Chapter 124: Drug Testing
Sun Xiangfu didn't want to be a businessman, but without the nourishment of business, agriculture would be difficult to do.
During this period, the difference between the production and manufacturing level of Lingnan and the Central Plains was not a star and a half, so a lot of investment was needed to improve their production efficiency.
As soon as the day dawned, Ah Yue carried a basket of lychees that had been towned with cold well water to Sun Xiangfu's residence, because Sun Xiangfu had told her before that eating more lychees with well water would not catch fire.
Sun Xiangfu knew that the reason why Ah Yue was so attentive was because she was afraid that she would forget to save her father, so every time she saw her, Sun Xiangfu would smile and tell her, "Your father's illness will be cured soon, and he will never leave you again." ”
"Ah Yue knows that the Lord is the Bodhisattva sent by God to help Ah Yue." The little girl rarely put on a smiling face and said to Sun Xiangfu.
"Who told you that?" Sun Xiangfu was stunned when he heard this.
"The little novice next to the archmage." Ah Yue replied honestly.
"That little guy's words are not credible, if there were Bodhisattvas in the world, they would have come down to save you a long time ago, and your mother and brother would not have suffered from potbelly disease and died."
Hearing this, Ah Yue's eyes were a little dazed, Sun Xiangfu didn't explain anything more to her, ate a few cold lychees, took Ah Yue's little hand, and walked in the direction of the patient concentration camp.
After a while, Sun Xiangfu saw Xuanzang and Li Chunfeng outside the concentration camp, and after a greeting ceremony, Sun Xiangfu asked, "Master, Daochang Li, are you comfortable?" ”
"A little symptom, medicine to get rid of the disease." Li Chunfeng replied very easily, then took the lychee basket in Sun Xiangfu's hand, ate the lychee, and looked good.
Xuanzang was not idle, and the three masters added medicinal materials to more than ten clay pots, and the two Taoist children brought by Xiao Shami and Li Chunfeng were helping to light the fire, and after a while, when the smell of medicine in the clay pot came out, Feng Ang also came.
"Yue Gong, you can choose people from the patients to try the medicine." Sun Xiangfu saw that Xuanzang had already divided the boiled medicine into dozens of bowls, thinking that he had a certain grasp of the dosage, so he said to Feng An.
"The first five bowls of medicine have been reduced by half compared to the amount we used yesterday, and you can choose people with strong bodies to try it. The middle five bowls and the back five bowls are reduced by 60% and 70% respectively, and you can choose people who are slightly weaker to try the medicine, but the poor monk does not know whether this medicine can kill the poisonous insects in the patient's body, if those insect medicine does not die, it will make trouble in the patient's stomach, and the patient may have to worry about his life. Xuanzang, who only understands pharmacology and doesn't know much medical skills, cautiously preached to Feng An.
Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng were full of confidence in this medicine, and after a while, after the sergeant's gong sounded several times, most of the people in the patient camp were concentrated in the open space, of course, there were a few people, who would never see today's sun.
"Feng Gong, the first batch of drug testers may be a little dangerous, let's let them volunteer!" Sun Xiangfu picked up Ah Yue and distanced himself from those patients.
"If a few people can figure out the properties of the medicine, it will be worth it."
After that, Feng Ang shouted loudly to the crowd in dialect, Sun Xiangfu could roughly understand a little bit, which meant that Feng Ang promised that if the first batch of people who tested the medicine died, he would not treat their families badly, those who had children in the family could not test the medicine first, and those who only had one person left in the family could not test the medicine, and among the more than a thousand patients, the number of people who finally met the conditions for the drug test was only a dozen.
The ancients didn't know how to prevent and treat it, usually a disease is a family illness together, like Ah Yue, it is extremely lucky, seeing this situation, not only Sun Xiangfu and Xuanzang, but even Li Chunfeng, who eats lychees, is a little gloomy on his face.
"Come on! It's up to you, if you don't drink this bowl of medicine, you will definitely die, and if you drink it, you still have a chance to live. Feng Ang said a word to more than a dozen patients in dialect, and those patients walked to the table where the medicine bowl was placed, but some people were still timid and didn't want to die now, so they didn't dare to take the medicine bowl hesitantly.
"Daddy, take your medicine."
Ah Yue didn't quite understand what Xuanzang said before, she just felt that there were many patients and few medicine bowls, so she shouted to Ah Shan, who was not part of the first batch of drug test patients.
Ah Shan heard her call, and staggered out of the crowd, glanced at Ah Yue with a nostalgic look, then turned around and knelt down towards Feng Ang in broken Chinese, "Chief, please allow me to test the first batch of medicines." ”
Feng Ang nodded appreciatively at him and said, "Well, since some people don't want to try, you can eat a bowl!" If something really happens, your daughter, the old man will raise it. ”
Ah Ang kowtowed three times, stood up and walked towards the table where the medicine bowl was placed without looking back, Xuanzang looked at his physical condition, picked up one of the bowls of medicine, and handed it to him.
"Grunt".
