Chapter 842: Realgar Wine
For the Supreme Treasure, if a soldier is poisoned by snake venom and really has such an adverse reaction after being injected with serum, it will be worse than poisoning. Therefore, he can only pray that the production of this serum is just a reassuring guarantee that he can not use it, and if he really needs it, then the soldier's life can only be left to fate, after all, he has not yet made an instrument to test serum allergens under the current conditions.
Therefore, it is best not to go head-to-head with these poisonous snakes, which makes the Supreme Treasure suddenly think of one thing that can make the thousand-year-old white snake spirit afraid, that is, realgar wine. Realgar wine is a liquor or rice wine brewed with realgar ground into powder, and is the drink of the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Realgar wine needs to be dried in the sun, and some are dried from the first day of May to the fifth day of the first month. As a traditional Chinese medicine, realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide.
Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people in Qu Yuan's hometown threw zongzi and salted eggs into the river in order to prevent the dragon from eating Qu Yuan's body. An old doctor brought a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that it could stun the dragon and protect Qu Yuan. After a while, a dragon really floated on the surface of the water. Therefore, people pulled the dragon ashore, pulled its tendons, skinned it, and then wrapped the dragon tendons around the children's wrists and necks, and then wiped the seven orifices with realgar wine, thinking that in this way the children could be protected from insects and snakes. It is said that this is the origin of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. To this day, there are still many places where there is a habit of drinking realgar wine.
As a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, realgar wine can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancient people believed that realgar can restrain snakes, scorpions and other insects, "good can kill a hundred poisons, ward off a hundred evils, make Gu poison, people wear it, enter the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves ambush, enter the river and avoid a hundred poisons."
Realgar, as a medicinal use, has a long history, and its medicinal properties are hard, warm, and poisonous; return to the liver, stomach, and large intestine meridians; It is mainly used externally for insecticide, detoxification, and treatment of carbuncles, boils, eczema, scabies, and snake bites.
"Realgar" is also known as Xiongjing, Shihuang, Xunhuang, Golden Stone, produced in Hunan, Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places, so Yongzhou is indeed a place to produce realgar, this supreme treasure in the sulfur on the mountain occupied by Liu Bang before found the existence of this thing. Realgar is warm, slightly pungent, poisonous, can be taken externally and internally, mainly used for detoxification, insecticide, external treatment of sores, snake bites, etc., the effect is better. Drinking a small amount of realgar can cure epilepsy and sores, but because realgar has corrosive power, it must be drunk only after being instructed by a doctor and brewing realgar wine according to the ancient method. In the pharmaceutical industry, it can be used as drugs and strong stimulants, and high-grade realgar and orpiment ore can be directly used as traditional Chinese medicine.
The main chemical component of realgar is arsenic sulfide. Realgar is heated and converted into arsenic trioxide, which is arsenic oxide, which is highly toxic arsenic. It can be seen that drinking heated realgar wine is actually taking poison. Wine can dilate blood vessels, accelerate the absorption of arsenic in the digestive tract and skin, the short time is ten minutes, the elderly will be poisoned in four to five hours, mild symptoms of pain behind the skull, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, stool is "rice swill", severe to death. There is no scientific reason to apply realgar wine to children's heads, nose tips, earlobes or rub them on their bodies to ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics. However, due to the characteristics of realgar that is insoluble in water and soluble in dilute nitric acid, most of realgar cannot be absorbed.
Realgar wine has a strong pesticide effect. In ancient China, the main disinfectant for eliminating pests and diseases in summer, realgar wine was one of them. It is often sprayed under the bed, in the corner of the wall and other shady places to avoid poisonous insects.
Although the Supreme Treasure didn't bring sulfur this time, the explosives he wanted to bring contained sulfur, which should also play a role in repelling snakes after being concocted into wine. So the Supreme Treasure began to open the wrapped explosives packets and mix them in the wine.
"Chairman, what are you doing here? Is this also an antidote to snake venom? Didn't you say that you can't drink snake venom and make the toxin spread faster? Xiao He saw that the Supreme Treasure was opening the explosive packages one by one, and took out the gunpowder inside, and asked curiously.
"It's not an antidote, it's a good thing for everyone to take with them to avoid snakes and insects. There is an ingredient in this gunpowder that can be used to repel insects and snakes after being concocted into wine. ”
"Could it be that you are talking about realgar wine, Chairman of the Chairman?"
"So you know?"
"Chairman, this was invented to commemorate the deceased loyal servant Lord Qu Yuan! How can we not know? It's just that I didn't know that this gunpowder also had realgar in it. ”
Supreme Treasure then remembered that it was indeed Qu Yuan who came to Nanchu earlier than he came, and it is estimated that everyone would indeed know about realgar wine at that time. That's easy to do, and you don't need to explain too much, everyone should know the magic of this realgar wine.
However, the Supreme Treasure thought about it and reminded: "This realgar wine can be sprinkled along the road at that time, don't take it internally, this wine contains highly toxic and should not be taken like realgar wine." ”
"Understood, Chair."
It is said that the effect of this realgar wine in repelling insects and avoiding snakes is really not small, and the poisonous snakes that can be seen everywhere in Yongzhou are like hiding from them after he developed the snake venom antidote and serum, and they are all hiding and can't see the shadow. The People's Liberation Army also took protective measures to prevent it from being bitten by poisonous snakes, but the poisonous snakes did not see it.
Everyone laughed and said that this was all the work of the chairman, and if he hadn't developed the antidote to the fear of the poisonous snake, they would not have been so obediently hiding now. And for the Supreme Treasure, he was even more surprised that he didn't expect the effect of this realgar wine to repel snakes was so strong. Not touching a snake was not a pity for him. He was willing not to test whether his snake venom worked on ordinary people, and not to joke with their lives.
In this way, in the midst of danger, the PLA soldiers finally crossed the dense mountainous area of Yongzhou and came to their town. The soldiers who were originally stationed in Yongzhou have been gloating and feel that the PLA is doomed to death, because they know that Yongzhou is so powerful, and no one here can retreat with their whole body, not to mention that there are so many people in the People's Liberation Army, and a little movement will disturb those poisonous snakes lying in the grass, and being bitten is a common thing, but seeing them all standing in front of them safely.
The soldiers stationed in Yongzhou also panicked, and the Supreme Treasure let people release words to say that after the People's Liberation Army arrived in Yongzhou, the snakes hid after seeing them, and no snake dared to come out to hurt people, so the People's Liberation Army came to Yongzhou City unscathed. The ancient people were originally superstitious, and when the soldiers stationed heard such news, they really thought that this People's Liberation Army was sent by the gods so that they would not be afraid of the poisonous snakes of Yongzhou, and they proposed to abandon the city and flee.