My village can't be like this

Chapter 577: Blood Pressure Problem
It didn't take long for this tall honeysuckle to be planted in the yard and officially became a member of Zhang An's family.

But this is not over yet, because its branches have grown very long, and Zhang An is not willing to cut them off.

After all, it was brought down from the mountain intact just for this beautiful crown. If it were cut down now, it would take even more time for it to grow back again.

Under conditions that ensured its survival, Zhang An definitely wanted to preserve its current appearance, so that the tree could continue to grow and bloom as long as it was rooted.

So although the roots of the tree have been planted now, we still need to spend some time to fix the long crown on the courtyard wall. This is to prevent the tree from falling everywhere, and also to prevent it from falling down in the future. , you can cover the courtyard wall according to Zhang An's idea.

"Hey, it's only early in the morning and your family is already planting trees."

When it was almost completed, Zhang Jianwen came back from the village entrance and turned in specially to call Zhang An.

"This was dug up yesterday. I had better free time today and planted it early. The sun should be very strong today. I'm afraid it will be put to death if I try too hard."

While Zhang An was talking to Zhang Jianwen, he tied the honeysuckle branches to the wall with zip ties.

"It's okay from the looks of it. I didn't think so when I heard Zhang Ping say it yesterday. But today it's still quite big. As long as it's planted alive, I'm afraid the honeysuckle picked from this tree will be enough for a year. ”

Zhang Jianwen walked around the newly planted honeysuckle tree for a long time, looked at it carefully, and nodded with great satisfaction.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it all in a year. When I didn't dig it yesterday, there were a lot of honeysuckles on it. They were densely packed. When I pick them off later, I'll share some with you, uncle."

Judging from the number of flowers this tree originally bloomed, there would be quite a few if only half of them were picked at one time and dried in the sun, not to mention that they could be picked several times a year.

Moreover, Zhang An will have to water it with space spring water in the future, and there may be more honeysuckles blooming. There will definitely be a lot more honeysuckle than Zhang An estimated.

"That's great. It saves me having to go to the mountains to pick it myself."

Zhang Jianwen smiled and did not refuse. Even though this place is a good place for producing tea, many people in the village also use honeysuckle and prunella vulgaris to prepare tea.

Because in the past, people often came to these mountain villages to collect fresh tea leaves. At that time, the conditions were not good, and everyone wanted to save a little. The tea leaves they picked were not willing to drink themselves, and almost all were sold to tea sellers to subsidize their families.

Now that the tea has been sold, what can I drink? It’s the honeysuckle, prunella vulgaris and other herbs from the mountains.

So until now, many people in Changqing Village, regardless of men, women, old and young, have developed the habit of drinking these.

Even some old people of Zhang Jianwen's age seem to be inseparable from it. Every summer and autumn, they have to go to the mountains to collect it.

However, in Zhang An's view, this is also good. Whether it is honeysuckle or prunella vulgaris, these things are very helpful to the human body. After all, they are Chinese herbal medicines that can be used as medicine.

Although many people look down upon them now, even though Prunella vulgaris can be seen everywhere on the fields or roadsides, it may not be so easy to find them again in a few decades, even in rural areas.

"By the way, you have a lot of work to do here. Let's set up the meeting place on the grain drying field first. You Yiha came over by yourself."

People from the town's health center had to come down today. It had been postponed for a day yesterday, so early in the morning Zhang Jianwen started to lead people to set up the venue at the grain drying field.

Originally, he was going to call Zhang An to help, but when he saw that he had something to do, he stopped talking and told him to come over later.

"Okay, uncle, you guys get busy first. I'll be over after I finish here."

After the tree crown was fixed on the wall, Zhang An picked up the hoe and dug a water circle around the tree roots.

After all, as the old saying goes, people move away and trees die.

The most taboo thing for a tree that has grown so big is to move around.

So he wanted to quickly water the newly planted honeysuckle tree before the sun rose too high.

If you go further and wait for the sun to come up before watering, it will only have the opposite effect.

