May 6th.

Three days have passed since the wandering cavalry went out to appease the Yellow Turbans.

On this day, Li Mengxi taught the military doctor how to steam spirits, so that the military doctor could steam alcohol when he had time, and he could do other things more easily.

Military doctors do not understand alcohol, let alone its pharmacology.

What Li Mengxi said made military doctor Tian Bu confused, and he couldn't explain clearly that he didn't understand. When Li Mengxi left, the military doctor looked at the half-tank of "alcohol", hesitated, and poured half a cup.

I tried to taste it, and found that it was a spirit that had been steamed three times. The alcohol content was almost 70 or 80 degrees, and it was extremely strong.

After one sip, the military doctor choked and coughed.

An ordinary person, such as Zhang Fei, would have sprayed the wine after one sip.

Military doctors are obviously different from ordinary people.

Although the wine is choking and the tongue is so spicy that it hurts, if I drink it in one sip, the smell of the wine goes straight up my nose.

Tian Bu choked on this sip of wine and burst into tears.

Then, he paused for a while and actually took another sip.

After taking a sip, Bu put the wine in his mouth and sipped it gently.

"Alcohol tastes bitter and is as strong as fire at first, but then becomes sweet and lingers for a long time."

Bu tasted it and then wrote it down.

Then Bu swallowed the alcohol and felt the taste carefully.

Feel the slight heat all over your body after the wine passed down your throat and entered your stomach.

Touch the acupuncture points on the forehead, throat, and behind the ears with your hands.

Bu also wrote, "The three points at the entrance of alcohol, Shou Yang, Qu Chi, and Ling Quan are slightly warm. This thing should have the effect of exalting Yang fire and dispelling Yin cold."

Military advisor Li Mengxi also said that applying alcohol to the body surface, especially the armpits, can dissipate heat.

Bu is a doctor, and he is a doctor with formal medical inheritance.

There is no room for sloppiness in treating illnesses and saving lives. Although Bu believed in the methods Li Mengxi said, he was not very reassured.

Therefore, you have to try it yourself.

Apply Li Mengxi alcohol to the armpits and other areas.

The military doctor applied alcohol to the Jiquan point and then Yifeng point under the armpit.

Then, close your eyes and wait quietly.

After a while, the military doctor touched these two acupuncture points with his hand, then frowned, took out the silver needle, and raised his hand to apply acupuncture to these two acupoints.

I gave myself acupuncture all by myself, and it turned out to be accurate every time, without any hesitation, and without any deviation. Such is my superb divination skills.

Then, gently twist the acupuncture with your hands, and feel the sensation of Yifeng point and Jiquan point.

After a period of time, Bu pulled out the acupuncture and wrote, "Applying alcohol to Jiquan and Yifeng acupoints can dispel wind and heat."

Then, Bu stopped writing, stared at the clear water-like alcohol in the bowl, frowned and thought for a moment.

Take a needle and dip it in some alcohol, then lift the needle and insert it into the Shangyang point on your arm.

Because the needle was stained with alcohol, when the needle went in, Tian Bu frowned in pain.

After the pain subsided a little, I realized the difference between acupuncture with alcohol and acupuncture without alcohol.

After removing the acupuncture and pressing the Shang Yang point, I felt a slight burning pain, like after being showered with hot water.

Bu wrote, "Alcohol damages muscles internally and is not conducive to acupuncture."

Anyway, being idle is boring.

The military advisor told me that when the alcohol is poured out, it must be used up and don't pour it back again.

Remember to explain.

There's still a little alcohol left, and you can't pour it back, so what's the use?

Bu pondered for a long time, then after thinking about it, he stood up and picked up a few medicinal herbs at random.

They are the three medicinal herbs: Radix Rehmanniae, Huanghuading and Lithospermum.

Then, mash it in a medicine mortar, break it into powder, pour it into the alcohol, and stir it a few times.

Bu didn't pay attention. When he finished stirring, he was surprised to find that the color of the medicinal materials that should have dyed the water when soaked in water faded away when soaked in the so-called alcohol.

The divination was extremely surprised. After the medicine was concocted, the medicine was released and dispersed into the water. After the person drank the medicine, the disease could be cured.

But when the medicine is mixed with alcohol, its potency is not released, but where does it go?

Bu reached out to pick up the discolored herbal powder soaked in alcohol. The medicine was wrong. Why did the medicine turn white?

It's like soaking in water for a few days and then fishing it out.

Bu was confused, looking at the faded medicine in his hand. Suddenly, Bu's eyes opened. Could it be that... the power of the medicine was lost in the alcohol in just a moment?

With doubts, Bu took another sip of alcohol mixed with herbs.

After taking a sip, Bu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he tasted the strong medicinal smell in the alcohol.

Bu's eyes widened, and he quickly picked up his pen and wrote, "Alcohol can fully exert its medicinal power in just a moment, which is amazing!"

Bu made a major discovery and was overjoyed.

Li Mengxi believes that the ancients did not understand the use of alcohol. In fact, ancient doctors never lacked practical spirit.

From Shen Nong's taste of herbs, to Bian Que, to Hua Tuo, to Sun Simiao, to Li Shizhen, the pharmacological research methods of drugs have been inherited from the same origin.

That is, try it yourself. In ancient times when there was a lack of laboratory tests, B-ultrasounds, and nuclear magnetic resonance, there was no way to understand the effect of a drug on the body more clearly than by testing it in person.

Li Mengxi thought that no one in the world knew the usage of alcohol better than him.

In fact, when I got alcohol, as an ancient person and as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, Bu followed the simple methods passed down from ancient times by Shennong, tried the alcohol himself, and understood part of the pharmacological properties of alcohol.

He even knows more about alcohol than Li Mengxi.

For example, if a drug is soaked in alcohol, the potency of the drug will escape into the alcohol in the blink of an eye. This should be due to the extraction effect of high-concentration alcohol on certain substances. Li Mengxi could not even think of this.

But military doctor Tian Bu tried it out on his own.

Although Li Mengxi has received a systematic education in scientific knowledge, at this moment Bu is more like a simple materialist than Li Mengxi, exploring the unknown.

The divination's understanding of medicinal power, Yang Fire, etc. may not be correct.

But Tian Bu's direction is absolutely correct.

There are three important applications of alcohol. First, oral administration. Li Mengxi knew that drinking alcohol can keep out the cold. Bu found that oral administration of alcohol can invigorate yang fire. Bu believed that alcohol can cure diseases caused by yin deficiency. Second, Li Mengxi used it on patients with developed sweat glands such as under the armpits and behind the ears.

Apply alcohol to the local area to help generate heat. Bu has narrowed the large area under the armpits and behind the ears to Jiquan and Yifeng points. The same amount of alcohol can play a greater role in Bu's hands.

As for the third point, Bu found that when the medicine was soaked in alcohol, the color of the medicine turned white. When he tasted it, he knew that the medicine had been absorbed by the alcohol.

Therefore, Bu unexpectedly discovered that alcohol can absorb the power of medicine.

As for this, although Li Mengxi knew about the extraction effect of high-concentration alcohol, he could not think of extracting the drug at all.

A Chinese medicine doctor who has no name at all in history is an ordinary member of thousands of doctors in ancient times. He went to try the pharmacology of alcohol and conducted simple exploration and experiments on unknown objects.

What he did was different from that of later Newton and Galileo.

Who said that the ancients were all empirical sciences and had no systematic science.

What is the difference between the principle of Shen Nong's taste of herbs and modern medicine's research and development of medicines, ensuring their effectiveness and effectiveness, and then testing them with people to see their effectiveness?

Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs, how unscientific is it?
Chapter completed!