Chapter 282: The Most Powerful Flower Tea in History
"It should ...... You can also find something fresh. Davy's aftermath slid across the page, pausing in the growth cycle bar.
"Now that the flowering period is almost over, but at this time of year, a batch of dry reserves will be purchased, and there will be some stocks that have not had time to be processed."
The two went to the clinic pharmacy and picked out the plant called "purple bell" among the pile of plants with dirt.
The color of the flowers makes it stand out among all herbs and can be found without much effort. In addition to the purple varieties in the picture books, there are also pale yellow and reddish varieties, which have the same bell-like appearance and plush feeling when you start it.
They have been out of the soil for some time and hang shriveled down like pickles when they are lifted.
Even so, in Kraft's eyes, it was a charming pickle.
"Get a jar, don't want that lead."
It is similar to the practice of pickles, after weighing, cut directly into sections and cut foam, throw it into a medicine jar and add water to boil. As for how long it would take to cook it was unclear, Kraft left the job to Dr. Davy and left him to play with his experience.
The latter skillfully controls the temperature of the furnace, simmering the liquid over medium heat until it boils, then extracts some of the charcoal and changes to low heat to keep the water hot without boiling.
Uniform bubbles continue to emerge from the bottom of the jar, stirring up colorful plant detritus that rises in the center of the thickening orange soup and scatters the snowflakes like snowflakes.
When the solids became noticeably lighter in color and the soup began to look similar to certain drinks, David removed the jar and poured the contents into the glass container that Kraft had brought.
Judging from the appearance, this is a cup of flower tea, the whole is bright and transparent, floating with dotted colored scraps, and the appearance is quite good.
If you get closer and smell it, you can smell a faint scent of grass and trees, like those unknown wildflowers and grasses mixed and heated after summer showers, much better than the previous pot of lead boiled smorgasbord.
If it appears at the table, I believe most people will not refuse to drink such a drink.
"What's next?" David placed the steaming glass container on the coaster, "Take a bite?" ”
His love for pharmacy has prepared him, and it is true that it is toxic, but after all, it is rare to see real cases of poisoning, maybe the toxicity is not so strong?
"Take a bite, but not like that." Kraft poured half of the decoction into a second same container, mixed with equal amount of water, and added half of the dilution to another glass container.
After four times, he got the drug at a concentration of only one-sixteenth. Considering the constraints, there will probably be some deviations, but not too much.
The last liquid was almost completely colorless, so clean that people couldn't help but distrust it.
Kraft declined David's request to help test the drug. Although there is a 90% certainty that there will be no major problems, it is not a matter of probability, it is an ethical issue.
He picked up the last glass container, brought it to his lips, and took a hesitant sip to let the cooled liquid slide over his tongue.
That amount didn't reach the stomach, it disappeared in the esophagus, moistening the dry mouth.
Nothing happened, breathing steadily, a rhythmic heartbeat contained in the chest. Kraft realized that he was thinking too much, and perhaps boiling itself was not a good way to extract the active ingredients, and it was already quite safe when diluted.
He picked up the glass container again and took a large gulp, a quarter less than a quarter of the liquid. Under David's curious and concerned gaze, he pressed and held the radial artery of his left wrist to estimate his heart rate on his own.
[About 60 times per minute]
Completely within the normal range. The excellent body produced in the local area has a clock-like heart rate, which is usually maintained at the lower limit of the normal heart rate of about 60 beats per minute.
With a little determination in his heart, the professor took a sip of the third diluted liquid and closed his eyes to feel the changes in his body.
[Or more than 60 times]
Is it really a psychological effect?
Kraft simply drank half of the liquid in the glass, calmed down and resumed counting.
After most of the day of screening, medication and emotional ups and downs, he felt that he should have been a little tired, but after squinting his eyes, the drowsiness did not hit as promised, and his brain subconsciously counted and imagined various images of the changing light spots on the back of his eyelids.
The nervous system is still slightly excited, and some sensations become clearer after closing the eyes, the pulse and touch of the fingertips, and the sensations that can only be felt when there is a little movement and emotional intensity, and something seems to be beating on both sides of the skull and gradually develops into a slight pain, which is a sign of full arteries and elevated blood pressure.
He counted again.
[less than sixty times]
It's about 54 to 56 beats, which is a little lower, and for people who exercise all year round, a stronger pumping heart needs a lower heart rate to maintain its supply.
But it's a sign,
Kraft shook the liquid in his glass, he could have had a safer and more troublesome way, but it was too long for the idea of witnessing the birth of a famous drug that would later be born to outweigh the few risks that might exist.
A third of the liquid disappeared into the mouth, and the liquid glided coldly down the esophagus and into the digestive tract.
[50 times]
After a few minutes, Kraft finally noticed a noticeable slowdown in his heart rate.
David reminded aloud, "Professor, your face is a little red. ”
In fact, you don't need to be reminded to feel that the effect in your body is being noticeable enough, that the cold liquid is transformed into what might be described as "warm", and the heart muscle is like an arm lifting a heavy object, working more slowly and powerfully, pumping blood out in large quantities.
The improvement of cardiac output is reflected in patients with heart failure, which is reflected in the improvement of physical strength, as if the body has been warmed and regained its former vitality.
However, Kraft prefers to call it "inhibition of the sodium-potassium pump", which regulates the myocardial muscle strength by interfering with the electrophysiology of the heart, which can improve the symptoms, but has little effect on improving the prognosis and prolonging life.
If the ingestion continues to reach a toxic dose, the exact opposite effect will occur - the heart rate will start to increase, rapid ventricular arrhythmias will appear, and then antagonists will have to be used.
As for where are the antagonists? I'm sorry, but I don't think so, they're not something that can be cooked.
So it's time to stop.
A large group of cardiotonic pills and legendary plants, which are only in the corners of textbooks and lesson plans, came to the front when they were most needed.
It is probably the oldest anti-heart failure drug, and it was discovered early on that it can be used to treat edema, while the specific pharmacological mechanism has not been clarified until modern times.
Kraft held the glass container alof, feeling a slight drunken headache, unable to tell if it was a drug or an emotional sensation, "Do I want to give it a new name?" ”
"Well, theoretically, as the discoverer of its definite pharmacological effects, you could name the name of the derived drug"
"Let's call it digitalis."
"What does this mean? I thought you were going to use your family name or your own first name. David hadn't figured out what was going on, he just knew that it was working, but he instinctively repelled the act of adding a whole new term and making the exam more difficult.
"Don't ask, it's a lovely name!" After confirming the identity of the plant, a large number of ideas popped up one after another, from the quantification of drugs to the diagnosis of indications under limited conditions, and quickly filled the processing thread of the brain.
These are all things that have to be used on the patient, not to compare with oneself, but to be more cautious and take more time.
But it seems that there is something close to the human organization around him, but it is not human at all, which can meet his needs for exploration.