, didn't you?

She was so harsh with us, but now, she has totally...

Yeun-Seng, let me be your attendant lady

Me, too... me, too

I can't have an attendant lady yet...

You will soon. Once you have a baby you'll become his concubine

That's right, his baby

Don't do that

What? Reality hasn't hit you yet, huh?

Now you've...

I'm scared Scared?

Yes... the King...

It's alright...

after a little while... it's like that

But I'm going to endure it even if it's scary

Of course, you must!

And I'm going to tell him What?

About Jang-Geum and Lady Han...

that they aren't people who would do such things! For sure!

No, Yeun-Seng! You must not!

Why not?

You must not do it! You can tell him everything else, but not that!

Why? Why not?

Idiot! They were guilty of treason! Treason!

Jang-Geum and Lady Han aren't people who would do such things!

I know that, of course

So why not?

Later... tell him much much later, OK?

Or even exiled Jang-Geum could be killed

Re... really?

Of course... so don't tell the King until I say it's OK. OK?

By the way, does Jang-Geum know that you've become a special lady?

It'd be good if Mr. Gang can send her the news

I know... I don't even see him at the Food Services these days

Don't do it that way! Move over... I'll do it

Don't you move so carelessly!

You just sit still on the warm spot

Then do it right OK, sure

I wonder why I'm craving strawberries all of a sudden...

Did you say strawberries in the middle of winter?

Why? You're going to get strawberries for me now?

Does it have to be strawberries? Not anything else?

I'm fine, but the baby keeps on...

OK... let me check if it's strawberries for sure

He says he wants pears

Then I'll go get strawberries

Sit still! I'll go get the strawberries

lfJang-Geum were here, I could ask her to make a strawberry dessert

I'll be in trouble for the next 2-3 months

Honey... you can't accept strawberry liquor, eh?

What is joy related to?

The heart

Next?

Anger, liver; worry, lungs; thought, blood; and sadness, lungs

One can feel sad if the liver becomes weak

Fear from the kidneys and the stomach Astonishment when the blood...

joins the energy of ying, and qi joins the energy of yang

You knew it but you got it wrong?

By mistake...

A mistake in cooking will only affect the taste

but a mistake in medicine will harm people

If you're going to memorize it, do it perfectly

or else you might as well not know it at all

Sure

You're sure you mean that?

Since she gave the books, she's been asking questions, whipping her everyday

I know...

If we had started learning, we would've died getting whipped by now

Jang-Geum does persevere well

She memorizes very well, too

What good is that when she gets whipped for each mistake...

Poor girl

Check their pulses Huh?

Check them

Tell me what you feel

It feels like pressing on a big green onion that's empty inside

How descriptive! That's the large pulse

You can feel it when they lost blood

She could've lost it by vomiting it or through excrements

She has vomited blood because of tuberculosis

It feels like pressing on a bow

That's the bow pulse

It happens when the qi converges but doesn't spread out

It also happens when there is a quick temperature change

When you feel it only on one side, it means the person has a stomachache

Symptoms also show on a child having a seizure

It's hard to diagnose and treat You memorized that, right?

It's that feeling...

I put paper on top of the broth to get rid of the grease...

and this feels like pressing on that paper

That's floating pulse

If it's strong then it's paralysis or else it's weakened immune system

You have talent for feeling with your fingertips

Find all pulse checking methods from the Chinese medicinal book

and memorize them all Sure

Hi Hello

He is diabetic. Check him

The pulse is thin and very fast

The thin pulse appears when he lacks bodily fluids

And he has a fever

What happened? Um...

Actually, there's a physician who came from Han-Yang at Halla Mountain

I heard his medicine was good, so...

Isn't this white ginseng?

Did I say I didn't know it's good...

and that's why I'm not using it? According to him...

I tried so hard to lower the heat in your body, but you didn't trust me

I don't see patients who don't trust me

Oh, no, it's not that... I told him that, too

But he told me this can be used for a person like me...

and it will be more effective for me

Ginseng is ginseng How can that make any sense?!

It's true. He said he has much heat but he's still eating it...

He's a fraud

He didn't seem like one, though

You'd think he'd have "fraud" written on his face?

But he's been healing a lot of people

What? Then he's already swindled lots of people out of their money?

Where is he?

I won't leave him alone!

Since Jeju is far away, he thinks people here don't know anything

Wait till I get a hold of these jerks who trick sick people!

Isn't he a physician?

Physician my foot! They try to sell cheap things at expensive prices...

telling people he's from Han-Yang

A merchant trying to make a profit This happens from time to time

Hey, jerk! Are you the one?! Huh?

You claims you're a physician from Han-Yang?

Oh, you mean, sir...

Sir my foot! Where is this jerk?! He's in the field...

How come that woman is so strong?

You jerk! You jerk...

Let go... Sir!

Jang-Geum!

How did you...? How about you?

How could that be? So a court lady of the kitchen became a servant?

So are you doing OK now?

Yes. Colonel Min is here as the high military officer and...

I'm learning from this teacher now

That gangster teaches you? Yes

What can she teach besides beating people up?

Never mind if I'm a gangster or not Let me ask you first

As an ex-Royal Physician, how could you use ginseng...

without considering a person's constitution?

I've worked so hard to change his constitution

Are you sure you know the basics?!

