One could say, aside from boiling medicine, he had no other experience handling herbs.
Starting with no foundation at this time, the success rate of a newcomer in making medicine was naturally imaginable.
He had failed several times in making sedatives at the beginning.
A series of failures forced Lu Yuan to temporarily stop trying to make more medicine.
The reason was simple - it wasn't the herbs that were failing, but the money.
They had spent hundreds of silver taels on the medicinal ingredients.
Even though Zhou Ze was a generous person and had given him enough ingredients to make about ten portions of Seven-Step Fragrance, he couldn't afford to waste them like this.
After four failures, forty silver taels had been lost.
His hard-earned money burned away just like that - who wouldn't feel heartache?
