A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 93 [093] Traditional Chinese medicine leeches

She remembered that during the famine in [-], some people still fried locusts with oil to eat them. In this era, some people also ate relatively large insects such as grasshoppers. Such insects were chewy to eat, and some people even caught earthworms to eat, but , if it weren't for someone who really couldn't get rid of the pot, she guessed that no one would be willing to try this thing, earthworms, can that thing be eaten?

If you want to say that you know the monkey, that thing is edible anyway, but earthworms, don’t they just like leeches and they will infiltrate people when they hear it?
There are also leeches, which are too scary. Every time the sister-in-law and sister-in-law go to the rice fields, she is worried about them. She doesn't know whether the fish will eat the leeches, or whether the leeches will drink the blood of the fish. There are so many leeches, why can't they What about cleaning up?
Later, her father told her: "Fish don't eat leeches. On the contrary, leeches are the natural enemies of fish and can suck blood to death."

However, it is such a thing, but it is still a precious traditional Chinese medicinal material in our country, which has the functions of promoting blood circulation and removing stasis, clearing menstrual flow and dispelling stagnation.

It is clinically used to treat bruises, amenorrhea, and prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and coronary heart disease.

If only her vines were enough to attract all the leeches in the rice fields, even if they were not used as medicine, they could be dried and fed to chickens and ducks.

As a result, as soon as this idea came up, a paragraph appeared in her mind.

"The host, let the vines go deep into the rice field, relying on the spiritual energy emitted by itself, it can naturally attract the leeches to climb, repeat it many times, and you can attract the leeches that have already formed. However, this will affect the host's blood, and use your own strength to go. Attracting leeches, although what is sucked away is aura, but it does not have no effect on the host, please use it with caution."

Zhuo Lin tried to ask: "How to make leeches into medicine?"

"The acidic polypeptide of leeches, commonly known as hirudin, is obtained by extracting the saliva of the leeches or directly drying the leeches and grinding them into powder. Hirudin itself belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine, which is characterized by slow treatment and slow treatment without side effects."

It turns out that you can still do this, Zhuo Lin immediately became interested, when the sister-in-law and her husband went to the rice field again, she would release her own vines, fish them up every half an hour, and directly use the harder. Wood scraped the leeches into the basket she had brought with her.

On the parents side, she used a small woven bamboo basket with a rope tied on it, threw it into the water, pulled it towards her little by little, and pretended to tell everyone that she brought it out with the basket. As for whether they believed it or not, she didn’t care. , Anyway, this thing is not a good thing.

Every time Auntie and Auntie walked out of the pond, there were leeches all over their legs. Even if they had already worn two or three pairs of trousers, the parasitic ability of this thing was so terrible, but Zhuo Lin would kill them as soon as possible. scrape it off.

"The village doctor said that this thing is medicine, and it can be sold for money after drying, so it should not be wasted."

The so-called village doctor is a barefoot doctor introduced by several nearby villages. He has the ability passed down from his ancestors, and he understands some basic medical principles and methods of medicine. He usually sees minor ailments, not to mention how capable he is. , at least cheap.

He knows that leeches can be used as medicine and made into medicine, so she has no burden to say that. Even if he confronts her, he dare not deny that he didn't say this.

(End of this chapter)