Chapter 15: Dragon and Tiger Intermittent Cream
In the backyard, Cai Hongming carefully put the ground and crushed medicinal materials into the casserole one by one, which was already full of boiling oil. As soon as the medicinal herbs were put in, I immediately heard the crackling sound of the medicinal herbs fried in hot oil, and a smell of medicine wafted out.
He was boiling the dragon and tiger intermittent ointment for Ji Dong's injuries.
The conditions for boiling dragon and tiger intermittent ointment are very harsh, and they must rise and fall, that is, the medicinal materials must be fried and then fried.
This is repeated nine times, and then the oil that has absorbed the effect of the medicine is boiled over a slow fire to thicken until a usable plaster is formed.
This boiling medicinal oil is also very particular, generally the plaster is used for lard, but this dragon and tiger intermittent ointment must use dragon oil and tiger oil. It's just that this tiger oil is easy to get, but dragon oil is hard to find. Some people say that snakes are small dragons, and it is okay to replace them with snake oil, but it is not impossible, but it is difficult to find.
The snake used for medicine is not a small snake that is commonly seen, it must be a large snake with more than 100 joints.
Snake yin, after a hundred festivals, it will fade yin and turn yang, and this can be used as medicine. The snake bone is already a big python, and ordinary small pythons are not good at all, and it is difficult to find medicine. So Cai Hongming found crocodile oil.
The crocodile was called the pig dragon in ancient times, and it is said that it is the only surviving descendant of the common ancestor of crocodiles, dinosaurs, birds and other animals in the Triassic era. Although the bloodline is thin, it still has a trace of dragon nature, which can be boiled with tiger oil.
The plaster in the casserole became more and more viscous, and the fragrance of the plaster wafted out, filling the entire backyard.
Seeing that the heat was almost there, Cai Hongming hurriedly put the crushed dragon turtle shell into it. He originally wanted to put the keel powder, but he was worried that the keel powder was too old. If the medicinal effect is not enough, the shell shed by the dragon turtle is used, this is a newly shed shell, and the medicinal effect is definitely full.
After stirring again, he took out the plaster from the casserole, poured it into a long wooden barrel about one meter long and twenty centimeters in diameter, and then took a wooden stick and pounded it into the bucket.
Plasters are divided into hard plasters and ointments, with hard plasters being erected and ointments being soft. Like congealed lard.
Ointments are also different because of the preparation method. It is divided into lard ointment, vinegar and lard ointment, water glue paste, thousand mallet ointment, mixed ointment, most of the plasters on the market are these five categories, and some are more uncommonly used. Dragon Tiger Intermittent Cream is the more out-of-the-way one.
Because of the pursuit of medicinal efficacy, the medicinal materials used must be wild medicinal materials that have been used for more than one year. The oil is also not ordinary. That's why the effect is so amazing.
Its harshness is not only reflected in the herbs and boiling methods. When it is ready to be applied to the wound, it must be a dragon tiger skin, otherwise it will not be able to exert the full effect of this plaster.
To know. Most of the plasters on the market are tough paper and cloth, and dog skins and donkey skins are used for bullish ones. Because after the effect of the dragon tiger intermittent plaster is exerted, a large amount of heat will be generated. When the hot air rushes to the dragon tiger skin, the dragon tiger skin will be fumigated by the hot gas to add the medicinal properties in the skin, which is equivalent to adding a bargaining chip to the plaster to heal the wound.
Dragon skin, Cai Hongming didn't dare to think about it, so he bought some tiger skins to paint.
He pounded the plaster in the bucket vigorously, this technique is called a thousand mallets and a hundred refining, and it is necessary to mix all the medicinal materials through the hammer to make them evenly mixed. I don't know how many times the mallet took before Cai Hongming stopped, and then called Ji Dong, who was waiting next to him, to come over, dig out the plaster from the bucket and apply it to a palm-sized tiger skin, and then rubbed the injured part of Ji Dong's arm hard before sticking the plaster on it.
A while ago, he bought tiger meat and tiger bones and added some nourishing herbs to nourish Ji Dong's body, and after a period of recuperation, seeing that his bones were strong and his blood was abundant, he began to boil medicine to treat his injuries.
The treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine are not like Western medicine, but the head is headache, the feet are painful, the stomach is not good, and the liver cannot be cut. It is to find the source of the disease, conduct demonstration and research, and stop and remove the disease from the source to cure the disease.
The same is true of Cai Hongming's treatment of Ji Dong's arm injury.
After Ji Dong was injured and his body was weak, he recuperated his body, and when his body recovered, he began treatment.
People sometimes develop bone spurs, which are hyperostoses, which is a disease.
