I saw him walk quickly towards me, handed me the bag in his hand, and said, "Take it!" ”

I took it and opened it, and there were countless tiny yellowish twigs, each about a third the length of a little finger and the thickness of an embroidery needle. I picked up some and looked at them carefully, and found that they were all finely removed, and I couldn't help but praise: "It's worthy of Daddy!" These are all top-notch! ”

This is the important medicinal herb that I asked Daddy Yan to collect last night, the most important medicine in my recipe this time, and it is also the thing that the old man wrote down his name in his notebook back then: ephedra.

The function of ephedra can be summed up in two words: yang.

The so-called yang energy is the energy contained in the human body, and the strength and duration of this energy release will determine a person's lifespan and health status.

Ephedra, on the other hand, mobilizes the body's yang energy to ascend and radiates from the body surface in the form of sweat, thereby expelling the cold energy that invades the body, including bacteria and viruses in modern terms.

This is also the most commonly used among the three major treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine to remove external evils: sweating, spitting, and descending.

Seeing my happy appearance, Daddy Yan smiled a little helplessly and said, "You kid is also bold, dare to use this flavored medicine!" ”

As he said, because ephedra sweating is powerful, once used excessively, it will cause people to lose their vitality due to excessive consumption. If the patient is cured, it is nothing, in case of an accident, the doctor is easy to be held accountable, so there are fewer and fewer doctors who dare to use it to form a prescription.

And this flavor medicine was later involved in another troublesome thing, that is, some people would use it to make drugs to harm society, so it became a drug that was blindly regulated. After the dosage is strictly limited, the role of clinical practice can be smaller, and I think it is a matter of time before I withdraw from the stage of history.

It was only then that I felt the benefits of the Eastern Han Dynasty, otherwise wouldn't I have to choose between saving my life and breaking the law?

With the materials ready, I walked back with the medicine bag and asked Xu Youren, "Is there a separate room on the edge of your village that is convenient for boiling medicine and recuperating from the sick?" ”

He thought for a moment and said, "There is a thatched hut in the east of the village, and the people who originally lived there have ...... Passed away, I think it's okay there, that's it...... It's a little broken. ”

"Okay," I replied, "I'll go and fetch Xiaomei back now, and nurse her there, so you can do whatever you want, and don't come here if you don't tell you." ”

He nodded and was just about to agree, when suddenly a woman ran over, and when I saw it, it was Sister-in-law Liu, who was in charge of cooking.

She glanced at me when she ran over, and whispered something to Xu Youren, Xu Youren's face changed at that time, he lowered his head, and his brows were furrowed.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

He blushed and said, "The girl you brought...... I had a fever. ”

As soon as I heard it, my head "buzzed"! Neither Father Yan nor I were there last night, so of course it was inconvenient for Rui Wei to spend the night alone in the grass shed with Wang Shaoting, so she asked Sister-in-law Liu to take her to another shed. I didn't have time to pay attention to her this night, no wonder there was no sign of her outside like this, it turned out that she was also infected!

"Where is she?" I asked eagerly.

Sister-in-law Liu pointed to a grass shed not far away, and I hurriedly ran over. When the curtain was lifted, Rui Wei was curled up there, with only a thin shirt on his body, his eyes closed, and his cheeks burned red.

I quickly leaned over and touched her forehead, it was estimated that the fever was around 39 degrees, and her skin was dry and sweatless, her breathing was heavy, and her body shivered slightly.

I quickly took out a pile of clothes from the baggage next to me and wrapped her in it, calling out, "Senior sister! Sister! ”

She reluctantly opened her eyes, and when she saw me, her eyes were a little misty, and she said in a weak voice, "I...... I've got the plague too? Am I going to die? ”

It hurts me to see her weak, but I still smile with a smile on my face: "Don't talk nonsense, there is me!" ”

She looked at my confident appearance, and also smiled faintly and said, "Well, I believe in you." ”

This sentence really made my heart sour, but I joked casually: "Wang Shaoting's level is really not very good, and the quality of the masks he makes is not good!" It would have been better to let you do it. ”

She smiled even more when she heard this, but then closed her eyes again in weariness.

I stood up and walked out of the tent, too heavy to speak.

After a long time, when I looked up, I found that except for Wang Shaoting and Father Yan, the villagers were all standing far away, looking at us with suspicious eyes.

Wang Shaoting asked, "She...... Also? ”

I nodded and said, "You guys should stay away from us, and I'll take care of it next." ”

Wang Shaoting frowned, and said with a little anger: "What are you talking about? How could I leave you alone? ”

I was relieved to hear him say this, and immediately smiled: "Okay, I just need someone to help me dispense the medicine." ”

He turned his head to Father Yan and said, "It's hard for you to go to get medicine overnight, let's go to the shed to rest first." In the future, if more people want to use medicine, maybe you will have to work for your old age. ”

As he was talking, he saw Xu Youren slowly walking over and said hesitantly, "Brother Tao...... We discussed it for a while and thought ...... Let you girls use that remedy first......"

His words immediately hooked my anger, and I thought to myself, this is clearly not believing me! But on second thought, can I blame them? If I didn't have to find out, Rui Wei wouldn't have been implicated, in the end, I was the one who should reflect the most!

