Chapter 099: Tetrodotoxin
During the Kangxi period, when modern medicine had not yet developed, it was almost more difficult to make a medicine that could make people temporarily shock and fake their death. It's not just what to do, but also the extraction and dosage control of some columns that need to be considered and solved.
The available materials were listed on paper and their characteristics and extraction methods were carefully considered, but most of them were unsatisfactory. Until his eyes fell on the azaleas, his eyes lit up, but then he dimmed again. It's almost September now, and it's not the flowering period of azaleas, and there are many varieties of azaleas, which have always had the meaning of "rhododendrons cry blood", and they are rarely available unless there are people who need to avoid evil. In addition, not all rhododendrons have plant toxins, most rhododendrons are non-toxic, only a few colors are poisonous, and poisonous rhododendrons are unlikely to be planted casually, so they are very rare.
Ruled out this, I couldn't think of a better way for a while, and I was stuffy and went out for a walk. In the evening, the water lilies bloom elegantly in the small courtyard pool, and there are small fish shuttling back and forth.
When he saw the little fish, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and called Xiao Shunzi and asked, "Can you still get a wax fish this season?"
Xiao Shunzi's face changed, and he said, "It should be possible, but the preserved fish is extremely toxic, and Gege is planning to use this to make medicine?"
I nodded and chuckled, "This fish is a good thing, although it is very poisonous, but if you are careful, it is really a treasure all over the body." Tomorrow morning, I will tell the dining room that I want to eat and let them bring it, as for how to do it, don't pay attention to their inquiries, just say that I have a secret method. “
The "wax head fish" in the northern region is the highly poisonous puffer fish. The toxicity of this fish is a neurotoxin, some scholars have seen in the voodoo religion of Haiti that there are wizards who use the extracted tetrodotoxin to create miracles, which can make the body's metabolic function low, causing people to "fake death" state, making people believe in the trick of resurrection, if the person who takes the drug does not die, it will automatically wake up within 24 hours, and there are no side effects.
However, tetrodotoxin is very toxic, as long as it reaches more than 0.5 mg, that is, a little bit on the tip of the needle can kill people. Therefore, even if a voodoo wizard has a secret recipe, there is still a large probability of death. However, with the development of modern science, tetrodotoxin has been widely used in the medical community, and it has a significant effect on analgesia and detoxification in advanced cancer. At that time, because I liked these subjects very much, I specialized in them for a while.
It's not modern here, there are no high-tech instruments for purification and dosage control, I would think of this method, and it was only because I was afraid of the child in Chun'er's belly that I tried it with luck. Otherwise, any other plant toxins will have an effect on the fetus. "God bless ......" I thought silently in my heart, and I also hope that the virtue of God's good life can give Chun'er a way to live.
Before dinner the next day, a puffer fish was brought to the dining room according to my request, and I was specifically instructed not to eat this thing casually, and to be very cautious.
The toxin of puffer fish is resistant to high heat, and even at a temperature of 120 degrees Celsius, it takes an hour to decompose. Therefore, I am worried that if I accidentally kill the people in this courtyard, I naturally can't do such extraction work in the kitchen.
Fortunately, there was a deserted utility room next to the house where the Qian family lived, so I discussed with her to vacate this room for my use. She didn't know what I was going to do, and although she asked, I was dismissed by telling her this sentence afterwards.
Let Xiao Shunzi prepare the required utensils, enter the utility room by himself, let him guard the door, and start the nervous and laborious extraction operation.
In addition to me, there were a few chickens in the utility room, which were used to make the results of the experiment. Two days later, when I walked out of the utility room, my face was both tired and happy.
Tetrodotoxin alone is too pure, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will exceed the standard and cause death, so in the past two days, I almost racked my brains to find a way to add other herbs to the extracted toxins to neutralize and dilute the toxins to an extremely small range.
