"Soldier baby, soldier baby,......" Sister-in-law Qiu thought of her son, and the distressed tears in her eyes welled up again, but looking at Yun Fang's calm eyes, she tried hard to suppress her emotions, and recalled, "My soldier's baby was still fine when he was born, but when he grew up, I found that his other children's children grew slowly, and other people's children learned to walk, and his little arms and legs were still soft like noodles." ”

"Seeing that he is three years old, he still can't walk, let alone speak, and we don't know if he can't speak, or he doesn't want to speak, and he is just stupid all day. But the day before yesterday, the soldier saw your radish strips outside, and knew that he reached out to ask for them, and then Xiaozhuzi came back with a bowl of radish strips, and he didn't let go of the bowl while holding the bowl, and when he was more than a day, he was almost finished eating the bowl of radish strips. ”

After saying this, Sister-in-law Qiu stared at Yun Fang's eyes with a hopeful face and said, "Sister Yun Fang, there must be something precious in your radish strips that can wake up my soldier baby and make him like a normal child, I, I know that is your secret recipe, but, but you, you are merciful, and you will save my soldier baby, right?" ”

After listening to Qiu's sister-in-law's narration, Yun Fang didn't rush to promise anything, but thought about it and asked, "The soldier can't walk, is his arms and little 'legs' thicker than other children?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's it," listening to Yun Fang's question, the hope in Sister-in-law Qiu's eyes became even hotter, she nodded busily, and asked hopefully, "Sister Yun Fang has never seen Bing Wazi, so she knows that he is thicker than the 'medicine' of other normal children's arms and legs, so you must know what kind of disease he has, and you will definitely be able to cure his disease." ”

After receiving Sister-in-law Qiu's affirmative answer, Yun Fang frowned and asked further, "Sister-in-law Qiu, did you not eat much when you were pregnant with your soldier's baby?" Especially salt? ”

"Hey," Sister-in-law Qiu sighed all kinds of sighs before she nodded, her eyes were full of pain, "Sister Yunfang is right, when I was pregnant with a soldier baby, the family was difficult, not to mention salt, even being able to eat a full stomach became a problem, that year, Dazhu was half-full every day, and saved all the things to me, which is why I gave birth to the soldier baby." ”

Hearing this, Yun Fang already had a spectrum in her heart.

Yun Fang happened to know a little about this situation that Sister-in-law Qiu's sister-in-law said, which was due to her particularly strong curiosity.

I remember that when Lan Yunfang was still Lan Danxi, in that modern time and space, she went to the supermarket to buy salt, and she always saw something 'iodized salt' or something, and she was very curious.

Why is this salt iodized?

When the heart moved, Lan Danxi looked for relevant information on the omniscient Internet. It turns out that iodine is a very important element, and once people are deficient, they will get thyroid disease, which is commonly known as big neck disease.

Adults who lack iodine will get this kind of big neck disease, and if the pregnant woman is deficient in iodine, the impact on the fetus is particularly severe. It will lead to the ossification of cartilage and the stunting of teeth, and the appearance of the ossification center of each long bone will be significantly delayed, affecting the development and maturation of the bone pathway, resulting in short stature, thick limbs, mental retardation, etc.

For children, this disease is called cretinism in Western medicine, which is a type of dwarfism, and in traditional Chinese medicine, it is called fatigue or baryson tuberculosis.

After checking these information, Lan Danxi had another question in his heart, modern people's iodine can be added to salt, but what about ancient people? Especially those places far away from the sea, who can't eat seafood such as kelp with high iodine content, don't they all get big neck disease?

However, as far as Lan Danxi knows, not all the people in the inland areas in ancient times had big neck disease, and the children were not all dwarfism?

Fortunately, there is a universal search engine, as long as you have a computer, face the Internet, you can know the world's major events without leaving home, not only contemporary, but also on the five thousand years of things, no matter what biased difficulties, as long as you are willing to look for it with your heart, you can always find the answer, and you will not disappoint.

Naturally, this time Lan Danxi's question also found an answer.

