What are the cheapest places to get Zhongyao granules?

Seems to me, at the place I saw today-heng ai yiyuan, it would be about 800 rmb per month for a granule prescription, more or less, not including doctor's fee. What are the options for granule dispensaries in Kunming?

How about pharmacies which can cook herbs for you?

I assume that is cheaper. I have seen a chain called Fu Lin Tang, they seemed quite pricey as well. I am not sure about the qiality of their herbs.

I tend to think that Chinese herbs by themselves should cost 300-400 rmb per month, so long as nothing pricey in there (ling zhi, ren shen, etc.)

Cooking at home is not an option for me. Cheers.

Kunming Ju Hau Chun is the wholesale market for medicines. Try there. There are, I estimated, about 200 vendors there. Mostly for raw herb, but not exclusively. Shop around there

If you are an expat, and worried about paying over the odds get some little old lady to buy it for you. But there are so many vendors in this area, and it is a wholesale market, I doubt your order would be that big to them.

I would imagine that granules are always going to cost a lot more, as they are a factory processed product. But they do take the bother, and the smell, out of your life.

I don't know why cooking at home is a problem, but we have bought a thing like an electric kettle. Apart from the smell, it just sits on the kitchen worktop and bubbles away quietly.