During the time when Yuyan was sick, a drama was prepared in the palace. During this time, the woman we called the Empress Dowager Cixi did not settle down.

She doesn't know what to tinker with in her own palace. Divided into many bottles and filled with something in powder form.

China has always been a great country in medicine, and there are many records of herbal medicine since ancient times, including many powerful poisons. The main records are: Broken Intestine Grass, Tripterygium Wilfordii, another Broken Intestine Grass - Hook Kiss, Wine, Arsenic, Crane Peak Red, Crocus Shellfish, Oleander, Natural Arsenic, Aconite, Seeing Blood Sealing Throat Also known as Poison Arrow Tree, Artemisia on the Snow, Love Flower, etc.

Comrades who have watched "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" will definitely remember how Yang Guo detoxified after being poisoned by the poison of love flowers, that is, using broken intestine grass to fight poison with poison. The Broken Intestine Grassland is a plant of the family of Gourdaceae, which is not a small grass at all, as the book says, but an annual vine. Its main toxic substance is gourdine vine. It is recorded in the original book that after eating, the intestines will become black and sticky, and people will die of abdominal pain. The general detoxification method is gastric lavage, taking carbon ash, then using alkaline water and emetic, and taking it after gastric lavage with mung bean, honeysuckle and licorice to decoction. Broken intestine grass - there is also a saying that Lei Teng ("Dictionary of Chinese Medicine") mung bean, honeysuckle and licorice are actually universal antidotes, as well as lychee pedicles, raw soy milk, etc.

Tripterygium wilfordii is found in the shade and damp places of mountain forest edges. It is distributed in the south of the Yangtze River basin and southwest China. The roots are picked in autumn, the leaves are picked in summer, and the flowers and fruits are picked in summer and autumn.

function

Tripterygium wilfordii has the effect of insecticide, anti-inflammatory, and detoxification, and is an insecticide widely used in vegetable gardens in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in China, with the functions of dispelling wind, detoxification and insecticide. It is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, leprosy, etc. Its roots, leaves, and flowers can be smashed and applied externally, but after applying the root, it must be removed after half an hour, otherwise it will blister.

Symptoms of poisoning

The incubation period is usually about 2 hours, and the symptoms appear earlier and more severe if the decoction or alcohol consumption is consumed at the same time. The general time of death is about 24 hours, and the maximum time is not more than 4 days. Poisoning begins with dizziness, headache, palpitations, weakness, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating, muscle pain, howling, struggle, numbness or convulsions in the limbs, pain in the liver and kidneys. Bloody stools, oliguria, edema, occasionally hematuria, urine retention, decreased blood pressure, cyanosis of the labial, sometimes dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, shock, acute renal failure, and uremia. Occasionally, myocardial damage is complicated by arrhythmia, cardiogenic cerebral ischemic syndrome, nosebleeds, vomiting blood, generalized and cold pill pain, hair loss in the later stage, and inflammation can be caused by skin contact.

Rescue methods

1. It can spend 5 days after poisoning, and the prognosis is better. Persons who come into contact with poisoning should be removed from the scene immediately.

2. The drug should be stopped immediately when nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, abdominal distention, pain in the liver and kidney area, and elevated protein and serum aminotransferases occur in the urine during treatment.

3. Induce vomiting, gastric lavage, catharsis and enema as soon as possible.

4. Intravenous infusion of 10% dextrose water or 5% dextrose saline.

Other; Symptomatic treatment: such as pulmonary edema, cardiogenic cerebral ischemic syndrome, acute renal failure, hyperkalemia and severe uremia, etc., should be rescued according to conventional methods. In acute renal failure, hyperkalemia, and severe uremic, immediate dialysis therapy is often effective. Atropine is used for abdominal pain, and diazepam can be used for neurological symptoms.

Hook kiss

That is, the gourd vine, also known as wild kudzu, poisonous root, Hu vine grass, fishy, yellow vine, broken intestine grass, kiss kudzu (these two are found in "Mengxi Pen Talk") Chaoyang grass, big tea medicine, big tea vine, tiger wolf grass, Suokura grass, cannon leaves, yellow flower bitter wilvine, yellow mengcai, cold vine, garcinia cambogia, big tea (Guangxi name) big chicken bitter vine, etc. It is an annual vine of the family Nux (Brother Jing Man, the information I have seen is so). Sun-loving, ovate-oblong leaves opposite, with small yellow flowers, 5 calyx funnel-shaped, ovate capsules, flowering from August to November, fruit from December to February. Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou are all distributed. The whole plant contains alkaloids such as Snoutzo (the most), Yin (the most dramatic), Mao, A, C, Chen, B and so on.

The lethal dose of hook kiss in animal experiments is 0.8mg/kg (ruthless enough) The symptom is respiratory paralysis, and the symptoms of hook kiss B are the same, but the interesting thing is that the animal heart is still beating at this time, and ephedrine and other substances have no obvious rescue effect, which proves that hook kiss is not acting on the central nervous system or peripheral nerves, according to the muscle weakness after poisoning, so it is generally believed that it acts on spinal cord motor neurons. Leptosin nails are less toxic and can be used as analgesics to work better with aspirin, but none of them have ganglionic effects, unlike curares. It also has an inhibitory effect on adrenaline and smooth muscle, that is, it can suppress the heart and lower blood pressure.

Medical

Leptosin (mainly leptosin A) can treat neuralgia, especially trigeminal neuralgia, and can also treat acute poliomyelitis, but the terrible thing is that the therapeutic dose of this thing is almost the same as the toxic dose, and it is always worrying to use, once the breathing is abnormal, it is necessary to take measures as soon as possible. Topical use can treat rheumatic joint pain, carbuncles, Jinchuang, etc

Symptoms of poisoning

Neuromuscular paralysis, diplopia, burning pain in the digestive tract, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal distension or constipation, rapid heartbeat followed by slow heartbeat, dyspnea, collapse, etc. As mentioned earlier, leptosin acts on the motor neurons of the spinal cord, which makes it more difficult to deal with it, there is no specific drug, the general first aid method is gastric lavage, vomiting, catharsis, etc., Chinese medicine can be used in Sanhuang decoction (Huangcen, Huanglian, Phellodendron chinensis, licorice) to administer, or honeysuckle juice and brown sugar infusion, etc., there is also a home remedy: fresh sheep blood by heat irrigation also has an effect. It can also be used to detoxify with camelina, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that camelina is sweet, cold, and non-toxic. Medium hook snout poison (the leaves of the hook snout resemble a kind of celery, which can be life-threatening after accidental ingestion). Add six liters of water to eight taels of camelina, and cook to three liters. Take five times a day.