Chapter 349: Miasma
The continuous mountains cut the village off from the outside world, making the villagers poor.
But looking at it from another angle, isn't this a gift from nature?
The untouched mountains are like a natural treasure trove of treasures.
For example, the wild fruits needed for sake brewing in Oyama Village can be found almost everywhere in the mountains, and the growth is gratifying, and there is no need to worry about toxic side effects such as pesticides.
In addition, some aged Chinese medicinal materials can be picked from time to time in the mountains, and almost all of the medicinal herbs added by Xuanwei in order to improve the taste and curative effect of fruit wine can be found on the mountain.
In the past, few villagers knew about medicinal materials, but now there are subtle descriptions and explanations, and they at least have an understanding of some common medicinal materials.
Unfortunately, although there are many medicinal materials on the mountain and the medicinal properties are also good, precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum are still rare, and ordinary medicinal materials cannot be mass-produced, otherwise the road to prosperity in Dashan Village may be a little broader.
Then again, although the wood, jade, and medicinal materials are profitable, the water in them is also very deep, not to mention the simple villagers of Dashan Village, even Xuanwei dare not say that he can have fun.
If you are greedy and chew too much, once you are blinded by the flowers, you may instead invite misfortune.
At least Xuanwei believes that doing a good job of the brewery first is the most realistic way out for the villagers of Dashan Village at the moment!
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In the mountain view, a scorching smell mixed with black smoke rises from the courtyard.
"Supreme Heavenly Venerable, without cultivation and spiritual sense, it's still too reluctant to want alchemy!" Xuan Wei sighed lightly.
In front of Xuan Wei, there was a copper furnace, and the source of the black smoke came from here.
In recent days, Xuanwei's research on the thirteen articles of Taoist medicine has not stopped, and under careful scrutiny, he has figured out the principle of the combination of many Danfang decoctions.
The villagers of Dashan Village now know that Xuanwei has superb medical skills, and once they have any problems, they will go to Dashanguan for medical treatment. Under the leading role of Goudan, the villagers often send the medicinal materials they picked to the Taoist temple every time they enter the mountain, which is also convenient for Xuanwei to cure diseases and save people.
This came and went, and there were a lot of medicinal materials piled up in the mountain view.
So, Xuanwei had the idea of practicing his hands.
After all, whether it is medical skills or alchemy, it is not a purely theoretical thing, and it must be put into practice.
In the view of heaven and earth, Xuanwei used the medicinal materials provided by the special department, and the Dan furnace was a purple smoke alchemy furnace produced by the system, and it was assisted by spiritual objects such as Longquan Gujing spring water, but now?
A copper stove used by the villagers to boil water, a few pieces of charcoal, plus ordinary wild medicinal herbs, are properly low-cost for the poor!
Of course, the most lethal thing is the Xuanwei itself.
The original full-level supreme account that was almost open was shuffled into a whiteboard trumpet in the novice village, how to play this?
Experiencing the extremely poor alchemy process, I am afraid that ordinary people would have kicked the copper furnace away a long time ago, thanks to Xuanwei's recent state of mind that has become more and more water-stopping, otherwise it may not be able to persevere.
"This heat can still be roughly judged through the skin, but the degree of fusion of medicinal materials, as well as the control of the time of Ning Dan, how should it be?" Xuan Wei thought to himself.
Without cultivation, without Qi Vision, and even losing his eyesight, Xuan Wei could only work the remaining five senses and his mysterious intuition.
Just as he was thinking about it, a panicked shout suddenly came from outside the door.
"Daoist Xuanwei, my girl suddenly fainted, you hurry up and save her!" a woman carried a girl on her back and hurriedly ran into the courtyard.
The girl on the woman's back was covered with fine sweat on her forehead, and her face was pale, but her cheeks were flushed with hot flashes.
At first glance, it looks like a symptom of heat stroke, but strangely, the body of the girl who fell into a coma is trembling slightly, as if she feels cold.
"When did you faint? Was there anything abnormal before?" Xuan Wei asked about the situation while gesturing the woman to put the girl down.
"I took Niu'er up the mountain to pick wild mulberries, and she picked them for a while and then ran to the side to play with herself, and then I shouted when I was about to change places, but I didn't hear her response for a long time. I thought it was bad at the time, and when I found her, I found her lying on the ground with her stomach clutched, vomiting and shivering. I immediately picked her up and ran towards the Taoist temple, and she fainted after saying a few words in a daze. The woman said with a hint of eagerness, as if she felt a little guilty.
If she hadn't taken care of the child all the time, she might have been able to discover the child's abnormality in advance, and she wouldn't have ended up in the current situation.
Xuan Wei cut the girl's pulse, and couldn't help frowning: "She is in a miasma!"
The damp heat and evaporation in the mountains and forests will produce toxic gases that cause human diseases, which is miasma.
In the dense mountain forest, the poisonous gas generated by the decay of animals and plants is difficult to circulate, and over time it forms a foul gas, and when organisms enter it, they will be invaded by miasma and infected with evil diseases.
Once the miasma invades the human body, it can cause headache, chest tightness, vomiting and diarrhea, joint pain, and deep congestion in the lungs and harmful to people's lives!
Xuan Wei was quite puzzled by the fact that miasma is mostly found in the southwest and southeast of China, and rarely appears in the northeast.
In general, two conditions need to be met for a miasma to form.
First of all, it has to be a lush mountain forest that is not easy to circulate.
Secondly, the climate should be hot and humid, and in a bad environment of high temperature and rain, animal and plant carcasses decay quickly, and miasma is more likely to form.
It is precisely because of this that miasma is more common in the south and less in the north.
Dashan Village is located in the northeast of China, even in summer, the temperature will not be high, these days are not rainy, not to mention that the vegetation of the northeast mountain forest is different from the south, relatively sparse, it stands to reason that there should not be miasma!
"Daoist Xuanwei, you must save my girl!" the woman cried.
"The layman sent the child in time enough, the miasma did not penetrate deep into the heart, and it is not difficult to heal!" Xuan said softly.
Taking out the acupuncture box, Xuan Wei pricked a few stitches on the girl's body, and the girl's twisted face soothed.
"Realgar, Atractylodes, and Wormwood all have the effect of removing miasma and driving away evil spirits, and burning them can completely expel the miasma in the body. Xuan Wei took a long, narrow wooden jar, stuffed the air-dried herbs into it, and then lit it.
After a while, white smoke rose from the wooden jar, and a fragrance of plants and trees came to the nose.
The layman took off the child's clothes a little, smoked them for a while, and then recovered after sweating. Xuanwei said.
Although Xuanwei is now blind, this kind of thing is not suitable after all, and it is better for the girl's mother to do it herself.
The woman nodded her head again and again in thanks, and took the wooden pot to smoke several of the girl's big holes according to Xuanwei's instructions.
"Xuanwei Dao Chief, several people on the mountain have vomited yellow water!"
Outside, there was the shouting of the dog.