The lights in Mingshui Garden stayed on all night, and the southwest corner was not stable either.
Shen Tianshu had just put on his clothes and took a nap when he was woken up by Tan Xu's knock on the door.
"Ms. Tong, wake up. Grandpa Zhang is not in good condition. He has started to have blood in his stool. Please go over and take a look!"
Although Tan Xu plucked up the courage to knock on the door, he couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart. He didn't know if this lady Tong would be angry to get out of bed.
"I know, I'll go right away."
Based on his past life experience, Shen Tianshu knew that he might be busy in the second half of the night, so he didn't fall asleep at all. At this time, he stood up, straightened his clothes a little and opened the door.
Tan Xu hurriedly said: "Ms. Tong, Grandpa Zhang started having blood in his stool about half an hour ago. I prescribed a prescription and tried it, but it didn't seem to be effective. I have to bother you!"
The Zhang family and the Gan Yue family live next to each other, so in the morning, Grandpa Zhang also went out with his family on his back to beg for a bowl of rice wine.
The old man is seventy-five years old this year. His body and bones have always been strong, but no matter how strong he is, he can't withstand the strong medicine in the rice wine.
Shen Tianshu came to Zhang's house quickly, checked the old man's condition and said: "For people of Mr. Zhang's age, the spleen and stomach are already very weak. Now that he has diarrhea so many times in one day, he must be unbearable."
Upon hearing this, Zhang's son plopped down and knelt down in front of Shen Tianshu.
"Ms. Tong, please save my father! Your great kindness will be unforgettable to our Zhang family!"
When Shen Tianshu saw this, he immediately turned sideways and avoided his kneeling.
"Uncle Zhang, please stop being like this and get up quickly." Upon seeing this, Tan Xu hurriedly stepped forward to help, "Ms. Tong took the initiative to come to treat everyone at this time, which is enough to show her character. Is she willing to die without saving her? ?
"But we have to say something ugly beforehand. With the old man's age and this situation, if there is an emergency, we really can't blame the doctor for not trying his best, right?"
"Yes, yes, I know." Uncle Zhang wiped his tears and said.
"Uncle Zhang, don't worry, I will do my best." Shen Tianshu said, "But if you want to cure the old man's disease, you may need something from your family."
"I wonder what Madam Tong needs?"
Uncle Zhang's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He was so poor that there was nowhere he could get anything!
"I need some hair from healthy people." Shen Tianshu said in shock.
"Hair?" Uncle Zhang was stunned when he heard this, then looked at Shen Tianshu wearing a mask, and asked in a panic, "Is Mrs. Tong actually a witch doctor?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" When Xie Yan heard this, he immediately shouted angrily, and his hands were already pressed on the handle of the knife at his waist.
Tan Xu also broke into a cold sweat at Uncle Zhang's unscrupulous words, and quickly explained for him: "Brother, Uncle Zhang is also confused when he cares, and has no other intentions. I hope you can forgive me.
Witch doctors were popular in the previous dynasty, but in this dynasty, there were cases of witch doctors using nightmare magic to murder the emperor in the palace, so witch doctors became a street rat for a while.
At that time, they were arrested and killed, and almost all the witch doctors in the country were wiped out.
Since then, witch doctors have become a taboo in Daqi.
Now that nearly a hundred years have passed, witch doctors have gradually begun to operate in some places among the people, treating people and exorcising evil spirits.
But this is all done secretly in private, and I would never dare to say it on the table.
Uncle Zhang also knew that he had said something wrong, and he apologized and admitted his mistake, but he was still very confused by Shen Tianshu's request.
"Does Dr. Tan know that human hair can be used as medicine?" Shen Tianshu asked Tan Xu.
"It is recorded in the elbow reserve emergency prescription that if you have a fever, take one Qian Dagger with water three times a day to treat jaundice." Tan Xu knew that human hair was used as medicine, but he didn't understand what it had to do with treating Mr. Zhang. .
"Doctor Tan only knows one, but not the other." Shen Tianshu said
, "Hair, broken palm, Chen Lianpeng, and burnt ashes, divided into equal portions. Take three qian each time, under the wood-scented decoction, it can cure bleeding in various orifices.
"It's hard to find materials in the middle of the night now, so I asked my relatives if they would be willing to provide human hair."
"I'm willing, I'm willing! Let alone my hair, as long as I can save my father, I'll give you my flesh!"
Only then did Uncle Zhang realize that the hair was actually a medicinal material that could stop the old man's bleeding, and he immediately agreed.
He grabbed the scissors in the sewing basket, cut off his shoulder-length hair with a click, handed it to Shen Tianshu and said, "Mrs. Tong, are these enough? If not, I will call all the brothers over."
"That should be enough." Shen Tianshu didn't waste a moment and returned to the Tan family's old house with the hair. This thing still needs to be processed before it can be used.
"Xie Yan, get some alkaline water to clean these hairs, then dry them, and then ask someone to prepare something for me..."
After Shen Tianshu gave an order, Xie Yan quickly got everything done.
Tan Xu had never seen anyone prepare human hair for medicine, and now he was staring at Shen Tianshu's every move without blinking.
Shen Tianshu put the washed and dried hair into a large pot and covered it with a small pot.
Seal the gap between the two pots with salt mud, stick a piece of white paper on the bottom of the small pot, place it under the pot and heat it over a strong fire until the top white paper turns brown and immediately remove from the fire.
When he put the pot aside to cool down, Shen Tianshu set up another iron pot on the fire, took Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes macrocephala, and prepared to stir-fry charcoal.
Tan Xu slapped his forehead and said, "Mrs. Tong, are you going to prepare charcoal medicine?"
"Exactly." Shen Tianshu didn't expect that Tan Xu actually knew about charcoal medicine, and was quite surprised. "I didn't expect that Dr. Tan is so knowledgeable and knowledgeable that he even knows about charcoal medicine."
The use of charcoal medicine has been used since ancient times, but there are few records handed down.
Even if it exists, it is not known in detail and its preparation method is not known.
Therefore, even among doctors, not many people know about charcoal medicine, and even fewer know how to use it.
The reason why Shen Tianshu knew how to use charcoal medicine was because his grandfather Jiang Sui had finally successfully made charcoal medicine based on the contents of several ancient books and repeated trials.
Later, Jiang Sui also refined it into various preparation methods such as frying charcoal, stewing charcoal, and blanching charcoal, and used it to treat diseases and save people.
Tan Xu said with a face of shame: "Ms. Tong's words really shocked me. I was fortunate enough to read a medical record by Dr. Jiang, and saw records about charcoal medicine in it.
"But Divine Doctor Jiang also emphasized in the medical records that the temperature of the charcoal preparation is the most critical, so I never dared to try it casually. I never expected that Madam Tong could not only use human hair, but also stir-fry charcoal...
"In front of Lady Tong, Tan's medical skills are like those of a child learning to speak, not worth mentioning."
"Doctor Tan, there is no need to belittle oneself." Shen Tianshu quickly fried Atractylodes Atractylodes and Atractylodes Atractylodes and put them aside for later use.
At this time, the pot just now had cooled down. Shen Tianshu stepped forward to peel off the salt mud and opened the small pot on top.
Tan Xu and Xie Yan both looked into the pot curiously.
The hair that was originally put in was no longer the same as before, and turned into a shiny black block with many pores on the surface.
If he hadn't watched the hair being put into the pot with his own eyes before, Tan Xu would have thought that the stuff in the pot was coal just taken out of the stove pit!
