Chapter 21 See medicine every step of the way

The bamboo wares in the mountains are of high quality and cheap.The folks sent four bamboo beds and three bamboo boards to my family successively, all of which are soft and lubricated, cool and refreshing to the skin, and are more kind summer supplies. One day at noon, I fell asleep and suddenly felt something hard on the bamboo bed. I touched it several times, but found nothing. Instead, I felt a hard lump on my back. The common name is "back flower". My wife decided that this was the result of not wearing a straw hat when I went to the ground, and it was also the shameful end of my eating chili. The final conclusion was: hurry to the city to seek medical treatment!Of course I can go to town.But I was a little afraid of the crowding and queuing in the big hospitals in the city, and I was not used to the hot and cold when air conditioners were everywhere.With the attitude of giving it a try, I flipped through medical books and tried to use local methods to dispel fire and detoxify.My wife had worked in a pharmacy before and knew some knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine. She quickly picked amaranth from the yard, washed it, mashed it, and applied it on the lump.But this kind of grass blade is hard, non-sticky, not close to the body, and it will fall off after a short time, leaking out from the edge of the gauze, and scattered all over the bed.The wife went to ask the nearby farmers again, and replaced it with a plowshare grass, which was also washed and crushed, and made into sticky cakes, which were applied to the flowers on the back to "extract poison" and "back poison".

A miracle happened like this.After only two or three days of application, the fever on the back has subsided and softened.After applying it for another two or three days, the lumps began to shrink.In addition, I drank several bowls of honeysuckle soaked water every day, and in less than ten days, the menacing back flowers disappeared without a trace.The whole treatment process neither cost money nor any fatigue and pain. I remember suffering from this terrible disease myself as a teenager.From the onset of pus to the discharge of pus, a back flower consumed countless antibiotics and analgesics, and it lasted more than 20 days.When it was the most serious, the hard lump was as big as the mouth of a bowl, and there were dozens of small pus heads, like a brightly colored pomegranate. It caused unbearable pain, persistent high fever, and fainting.Doctors also said at the time that the poison was sometimes fatal because it was near the heart.

Now the native method is easy to cure the disease, which makes me look at all kinds of weeds in the yard with admiration.Plantain, Desmodium, Imperatae, Lingxiao, Cockscomb, Ophiopogon japonicus, roadside tendon, Tanabe chrysanthemum, yellow celery, morning glory seeds, perilla seeds, Houttuynia cordata (Avalokitesvara)...these are also It's just already coded.There are countless unmarked ones.Mr. Long’s father-in-law is from Sanjiang. He came to see his daughter and grandson. He stopped by my house and gave me another local lecture. of.It turns out that Ji Xiaolan in Ming Dynasty used amaranth soup and Empress Dowager Cixi in Qing Dynasty used cabbage soup, both of which cured serious illnesses.It turns out that every small farmyard is a herb garden, and it is also a free medicine box. Every herb has a medicine, and there is a medicine at every step. Although it cannot be said to cure all diseases, it is more than enough to deal with most common diseases.There are several horse chestnuts in my house, which are said to be the magic herb for treating snakebite.

On the way, I met Fatty Wu, a doctor who lives nearby, and asked him why he didn't use more herbs for his patients. Fatty is an honest man, what about western medicine, the price is high and the profit is big.Besides, the quick action of western medicine is also in line with the current people's appetite for quickness. "To tell you the truth, the current doctors are all water doctors, and I am also a water doctor. If you encounter any disease, hang two bottles of water first!" "According to what you said, I deserve to be such a doctor." "Yes, you can be worthy."

"Abuse of antibiotics, isn't the newspaper saying that there are many side effects?" "Everyone hangs like this, what do you do? If you don't hang like this, the patient still thinks you are not good enough. There is no water or bottle (flat)!" The reason he didn't say is: Herbal medicine is priceless, there is no market, and the recipient can at best recognize a favor, and it is absolutely impossible to pay for it-this non-commercial tradition will definitely starve a fat man like him to death. This is what I found out later. The thing is really strange: there are many poor people in rural China, but they use Western medicines and even abuse them at the expense of cheapness.On the contrary, my friends in the United States once told me that some insurance companies there have taken a fancy to traditional Chinese medicine and encouraged them to open their businesses in recent years in order to save money and increase efficiency.Due to the erroneous nature of the matter, the traditional Chinese medicine that Chinese people should enjoy the most may fall to other families.A good tradition that almost everyone has access to medicine may be lost in civilizations within one or two generations.

Are we more civilized, or more savage and ignorant? I emailed my friends from Tianya magazine to tell a story about "Back Flowers" and suggested that they all pay attention to Chinese herbal medicine.