With a team of professional pharmacists accompanying them, the improvement in overall status is far beyond what ordinary people imagine.
Ordinary people's understanding of pharmacists is to treat illnesses and save lives. To a large extent, they tend to think that the role of pharmacists in the team is to treat various injuries. This is certainly true, and it is indeed one of their important functions. But most people actually don't want to get hurt and tend to avoid danger. Even if they are operating in the wilderness, it is common for them to not even get a small scratch from a branch in a day or two.
If this is the case, it sounds like pharmacists have always been pampered and only work occasionally - which is obviously illogical, because although this profession is relatively better than ordinary farmers, they are still only at the bottom.
So just like many other professions that are so famous for one thing that people forget that they can do something else.
The foundation that pharmacists rely on is actually their knowledge of herbs.
The identification, collection, processing and processing of various medicinal herbs growing in the wilderness; the cultivation and cultivation of medicinal herbs that are difficult to obtain in nature; and the methods of making various essential oils, dressings, ointments and medicinal powders.
Herbs for treating wounds are just one of them. What serious pharmacists inherit is the application experience and related knowledge summarized by several generations or even more than a dozen generations.
This knowledge actually includes more than just healing.
Although Mr. Jian is an old pharmacist, he is still a man and is relatively careless in some aspects.
Sakura, who was born as an oiran, pays more attention to relatively different things, and her joining and learning herbal knowledge from Master Jian brought the most direct changes to the group.
It’s a huge step forward in personal hygiene.
When traveling, health care is a luxury. Although due to limited capacity to carry water, it is best to travel by water source. But just relying on water doesn’t always mean you’ll always have the opportunity to clean yourself up.
There are two reasons: one is time; the other is temperature.
A serious bath takes quite a lot of time. People in this era rarely travel for leisurely outings. If the journey takes less than two or three days, it is normal to endure it for the time being and then rush to the destination to take a refreshing shower.
When the journey lasts for several days and may have to pass through wild fields, leaving you dirty and full of sweat, stinky grease and dirt, but water resources are limited and you need to save them, scrubbing becomes the most correct choice.
Among their group's supplies was a washbasin made of thin metal. Pouring water into it and then wiping it with a small piece of cotton and linen towel dipped in water was the limit of what could be done in this situation.
What Sakura added to this foundation was the bath water she brewed from herbs picked in the fields - this was obviously a link that others who were too 'manly' could easily overlook.
Simply bring water to a boil in a small pot, then add a dozen sage leaves, remove the charcoal and reduce to low heat for 5-10 minutes. After cooling, filter out the leaves, and what remains is bath water with a slight fragrance.
The taste will vary depending on the amount of ingredients added. Available options include various petals such as chrysanthemums and the sweet peel of citrus fruits.
Nowadays, when you are outdoors, you have to adapt to local conditions, so the materials you can use are limited. However, even so, adding bath water to a shallow half basin of water and washing it can still greatly relax your mind.
A clean, cool and refreshing experience is very important for improving one’s mental state. Although people who travel all year round know how to endure hardships and be patient, it is not a good thing to just be patient. Knowing how to relax in time can improve efficiency in all aspects.
In addition, oral hygiene is also a very important part - Jianye has licorice in his medicine cabinet. Its stems are cut into small pieces and decoctioned with water to make a decoction to treat coughs. When taking it, the roots are usually removed because of their mediocre medicinal properties. However, licorice root has a slightly sweet taste and strong fiber, which makes it very suitable for chewing after cleaning the soil on it and adding tooth powder for brushing your teeth.
Making tooth powder from herbs is also a job for pharmacists. Although because of the sweetness of licorice itself, most of the time just add coarse salt. Salt can effectively whiten teeth, and the rough fibers of licorice roots rubbed against the surface of teeth are also very effective in cleaning the mouth.
Fresh breath is very important to Sakura - when she raised this point, the Luoan girl couldn't help but tell her about the favorite oral cleaning method of Rigar adventurers - especially male adventurers:
Chew garlic.
Mira will never forget Sakura's complicated expression after hearing this sentence.
Cleaning the mouth and epidermis is done together with shampooing, but since most people's hair is not short, they usually clean it only once every three to five days.
Although it is almost early autumn, the temperature is still not low. Not only did women dislike the sticky, tangled look of hair made from hot sweat and hair oil, but samurai also found it unseemly. Although the comb can keep your hair straight, you still know whether it is clean or not.
There are two types of plants that can be used to clean hair: the most commonly used plant by travelers and adventurers in Rigar is Lycoris - this is a pretty white wild grass flower, its usefulness can be seen from its folk name of 'soap grass' . The whole plant of Lithospermum vulgaris has medicinal properties. Most people only pick the flowers and leaves. There are also private practices of digging up the roots and grinding the more potent roots into powder for sale.
This tenacious little flower can be seen everywhere, even in Crescent Continent.
The common people of the Moon Country more commonly use a local specialty plant fruit called 'Soapberry'. They look quite like the Lamanites' favorite olives. The missionaries in the team had made trouble before. There was a joke about wanting to eat wild soapberries because they were greedy, thinking they were olives.
The peel of soapberry has the same effect as the flowers and leaves of lycophylla. To use it, take an appropriate amount - which usually means filling a pot - and then soak it in hot water and rub it into a lather.
When there is no condition to light a fire, just placing it in the sun to keep it warm is enough. The foamed water is very effective in cleaning away grease and dirt. Add in the scented bath water made by Sakura, and it is a good choice for scrubbing the body and washing hair.
