Heifu was a little impressed with Ziying, thinking that after learning that he was suffering from the disease of "Water Gu", he would cry and stay in Xiangxian County to recuperate, instead of going to the new garrison camp with worse conditions.

As a result, Ziying gritted his teeth and said, "There is more than one baby who suffers from the disease, and the baby, as a deputy supervisor and a mission, can he stay alone in the city?" "I still had to live in the new camp.

Regardless of his identity as the "Qin III" in history, if this deputy supervisor has any three strengths and two weaknesses, it is really a troublesome matter, and Heifu instructed Chen Wuyi to try his best to save his life, at the very least, to save his life.

At the beginning of April of the 35th year of Qin Shi Huang, after the relocation of the camp, Chen Wuji soon began to treat Ziying, and a bowl of medicinal soup with a strong smell was brought to him......

"What kind of medicine is this?"

Ziying looked at the dark green medicinal juice on the wooden case, frowned, and showed a suspicious look.

When Chen Wuji was cooking next door, he could smell a strange smell, and when he put it in front of him and under his nose, it smelled even more terrible.

Smell it, let alone drink it.

Chen Wuyi smiled all over his face: "Naturally, it is a good medicine, although it can't cure the water Gu eradicately, but it can also be slightly suppressed, so as not to die of an emergency." Good medicine is good for disease, Zuo Shuchang, you still drink it. ”

For more than 30 years, he has been living in a precarious situation, and his desire to survive is still strong, and he heard that this medicine can relieve the onset of small worms in the body, so he pinched his nose and drank the medicinal juice......

Sure enough, it stinks and is bitter! He had never drunk such a bad medicine!

Ziying hurriedly poured a large bowl of brown sugar water prepared by the entourage, and the bitterness in her mouth disappeared a little.

Unexpectedly, Chen Wuyi on the side told him a bad news: "This medicine must be drunk every day, twice a day, for a month!" ”

Ziying's face suddenly became bitter.

In recent years, Chen Wuyi has treated many patients with this prescription or decoction or grinding juice, and when he insisted on taking the medicine, the symptoms almost disappeared, but once he stopped taking the medicine, not long after, the symptoms came again.

That's why he said that this medicine treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and what is alleviated is actually the complication of schistosomiasis, so that people will not die of illness. Taking it for a month may be able to eliminate a small number of Gu worms, but it is not 100% guaranteed.

As for those who have been sick for many years and have swollen abdomen, according to Hef, their whole body has become a nest, their livers have been decayed, and the feces they have pulled out are full of eggs, and the medicine is no longer useful.

Ziying asked: "Shui Gu is a terminal disease, but Doctor Chen can diagnose and treat it with a skillful hand, this medicine must be very expensive, right?" ”

As a prisoner, he must know the cost of curing this illness before he can repay it to the court.

"It's not expensive."

Chen Wuyi said with a smile: "In addition to verbena and other medicines, the most important medicine can often be seen in the wild, roadsides, wastelands, hillsides, forest edges, cemeteries, everywhere, presumably Zuo Shuchang has also encountered it, the south is called Artemisia, and our doctors call it Artemisia annua." ”

"Stink?"

Ziying knows some folk sufferings and knows that Artemisia is a common weed. Artemisia is divided into many types, the general Artemisia curcuma, not only horses, cows, and deer like to eat, but also by the head of the Qianshou as a wild vegetable to satisfy hunger, written into the "poem".

And there is a unique fragrance of mugwort, also known as wormwood, is an extremely important medicinal material, often used in sacrificial occasions, can be set off to drive away snakes and insects, Xianyang imperial physicians, but also like to give people moxibustion.

Among the many artemisias, only the stinky artemisia is not loved, because its smell is so bad that even cattle and horses are unwilling to eat, and often grow around cemeteries and ruins, giving people a sense of desolation and ominousness.

But right now, Chen Wuyi used lowly grass and stinky artemisia as medicine for Ziying to drink, and said that his life depended on this thing......

