我们太医这是以身试药
“The royal physician tested the medications on herself”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没见识
“How ignorant of you.”
我们太医这是以身 试药
“The royal physician tested the medications on herself”
以确保准确地医好将士们的伤病
“so as to treat the wounded soldiers effectively.”
“You don't understand our sacrifice, so stop questioning us.”
Originating from legends like Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, testing treatments on oneself is regarded in Chinese tradition as the ultimate sign of medical virtue and benevolence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to test medicine on one's own body
A formal idiom used to describe noble, risky experimentation undertaken to verify the safety or efficacy of a cure.