After getting clean, change the inner clothes. In addition, another common item they use is alum.
This is a very common material for the people of Rigar, with applications almost as wide as beeswax. The Platinum swordsmen who killed them also carried it.
Alum can act as a water purifier, can be applied to small wounds to stop bleeding, and most importantly, can be applied to the armpits to stop perspiration and deodorize.
Even the most careless adventurers tend to avoid letting their scent be too strong, because their work always involves dealing with various creatures with keen senses of smell.
The most embarrassing situation is when an ambush that is supposed to take the lead wakes up the opponent due to the change of wind direction and body odor wafting out. To avoid this, all adventurers will put alum in their pockets.
The description is long, but in fact personal hygiene other than shampooing only takes up a few minutes in the morning. Cleaning the body can have a very positive effect on people's mental energy. Most people like to smell pleasant, and the smell of grass is the least likely to offend people. A group of smelly people crowded together is usually unhappy. So although it seems like a small thing, in fact, if you are not alone, it is very important in the communication of social animals like humans.
Of course, this kind of short-term and efficient cleaning also presupposes the presence of professional pharmacists who can provide pre-prepared supplies.
It's not that our Mr. Sage and the Luoan girls who follow him don't understand those subtle knowledge, but no matter how capable Henry is, he still can't do everything.
Water sources need to be found; horses and other transportation vehicles and pack animals need to be taken care of and fed; carriages must always be aware of possible damage to axles and wheels when traveling on bumpy roads; firewood must be collected to light a fire and pots set up for cooking.
There are so many things that people need to pay attention to just when moving outdoors. Henry has already served as a combatant, guide and instructor. Even he really can't take care of the more nuanced aspects of personal hygiene.
The advantage of division of labor is not only that problem solving is more efficient and less time consuming, but it is also more stable and less error-prone.
If one person needs to be responsible for all aspects of affairs, no matter how talented he is, there will eventually be omissions. Everyone only needs to concentrate on doing one thing well, and the demand for their own abilities will also decrease.
From sowing to harvesting to threshing and grinding and baking bread, if one person were to do it all, he would have to learn all aspects of the process. But what if it’s just grinding? Just put a harness on a donkey and let it spin in circles. This can even be done using natural resources such as wind and water.
A sage is always a sage. He is not the kind of young man who gets carried away by wanting to take all the glory and praise after knowing a few skills.
When there are enough manpower, splitting complex things into simple things and then dividing labor and cooperation. This idea of using groups as the basic unit is the most realistic and meaningful.
Originating from the people and standing among the people.
– But let’s get back to where we started.
Sakura's knowledge of medicinal herbs has improved the quality of their outdoor life by a whole level. Cleaning and checking the body can not only make people feel physically and mentally comfortable, but can also timely detect whether those ubiquitous poisonous insects outdoors take the opportunity to hide in them, and clean them up in time to avoid them. Sickness.
Knowledge is important, and our Luoan girl is emphasized again and again by what she sees.
Adventurers in Rigar always yearn for knowledge, because knowledge can often replace tools and materials.
——How to tell whether an armed traveler is an adventurer or a military nobleman in disguise?
Check to see if the other person is carrying tools.
Just like the warrior nobles of the Qingtian family in Crescent Continent, the military nobles of Rigar also often have mature baggage transportation and logistics support capabilities. In other words, they usually bring complete cooking equipment and tableware, food rations, and a complete set of tents when they go out.
But this is not acceptable to adventurers who mainly focus on hiking.
A set of Padrosi Empire-style military sheepskin waterproof tents for 10 people weighs 28 kilograms in fabric alone. If you add support rods, thick tethers, ground nails and other auxiliary parts, its weight can be as high as 40 kilograms.
Even if you need a vehicle to help carry this weight, it is completely unacceptable to carry it on foot or with only a pack horse.
The tents carried by the Qingtian family warriors were relatively small, equivalent to a tent for 5-6 people. But the overall weight is more than 20 kilograms.
You must know that the full body armor of a samurai only weighs about the same. For adventurers who need to fight, carrying a serious tent means that the armor and various equipment used for combat, as well as water and food, must be reduced.
Therefore, the adventurer's tents are all specially designed, small in size for three or four people, and the internal space is small, thus reducing the area of fabric used. The price and weight are within an acceptable range, and more importantly, they will never bring a special set of support rods.
Either use the spear of the melee hand in the team as a support pole, or.
Just bring a small ax and go outside to chop it yourself.
A chopping tool such as an ax or a one-handed knife is very important for adventurers. Not only can it separate wood for cooking and heating, but it is also a source of many important outdoor tools.
The large support poles are used to hold up the tent. After cutting the small branches into small sections with an axe, use a knife to sharpen one end and then dig out the gap. You can hang the ropes on the corners of the tent and step into the ground for fixation. Ground nails.
The noble knights and sergeants of Rigar like to use iron tripods to hold pots, but for ordinary adventurers, just use a small ax to chop three pieces of wood, put a round wrought iron brooch on it and hoop it, and it can be done in a few minutes. Using local materials to make something with the same effect.
Ten kilograms of tripods, several kilograms of tent poles and ground pegs, and other items whose weight and volume are quite astonishing were replaced by a small ax weighing several hundred grams combined with relevant knowledge.
There is still much to learn.
Thinking about what she has experienced these days, the Luoan girl thought like this.
If you go to the next city, look at how much money you have on hand, and then pester the teacher to buy some books.
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