And this dragon and tiger intermittent ointment is very strange, after it is pasted, it makes the bone on Ji Dong's arm damaged by the gunshot wound grow on its own like bone hyperplasia. A lot of nutrients are needed during the long bone period to promote bone growth, so a lot of supplements are required. It's like putting a balloon full of gas into another connected balloon, and if you don't have enough air, you have to add it. It's just that when Cai Hongming recuperated Ji Dong's body, the tiger meat was almost used up, and he planned to take someone into the mountains to catch wild boars tomorrow to replace it.
Last year, after the wild boars plagued his sweet potato field on the mountain, they seemed to know the delicacy of sweet potatoes, and from time to time they ran to the disaster, and almost ate up the sweet potato he planted on the mountain. So he wanted to take someone to clean up and move his body by the way.
In addition, after staying in it for a while, everyone was about to suffocate, so he planned to take them to vent.
"Wow, it's hot, itchy, Hongming, are you okay?"
After applying the plaster for a while, Ji Dong felt that the position where the plaster was attached slowly became hot, and the heat gradually spread throughout his arm, and there seemed to be thousands of ants crawling between the bones, itching unbearably.
"It's okay, it's over. Don't move your hands, or don't blame me for being crippled. Cai Hongming warned, and continued to work, putting the remaining plaster into the porcelain vase and putting it away.
His arm is getting hotter and hotter, and itchy is getting more and more itchy, Ji Dong can't help it, but fortunately, he has gone through countless hardships and tests when he was a special soldier, and his spirit is tenacious, which can barely be carried by this little thing.
In the backyard, it is green, and since the people moved in, this place is completely different from before. In the past, there was no water in the small pond in the courtyard, but now the water is poured in, and the water is curling, shaking countless silver flowers. There are willow trees planted on the edge of the pond, and the supple branches are fluttering in the wind, like a gentle woman stretching her fine hands, dancing with a thousand styles.
On the edge of the courtyard corner, the big wolfberry tree that Cai Hongming brought back from Lasmedo stood upright, with some fruits hanging among the green leaves.
After he brought back this big wolfberry tree, he fertilized and watered it, and it was a long toss. It's also strange, at the end of summer, there were some small flowers, and some fruits were sparsely produced, although not many, but the size was very large, and it was the thickness of a thumb just after it emerged, which made Cai Hongming feel very surprised, is this still wolfberry? Is there such a big goji berry in China? But after careful verification, he found that this was really a wolfberry, and he estimated that it was because the jade toad liquid was poured too much, and it was a bit variant.
In addition to the big wolfberry, red dates, fragrant pears and hazelnuts were planted in the courtyard, and grass was planted in the rest of the place.
The sika deer coming down from the mountain were reluctant to go back and regarded this place as their home. This year, the mother gave birth to two more fawns, and the third master, who did not go to herd the sheep, stayed at home to serve these guys, yaks, and ostriches, and he specially instructed Cai Hongming and Bagong to plant grass in the open space in the yard to feed the sika deer.
Sika deer can cut two or even three horns a year, but the third master is soft-hearted and only cuts one stubble.
Fortunately, the quality is good, and it was sold for tens of thousands of yuan in one stubble, plus the money Cai Hongming gave him, tens of thousands of yuan a year, which is enough for his hard work to raise sheep, so he doesn't go out to herd sheep now. The fifth master was called by Cai Hongming to guide farming, otherwise how could these young people plant, he now doesn't sell vegetables except for planting some vegetables that everyone eats. However, Cai Hongming paid him a salary, and in a month, it was more than the money he spent growing vegetables.
Hachiko occasionally goes out to show people Feng Shui, but mostly stays at home. Now there is food and drink here, and he has saved some money, so he is too lazy to move.
Silly Ah Fu was called by Cai Hongming to cook, he couldn't do anything else, his cooking skills were top-notch, and everyone praised him non-stop.
The conditions for boiling Dragon Tiger Intermittent Cream are harsh, but the effect is indeed amazing. It's just one night, Ji Dong's arm, which was still sore when pinched, turned out to be fine, there was no pain at all, and he had strength in his hands. Even Cai Hongming, who was boiling the plaster, was dumbfounded, this boiling medicine was too against the sky. He decided on the same day that he must boil more plasters from the book that Ah Gong gave him in the future and save them, maybe it will be useful in the future. This thing was so amazing that he couldn't believe it.
Because the injury on his arm has healed, when Cai Hongming wants to take someone to hunt wild boars, Ji Dong also has to follow. However, he was rejected by Cai Hongming, on the grounds that his hands were not completely good and he couldn't move lightly, and besides, someone had to watch the field, so he stayed. (To be continued......)