Chapter 29: Medicinal Materials
There are many kinds of Chinese medicine formulas for treating fever, but considering that the prescriptions are ready-made, the herbs are not, so you can only find them yourself. Coupled with the particularity of a desert island, many medicines may not be available.
Therefore, Wen Xian picked a simple recipe to prepare.
She plans to make a soup with three roots: kudzu, reed and white grass roots. It is mainly used for the treatment of external fever and internal fever.
Kudzu, that is, the tuber root of wild kudzu and gankudzu vine. It is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and enters the stomach meridian. It has the effect of relieving fever and removing annoyance, quenching thirst and so on.
Kudzu is suitable for digging in autumn and winter, and is cut into thick or small slices while fresh. Remove impurities, wash, moisturize, dried, and store in a ventilated and dry place.
The root of the reed, as the name suggests, is the root of the reed.
Reeds grow in rivers, lakes, ponds, ditches and low-lying areas. Sweet taste, cold, return to the lung meridian and stomach meridian, can clear heat and generate Jin, remove annoyance, stop nausea, and diuretic.
It is often used for fever, polydipsia, stomach fever and vomiting, pulmonary fever cough, pulmonary carbuncle pus vomiting and hot drenching pain.
Reed root not only reduces fever but also treats vomiting. Especially with Jiang Jingwan, a pregnant woman, in case of morning sickness or something, it is good to store it up, and it is very effective.
The white thatch root is the rhizome of the white thatch. It is sweet and cold, and has the effects of cooling and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and diuresis, and clearing lung and stomach heat.
It is used for the treatment of fever, polydipsia, vomiting blood, hemorrhage, lung fever and shortness of breath, poor urination, edema, jaundice, etc.
Reed root and white grass root are mainly used to reduce heat, and kudzu root is mainly used to clear and penetrate, one rises and one falls, forming a cycle, which can be used to reduce fever.
Fever is often due to the lack of ventilation between the surface and the inside, and the upper and lower ventilation organs are not smooth.
And the three roots of soup happen to be able to guide the hot evil from the top to the bottom.
Therefore, as long as people are not obviously weak and cold, they can use Sangen soup to treat all kinds of fever of unknown cause.
Reed roots and white grass roots are easy to find, there are them in the woods, and Wen Xian has seen them. It's just that kudzu is hard to find, and I didn't see it all the way in.
But the wild boar arched, impartially, happened to be kudzu, and it was a large piece of mature kudzu.
It stands to reason that kudzu should not be harvested until August or September. But thinking of the various differences between the island and her previous life, Wen Xian was quickly relieved.
Kudzu is hard to find, there are ready-made ones at the moment, whether it is suitable or not, existence is reasonable.
It was precisely because it was difficult to find that Wen Xian was in such a hurry to jump off the tree to collect.
The straw basket couldn't hold such a large piece of kudzu, so she handed over this task to Xia Zhi and let Xia Zhi hold these kudzu alone.
She herself digs wild vegetables and picks mushrooms while walking, and when she sees suitable Chinese medicinal materials, such as dandelions, she will also pick some easily.
Not only that, but every time she picks a wild vegetable or medicinal herb, she will dig some up by the roots. Prepare to take it back first, and then open a vegetable patch outside the cave and plant it in.
In this way, they accumulate over time, and when the wild vegetables and medicinal herbs outside the cave grow, they no longer have to venture into the mountains.
Xia Zhi hugged Ge Gen tightly and followed Wen Xian's side, she had always been calm, but her eyes were a little panicked at this time.
She feared that wild boars or other beasts would attack again, so she looked around as she went.
Looking around, there were always surprises and surprises, and she looked somewhere, and looked and looked.
Finally, his eyes widened and his slender fingers were raised, and he said, "Madam, there, look there." ”
"Huh?" Wen Xian looked in the direction of her finger, her eyes lit up instantly, and she pulled Xia Zhi and ran, "It's fungus, let's go, let's take a look." ”
It's normal for fungus to appear in untouched mountain forests, but it's surprising to find them.
Especially after the rain, these fresh fungus look more delicate.
After confirming that these fungus were not poisonous, Wen Xian put down the straw basket and began to pick them.
The ancients did not deceive me, they relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, and the sea to eat the sea, as long as they were diligent, they would not starve to death.
No, it's in the sea, it's in the mountains. A few of them are weak women, and they can still survive on these.
Wen Xian picked the fungus vigorously, Xia Zhi held the kudzu and put it, and it was not okay not to let it go.
Wen Xian hurriedly said: "This is not far from the cave, you take the kudzu root and the straw basket back first, put the things away, and then bring the empty straw basket back, I will pick it up and wait for you first." ”
She thought for a moment and then instructed: "If you encounter any special circumstances, don't worry about these things, run or climb the tree by yourself." If the thing is gone, you can find it again, but if the person is gone, it is really gone. ”
Although it is only about 20 meters from the woods outside the cave, there is no guarantee that there will be no accidents.
Xia Zhi's face was entangled, but in the end he nodded and agreed: "Then be careful, Madame, I'll go back." ”
After she finished speaking, she turned around and hurriedly ran to the cave, she had only one belief in her heart, she went early and returned early, and she couldn't let her wife be alone.
Looking at Xia Zhi's back, Wen Xian hooked her lips and smiled, and only after Xia Zhi's back disappeared did she turn her head and continue to pick the fungus.
The fungus can be stored for a long time when it is dried, and she plans to pluck the fungus from the two thick trees.
People don't panic when they have surplus food at home, and it's better to be prepared than nothing.
Xu is heaven understands that she was scared by a wild boar, and her luck is so good at this time.
She was only halfway through the fungus when she noticed that there was a clump of taro behind the tree.
Taro!
Between the taro that can fill the stomach and the ordinary fungus, Wen Xian decisively chose the taro that can fill the stomach.
Taro is a staple food with or without side dishes, and you can eat it to your heart's content.
But if you don't have a staple food, no matter how much you eat, you will feel empty in your heart, and you will always feel that you can't eat enough, and you will always want to eat.
If you have to choose one or the other, Wen Xian would rather just have taro.
Unsure of the depth of the taro burial, Wen Xian was worried that the dagger would cut the taro, so she simply cut it by hand.
It had just rained, and the soil was loose, so it was easy to plan. After a few shavings, I saw traces of taro.
Wen Xian's eyes flashed with excitement and urgency, and she dug around again, and when she looked at it, she directly grabbed the rhizome above and lifted it up, and all the taro in the soil was pulled out.
Just when she saw Xia Zhi coming back with an empty straw basket, she hurriedly beckoned, "Come on, good things." ”
Xia Zhi was followed by Zhou Hui, and Zhou Hui was also holding a straw basket in her hand, which should have been made according to her previous steps.
"The fourth child is also here, just in time, I'm still worried that I won't be able to get the taro back." Wen Xian shook the things in her hand and gestured, "This is called taro, it can be used as dry food, let's try to dig up all the taro here, enough to eat for several days." ”
She shook the mud directly, picked off all the taro, and put them in the straw basket one by one.
Xia Zhi hurriedly took the straw basket and picked it up, and asked by the way, "What about the fungus, Mrs., do you want it?" ”
Although she didn't know why Wen Xian called Yun Er a fungus, Wen Xian was well-informed and couldn't go wrong.
Fungus is a rare thing, and it was rare to eat it in the palace in the past.