58 Eight years to sharpen a sword

Why didn't the ancients develop this fertile soil? He Yong still knows a little about this problem, but he hasn't told anyone else except Li Tianyang.

The harsh health and medical environment in ancient times is obvious to all. Diseases, plagues, that's the color change of talk, and even women giving birth to a child are all adventures in the ghost gate. Li Tianyang traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and what he was most proud of was not the establishment of a Qixin Hall, nor the training of more than 200 partners, but the simplification and development of several prescriptions and medicines for common diseases.

Traditional Chinese medicine is very mysterious and cumbersome, and each doctor will prescribe different prescriptions for the same disease, and even change and change their own prescriptions according to the patient's next reaction. The advantage is that this allows each patient to adjust the dosage in time according to their own physical condition; The disadvantage is that the training time of TCM doctors is too long and the requirements are extremely high, which increases the cost of seeing and treating patients. plasmodium

In fact, like some common diseases, such as colds, fevers, etc., in fact, among their prescriptions, the main medicine is the same, and the difference is only some auxiliary herbs added or decreased by doctors according to the patient's physical condition. Therefore, in the Qixin Hall, Li Tianyang gathered several Chinese medicine doctors from the camp and Tanmen to see and treat diseases and teach knowledge, and after comprehensively understanding the opinions of all of them, he improved and prepared several prescriptions for the treatment of common diseases.

Perhaps, the production of these medicines may not be able to help all patients cure their own diseases, but at least, in Tanmen, the result of the promotion and distribution of these medicines is to help countless villagers avoid the trouble of seeing a doctor, reduce the cost of seeing a doctor, and only need to prescribe the right medicine according to the general symptoms, and basically can cure the disease. Even in the end, if the disease cannot be cured, everyone can still seek medical attention in time and find other problems.

And these are some of the things that the modern medical system has shown to everyone.

Oh, that's a bit of a stretch here, let's get back to business.

Why do we talk about health care? In fact, this is a major factor in the delay in the development of large players.

It is a vast area, with seven or eight of the places above being a preserved primeval forest, and unique geographical factors: to the east, the Ali Mountains run through it, and the cliffs make it difficult to survive; Although the terrain to the west is flat, it is a typical rainforest climate, and every summer, heavy rains fall from the sky every day, and endless typhoons ravage, turning the primeval forest of Jingege into a paradise for poisonous insects, predators, and various parasites.

Poisonous insects and beasts are okay, as long as you pay attention, you can always find their traces in time, but those parasites that are unforeseeable to the naked eye are really killing people invisibly. The ancients could not detect the existence of parasites, so they could only superstitiously attribute it to the theory of ghosts and gods. It's just that what they think of and stand in front of them is just the body of a small bug that is as small as air, such as schistosomiasis, malaria parasites, and so on.

Although Li Tianyang is not very clear about the transmission principle of these parasites, and he has not really seen what these parasites look like, some popular knowledge in his previous life at least let him know what to do in order to curb the spread and spread of parasitic diseases to the greatest extent.

Ten years ago, he had already gained some experience in preventing diseases in the aftermath of the earthquake in his efforts to help displaced people. Although the occurrence of the disease was not completely prevented at that time, and even more than a dozen frail displaced people died due to tropical diseases such as malaria, at least at that time, some of his effective measures curbed the spread of the disease, which is commonly known as the pendulum, and saved the lives of the vast majority of people.

Since then, Li Tianyang has been extremely attentive to the prevention of diseases and the implementation of sanitary measures, coupled with the major discoveries of a proud figure of the motherland that are rarely remembered in the memory of later generations, so that he has full confidence in the diseases and malaria that the ancients will change color when they mention it.

Tu Youyou, China's first scientist to win the Nobel Prize, at least, she is the first person in Li Tianyang's mind. Don't mention Yang Zhenning or anything like that, people are Chinese-Americans, what is a Chinese-American, to put it bluntly, they are Americans! Tu Youyou is the pride of the motherland, and her discovery contributed to the Nobel Prize. What did you find? I'm afraid that nine out of ten future generations of compatriots will know - artemisinin, the oriental miracle medicine for malaria.

With the verification of later generations, this made Li Tianyang take many fewer detours in this ancient period with poor conditions. Although he didn't know how to extract this artemisinin, after having a direction, the role of our Chinese medicine was reflected. What is traditional Chinese medicine, to put it bluntly, isn't it to find effective therapeutic drugs from the gifts of nature?

The answer is already there, and what Li Tianyang needs to do is to find the specific steps to unravel this answer. In the camp, a few Langzhong were hired to teach the girls to learn medical skills, and I thought that the most difficult problem was solved, and the easiest way to find medicinal materials was in the hands of a few Langzhong, wasn't it easy to catch it? But the problem was stuck in the step of raw materials, and it wasn't until two years ago that Li Tianyang and them did their homework to solve this difficulty.

Artemisia annua in the medical books of the ancients and Artemisia annua in the eyes of modern people are two completely different species, which Li Tianyang did not expect. Artemisia annua in the eyes of the ancients, also known as Artemisia fragrant, has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, relieving steaming, relieving heatstroke, dispelling wind, etc., but it has no effect on the treatment of malaria, because it does not contain artemisinin at all, how can it treat the pendulum!

The road was blocked, Li Tianyang was not discouraged, since the medicinal materials are not right, then change the medicinal materials! Moreover, one of the highly skilled Lang Zhong also found a prescription from the medical books of the ancients, that is, Ge Hong's "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, one of which is 'Artemisia annua's grasp, take two liters of water, wring the juice, and take it. ’

For this prescription, Li Tianyang even asked people to go to the former residence of Ge Hong's ancestors, which is now Jurong County, Jiangsu, to find what the locals call Artemisia annua, which is the wine cake grass in the eyes of Qiongzhou people, and Artemisia annua in the "Compendium of Materia Medica"!!

And how exactly should this herb be used? In the medical books of the ancients, Artemisia annua itself was not actually used as a medicinal material by Langzhong, so what its medicinal effect and properties were, all of which needed to be overcome by Li Tianyang's team. Qiongzhou is located in the tropics, mosquitoes are rampant, it is the hardest hit area of malaria, of course, it is indispensable to the prevalence of such diseases, but also save Li Tianyang them the trouble of looking for patients.

There are medicines and patients, so it is only a matter of time before we find the correct way to use the herbs. Thanks to the blessing of future generations, the team established by Li Tianyang spent a full eight years, and it was not until last year that the strategy of this prescription was officially completed. Of course, limited by the current technical strength, this prescription cannot be said to cure the disease, but it has also reduced the fatality rate of malaria from 7 to 80 percent in the past to less than 30 percent today.

And this is also an important killer weapon and secret weapon for Li Tianyang to dare to go to sea and develop this piece of real poor mountains and bad waters and sinister land in the eyes of the world.

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