Tap tap tap tap.
The sound of dense footsteps broke the silence of the Imperial Medical Office.
The expressionless Emperor Yu strode into the courtyard and raised his hands to stop the doctors who were about to salute in panic.
Behind him were Lian Xuanxiao, the head of the Xuegong Mountain, Xue Ji, the Ling of the Zhongshu, Zhongfang Lu, the servant of the sect, and Pei Su, the Minister of Public Affairs.
Everyone followed Emperor Yu, stopped and looked inside the door.
In the room, Li Ang, who was wearing a white coat, was sitting on a folding stool, manipulating the spider threads to take out blood-sucking adult worms one after another and eggs one after another from Yi San's abdomen.
The whole project is a torture. The average body length of blood-sucking adult worms is 20mm. They are buried in different depths and are still alive.
The eggs are even smaller in size and are deposited in the liver, stomach, and lungs. Every time they are removed, care must be taken to prevent damage to the organs.
Even with Li Ang's current cultivation level and his rich experience in using ink silk, he was still so tired that he was sweating profusely. He had to muster ten thousand energy to carefully remove it with his thoughts.
For Yi San, this process was even more painful.
He lay flat on the bed, his eyes were covered with cloth, and his hands and feet were restrained to prevent him from hurting himself.
Every moment, he could vaguely feel that there were fine threads running through his body.
stinging, itching,
bleeding, cramps,
His swollen belly was left with dense and tiny holes one after another.
Blood and sweat flowed down along the skin, dripping into the wooden bucket at the foot of the bed——
The barrel was filthy, with blood, water and schistosomiasis mixed together, exuding an unspeakable smell.
"Just hold on a little longer."
Li Ang blinked his sore eyes hard and said with difficulty, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or Yi San.
Qiu Feng was silent and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel. He turned around and saw Emperor Yu and the ministers, and subconsciously saluted.
"no."
Emperor Yu waved his hand and stood there waiting silently.
After a long time, Li Ang finally put down the thread and slowly stood up from the chair.
He used his mind power to clean away the blood on Yi San's stomach, and asked two doctors not far away to carry a stretcher and send Yi San, who was completely exhausted, to the room to rest.
Then he turned around and saluted Emperor Yu, "Your Majesty."
"Can this disease be cured?"
Emperor Yu asked in a low voice.
Li Ang thought for a moment, "Your Majesty is asking about treating the symptoms or the root cause?"
"What's the difference?"
"Treating the symptoms is to use new medical methods like what I just did, using the thread as a tool to carefully remove the worms and eggs from the patient's abdomen."
Li Ang said: "But judging from the inspection results, the adult worms are pervasive and the eggs are everywhere. As long as one adult worm and one egg are not found, the disease will recur again."
The probability of complete cure is very low.
Moreover, even if it is to treat the symptoms, it requires at least a mind master who is in the Hidden Realm, preferably above the Listening to Rain Realm. After undergoing strict training, he can remove the worms from the patient's body without harming the patient. "
Li Ang's tone was bitter and helpless. How many qualified Nian teachers are there in Yu State? Is there a few thousand?
Even he can barely help one patient a day, and the rest of the time needs to be restored to his energy and telekinesis.
Compared with the huge number of patients, it is just a drop in the bucket.
“What about treating the root cause?”
Emperor Yu also understood this and asked in a deep voice.
Li Ang paused, "Develop new drugs to completely cure patients."
"New medicine?"
Empress Xue's brother, Zhongshu Ling Xue Ji frowned and asked, "Is allicin useless?"
Li Ang shook his head and said: "The patients currently being treated in the Imperial Medical Office have all taken allicin before, with little effect. I am afraid it is due to different pharmacological effects - allicin cannot kill the poisonous insects."
"Suzhou can't make any mistakes."
Emperor Yu said slowly: "Suzhou is located at the center of water transportation, and tens of millions of kilo of rice are transported from the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers every year. If Suzhou is lost, the south-to-north grain diversion will be impossible."
To feed the 40 million people of Yu State, a huge amount of food is needed every year.
Jianghuai accounts for more than 70% of the world's grain supply. Every day, countless ships transport grain from the Jianghuai River to the north along the canal system built by the former Sui and Yu dynasties.
If Suzhou loses control, it will not only be Jiangnan Road that suffers, but the entire northern states and counties may face the risk of famine.
By then...how many more people will die?
"The sun rises,"
Lian Xuanxiao, who had been lowering his eyes, raised his head and asked calmly: "If you were given all the resources, manpower, material resources, financial resources, and authority, do you think you could find new effective drugs to control water poisonous poison? "
"...Disciple feels that it may be difficult."
Li Ang shook his head slowly, "This kind of water poisonous insect reproduces too fast and has too strong vitality. From a pharmacological point of view, some useful drugs will cause great harm to the human body even if they are used."
The best specific drug for schistosomiasis is praziquantel. At the lowest effective concentration, this drug can cause excitement, contraction, and convulsion of the parasite. At a slightly higher concentration, the parasite can rupture and be swallowed up by human immune cells. Within a few minutes It has the effect of killing insects.
But to produce it, materials such as phenylethylamine, chloroacetyl chloride, potassium phthalamide, etc. are needed.
Not to mention all of them, just one of them is enough to stump Li Ang.
His words, like the winter wind, made the courtyard deserted again.
How ridiculous... A huge empire that rules a population of 40 million and has countless monks and soldiers is helpless against some bugs as small as hair.
"...Just follow the previous strategies for controlling the epidemic."
Emperor Yu sighed and said: "The surrounding state capitals provide medicinal herbs to treat patients and dispatch manpower to maintain water transportation - stay away from the epidemic area as much as possible, or pass through the epidemic area quickly.
The Imperial Medical Office organized medical officers to go to Suzhou to see if there was any way.
As for the rising sun, you..."
He paused for a moment and said sincerely: "You are the most authoritative person in the Yu Kingdom on the Gu insect epidemic. Seeing that so many people in the Yu Kingdom have built shrines for you... do your best in Chang'an.
I will give you whatever you want, and you must find the right medicine no matter what. "
"As a citizen of the Yu Kingdom and a disciple of the Academy, I should naturally do my best."
Li Ang bowed and said seriously: "But I think that instead of staying in Chang'an, I might be able to play my role better by going to Suzhou."
"Um?"
Emperor Yu was a little surprised, "Are you sure? Water poisonous poisonous insects have existed since ancient times, and even famous doctors in the past dynasties have not been able to cure them."
"Water poisonous poisonous insects are indeed difficult to treat. However, at least they can be restrained in terms of their spread."
Li Ang said: "Just like malaria is transmitted through mosquitoes, water poisonous voodoo insects should also invade the human body through some way and become parasitized.
Since mosquitoes are killed in advance, malaria can be controlled.
Then, perhaps as long as we find the transmission route of the poisonous insects, we can control the spread of water poisoning.
It is impossible to find a solution just by reading books in Chang'an.
Therefore, I ask your Majesty's permission to send me to Suzhou to investigate on the spot and find a way to eliminate the poison. "
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