1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 66 [Liquor Restriction Order]

In fact, allicin has strong antibacterial ability, is not easy to produce drug resistance, and has little side effects on the human body. It is an excellent antibiotic.

The main reason why it has not become a mainstream drug for the human body is that it is not easy to preserve, and it will decompose within 16 hours at room temperature.

If the bag of "garlic wine" made by Mashao is not used in time that night, the effect will probably be halved after dawn.

Due to this feature, many nominal allicin products in later generations do not contain real allicin at all, only some close relatives or decomposition products of allicin.

Although these pseudo allicin can be stored for a long time, the actual effect cannot be compared with the real allicin.

The only real allicin that is more convenient to obtain is probably the fresh mashed garlic when eating dumplings.

The effect of a bag of allicin alcohol solution was better than Mashao expected.

Only in the middle of the night, Sanxue's high fever began to subside rapidly, and by dawn, her body temperature had basically returned to normal.

So when Ma Shao woke up in the morning and went to visit Sanxue, he saw people's smiles as soon as he entered the house.

"The garlic wine has taken effect, and Sanxue's condition has really improved!" Hong Nu said.

"Chief, you are indeed the messenger of the Great Spirit!" a shaman said enthusiastically.

Horse Whistle was also a little surprised.

He walked to the side of the bed, stretched out his hand, and found that Sanxue's body temperature had indeed basically returned to normal, and her complexion also improved, but she hadn't woken up yet.

The little sparrow had a happy face: "I knew Brother Whistle must have a solution!"

Seeing that allicin is indeed feasible, Ma Shao felt happy, and smiled: "Don't take it lightly, continue to take good care of Sanxue."

The news quickly spread throughout the family.

The Mianxiong Clan with a population of less than 1000 to [-] is actually a village, and stories about neighbors can easily spread.

What's more, the horse sentry ordered the collection of garlic yesterday and smashed it in public, which aroused everyone's attention and discussion.

The chief made a medicine with garlic and spirits, and brought the dying Sanxue back!
The story of this Indian sounds unbelievable, but it became more exaggerated in the process of dissemination.

For most ethnic groups, this kind of miraculous rejuvenation has more impact than the promotion of culture and education.

At present, people are worshiping the horse whistle more and more, and all kinds of gods and gods who don't like the horse whistle are spreading uncontrollably.

Some people even said that Garlic asked the horse post to sacrifice himself, which is outrageous.

A few days later, Sanxue had recovered quite well.

Along with the discussion among the clansmen, Ma Shao also took the opportunity to convene a clan meeting, which was held in the square, and all clansmen were allowed to attend.

"The topic of today's meeting is alcohol control," he said almost at the beginning.

"Alcohol?" This is a new word that people half understand, but they can hear its connection with alcohol.

Ma Shao explained: "The so-called alcohol is the essence of wine. The wine with less alcohol and more water is ordinary wine, and the wine with more alcohol and less water is strong wine."

"I see." People nodded.

Ma Shao continued: "Alcohol is one of the keys to 'Garlic Wine'. Without alcohol, this miraculous medicine cannot be made. You already know about Sanxue."

"So, in order not to waste precious alcohol, and to urge more people to quit drinking, the Sleeping Bear Clan will implement alcohol control in the future and establish a 'Alcohol and Drug Administration' to manage all alcoholic beverages."

"The alcoholic beverages in the hands of all the clansmen will be purchased by the 'Liquor and Medicine Bureau', and then distributed only for medical treatment. In the future, no one is allowed to manufacture, possess, trade, or drink alcohol without permission."

Although it is common knowledge among the Sleeping Bear clan that alcoholism is harmful to health, some members of the tribe still have the habit of alcoholism.

Outside of the Sleeping Bear clan, Indians have more and more serious alcoholism, and it is a chronic disease of the Indians, almost comparable to opium in the Qing Dynasty.

So taking this opportunity, Horse Post intends to formally establish some measures to control alcohol.

Of course it wasn't prohibition. He still knew the historical impact of prohibition.

Liquor restrictions are more or less the same.

Some alcoholics panicked when they heard the news, and quickly asked, "Chief, can't you drink in the future?"

"It's not that you can't drink, but you must go to a designated place to drink." Horse Whistle looked at the panicked alcoholics.Punishment alone is definitely not enough, it is no different from prohibition, and the best policy is to combine blocking and sparseness.

"Then where should we go for a drink?"

The horse sent a finger and pointed: "See that wooden house under construction? That's your 'drinking house'."

The drunkards all smiled: "That's great, I thought I couldn't drink anymore."

"Don't be too happy too early." Ma Whistle changed the subject, "Alcohol in the drinking hall is not free, you need to pay for alcohol, and the more you drink, the higher the price of alcohol. In addition, someone will supervise you. "

The drunkards looked at each other.

"Abstain from drinking alcohol earlier, my clansmen... this is not only for their own health, but also for the lives of all people." Ma Whistle sighed slightly.

Shi Crow asked: "Garlic wine still needs garlic, should we buy more garlic from white people?"

Horse Whistle: "Clark Town doesn't have much garlic either. We should grow some ourselves. Soil, do you know anything about garlic?"

The clod nodded: "I've heard a little bit that garlic can be grown in this season."

"Then make arrangements as soon as possible. You can go to Clark Town and find a white farmer who has grown garlic to come and help." Ma Whistle said slowly.

"The harvested garlic is also managed by the Liquor and Pharmacy Bureau. Some of the garlic is sold to the tribe as a condiment, and the rest is reserved for medicine..."

Finally, he remembered something, and quickly added: "By the way, the garlic wine should be made and used immediately, and it can't be kept for a long time. It doesn't need to be used for minor illnesses or injuries."

He probably knew that allicin was chemically unstable and easily decomposed.Although the specific data is not clear, he estimated that with the existing technical conditions, it should be thankful that allicin can be stored for a few days.

If there is no such a huge defect, Ma Shao's discovery of allicin is enough to shock the whole world, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the first major discovery of medicine in the nineteenth century.

In fact, it was not the horse sentry who discovered it first.

Strictly speaking, just last year, that is, in 1844, someone in Europe had already extracted allicin.

But that chemist did not extract purely, coupled with limited knowledge and technology, he didn't understand what he had extracted at all.

After the meeting, the only two members of the Liquor and Pharmacy Bureau, the director and deputy director, began to purchase spirits.

"Today, the Bureau of Liquor and Pharmacy will purchase spirits from the whole family. Starting tomorrow, private possession of liquor will not be allowed." The director's name is not to drink, and as the name suggests, he never drinks.

"How much is a bag?" People came over with wine bags.

"A big bag of four dollars!" No drinking, stretching out four fingers, shouted.

Four dollars for a bag was a lot, but most spirits weren't cheap when they came from white people.No whites would sell cheap to the Indians, except the town of Clark, which was only recently reverse-colonized by the Sleeping Bear clan.

"Dollar?"

(End of this chapter)