The symptoms of sumac allergy are similar to this, and it can also cause swelling of the face, neck, fingers, arms, etc., and it can also itch.

The man recalled for a moment: "I don't know if I touched it, I just cared about digging wild vegetables on the ground, and sometimes I was tired, and I leaned on the tree to rest for a while, and I didn't pay attention to whether it was a lacquer tree." ”

"Then think about it, did you come across anything else strange before you were swollen and itchy?"

The man recalled for a while: "I really didn't pay attention, I just paid attention to digging wild vegetables......"

The old woman added: "In the first two months, the rebels did not allow them to go up to the top of the mountain to pick wild vegetables, and all the wild vegetables below the mountain were all picked on the top of the mountain, and the trees on the top of the mountain were not touched. ”

Zuo Shaoyang saw that he couldn't ask anything, so he decided to treat the allergy to lacquer for the time being. Many medications for skin allergies are the same, so they may be effective.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Carry it to our pharmacy." ”

The four brothers of the Li family helped carry it and returned to the city. Go straight to Guizhi Hall.

As soon as they entered the pharmacy, everyone was dumbfounded, there were seven or eight door-carrying door panels in the lobby, and there were three or four soft couches, on which were all humming and chirping patients, all of whom had big heads like buckets, their eyes were so swollen that their eyes were squinted, and their two hands kept scratching their bodies, obviously very itchy. Some even have a high fever and dizziness.

Zuo Gui's father saw that this time he brought in a patient with a swollen head and kept tickling, and his face was even more sad, and when he saw that it was his son Zuo Shaoyang who followed up, he said happily: "Zhong'er, you are back, take a look, these people have been waiting for you for a long time." I showed it, and rubbed it with some ointment to clear heat and detoxify, but it didn't work. I don't know what kind of disease I have. ”

Guizhitang gave medicine porridge to help the people in this famine, and his son was named "model of supporting the army" by the general, riding a high-headed horse to travel around the world, coupled with the previous propaganda of Li Damiang, the word of mouth for the treatment of fracture and burn patients in the famine war, especially during the two-month famine, the famous doctor Ni of Huimin Tang was in Guizhitang to sit in Guizhitang for consultation, and later for Guizhitang to go up the mountain to collect medicine, which is even more sensational, and now it can be said that everyone in all four miles and eight towns knows it, and the reputation is very good and famous. But in terms of reputation, it is not much inferior to Huimin Hall. Moreover, Guizhitang has a stronger place than Huimin Tang, that is, the cost of medicine is cheaper.

Therefore, most of these patients, whose faces and hands are swollen and their heads are as itchy as a bucket, are poor people, and they all come to Guizhitang to seek medical treatment because of the reputation of Guizhitang's benevolent doctors and the low cost of medicine. When I came, I realized that there were already many patients with the same symptoms as them in Guizhi Hall.

After Zuo Gui's rectification, these people did not get better, they were so anxious that they wanted to transfer to the pharmacy for treatment, Zuo Gui naturally couldn't let them go like this, and the reputation that had been erected with great difficulty would be ruined, so he accompanied Xiao and patiently persuaded them to wait for his son Zuo Shaoyang to come back, claiming that Zuo Shaoyang could cure this disease. In fact, Zuo Gui has never seen Zuo Shaoyang cure such a strange disease, but he just relies on a trust in his heart.

These people have also heard that Guizhitang Xiaolangzhong has cured many terminal diseases that cannot be cured by other medical centers, including the county lord who came to Guizhitang to seek medical treatment (in fact, it was an investigation, the people did not know, it was pure misinformation at that time), so they waited patiently.

Finally waited for Zuo Shaoyang to come back, and all the patient's family members surrounded him, and anxiously asked him to take a look at the disease.

Zuo Shaoyang asked everyone to be calm, first glanced at all the patients, and found that they were all similar diseases, and they couldn't help but have big heads, and most of the patients were ragged people, and a small part of them were gorgeously dressed, obviously not ordinary people. These people shouldn't go up the mountain to touch the sumac tree, right?

Zuo Shaoyang asked the three or four rich-to-rich, well-dressed patients, and learned that during the two months of famine, he had gone up the mountain to pick wild vegetables or buy wild vegetables from others to eat, but since the imperial court sold grain, he could buy grain, and he never went up the mountain again.

And sumac allergy cannot be latent for a few days before it happens, so it can basically be ruled out that these people have encountered sumac allergies, at least these rich patients can be ruled out as sumac allergies.

He asked other poor patients, and learned that they were all going up to the mountains to gather wild herbs these days. After all, after renting the land, the amount of grain on credit is limited, and if the family wants to hold out until the end of autumn, they must eat it with wild vegetables.

However, at least half of these patients say with certainty that they have never touched a sumac tree! Didn't even encounter a sumac tree.

The lacquer tree is familiar to people as early as spring and autumn, and the general public also knows it. Half of these people said that they had never touched a lacquer tree, so they ruled out that these people were allergic to lacquer.

So what is it about allergies, or what is it that makes so many hungry people sick at the same time with the same symptoms?

