Practicing Medicine in the Tang Dynasty

Re-study a prescription for anesthesia?

Wu Yi's words echoed in Xu Jie's heart for a long time.

The bright white moonlight passed by the window, like frost and snow, falling on his stern eyebrows like blades, but it couldn't extinguish the dancing flames in his eyes.

Although he didn't answer Wu Yi's words immediately, it didn't prove that he wasn't tempted.

Although Xu Jie's medical experience is not as long as Dr. Li Boting's, it has been more than ten years. Thousands of such cold nights have passed by, and this beating heart has long been cooled down.

It's not that he never thought of going north to Chang'an and making a career out of it, but it's a pity that although he is well-known in a small corner, he has always had nothing to do in Xingtan.In the end, Qianfan passed the side, and he was not given a chance to board the boat and go away.

Now Wu Yi's words are like a spark, rekindling the extinguished flame in his heart.

Now the apricot altar has been silent for many years, and few people are willing to break the old into the new. If they can really repeat the legend of Mafeisan, it will definitely revolutionize the entire surgery and cause a lot of shock in the medical field.

Are you still worried that there is no way forward?

There was a surge of excitement in his chest, he jumped up from the bed, put on his old cloak, and walked slowly towards the door.

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As soon as Xu Jie walked to the door of the library of the official school, he saw a tall young man standing at the door of the library, holding a lamp in one hand and protecting the fire in the other. Distinguish beautiful color.

As soon as he saw him coming, he showed a smile as light as the breeze.

"Zheng worry that I don't have a key to open the door of the library, and I don't dare to bother Mr. Xu late at night. Now I can ask Mr. Xu to open the door for me."

Xu Jie also broke the ice with a rare smile: "It's my fault that Mr. has waited so long."

The two faced each other face to face, and they had already understood each other's meaning with a smile.

"I wonder if Brother Wu has any opinions on the decoction for anesthesia?"

A difference in title has quietly narrowed the distance between the two.

Wu Yidao: "Nowadays, Datura and marijuana are commonly used in surgery. Although they have an analgesic effect, they can also cause addiction to the wounded. The harm outweighs the benefits. In internal medicine, black grass is often used for pain relief, which has the effect of dispelling wind. Dehumidification, warming the meridian and relieving pain."

Xu Jie thought for a moment: "Aconitum aconiti is hot in nature, and the medicinal power is strong, so it needs to be blended with other medicinal materials."

While the two were chatting, they had already opened the library and entered the door.

There are very few official schools in Yuzhou, and the medical scriptures inside are not neat. Except for the four major books, which are still neatly built, there are more or less broken pages.

Although the conditions were a bit poor, they could only make do with it, Wu Yi smiled wryly in his heart.

Xu Jie was sitting at the table, holding a thick copy of "Lei Gong Pao Pao Lun", and showed it to Wu Yi: "Since we are going to use Aconitum aconitum, we must use Aconitum aconitum, and we must also combine it with sheep." Azalea, turmeric, etc."

"Brother Xu's words are quite reasonable."

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The two of them read at night by candlelight, selected more than a dozen medicinal materials for relieving pain and warming menstruation from thousands of kinds of medicinal materials, and combined them, and roughly figured out a rough prescription.

As soon as I finished writing this fledgling prescription, the sky was already bright, and the white sunlight passed through the paper-pasted windows, and the thin needles like a few cow hairs pricked the eye circles of both of them with redness.

Xu Jie looked down at the prescription in front of him, feeling a little apprehensive in his heart: "The medicinal properties of this prescription are overbearing, and if it is used on people, it may hurt the foundation."

Wu Yifan nodded and smiled: "So we can't use it on people for the time being."

"Brother Wu means..." Xu Jie thought for a moment before suddenly realizing, "I'm going to the market to buy some dogs."

Wu Yi nodded: "I'll make a decoction according to this recipe first."

After the two finished speaking, they began to separate their actions. One rushed to the market to buy a dog, and the other squatted next to the small stove to boil medicine. Within three hours, they reunited.

Wu Yi pinched his fingers and made the calculations. Today happened to be Xiumu's day, and there were fewer interruptions from students coming to study, so he could do research with peace of mind.

The ones that Xu Jie bought were all strong-bodied native dogs from the local area. Each of them wanted to wag their tails to the sky and rub their heads against Wu Yi's legs.

Although these native dogs are not as good as pit bulls, the best experimental dogs after 1000 years, they are also much cuter than the vicious dogs that Xu Ziwen and Wu Xu brought in with evil intentions when they were in Meizhou.

Thinking about the past, Wu Yi couldn't help but smile wryly. These two people are not big treacherous people. When I think about it now, many things that went wrong at the beginning are like children's play, and they are not heinous. event.

