Chapter 42: Ginseng

The first Zuo Shaoyang took the prescription and took a look, it was the life-sustaining soup of the "Ancient and Modern Records" cited by the attached prescription of "Jin Kui Yaolu". This can dredge the meridians, reconcile the camp and guard, and dispel evil spirits. It is mainly used for the treatment of stroke, hemiplegia and other diseases.

He secretly doubted in his heart, "Jin Kui Yaolu" was written in the Song Dynasty, how could anyone know about this recipe in the early Tang Dynasty? After thinking about it, I understood that although the book "Jin Kui Yaolu" was written in the Song Dynasty, it was the miscellaneous part of the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" of Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint of the Eastern Han Dynasty compiled by the people of the Song Dynasty, and Zhang Zhongjing's book was actually a summary of the medical achievements before the Eastern Han Dynasty , but there are people who know the prescriptions recorded in it, and I am afraid that this life-sustaining soup is the same.

Glancing at Daddy's Zuogui prescription compatibility, it is the composition of the life-sustaining powder, but the key medicine "ginseng" is three taels, and it is replaced by "astragalus" three taels.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at the composition of the prescription, and immediately understood, why Huimin Tang and other pharmacies refused to treat this patient, it turned out that before the Tang and Song dynasties, the understanding of stroke was from the perspective of "inner deficiency and evil", and the treatment also used the prescription medicine to dispel the wind and dispel the evil spirit, and nourish the righteous qi, and to talk about the medicine to replenish the qi, ginseng is the first, ginseng is the first important medicine to replenish the vitality, restore the pulse and solidify the body, and save the danger, but ginseng is a very valuable medicinal material, among which the top grade ginseng is worth more than gold and silver. And this recipe is three taels when used, that is, a dose of medicine must use at least three taels of silver! Equivalent to 15,000 RMB! Seeing that these people are dressed in rags, where can they afford to pay for such expensive medicines? If the pharmacy is free to deliver medicine, how can it afford to deliver it?

Because ginseng is too expensive, they don't have this flavor medicine in Guizhitang, otherwise, they can pay the rent by selling a few ginseng or two, and they don't have to worry.

Daddy Zuogui replaced ginseng with astragalus, although astragalus is also a medicine for qi, but compared with ginseng, in the role of great vitality replenishment, it is a world of difference, if it can be changed without a big impact on the curative effect, people would have changed it a long time ago.

Tang Dynasty doctors are very helpless about this, but Zuo Shaoyang is not worried, because after the Tang and Song dynasties, the understanding and treatment of stroke, later generations have made great progress, since the Jin and Yuan dynasties, many doctors have changed the theory of stroke to "internal wind", through Liu Hejian, Zhu Danxi, Zhang Jingyue, Li Zhongzi, Ye Tianshi and other dynasties of famous doctors, especially modern medical research, has formed a far better than the Tang and Song dynasties of the complete stroke treatment rules, the treatment methods are diversified, and the efficacy has been greatly improved. To treat this disease, ginseng is not needed to achieve a good therapeutic effect.

According to the patient's condition, Zuo Shaoyang decided to use the "Lingjiao Hook Vine Soup" to add or subtract and Zixue for treatment. This prescription comes from the Qing Dynasty, mainly to cool the liver and quench the wind, with the combination of nourishing yin, dissolving phlegm, and calming the nerves, treating both the symptoms and the root causes, and is the representative prescription of the method of cooling the liver and quenching the wind. The antelope horn in this prescription is difficult to find in modern times, because the antelope is a national protected animal, but it did not exist in ancient times, it is just a very ordinary medicine, and they have it in their pharmacy. Other medicines are also common.

Because the patient is closed in the evil heat and dizzy, so he should be accompanied by the medicine to open the body and awaken the mind for treatment, Zuo Shaoyang prepared Zixue, which was used to treat the child in Laohuai Village on the first day, and the effect was remarkable, and he didn't expect to use it again soon.

Zuo Shaoyang asked the man: "Are you decocting the medicine here, or do you take it back and fry it yourself?" ”

The man said with a bitter face: "Just trouble the little brother to fry here, I'm afraid that my mother's condition won't last so long, and I can take medicine as soon as possible." ”

"That's good! Grab a pill first, eat it, and then catch it when it works, okay? ”

"Okay!" The man glanced back at the few men behind him, hesitated, and asked in a low voice, "May I ask the little brother, how much ......does this medicine cost?" ”

"Wait a minute." Zuo Shaoyang quickly picked out the medicine needed for the antelope hook vine soup, and said, "One payment of medicine, a total of twelve yuan." ”

The cost of this medicine is naturally calculated according to Zuo Gui's father's ginseng to continue his life, and the real medicine cost plus Zixue is more expensive than this, but Zuo Shaoyang can't say.

