Jiang Zhi planned to ask the villagers to help pick yellow wattle leaves, camphor leaves, cypress leaves, elm bark, hemp willow leaves, mint and mugwort leaves, and put them in the drying shed to dry.
Then use the village's big stone mill, big stone mill and wooden mortar to pound it into powder.
The powder is then sent up the mountain, and the rest of the process is completed by two families on the mountain.
Although the mosquito coil method is not a high-tech thing worth hiding.
All kinds of incense have long been a must-have for ordinary people, and sandalwood is also a life decoration for wealthy people.
Making mosquito coils was just another practical use. Jiang Zhi just didn't want others to disrupt the market from the beginning.
It is very easy to collect all kinds of leaves. In just one day, the sun dams in the village pile up like mountains.
Women can also participate, helping to dry bark and leaves of various trees in the sunba, and can earn ten coins a day.
In this way, someone in every family can find a job without interrupting the work in the fields.
After arranging things in the village, Jiang Zhi returned to the mountain and rested for a whole day.
She couldn't compare with Er Rui Xiaoman and the others. After running for hundreds of miles, the young man could recover after just sleeping, but she was so tired that her back ached even if she couldn't sit still.
Now the mosquito-repellent incense production on the mountain is completely left to Chunfeng and Dazhu, and the village is left to Errui Xiaoman and Li Laoshi, so she has completely freed up her hands.
In the county town, Miss Huo Er said that Xiao Zhi was very powerful, so Jiang Zhi naturally knew that.
It's just that she lives in the mountains, the temperature is slightly lower, and there are not too many of them. Plus, she has long sleeves and long pants, so they are not as annoying as the mosquitoes that disturb people's sleep.
The main ingredient in modern mosquito repellents is lemon eucalyptus.
The formula is lemon eucalyptus hydrosol, moxa leaf hydrosol, honeysuckle hydrosol, and peppermint hydrosol.
Of course, ordinary eucalyptus leaves have the same effect, but the content is different.
Lemon eucalyptus is a genus of Eucalyptus in the Myrtaceae family, also known as eucalyptus. It is native to Australia and is now planted in South China, Fujian, Sichuan and other places.
To make mosquito repellent lotion, you need to use hydrosols distilled from various herbs.
This is not a problem for Jiang Zhi, who needs medicine. She knew what the steamers looked like from the Huo Family Medicine Shop last time.
In traditional Chinese medicine, molecular distillation is often used to extract active ingredients in plants, such as essential oils, aromatic substances and alkaloids.
These active ingredients can be used to make products such as traditional Chinese medicine pieces, medicinal wine, spices and cosmetics.
The distillation of traditional Chinese medicine uses low-temperature distillation, which is carried out at a temperature of 50-100°, which is suitable for current conditions.
Western medicine distillation requires high-temperature purification, a temperature of 200-300°.
Put the finely chopped eucalyptus leaves into a steamed medicine casserole and cover it with water. Then place an iron pot on top of the casserole and place a thin copper pipe for drainage. A device similar to the sky pot used for brewing is completed.
Don't worry about other people seeing it, just put these things in the open yard.
Qiaoyun put the sky pot filled with water and plugged the gap with linen cloth. Jiang Zhi held Xiao Caixia and pointed out how to operate it.
Xiao Caixia bit her finger and looked at her mother and grandma in amazement as they "set up a pot feast" (playing house).
Seeing Qiaoyun starting to light up the fire, the little guy suddenly became excited and struggled to slide down: "Mom! I...I...I!"
The one-year-old girl's legs and feet are so flexible that she can skip every word she speaks.
Jiang Zhi saw that she was busy cooking the pot, so he could only put her on the ground and remind her, "Be careful of children touching these pots."
Qiaoyun grabbed the child and said with a smile, "Caixia is also obedient."
It's still hard to tell whether the child is obedient or not, but Jiang Zhi knows that Peppa Pig is obedient.
Now that there is a little piggy on the mountain, Peppa suddenly becomes sensible.
At this time, Peppa Pig, who was sleeping outside the fence, moved his ears and stood up immediately.