Ah Shan was the first to drink the medicine, but there was no reaction for a while, and then some of the other hesitant people also slowly drank the potion that did not taste very good.
"You sit down and rest first, and if you feel unwell, just say quickly."
Feng Ang shouted at the people who had drunk the medicine, and at this time, Li Chunfeng's eyes began to sweep over everyone, observing their reactions.
After more than a quarter of an hour, presumably the medicine has been initially digested in the stomach, many people's stomachs begin to tumble.
"I, I want convenience."
Ah Shan was the first to shout, and then he held his stomach and ran to the side of the clearing, the thatched hut specially prepared for the sick, and there was not much pain on his face.
Soon, another patient who had drunk the medicine followed his footsteps and ran towards the thatched house, and suddenly, a crackling sound sounded in the thatched house, and a foul smell also wafted from the direction of the thatched house.
"Pay attention to their belly for a while, if it shrinks, it proves that the medicine has worked." Sun Xiangfu shouted, and suddenly, the eyes of thousands of people in the field focused on the thatched house area.
After another moment, Ah Shan walked out of the hut, although he looked a little weaker, but everyone's eyes were on his stomach.
"It's deflated, it's really deflated, hehe, this medicine works, this medicine works······"
Feng An, who was in his fifties, shouted loudly and jumped like a child.
Li Chunfeng couldn't care about the smell of Ah Shan's body at this time, picked up his thin clothes, looked at his stomach, and sure enough, it was much more deflated than before, after reading his stomach, he entered the thatched house again, and after a while, he ran out of it with his nose covered.
"It's really a lot, it's black, and it stinks." ran out of the stinky range, and Li Chunfeng kept fanning his nose with his hand.
"These feces are the source of potbelly disease, and they must be buried deep or burned in flames." Sun Xiangfu reminded Feng Ang again, but in the past few days, Feng Ang has been sending his subordinate sergeants to beat the gong in the concentration camp to preach, basically all patients know that they can't defecate in the open, can't eat raw and cold food, and must take a bath with hot water, and the bath water must be boiled before it can be poured out.
After a while, there were sick patients who came out of the hut one after another, Feng Ang asked the sergeant to bring them enough food, but there were a few who did not come out after entering, and finally they were carried out by the sergeants, and there were three who were pulled into a coma, and after the coma, one of the unlucky people who suffocated to death.
"Now it seems that as long as the dosage of this medicine is appropriate, the probability of eating the patient is not large, first continue to use the medication for observation, if the patient's condition continues to improve, then, our treatment, will be successful." Sun Xiangfu concluded.
"Success, are we really going to succeed?" Feng Ang grabbed Sun Xiangfu's shoulder with some excitement and said.
"Eight or nine are not far from ten, the biggest problem now is the shortage of medicinal materials, in addition, the prevention work must be strictly implemented, as long as our people here are not lazy, according to the prevention manual I handed you to pay attention to their daily life, I believe the number of patients will be greatly reduced." Although Sun Xiangfu was caught by Feng An, he still said with a smile.
"Okay, good, good, the old man will definitely send people from village to village tribe to preach, supervise, and strictly let them implement."
Feng An's emotions were a little excited, and after talking to Sun Xiangfu, he informed all the potbelly patients present of the news, and suddenly, a large number of people in the field fell down.
"Sun Xiamu, Master Xuanzang, Li Daochang, please accept the old man and many suffering people in Lingnan to worship." Feng Ang stood in front of many patients and bowed at ninety degrees.
"The more public it is, the more it can't be, the more it can't be ······"
Sun Xiangfu and the three of them hurriedly helped Feng Ang up, and after comforting many patients, they let the patients go to the cool barracks to rest first.
The weather in Lingnan is in May, it is not hot, everyone chatted about some other common diseases in Lingnan, and went to the dock, where Sun Xiangfu's guards had gathered.
"Yue Gong, in addition to the big belly disease, the cold and heat disease in Lingnan has also been solved, and the poor Dao has sent a letter to Sun Daochang in Chang'an, he is the best at treating this disease, even if he can't go south immediately, there should be a prescription."
Receiving heartfelt thanks from many people, Li Chunfeng was in a good mood and said to Feng An.
"In this way, it is very good, if Sun Daochang can come to Lingnan, he will be treated as a guest." Feng Ang said with a smile.
Like the purpose of Xiao Shami's words to Ah Yue, Li Chunfeng also began to want to increase the influence of Taoism in Lingnan, and it is no wonder that religion can be easily spread in this period, they have a set of words that are easy for people in this period to believe At the same time, they have indeed done many things that are beneficial to the people, such as Sun Simiao, who has studied medicine and pharmacology all his life, and has countless living people, leaving valuable experience and knowledge for later generations of medicine, and is loved by the whole people of the Tang Dynasty.
But Sun Xiangfu didn't think that doing things that were beneficial to the people and that he had to flaunt his identity as a religious element, and said lightly, "Masters and Taoist leaders should know the truth that helping others is the foundation of happiness!" ”
Xuanzang and Li Chunfeng were stunned when they heard this, and they silently recited this sentence a few times, as if they had an understanding.