Follow me!

Look. This is fresh ginseng

It's hard to keep them that way

In time, its efficacy will greatly decrease as it dries up

But if you steam them like this and dry them again...

to make this red ginseng, the efficacy still remains

And steaming it removes the poison, so efficacy increases

And it doesn't cause any problem for people with much body heat

Is that true? How did you find that out?

I had to take ginseng some time ago

but since I had a lot of body heat, it was hard for me to eat it

I was looking through various books and found travel sketches

from Chinese Song by Suh Keung who traveled through Koryo

It's called "Through Koryo"...

and he wrote that he saw people steaming ginseng

His fever is not due to ginseng Did you check him properly?

But sir, you had to take ginseng? Are you ill somewhere?

Why did you do it?

I have a tumor inside my stomach

What?

Even when you were at the herb garden?

Yes, that's why I gave up and told you not to do anything

But you drank so much...

Thought it'd be better to die quickly if I couldn't get cured

But you confronted me saying I couldn't take away hope from you

So I came out of the palace to help treat you

And I've been checking everywhere to find a way to treat it

Good choice So red ginseng is the solution?

Not sure... but it's surely giving me more time to find a way to treat it

since it's not getting worse

I've heard of the physician lady and I was going to visit her soon

So you're learning from her?

Yes. I must learn

Good. I thought you'd make a good physician if you studied

It's not just to become a physician

It's because that's the only hope

Hope?

The hope of returning to the palace

They say it's the only way for a maidservant to go to the palace

I'll go back and punish those who have made my mother...

Lady Han and me like this

What? Punish? You'll take revenge?

Yes, sir. I'll find a way once I return to the palace

If that's the reason, then quit studying right now!

Medicine is to heal people

so how could you learn about it with such an angry heart?!

I can never allow it!

How can a person filled with anger take the acupuncture needle?

Give it up right now! Now!

Why are you saying no?

I took the needle with anger as well

Not to save the person, but to kill the person

How can you say such a thing as a physician lady?!

It's not something a physician could even dream of!

I'm a human being!

How can someone who drinks day and night because he's sick...

understand the anger that a human being can have?

How could you understand the undying anger of a human being?!

Go get some wa-song

Wa-song?

Moss from old house tiles

Sure

Tell me the similar pulses

Floating and large pulses are similar but large pulse discontinues

String and thin pulses; string pulse is like a string

Bow pulse doesn't pulsate much but...

rapid pulse pulsates 6 times in one breath

How about nwe pulse and sil pulse?

Nwe pulse pulsates as it lowers and sil pulse...

Sil pulse pulsates as it rises

Excuse me What?

I shouldn't tell you this

Then why did you come in?

I don't know. Anyway, I'm telling you as you've been working so hard

I think they're looking for you as the exile's getting worse

I can't stand it

If you can't give up your anger then choose either anger or medicine

And what's more I can't allow Jang-Geum to be taught...

by such a person. Let's go

Check his pulse

It's the same illness that you have

I know the way

I've found the medicine after trying many years to cure him

Have you tried your treatment?

I've seen the effect by trying it on someone else... but...

I haven't treated him with it yet

He's my enemy

I learned about medicine and went to the palace to get near to him

And I came to Jeju as a physician because he was exiled to Jeju

He was an officer during Yeonsan's reign...

in charge of finding women for the King

Using his position, he forced my married mother into the palace

My mother committed suicide

And my father couldn't contain the anger and committed suicide, too

And then that guy charged our family...

for blasphemy and took our wealth

I was raised by my family's servant and became a servant

If I were a man, I would've learned martial arts to take revenge...

but I learned medicine because I'm a woman

And when others were learning the art of healing

I was learning both the art of healing and killing

When others were learning about good medicine

I was learning about both medicine and poison

And now... I've become a famous physician

Do I have to save him?

Do I have to save him?

You have to stop her

As you're in an authoritative position you can stop the physician lady

Sir, this can't be. He's no longer an enemy, but a patient now

And she is not a person, but a doctor

I disagree

Sir, he has already received his punishment...

He came here as an exile and he has a terminal illness

So that's for her to decide Sir!

Don't get yourself involved in this, too

No. First of all, it's because she's a very good physician...

and because she's Jang-Geum's teacher

Move away

No. I will do this

Make medicine with moss, red ginseng, cinnamon, ginger

Sure

I liked you for wanting to go back to the palace out of anger

That's when I decided to teach you medicine

So I can take revenge? No

So I can make you fall into the same trap that I fell in

Mr. Jung Woon-Baek's words are right

A person filled with anger cannot be a good physician

You can tell by looking at me

Though I became a physician by anger there comes a point...

at which you have to choose between medicine and anger

I've already passed you my struggle

I wish you could resolve your anger and become a physician

That's my true desire for you

Mr. Jung Woon-Baek's words are right

A person filled with anger cannot be a good physician

You can tell by looking at me

Though I became a physician by anger there comes a point...

at which you have to choose between medicine and anger

I've already passed you my struggle

I believe Lady Suh has decided already

You know the common characteristic of people who succeed?

They're simple and passionate

But the important thing is the latter

You should know reality and stand above it

knowing how to persuade people and knowing how to exercise power

Now, you'll face your second challenge

and when you succeed, you'll probably...

fulfill those two as I wish you will