This made Ziying have to re-examine this inconspicuous stinky weed.

"This thing has the effect of clearing dampness and heat, reducing swelling and poison."

Chen Wuyi took it for granted: "It is a good medicine, not only to alleviate the complication of water Gu, but also to cure malaria!" ”

……

Ziying drank the stinky artemisia juice soup for a few days, and after feeling that the symptoms of her swollen hands and feet had improved, she went to thank Heifu and Chen Wuyi.

Heifu and Chen Wuji happened to be inspecting the camp when the three of them came to a small stream, and Heifu pointed to a barracks at the other end of the stream, surrounded by ditches and wooden stakes:

"The people in that camp are all suffering from malaria, and I have put the doctors in isolation, and they are not allowed to enter or leave except for those who deliver medicine and food."

He sighed: "Although the water Gu is terrifying, it is like a blunt knife cutting meat, making it difficult for the sick, but there are not many people who directly kill me, what I am most worried about is actually malaria, which is a vicious disease that pierces the heart with a sword!" ”

Hearing this name, even Ziying couldn't help but shudder, compared to the water Gu who rarely got sick in the north, malaria was a nightmare that the whole world talked about.

Not only are there frequent occurrences in the humid and hot areas in the south, but even the Central Plains also come from time to time. After all, in the past 550 years, wars have been fought almost every year, and there are also diseases, and the most common infectious disease in the army is malaria.

Chen Wuji replied on the side: "There is a theory of malaria in "Su Wen", and the origin of malaria is also the beginning of the hair, stretching the debt is done, shivering and bulging, the waist and spine are painful, and when the cold goes, it is hot inside and outside, the headache is like breaking, and the thirst for cold drinks. ”

To put it bluntly, the symptom is to swing, severe symptoms such as fever and headache, and there is such a story circulating in the Changsha garrison:

A team of 100 people went to Bin County in the upper reaches of Xiangshui to station. After a month, no one went to the county seat to report, and the county lieutenant felt strange in his heart, and sent someone over to see that the whole camp was as dead and lonely, and went in to investigate, and there were corpses all over the ground.

I thought it was attacked by barbarians, but the deceased was unscarred, which is really strange. It was not easy to find a survivor hiding outside the camp, and the soldier said that soon after they arrived, people in the camp began to get sick, but they felt cold on a hot day and began to swing. They were all northerners, and they didn't take it seriously, but within a few days, the whole camp was sick, no one was spared, and they were so hot and weak that it was difficult to even go out of the camp to ask for help, and then they died of illness one by one......

Although it is not so exaggerated, it is true that malaria has a high mortality rate, especially among outsiders, and the disease is very high.

It is said that the surviving soldier was also sick for a year and a half, and he couldn't eat cold, and when he got hot, sweat beaded down and dripped down, and he couldn't relieve the fever even if he took off all his clothes; When the cold came, I still felt cold under the pressure of several quilts. After several tosses, the patient was very weak and often lost his life.

Ziying only felt cold teeth, and even began to be glad that he was suffering from water Gu, not malaria.

"Qi Bo said that malaria is born in the wind, caused by feeling malaria, there are many miasma in the south, and those who encounter miasma will get sick, exhale and spread, and the whole camp will be sick, this is the doctor's conclusion, but Chang Nanhou said......"

Chen Wuji looked at Heifu and said with a smile: "He said that it was caused by mosquito bites, and when the mosquitoes sucked blood, the Gu worms on their bodies entered the human body, and then they had typhoid fever, and the mosquitoes bit the whole camp overnight, and the disease also spread throughout the barracks." ”

Chen Wuyi was skeptical of Heifu's statement, thinking it was a bit ridiculous. He always felt that Heifu seemed to want to push all the illnesses to the invisible "Gu".

