Fleeing from famine and farming: I made a fortune by relying on medical skills

Chapter 348 Sulfur Smoked
After washing, spread out on a mat and dry in the sun.In order to prevent the wind, it can be covered with black cloth or emery cloth.After drying, pack it in a fine cloth bag, seal it tightly, and store it in a ventilated and dry place.

Next, we need to subdivide the grades of duck down and pick out the large feathers of duck down.

At this time, the duck down is not suitable for making down jackets.

Because ducks are omnivores, there is a fishy smell in the velvet. At this time, this smell needs to be further processed.

Yellow perilla is intended to be smoked with sulfur.

Sulfur is a commonly used mineral medicinal material. After excavation, it is heated and melted to remove impurities; or it is obtained by processing sulfur-containing minerals.

Sulfur nature and taste: sour, warm; poisonous.It can be used externally to detoxify and kill insects to treat sores; it can be taken internally to nourish fire, support yang and relieve constipation.External treatment is used for scabies, bald sores, and gangrene malignant sores; oral administration is used for impotence and cold feet, asthma due to deficiency and cold asthma, constipation due to deficiency and cold.Appropriate amount for external use, powdered into oil and applied to the affected area.The dosage for internal use is 1.5-3g, processed into pills and taken in powder form.

Sulfur, whether in ancient times or modern times, was generally used for external use to detoxify, kill insects and treat sores. In modern times, sulfur is mostly used for smoking Chinese medicinal materials.

As one of the traditional methods of curing Chinese herbal medicines, sulfur fumigation has been used in the processing of Chinese herbal medicines for hundreds of years, with the purpose of anti-mildew, anti-corrosion and drying.

Chinese herbal medicines after sulfur fumigation can not only play the role of anti-mildew, anti-corrosion and drying, but also can be bleached and brightened, making Chinese herbal medicines and decoction pieces more attractive. Gorgeous, the white peony root smoked with sulfur is white in color, no longer yellow, and more attractive.

The color of duck down itself is not pure white. Smoked with sulfur can not only make its color white, but also get rid of the fishy smell.

As long as you control the degree of sulfur smoked duck down, the harm of sulfur is basically dispensable.

Once the down jacket is made by itself, it will really benefit the country and the people.

Duck down and goose down come from ducks and geese, and every household will breed them. Once the direction of making down jackets is publicized, it will reduce the number of people freezing to death in the cold winter in the future.

Children from poor families can also wear warm clothes.

Reduce population freezing to death, increase productivity, increase population, and various industries have been developed by population. Under a virtuous circle, Datang will become stronger and stronger in the future.

The cost of making down jackets is also much cheaper than that of cotton jackets, but it requires a lot of duck and goose down and takes a long time.

Down is a kind of animal protein fiber. The spherical fiber is densely covered with tens of thousands of small triangular pores, which can shrink and expand with the change of temperature, and have the function of temperature adjustment. It can absorb the flowing heat from the human body, isolate the invasion of cold air from outside, and keep warm. effect is beyond doubt.

Duck down is the fluffy fluff that grows on the belly of a duck and is called feathers in flakes.

It took Huang Zisu and her little uncle half an hour to pluck the down from the duck.

Both of them were sweating profusely.

"Susu, what shall we do with these duck downs?" After plucking out the duck downs, Luo Ping asked his family, Susu.

"Boil water in a pot, put in filtered straw ash water, saponins, and take a wooden root, and stir it along the circle." Huang Zisu ordered his uncle to work, and she was in charge of lighting the fire.

It can only be degreased with slightly warm water.

While degreasing, it can separate the fat and skin from duck feathers.

With the addition of duck down, after her little uncle stirred the duck down in the pot with a wooden root, some feathers and some large duck down would be separated automatically, and the separated parts were directly discarded by Huang Zisu.

They quickly skimmed the yellow perilla, and then put it in a dustpan, covered it with emery cloth and dried it.

After drying, it can be smoked with sulfur, bleached, and odor removed.

In the evening, while eating.

When Bai Shu saw a table of dishes, they were all made of duck meat, whether it was roast duck, duck soup, stir-fried duck meat, or boiled duck meat, or duck meat fried with dried bamboo shoots. He didn't know what happened, so he asked curiously : "Why are these dishes all duck meat!"

"Today, Susu developed a new product with duck feathers. I slaughtered more than a dozen ducks today. In such hot weather, if you don't eat them, they will go bad." Luo Ping explained with a smile.

"Susu, what is the new product you developed with duck feathers used for this time? Is it used for covering?" Bai Shu immediately became interested when he heard this.

It's hard to eat.

"It's covered with a silk quilt. This time I plan to make clothes out of duck down." Huang Zisu told her third brother.

"Use duck down to make clothes, how are they made? Or are they worn in winter or summer?" Bai Zhu asked curiously one after another.

"The clothes made of duck down are worn in winter, and the clothes made of duck down are much warmer than cotton clothes, and they look thinner without being bloated.

Guaranteed that after you wear winter clothes made of duck down, you don't want to wear other cotton clothes. "Huang Zisu said with a smile.

"Listen to what you said, Susu, the third brother is now curious about the clothes made of duck down." Bai Shu asked with anticipation on his face.

"In this way, after returning from the Baishu exam this time, our family will have to raise a large number of ducks, or ask the villagers to raise a large number of ducks for our family." Luo Ping said thoughtfully when he saw this.

"Last year, each household raised a lot of chickens, ducks and geese to prevent locust plagues. There should be quite a few of them. We have to wait until we go back to discuss this matter," Huang Zisu said.

The duck down was dried overnight in the shade yesterday, and the duck down has been completely dried.

After drying the duck down, Huang Zisu immediately started to smoke the duck down with sulfur.

A closed space is circled, and lit sulfur is placed below, and the sulfur will emit a white smoke. At this time, the thing to be smoked is placed above the smoke, and the effect of smoking is achieved.

Huang Zisu took his little uncle to fumigate duck down with sulfur all morning.

This job is easier said than done.

Firstly, it is not known how much sulfur is used to smoke the duck down, so that the duck down can be smoked white.

Secondly, I was afraid that if I used too much sulfur, it would hurt my body if I wore it on my body.

Thirdly, they have to turn the duck down from time to time, so as not to smoke the duck down unevenly, resulting in uneven color and unattractive appearance.

It's been a busy morning.

Finally, under Huang Zisu's constant experiments, she summed up her experience.

She wrote down how much sulfur was used, how long it took to smoke, and how often the duck down was turned over.

In the future, even without their own guidance, they will be able to make duck down according to the summary and experience they wrote down.

After the finished duck down is produced, the next step can be carried out.

Huang Zisu is not proficient in needlework, so it is okay to use her suture needle to sew up the wound.

After making the duck down, Huang Zisu went to the cloth shop to find an embroiderer to tailor a down jacket for herself.

(End of this chapter)