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Chapter 190 Two Ways to Treat Smallpox

Sun Simiao raised his hand to Li Fu, "So I would like to ask Your Highness whether there is a way to cure smallpox in Your Highness's mind?"

"Smallpox broke out in Shu?" Li Fu glanced outside the hall. Although it had stopped snowing, the snow on the ground had not yet melted. In Li Fu's impression, smallpox, a serious infectious disease, should not be exposed in the hall. Does it happen in summer? How come it also happens in winter?

[Smallpox sounds scary, but it's actually not troublesome to treat. 】

[If I remember correctly, Achnatherum splendens is a good herb for treating smallpox, and it is everywhere on the Qinling Mountains. 】

[However, traditional Chinese medicines are slow to take effect in the treatment of smallpox, and have little effect on areas where smallpox has already broken out. 】

[If you want to quickly treat smallpox, you can only use cowpox. 】

[Vaccinia is an extreme way for cows infected with smallpox to use its symptoms, especially the pus from local ulcers, to treat people. 】

[Because the vaccinia virus has the same antigen as the human smallpox virus, so people who have been vaccinated with vaccinia are equivalent to acquiring immunity against the smallpox virus, so that smallpox can be cured. 】

Li Fu explained all the treatment methods for smallpox at once. For Sun Simiao and Li Shimin, smallpox is a disease that has no cure at all, but for Li Fu, there are several different treatment methods.

Therefore, when Li Shimin knew these two methods, he could no longer remain calm.

Li Shimin originally thought that even Li Fu would have a very headache when he was dealing with a disease like smallpox.

After all, Li Fu was not a real doctor. It might have been a coincidence that he cured the Empress Dowager and Song Guogong before, but how did he know that Li Fu immediately thought of two ways to treat smallpox.

This kind of reaction speed shocked Li Shimin, but Sun Simiao was slightly disappointed when he saw that Li Fu didn't speak for a long time.

But he also understands that Li Fu may have to read a lot of classics, maybe he can get inspiration from them, and then he may find a cure, but this possibility may be very small.

So Sun Simiao smiled and said to Li Fu: "Your Highness, don't be too hasty at this time, and you don't need to be too anxious. You can read some ancient books and see if you can find a solution from them."

"Impossible." Fang Xuanling said categorically from the side: "In the classics handed down from the pre-Qin period, there are related records of smallpox. It has been six to seven hundred years so far, and I have never heard of a record in any classic that said smallpox There is a remedy."

"Miraculous doctor Sun, you are a doctor, you should understand that smallpox is an incurable disease, why bother His Royal Highness?"

Fang Xuanling's words were very straightforward, but everyone at the scene took them seriously, because everyone, including Sun Simiao himself, thought so, and the reason why he asked Li Fu was only because he had a glimmer of hope.

But now Li Fu hasn't said a word or defended himself for such a long time. It's obvious that he has nothing to do.

But Li Shimin, who was standing aside, looked at everyone's faces with a sneer on his face, especially looking at Fang Xuanling, feeling a little disappointed in his heart. His prime minister might soon be slapped in the face by the crown prince!

"Prince, I believe in you, don't have any worries, if you have any good suggestions, feel free to offer them."

"Now the people in Shu are under the threat of smallpox. Once smallpox spreads, not just Shu will suffer!" Li Shimin looked at Li Fu with a pun.

In fact, Li Fu listened to what Sun Simiao and Fang Xuanling said, and he was too lazy to say anything. These people didn't believe him at all, so why bother to ask him?
Even if he came up with the solution himself, he was afraid that the solution would be so unbelievable that he would encounter a series of doubts. Li Fucai didn't bother to argue with them about the medical point of view, so he simply didn't say anything.

But now when he heard Li Shimin's words, Li Fu changed his mind, it was absolutely wrong, no matter what, the people of Shu were innocent.

If the smallpox in Sichuan got out of control and spread to all counties and counties in Datang because he didn't rescue him in time, then Li Fu would never forgive himself no matter what.

Thinking of this, Li Fu said lightly, "There are really two ways here, but they are just some simple ideas, and I would like to ask Dr. Sun to give some pointers."

Sun Simiao was about to leave, but when Li Fu said that there was a solution, and there were only two of them, he immediately became interested, "Your Highness, please enlighten me."

Li Fu said casually: "I don't remember which ancient book records that there was an outbreak of smallpox in an unnamed village at the foot of the Qinling Mountains. The cattle in the village suffered from smallpox, but they recovered by eating the achnatherum splendens on the mountain. .”

"So the villagers did the same thing and used Achnatherum splendens to heal themselves. As a result, all the villagers in the village survived."

Sun Simiao looked shocked. He had heard of Achnatherum splendens, and even used it as medicine, but it was the first time he had heard that Achnatherum splendens could cure smallpox.

"Your Highness, may I ask which ancient book, where it is now, and what its name is, can you show me?" Sun Simiao immediately became interested in ancient books.

【This Sun Simiao is really an idiot. I don’t remember what I said, but he still asks, what a joke! 】

Li Fu was speechless, but on the surface he still had a smile on his face, "Gu just said that it was an ancient book I read a long time ago, and I have forgotten it by now. If it wasn't for Dr. Sun, you just mentioned smallpox. remembered."

"Ah?" Sun Simiao was dumbfounded, but his eyes were full of distrust.

Fang Xuanling also became interested at this time, "Since it is recorded in ancient books, it might as well give it a try, but as His Royal Highness said, what is another way?"

"Actually, the second method is also an accidental discovery in this village in the Qinling Mountains." Li Fu said with a smile: "Because both cows and people were suffering from smallpox, when the owner of one of the cows wanted to kill the cow, the accident happened. Contaminated with festering pus from cattle."

"As a result, although the owner of the cow used Achnatherum splendens for treatment, he recovered faster than other people. Therefore, the author of the book believes that the smallpox pus from the cow can cure smallpox from humans."

"So the second method Guxiang talked about is to inoculate people with vaccinia, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment."

Fang Xuanling and Sun Simiao were dumbfounded. It was the first time they heard of such a treatment method. Using cowpox to treat human smallpox was simply unimaginable!
But Sun Simiao still asked politely: "Then dare to ask the prince, how to inoculate people with cowpox?"

"This is simple." Li Fu gestured and said: "Just use it on a person suffering from smallpox, make a wound, and then apply the prepared vaccinia pus on the wound, and let the body absorb it automatically."

(End of this chapter)