Chapter 144 144 Anti-Insect Medicine (rewards will be added)
"I'll go with you." Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly took her back.
Douzi wiped his tears and kept saluting, "Thank you Qing Wu! Thank you Qing Wu!"
Half an hour later, the three of them arrived at the gate of the tribe. Yao Xiaoqing said, "Wait for me at the gate. I'll go back and get my things and go take a look with you."
As she walked, she thought about Bean's words. She lost weight soon after returning home from hunting, and her belly looked like that of a pregnant woman. Could it be that she drank raw water and developed parasites?
I went back to get the medical bag, and after thinking about it, I went to the pharmacy to get some tallow bark...
After walking a few steps in a hurry, I suddenly thought that pumpkin seeds can also repel insects, so I grabbed some pumpkin seeds and poria powder and put them in my bag, and hurried towards the gate.
Tuozi asked Douzi to sit on the long bamboo bench at the gate. Looking at her sallow face, she remembered the time when she was in the Sishan tribe.
"Douzi, where do you live during the winter?"
Douzi glanced at Yaozi and said, "The snow was heavy in winter and the hut collapsed, so everyone was crowded in the cave. There are not many people in our tribe, so we can still fit in."
Yuzi looked at her and thought about the change of women in the tribe, "Are you going to change too during the summer exchange?"
Douzi nodded and said: "There is not enough food in the tribe."
Yuzi thought for a moment and said: "Food is not easy to collect, and the leader and the green shaman are also worried!"
Douzi responded absently, looking anxiously at the direction Yao Xiaoqing was walking.
After a while, I saw her running towards here carrying a bamboo basket.
Douzi stood up and greeted him.
Yao Xiaoqing said: "Let's go!" She turned around and said to the bull guarding the gate, and rushed towards the Lingque tribe with the taro.
The three of them ran all the way, and it took them more than two hours to arrive at the Lingque tribe. Several old men were beating stones in the open space.
Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the dark red stone with a bit of metallic luster in their hands, and something flashed through his mind.
Douzi took Yao Xiaoqing to the cave where Qiu Shan lived. Qiu Shan, with a sallow complexion, was lying on an animal skin and had already woken up.
"Qing Wu..." Seeing Douzi coming in with Yao Xiaoqing, he propped himself on the ground and tried to get up, but fell down again.
Yao Xiaoqing stepped forward quickly and said politely: "Chief Qiushan, you don't have to get up. Please tell me where you drank the water when you went hunting, and what's wrong with you?"
She looked at Qiu Shan's swollen belly, which really looked like a pregnant woman.
Douzi came over with a pile of animal skins and stepped forward to help Qiu Shan up and let him lean on the animal skins.
Qiu Shan panted and said: "Last time we met the leader of Yaohu in the mountains, we separated and walked towards the mountains."
Qiu Shan took a breath, "I took my tribe to hunt in the mountains. When I became thirsty, I took some water to drink from a shallow puddle, and drank from the stream..."
"I started to feel uncomfortable not long after I came back. I didn't want to eat, I had chest pain, and there was blood in the cough and spit. There was also a tribesman who drank water with me. He was also feeling unwell, but he was better than me."
After hearing this, Yao Xiaoqing felt that the symptoms of schistosomiasis were very similar to those in the epidemic prevention manual distributed in the village.
She continued to ask: "Is there anything like blood or snot in your stool?
Qiu Shan thought for a moment and said, "I've been doing it all these days."
Yao Xiaoqing thought: It seems that it is schistosomiasis. I don’t know what stage it is in?
"Don't worry. I'll cook some herbs for you to drink first. Take your time and you'll be fine."
Qiu Shan looked at Yao Xiaoqing overjoyed, "Qing Wu, are you telling the truth?"
Douzi also looked at her happily.
Yao Xiaoqing nodded and said to Douzi: "Take me to boil the medicine for your father to drink. Also, do you have any mackerel or honey here?"
Douzi nodded happily, "Yes, I'll get it for you. The stone mortar for pounding things is inside. Come with me."
Hearing that they had honey, Yao Xiaoqing was a little surprised, nodded, and followed her to the bamboo shed, where she saw a large stone mortar placed inside.
"You go get the jar, we can come here."
"Okay." Douzi turned around and went to get the jar.
Yao Xiaoqing took the bamboo basket carried by Taro Zi and took out the black tallow peel and pumpkin seeds from it.
Taro Zi looked at those pumpkin seeds and his eyes widened, "Xiao Qing, this..."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at her and said, "Don't shout, these seeds can kill the bugs growing in your stomach."
"Are there bugs in your stomach?" Yuzi's eyes almost fell out.
"Is it weird to have bugs?" Yao Xiaoqing glanced at Taro Zi's belly, "People in the past often ate raw meat, and some people had a bug that was longer than a bamboo pole. Why are you not allowed to eat it?
That’s why you drink raw water.”
Taro Zi felt a little pain in her stomach and looked at her with a grimace, "Xiaoqing, I understand, I won't drink raw water anymore."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at her weird look and burst out laughing, "If there are no worms in your stomach, go find some grass and brush the mortar socket."
Yuzi breathed a sigh of relief, "Xiaoqing, you scared me to death." After saying that, he happily ran out.
Douzi brought a jar with a chipped mouth and said, "Qingwu, this is the only jar we have."
"Okay!" Yao Xiaoqing grabbed a little tallow tree and put it into a jar. "Take it and boil it for your father to drink. Give me the honey and boiled cold water and I will bring some."
Taro Zi came back with a handful of hay, and the two of them wiped the mortar and the stone pestle clean. Yao Xiaoqing poured the pumpkin seeds into the stone mortar and said, "Crush a little."
"Yeah!" Taro took the stone pestle and pounded it.
Douzi walked into the hut carrying two wooden bowls and said, "Qingsha, I'll give you some honey and boiled water. The water is a bit hot and needs to be cooled down."
It seemed that all the water their tribe drank was raw water, so Yao Xiaoqing told her: "Douzi, tell the people in the tribe that they cannot drink unboiled water in the future, and they must bring boiled water with them in bamboo tubes when they go hunting."
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Douzi wrote down seriously, "I understand. Qingsha, can the medicine you cook be given to Yangshu?"
"Is that the clansman you told your father about?"
"Yes! He is feeling better and has gone out to collect."
"He can also drink it. The medicine here is enough for them to take for two days."
"Thank you Qingwu! Thank you Qingwu!"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Go ahead! Give your father the medicine to drink."
Douzi gratefully saluted Yao Xiaoqing and walked out.
Yao Xiaoqing glanced at the honey in the bowl, picked it up and smelled it, and a sweet smell came to her nose.
"Xiaoqing, the pumpkin seeds have been mashed, can you see if they can be used?" Yuzi raised her head and asked.
"It works."
Yao Xiaoqing added some Poria powder to the finely pounded pumpkin seeds, and mixed it with cold boiling water and honey. Yao Zi sniffed and said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, this medicine should be delicious."
"Yes! It also contains honey!" Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile.
Yao Xiaoqing kneaded the reconciled medicine for a while, then rolled the medicine ball with taro into a ball as big as a pigeon egg, put it into a dry wooden bowl, and carried it to the cave where Qiu Shan lived.