Jiang Zhi took a few steps, looked at the wild boar following him again, and said with some humor: "I don't know how to feed the piglets, you are watching too closely."
Now Peppa is dissatisfied with running wild in the mountains. She only begs for food at home and wanders around the top of the mountain.
Digging rabbit holes, looking for snake nests, patrolling and guarding, working diligently, and widening the roads from home to the fields and the village.
As long as Jiang Zhi was at home, he would just keep walking and act like he was well-behaved at all times.
When she heard that there was no food, Peppa also pretended not to understand. She still hummed and cupped Jiang Zhi's hanging hand with her wet nose.
"Forget it, let me brush your back!"
Although the 200-pound wild boar was nothing like cute and cute, Jiang Zhi was still amused by Peppa Pig and grabbed a bamboo brush to tickle the pig.
Now he was extracting eucalyptus pure dew. Although Qiaoyun was guarding him, Jiang Zhi did not dare to go away and simply coaxed the wild boar.
Then he brought Caixia over and played sepak takraw with Page. This is something both families like to do.
The takraw ball was specially made by Jiang Zhi using Kudzu vine. It can roll when kicked, and the wild boar is not afraid of biting it.
Soon Nini came too, and the two little girls soon started playing with Peppa Pig.
When the child kicks it, it pushes it back with its mouth and follows the rules every time.
The takraw ball rolled down the hillside accidentally, and the wild boar immediately jumped down the hill and came back with it in its mouth, making Nini and Caixia giggle non-stop.
As time passed, the distilled water in the eucalyptus leaves began to condense and drip down the tube into the clay pot.
Steam the eucalyptus leaves, then mugwort leaves and mint leaves.
Several types of medicine were changed in the pot, and the sky pot used as a coolant also needed to be replaced once it got hot.
Four days later, Er Rui and Xiao Man drove the old mules to carry the first batch of medicinal powder up the mountain, and several kinds of hydrosol were also extracted.
As soon as the steamer was put away, the two families on the mountain began to press the mosquito coil trays.
Nowadays, everyone is skilled in making mosquito-repellent coils. Xiaoman and Errui do physical work. They first knead various powders into wet mud in proportion, and then put them into bamboo tubes and squeeze them into strips.
As long as there are enough raw materials, mosquito coils can be made very quickly. After finishing a batch, Xiaoman would drive the old mule down the mountain to the village to get the ground grass powder.
In less than ten days, with the joint efforts of more than a dozen people in the village, 10,000 plates were completed.
Ten thousand coils of mosquito coils could no longer be transported by old mules. This time Jiang Zhi sent mosquito coils and mosquito repellent water to Zhang Juntou.
When they patrol, they also need to camp at roadside stations, where they are heavily attacked by mosquitoes, especially the large-flowered mosquitoes in the mountains. Their mouths are so big that a few of them can fill a plate of food.
The inn could only burn smoke to catch up, but sometimes I was so sleepy that I woke up with big bumps on my face and hands.
When he heard that this small plate could be used to smoke mosquitoes, and that a dab of it could also repel mosquitoes, Zhang Juntou naturally accepted it wholeheartedly, and even complained a few words: "It's been so long since I sold it before I remembered me, Lao Zhang, right?" Are you afraid that I won’t give you the money?”
Zhang Juntou said this, he really wronged Jiang Zhi.
Worrying about not giving money is only a small part of it. On the other hand, I still want the Huo family to test the effect.
The people Zhang Juntou met here were all out-of-town merchants, and they were nothing compared to selling young corns. That was something that was carefully selected, and there was nothing to talk about after the sale.
This mosquito-repellent incense has only been sold for the first time, and the formula is still being adjusted. If it has a bad reputation, it will be difficult to gain the trust of others.
This also caused Zhang Juntou and others to lose the publicity effect of "military supplies, good quality" among the vendors.
But Jiang Zhi didn't want to tell Zhang Juntou the details of the business. He just smiled and said: "The mosquito repellent effect in the past was not as good as the current one. What you use is specially made, so naturally it cannot compare with those who smoke incense in the city."
Zhang Juntou thought about it. The big mosquitoes in the wild are different from those raised in the city. They need stronger medicine.
