Well, it is also possible that this was not said by the ancients.

But for sure, there is some truth to this.

However, this does not mean that there must be an antidote to the poison within seven steps. The 'seven steps' is just an exaggeration, but it actually means 'the area in the vicinity where the poison is infested'.

The things that are compatible with poisons are generally detoxifying herbs. Therefore, this sentence is still quite reasonable. After all, nature is mysterious and magical. When it creates poison, it will make something that is compatible with poison near it.

To explain it in the traditional thinking of China, it is that yin and yang are balanced, and a certain species must live with its natural enemies.

For example, sheep and wolves, rats and snakes, pests and frogs... One link after another, in order to form a biological chain.

The same is true of the most familiar 'praying mantis catches cicadas, yellow finches behind', you think you are hunting, but in fact, there are other predators hunting you.

Restraint takes place in large circles and small circles. This is also a kind of revelation for survival in the wild, when you are injured by something, you will be able to find something nearby that is the antidote for you.

This is like KFC must have McDonald's within seven steps, mobile communications must have connectivity within seven steps, middle schools must have Internet cafes within seven steps, and universities must have couple health care within seven steps.

All things are mutually reinforcing, and there is always a connection.

Although the five-step snake is extremely poisonous, the 5,000-year-old history of China, the wise ancients have already found a good antidote for future generations, and recorded it in the book, passed down from generation to generation.

Chen Yang remembers that when he was a child, he was bitten by a five-step snake, and his parents found herbs to detoxify him in the haunt of the five-step snake.

At that time, the transportation was not convenient, and it was too far to be sent to the hospital, so he was afraid that it would be too late, so his father found a herb called 'lobelia' for him to apply externally, and then found some other herbs for him to eat.

At that time, my sister was crying on the side, saying that the medicine that my father caught would definitely not work, and that my brother should be sent to the hospital immediately.

At that time, my father said, "We are now in the mountains, too far from the hospital in the town." And even when we went to the health center in the town, with the conditions of the health center, it was not necessary to have serum. Don't worry, this herb will cure snake venom. I was bitten by a snake when I was a child, and that's how your grandfather cured it. ”

Chen Yang smirked as he searched for Lobelia.

Only then did I find out that I had been bitten by snakes with my father and even my grandfather.

He bent down and spoke loudly to the mountain next to him, looking for Lobelia: "Dashan, do you think the fish is delicious, or the pork is delicious?"

Dashan didn't reply to him, just whimpered.

Chen Yang smiled: "I think pork is a little more delicious, but it's too expensive." ”

Dashan: I'm like this, and you're still telling me this, can't you hurry up and find an antidote?

Lobelia is not a precious herb and can be found almost everywhere, so it is not difficult to find. Chen Yang bent on his waist, and after walking a few steps next to the stream, he found Lobelia.

Lobelia prefers a humid environment, is slightly tolerant of mild drought, and is also hardy, and can naturally overwinter in the fields in the area of Shiraishi Village.

Therefore, in this small mountain village, whether it is a ridge, a meadow, a ditch, or a stream and other damp places, you can see the figure of Lobelia almost everywhere.

Lobelia is easy to identify because it has only half of its face.

Where the other side of its face went, no one knows. Anyway, it can't be eaten by a dog, it can't be cut with a machete, and it can't be stepped on by someone's shoes.

It is born with only half a flower.

Its color is somewhat like a summer pink lotus, half of its body is like a wild daisy, and its petals are like small sunflowers.

But Lobelia looks like no one, it only looks like itself.

Chen Yang plucked the small lobelia from the ground one by one, then took it to the river to wash it, and then smashed the green leaf pink plant with a small stone in the river.

Although the leaves of lobelia are not fleshy, because they are extremely tender, when Chen Yang smashed them all, he could see the juice on the green foam sparkling in the sun.

Chen Yang hurriedly returned to the mountain with Lobelia in his hand.

Dashan was still lying on the slope in his original position, his eyes slightly open, and he looked at the grass in front of him with a slight dementia.

I don't know if it's worried about its own future, or if it's thinking about how to get revenge on the snakes when they get better.

Anyway, after some treatment from its owner just now, it doesn't look as painful as it used to be.

