Chapter 192: Holy Medicine
The guests were going into the mountains to look for materials to make paper, and when King Atahuaba found out, he asked the eldest prince to accompany him.
Except for the shippers who didn't want to endure this hardship, the twenty-person representatives and the Shangguan Imperial Doctor followed.
Where is the blessed land for the healer? That's definitely a place with a lot of medicinal herbs! can be persuaded by Gao Huaiyu so easily to go to sea, and one of the core attractions is that Shangguan Taiyi wants to collect more medicinal materials.
He didn't stay in Manchester as long as they were, but he also dealt with the Inca witch doctors and traded peppercorns.
After coming into contact with the medicinal materials and the level of medical skills used by the witch doctor, Shangguan Imperial Doctor was shocked, and the witch doctor was familiar with as many as five hundred kinds of herbs.
The most commonly used medicinal herbs of the Incas were quinine (cinchona, a very effective herb for treating malaria), ipec, crocodile (for typhoid fever and sore throat), belladonna (for renal colic, biliary colic and other conditions), digitalis (for reducing symptoms of palpitation and chest tightness).
One of the proudest of the witch doctors is their "holy medicine" - coca, the Incas not only liked to chew coca leaves to keep out the cold and cure diseases. It relieves uncomfortable symptoms such as stomach cramps, rheumatism, and headaches. It can also be used as an anesthetic during surgery.
Because the leaves of coca are bitter, they often chew them mixed with lime, vegetable ash or shell ash. Especially when mountaineering, this type of intake is often used to eliminate or reduce the symptoms of altitude sickness.
Every time the witch doctor mentioned one, the medicinal materials that Great Xia did not have and its efficacy, the Shangguan Imperial Doctor was excited, grabbing the witch doctor and asking non-stop. I'm tired and paralyzed by a few translators, the names of these drugs are so long that they can only translate them in general.
In addition to the rich variety of medicinal materials, the level of medical skills of the witch doctor also made Shangguan Taiyi, a trauma doctor, dumbfounded.
The Empire's powerful witch doctor is able to use a sharp "T" shaped bronze knife to cut on a person's head.
They can avoid areas of the skull that are bleeding excessively, pass through the dura (a thick layer of connective tissue that covers the outside of the brain), and remove a portion of the human skull to relieve the pressure of the broken skull.
According to the chief witch doctor, he will do at least ten cases of craniotomy a year, and the postoperative survival rate will reach 70% or even higher! During the operation, the witch doctor also used the dosage of the holy medicine coca properly.
This is a craniotomy, and Imperial Doctor Shangguan has only heard of it in rumors, and the Great Xia Dynasty has never done this.
The Imperial Physician Shangguan told the witch doctor a lot of medicinal uses of peppercorns, and the witch doctor was happy and gave him a set of "T" shaped bronze knives, and the Imperial Physician Shangguan put it away like a treasure.
Craniotomy is hard to come by, but you can go up the mountain to collect these rumored magical medicinal materials, Shangguan Imperial Doctor is more active than anyone else, and a lot of big bags are prepared, so that ten medical officers can follow to dig up medicine.
The eldest prince and his entourage led the Great Xia guests to climb the mountain while lighting a blade of grass and squinting to enjoy its fragrance.
What they enjoyed so much looked a bit like the firecrackers set off by children: a large sheet of dry leaves, wrapped in smaller blades of hay, which the Incas called "dabaco".
They set one end on fire with charcoal and sucked the other repeatedly with their mouths. While swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, the body slowly relaxed, the fatigue gradually disappeared, and the mind was completely immersed in it.
Looking at the appearance of the Incas enjoying it so much, no one in Daxia is not curious except for the black baby, is it so easy to suck?
The eldest prince was very enthusiastic, and one of them ordered a scroll and motioned for them to enjoy it together. Hei Waman asked Yuan Wenwu to shout to a few teenagers: "If you are under the age of eighteen, you can't suck it, you don't need to be refreshed at this age!"
Among the adults, Gao Huaiyu sucked a few mouthfuls, indicating that there was a sense of relaxation and pleasure on the top, and the others were choked and coughed, which made the eldest prince laugh.
As soon as they entered the tropical forest, they saw many cacao trees. The tree is an evergreen tree that blooms and bears fruit all year round and has a large number of flowers. Among the thousands of flowers, there are almost 40 oval-shaped fruits that are able to ripen.
The people of Daxia who have already drunk cocoa drinks, no one wants to drink this thing, only loyalty
Qin Bo did not dislike it, and he told the eldest prince that he wanted a lot of cocoa.
Heiwa: Coco, his daughter-in-law knows how to make chocolate!
Accompanying Master Yan and them to find tree bark, and Shangguan Imperial Doctor looking for medicinal materials, it was not the purpose of Heiwa to come in person. For him, in addition to the various food crops in South America, there is another thing that excites him, which the Incas called "the tree that sheds tears".