When Xiao Shunzi saw me come out, he asked eagerly: "What?" "The nervous structure of human beings is different from that of birds, although it seems that it can be used on birds, but what will happen when it is used on people, I am not sure, unless it is ......" Before I finished speaking, I shook my head and said: "Forget it, you can't risk people, if she wants to see the effect, then let me try to show her myself." When the time comes, you stay on the side...... "No, Gege can't risk his life." The slave will find a way to do this, and Gege will leave it alone. After Xiao Shunzi finished speaking, he turned to leave.
At night, Xiao Shunzi didn't know how to use a woman who fell into a coma in prison clothes outside the house, pointed to the man and said to me: "This woman is a death row prisoner, who colluded with an adulterer to murder her husband, and will be beheaded in a few days." The slave asked the people in the prison of the criminal department to be accommodating and brought her, and if the test failed to kill her, it was said that she committed suicide in fear of sin, and if she did not die, she was used to prove that the medicine was useful. As for the Criminal Department, Gege doesn't have to worry, the slave didn't say that Gege was an important person, only that he was useful......"
Speaking of this, Xiao Shunzi showed a hint of shyness and embarrassment. At first, I was still thinking about how he could get this woman out of the death row of the Ministry of Punishment, but at this time, the expression on his face understood the reason, it seems that Xiao Shunzi opened up the death row with his own identity, and the cell head on the other side brought people out on the grounds that he had some ulterior needs, as for what the need, he didn't have to think about it to know that it must be those dirty perverted fetishes, and the cell boss must have felt that these disabled servants would have some of these habits, so they were temporarily accommodating, anyway, they were death row prisoners, whether they lived or died, as long as they sent people back before the execution. That's why it's so hard to say when he says it.
I don't ask much about this, but when I look at the woman on the ground, I feel that although she is a death row prisoner, she is still a little undecided. "Gege, give the medicine to the minions, this kind of dirty thing doesn't have to be done by Gege himself. Xiao Shunzi said calmly.
I had received a message from Xiao Shunzi before, and I knew that he would make some moves at night, so I intentionally separated Wanqing and Aster. At this time, Xiao Shunzi was the only one left in the room, and I struggled again and again, and finally took out a small bottle and handed it to him at his urging. "There's enough in it to poison the entire Baylor House, so just touch it with the tip of a toothpick, don't overdo it. Seeing him holding a toothpick and a bottle, my whole heart hung in the air.
Xiao Shunzi steadied herself, carefully opened the cap, gently tapped the powder on the mouth of the bottle with the tip of a toothpick, handed the bottle back to me, turned around and opened the prisoner's mouth, and wiped the toothpick on her tongue.
As the sleeping female prisoner swallowed subconsciously, a very small amount of tetrodotoxin slipped into her body along with saliva. In just a few seconds, the female prisoner began to react with poisoning all over her body, and then lost signs of life within two or three minutes.
Xiao Shunzi leaned forward and sniffed, touched her carotid artery again, her face darkened, and she got up and said, "There is no breathing and no pulse." ”
"Don't worry, it's normal, move her to the room where I pharmac, remember not to alarm anyone, you stay there for the past two days, and see how she is doing in the past two days. I confessed, praying in my heart that I would not let this woman die.
That utility room was specially treated after I had extracted my medication. No one will go in without my permission, so it's safest to get people there. Tetrodotoxin only blocks the sodium channels on the nerve excitatory membrane, and if it is within a safe dose, it will only make people unable to move, and lose their pulse and breathing at the same time, which means that they can actually think and perceive the movement of the outside world normally, in fact, this experience is more terrible than death. I secretly said sorry to the female prisoner in my heart, even if she is a guilty person waiting to die, but it is not up to me and Xiao Shunzi to decide what kind of punishment she should receive.
PS: This chapter was supposed to be updated yesterday, but the code went out halfway through, and the call didn't come until one o'clock in the morning. I had to leave it out early this morning. I'm sorry to keep you waiting. (To be continued.) )