The lights in Mingshui Garden stayed on all night, and the southwest corner was not stable either.
Shen Tianshu had just put on his clothes and took a nap when he was woken up by Tan Xu's knock on the door.
"Ms. Tong, wake up. Grandpa Zhang's condition is not good. He has started to have blood in his stool. Please go over and take a look!"
Although Tan Xu plucked up the courage to knock on the door, he couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart. He didn't know if this Lady Tong would be angry to get out of bed.
"I know, I'll go right away."
Based on his past life experience, Shen Tianshu knew that he might be busy in the second half of the night, so he didn't fall asleep at all. At this time, he stood up, straightened his clothes a little and opened the door.
Tan Xu hurriedly said: "Mrs. Tong, Grandpa Zhang started having blood in his stool about half an hour ago. I prescribed a prescription and tried it, but it didn't seem to work, so I have to bother you!"
The Zhang family and the Gan Yue family live next to each other, so in the morning, Grandpa Zhang also went out with his family on his back to beg for a bowl of rice wine.
The old man is seventy-five this year, and his body has always been strong, but no matter how strong he is, he cannot withstand the strong medicine in the rice wine.
Shen Tianshu came to Zhang's house quickly, checked the old man's condition and said: "For people of Mr. Zhang's age, the spleen and stomach are already extremely weak. Now that he has diarrhea so many times in one day, he must not be able to bear it."
Upon hearing this, Zhang's son plopped down and knelt down in front of Shen Tianshu.
"Ms. Tong, please save my father! Your great kindness will be unforgettable to our Zhang family!"
When Shen Tianshu saw this, he immediately turned sideways and avoided his kneeling.
"Uncle Zhang, please stop being like this and get up quickly." Tan Xu saw this and hurried forward to help, "Ms. Tong took the initiative to come to see everyone at this time, which is enough to show her character. Is she willing to die without saving anything? ?
"But we have to say something ugly beforehand. At the old man's age and in this situation, if there is any eventuality, we really can't blame the doctor for not trying his best, right?"
"Yes, yes, I know." Uncle Zhang wiped his tears and said.
"Uncle Zhang, don't worry, I will definitely try my best." Shen Tianshu said, "But if you want to cure the old man's disease, you may need something from your family."
"I wonder what Madam Tong needs?"
Uncle Zhang's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He was so poor that he couldn't find anything he could get away with!
"I need some hair from healthy people." Shen Tianshu said in surprise.
"Hair?" Uncle Zhang was stunned when he heard this, then looked at Shen Tianshu wearing a mask, and asked in a panic, "Is Mrs. Tong actually a witch doctor?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" When Xie Yan heard this, he immediately shouted angrily, and his hands were already pressed on the handle of the knife at his waist.
Tan Xu also broke out in a cold sweat at Uncle Zhang's unscrupulous words, and quickly explained for him: "Brother, Uncle Zhang is also concerned and confused. He has no other intentions. I hope you can forgive me.
Witch doctors were popular in the previous dynasty, but in this dynasty, there was a case where a witch doctor used nightmare magic to murder the emperor, so witch doctors became a street rat for a while.
At that time, they were arrested and killed, and almost all the witch doctors in the country were wiped out.
Since then, witch doctors have become a taboo in Daqi.
Now that nearly a hundred years have passed, witch doctors have gradually begun to operate in some places among the people, treating people and exorcising evil spirits.
But this is all done secretly in private, and I would never dare to say it on the table.
Uncle Zhang also knew that he had said something wrong, and he apologized and admitted his mistake, but he was still very confused by Shen Tianshu's request.
"Does Dr. Tan know that human hair can be used as medicine?" Shen Tianshu asked Tan Xu.
"It is recorded in the elbow reserve emergency prescription that if you have unruly hair, take one qian dagger with water three times a day to treat jaundice." Tan Xu knew that human hair was used as medicine, but he didn't understand what it had to do with treating Mr. Zhang. .
"Doctor Tan only knows one, but not the other," Shen Tianshu said.
, "Hair, broken brown, old lotus root, and burnt ashes, divided into equal portions. Take three qian each time, under the wood-scented decoction, it can cure bleeding in various orifices.
"It's hard to find materials in the middle of the night now, so I asked my relatives if they would be willing to provide human hair."
"I'm willing! Let alone my hair, as long as I can save my father, you can have my flesh!"
Uncle Zhang then realized that the hair was actually a medicinal material that could stop the old man's bleeding, and he immediately agreed.
He grabbed the scissors in the sewing basket, cut off his shoulder-length hair with a click, handed it to Shen Tianshu and said, "Mrs. Tong, are these enough? If not, I'll call all the brothers over."
"That should be enough." Shen Tianshu didn't waste a moment and returned to the Tan family's old house with the hair. This thing still needs to be processed before it can be used.
"Xie Yan, get some alkaline water to clean these hairs, then dry them, and then ask someone to prepare something for me..."
Shen Tianshu gave an order, and Xie Yan quickly got everything done.
Tan Xu had never seen anyone prepare human hair for medicine, and now he was staring at Shen Tianshu's every move without blinking.
I saw Shen Tianshu putting the washed and dried hair into a large pot and covering it with a small pot.
Seal the gap between the two pots with salt mud, stick a piece of white paper on the bottom of the small pot, place it under the pot and heat it over a strong fire until the top white paper turns brown and immediately remove from the fire.
When he put the pot aside to cool down, Shen Tianshu set up another iron pot on the fire, took Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes macrocephala, and prepared to stir-fry charcoal.
Tan Xu slapped his forehead and said, "Mrs. Tong, are you going to prepare charcoal medicine?"
"Exactly." Shen Tianshu didn't expect that Tan Xu actually knew about charcoal medicine, and was quite surprised. "I didn't expect that Dr. Tan is so knowledgeable and knowledgeable that he even knows about charcoal medicine."
The use of charcoal medicine has been used since ancient times, but there are few records handed down.
Even if it exists, it is not detailed in many words and the method of its preparation is not known.
Therefore, even among doctors, not many people know about charcoal medicine, and even fewer know how to use it.
The reason why Shen Tianshu knew how to use charcoal medicine was because his grandfather Jiang Sui had finally successfully made charcoal medicine based on the contents of several ancient books and repeated trials.
Later, Jiang Sui refined it into various preparation methods such as stir-fried charcoal, stewing charcoal, and blanching charcoal, which were used to treat diseases and save people.
Tan Xu said with a face of shame: "Ms. Tong's words really shocked me. I once had the honor to read a medical record by Divine Doctor Jiang and saw records about charcoal medicine in it.
"But Divine Doctor Jiang also emphasized in the medical records that the heat for preparing charcoal medicine is the most critical, so I never dared to try it casually. I didn't expect Lady Tong to not only use human hair, but also stir-fry charcoal...
"In front of Mrs. Tong, Tan's medical skills are like those of a child learning to speak, not worth mentioning."
"Doctor Tan, there is no need to belittle oneself." Shen Tianshu quickly fried the Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes macrocephala and set them aside for later use.
At this time, the pot just now had cooled down completely. Shen Tianshu stepped forward to peel off the salt mud and opened the small pot on top.
Tan Xu and Xie Yan both looked into the pot curiously.
The hair that was originally put in now no longer looks like it did before, and has become a shiny black block with many pores on the surface.
If he hadn't watched the hair being put into the pot with his own eyes before, Tan Xu would have thought that the stuff in the pot was coal just taken out of the stove pit!