Song Yi

Chapter 139 Aconite Poisoning
In ancient times, pharmacies did not close their doors during the Chinese New Year. After all, diseases don’t care about your New Year’s Eve.

It's just that doctors usually don't sit in the office these two days, and call again when there is an emergency. Generally, patients are not emergency, and they don't come to see a doctor on New Year's Eve or the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The equipment and medicines ordered by General Gao are proceeding as planned.

For Jinchuang Medicine Qibao Powder, after the Army Pharmaceutical Company delivered the raw materials, Du Wenhao and the others only needed to crush them into powder, prepare them and bottle them.So the [-] bottles of Qibaosan ordered by General Gao were all delivered before the end of the year.General Gao sent someone to place a second order, also [-] bottles.

The production of isolation suits and gas masks also went smoothly.Every time a batch of equipment is ready, the Ministry of War will immediately secretly send someone to transport it away.Du Wenhao also didn't know how the germ warfare with Xixia was progressing. General Gao had no news, so it was hard to inquire.

Du Wenhao was talking with Pang Yuqin and Zhan's mother when Yingzi ran in and said, "Master, the clerk in the front shop said he had an emergency. Would you like to see it?"

"Look! How can you ignore the emergency! What's going on?"

"I'm not so sure either."

When Du Wenhao heard this, he asked Xue Feier to take care of Zhan's mother, and hurriedly took Pang Yuqin to the front hall, and the guard Hu Yanzhong followed him out of the front hall.Sure enough, I saw two young men supporting an old man, leaning on the stool in the lobby, Du Wenhao hurried over and asked:
"I am my doctor, what's wrong with the patient?"

These two are the children of the old man, the eldest son said:

"We live on the front corner. My father said in the morning that he was out of breath, flustered, his mouth and hands and feet were numb, and then he started to vomit. We thought we had caught a cold at the New Year's Eve last night, so we didn't pay much attention. Unexpectedly, after a while, I Dad stared straight at him, and he was stunned, so we panicked and helped him up quickly. Please show him, doctor."

"Help him to the bed and lie down."

After the old man lay down, Du Wenhao asked loudly: "Old man, what do you feel uncomfortable?"

"Numb..., my mouth, hands and feet, my whole body is numb..."

"The whole body is numb?" Du Wenhao's heart trembled, and he asked again: "What else is uncomfortable?"

"I can't breathe... I feel flustered, my stomach... feels like a fire is burning... I want to vomit..."

Speaking of this, the old man started to feel nauseated and retched. His two sons hurriedly helped him to bend over, and then vomited some foamy phlegm mixed with half-digested minced meat and rice.

After feeling his pulse and looking at his tongue, Du Wenhao pondered for a while,—vomiting, numbness all over his body, burning sensation in his stomach, gastrointestinal reaction, it is likely to be acute poisoning!
Du Wenhao asked again: "When did this disease start?"

"Just..., right after waking up."

"Have you eaten anything since you woke up?"

"I drank chicken stew and ate a few pieces of chicken."

"When did this happen?"

The old man began to retch again.His son helped to answer: "We watch the New Year's Eve until dawn, when it's dawn, it's less than an hour."

If it is food poisoning, it has not been more than an hour until now, and there is still time for gastric lavage, and then asked: "What else? What else have you eaten or drank?"

The younger son said: "I haven't eaten anything else. What's the matter? Is there something wrong with this chicken? It shouldn't be. My father is not in good health. He slaughtered an old hen early this morning and stewed it for him to nourish his body." , how could something go wrong?"

"I don't know if it's the chicken. You two go back alone and bring the pot of chicken over for me to see."

Then, Du Wenhao asked Pang Yuqin to prepare a large bucket of light salt water, and asked the old man's son to scoop up the salt water for the old man.After pouring down several large ladles of water, the old man began to vomit profusely, vomited out the contents of his stomach, and continued to pour water.

At this time, the old man's son who ran back brought back a pot of chicken and put it on the ground.

Du Wenhao squatted down, turned over with chopsticks, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he took a pill out of the pot: "What is this?"

He put it in his mouth and licked it, frowned, spat on the ground, and said, "Affixed piece?"

The elder son of the old man nodded and said: "Yes, my father has severe rheumatism. The doctor prescribed a prescription for stewing chicken with aconite, which said it can dispel cold and dampness."

Du Wenhao scooped up the pot again, and there were still several pieces of attachments, he couldn't help sighing:

"Aconite stewed chicken is not stewed like this! Aconite is highly poisonous. If it is not prepared properly, such a few pieces can kill people! Can you not be poisoned if you mess around like this?"

The youngest son was in a hurry: "Doctor, what should we do?"

"Don't worry, your father's symptoms of poisoning are not serious, and he was discovered in time. Let him vomit first, and then use ginger, licorice, and flavescens to detoxify. It's no problem."

The two sons hurriedly bowed their waists and thanked each other.

Du Wenhao took a pen and wrote the prescription, and handed it to the guard at the counter to pick up the medicine and suffered immediately.When the decoction was ready, the old man drank up the bucket of light salt water, cleaned his stomach and intestines, and brought the decoction for him to drink.Then let him stay in bed for observation.

Gastric lavage had significantly relieved the numbness. After taking the medicine, the old man's whole body numbness disappeared soon after, his pulse returned to normal, all symptoms disappeared, and his mind was fully awake.