Natural salt refers to the salt obtained by heating and evaporating seawater or brine water, which retains the original iodine. Modern edible salt is obtained from the electrolysis of seawater. The main ingredient is sodium, which is obtained by electrolysis, so it lacks iodine, so it needs to be artificially iodized.

Knowing this, the question in Lan Danxi's heart really found the answer. But in the process of checking the information, the dwarfism of those ancient children she saw by the way still made her feel that there were no modern Western medicine treatment methods in ancient times, and the lack of iodine could not be directly supplemented, which was really a sin.

However, fortunately, the ancestors of traditional Chinese medicine have also developed for thousands of years, and have accumulated rich experience for various diseases.

For dwarfism, which is what Chinese medicine calls baryonal tuberculosis, although Chinese medicine does not know the theory of Western 'medicine', they also have their own views and coping methods.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of baryon tuberculosis is related to the loss of spleen and kidney, lack of qi and blood, cohesion of water and dampness, and deficiency of 'yin' and yang. The kidney is the innate foundation, which contains the 'essence', the main bone, the marrow, and the brain;

The main growth, development, and 'growth' of the kidney, and the deficiency of the 'essence' of the kidney, the growth and development are stagnant, and the congenital deficiency leads to damage to the spleen and stomach, the deficiency of qi and blood, the loss of nourishment of the liver, and the weakness of the muscles and bones, resulting in short stature and dwarf.

Thinking of the information found out out of curiosity in the previous life, Yun Fang also had a certain understanding of the soldier's illness in her heart, especially when she learned that Qiu's sister-in-law couldn't afford to eat salt when she was pregnant with the soldier's baby, and the soldier's baby showed such an unusual behavior towards the salted radish strips, this child must be dwarfism caused by a lack of iodine.

Although Lan Danxi did not inquire about the ancient Chinese medicine treatment methods for baryonal tuberculosis at that time, she believed that since they had understanding, they naturally had a way to diagnose and treat it, but in this closed small mountain village, there was no doctor with excellent medical skills, so the illness of Bing Wazi was delayed until now.

Sister-in-law Qiu looked at Yun Fang Shen 'groaning' and was silent, her heart that had just been a little relieved was hanging again, she carefully pulled Yun Fang's sleeve, and asked tentatively, "Sister Yun Fang, you, can you cure our soldiers?" ”

"This, this ,......" Yun Fang didn't answer Sister-in-law Qiu directly, thought about it again, and then said thoughtfully, "Don't hide it from Sister-in-law Qiu, I'm not sure about this matter, the root of Bing Wazi's illness is because you ate less salt at the beginning, and now he likes to eat radish strips so much, it is also because of him, he lacks something in his body, eating this radish strip will relieve his symptoms, but he is now three years old, and if he wants to cure it, I am afraid that he will have to eat some grass 'medicine'." ”

Sister-in-law Qiu listened to Yun Fang's explanation, the hope in her eyes dimmed, and she rekindled her hope, and asked eagerly, "Eat grass 'medicine'?" What kind of herbs and 'medicines' to eat? When I went back, I asked his father to go deep into the mountains to find it, no matter how difficult it was, he would definitely pick up herbs and 'medicine' to save my soldiers. ”

As she spoke, Sister-in-law Qiu stood up and shook Yun Fang eagerly, hoping to hear the name of some magic 'medicine' from her mouth immediately.

"Sister-in-law Qiu, don't worry," Yun Fang patted Sister-in-law Qiu's hand comfortingly, calmed her anxious mood, and said thoughtfully, "Although the radish strips can't cure the soldier's illness, they have a relieving effect on his illness." In this way, when the sky is darkened and the villagers at home disperse, you send a small pillar to me, and I will prepare some materials for pickled radish strips for you, so that the soldier baby can drink some every day, and then we will slowly visit the famous doctor to cure the soldier's illness completely. ”

After a pause, Yun Fangcai whispered again, "It's just that the recipe for our pickled radish strips is our secret recipe, and Sister-in-law Qiu can give it to the soldiers to drink, don't leak it to others." ”