Chapter 181: Life-Saving Herbs
I first memorized the four medicinal herbs that the Qingfeng Dao Chang told me, such as honeysuckle, forsythia, pulsatilla, and white flower snake tongue, and then hurriedly picked him up and walked towards the house, and just put the Qingfeng Dao Chang on the bed and settled down, the old man brought a basin of warm water and a towel, and asked me to cover the head of the Qingfeng Dao Master with a towel. Lewen Mobile Network
After settling down Qingfeng Dao Chang, I tried the fat man's body temperature again, and found that he was now beginning to have signs of fever, so I found a wet towel to cover the fat man's head.
Seeing that it was dawn, I planned to prepare to look for those four medicinal materials around here, but I knew the other four medicinal materials that Qingfeng Dao Chang told me, even the white flower snake tongue I had never heard of, and the remaining three medicinal materials were not rare medicinal materials, and they were found everywhere in the countryside and mountains.
"Young man, I've cooked some porridge and come and drink two bowls." At this time, the old man who had been busy making breakfast called me.
I agreed and walked over, sat down at the table and drank porridge with pickles, after all, it is also an individual job to go outside to find medicinal herbs, how can I do it if I don't have a full stomach?
"By the way, uncle, do you know what kind of medicinal herb that white flower snake tongue is?" While drinking porridge, I looked at the old man sitting across from me and asked.
"I've really heard of this, what are you going to do with the two of them? Do you want me to call the village doctor to take a look at them? The old man looked at me and asked.
I smiled and said:
"That's not necessary, you don't have to make a noise about the drought, I'm going to go out and pick some herbs by myself, and they're all fine." I declined the old man's kindness.
When the old man heard me say this, he didn't say anything more, so he buried his head in drinking porridge, but he didn't take a few sips, as if he thought of something again, put down the porcelain bowl in his hand, looked at me and said:
"By the way, don't you recognize that kind of snake grass? There is an old Chinese medicine doctor in our village, and he often goes up to the mountains to collect Chinese medicine, why don't I take you to ask him? ”
After hearing this, I was overjoyed in my heart, and I was worried about how to find the white flower snake tongue, if there was a well-informed old Chinese medicine doctor here, then the problem would be much simpler.
Thinking of this, I hurriedly drank the remaining small half bowl of porridge, cleaned up a little with the old man, and asked him to take me to the old Chinese medicine doctor's house.
The countryside people pay attention to the sunrise and sunset, so just after dawn on this day, someone carried a sickle and a bamboo basket on his back, and walked out of the house, probably preparing to go up to the grass nest in front of him to cut some grass and take it home to feed the livestock.
Along the way, I followed the old man to say hello to people, and finally came to the home of the old Chinese medicine doctor, and after the old man's help to introduce, I saw the old Chinese medicine doctor who was in his 60s and had a very tough body.
After a while of greetings, I directly expressed my intention, just to ask him what kind of medicinal herb this white flower snake tongue is, is it herbaceous or woody? What does it look like and how do you identify it?
When the old Chinese medicine doctor heard what I asked, he stroked the white beard on his chin, smiled at me, and said:
"Young man, I just have the white flower snake tongue here, this white flower snake tongue is miraculous for detoxification, if you need it urgently, I will send you some."
When I heard what the old Chinese medicine doctor said to me, I couldn't help but be happy, looked at him and said:
"Okay, thank you, I'll give you the money......"
When the old Chinese medicine doctor heard me say this, he waved his hand again and again, and said to me with kindness:
"Young man, look at what you say, that white flower snake tongue is not a valuable Chinese medicine, how can I ask for your money? I'm here to save people, not to hurt people, if you take it seriously, you exchange this thing that can hurt people for something that can save people, won't I lose money? So you hurry up and put your money away. ”
At this time, the old man who brought me here also opened his mouth and said to me:
"This Brother Li has been sick in our village for decades, and he doesn't charge a penny......
Hearing this, I can't help but be in awe of this kind old Chinese medicine doctor in front of me, this impetuous and utilitarian society now, there are still such people who hang pots to help the world, care about the world, and regard money as dung, which is really praiseworthy.
