While Dashan was trial-producing sweet potato kvass, Shi Niaoren was at the pharmaceutical factory and sent a letter to Sanding to apply to the planning committee for a long time. The glass bottles were shipped this time. Most of them were produced by glass factories, and some were recycled and sterilized. [Read the latest chapter] Thousands of bottles, large and small, were placed in rattan baskets, filling the courtyard of the pharmaceutical factory. Bottles range in size from saline bottles to small medicine bottles.
So the entire pharmaceutical factory spent most of the day cleaning the bottles. The cleaned bottles are pushed into the steam chamber for high-temperature steam sterilization. This is currently the most effective large-scale sterilization method in pharmaceutical factories.
With these bottles. The pharmaceutical factory can officially produce finished products, otherwise there will be no place to store the products. Zhao Yanmei set up a steaming room with all glass equipment. In addition to distilling medical distilled water, it is also used to produce Chinese herbal medicine extracts for injection.
Shi Niaoren stared at this set of distillation facilities that were not too complicated but were very large in size. He was amazed at the rapid development of the glass factory, such a complex shape, and a large number of thick and thin pipes, multi-passes, and valves. The alcohol lamp used for heating was flickering with a faint blue flame. There are many yellow and white plant flowers in the steaming dish. The liquid is bubbling slightly. The steam passes through the pipe and passes through the condenser of the serpentine glass tube. The last drops fell into the collection bottle.
The whole scene looks very strange. It's not science fiction or fantasy, but more like a mad scientist's underground laboratory in a low-budget movie.
"What is this doing?.
"What is distilled and extracted is honeysuckle, a heatstroke prevention medicine, specially used to treat summer heat and colds. Liu San said that you can use this as a base solution to make Shuanghuanglian preparations." Hu Yicheng is in charge of the distillation room today. He does not need to go to the underground bacterial culture room for cultivation. He is in a good mood. Rather pleasant.
"Is this safe or not?" he muttered. The ingredients of the traditional Chinese medicine injection were unknown. There are many impurities, and if it is injected into the human body, it will not even be possible to rescue if there is an allergic reaction.
Hu Yicheng saw what he was thinking, "The concentrated liquid is for oral use. If you eat it, you will get diarrhea at most, but it will never kill you."
"I just feel anxious. That's why I'm worried." Shi Niaoren sighed.
"After distilling this batch, we are going to make Bupleurum injection. It is less difficult. Liu San dried a lot of it in the yard. It is very effective for colds caused by summer heat."
"But this equipment is a little less efficient."
Liu San walked out: "I have ordered another set. It will be made in the glass factory. This time, I will use steam heating. It is much more efficient than burning alcohol lamps, and the temperature is easy to control. Minister, come to my room. Sit down."
As he spoke, he took him into his traditional Chinese medicine workshop.
This workshop is actually a large room of about 100 square meters with high ceilings. A row of earthen pots on the stove are simmering traditional Chinese medicine. On the operating table, there are guillotines for cutting medicine, grinding bowls made of various materials, and small 16-liang scales specially used for traditional Chinese medicine. There are piles of unseen equipment everywhere, some of which Liu San brought himself. Some of them were customized here.
Shi Niaoren gasped at the smell of medicine in the air, found a stool and sat down.
“These are some medicines I mixed myself.
Liu San showed him the row of paper boxes and small porcelain bottles on the table with great interest.
"This is a hemostasis powder." Liu San picked up a small porcelain bottle. "Made from thistle, it has the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding: used for hemorrhage caused by excessive blood-heat, such as vomiting blood, hematuria, metrorrhagia, hematuria, etc.; dissipating diseases, detoxifying and eliminating carbuncles: used for heat-toxic carbuncles, taken orally or For external application,"
"Okay, okay. Just stop memorizing your Chinese medicine book." Shi Niaoren glanced at it suspiciously. He knew that Chinese medicine has its characteristics. Almost every medicinal material can list a lot of "treatments for certain symptoms." efficient. "In fact, few can really play a key role. "It works? "
"Of course it works. If you have bleeding in the field, you can immediately boil thistle in water and take it orally. It will work immediately. Crushing it and applying it externally can also stop bleeding."
Shi Niaoren thought that there might be some ingredients in it that could reduce the blood clotting time. On the contrary, we can organize research to study that the demand for hemostatic drugs in future military battles will not be small.
"Also: intoxicants soaked in ethanol can lower blood pressure. They can also inhibit human Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
"sounds good."
"This is a gastritis pill. It treats stomach pain, pantothenic acid, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer. The main ingredient is cuttlefish bone. I got it from a seafood processing factory. It can also be used as a hemostatic medicine and is very effective in treating knife wounds. good.
"This is a pig gallbladder pill." Liu San said, "It treats many things, but I know Dean you are not interested in these, but there is one purpose that you will definitely find useful."
"Oh? What the hell?"
"Anti-cough." Liu San said, "The anti-cough effect of pig gall powder has been pharmacologically tested. It can also cure night blindness."
"Opium intoxicant" Liu San took out another bottle with a danger mark on it, "It can be used to relieve cough, diarrhea and pain." "
“How does addiction survive?.
