MTL - The First Assistant Teased Me and Gave Birth To a Cub-Chapter 873 The wisdom of the ancestors
Chapter 873 The Wisdom of the Ancestors
Artemisia annua is used to treat malaria.
There is no doubt about this.
A female scientist in the modern flower country extracted artemisinin from Artemisia annua to treat malaria, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Gu Yunjiao once watched the interview of this scientist. At the beginning of the team's research, it was always impossible to extract artemisinin from Artemisia annua, or it did not meet the standard.
The female scientist one day turned to Ge Hong's "Elbow Reserve Emergency Recipe" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which wrote the prescriptions for treating cold and heat: one grip of Qinghao, soaked in two liters of water, twisted to extract juice, and fully consumed.
The female scientist suddenly realized after seeing it, and tried to use the cold extraction method to successfully extract artemisinin.
How much water is there in this interview, Gu Yunjiao does not know, but it is true that artemisinin can treat malaria, and it is superior to other medicinal materials.
For a period of time, people used cinchona cream to treat malaria, but cinchona cream was toxic to a certain extent, and it was also harmful to the human body. Later, no one used it.
In addition to Artemisia annua, Gu Yunjiao also wrote some other herbs, which she intends to use to make some herbal packs to kill mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes **** the blood of people infected with Plasmodium, then they carry the Plasmodium, and then **** the blood of healthy people, and then pass the Plasmodium to healthy people.
Mosquitoes play the role of transmitters and intermediate hosts in the spread of malaria. Without mosquitoes, malaria is actually not contagious.
Therefore, we must eliminate mosquitoes, otherwise it will be difficult to eliminate this infectious disease.
Gu Yunjiao handed over the writing to the prefect of Wu.
The prefect of Wu hurriedly wrote the book.
After writing the book, the prefect of Wu called his personal guard, "This memorial will be delivered day and night, 800 miles, to the capital as soon as possible."
The guards solemnly put away the memorial and set off immediately.
Gu Yunjiao said to Wu Zhifu again: "The prefect will also organize various households to launch a campaign to eradicate mosquitoes, and the city must quickly start eradicating mosquitoes. I suspect that someone in the city must have been infected, but it has not been reported yet."
Compared with outside the city, there are fewer trees, weeds, ponds, and fewer mosquitoes. This may be the reason why the outbreak has not yet occurred in the city.
The prefect of Wu nodded and ordered his subordinates to hurry up and report to the various yamen.
Gu Yunjiao waited at the prefect's yamen for a long time, when a pharmacy brought Qinghao over.
Artemisia annua in pharmacies is dried and cut into small pieces, so it is not easy to extract juice.
Gu Yunjiao didn't care anymore, got a few large pieces of gauze and soaked the artemisia annua in the boiled cold water.
After soaking for two quarters of an hour, let the soldiers wash their hands, wrap the gauze around the artemisia annua and twist the juice.
Gu Yunjiao discussed with the prefect of Wu again, "It is best for those who contracted malaria outside the city to gather in the city and make room for them to live."
"Only by taking good care of them and preventing mosquitoes from biting them can we slowly break the chain of transmission."
Wu Zhifu shook his head again and again, "That won't work, you can't let them into the city no matter what."
He still couldn't fully believe what Gu Yunjiao said, that this disease will not be transmitted from person to person.
As the prefect of Yangzhou, he is also responsible to the people of Yangzhou.
What if this Doctor Gu is unreliable and let those people into the city, causing a large-scale infection?
Gu Yunjiao frowned.
There is really no isolation condition outside the city.
They are all shacks, and they can’t stop mosquitoes.
Wu Zhifu's distrust of her also made her a little annoyed.
She suppressed her anger and thought for a moment, "Well then, the prefect will come forward and collect several large houses or large manors in the north city of Xicheng, summon carpenters, work day and night, and make screen windows and screen doors as soon as possible. After the screen doors are installed , transfer patients from all over the place, and manage them centrally.”
In this weather, it is impossible to completely close the door, it will be very hot.
(end of this chapter)