"He just wants the land." The old man added such a sentence halfway through the sentence, I didn't fall down at once!
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Fortunately, this old Chinese medicine doctor is indeed talking and counting, and found me two white flower snake tongue medicinal materials that were just picked back yesterday, and pinched this white flower snake tongue in my hand, I was really embarrassed to open my mouth to ask people for something else, so I had to say goodbye to the old man and leave.
Then he planned to go up the mountain to find the remaining honeysuckle, forsythia and pulsatilla, these three medicinal materials are also relatively numerous, and they are everywhere in the mountains, and it is not difficult to find them.
The old man sent me to the head of the village, and I myself rushed to a dense forest in front of the village not far behind the village, because I was not familiar with the place here, and I was afraid that I would get lost and delay the time to save the fat man, so I dared to go too far, so I had to wander around the village.
Fortunately, the effort paid off, and it didn't take long for me to find two honeysuckles in a row, and after digging them out of the ground, I put them in my pocket, and continued to search, and after half an hour, I found a forsythia in a pile of bushes, and a small one of the branches and leaves was broken, and they were put away.
Next, there is only one last medicinal herb left, that is, pulsatilla, which also has an alias in our countryside, called "Nai He Cao", as for why it is called Nai He Cao, I don't know, but I know the allusion to the name Pulsatilla.
According to legend, when the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu was trapped in Beijing, life was extremely difficult, and it was often "the remnant cup is not with the cold, and there is sorrow everywhere".
One morning, Du Fu drank a bowl of leftover porridge from two days ago, and soon vomited and had severe abdominal pain, but he lived in a thatched hut, penniless, and had no money to seek medical advice. At this time, a white-haired old man happened to pass by in front of his house, and when he saw this scene, he was very sympathetic to Du Fu, and after inquiring about his condition, he said: "You wait for a while, and wait for the old man to collect medicine to treat you." ”
Not long after, the white-haired old man picked a handful of wild grasses with white pubescence and decocted them for Du Fu to swallow. After Du Fu finished taking it, the pain slowly disappeared and he recovered after a few days. Because "no one asks about self-pity, but pity is a pulsatilla", Du Fu named this grass "Pulsatilla" to express his gratitude to the white-haired old man.
So this pulsatilla is also very easy to recognize, looking at a plant with a circle of white pubescence, that is the pulsatilla.
After looking for a long time, I finally found a pulsatilla, and when I saw that all the medicinal materials had been collected, I was afraid that things would change later, so I hurried back.
When I returned to the old man's house, I saw that he was repairing the window, so I said hello, took out the garlic mortar from the table, cleaned one side, put the four herbs into the garlic mortar, and slowly polished it.
After grinding these four herbs, I took them and walked over to the fat man lying on the bed, and when I slowly removed the gauze from the fat man's body, an extremely unpleasant smell came out, as if it smelled of rotten meat!
I looked down and found that black liquid began to slowly emerge from the three blood holes in the fat man's chest, and there were even strands of yellow fluid in the middle.
My scalp was numb when I saw these things in front of me, and I thought to myself how many sins the fat man had to suffer this time, and the corpse poison on the drought's body was too powerful, right?!
Thinking in my heart, I carefully and evenly smeared all the medicinal materials on the three blood holes on the fat man's chest, and after smearing them, the black liquid in the wound kept flooding outward, and the unconscious fat man also snorted a few times in pain at this time, and then stopped moving.
Seeing this reaction, my heart was somewhat calm, and sure enough, it worked, I stood by the fat man's bed and waited for a while, and then waited for the black liquid to come out, and smeared the fat man's wound again.
The black liquid that came out this time was obviously much less than last time, and it seemed that the corpse poison in the fat man's body was almost the same.
I bandaged the fat man again with a strip of cloth, and the Qingfeng Dao Chang also woke up at this time, sat up from the bed at once, looked at me and opened his mouth and asked:
"What is the lunar calendar today?"