Heifu smiled: "Didn't the Central Plains doctors also blame all the southern customs and diseases on the 'miasma'?" ”

Northerners always talk about miasma, saying that the south is rampant, and there is dampness, heat, and evaporation among the mountains and forests, which causes people to get sick. Interestingly, the people of the Central Plains believed that there was a miasma in Jianghan, and the people of Jianghan believed that there was a miasma in Changsha and Yuzhang, and the people in Changsha and Yuzhang insisted that there was a miasma in Lingnan.

This thing seems to be synchronized with domain discrimination.

Even to the west of Shudi, because of altitude sickness, the land of Diqiang is also believed to have miasma.

In short, it's a terrifying, mysterious thing, but no one knows the truth about it.

Whether it was the miasma or the Gu worms that caused the malaria was a complicated question, and it had to be confirmed after a lot of comparative experiments, and Heifu and Chen Wuyi couldn't understand it for a while.

But isolating patients with malaria is a method that is mutually acceptable, and the medicine to alleviate the symptoms of malaria and even cure it radically has been found by relying on Heifu's suggestion.

It is still stinky artemisia, but the way to take it is no longer to decoction, but to add two liters of water and take it with minced juice.

No matter how lonely Heifu is, he also knows that "artemisinin" won the Nobel Prize, but many people don't know that the plant from which artemisinin is extracted is not Artemisia annua, but Artemisia stinky, and after decoction, the medicinal effect is almost gone. In the absence of advanced extraction methods, it is best to take it with water and mash it...... It can also be chewed with medicinal soups such as skullcap.

And the effect is really good, after the relocation of the battalion, only three of the soldiers who suffered from malaria died out of a hundred, and the symptoms of the rest of the people were alleviated.

"So, one thing descends one thing, there are water Gu and malaria in the south, but there are also stinky artemisia in the south. This thing can be seen everywhere, I have discussed with Nanjun, Hengshan, Yuzhang, and Changsha County, and the four counties can be replaced by stinky artemisia this year. ”

"The Marquis of Changnan loves soldiers like a child."

Ziying was full of emotion, only when he was sick himself could he understand that these stinky artemisia can really save lives.

"There are so many stinky artemisia, the soldiers don't have to die in vain."

Heifu sighed: "It's a pity that it's still a little late, two years ago, Doctor Chen hadn't prepared a formula that could treat malaria and other diseases. Therefore, 80,000 soldiers and civilians in the southern expedition encountered water Gu in Changsha, and 1,000 died, and 4,000 people fell ill and lost their combat effectiveness. ”

"When the army arrived in Lingnan, it had not yet fought with the Yue people, and under the ravages of malaria, ten died and two or three, and went to 10,000, and only more than 60,000 people remained, and only 10,000 people died in the defeat."

The Qin army that was killed by various diseases was actually more killed than by the Yue people.

Heifu arched his hand to Ziying: "Therefore, I hope that the prison army can show Your Majesty, the main enemy of the Southern Expedition is not the Yue people, but these invisible Gu worms and evil diseases, the army urgently needs a large number of doctors and medicinal materials, and I hope Your Majesty can distribute more." ”

"The baby must tell the truth."

Ziying knew Qin Shi Huang's temperament, it was impossible for him to complain about his bitterness and return to the dynasty, and if there were more doctors, his illness would also have a greater possibility of healing......

The Wuchang battalion was training recruits, the Changsha battalion was curing patients plagued by schistosomiasis, and Heifu's next stop was Lingqu and Guilin, where malaria was still rampant.

A sick patient cannot fight, and so is a sick army.

But just a few days before the departure, Li Cang, who was left in Changsha by Heifu to mediate with Changsha County Shou on the local schistosomiasis control, came to report:

"Junhou, in the past half a month, the Changsha County Government has built dozens of public toilets in the city and various townships, however, no people are willing to use them, and the people in the city are still drowning everywhere, washing the dung buckets by the water."

He said with some sadness: "I went to Lilu and the fields again to take a look, and no one followed the precautionary measures in the army, and the manure of cattle and horses was not composted, but directly applied to the paddy fields, and the local children were still frolicking in the epidemic water, and their parents were as if they had not seen them!" ”