How many people who were in Meizhou back then are still there now?

While he was meditating, Xu Jie separated the dogs one by one and locked them under a big tree.

Then he melted the sugar into the medicine soup, picked out the most robust earth dog, brought the bowl to it, touched the top of its head, and prayed in his heart that this bowl of soup medicine would work.

The dog didn't know what the two-legged beast was thinking, it happily licked up the concoction in the bowl with its tongue, and almost washed the bowl too.

"Come and take a look." Xu Jie called Wu Yi to come and observe.

The four eyes stared eagerly at the dog who was the first to taste the "numbing drug", and saw that the dog slammed its mouth, staggered a few steps like a drunk man, and then crooked , fell to the ground.

The two waited silently for a moment, and seeing that the dog no longer breathed and stirred, a sense of ominous premonition suddenly surged in their hearts.

Wu Yi and Xu Jie looked at each other, then cautiously moved forward, and put their fingers under the dog's pen, and they really couldn't feel a breath.

"It seems that this medicine is too strong, even dogs can't bear it." Wu Yi felt a little regretful.

"Then add a few mild medicinal herbs to it to harmonize it." Xu Jie said flatly.

As soon as they said it, the two readjusted the prescription and boiled it into a bowl of hot soup. According to the method just now, they fed it to a lively earth dog again.

This time, the dog was soundly asleep, licking the corners of its mouth while sleeping, looking like it was peacefully dreaming.

Wu Yi pulled out the lancet on his waist and cut lightly on its foot. The dog suddenly woke up from the pain, jumped up from the ground like a spring, and ran around like a madman, almost pulling the rope. broken.

Wu Yi hurriedly took two steps back. In this age without rabies vaccine, being bitten by a dog is not a trivial matter.

Xu Jie held his chin: "It seems that the medicine is too mild this time."

Wu Yi wiped the lancet in his hand, and smiled to himself, "Even Mr. Hua Tuo came up with the prescription of Mabosan after traveling all over the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers. How could we succeed once or twice?"

He has done scientific research in modern times for many years, and of course he knows the truth that hot tofu cannot be eaten in a hurry, and the more he fails, the more he must hold his breath.

Only when you can endure loneliness can you become a climate.

After such tossing twice, the sky had already turned dark and gloomy, and the two of them had stayed up for two days and one night in vain.

"I think that's the end of today." Wu Yi couldn't help yawning, with tears in his eyes, "This is not something that can be accomplished in a day or two."

Xu Jie was already too tired to be paralyzed all over, wishing he could lie down on the bed and have a good sleep immediately, so he no longer refused, and nodded to Wu Yi: "Then let's continue tomorrow."

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Early the next morning, the students who rushed to school saw such a strange scene.

My two teachers, not only did not wait in the school to listen to them reciting their heads shaking their heads, but stared at a dog seriously, as if they were not as attractive as a native dog who could only stick out their tongues.

Could it be that Mr. Xu is mocking them, teaching them to read and study scriptures is better than facing a dog?

"Mr. Xu..." Only those who were a little bold stepped forward to interrupt, "What are you doing?"

"Go and recite the book by yourself, and come to me after you finish reading the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic." Xu Jie gave him a cold look, and the student seemed to be frozen by the gaze, not daring to ask another word.

On the contrary, Wu Yi took a closer look and found that there seemed to be a few more students today than the day before yesterday, so he grabbed the student and questioned the reason.

"Don't you know?" The student glanced at Xu Jie cautiously, covered his mouth, and whispered, "Xiao Yong, the second leader of the Xiao Family Army, was captured in Fengjie County. I think the Xiao Family Army will restrain themselves in the next few days. Everyone That’s why you dare to leave the house.”

Hearing the word "Fengjie County", Wu Yi couldn't help but think of the young county magistrate he met on the road to Yuzhou.

The student saw that he was not as cold-faced and cold-hearted as Xu Jie, but rather interested in this matter, so he opened up the chatterbox, gossiping with his teacher about what happened last night.

"I heard that Second Lord Xiao took one or two hundred people to Zhaojia Village in Fengjie County to grab food, but they were caught by the officers and soldiers ambushing there. It must be that there was an inner ghost among them, otherwise, how could the officers and soldiers catch them so accurately? !"

"It seems that the officials in Fengjie County are quite capable." Wu Yi sighed casually.

"I heard that the one who led the troops to capture Xiao Erye was the newly appointed Gu County Prime Minister of Fengjie County. It's really a fire for a new official to take office!"

Hearing this familiar name, Wu Yi couldn't help but smile. It seems that this fellow's luck is not too bad. He has made such a great contribution as soon as he arrived in Fengjie County, and he must have a bright future in the future.