Chen Yang squatted down and said, "Dashan, I'll give you a dressing, don't you move, okay?"

I wanted to, but it wouldn't allow it.

Although the five-step snake is not the most venomous snake in the local area, if it is bitten by this behemoth snake, even if it is not poisoned, it will have to be painfully killed.

What's more, the viper just now had gone crazy and used its last strength to insert its thick, long, curved teeth into its buttocks.

Now, in its buttocks, not only are there two holes the size of chopsticks, but there is also a piece of skin that is almost the size of a human fist festering.

"Dashan, you bear with it, it may hurt a little. Chen Yang frowned and leaned over, looking at Dashan's wound, a little distressed.

Although he had also been bitten by a five-step snake, he was already a child who could work in the mountains at that time. Even if it doesn't weigh a hundred pounds, it has seventy or eighty pounds.

But this mountain looks like a few catties of meat at most.

The pain from the wound spread all over its body, and the pain was probably still very strong and strong.

Dashan rolled his eyelids and glanced at his master, as if to say: Don't grind and chirp, you should hurry up and give me medicine.

Chen Yang hesitated for a moment, and then gently applied lobelia to Dashan's buttocks.

Don't look at this lobelia, it seems to be very inconspicuous, and it doesn't look as beautiful as other flowers, but in fact, this lobelia is really a gift from God.

It is medicinal, a whole herb, and contains a variety of alkaloids. It can not only clear away heat and detoxify, diuresis and reduce swelling, but also treat poisonous snake bites, cirrhosis ascites, advanced schistosomiasis ascites, appendicitis and other diseases.

Unfortunately, there are so few people who know them.

Nowadays, people know that the deer whip is strong @ yang, they know the beauty of bird's nest, and they also know that precious medicines such as ginseng, cordyceps, and reishi can prolong life, but they don't know that this little weed can actually save people in times of crisis.

Alas, I don't know if it's the sorrow of modern people or the sorrow of ancient people. The ancients tasted herbs to know the medicinal effects, and thought that they could let their children and grandchildren remember the common sense of these herbs and save others and themselves in times of danger, but they didn't want to, in today's era, Chinese medicine has long been quietly declining.

Chen Yang didn't understand this, he only knew that lobelia could cure snake venom.

It is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that lobelia 'cures snake wounds and makes juice drink'.

Modern studies have confirmed that lobelia contains carrotine, which has significant antivenom effects.

However, to completely treat snake venom and remove snake venom from the patient's body, lobelia alone is not enough.

Therefore, the lobelia that is now applied to the wound of the mountain is actually just to stop the bleeding, reduce the pain, and relieve the toxin.

If you want to completely detoxify, you need to find some herbs.

According to his memories when he was bitten, Chen Yang found various common antidote herbs such as half-branched lotus, lobelia, honeysuckle, white-flowered snake tongue grass, white chrysanthemum, angelica, shengdi, chonglou, plantain and so on.

Because of the environment, they can only take a small part of these herbs and mash them, and then squeeze the juice for Dashan to drink.

Dashan seemed to know that these herbs could save his own life, and he was very cooperative. When the dregs in Chen Yang's hands couldn't squeeze out the juice, he took the initiative to stretch his neck and eat the dregs in Chen Yang's hands.

Chen Yang smiled: "Dashan, are you hungry?"

The mountain did not react and continued to lie down the slope.

It could be hungry or tired.

Chen Yang continued to laugh: "Then it seems that I have to add half a catty of pork to you tonight." ”

As soon as he heard the word pork, Dashan's eyes immediately widened a little, and a little light leaked.

Chen Yang laughed twice, then returned to the place where he had just fought with the five-step snake and picked up the five-step snake.

After all, it's a big meal, so you can't waste it like this.

It's a shame to waste food!

Take the five-step snake and the mountain and half a bag of herbs, go back to the wheelbarrow, tie up the firewood, tie the snakeskin bag with mountain pepper tightly, and tie all these things to the wheelbarrow.

The firewood is in the bottom, the mountain pepper is in the center, the snakeskin bag containing the herbs and the five-step snake is tied to the front of the car, and the mountain is lying on the back of the car.