Chapter 44 Pharmaceuticals
Now there is honey, and the mashed yam has been roasted by Chen Jiang's clay pot and grind it into powder. As for rice soup, it is okay to not have any problem. As long as it can be rolled into pills and not dissolved.
Chen Xu poured out half of the honey into a small clay pot, then placed it on the stove and heated it while stirring it constantly with chopsticks. As a strong and sweet smell with the fragrance of date flowers came out, the whole yard was immediately sweet and intoxicating, causing a group of small wild boars in the pigpen to pounce on the wall of the fence and humming hard.
After stirring for about ten minutes, most of the honey moisture in the jar had evaporated, and the honey became very sticky.
Chen Xu picked out the powder in a row of bamboo tubes and looked at it. It felt almost done. So he put the powder in a row of bamboo tubes specially made for measuring cups and poured them into the jar according to his own recipe. While pouring it, Niu Dashi asked him to stir it hard with chopsticks. Then a strong sweetness mixed with the smell of Chinese medicine spread throughout the yard.
"Brother, this smell is fragrant, sweet, bitter and cool. Will it be delicious?" Xing'er looked at the jar with awesome eyes, feeling that saliva was about to drip out.
"This is medicine, you can't take it casually. It's hot in summer. You can only take it when you are heatstroke, headache, dizziness, and breathless!" Chen Xu quickly reminded him, so that he would not be secretly used as snacks by the little girl at home.
After the medicine powder was all over, most of the jar had already been in the jar, and Niu Dashi grinned and said that he could not stir it any longer.
"Okay OK, take the jar!"
At Chen Xu's instructions, Niu Dashi directly took the hot clay pot from the stove and placed it on the ground with his hands.
Chen Xu picked out a ball with chopsticks and looked at it. He found that it was still too thin. It was definitely a medicinal paste after rubbing it. So he poured a few cups of the fried yam powder in and let Niu Dashi continue to stir it. After repeated several times, he found that it was almost done. Then he washed his hands with warm water, and then dried it by the fire and dipped some yam powder on his hands to start his debut.
Chen Jiangshi, Xing'er, and Niu Dashi all looked at him in surprise.
Chen Xu slowly dug out a small ball of half-dried medicinal paste from the clay pot with chopsticks and rubbed it a few times. When he spread his palms, he revealed a brown pill the size of a little finger.
It is not too round, but it basically meets the requirements of Chinese patent pills. As for the efficacy of the medicine... Well, only God knows, because this is a medicine, you can't take it casually. You can only take a few pills when you really have heatstroke or have a headache or fever to see the effect.
"I saw it, it's just rubbing it like this, but you have to control the size well and try to be smaller than mine!" Chen Xu said to Xing'er and Chen Jiang's three with a smile.
"Brother, can we help too?" Xing'er's excited little eyes flashed.
"It's very simple. Go and wash your hands and help me. I have to get other medicine!" Chen Xu nodded.
So the little girl and Niu Dashitou couldn't wait to wash their hands, and Chen Jiang also stood up. After a while, the three of them sat down around the small clay pot, picked out a little medicinal paste with chopsticks and rubbed it with their palms.
"Brother, can I see if this is OK for me?" The little girl spread her palms.
"Xing'er is very rubbing, you don't need to rub it so round!" Chen Xu nodded repeatedly when he saw it.
"Xu'er, where is this one that mom rubs?" Chen Jiang spread his hands, a little nervous.
"My mother's size is just the right size, just like this, don't rub it too carefully."
"Brother Xu, how about my sucking?" Niu Dashi spread his hands proudly, revealing a round projectile the size of a pigeon egg. "Isn't it big and round?"
Chen Xu's face suddenly turned dark, and his skin twitched for a few times and said, "You can keep it for yourself to eat it!"
"Brother Dashi is so stupid. Who can eat such a big one? Be careful to choke to death!" Xing'er expressed her serious contempt and expected Niu Dashi's miserable ending.
"Xiao Shi, you are too big. If you don't have water when you work, you can't swallow it!" Chen Jiang, as a mother-in-law, couldn't stand it anymore. This future son-in-law has a good character and is down-to-earth and willing to work hard, but compared with her own children, she has some petrification symptoms.
However, it seems that one family doesn’t need both of them to be smart, so most of the time Chen Jiang was still very satisfied with Niu Dashi.
With Chen Xu's guidance and affirmation, the three of them quickly mastered the skills and methods of rubbing the pills. Although the size was not particularly uniform, they had completely met the requirements.
So Chen Jiang and the other two surrounded the small clay pot and rubbed the earthen pill. After rubbing, they put it into a large pottery bowl. Chen Xu began to deal with another very important essential medicine, hemostatic agent.
The best hemostatic powder in later generations is Yunnan Baiyao.
Unfortunately, he didn't know the formula of Yunnan Baiyao at all. However, after spending a few years with my second grandfather, I still know some common herbs that stop bleeding and relieve blood stasis. For example, calamus is the most common. Of course, in case of emergency, there are also calamus roots and prickly cabbage.
The thorny vegetable is also called wild safflower, which is called thorny in Henan, and the Chinese medicine is called Xiaozhi. This thing is considered a wild vegetable, perennial herb, and its roots can grow very large. The main part of the medicinal use is rhizomes.
Originally, the best medicines for stopping bleeding were Panax notoginseng and Chonglou, but these two medicines were not found in the Central Plains, and only found in Lingnan.
Currently, there are four kinds of medicines that Chen Xu dug back, calamus sticks, white hemp roots, thistle and white hyacinth. These are actually almost everywhere in the countryside, and they are completely weeds and wild vegetables, and no one cares about them at all.
These herbs have basically been processed, and now they are pounded into powder and filled into several bamboo tubes.
Chen Xu mixed these powders according to the ratio he guessed and then packaged them in several dried bamboo tubes as thick as eggs, and then plugged them with a cork plug. Even if the external hemostatic agent is ready, there are only three types of them: Puhuang, isatis root and licorice.
Isatis roots are found almost all over the country. They look like wild rapeseed and will also sprout and bloom in spring. Pigs don’t like to eat this thing, but the roots are good things. Drinking them in water can treat pharyngitis and tonsillitis, and also have a certain effect on cold inflammation.
There is a saying in later generations that is isatis root is a universal anti-inflammatory drug.
Therefore, if the wound becomes inflamed after being injured, it is still necessary to take anti-inflammatory drugs in time. In this era without antibiotics, once a part of the body begins to get inflamed and the body cannot resist, it may eventually lead to a serious illness, a cold and cough into pneumonia, and if the pneumonia is delayed for a long time, it will turn into tuberculosis, and then it will not be able to do any work.
Therefore, today Chen Xu walked around the neighborhood and dug back a large bundle of isatis roots. These isatis roots were different from those planted in later generations. They all grew for many years. The large roots were extremely thick. Washed and sliced, then roasted in a clay pot with charcoal fire for most of the day. They didn't need to be mashed and brought directly with them. If you have stomachache and diarrhea, you can put them in your mouth and chew a few slices in your mouth at any time.
The same goes for licorice. Cut it into slices and dry it, pack it in a bamboo tube. If you feel poisoning, you can soak it in water or drink it dry. Anyway, you won’t kill anyone.
After Chen Xu finished everything and stopped cleaning up, the Chen Jiang and the other two basically finished rubbing the native elixirs.
It was almost ten o'clock in the evening. The stars in the sky that I could see a few days ago were covered by large clouds, and it seemed that the sky was about to change.
Chapter completed!