Liu San spread his hands: "It's hard to say, we have to do animal experiments. But Dean Zhao and I have done research with Xiao Hu, and we have also read medical books. It is completely based on Pharmacopoeia 1 and Jiang Do 6. It will not be harmful. Just use the big control...
"Don't make it into a universal medicine." Shi Niaoren instructed, "Divide it into three varieties.
Antidiarrheal and painkillers are best available as tablets that are easy to take, and cough medicines are available as syrups. Regardless of the type of medicine, the opium content must be as small as possible while ensuring the efficacy. To avoid addiction. "
Although opium addiction is not as severe as modern hard drugs, detoxification is also very troublesome.
"Okay, let's change the recipe." Liu San jotted down his request. He took out a small wooden box and opened it mysteriously: "Doctor Shi, would you like to try it?"
Shi Niaoren looked at it. In the box was a half-withered leaf, rolled into a ball.
"Betel nut?" He picked up one and stuffed it into his mouth. Very bitter.
"This is the coca leaf."
"Well," Shi Niaoren almost vomited on the spot.
"Don't worry. It won't be addictive." Liu San smiled narrowly, "Or at best, it's as addictive as betel nut."
Of course Shi Niaoren knew that in South America, chewing coca leaves can be regarded as a "national habit." It is used by Indians to refresh the mind, eliminate fatigue and increase strength; it is also used to protect against cold, treat diseases, and relieve discomfort caused by stomach cramps, rheumatism, headaches, etc. It is a popular pastime.
"These are leaves from the coca trees on the farm. The coca tree only picked the most productive ones. Everyone got a little," Liu San said. “In the future, we will be able to harvest in large quantities once the yield increases.”
"What's the point of asking for this?"
"Coca leaves can also be used to make medicine." Liu San said, "Wouldn't it be better to use this instead of cigarettes and give it to the military and laborers as a recreational product."
"This" Shi Niao Ren thought, this is too awesome. However, coca leaves do have a strong energizing effect and are indeed useful to the army and laborers. "Isn't that a bit much?" After all, coca leaves are also a soft drug. Although not very addictive.
"Amphetamine was prepared by the Yankees for soldiers in World War III. People are more common than us. Coca leaves are not as toxic as amphetamine." As he spoke, he took out another bottle from behind him. He poured a full cup of dark drink for Shi Niaoren. "Drink and watch."
"What is this?" Shi Niaoren suddenly became alert.
"Cola."
"Coke? This thing is so rare nowadays." Shi Niaoren looked at it doubtfully and took a sip. It was indeed the taste of Coke. It tasted a little sweet, but it was just Coke that had been out of gas for a long time.
"Are you worthy of yourselves?"
"Yes. The distillate of coca leaves is added to it." Seeing Shi Niao Ren about to make it, Liu San quickly added. "It's very little. It's almost negligible. As long as we have baking soda, we can start producing Coke."
It's really strange: Shi Niaoren thought to himself, soda didn't work, but kvass and coke did come out. He decided not to dwell on it any longer. Lest there be any weird things to play with him as a guinea pig. ask:
"How did the willow bark extraction thing I mentioned last time go?"
Willow bark has been a commonly used antipyretic and analgesic in Europe and Asia since ancient times, and its active ingredient is salicylic acid. The modern drug aspirin was based on the analysis of this drug.
Aspirin is chemically synthesized, and it is still early for the time traveler's level of chemical engineering, but it is not difficult to extract the active ingredients from willow bark, and it can also play a certain role.
"We are working on it and have extracted some. But there are not many willow trees here." Liu San said.
"We can let Wu Nanhai plant more varieties by the river. They can both embellish the scenery and be used as raw materials." Shi Niaoren knew that willow bark and leaves contain very few effective medicinal ingredients, and the effect of extraction is limited, but Aspirin is a very useful analgesic and antipyretic, and it also has anticoagulant and antirheumatic effects. It is the best all-purpose medicine at this stage.
Liu San said: "I have a request, and I hope the minister will go to the executive committee to talk about it."
"Oh, what do you want?"
"Acquire a herbal medicine store in the county."
"Runshitang?" Shi Niaoren knew that Liu San often went to this pharmacy to buy medicine, process medicinal materials, etc., and it was a pleasure to cooperate with him. "You guys don't work well together."
"Shopkeeper Yang's idea is not bad. It's reliable to entrust them to do things. But I'm not the boss, so I can't make the decision on many things. It's a waste of several professionals inside." He poured himself a cup of "Coke." The foundation of the herbal medicine shop is too good. It's so thin that I can't even go to the medicine market, and precious medicinal materials are never sold. As a partner, Qi is too weak. I have to give it a blood transfusion. I originally wanted to inject money into it myself, but I don't have the money.
"Let the executive committee purchase it. Then you take the exam to be the shopkeeper?"
"I don't want to be the shopkeeper and the boss, just tell them what to do. Shopkeeper Yang here doesn't know much, but he is eager to learn. He is a talent that can be made."! ~!
