In Miao territory, many people used to know how to play poison, so neighbors were wary of each other. However, in modern times, fewer and fewer people know how to play poison.
Even in those developed Miao villages, almost no one knows how to cast poison.
Now someone in Xitang Miao Village was actually bewitched. In Xiao Chen's opinion, this must have been done by someone familiar with it, and it should be difficult for outsiders to come in and start something.
However, now Xiao Chen feels that it is better to check on the conditions of those patients first.
After Chief Long took Xiao Chen and the others there, they first went to one of the old men.
This old man must be over seventy years old. Under normal circumstances, his body is still very strong, because many people now live longer, and it is normal to live to be over ninety, or even over a hundred.
But now, under the torture of witchcraft, it looks very painful.
Sang only knew how to cast the poison, but he didn't know how to undo it. Moreover, he couldn't tell what kind of witchcraft had been cast on him.
Xiao Chen checked the old man's pulse, tongue, eyes, and facial expressions.
Finally, he asked: "What do the old man's stools and pee look like?"
The son of the old man on the side explained in detail the old man's bowel movement and urination.
Xiao Chen could already confirm what kind of poison this old man had been poisoned by.
"Xiao Chen, what kind of poison is this?"
"Plant Gu."
Plant poison?
Many people do not pay attention to plant poison, but plant poison is the most commonly used because there are so many sources of plant poison.
"What kind of plant poison?"
"Human grass."
Echinacea is a Chinese herbal medicine that mainly treats numbness and pain in the ankles and knees, spasm of the limbs, malignant sores and scabies, cough and upper respiratory tract, laryngeal blockage, and throat congestion. It is mainly distributed in the south and other places.
The smell is pungent, warm, and highly poisonous.
In the 17th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, a suspected case of plant poison occurred in Guangzhi. In the mountains and forests of Xiangshan County, there was a kind of grass called Echinacea. Its leaves were like water shields, ranging from yellow to white. The leaves were highly poisonous and could be put into people's mouths.
If the leaf juice is swallowed, the intestines and stomach will ulcerate.
Local locusts often use wormwood as a poison to harm people.
In the spring of a certain year during the Chongzhen era, Luo Mingkui, a native of southern Yunnan, arrived
When the county magistrate of Xiangshan County learned about the harm done to people by the grasshopper, he ordered that every person who complained to the county magistrate should pay fifty sticks of the grasshopper.
After this order was issued, all the poisonous weeds were cut down. The magistrate of Luo County personally supervised the burning of the poisonous weeds by the handymen. Soon, the poisonous weeds disappeared in Xiangshan.
However, this hominin grass itself is a traditional Chinese medicine that can cure diseases and save lives, but on the other hand, it can also be used as a poison.
According to the practice of the Miao people, it is used as a kind of plant poison.
It is said that the poisoner will secretly get this plant poison into the target's water source and food. As long as it is eaten, it will be poisoned and even die over time.
In fact, this Gu is not what he imagined, and moreover, he has his own way of doing it.
The most terrifying thing is that these plant poisons appear in the victim's room, and it is possible to breathe in the gas and die silently.
Human grass like this is spread all over the southern provinces. It is really impossible to completely eliminate it. In the Miao border, there are many kinds of plants and poisonous insects, which is why there are so many witchcrafts.
Appear.
If you were in a big city, without this condition, these things would naturally not happen.
When I heard that Xiao Chen saw it, Sang asked: "Xiao Chen, how do you treat this?"
At that time, the local doctor also made a prescription to treat the poisonous poison of elegans. Take an egg hatched by a hen (one without chicks), boil it, grind it into fine powder, add a tablespoon of clear oil, and the poison of elegans will
If a person takes the poison once a day, he will spit out the poisonous grass poison.
If the poison is in the upper part of the body, add 5 cents of gallbladder, dissolve it in hot tea and then take it, and the poison will come out. If the poison is in the lower part of the body, add 2 cents of turmeric water in vegetable soup and drink it.
Gu will also spit it out.
In fact, this is the prescription to cure this witchcraft.
However, Xiao Chen was not sure whether it was true or not, so he still used his method to prescribe medicine for the other party to drink.
"Chief Long, please immediately send someone to the town to buy medicine and come back to make a medicinal soup for him to drink."
Chief Long was also surprised that this young man seemed to know so much despite his young age.
According to what Xiao Chen said, the so-called Hu Mancao does exist in the back mountains of Miao Village.
But, neither
Someone took it seriously.
And who in the end administered this poison?
Xiao Chen visited other patients and found that they all had similar symptoms, but the severity was different. This should be due to the fact that the poisonous ingredients of the human grass they drank may be different.
After Xiao Chen read this.
I learned that two people had died in the past two days, one was an old man, a woman, the kind of lonely old man who was killed first. However, the symptoms of witchcraft, and now these symptoms of witchcraft
no the same.
The other was a middle-aged man who went out to herd cattle and did not come back. When the villagers went to look for him, they only saw that the cow was still alive and that the middle-aged man had died under a tree.
This sounds very scary, of course, and the police have been reported to the town police station. The police officers came to investigate and then left, leaving the villagers to wait for news.
Xiao Chen, Mo Xiaowan, and Sang returned to the place where the Dragon Clan lived.
"Chief Long, I came here this time not only to cure those patients who were poisoned, but also to find out who the murderer is. Otherwise, this murderer will always exist, and it will also be a threat to you villagers, and I am afraid you will also
Can't sleep."
This is definitely true.
How could they possibly sleep knowing that such a person existed?
"Dr. Xiao, everyone in our village is familiar with him. There should be no need to harm our own people," Chief Long said.
"Chief Long, it's hard to say. As the saying goes, you must be on guard against others, and you must not have the intention of harming others. Based on the situation of your villagers, I am sure that 80% of them may have committed the crime. Moreover, he is responsible for
Your every move is very familiar, but I am not sure who this person is. Therefore, I still want to investigate clearly the situation of the two deceased people, as well as the situation of the poisoned patients just now."
"Dr. Xiao, of course you can."
If at first, Patriarch Long looked down on Xiao Chen, one of them thought that he was too young, and the other thought that he was not a Miao man, so he definitely didn't know how to solve the poison.
Now, he saw that this young man must be very powerful, and when he heard that the other party's master was Master Miao, the head of the Jiuli Sect, he did not dare to underestimate the other party anymore.
Now that Xiao Chen is here to help him, Chief Long naturally doesn't dare to have any other ideas.