Capital Datang

"Your Highness, are you sure you want to use Artemisia annua instead of Artemisia annua?" Cui Wei asked again, still a little unsure.Just now Li Yin said that he was asked to prepare blindly "medicinal" materials, but what he didn't expect was that what Li Yin was looking for turned out to be Artemisia stinky.

The so-called stinky wormwood is actually a kind of wormwood, and it belongs to a different species from the kind of wormwood that is lit for a hundred days to smoke mosquitoes.In fact, there are many wormwood that can be used as medicine, such as mugwort and annua, which are commonly used in medicine, but wormwood such as stinky wormwood is different, because it has a strong odor, so Few people use it as "medicine".

"Yes, to be precise, it is a kind of stinky wormwood with yellow-green "color" and yellow "color" flowers" and it is best to be fresh, the stronger the taste, the better," Li Yin reminded again. Stinky wormwood is actually divided into There are several kinds, among which only Artemisia annua has the effect of treating malaria.

Speaking of malaria, Li Yin mainly heard about it from a friend in his previous life. This friend went to Africa for work, talked about the fact that he almost died of malaria, and also popularized malaria to Li Yin. Relevant knowledge, so Li Yin was very impressed. He knew that the artemisinin in Artemisia annua was the killer of malaria, so he was so sure.

"This..." Seeing Li Yin's confident face, Cui Wei was obviously very sure, so he couldn't say anything for a while. He thought about the stinky Artemisia Li Yin described in his mind, and immediately thought of a plant, He nodded immediately and said: "Okay, since Your Highness insists, then I will do it right away. According to the form of the stinky Artemisia that His Highness said, it should be the stinky Artemisia, which is called wine cake grass by the southerners. There are also many places growing in Liuqiu. , I’ll send someone to collect it now.” Capital Datang 242

Li Yin was overjoyed when he heard that Cui Wei already knew what kind of wormwood it was, and immediately asked Cui Wei to do it quickly. After all, saving people is like putting out fires. .

Cui Wei is indeed a person who can be a governor, and his efficiency is not comparable to that of ordinary people. Before he left for two hours, he sent someone to bring the first batch of Artemisia annua, and they were all freshly cut.In fact, this kind of Artemisia annua is not eaten at all because of its own peculiar smell and a little poison. However, some ethnic minorities in the south will use it to make wine, and this is also the origin of the name of the wine cake grass.

Artemisia annua has tenacious vitality, so it is almost everywhere in the mountains and roadsides. Most people just regard it as a weed, and no one has ever thought that this thing is actually a fairy grass that can cure malaria.

"Your Highness, don't you want to use the stinky wormwood to make 'medicine' for the people on the boat?" Seeing the stinky stinky wormwood piled up like a hill in front of her, Cui Mengxue asked very speechlessly.After resting for a while, she immediately ran to urge Li Yin to save people, but what she didn't expect to see was such a pile of stinky wormwood.

Cui Mengxue has studied medicine for so many years, so she naturally knows that some predecessors have proposed to use Artemisia annua to treat malaria, but that is Artemisia annua, not Artemisia stinky.And she also asked Sun Simiao for advice, but he told her that using Artemisia annua as medicine has no effect on malaria at all.As for using stinky wormwood as "medicine", Cui Mengxue felt that it was even more nonsense, because she had never heard that stinky wormwood could also be used as "medicine"?

"Of course this thing can't be used to boil medicine," Li Yin said with a mysterious smile.When Cui Mengxue heard about it, she immediately felt relieved, thinking that her memory was indeed correct, and Artemisia stinky really couldn't be used as "medicine"

This didn't wait for Cui Mengxue to be happy for too long, but Li Min continued confidently: "But this stinky Artemisia is used to squeeze juice for patients to drink. As long as you drink this, you can definitely cure malaria. "

"Juicing?" Cui Mengxue was even more surprised when she heard this, but she didn't expect that some herbal medicines can't be boiled over high heat, otherwise they will lose their efficacy. Is this the same for Artemisia stinky?In fact, Cui Mengxue guessed right. The artemisinin in Artemisia stinkyii is the main ingredient in the treatment of malaria, but if it is heated, the artemisinin will be destroyed, and naturally it will not have any effect.

Seeing Cui Mengxue's surprised look, Li Yin felt even more proud. He ordered people to squeeze all the stinky Artemisia sent by Cui Wei into juice, then put them in several large barrels, and sent them to the fleet outside the port by small boat. , Let the sick people drink as much as they can. After all, the only effective ingredient in it is artemisinin. Li Yin doesn't know the content of artemisinin in stinky wormwood, so let them drink more to be safe.

However, in Li Yin's view, it is not enough to just let the people on board drink the stinky wormwood juice. After all, the weather in Keelung Port is hot and there are many mosquitoes. Two days is enough for them to spread the malaria parasite.So Li Yin did not ask Cui Wei to stop collecting Artemisia annua, but instead sent more people to assist him to speed up the collection of Artemisia annua.

