Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

In Qu Yi's army tent, military doctors with their mouths and noses covered came in and out one after another, all shaking their heads and sighing.

See? What? Everyone had similar symptoms, and they'd tried a lot of different remedies, but the results were barely noticeable.

After drinking the medicine, Qu Yi lay weakly on the couch, "Did you really hear... that the lord wants to kill all the sick people?"

Qu Heng nodded. "There are more and more patients in the army, but no effective treatment is available. Now that they're all concentrated in one place, there's no guarantee the lord won't try to eradicate the source of the disease."

"My lord, there's nothing wrong with what you did. If it were me, I would do the same. Now I'm also sick, and there are more than 800 soldiers in the Xiandeng camp. Will he kill us too?"

Qu Heng shook his head, "I don't know..."

Qu Yi clutched his rumbling stomach and ordered, "Have our men be on the lookout. If there's really no other way, we'll just leave the camp."

Because Qu Yi was ill, Yuan Shao's plan to execute the patient was temporarily put on hold, but he couldn't wait too long. Tian Feng had to run to the medical camp several times every day, hoping that a miracle would happen before his lord made up his mind.

The medical camp was built next to the patient concentration camp, blocked by barricades on both sides. Except for doctors and guarding soldiers, no one else could enter or leave at will.

Today, as Tian Feng walked to the gate of the medical camp, he saw soldiers leading three doctors into the patient camp.

"and many more!"

Tian Feng called the three of them and quickly walked over to them and asked, "Are these three new doctors?"

The leading soldier bowed his head and said, "Reporting to Deputy Commander Tian, ​​this was sent by the Magistrate of Xiaquyang County. They just arrived this morning and as soon as they entered the camp, they shouted that they wanted to see a doctor. I was just about to take them in."

The doctors who had come recently, when they heard that they were treating leprosy, either cried and begged or directly said that their medical skills were shallow. No one had ever taken the initiative to ask to see the patients. When these three people took the initiative to ask to see the patients, Tian Feng couldn't help but feel some hope in his heart.

He was about to ask about the three people's backgrounds when Zhang Ji said impatiently, "The three of us have traveled day and night to get here. We are not here to chat. Let me see the patient first."

Zhang Ji's words were a bit rude. The soldier was about to reprimand him, but Tian Feng stopped him and said with a bow, "Yes, the doctor is right. Seeing a doctor is the most important thing!"

He then said to the soldiers, "Take the doctor in quickly, but cooperate as much as possible if there are any instructions."

Zhang Ji nodded slightly to Tian Feng and quickly followed the soldiers into the patient camp.

Looking at Zhang Ji's anxious footsteps, Tian Feng's frown relaxed a little. People with ability usually have bad tempers, such as Qu Yi and himself. This doctor might really be able to cure this disease.

Tian Feng didn't go anywhere else, so he stood beside the barricades waiting for people to come out.

It would take at most a cup of tea to see a patient, but Tian Feng waited for an hour and still no one came out. He waited another moment and was about to send soldiers in to ask when he saw the three men coming out of the tent and walking towards him in a hurry.

"How is it? Can you cure it, sir?" Tian Feng looked at Zhang Ji with hope.

"I'm not sure yet. Could you please take a look at the prescription the doctor gave me?"

Tian Feng was already delighted by the fact that he didn't deny it outright. He quickly said, "That's all right, sir. Follow me now."

Tian Feng personally led the way and took Zhang Ji and his apprentice into the largest tent in the medical camp. The prescriptions written by both military doctors and folk doctors were stored here.

Zhang Ji reviewed dozens of prescriptions and said to Tian Feng, "This disease is transmitted through oral and fecal transmission and has an incubation period. Once infected, the disease won't immediately develop. To prevent the disease from spreading again, soldiers, regardless of whether they are sick or not, must use separate utensils. No one in the army should urinate or defecate anywhere. Remember to wash your hands with running water before and after meals. This will effectively control the spread of the disease."

Tian Feng suddenly understood. No wonder, even though all the patients had been isolated, people were still falling ill every day. It turned out there was an incubation period. He immediately called to the soldiers behind him, "Did you hear that? Quickly spread the word everywhere, especially to the kitchen."

The soldier received the order and was about to leave when Zhang Ji said, "Wait a minute! Have the kitchen boil all the tableware before distributing it to the soldiers. They cannot be mixed until the epidemic is under control."

Zhang Mo recalled the scene of flies flying everywhere when she first entered the military camp and added: "Also, make sure that the tableware and food are not allowed to be bitten by flies."

Zhang Mo is feeling very conflicted now. She hopes that the disease can be cured, but she also wants it to be incurable. However, she knows that she cannot control the epidemic, and her master will definitely cure the disease as long as there is a way.

