open sea

Chapter 1239
Medicine is the practice of technology in the human body. Doctors cannot cure all diseases, especially those who are looking for death.

On the second day after Chen Shigong arrived in Tongzhou, there were medical teams at every street corner in the city to strictly guard against death. Banner soldiers mixed among them and did not come into contact with others shouted loudly on the street to promote the prohibition of drinking raw water, segregating livestock, and mixing sulfur powder with water for bathing order, but there are still people drinking unboiled water.

The medical teams were running around in a hurry, and the common people also complained.

Drinking hot water, called drinking soup or warming soup in ancient times, is an ancient habit, but it is a habit that not everyone can abide by.

Because you need to boil water to drink warm soup and tea, this habit was popularized among the lower classes at least in the Song Dynasty, but it is related to human living conditions, and human living conditions are actually extremely important due to environmental factors. The development of technology is not the only condition.

Can the living standards of the poor people in the 31st year of the Republic of China exceed that of the people in the 13th year of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty?

I would rather be a peaceful dog than a chaotic person, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

Today's Tongzhou City is environmentally damaged... After the city gates are closed, there is food and well water, but there is no firewood.

Firewood requires woodcutters to go up the mountain to cut firewood.

Ordinarily, the people in Tongzhou seldom burn firewood, and there is never a shortage of coal at the north end of the canal. But at this time, because Zhizhou died of illness, the doctor sent by the Ministry of Households was sealed in the city.

The people chopped down the jujube trees that had been planted in their yards for more than ten years, but there was still no firewood after burning them.

Therefore, there is no hot water to drink, and some people are reluctant to burn firewood. They are used to being poor and frugal, and with luck in their hearts, they drink raw water for cooking with limited firewood and coal.

It's not easy for the government to speak.

However, Chen Shigong and the medical team agreed that the well water in the city had been polluted. In fact, there was no evidence. Some people in the city who drank well water were sick or not. is a source of infection.

Various experiments are also going on. They set up isolation centers outside the city, and sent a batch of rabbits in wooden cages from surrounding counties without epidemics. They divided them into four categories in large numbers, drinking raw water in the city, cooked water in the city, and rabbits in the city. There are raw water outside, cooked water outside the city, and even seven observation stations are set up at different distances along the river.

Assuming that the raw water in the city is polluted, the probability is very high, then the raw water and river water outside the city are not safe, and there will be a flaw in the closure of the city, and the next thing to face is a larger-scale plague.

In addition to the precautions, the flag army shouted on the street, and the professor made masks and protective equipment. They had to use three layers of cloth sandwiched between two layers of cotton and baked toner in the middle. The baked toner was uniformly made by the medical team outside the city. However, the cotton and cloth are found by the people themselves, and these things are available at home.

They did everything they could, but they just couldn't control the consciousness of the people, so they could only resort to going door-to-door to check every other hour.

It is useful and effective to divide the medical household team into two teams due to insufficient protective equipment. A group of people go to the city to check the symptoms and treat the people, while the latter will make soup and medicine according to the former symptomatic diagnosis and treatment.

Their efficiency is not high, because there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Different doctors have different treatment methods for different patients' symptoms. The same symptoms also have different additions and subtractions depending on the severity. Each team is responsible for several patients in one street, and the efficiency of medication is not low.

Even so, the problem of drinking unboiled water is still not easy to solve.

The medical team was at a loss what to do about it, and in the end it was a young doctor under Chen Shigong who came up with a "crooked trick" to deceive the people.

This crooked trick is to create a magic formula that is actually useless and harmless, to trick the people into drinking hot water.

Chen Shigong felt that this could not be the case, and he had to find the right medicine. His eyes searched and searched, and he focused on Banlangen.

This is a symptomatic medicine.

It is written in Zhizhou Epidemic Records that the vast majority of plague patients have aversion to cold and fever, red and swollen head and face, or accompanied by sore throat. The swelling and pain in the throat and front of the ears intensified, even reaching the submandibular neck, red tongue with yellow coating and other symptoms.

In the understanding of doctors, it is warm and poisonous. Banlangen clears away heat and detoxifies. It is a good way to teach people to drink instead of water after mixing it with sugar, but he is afraid that after this incident, people will take this medicine as life-saving straw. Drink it as water when you have nothing to do. There is a saying that medicine is three-point poisonous, and drinking too much banlangen is not good for the stomach.

Another advantage of Banlangen is that it can be found anywhere, and the medicinal materials are not difficult to find, so it is convenient to purchase in large quantities.

As soon as the transfer order came out, several vehicles were brought in from the three subordinate counties that night.

Then it is ground into powder and mixed with sugar, the dosage is extremely small, and all the doctors outside the city are exhausted. They rushed to make thousands of copies overnight, and scattered them into the city during the day. It is also required to always use a wooden cover to cover it firmly, in the name of preventing the medicinal power from dissipating, but in fact it is just to prevent mosquitoes from mixing with soldiers.

This is Chen Shigong's first attempt to purchase a large amount of commonly used patent medicines, but this does not mean that no one has tried it in the past.

To find a prescription to treat Datou plague or other plagues from the north, you have to turn to the medical skills of the Yuan Dynasty. That was the time when the plague was most rampant. There was a dose of Puji antiseptic drink, which was a common prescription for living people at that time.

Scutellaria baicalensis and Coptis chinensis tastes bitter and cold, and relieves heat between the heart and lungs, and is regarded as the master; orange red is bitter and pungent, scrophulariaceae is bitter and cold, raw licorice is sweet and cold, and relieves fire and invigorates qi, and is regarded as the minister; , puffball, white stiff silkworm taste bitter and flat, disperse swelling and disinfect and relieve asthma; new cohosh and bupleurum are bitter and flat, and the two meridians of Shaoyang and Yangming cannot be stretched; platycodon grandiflorum is a boat with pungent and warm temperature, and it is not allowed to go down.

A pair of medicines can show the scene of monarchs, ministers and officials sailing and fighting at sea.

The disadvantage is that most of the prescriptions are bitter cold and pungent powder, and those with yin deficiency cannot use it. This is also what Chen Shigong worried about distributing Banlangen to the people, so he made it into a medicine and distributed it to the people in small doses.

This is the main medicine for Datouwen, and Chen Shigong wants to make this a common medicine to treat patients.

Among the recruited medical households is Gong Tingxian, who has been practicing medicine in Yan, Zhao, Liang, and Henan for more than ten years. He uses rhubarb and tooth soap to make Ersheng Jiuku Wan with local materials. The drug is specially used for patients with high heat and evil at the beginning of the plague. This drug is not like the Puji disinfection drink, which has antibacterial and anti-disease effects. Get rid of all the diseases at the place where you get sick.

The way this doctor practices medicine is to beat gongs and drums on the street to let those patients come out... Those who are moved out are not good. Sweating will cure the disease, and the people on the street he treated say that it is a hundred shots.

As for the patients and the old and the weak who were carried out, he no longer had a unique method. He used ginseng Baidu powder to treat the mild patients step by step. Basically, the mild symptoms can be cured. Qinlian decoction, but the patients who are currently being treated have not yet reached the time to use the latter medicine.
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Gong Tingxian is indeed a man in history. In the 14th year of Wanli, he treated Henan Datou plague and survived.

He first named "Wugengxie" in internal medicine, and wrote the first pediatric monograph named after "Massage".

Later, he was called "the leader of the world's doctors", and was presented with the flat forehead of "the number one scholar in the medical forest".

(End of this chapter)