Ask Sword

  Chapter 14 Mandate of Heaven

  Seeing Li Ang shaking his head, the faces of the two men turned pale, and the surrounding crowd also sighed.

People in Weizhou are no strangers to parasites. They often hear news that people who eat sashimi (sashimi) get sick and die. A few years ago, I heard that some villagers ate too many snails and frogs, and their stomachs swelled. , Like a starved ghost, he died not long after. When he died, his stomach was full of worms, and his shape was terrible.

  "Elbow Reserve Emergency Recipe": People suffering from water poisoning have aversion to cold, slight head pain, and eye pain. Insects eat the five internal organs, and the heat is extremely annoying. The bet can't help, eight or nine days, good doctors can't cure it.

  "Thousand Gold Prescriptions": Some people suffer from edema, with large abdomen, thin limbs and thin abdomen as hard as a stone. This lifelong disease cannot be cured by force.

  It is a consensus among people that it is absolutely difficult to treat parasitic diseases.

   "Doctor!"

  The man from the family grabbed Li Ang and said sadly, "Please save my elder brother, his mother has just passed her 60th birthday, and the youngest son is just one month old, so he can't just die like this."

   "Sanlang, let go of the doctor."

  The patient named Shad suppressed the grief in his heart, and said slowly: "Don't let outsiders see the joke."

   "Water poisonous insect disease is indeed hard to cure."

  The young man who lent Li Ang's sword was not angry because the sword was dirty, but said in a sad voice: "I have seen people suffering from this disease at the foot of the Hundred Thousand Barren Mountains.

   Tiny worms will move and wriggle under the skin. If they go to the eyes, the eyelids will be red and swollen, itchy, and afraid of strong light.

  If the mouth is removed, there will be induration on the face, and small insects will occasionally crawl out of the mouth.

  If the organs or brain are removed, death will undoubtedly occur. "

  A hundred thousand barren hills?

   Li Ang gave him a strange look. The Hundred Thousand Barren Mountains is the boundless mountain range to the west of the junction of Yu State and Zhou State. It is rich in gold, silver, copper and iron, but the climate is extremely harsh and full of poisonous insects and beasts. Even the army of Yu State cannot enter.

   Only a few adventurers and merchants who want money and life will go deep into it, trade with the local savage and powerful barbarians, and bring back gold, silver and rare animals.

  This young man looks to be about twenty years old, with a fair and handsome face, he doesn't look like he has really been to a hundred thousand barren mountains.

   "If it's a sparganum, then there's really no way.

  When there is one, there must be three or four hidden in a deeper place.

  However, if it is another type of parasite, there may be a one percent chance. "

Li Ang turned to look at Shad who was sitting on the chair, and said seriously: "Tell me in detail about the past three months, where you have been, what you have eaten, and what animals you have been in contact with. If you want to survive, don't There is nothing to hide."

"good."

How dare Sha De not listen, like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, he told the truth about his experience in the past three months. Interject, make additions.

"Well"

  Li Ang thought for a while and asked, "Are you sure you haven't eaten raw fish meat, raw frog meat, raw snake meat, or snail meat before?"

   "No, really not."

  Before Shad could speak, the family members next to him said anxiously: "Doctor, my elder brother never eats raw food, and he doesn't even let us eat fish sticks when we are on the boat."

  Li Ang didn't take it seriously, and continued to ask: "Then have you learned some folk remedies, using frog meat and frog skin to treat sores and eyes?"

   "Huh? What kind of folk remedy is that?"

  “There are fools in the folk who think that frog meat is cool and relieves fever, and they can use frog meat and frog skin to treat sores, but they don’t know that it will only make it easier for parasites to enter the human body.”

  Li Ang casually mentioned something, looked at Shad, and asked seriously: "Then have you ever drank raw water or eaten raw loach?"

Sha De's face turned pale, and the two family members next to him said anxiously: "Doctor, how can you not drink raw water while running on the river? The coal on the boat is short, is there any firewood to make a fire to boil water, and I can only drink the spare water in the tank. Or the cleanest possible river water.

   Raw loach has never been eaten. "

   Raw water, sure enough.

   Li Ang sighed in his heart. Unboiled water is one of the most likely causes of disease in this era. Although the Academy often advocates drinking warm water and hot water, practical factors always prevent the habit of drinking hot water from being promoted on a large scale.

  The reason is simple. Boiling water requires a lot of firewood and coal. With the current transportation, organization, and production capacity of Yu State, it is doomed to be unable to meet the fuel demand for boiling water for 400 million people—that is too extravagant.

   Li Ang himself never drinks raw water, does not eat raw fish and meat, and does not allow Chai Cuiqiao to eat. All drinking water must be boiled before drinking, and all meat must be cooked before eating.

  For the sake of safety, the trouble is admitted.

  Hmm. According to the newspapers, a bottle made of northern black wood is popular in Chang'an City, which can store hot or ice water for a long time, similar to the kettle in Li Ang's memory.

  It is extremely expensive to sell, and the cheapest one costs seven pennies each, and only well-to-do families can barely afford it.

  When you are free someday, you can go to the market to see if there are any for sale.

   Li Ang's pensive look made Shad and his two brothers even more flustered. Looking at the white worms wriggling on Shad's legs, they wanted to touch them but dared not, so they could only bite the bullet and force them not to look.

   "Not Sparganum."

  Li Ang said slowly: "It's Guinea worm."

   Everyone wondered: "Medi, that dragon?"

   "It is quite similar to the sparganosis that parasitizes in frogs and snakes, but when it parasitizes in the human body, blisters and pustules will appear on the surface of the human body.

   Procrastination will lead to paralysis, and cause diseases of the eyes, heart, urinary system, etc., causing inflammation and the like. "

  Li Ang said slowly: "There is only one way to solve it."

"any solution?"

   "Pull out the bugs little by little."

  Li Ang's eyes flashed coldly, he pointed at the dracunculus worm on Shad's leg, and said in a deep voice: "Let's talk about the ugly words first, I'm only 10 to 20 percent sure about this method, whether it succeeds or not depends entirely on God's will.

  If you don’t want to take risks, you can go home and lie down, maybe you can last for a few years-this disease is not easy to die, but it will continue to torture you with tendon contractures and chronic arthritis, leaving you paralyzed in bed. "

   "Years."

  Shad took a breath. He suffered more in the past few days than in decades, dizziness, vomiting, itching, and diarrhea.

  As soon as he saw the wriggling white worm on his leg, he felt that he would have to live with this thing for several years, and it would be better to die directly—that would be easier.

   Immediately stabilized his mind, turned his head and said to the brothers beside him: "Erlang, you go home first, and call my wife and three sons.

   Ask my son to kowtow to the doctor, then draw and sign on the paper.

  Even if I die, it is due to destiny, and I cannot blame others, let alone the doctor.

  Please also present to be a witness. "

   After finishing speaking, he looked at Li Ang firmly and said, "Doctor, please do it."

  (end of this chapter)