Thinking of this, I sighed, didn't say anything, turned around and walked back to the grass hut where Rui was worried, squatted down and patted her on the shoulder, and asked, "Senior sister, I now have a cure for this disease, are you willing to try it?" ”

She woke up again, looked at me with her slender phoenix eyes for a few seconds, and asked, "Is it bitter?" ”

I don't know why Tian Ge's face suddenly overlapped with the face in front of him at this moment, and I remembered the coquettish words she said: "Anyway, I don't like to drink Chinese medicine!" ”

I couldn't help but laugh knowingly, and replied, "Don't worry, it's very sweet to drink if it's symptomatic." ”

She smiled and nodded.

When I walked outside again, I found that the sun had risen, and it was a sunny day, and a gentle sun shrouded the hillside, and I felt warm all over.

I said to Xu Youren, "Don't worry, I will take her to our carriage below, but I need to borrow a scale from you, and I also need a jar to cook the medicine and two bowls to hold the medicine." ”

He probably didn't expect me to be so reasonable, so he nodded quickly, and said some kind words like "If you need help, just say it".

And just like that, we moved from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain. I carried her to the carriage and laid her down. Then he moved a few stones and set up a simple stove on the edge of the field.

Rui Wei's symptoms are relatively mild now, except for fever, no sweating, and body aches, there are no other symptoms. This problem arises because she has been infected with a certain bacteria or virus from a villager she has been in contact with, which is called "external evil" in Chinese medicine. After the body discovers, the first reaction is to close the pores of the whole body and raise the body temperature, activating the immune system to kill the invading enemy.

The human body does have a certain self-healing function, but with the help of traditional Chinese medicine, this process will pass faster to avoid excessive consumption of physical strength and the damage caused by the fever itself.

After taking the medicines that everyone bought, I weighed four of them on a small borrowed scale.

The first is ephedra. Its function is to mobilize the body's energy and expel external evils through sweating. The reason why I want to observe whether it is a knot, is because the part of the knots is antiperspirant, which will affect the effect of the medicine.

The second type is the cinnamon branch, which is a cinnamon shoot, which also looks like an inconspicuous twig has been cut into pieces. In addition to sweating, it also relieves muscles that are tense when they are in a state of readiness and relieves symptoms of body pain.

The third type is almonds. The lungs are responsible for breathing, but in addition to the nose as we usually know it, there are pores throughout the body that are involved in breathing. When the pores are closed because of the enemy, the pressure on the lungs is actually the greatest. Moreover, the lungs like to be cool, and a persistent high fever can cause it to suffer a severe blow, which can lead to subsequent coughing. The function of almonds is to cool the lungs with high fever, and at the same time, they can also dissolve phlegm and prevent cough.

The fourth type is licorice, which has been fried with honey and is called boiled licorice. In addition to protecting the heart, it can also reconcile the individuality of other medicines, so that the effect of the overall prescription can be brought out more gently.

This is another classic prescription in Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", called "ephedra soup".

After the full name was enough, Wang Shaoting had already lit the fire. I put the pot full of water on the fire, and when the water boiled, I first added ephedra, and after boiling for about two or three minutes, there was already a lot of brown foam floating on the surface. This layer of foam needs to be skimmed off with a spoon, because it is too yang, and drinking it directly is easy to stimulate the heart and cause you to be unable to sleep.

Next, add the cinnamon sticks and boiled licorice, cook for a while, and then add the almonds. Because almonds are relatively soft after all, if they are cooked too early, it will be difficult to strain out, and that's it.

The time to boil the medicine is generally calculated by the amount of water, and boiling nine bowls of water into three bowls of water is the usual cooking method of this recipe. This is not absolute, roughly this proportion is fine. After all, there is no standard size for the bowl.

In addition, the size of the fire is also particular, like this sweating and evil spirits prescription, just use high heat to open the lid and cook to the end. Only the kind of medicine that is slow to replenish needs to be covered and simmered over low heat for a long time.

Watching the herbs tumble in the water, my consciousness began to drift a little scattered, after all, I hadn't slept all night, and I was really a little tired.

Wang Shaoting has been watching me beside me and listening to my explanation, and he has been deeply satisfied, and when he saw this situation, he said to me: "You can find a place to squint for a while, and I will come to see the medicine." ”

I nodded, I didn't want to go far, just lying on the grass next to me in the sun, just a flickering effort, I felt a burst of medicinal fragrance in my nose, immediately sat up, and asked, "Okay, right?" ”

Wang Shaoting exclaimed: "You slept too fast this time!" ”

I smiled and said, "I slept fast and woke up quickly, and now I'm completely refreshed!" Immediately went over to check, and sure enough, there were almost three small bowls of water left, and quickly asked Wang Shaoting to take out the prepared cotton cloth and filter the medicinal juice into a large bowl. He took out another bowl, poured out a third, and walked towards the carriage.

Rui Wei was still asleep, and when she heard me call her, she woke up sleepy-eyed, and when she saw that I had brought the medicine, she didn't ask a word, and drank it all the time.

I saw her resoluteness and knew that she definitely wanted not only to cure her own illness, but also to fulfill my desire to gain the trust of the villagers. I appreciate the sacrifices she made for me.