Eight hundred and ninetieth chapter herbal medicine
Lin Yuan suddenly realized that he knew what the problem was. It was the mountain spring water!
After taking a rest, Lin Yuan asked Hong Lei to take him to see what the mountain spring water looked like.
In the early years, the water supply for Hongjiazhai was collected at the edge of the village and carried back for several miles. Later, the cadres from the Yang'an local department assisting Hongjiazhai realized that it was inconvenient to collect water this way.
However, there were no conditions for installing running water in Hongjiazhai, so we adapted to local conditions and used bamboo to divert mountain spring water to a low-lying area next to Hongjiazhai.
If a reservoir is built in this low-lying area, it will be much more convenient for the people in Hongjiazhai to collect water.
Lin Yuan followed Hong Lei to the reservoir, took out some with his hands and put it in his mouth. The mint-like taste became even more intense.
"Master Hongzhai, does this mountain spring water always taste like this?"
Hong Lei said with a smile: "How else can mountain spring water taste like this? It has always been like this."
Lin Yuan thought for a moment and asked Hong Lei to lead him along the water pipe until he reached the source of the spring water.
A reservoir is still built at the water connection point of the pipeline. Mountain springs gather here from the surrounding area, flow through the pipeline to the reservoir below, and become drinking water for the people of Hongjiazhai.
Lin Yuan was certain that the Honglei couple's leg and foot problems came from the water, but how could this mountain spring water have a herbal taste like mint?
After thinking about it, Lin Yuan accidentally saw a clear and green bamboo forest where the spring water flows. In the past, Lin Yuan would not have paid much attention to the bamboo, but since he was injured by the bamboo knife, Lin Yuan has paid special attention to the bamboo.
form.
Lin Yuan discovered that the bamboo here was different from the bamboo he saw when he entered Hongjiazhai. In the bamboo forest outside, the thick bamboo joints would turn yellow, but the bamboo here did not turn yellow at all.
sign.
"Master Hong Village, this is probably the Jasper Bamboo unique to Hong Village, right?"
"Yes, this jasper bamboo is a good thing. When the weather is hottest, soaking its leaves in water will be a great relief from the heat."
Lin Yuan felt something in his heart after hearing this. He quickly stepped forward, picked a few bamboo leaves, put them in his mouth and chewed them. Yes, the mint-like taste in the spring water was exactly the same as these bamboo leaves.
It seems that the root of the problem lies on the leaves of Jasper Bamboo.
This bamboo leaf should be unique to this place. In all the medical classics Lin Yuan has seen, there is no record of Jasper bamboo leaves.
If a Chinese medicine practitioner discovers it, he will definitely write it down in the classics of traditional Chinese medicine. According to Lin Yuan’s understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, jasper bamboo leaves are cold in nature. Compared with mint, which is pungent and cool, jasper bamboo leaves are better.
Jasper bamboo leaves are significantly better than peppermint in terms of dispersing wind-heat, clearing the head, relieving throat and rash, and dispersing liver qi. The most important thing is that the extremely cooling nature of jasper bamboo leaves is likely to play a role in detoxification.
, has very good curative effect.
Lin Yuan carefully collected some jasper bamboo leaves and sealed them. He wanted to treat these as samples and send them to famous experts for identification.
Hong Lei looked at it and said to Lin Yuan: "President Lin, you saved the third daughter-in-law and are a great benefactor to our Hongjiazhai. Logically speaking, we will satisfy any request you make. But there is one thing. Our ancestors
The rules that remain are that no one is allowed to have any ideas about Jasper Bamboo. If you want to develop it, you'd better save it."
Lin Yuan was startled when he heard this. He never expected that even the grace of saving his life would not be enough to impress the people in Hongjiazhai.
To be honest, Lin Yuan was really thinking about it, because the medicinal effect of jasper bamboo leaves may not be comparable to that of ginseng grass, but it is very likely to be a newly discovered herbal medicine.
In contemporary society, due to the improvement of living standards, the food we eat is mellow, greasy, and super sweet, and the symptoms of heat, fire, and dampness in the body will be very severe. Ordinary herbal medicines such as mint may not be able to overcome such symptoms of heat, fire, and dampness, so increase the dosage of the medicine.
I'm afraid that quantity won't help. The jasper bamboo leaves discovered should have broad market prospects.
But the people in Hongjiazhai are actually not interested in development.
Being too anxious to eat hot tofu, Lin Yuan could only comfort himself in this way.
"Master Hongzhai, I would like to ask, is it that more than ten years ago, there were very few people like you and your wife suffering from sudden illness in their legs and feet, but recently the incidence rate has been very high?"
Hong Lei thought for a while and said: "It seems so. Starting from my generation, the incidence of cold legs has been particularly high among middle-aged and elderly people. President Lin, is it a problem with the mountain spring water? It shouldn't be possible, right? We
Our ancestors have been drinking this water for generations.”
Lin Yuan smiled and said: "It's still a matter of mountain spring water. Master Hongzhai, look, how is your drinking of mountain spring water different from what it was more than ten years ago?"
Hong Lei looked in the direction Lin Yuan was pointing, thought for a while and said, "President Lin, you mean to say that in the past we used to fetch water from the mountains, but now we bring it down the mountain. Is it a pipe problem?"