In tropical forests, all kinds of insect bites are severe, and the clever Incas collect white sap from the incisions of this tree. The white sap is then applied to the body, and the resin forms a film that they can even use to make rubber balls for local children to play with.
Natural rubber tree, the raw material for condoms, Heiwa has been thinking about it for so long, and finally found it.
Regarding the fact that Zhongqinbo can always discover new species that they do not know, Huang Shangshu and Gao Huaiyu are convinced. Although they still can't understand what the use of these is, as long as Zhong Qinbo says it is useful, they will move back to Great Xia!
So, the herb picker was busy collecting the herb, and the bark was looking for the bark, and Heiwa asked his brothers to help collect the seeds of the rubber tree.
In a few days, Heiwa smuggled hundreds of catties of rubber tree sap and dozens of rubber trees of two to three years into the space.
For the sexual happiness of the rest of his life! Thanks to the preservation function of the space, these talents are waiting for him to return to Great Xia to study again.
Unable to find bamboo, Yan Fuzi and Huang Shangshu chose the bark of more than a dozen shrubs, intending to experiment more to see what bark was best to use.
From the collection of raw materials for papermaking to all the papermaking processes in the back, the eldest prince personally squatted on guard, and the craftsmen he brought were also very serious in learning.
There was enough time for Shangguan Imperial Doctor to pick medicinal herbs, as long as there were seeds, they collected them, and if they planted them alive or not, they had to bring them back to plant them.
Imperial Physician Shangguan sighed several times that if the Incas had made paper earlier, recorded their medicinal materials into a book, or had their medical skills been recorded in the book, they would have been much easier for outsiders.
Zhongqin Bo didn't care about medicinal materials, and what he asked for from the eldest prince was a lot of types and quantities of grain, vegetables and fruits.
Grains such as: corn, potato, sweet potato, cassava;
Vegetables include: beans (there are eight different types of beans), tomatoes, peppers (there are as many as five varieties), pumpkin, onions, zucchini, etc.;
Fruits: strawberries, avocados, star berries (blueberries), chrysanthemum potatoes (yacon);
Other incidental: 1 pair each of peanuts, sunflower seeds, cocoa, large alpacas, and baby alpacas.
The grass mud horse is an animal, which has hit Heiwa's childlike heart, and the space is in his hand, he is really not afraid of not being able to raise it.
Corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes are not only the staple foods they use to supplement, but also the food they want to bring back.
The eldest prince was really not stingy, and the requests of Da Xia's friends were met one by one, and they loaded a full five boats.
Seeing that the eldest prince coveted their horses, the three giants took the initiative to give King Atahuaba two pairs of young horses.
The stallions that have not been stirred up can still reproduce the next generation, and the Buddha will be sent to the west, and they will also prepare two carriages.
This gift made King Atahuaba so happy, this bit of food was exchanged for such a valuable return, Da Xia's friend was so polite!
After Heiwa was free, she studied for a few days, planning to bring some souvenirs to her daughter-in-law.
Pottery with a geometric pattern of dark red or brown is mainly selected and interesting, which can represent the cultural characteristics of the Inca Empire.
His daughter-in-law must have liked the pottery pan flute and the blanket dyed with a little alpaca, and the bits and pieces were also replaced in two boxes.
By the time Master Yan and Huang Shangshu made the paper, it was already 20 days later. During this period of time, the medicinal herbs picked by Imperial Physician Guangguan were loaded into a whole cargo ship, and the medicinal herb seeds were also loaded into a small half ship.
The white jade-white paper, the king of Atahuaba and the priests, and the members of the nobility all nodded their heads when they saw it, and their craftsmen also showed that they had fully learned the technique.
There is no written record of the Inca Empire
, was rewritten by the fleet of Great Xia, and left a strong mark in the long river of history.
Now, King Atahuaba has paid a full two thousand catties of gold for this record, and Master Yan himself has been gifted fifty fine gems.
Master Yan: From now on, please don't call me a poor disciple!
The translators have been learning the Inca language for two months, and now that there is no problem with oral communication, it is finally time to say goodbye.
When it was time to leave, the eldest prince personally came to the seashore to see them off.
Practice has proved that not all outsiders will bring blood and plunder, and there is also a powerful ally of friends in the east - the Great Xia Dynasty.
Their ships are taller than their houses, their garments are softer than the skins of their prey, and their porcelain shines like the sun god.
For the gold and precious stones taken away by the Bactrian people, as well as some of the food they planted, the Incas felt that it was a fair deal, and they did not lose money.
The Incas were proud of the people of this highly civilized country, who loved their food, and they were the best at growing them in the world!
"Goodbye, good friend!"
"Goodbye, eldest prince!"
"Dad, will we come to the Inca Empire again in the future?"
"Well, it's a treasure trove, and it's worth coming back!"
"Sixth brother, come on, let's practice it again, Inca, maybe you can use it later!"
"Fourth brother, when did you become so studious! It's not like you!"
"It doesn't matter if it's good or not, sixth brother, there is really a golden house in the bird language, brother, I can buy ten shops when I go back this time!"