"Xiao An, just do whatever you want. I'll find some bricks later and lay a circle around it."

Seeing that Zhang An insists on making the plan symmetrical, Zhang Jianguo said with some disdain.

Hearing what his father said, Zhang An, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, felt uncomfortable looking at the circles of soil that were high in the east and low in the west, but he still did not continue the competition.

Throwing down the hoe, he returned to the house and filled a bucket with fresh space spring water and poured it down along the roots of the tree.

It had just rained yesterday, and the soil underneath was still quite moist. The bucket of water was poured down and slowly swallowed for a long time before it penetrated into the soil.

Zhang An has already done what he needs to do, and the only thing left is Honeysuckle's own life.

If it can bear it, Zhang An will definitely give it a bucket of space spring water from time to time in this yard in the future. It is no exaggeration to say that it is very popular and spicy.

If it can't bear it, then it can only be blamed on its bad luck and its inability to bear such incredible wealth.

By the time Zhang An finished packing and came to the grain drying field, a row of long wooden tables had been set up on the concrete dam.

At this moment, several people in white coats had come over and were placing things on the table.

Each table has the same look, just a stethoscope, a mercury sphygmomanometer, a notebook and a pen.

Compared with those medical teams in later generations who went to free clinics everywhere, they were basically a large group of people and fully equipped. This can only be described as rudimentary.

However, Zhang An felt that it was normal, because the medical conditions in this era were just like this. Besides, what we came to today was just a health center in a rural town, not a big hospital in a big city. It was already very good if it had enough staff. .

Before Zhang An could reach the front, he saw Zhang Jianwen walking towards him from the other side. Seeing this, Zhang An didn't feel that he was so proud, so he asked his uncle to come over and greet him.

Looking back, I found that Qiqi's godfather was here.

Before Zhang Jianwen could take action, Zhang An walked up to the old man and took the small bamboo basket from his back.

At this time, not only many people came from Dongli Courtyard, but also many villagers from Changqing Village came over.

After all, in the surrounding villages, there is no such treatment as them, so everyone is very positive.

But now it's not just the old men and women in the village who are here, there are also many young people.

Even though Zhang Jianwen has said before that the main crowd today is people in their sixties, but they all like to come and join in the fun even if they have nothing to do. There are a total of six tables in the village office, but only five are occupied by people from the health center. The last empty table was left by Zhang Jianwen for Zhang and his party.

"Daozhang Zhang, I haven't seen you for a long time."

As they walked over, a doctor from the health center who looked to be in his fifties stood up and greeted Zhang and his party.

"Hello, Doctor Tang. It's been a long time indeed, almost more than ten years."

Seeing this, Zhang and his party also stopped and responded. It seemed that the two of them knew each other.

This is not the time to reminisce about old times. After chatting with each other for a few words, everyone started to get down to business. After all, it was still morning, and the side of the grain drying field next to the village office was still shady.

So if you start earlier, you can finish earlier, so that you don't get sunburned when the sun is shining in the sky.

"Come on, come on, everyone is lining up and waiting for our doctor to measure your blood pressure. If you feel uncomfortable, you can go to Daozhang Zhang for help after measuring your blood pressure."

Seeing that everyone at the health center was already in place, Zhang Jianwen stood up and shouted for everyone to start queuing.

Of course, to avoid unnecessary trouble, he asked the people in the village to line up separately from those in the Dongli courtyard. Because there were many people in the village, they stood in three rows, while there were only two rows in the Dongli courtyard.

Adding up the two sides, there were a total of eighty or ninety people, which seemed like a lot, but when they were separated into five separate queues, it didn't look like there were many.

Taking blood pressure is a simple task, and the people at the health center are very skilled and got started quickly.

"Doctor, did you measure it wrong? When I measured it at the People's Hospital last year, it was still one hundred and fifty. Why is it only over one hundred and thirty now? Why don't you help me measure it again?"

Just after measuring the first two, Zhang An heard an old lady from the Dongli courtyard raising a question.

