A middle-aged couple at the door supported a young man, one of his hands was burned, revealing the wound on his arm, bright red and terrifying. The man groaned in pain.

The middle-aged man said, "Langzhong, my son's hand was burned, can you take a look?" ”

Zuo Gui hurriedly asked him to sit down and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"My son went to help fight the fire and was burned."

The man also whispered in pain: "I was helping to demolish the house, the fire burned too fast, and before our house was demolished, the house was set on fire, and a burning beam fell down, so I used my hand to block it, and it was burned." Ouch, it hurts......"

Zuo Gui instructed Liang to go and get scissors, ready to cut the man's wounded clothes. Zuo Shaoyang stepped forward to check the burns, and saw that the area was not large, just between the elbows and hands, and the burns were not serious, most of them belonged to the first degree of burns, and the most serious place belonged to the second degree. Conventional treatment of burns Zuo Shaoyang has learned, and he is busy whispering to his father Zuo Gui: "Dad, I have something to tell you about the treatment of burns." Go inside and say okay? ”

Zuo Gui glanced at him dissatisfiedly, thinking about how he could find such a time to speak, but he also knew that his son had nothing particularly important to do, so he would not pick this time to say. followed Zuo Shaoyang into the back room.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "The injured part must be soaked in cold water immediately, you can know ......"

"What did you say?" Zuo Gui was taken aback: "Burns can't be poured with cold water!" The fire sores are cold, the heat is deeper into the bones, and the bad guys are bones! Don't you know that? ”

Zuo Shaoyang studied the history of Chinese medicine and knew that this view of Daddy Zuo Gui was a backward theory in the early treatment of burns in Chinese medicine. Modern research has found that after being burned, in the shortest possible time, the wound is cold, showered, and soaked for about half an hour with clean cool water, but the heat can stop the continuous damage to human tissues, inhibit the production of living substances that damage capillaries, improve the permeability of capillaries, reduce tissue exudate and edema, and reduce pain. Of course, cold water treatment is only used for small to medium-sized first- and second-degree burns. It is not suitable for patients with extensive and severe burns and shock.

Zuo Shaoyang whispered to Zuo Gui: "Dad, the old doctor who taught me medical skills said that for burns, it is necessary to soak or rinse the injured part with cold water as soon as possible, which is very good for the wound." ”

Zuo Gui's voice was very high: "Nonsense! No one has ever done this, and the old bell doctor taught you a few prescriptions that are also effective, but this trauma treatment, he is afraid that he is not good at it, and what he says is obviously wrong! I don't allow you to mess around and fool around with patients! ”

Zuo Shaoyang couldn't cry or laugh, burns must be treated with cold water as soon as possible, and the sooner it was done, the sooner it was. But Daddy Zuogui resolutely blocked it, and there was no way to do it at all.

While the two were arguing in the house, there was a knock on the door. A few children are teenagers who don't know the taste of sorrow, before seeing the adults nervous and flustered, they also cried, now the adults are not nervous, they are happy to jump, heard the sound of knocking on the door, and rushed to open the door.

When the door was opened, several children were so frightened that they screamed and ran away, but it turned out that the door was five door panels carried by several soldiers, and on them lay five blood-drenched soldiers, moaning in pain.

First, a military academy stood at the door and stabbed loudly: "Which one is Lang Zhong from the pharmacy?" ”

When Zuo Gui heard this, he hurriedly came out of the house and arched his hand: "Old decay is." ”

The military academy looked him up and down, and said: "Our general said that this time against the enemy, many brothers were killed and wounded, because the number of injured brothers is too large, the military doctor can't take care of them, these brothers have been lying in the courtyard for a long time, and no one takes care of them, so the general ordered, send some of the wounded who are relatively lightly injured to various pharmacies in the city, please help treat them." You can rest assured that the cost of medicine and consultation is indispensable for you. With that, he threw a copper coin on the long case.

A copper coin is only a hundred yuan, Zuo Shaoyang took a look, the five soldiers, one was burned, three were wounded by arrows, two were in the thigh, one was in the shoulder, and the other leg bone was broken.

Zuo Gui hurriedly agreed: "Okay, the soldiers should protect our people and do their best to heal." ”

"Okay, put people down. Hurry up and get help, we're leaving. ”

The soldiers who carried the door panels carried the wounded soldiers in and placed them in the open space in the lobby, and then left. Zuo Gui immediately squatted down and began to check.

With this effort, Zuo Shaoyang quietly brought a basin of cold water out of the kitchen, put it on the bench waiting at the door, and motioned to the young man who came before to sit down next to the basin, and put the burned hand into the basin for soaking.

The young man and his parents who accompanied him didn't hear what Zuo Shaoyang and Zuo Gui said in the back room, so they didn't know that Zuo Gui was against doing this, and after listening to what Xiao Langzhong said, he thought it was Zuo Gui's meaning, so he sat on the bench and put his injured hand into the basin of cold water, and suddenly felt a cool feeling at the burned arm, and his moaning sounded much calmer.

The middle-aged man asked, "Xiaolangzhong, how long do you want to soak?" ”

"A meal or so."

Zuo Shaoyang came to the side of the five soldiers, and saw that Zuo Gui was treating the arrow wound of the one who was hit in the thigh, and the burned soldier burned his face, which was not handled well, and it would leave scars, pigmentation and disfigurement. The face is not easy to soak in water. Only cold compresses should be applied.