"No. Look, the spring water in the mountains used to be collected here, and then the people in the village came to fetch water, right? The water storage here was originally not blocked. Because drinking water was needed to go down the mountain, it was collected.
The spring water was covered with a cover to prevent debris from falling in."
Lin Yuan made a detailed analysis and found that when mountain spring water flows through the root system of Jasper Bamboo, it will carry some medicinal ingredients of Jasper Jasper Bamboo's cooling medicine. When they are collected and exposed to the sun, the medicinal properties will be lost.
But in order to ensure that the water is diverted without debris, the place where the spring water collects is covered, which blocks the sunlight. Without sunlight, the ingredients of the cold medicine in the spring water will not evaporate.
The water receiving point at the foot of the mountain is also covered to avoid contact with debris. In this way, the cooling medicine in the spring water reaches the homes of the villagers.
People in Hongjiazhai drink all water directly, which is equivalent to drinking water with cooling properties every day. You know, people drink a lot of water in a day, especially in hot areas like Nanhu.
Over time, cooling drugs continue to act in the human body. Coupled with the humid climate in the south, the two-phase effect will lead to a cold constitution, resulting in soreness and weakness in the legs and feet, and even symptoms of rheumatism.
"Ah? It turns out that's the reason! No wonder there have been more and more people with leg and foot problems in the village in the past ten years. Their emotions are caused by the water. I immediately called for people to smash the cover at the bottom of the mountain. It really made it worse.
Killed."
"Master Hong, don't get excited. In fact, it is good to add a cover. After all, it can prevent debris from entering the water source. In this way, you only need to tell the people in the village to fetch the water and let it dry in the sun for half a day before drinking.
Already."
Hong Lei nodded and looked elsewhere with Lin Yuan before they returned to the village.
Lin Yuan asked Hong En to quickly deliver the bamboo leaves he collected to the address he gave. This matter was very important. Lin Yuan did not tell Hong Lei all about the Jasper Bamboo leaves because he himself did not know about the Jasper Bamboo leaves.
What are the functions of leaves?
Southerners generally drink cold drinks containing mint and the like to combat the scorching heat in the south. However, few people suffer from serious diseases due to long-term consumption of such medicinal drinks.
The people in Hongjiazhai and the mountain spring water containing the medicinal properties of Jasper Bamboo developed rheumatism-like symptoms, which made Lin Yuan feel that the cooling properties of Jasper Bamboo leaves were probably more than ten times greater than those of mint.
That's why Lin Yuan asked Hong En to send the samples quickly. Those who received the Jasper Bamboo Leaves were Xie Zhikun, Wang Boyuan and other national experts in traditional Chinese medicine, and Dang Shaobo would also receive one. Dang Shaobo was at the base in Jiwang County, and
Various scientific instruments can more intuitively detect the medicinal properties of jasper bamboo leaves.
Hong En left with the jade bamboo leaf samples, and Lin Yuan stayed behind to conduct consultations with people in the village who had cold legs.
The results are shocking. Seventy percent of the people in the village who are over fifty years old have cold legs.
What's even worse is that, without exception, these people used the added ingredients provided by Sima Lin, the Wuhan Powder. This plaster can only relieve temporary pain, but it only worsens the condition and has no therapeutic effect.
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What makes Lin Yuan heartbroken is that after the patient uses this kind of "Force Forced Cold Powder", because the plaster is effective in suppressing the symptoms, the symptoms of cold legs rebound so violently that they can no longer hold back the cold without using the plaster provided by Sima Lin.
Attacks of pain in the legs.
This is the most taboo situation for both Chinese and Western medicine - bad disease.
Bad diseases, to a certain extent, are more difficult to treat than terminal diseases. Because terminal diseases have not been treated, there may be a glimmer of hope. And bad diseases are those who cure the disease and then take over, facing the bad disease
It's almost impossible to start.
The biggest problem for these cured patients in Hongjiazhai is the pain when the disease attacks. The feeling is simply unbearable.
To stop the pain, you must use the kind of unreasonable plaster made by Sima Lin. Using that plaster is tantamount to drinking poison to quench your thirst. When the plaster has no effect, these patients will die of pain!
Lin Yuan has never been so angry. What Sima Lin did was not just using fake medicine to kill people, it was simply unscrupulous!
But Lin Yuan should not act too hastily, because Sima Lin's popularity in Hongjiazhai was quite good. Even Hong Lei, the person who suffered the most, was still doubtful about Lin Yuan's judgment.
Lin Yuan thought for a while and realized that this matter must be considered in the long run. Changing the views of the people in Hongjiazhai cannot be done overnight.
Looking at the patients suffering from cold legs, Lin Yuan could only use acupuncture to relieve their pain. Fortunately, Lin Yuan used acupuncture to save the life of his third daughter-in-law. The people in the village believed in Lin Yuan's acupuncture.
Without any doubt, Lin Yuan was treated with acupuncture one by one.
But such treatment is very mentally and physically draining. At the end of the day, Lin Yuan almost collapsed from exhaustion.
In the evening, Hong Lei was called away by people in the village. Lin Yuan was about to take a rest when Hong Xuetai suddenly ran to Hong Lei's house and said that a family in the village suddenly fell ill and asked Lin Yuan to come and take a look.
Lin Yuan ignored his exhaustion and followed Hong Xuetai out of Honglei's house.