Chapter 44: Pharmaceuticals
Now the honey is also available, and the mashed yam has been roasted by Chen Jiang's in a crockpot and finely ground into powder, as for the rice soup, there is no problem, as long as it can be kneaded into pills and not scattered.
Chen Xu poured out half of the honey in a small clay pot, and then put it on the stove while heating it while stirring it with chopsticks, with a rich and sweet smell with the fragrance of jujube flowers, the whole yard was suddenly sweet and intoxicating, provoking a group of small wild boars in the pigsty to pounce on the fence courtyard wall while arching and humming vigorously.
After stirring for about ten minutes, most of the honey in the jar has evaporated, and the honey has become very viscous.
Chen Xu picked it out with chopsticks and took a look, and felt that it was almost there, so he used a bamboo tube specially made for measuring cups to use a bamboo powder in a row of bamboo tubes, and poured a few cups into the jar according to his own recipe.
"Brother, this smell smells fragrant, sweet, bitter and cool, will it be delicious?" Apricot looked at the jar with blank eyes, feeling like her saliva was about to drip out.
"This is medicine, you can't take it casually, it's hot in summer, and you can only take it when you have a heat stroke headache and dizziness when you are working!" Chen Xu hurriedly advised, lest he be secretly used as a snack by the little girl at home when he got it.
After all the medicinal powder was placed, there was already more than half of the jar in the jar at this time, and Niu Dashi grinned and said that he couldn't stir it anymore.
"Alright, alright, take the jar down!"
Under Chen Xu's instructions, Niu Dashi directly took the hot clay pot off the stove and put it on the ground with his hands.
Chen Xu picked out a ball with chopsticks and looked at it, and found that it was still too thin, and it was definitely a hand of medicinal mud, so he poured a few cups of fried yam powder into it and let Niu Dashi continue to stir, and after repeating it a few times, he found that it was almost the same, so he went to wash his hands with warm water, and after drying by the fire, he dipped some yam powder on his hands and started his debut work.
Chen Jiang's, Xing'er, and Niu Dashi all looked at each other with a look of surprise.
Chen Xu slowly dug out a small ball of half-dried medicinal mud from the crockpot with chopsticks, rubbed it a few times in the palm of his hand, and when he spread out his palm, a brown pill the size of his little finger was revealed.
It's not too round, but it basically meets the requirements of Chinese patent pills, and as for the efficacy...... Well, that's only God knows, because it's a medicine, so you can't take it casually, you can only really take a few pills when you really have heat stroke or headache and brain fever to see the effect.
"Do you see it, it's like this, but the size should be well controlled, try to be smaller than mine!" Chen Xu said to Xing'er and Chen Jiang with a smile.
"Brother, can we help too?" Apricot's excited little eyes sparkled.
"It's very simple, go wash your hands and help, I need to get other medicine!" Chen Xu nodded.
So the little girl and Niu Dashi couldn't wait to wash their hands, Chen Jiang also stood up, and after a while, the three of them sat down around the small clay pot, picked out a little medicinal mud with chopsticks and rubbed it in the palm of their hands.
"Brother, can you see me rubbing this?" The little girl spread out her palms.
"The apricots are very well rubbed, you don't need to rub them so round!" Chen Xu looked at it and nodded again and again.
"Xu'er, what about this one?" Chen Jiang spread out his hand, slightly apprehensive.
"Mother's size is just right, just look like this, don't rub it too carefully."
"Brother Xu, how is my one?" Niu Dashi proudly spread his hand, revealing a round projectile the size of a pigeon's egg, "Isn't it big and round!" ”
Chen Xu's face darkened suddenly, and his cheeks twitched a few times and said, "It's so big, you can keep it for yourself!" ”
"Brother Dashi is so stupid, who can eat such a big one, be careful to choke to death!" Apricot expressed serious contempt and looked forward to the tragic end of Niu Dashi.
"Xiaoshi, you're too big, you can't swallow it at all if you don't have water when you're working!" As a mother-in-law, Chen Jiang's family is also a little unbearable, this future son-in-law has a good character and is down-to-earth and hardworking, but compared with his own pair of children, his brain has some petrification symptoms.
However, it seems that one family does not need both to be smart, so most of the time Chen Jiang is still very satisfied with Niu Dashi.
Under Chen Xu's guidance and affirmation, the three of them quickly fully mastered the skills and methods of rubbing Dan, although the size was not particularly uniform, but it had fully met the requirements.
So Chen Jiang's three people rubbed the Turen Pill around the small clay pot, and after rubbing it, they put it into a large pottery bowl, and Chen Xu began to deal with another very important essential medicine, hemostatic agent.
The best hemostatic medicine powder in later generations was Yunnan Baiyao.
It's a pity that he doesn't know the formula of Yunnan Baiyao at all, but after a few years with the second grandfather, he still knows a few common herbs to stop bleeding and disperse stasis, such as calamus is the most common.
Thorn cabbage is also called wild saffron, Henan is called stingy foot teeth, and the name of traditional Chinese medicine is small thistle, this thing is a kind of wild vegetable, perennial herb, the root can grow very large, and the main part of the medicinal use is the rhizome.
Originally, the best drugs to stop bleeding were Panax notoginseng and Chonglou, but these two kinds of drugs could not be found in the Central Plains region at all, and only in the Lingnan area.
At present, there are four kinds of medicines that Chen Xu has dug up, calamus sticks, white grass roots, small thistles and white roots, which can be seen almost everywhere in the countryside, and they are completely weeds and wild vegetables, and no one usually cares about them at all.
These herbs have basically been processed, and now they are also pounded into powder and packed in several bamboo tubes.
Chen Xu mixed these medicinal powders according to the proportion he guessed and then encapsulated them in a few egg-thick dried bamboo tubes, and then plugged them with a cork, and the external hemostatic agent was even ready, as for the internal consumption, there were only three kinds: Puhuang, Banlan root and licorice.
Banlan root is almost all over the country, it looks like wild rape, and it will sprout and bloom small yellow flowers in spring, this thing pigs don't like to eat, but the root is a good thing, soaking in water can treat pharyngitis and tonsil inflammation, and it also has a certain effect on cold inflammation.
There is a saying in later generations that the root of Banlan is a universal anti-inflammatory.
Therefore, if the wound is inflamed after injury, it is still necessary to take anti-inflammatory drugs in time, in this era without antibiotics, once a part of the body begins to become inflamed, the body can not resist it, it may eventually cause a serious illness, cold and cough into pneumonia, pneumonia will become tuberculosis after a long time, and then nothing can be done.
So today, Chen Xu went around in the neighborhood and dug up a large bundle of indigo roots, these indigo roots are different from those planted in later generations, they have grown for many years, the big roots are extremely strong, wash and slice and put them in a clay pot and roast them with charcoal fire for most of the day, and they don't need to be mashed, they can be brought directly, and they can be put in their mouths and chewed a few pieces at any time if they have a sore stomach.
The same goes for licorice, cut into slices and dried, packed in a bamboo tube, and if you feel poisoned, soak in water to drink or chew dry, anyway, you can't die.
When Chen Xu finished cleaning up everything, the three of Chen Jiang's family basically finished rubbing the Turen Dan.
It was almost ten o'clock in the evening, and the starry sky that could be seen a few days ago was covered by large dark clouds, and it seemed that the sky was about to change.
Looking at the large dark clouds in the night sky, Chen Xu couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, he had traveled over for more than ten days, it had always been a sunny day, and it was going to rain as soon as the new house was finished.