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Chapter 542 Withdrawal Reactions
Just as several Arab merchants were still agonizing over the 100,000 camels, and just one day before the first group of foreign merchants were about to set off with their goods loaded up, the situation was very serious.

The troops stationed in Ili suddenly stopped supplying opium to the foreigners who were being forced to consume it three times a day!

one day one Night.

The stock was out of stock for twelve hours.

The locals of Yili who came to take photos in front of the wooden house discovered that the twenty-odd foreigners marked there had almost all gone mad!

Some lay on the ground, convulsing uncontrollably.

Some banged their heads against the wooden house and glass walls, bleeding profusely and losing consciousness.

Many of the foreigners, however, were restless and their faces contorted with rage.

Accompanying these emotions are uncontrollable physiological phenomena such as yawning, tearing, and runny nose.

They were eagerly hoping that their dose of opium would be arranged as soon as possible.

The sheer madness of that person, willing to do anything for opium, sent chills down the spines of the locals who peeked at the foreigners every day.

"My God, is this what opium looks like when it takes effect? ​​How terrifying!"

"It must be! The poison in that black-scented cigarette is opium. Inhaling poison directly is much faster than smoking it, isn't it?"

"Did we give them too much? Could this cause someone to die?"

"Not much, not much! Guan Jun issued a notice that these foreigners are given three qian (a unit of weight) of cigarettes each time, and the total amount per day shall not exceed ten qian (a unit of weight)! The other foreigners are given half a jin (a unit of weight) of black incense smoke every day!"

"Brother, you don't know anything about this! The amount of opium mixed into the black incense smoke is probably less than five qian (a unit of weight)! It's obviously better to smoke opium directly, as the poison takes effect much faster!"

"Just over a month, barely forty days, and the toxicity is already this terrifying? I wonder if there's any cure."

The foreign merchants had clearly never seen anything like this before.

They urged the guards to quickly find a doctor for their colleague. The Imperial Physician Huang arrived.

He took the pulse of the foreigner who was in the most serious condition and was lying on the ground convulsing.

After a long while, he slowly withdrew his fingers from taking his pulse, frowned, and said in a deep voice:
"A wiry, rapid, and forceful pulse, like a knife scraping bamboo, indicates internal liver wind and toxic fire attacking the heart; a slippery yet slightly rough pulse, like sand encasing a pearl, suggests phlegm and blood stasis, and disordered qi and blood. A floating and erratic pulse at the cun position, like a sparrow pecking, indicates a restless spirit; a deep and stagnant pulse at the guan position, like mud, indicates obstructed qi; a weak and thready pulse at the chi position, like a spider's thread, indicates impending exhaustion of vital energy."

The onlookers couldn't understand what they were saying, and some impatient ones shouted, "Old Huang, please tell us quickly, is there any way to cure this poison?"

"The poison has already damaged the three jiaos (upper, middle, and lower burners), it seems unlikely."

It's not uncommon for opium to be used in medicine.

But Huang never imagined that increasing the dosage would lead to this result.

Last night, the General of the State sent him a letter, mentioning the withdrawal symptoms after developing a drug addiction, and saying that quitting drugs requires super strong willpower.

People with weak willpower will never be able to live without opium.

Speaking of its kind.

It is worth mentioning the Five-Stone Powder, which was used to treat the deficiency-cold syndrome after typhoid fever during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

It was clearly a good medicine, but someone changed the prescription, removing the tonic ingredients and increasing the mineral dosage.

They were reduced to mere tools for the pleasures of the nobility!
Fortunately, the recipe for Wushi Powder was completely removed from official medical books seven hundred years ago.

But its toxicity makes every doctor tremble with fear.

Now, a poison similar to Wushi San has appeared. How can Huang Lao not be terrified?

He was originally a kind-faced, smiling old man.

He was unusually solemn, and the onlookers were so frightened that they dared not breathe.