Chao Gai and Abe Takano spoke sincerely and described in detail the illnesses of their relatives and compatriots in their hometown.
Patients with the disease first experience weakness in their lower limbs and general weakness, then anorexia, nausea, and vomiting, and then their feet become swollen and ulcerated.
In severe cases, you will be unable to walk normally, or even get out of bed, until your muscles are paralyzed, and you will lie in bed waiting for death...
"That's it..."
Li Ang leaned back slightly, looked at the two people who saluted him, and fell into thought.
Abe Takano said softly: "I heard that Li Jun likes to appreciate gold and silver utensils. Japan Island is rich in gold and silver. People in my hometown specially asked me to bring more local specialties..."
"That's easy to say."
Li Ang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and raised his palms.
Has your love for gold, silver and luxury goods spread abroad?
Do you want to be so exaggerated?
"Well... there are quite a lot of potential diseases that cause such symptoms. It's hard for me to make a direct judgment without seeing specific patients."
Li Ang thought for a while and said: "I remember that when envoys were sent to the Tang Dynasty, they usually brought many people with them, right? I wonder if you know the patients in Chang'an."
"I know you."
Chao Gai immediately said: "He is a businessman and lives near the West Market. Do you need us to invite him over?"
"Eh? If he's sick, it's better for us to go there."
"No, no, no, how can I trouble Li Jun."
Chao Gai immediately got up, went outside the courtyard gate, and said a few words to the servant waiting there. The servant immediately ran to the West Market, and not long after, a carriage drove into Jingchengfang.
Two servants helped a man from Japan out of the carriage. Indeed, as Chao Gai and Abe Takano said, his feet were slightly swollen.
Li Ang checked it and suddenly asked: "Have you had dinner?"
"Ah?"
Knowing the noble status of Chao Gai and Abe Takano, the Japanese business traveler seemed particularly frightened. When facing Li Ang, he couldn't even speak.
You must know that the ancestor of the Abe family was Emperor Xiaogen's prince Ohiko Mikoto. His ancestors produced many high-ranking officials, and they were extremely noble in Hijima.
And for them to be so respectful...Li Ang's identity is obviously more noble.
Seeing the businessman stunned, Chao Gai couldn't help but whispered: "You haven't answered Li Jun yet."
"Oh, I ate, I ate. I ate sunflower vegetables, roasted fish, and tofu soup at Ping'an Restaurant in Xishi."
"Where's the rice?"
The businessman replied: "I ate a bowl of polished rice."
Polished rice is finely ground white rice, which is whiter in color and tastes better, but of course the price is more expensive.
"Yeah."
Li Ang nodded as expected, "It looks a bit like a lack of vitamins..."
"Vitamin..."
Chao Gai asked cautiously, "Is it the disease that the previous general who ruled the country suffered from?"
As a Chang'an bureaucrat, he also learned some about Li Ang's deeds during casual conversations with his colleagues, including the previous cure of Yan Yundang.
"It's almost the same. But it's not the same vitamin."
Li Ang said casually.
Yan Yundang suffers from anemia. The cause is lack of vitamin b12.
The Japanese business traveler in front of me should have beriberi, and the cause is a lack of vitamin B1 and thiamine.
This is a vitamin synthesized by fungi, microorganisms and plants. Animals and humans cannot synthesize it in the body and can only ingest it from the outside world.
Once lacking, it will cause sugar metabolism disorders, hinder sugar oxidation, form pyruvate and lactic acid accumulation, affect the body's energy supply, and cause clinical symptoms of digestion and circulatory system.
That is beriberi.
Li Ang asked: "If I remember correctly, the Japanese nobles should like to eat polished rice, right?"
"Yes."
Abe Takano nodded respectfully and said: "Ever since the new waterwheel was awarded to us two hundred years ago, waterwheel mills have become popular in Hijima for fine grinding of rice."
"What about the meat?"
Li Ang asked: "Do you usually eat the meat of chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock?"
"This... I eat a little occasionally."
Chao Gai and Abe Takano looked at each other and explained awkwardly.
In the pre-Sui period, Ridao was already a vassal state of the Sui State.
Prince Shotoku, the regent at that time, in order to resist the interference of the Soga family in politics, got inspiration from the Goguryeo monk Huiji, and determined to imitate the Sui system, centralize the monarchy, promote Buddhism, and unify thoughts.
He carried out a series of drastic reforms, including but not limited to formulating twelve levels of crowns, distinguishing official levels by the color of hats and clothes, appointing officials based on talent, making official positions non-hereditary, promulgating written codes, etc.
In the process, Prince Shotoku, who had high self-confidence, also changed his previous attitude of surrender to the Sui Dynasty and asked the envoy Ono Meizi (just named Meizi, male) to send a national letter to the Sui Emperor.
Book.
It's the very famous letter "The Emperor of the Sunrise Place writes to the Emperor of the Sunrise Place, I wish you all the best."
Of course, having self-confidence is one thing, but practicing it is another.
Prince Shotoku's reforms ultimately failed due to the obstruction of his relatives, and he himself died under the surveillance and suppression of his relatives. Only his extreme admiration for Buddhism was preserved.
Buddhism does not allow eating meat, so Prince Shotoku issued a meat ban, using strict laws to restrict people from eating the meat of cows, horses, chickens, etc., and later even pork, dog meat, etc.
In nature, vitamin b1 mainly exists in the coat and germ of seeds, such as rice bran and bran. It also exists in the meat of poultry and livestock.
The Japanese nobles neither eat brown rice nor meat, so it is not surprising that they suffer from vitamin B1 deficiency.
"Li Jun, can this disease...be cured?"
Chao Gai asked cautiously.
"Okay. I need to prepare a few things. Please wait here."
Li Ang thought about it, went to the backyard and found the hand-cranked simple centrifuge that he had used before, and found the yeast for making steamed buns from the kitchen.
Use the method of extracting vitamin b12 to filter, centrifuge and purify the yeast fermentation liquid.
Pour the supernatant out of the test tube, return to the living room, and hand it to the Japanese businessman.
"Here, drink it. If everything goes well, the effect will be visible within seven to ten days."
Li Ang said.
Yeast contains a large amount of vitamin b1. Drinking the purified liquid can completely replenish the lack of vitamin b1. As long as you eat more meat and more multigrain brown rice, the disease will heal itself.
"Yes, yes."
Ridao Business Traveler nodded like a pound of garlic, took the test tube respectfully, drank the solution in one gulp, and smacked his lips.
"Thank you so much, Li Jun."
Abe Takano once again saluted Li Ang and said excitedly: "This way, my mother will be saved."
Chao Gai also said: "Li Jun, this is the gift reward for you. Please wait for a moment. I will go to the house to get more gifts..."
"No, no, no, healing and saving people is what I should do."
Li Ang paused for a moment, "As for the reward, can you show me the rosary in your hand, Tingye?"
In his perception, the transparent rosary in Abe Takano's hand was emitting a mysterious wave.
Familiar, the fluctuation of the relics of the Sword Immortal.
This chapter has been completed!