Zuo Shaoyang first treated several patients with high fever and faint speech, using heat-clearing and antispasmodic drugs combined with acupuncture treatment, which quickly controlled the body temperature and restored the patient's consciousness.

The patient's family members immediately increased their confidence and thanked them vigorously.

At the same time as Zuo Shaoyang's treatment, he repeatedly asked about the onset of the disease, but he still failed to find the cause. It is only possible to decide on the basis of the surname first.

He asked the families of the patients to send them to the next room, where they lay down on their beds. Advise patients to limit their water intake, eat a light diet, and put as little salt as possible. At the same time, the patient's urine output and frequency of urination should be observed.

He used common medicines for itching such as burdock seeds, nepeta, and white fresh skin, as well as medicines for treating facial swelling such as ephedra, almonds, and perilla leaves, and decocted them in water for the patients. It is also used with bitter ginseng, white fresh skin, cnidium monnieri, borneol, musk, etc. to prepare anti-itching and anti-inflammatory potion, and rub the affected area to relieve itching.

By the end of the day, the puffiness had begun to subside, and the itching had been reduced, at least it could be controlled. The patients and their families were very happy and praised Zuo Shaoyang's medical skills.

Zuo Shaoyang couldn't be happy, he knew that this kind of right medicine was only a symptom but not a cure, not a radical cure, and the real allergen must be found.

In the process of diagnosis and treatment, he knew that there were some patients with the same symptoms, so he went to other pharmacies, so he asked someone to go to each pharmacy to have a look. It was found that the patients admitted to these pharmacies could not find a suitable prescription, so they could only prescribe the right medicine, and the effect was almost the same.

In the evening, Zuo Shaoyang revisited the patients again, but as a result, nothing was found, and the patients' conditions basically stopped developing, and they did not get better or worse. Zuo Shaoyang knew that this was because the cause of the pathogen was not found, and by the next day, the condition could deteriorate again, and he couldn't help but feel very heavy.

The patients and their families did not know the reason, but they were satisfied to see that their condition had improved significantly compared to when they first arrived. In the evening, they all took out food to eat, and the swelling of the patient had subsided a little, and he was able to eat something, and he lay on the bed and ate the bread.

A four or five-year-old child handed a piece of cake to Zuo Shaoyang: "Give it to you!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled and shook his head: "Uncle is not hungry, you can eat by yourself." ”

The child was grateful to him for treating his mother and alleviating his mother's pain, and he didn't care whether the things in his hand were good or not, anyway, in his opinion, it was good, so he stuffed the piece of cake in his hand into Zuo Shaoyang's hand: "Eat!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang picked it up and looked at it, it was a piece of cake made by crushing wild vegetables, adding bran husks, and a little black noodles together. He broke off a small half, and was about to put it in his mouth, when he suddenly sighed, looked at the wild vegetable cake carefully, and asked urgently, "What kind of wild vegetables is this cake made of?" Isn't it gray cabbage? ”

The child's father smiled and said, "Yes." ”

Zuo Shaoyang immediately checked the food in the hands of other patients, and most of the food was gray cabbage!

Zuo Shaoyang also examined the patient's edema and itching areas, almost all of them were on the exposed face, neck and arms, and there was no edema and itching on the torso.

Zuo Shaoyang slapped his head, secretly scolded himself for not observing carefully, and said happily: "I know what the cause of the illness is!" ”

Gray cabbage is a typical photosensitive vegetable, people with allergies eat it, and when exposed to the sun, it will affect the normal metabolism of the body, which will cause skin damage such as edema and blisters. The scientific name of this disease is "vegetable dermatitis". In addition to gray cabbage, shepherd's cabbage, amaranth, rape, etc. are easy to cause.

This disease is not for everyone, only people with allergies eat it, and they are exposed to the sun to induce dermatitis. Although many people have eaten gray cabbage in two months, but the vast majority of people will not get sick after eating gray cabbage, although a small number of people with allergies have the possibility of developing diseases, but because there are few sunny days in these two months, and the sun in winter and spring is not very hot, therefore, there are very few people who induce dermatitis surnamed Yueguang, even if there is, the degree is not serious, and it can heal itself slowly.

And this day is the first time in two months that the sun is so big and so hot, and many people have the strength to eat after eating on credit, all the mountains dig gray cabbage and other wild vegetables mixed with grain to eat together, exposed to the sun under the sun, as a result, among them, people with allergies and physique will get sick. Where you are exposed to the sun, symptoms of swelling and itching dermatitis may appear. And where there is no sun exposure, it will not appear.

The patients looked at him more than they knew what he meant, could he have cured the disease six or seven points better without knowing the reason?

Zuo Shaoyang must tell them the source of the disease, otherwise, this disease will recur. Then he said loudly: "Blind date, your edema and itching is caused by exposure to the sun after eating gray cabbage!" ”

As soon as these words came out, dozens of people in the ward were in an uproar, and the old woman I met in the field before laughed and said: "Model Zuo, we have all eaten gray cabbage for many years and basked in the sun, but we have never been like this." ”

"I've been eating it all these days, am I going to be swollen like a pig's head?" A man was worried.

"Yes, yes, Zuo model, will we be okay?

…… The ward immediately began to gossip.

(To be continued)