The man sighed twice, took out the money bag from his arms, pulled it open, poured out all the contents inside, and counted them, only five copper coins. Without waiting for him to speak, the few men behind him also took out their money bags and poured out all the money, adding up, finally making up enough for twelve wen. Carefully placed on the table of the left noble.

Zuo Gui caged his sleeves and glanced at the dozen or so coins on the table, but he didn't reach out to take it, obviously, he knew that his prescription would definitely have no effect, so he didn't want to accept the money. didn't know that Zuo Shaoyang had stolen the beam and changed the column. He just lowered his head and rolled up his sleeves, as if waiting for the declaration of defeat.

After the decoction was decocted, Zuo Shaoyang took out the pill Zixue and put it in the palm of his hand, came to the side of the small bed, turned his back to his father Zuo Gui, first pinched the old woman's mouth, and fed Zixue down, because the old woman was already unconscious, she could not swallow and take the medicine on her own, so she could only use a specially filled crane beak pot to reach her throat, and slowly poured the decoction into it.

Next, it's time to wait quietly.

Guizhitang didn't have much business, and these people didn't delay staying in the lobby, but they just attracted passers-by to take a look, and heard that they were treating critically ill patients, and some idlers leaned on the door to watch the excitement.

Sister Fennel and mother Liang have already moved the seat on the trolley in with the help of Miao Peilan and let the man sit. The man thanked him repeatedly, but he didn't sit down, and looked at the unconscious old mother on the bed in a daze. The rest of the men were squatting on the ground next to the bed with their sleeves crossed. Neither speaks.

Miao Peilan helped the woman who was sobbing in the corner of the wall in a low voice, the two stood aside, looking at the old woman on the bed sadly, Zuo Shaoyang took a chair and beckoned her to sit down, she smiled reluctantly, but shook her head and didn't sit. There are a room full of people and critically ill patients, so Zuo Shaoyang is naturally not good at chatting with her. I had to stand behind the counter with my sleeves crossed.

The lobby is very quiet, and the door is always dull to see the bustle, there is nothing lively to see, and many people have left.

The sun had set, and it was finally getting dark, and it was about to get up, and Fennel lit the oil lamp, but it was not good to urge them to leave, and wanted to wait until the watch.

At this moment, the man who had been standing by the bed suddenly called out in surprise: "Mother! Mother, are you awake? Mother! - My mother, she's awake! ”

When the squatting men heard this, they looked at each other and couldn't believe it, so they immediately cheered, jumped up, gathered around the bed, and shouted "Mother!" ""Old sister-in-law", "aunt", "aunt", in a mess.

The eyes of the woman Miao Peilan was holding were already swollen from crying, and when she heard this, she raised her head suddenly, shook off Miao Peilan's hand, rushed over in three steps and two steps, pulled away the man in front of her, leaned over to the side of the bed, looked at the old woman, and called out in a trembling voice: "Mother!" Mother, what do you think? Mother! The daughter-in-law is wrong, and the daughter-in-law has made amends to you here! He knelt beside the bed with a bang, knocking and kowtowing.

From the corner of the old woman's eye, a cloudy old tear slowly poured out, rolling down the corner of the eye full of crow's feet.

With tears in her eyes, Miao Peilan came over and helped the woman up.

Zuo Shaoyang got out of the medicine cabinet, separated everyone, came to the bedside, looked down, and saw that the old woman's eyes were slightly open, her eyes slowly turned, and she looked at the people in front of her one by one.

Zuo Shaoyang turned around and said happily: "Dad! Your medicine really works, the old man has woken up! ”

Yes? Zuo Gui opened his mouth in surprise, got up slowly, put down his caged hand, and muttered in his mouth: "......Wake up, wake up, wake up?" ”

"Yes, Dad, the old man has woken up, and he seems to be able to recognize people!"

Zuo Guixiao's eyes widened: "Astragalus ......, it also has the effect of ginseng?" ”

Although Fennel didn't want her father to take over the patient, the reason was that the family really didn't have the money to subsidize the cost of medicine, but since it had been taken and now it had an effect, she was still very happy in her heart, and she also went over with her mother Liang to see, and saw that the old woman's eyes were turning, looking at everyone, but she was speechless and unable to speak under the stroke. Fennel looked at Zuo Gui happily and said, "Dad! I've woken up! Let's take a look. ”

Zuo Gui hurriedly came over, the men hurriedly separated to make way, Zuo Gui paced to the bedside, bowed his head and looked at it, and said: "Old man, the old man is Lang Zhong who treats you, can you hear me?" When you hear it, you blink. ”

The old woman really blinked.

All the men around were happy, shouting with tears in their eyes: "Okay, okay! What a miracle healer! "That's it!"

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