The five soldiers were placed in the lobby, and the hall was immediately stuffed, Zuo Shaoyang said to Zuo Gui's father: "Dad, why don't you put the burns and fractures in the concoction room?" Otherwise, it would be inconvenient to walk in the lobby. ”

Zuo Guitou didn't reply: "Okay, you tell Miss Miao to move." ”

Miao Peilan had already heard it, and hurriedly rushed to the concoction room, rolled up the two younger brothers' covers and put them aside, vacated the open space, and then helped Zuo Shaoyang carry the two wounded soldiers on the door panel into the house, and then brought a plate of cold water out of the kitchen and put it next to the burned soldier, the soldier was still conscious, Zuo Shaoyang told him to keep applying cold water to the burns on his face, and to apply a cold compress to a meal. Keep changing the water, you can't be afraid of the cold, otherwise you will have a scar on your face, and you can't blame yourself for not reminding you if you can't marry a daughter-in-law.

The soldier was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and at first glance he was an honest boy from the countryside, so he hurriedly agreed, and soaked himself in cold water and compressed himself with a handkerchief.

Zuo Shaoyang brought two bottles of potions, these two bottles of medicine are configured by Zuo Shaoyang himself, taken from the Qing Dynasty's "Yizong Jinjian", one of which is taken internally, mainly with Shengchuan Wu, Shengcao Wu with Wu Jinhua, Yang Hee, Turmeric, etc., the function is anesthesia and pain relief. The other bottle is for external medicine, with Chuanwu with Shengnanxing, Toad Crisp, etc., which is a local anesthetic prescription for external application. It can relieve the pain first, and also prepare for the subsequent bone grafting.

Zuo Shaoyang wiped the medicine for the soldier with a broken leg bone, and fed him an internal osteopathic anesthetic, so that he could help him with his bone after a while.

Zuo Shaoyang came out of the concoction room and came to Daddy Zuo Gui, Zuo Gui was still treating the two arrow wounded soldiers, and at this time he was taking out the arrow cluster on the leg for one of the soldiers who was hit by an arrow in the leg, but this arrow was a wolf tooth arrow with a barb, if it was pulled hard, it would tear off a large piece of flesh alive.

Zuo Gui could only use a knife to cut the incision, and then take out the wolf tooth arrow. However, because Zuo Gui did not use anesthetics, the arrow was shot very deep and could not be taken out for a while, and the soldier screamed in pain.

In Chinese herbal medicine, there are many medicinal materials with anesthetic effect, such as fine xin for dental anesthesia, Xin Yi for local anesthesia, Sichuan Wu for local anesthesia such as osteopathy, chicken yaten, toad crisp, and nutmeg, etc., but the best anesthetic effect is the mandala flower (scientific name goldenrod).

Modern medicine has proved that the anesthetic effect of the pure Chinese medicine formula based on goldenrod can basically meet the clinical requirements, the anesthesia is stable, the patient is quiet, and the operation can be completed smoothly, even if a few surgical stimulation reactions occur, they are relatively weak, and there is no need to change to other Western medicine anesthesia.

The mandala flower is said to have originated in India and is closely related to Buddhism, and with the introduction of Buddhism to China, the mandala flower was also introduced to China, and before the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was already cultivated or wild in various parts of China. Unfortunately, the anesthetic effect of this drug has not attracted the attention of ancient healers for a long time.

The development of ancient anesthetics is very backward, only according to legend, the Eastern Han Dynasty Huatuo Divine Doctor once used an anesthetic called "Ma Boiling San", in which the specific formula was lost after his death, but it is speculated that mandala flowers may have been used.

The people of the Song Dynasty once recorded that thieves used this flower to grind the powder, put it in other people's diet, and waited for the other party to fall asleep before stealing property. However, it has not been used in medical clinics.

For more than 1,000 years after Hua Tuo in the Eastern Han Dynasty, TCM surgery was carried out without good anesthetics, so the development of TCM surgery was generally very backward, basically staying at the level of low requirements for anesthetics such as the treatment of muscle surface sores and carbuncles. The treatment of injuries and orthopedic osteopathy has become a severe test of the patient's will, and patients often die due to painful shock.

It was not until Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty that the goldenrod (mandala flower) was recorded as a medicinal material in the medical book for the first time, indicating that the goldenrod began to be used as an anesthetic at that time.

Therefore, in the early Tang Dynasty, the treatment of Jinchuang's trauma was hard, and it was common for patients to faint in pain.

Zuo Shaoyang heard the soldier's cry miserable, and suddenly remembered this mandala flower, this kind of flower is only available in Bai Zhihan's family in the whole Hezhou, but this woman was born with a proud surname, and she asked her to buy it before, but she was arrogant, Zuo Shaoyang really didn't want to beg her. However, there are many soldiers who are injured at the moment, and if they can be dispensed with anesthetics, it can be of great help.

At that moment, the soldier's screaming stopped, but he had passed out in pain, and even his lips were bitten.

Zuo Gui rarely treats this kind of golden wound, and when he saw this, he didn't dare to take any more arrows, where was the blood in his hands, and turned his head to look at Zuo Shaoyang.

(To be continued)