The two sons paid the consultation fee, thanked him repeatedly, and helped the old man go home.

Pang Yuqin asked: "My lord, aconite is so dangerous, why is it still used as medicine?"

"It is three-point poisonous medicine! However, the medicine with great poison must be of great use! For example, Chuanwu, Nuxychia, and Aconitum are highly poisonous, but they are also indispensable medicines that must be used in many classic prescriptions. The key Ask the doctor how to remove its toxicity, if it is used well, it can cure severe emergencies, but if it is not used properly, it will cause death!"

Zhan's mother's condition was stable, and Du Wenhao was fine, so he simply sat in the front hall and read a medical book by the way.

The first day of the new year was not an emergency and no one came to see a doctor, so it was very leisurely. The two guards behind the counter were also a little listless.Pang Yuqin sat beside Du Wenhao to accompany him, warmed up by the fire, and made a leather robe for Du Wenhao.

The leader of the guard, Hu Yanzhong, did not warm himself up, but sat on a stool beside him with his sleeves rolled up, squinting his eyes as if he was dozing. There will be a flash of light.

There are many tourists on the street, adults and children are wearing new clothes, visiting relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings.How did Du Wenhao and the others come here for the first time, and they lived in seclusion in a low-key manner, with no relatives or friends paying New Year's greetings.

Du Wenhao was fascinated by the sight, when suddenly there was a commotion on the street, and a man's voice was heard yelling and running from a distance, and passers-by on the street shouted: "Madman! There are lunatics, get out of here!"

Pang Yuqin was startled, put down the girl, grabbed Du Wenhao's arm, and looked at the door nervously.

For a moment, a thin and thin boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing only a pair of underpants, bare to the upper body, stretched out his thin arms, ran dancing to the door of their pharmacy, stopped suddenly, and muttered indistinctly. What, I glanced at the hall, grinned, and walked in with my bare feet stepping on the bluestone slabs.

Hu Yanzhong, the leader of the guards, walked up to the skinny boy and said, "You can't enter here! Go home quickly! Don't run around in the street!"

The young man pointed at Hu Yanzhong ho ho ho ho smirked, turned around, and ran forward dancing along the street.But after running a few steps, he inadvertently stepped on the hardened ice on the side of the street, fell on his back with a thud, hit his head on the ground, and fainted immediately.

Pedestrians on the street gathered around and discussed in low voices, pointing and watching the bustle.

Hearing something wrong outside, Du Wenhao walked quickly to the door, saw the lunatic fell unconscious, ran over to check, saw that he was already unconscious, pinched him with one hand, took his wrist with the other to cut the pulse, under all these, suddenly He took a deep breath, and carefully examined the pulse again. After a moment, he said in a deep voice:

"It's okay for him to fall, but his madness is very dangerous! I'm afraid..."

Du Wenhao turned his head to Pang Yuqin and said, "Go and get my medical consultation box!"

The outpatient box was delivered quickly. Du Wenhao took out the golden needle and cotton wool, and asked the guard to hold Ada down. After disinfecting the relevant acupoints, he pierced Linqi, Shenmen, Neiguan and Taichong acupoints on his feet to refresh and rejuvenate his mind. resolve.

After a while, the lunatic woke up and was about to get up and run again. Du Wenhao held him down and asked:

"Where is your home? Where is your family?"

"Home? Hee hee, my home? Hee hee, my mother is crying! Hee hee..."

Seeing his incoherent speech, Du Wenhao couldn't figure out whose family he was from, so he turned his head and looked at the crowd watching: "Does anyone know his family? He is very sick and needs to be treated as soon as possible!"

The onlookers shook their heads one after another. A cobbler opposite their pharmacy lowered his head and took a closer look. He frowned and said, "It seems to be Aunt Feng's son Ada."

"Oh, uncle, do you know where Aunt Feng's house is? Can you send someone to call his family, he is very sick!"

The cobbler said: "His house is just a few streets ahead, and there is only one old lady in the house. His mother must have gone out to pick up junk right now, and she won't come back until evening."

Pang Yuqin interjected: "This mother is real, so don't worry about leaving a lunatic at home alone? If you run out, if something happens to you, it will be too late to regret it!"

The cobbler tilted his head and thought for a while, then said:
"I didn't hear that Ah Da is a lunatic. I usually see him and his mother go out to pick up junk. A while ago, I heard that he was sick and had a stomachache. Why did he go crazy today? Could it be that he was crazy because of illness?"

He reached out and patted Ada's cheek: "Ada! What's wrong with you, Ada?"

Ah Da didn't answer, instead said: "I want to drink water!"

The cobbler brought his water bottle from the stall: "Here, drink!"

Ah Da took a sip and vomited again, gasping for breath: "It's cold, I want a hot drink!"

"There is heat in my hall!" Du Wenhao said to the cobbler, "Can you please find someone to tell his mother that his son is in our Fuyun Hall and is very sick, and I will help him see a doctor. Don't delay your child's illness."

"Okay! I thank you doctor for his mother, and I will ask someone to find his mother right away!"

Du Wenhao nodded, and said to Hu Yanzhong, the leader of the guards: "Bring him back to the hall."

The pharmacy guard who came out picked him up with one hand and put him on his back, then returned to the Floating Cloud Hall and put him on the bed.

(End of this chapter)