Early the next morning, Li Yin asked Lu Qing to post notices throughout the city, admonishing the people in the city to get herbal medicines at each city gate as soon as possible, and even set up a special "medicine" at the port. As soon as a suspected patient is found on a foreign ship, he will immediately pour a few bowls without saying a word.Anyway, artemisinin can not only kill malaria parasites, but also kill other parasites. It also has cooling and antipyretic effects, so it is also good to drink as herbal tea. Of course, the premise is that you have to get used to that strange taste .

Artemisinin really deserves to be the nemesis of malaria. After drinking the stinky wormwood juice, the people on the waiting fleet felt better the next day. As a result, this not only boosted Li Yin's confidence, but also made them feel better. Seeing a glimmer of hope for survival in despair, the patients immediately became active one by one. Every time a vat of stinky wormwood juice was delivered to the boat, there would be a fight, and everyone wanted to drink more so that Make yourself better faster.

After three days, the condition of the malaria patients on the ship really improved greatly, and even a few recovered faster, and they were almost as normal as ordinary people, but for safety, they still had to stay on the ship.Of course, not everyone can be cured. For example, there were a few crew members who were dying of illness. Even after drinking the stinky wormwood juice, their condition did not improve at all, and they died in pain in the end.

Li Yin estimated that it was because the concentration of artemisinin was too low. After all, only relying on the primitive method of extracting the juice of stinky wormwood made the content of artemisinin extremely low, and at most it could only produce effects on patients in the early and middle stages. , As for late-stage malaria, it is estimated that it will not have much effect.

It is also worth mentioning that Li Min did not intentionally keep the fact that Artemisia styli can be used to treat malaria. After all, such a big purchase of Artemisia sativa can hardly escape the eyes of those who are interested.In addition, Li Yin didn't point to this thing to make money, and it was also related to the lives of countless people, so Li Yin simply announced the function of Artemisia annua, and sent people to notify several major ports that are relatively close to Liuqiu. And asked local officials to report to the imperial court. After all, malaria is a common plague. If you can prepare earlier, you may be able to save many lives.

Of course, Li Yin is not such a pedantic person. The weather in the south is hot, and malaria will definitely not be eradicated. Therefore, after the efficacy of Artemisia annua is announced, it will definitely increase its value. Wild ones alone will definitely not meet the requirements. , so he is already discussing artificial planting with Yanbei, Cui Yu, Wang Kuang and others, but this matter is not so easy. After discussing for a while, each person contributed a part of the funds, and then organized manpower to carry out trial planting, and the technology obtained was shared by everyone.

After the malaria issue was settled, Li Yin finally had to deal with that mysterious force in Tainan.Of course, in his capacity, he would not go to the other party's place to take risks. Lu Qing had already sent someone to inform the other party, asking them to come to Ji Man's face. Counting the days, there will be news in the next two days.But Li Yin didn't wait for the other party all the time, he still had one more thing to do before meeting the leader of the mysterious force.

Li Yin was accompanied by a dozen or so guards including Xi Junmai, and was led by a confidant of Lu Qingpai. After passing through several heavily guarded checkpoints, he entered a tall concrete building, and there were teams of patrols from time to time. The soldiers walked by and saluted immediately when they saw Li Yin and the others.

The place where Li Yinlai was located was Niu Chou Port when he landed. As I have explained before, all the warships moored in Niu Chou Port, and the land around the port is also an important military area, which is very heavily guarded, but Taking advantage of this, there is another building in Niuchougang, which is the prison in Keelung City, and this is why Li Yin came to Niuchougang today.Capital Datang 242

The jailer of the prison, surnamed Huang, is a middle-aged man in his 40s. He had heard the news that Li Yin was coming, so he had been waiting in front of the gate. He bowed and saluted and said, "Keelung Prisoner, please see the prince."

"Huang Yucheng doesn't need to be too polite, quickly take me to see those three people." Li Yinxu raised his hand and said.What he wants to meet today are the three assassins who assassinated Lu Qing back then. At that time, the three were captured left. But these three people were not ordinary people, Lu Qing was afraid that they would escape, so he sent them to prison for custody.

"Your Highness, please come with the officials." Hearing Li Yin's order, Huang Yucheng did not dare to neglect at all, and immediately opened the prison gate, and then led the way in front. Li Yin also followed into the dark prison, but because this prison was newly built. Yes, there are not many prisoners inside, so there is no peculiar smell.

Under the leadership of Huang Yucheng, Li Yin soon came to the deepest part of the prison. This is the place where serious offenders are detained. The iron fences on the cells are obviously thicker than the outside, and there are special guards, which can be described as heavily guarded. .

When they arrived at the recidivist cell, Li Yin didn't need to be introduced by Huang Yucheng, and he couldn't find the three killers he was looking for, because there were only three prisoners in prison, and each of them had a separate small room, which was cleaned very cleanly. They're treated pretty well here.to be continued