These days, high blood pressure is not as rampant as in later generations. It is rare to see people with 1,780 or so, and around 140 is considered high blood pressure.

"Old lady, are you taking antihypertensive medicine now?"

The doctor responsible for measuring the old lady's blood pressure originally wanted to explain to the old lady what issues he should pay attention to later.

But after the old lady said this, he hesitated a little, so he asked.

Although the time span from last year to today is relatively large, the high pressure is too different, unless it is due to taking antihypertensive drugs.

"No, you have to take this medicine all the time. When the doctor saw that we didn't have to do much work, he said we don't need to take it for now."

The old lady heard the question from the white coat and answered truthfully.

After receiving the reply, Bai Daco was even more hesitant. His blood pressure had dropped so much without taking anti-hypertensive drugs. Could it be that he had measured it wrong?

"Old lady, I measured you again. It's indeed only one hundred and thirty-seven. Your blood pressure seems to have dropped."

So he measured the old lady again, but when he saw the data read on the mercury scale, he was confused.

"Ah, it's down now? But I haven't taken any medicine?"

When the old lady heard what the doctor said, she was a little stunned. Didn't many people say that high blood pressure cannot be reduced without taking medicine?

"How about this? Come over here and let Dr. Tang measure you again."

The doctor who measured the old lady's blood pressure thought there might be something wrong with his blood pressure monitor, so he asked the old lady to go to Dr. Tang's nearby to take a test.

Soon, Dr. Tang helped the old lady finish the measurement, and although the conclusion he came to was different from the previous one, it was still within the range of more than 130. The old lady's blood pressure had indeed dropped.

The old lady was no longer stunned at this time. After several twists and turns, she knew that the doctor had not measured him wrong and that her high blood pressure had really come down.

"Old lady, after you went to the hospital to measure your blood last year, have you had any changes in your living habits? Or is there any difference between your physical feeling during this period and your previous feelings? Can you tell me about it? "

Originally I was just taking my blood pressure, but I didn’t expect that such a puzzling problem would arise.

They came with a mission this time, and even if they encountered problems, they couldn't push them aside.

As the oldest, most experienced and senior person in the health center, Dr. Tang could only continue to ask the old lady to see if he could find out the cause.

"Yes, yes. When I first went to the hospital for treatment last year, I often felt dizzy and couldn't sleep at night. I felt dizzy when I squatted on the ground and stood up. But it seems that since we moved here and lived for a while, I no longer feel dizzy and sleep well at night. Now I don't feel dizzy when I squat on the ground and stand up. Because of this, I feel comfortable living here. We will continue to live here this year and next year as well."

When the old lady heard the older Doctor Tang asking her question, she thought about it carefully for a while and then spoke out her words like a treasure trove.

"Oh? You only felt better after moving here from home, right? You remember correctly?"

When Dr. Tang heard the old lady's answer, his eyes lit up, as if he had caught something.

"Doctor, I won't remember wrongly. If it were before, I wouldn't have dared to say this, but now I can guarantee that my memory is really good, and I feel like some of the old problems I had before have disappeared."

Seeing that the doctor didn't quite believe her words, the old lady said with great conviction.

What she is most happy about this year is that her memory has gotten better. In the past, she could not remember where she put something for three or two days, but now she can still remember it even after two or three months.
"Yes, yes, doctor, I used to be like this when I was at home, but now I feel that the old problems that used to plague us are gone."

As soon as the old lady finished speaking, she was echoed by several neighbors behind her.

"Old lady, I roughly understand that your current symptoms of high blood pressure have indeed improved. After my preliminary inference, it should be related to your current living conditions and living habits. Of course, I won't do it just this time. I’m so sure, I can test it again after a while.”

After all, Dr. Tang has been doing this for so many years, and he quickly grasped the key to this.

Although he didn't understand why there would be such a big change when he moved from the city to the countryside, but that seemed to be the case for now.

"Okay doctor, let's go to the hospital to see you later."

The old lady was very happy and agreed readily.

(End of this chapter)