After eating, he went to the river to take a bath, and by the way, he brought back a bundle of calamus and some mint, soaked in a glass of mint water, and then Chen Xu sat on the stone in the courtyard and began to sort out the herbs dug up.

In fact, this big basket is not all herbs, there are many other things in it.

The first thing to deal with is the calamus, which grows near the ditch, the leaves are soft and slender, and a flower stem will grow in the middle of April and May, and the stamens will swell into a brownish-yellow rod-shaped, shaped like a candle, so the iris has a name called water candle.

The main medicinal part of calamus is on this flower stick, and it is just picked in April and May, it is the pollen inside, called Pu Huang, and the main effect of Pu Huang is to stop bleeding and disperse stasis, both internal and external application can be, it is the most common hemostatic drug in rural areas, canals, ditches, swamps, river beach ponds can be seen almost everywhere, generally in the countryside to encounter superficial injuries and bleeding, pull a ball of fluffy flower spikes from the calamus stick and press it in the bleeding place, even do not need to bandage, it will stop bleeding in a few minutes, if the wound is very deep, After hemostasis, you can also fry the flower spikes and grind them into powder before taking them internally, which can speed up the blood clotting at the wound and speed up the process of hemostasis.

"Brother, are you going to use cattails as pillows? But that's too little! Xing'er squatted on the ground and looked at Pucao and said.

"No, the sticks can stop the bleeding, you go and help me get a clay pot, and tear off all the hairs on these sticks and put them in the pot to dry."

"Dashi, you go and chop three old bamboos and come back, one thick and two thin!"

"Mother, you go and help me get a clean rattan basket and a few bowls, I'll use them later."

Under Chen Xu's instructions, the family began to get busy.

And Chen Xu also took out other things in the rattan basket, a few wild yams, which were discovered by accident, although summer is not the season for digging, but since it happened, Chen Xu couldn't help but dig a nest back, this thing strengthens the body and replenishes qi, which is very good for people who are weak, and yam stewed pork ribs are also a delicacy, and there are just a few large ribs at home, for him who has been thinking about the food of the future recently, there is not much resistance.

If there is Shanxi old vinegar, it is definitely delicious to make a vinegar yam, holding these yams, Chen Xu felt that his saliva was flowing down instantly.

Three licorice roots, which are about the same thickness as eggs, have grown in the mountains and forests for I don't know how many years, and they are almost like tree roots.

"Brother, isn't this licorice?" Xing'er squatted next to her and pulled the puff stick and asked.

Because of the poisoning treatment for Erxi last time, the whole village already knows licorice.

"Well, licorice can detoxify many kinds of poisons, and you can soak it in water to drink after slicing and drying, you can help me wash it with water first!" Chen Xu handed three licorice sticks to Xing'er.

"Mother, you help me cut these grass vines into small pieces......"

Soon the sky gradually darkened, and a few people continued to work around the fire, which was already full of rattan baskets and pottery bowls, and finally even the clay pots for cooking rice were taken out and filled with things, and there was no place to put the rest of them.

Chen Xu had no choice but to give up for the time being.

The recruited folk man only had two days to prepare and go to Qinghe Town to gather, so he needed to process the medicinal materials within two days, and many of the things that should have been dried or dried could only be processed by drying and roasting, as for the effect...... I can only guess, at least these are pure wild herbs for many years, and the efficacy of those herbs that have been artificially planted and fertilized in later generations is completely incomparable, even if the medicinal effect is lost, it should still have a good effect.

What's more, doing these things by yourself is just doing your best to obey the destiny of heaven, and the exact amount of effect is completely unknown, but there is no doubt about the starting point, that is, a heart of compassion and compassion, and I hope that the people who go to serve in the village can come back alive and intact.

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, the whole family got up early to continue processing the herbs, slicing the slices, cutting the sections, boiling the boiled water, drying the dried ones, and pounding the powder into powder with a stone mortar.

Because of yesterday's events, the atmosphere in the village today is particularly dull and depressing.

The loud chatter and laughter that can be heard on a daily basis and the frolicking noise of children have all disappeared without a trace.

When the villagers met, they just nodded and whispered hello, and their faces were very solemn.

After breakfast, Niu Dashi brought his younger brother and Niu Tian to help.

When the sun was about to set, Chen Xu gathered several of the most important medicinal materials together, which were almost ready to be made into pills and powders after a day of drying, drying, grinding into powder, and frying.

However, when he sat down with a bowl and looked at the row of large bamboo tubes containing various medicinal powders, he remembered that Nima had no binder to roll these medicinal powders into pills.

Originally, the pill he wanted to make was very simple, it was Turen Dan, which was mainly used to clear away heat and relieve heat, and prevent headache and brain fever after heat stroke when the weather was too hot, because it was the hottest summer when these people went right now, and this problem may be the most obvious.

The so-called Turen Dan is a person with incomplete medicinal materials, which he put together according to the method of his second grandfather when he was a child, I remember that there are licorice, tangerine peel, cardamom, Huoxiang, cinnamon, mint, borneol and other more than ten kinds of medicinal material powder mixed with binder into small pills, but now he only found three, that is, licorice, peppermint and bellflower, so he added some artemisia, turmeric and skullcap, but the amount of these three he was ready to add was very small, because he didn't know if adding it would produce any anti-medicinal properties, But I vaguely remember that these three medicinal materials also have the effect of clearing heat, and I want to add a little less to avoid poisoning people.

However, everything was ready, but it was found that there was a lack of binders, and it was definitely not possible to knead these powders into pills with water.

I remember that the second grandfather used thick rice soup, corn flour, and honey boiled with glutinous rice, and then put them together to make a paste, and rubbed them directly with his hands after adding the medicinal powder, but at the moment there are none of these three.

Not to mention glutinous rice, although China has been cultivated at this time, but it is in the south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the yield is very low, and the compatriots in Henan only like to eat pasta from ancient times to the next two thousand years later, so the main grain planted in Nanyang is wheat.

There was no corn flour, and it was not introduced to China until the Ming and Qing dynasties.

As for honey, well, he hadn't seen it since he crossed over, and the Qin Dynasty didn't seem to have the habit and profession of beekeeping.

Nima is a gourd scoop!

Chen Xu sat on the stone in a daze and began to smile bitterly in a daze, and at the same time began to think hard, although the powder can also be used, it is very inconvenient to take the powder internally, especially when working, and how much to eat each time is also a problem.