I was beheaded in the Middle Ages for 20 years

Chapter 13 Four Liquids Theory
Falina shuttled through the mountains and forests with food. She was too familiar with the mountain roads and woods. She would avoid wherever wild beasts appeared or where there might be people.

Although his body looks thin, he has a lot of physical strength. He was walking with food in his hand without even taking a few breaks.

But no matter how strong her physical strength was, sweat began to form on her forehead. She sat on a stone in the forest to rest, and took out the apple Xu Siling gave her from the bag. She hesitated for a while, giggled, but still refused to eat it.

Today was a fruitful day, especially when Xu Siling was willing to purchase herbs directly from them alone, which couldn't be better.

After all, when doing business with Falang and others, not only do you have to worry about being deliberately lowered in price, but you also have to be careful that the other party suddenly reports you and leads soldiers to arrest them.

It is inevitable to feel anxious when communicating with those people.

But the first time she communicated with Xu Siling, Xu Siling gave her a completely different feeling from others. Even though she had tried her best to face it with vigilance, her caution and vigilance were always easily broken down in front of Xu Siling.

Because she really felt that Xu Siling was different from others.

As for why, she couldn't tell herself.

Perhaps as people say, executioners are really not popular in towns, so they may be more accepted than others.

It was approaching evening, and the sun had mostly set.

Feeling that the sunshine was no longer strong, Xu Siling came to the Cimicifuga where it was basking in the sun.

He spread the cohosh he just received today on the board.

Of course, the cohosh that was dried just yesterday was specially separated.

He took all the separated cohosh back into the house and looked at the cohosh he started drying yesterday.

The appearance seems to have shrunk a bit, but if you bite it gently, no juice will leak out. It has reached the point where it can barely be used as medicine.

Since it can be used as medicine, Xu Siling was naturally prepared to try it first.

I took out all the medicinal materials that I had prepared earlier, and cut and weighed the cohosh.

The treatment details of Cimicifuga Biejia Decoction can be divided into two types, one is to treat Yang poison, and the other is to treat Yin poison.

There are two fewer types of medicinal materials used to treat Yin poison than those used to treat Yang poison.

The symptoms of Yang poison and Yin poison are mainly manifested in the former coughing up blood, red face and body swelling and pain, while the latter does not cough up blood and the body becomes blue and painful.

Although Xu Siling couldn't remember the details clearly, no matter what the symptoms of the Black Death were, he would cough up blood, so he could only assume that the Black Death was a Yang poison.

According to previous literature records, the main characteristics of the Black Death include: first, symptoms of necrosis and inflammation in the throat and lungs; second, breathing pain in the chest; third, coughing up blood; and fourth, the smell of corpses or plague in the patient's breath. .

The Black Death was called the Black Death because the patients would have large or small lumps in their armpits, groins, and other places. The lumps might be very small, or they might be all over the body. The lumps would contain thick, black blood. , and then the patient's body would turn black after death, so it was called the Black Death by people at the time.

But not all Black Death patients will develop lumps. Some patients will not develop lumps, but will only have blue faces and vomit blood.

However, historical data also reflect a problem, that is, there are records of Black Death patients who developed lumps and coughed up blood and survived, but all the patients who did not develop lumps and only coughed up blood died.

Xu Siling doesn't know if Cimicifuga Biejia Decoction can save patients who don't have lumps. If there is a chance later, he will have to try it.
However, there is a saying in Cimicifuga Turtle Jia Decoction that it can be cured in five days but cannot be cured in seven days.

The patient must be given medication every day since he or she has clinical symptoms. Otherwise, the longer the treatment is delayed, the more life will be in danger.

Because humans have no natural immunity to Yersinia pestis, once infected with the Black Death, whoever comes into contact will be unlucky.

In fact, even if the Black Death is not treated, the mortality rate is only about [-]%, but the mortality rate of patients who suffered from the Black Death in Europe was as high as [-]%.
The reason is simple: panic.

Poor medical conditions prevented timely rescue, and even the direction of rescue was wrong. Doctors could not save them. As a result, as soon as a patient showed symptoms of the Black Death, people's first reaction was to take them out and bury them alive, or throw them into a sealed area to starve to death. Die, or even burn to death on the spot.

As a result, a large proportion of Black Death victims did not die from disease, but from human nature.

Xu Siling is not the Virgin, and she does not feel that she wants to save everyone in the world.But many times, not only do you have to take care of yourself, there are always times when you need to take care of others.

Many people think that the executioner is a demon, a filthy evil spirit, and contact with him will bring bad retribution and punishment.

But Xu Siling knew that he was a human being.

After sorting and cutting all the medicinal materials, Xu Siling took a pot and started boiling water. He took the lead in putting the finger-sized pieces of turtle shell into the pot and boiled it. After waiting for a while, he poured in all the weighed medicinal materials.

The old soup recipe from our ancestors is good, simple and crude, unlike the European alchemy potions, which have many troublesome procedures.

Four liters of water are boiled and one liter of water is left.

Xu Siling quickly took out the medicine pot and took it with a bowl.

After cooling for a while, he picked up the Cimicifuga turtle soup recipe. The hot mist floated in the air, and there was a faint bitter taste just by smelling it.

He swallowed, took a deep breath, and drank tons and tons of medicinal soup in the bowl.

After drinking the medicinal soup, Xu Siling's expression became ferocious.

"Wow, it's bitter, astringent and sour, a bit off-putting."

Fortunately, after getting through this nausea stage, my body began to feel warm, my forehead started to feel hot and sweaty, and I gradually became comfortable.

Although he was not sick yet, the Cimicifuga Turtle Jia Decoction was originally used for preventive resistance.

In other words, Cimicifuga Turtle Jia Decoction cannot kill the Black Death.

It is only because the Yersinia pestis bacterium of the Black Death can resist the phagocytosis of human white blood cells that it will act recklessly in the human body and gradually destroy the body.

The main function of Cimicifuga and Biejia Decoction is to resist Yersinia pestis. Although it cannot kill Yersinia pestis, it can form self-protection in the body, slow down the invasion speed of Yersinia pestis, and reduce the damage to the body.

Then, when the body reacts completely and can develop resistance against Yersinia pestis, the treatment will be successful.

The human body is magical.

Unfortunately, Xu Siling believes that Cimicifuga Biejia Decoction is only [-]% effective in treating the Black Death.

It’s not that I look down on the soup recipes passed down by my ancestors, but that the conditions are limited and the humanistic background is different.

First, some people were infected with the Black Death for four or five days. They were about to die before they realized they were sick and missed treatment early.

The second is.
Xu Siling couldn't help but sigh when she thought of something.

Because of medical culture issues.

The current medical treatment conditions and research in the Middle Ages are based on the 'Four Liquids Theory'.

It cannot be said that all of the four liquids are wrong, at least most of them are wrong.

When everyone around you believes in wrong medical evidence as a medical treatment, both bloodletting and using leech to suck blood
If you stand up and say that if you drink this medicine in my hand, you can be saved, who can believe it?

In particular, soup recipes and alchemy potions are different.

The soup recipe should be served while it is hot, while the alchemical potion can be made and stored, but the soup recipe cannot be made as acceptable as the alchemical potion.

All I can say is that even if he, Xu Siling, saves people, he will only save those who deserve to be saved, never those who want to die.

(End of this chapter)