Tian Feng looked at Zhang Ji eagerly, "Since you know this battle so well, I think you can definitely cure it."

He bowed to Zhang Ji and said, "Tian Yuanhao begs you, sir, to save the lives of tens of thousands of my soldiers!"

Zhang Mo raised her eyebrows. This pale-faced scholar-like man turned out to be Tian Feng, a great strategist beside Yuan Shao. He was both loyal and talented. Unfortunately, Yuan Shao repeatedly ignored his advice. In the end, Tian Feng rebelled because of his stubbornness and was killed by Yuan Shao after the Battle of Guandu. What a pity!

Zhang Ji raised his hand to support him. "Mr. Tian, ​​you are too polite. I have come all the way here just to treat this illness. From what I can see, this disease is not a rare and stubborn one. Although it is not easy to treat, it is not to the point where no medicine can cure it."

Zhang Ji took out three prescriptions and said, "Could you please ask these three people to come over? I have some questions to ask you."

"Of course." Tian Feng said and immediately sent someone to invite him.

Zhang Mo looked at the prescription and asked in confusion, "Master, what's so special about these three prescriptions?"

"There's nothing special about it. One is for clearing away heat and relieving exterior symptoms, another is for strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, and another is for both. I just want to ask, what reactions do the patients have after taking it?"

The person who wrote the prescription was quickly called over. After asking, Zhang Ji learned that those who took the heat-clearing prescription had their high fever slightly reduced, but their diarrhea became worse. Those who took the spleen-strengthening prescription did not have their diarrhea aggravated, but it did not improve much either. Those who took both prescriptions had a variety of reactions. Only a very small number of them improved, while the others either continued to have high fever and diarrhea, or were drowsy, or irritable.

Zhang Ji looked at the third prescription and muttered to himself, "Logically speaking, this prescription is almost perfect. Even though the dosage is excessive, it shouldn't be completely ineffective."

He pondered for a moment, asked Zhang Mo to take out paper and pen, and picked up the pen to write a new prescription, which only contained four simple herbs: Pueraria root, Coptis chinensis, Amaranthus australis, and Scutellaria baicalensis.

Tian Feng held the prescription in his hand and asked uncertainly, "Is that all?"

In the past, when doctors prescribed medicine, they would not stop until they had listed ten types. Can these four simple types cure the disease?

Zhang Ji said, "More may not be useful."

He pointed to the prescription with the most written words and said bluntly, "There are five medicines with the same efficacy here. Although each dosage is used normally, mixing them together is too much. Too much is as bad as too little."

Zhang Ji continued, "Try this prescription first. I'll also use acupuncture and moxibustion, and it might help. During this time, make sure the patient drinks plenty of light salt water. For the next few days, only rice soup can be given. Nothing else."

An old man with a white beard snorted coldly when he heard this. "You think you're some miracle doctor? Don't you know that people with diarrhea shouldn't drink too much water?"

The old man had written a prescription that took both of these into account. He was already dissatisfied with Zhang Ji's comments that the dosage was too high.

The other two agreed. Diarrhea is all water, so how could you drink more water? Furthermore, Envoy Yuan had taken great care of the patient's diet to ensure a speedy recovery, and the food was much better than before. How could this person say the exact opposite?

After hearing the three people say this, Zhang Mo didn't think they were ignorant. Not to mention two thousand years ago, even in modern times, there were many people who initially thought so, and there were even many people who firmly believed in the saying that you are what you eat.

For example, if you don’t like the kidneys, you can eat kidneys; if you don’t like the heart, you can eat pig heart; if you don’t like the brains, you can eat pig brains!

Zhang Ji was immediately furious when he heard this. "This quack doctor is misleading people!"

Then he asked, "Let me ask you, why do people with diarrhea die?"

Without waiting for the man's reply, he asked himself, "It's because most of the feces are water. The more you poop, the more dehydrated your body becomes. If you don't replenish water, aren't you endangering my life? I was wondering why this prescription, which was 80% correct, didn't work. This is why."

Several people looked at each other in confusion after hearing what he said. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense.

Zhang Ji did not want to say anything more and said to Tian Feng, "If you trust me, then do as I say. Once the medicine is ready, I will give the patient acupuncture."

In fact, the high mortality rate of this epidemic is not entirely caused by drinking less water, but by drinking raw water.

There are so many people in the army, and cooking two meals a day is a huge hassle. And now it's summer, who would bother to boil water to drink? If you have diarrhea and drink raw water, you'll die!

The situation was already so bad, it couldn't get any worse, so Tian Feng had no choice but to try Zhang Ji's method.