Break out of the courtyard

"Hey, is this the Jingcheng County Epidemic Prevention Station?"

"I am Zhang Heping, director of the Nanla Town Health Center. When we treated educated youths with food poisoning in Shui Er Tuan today, we found that 42 of the 31 educated youths who came to our hospital were suffering from viral hepatitis."

"Yes, you need to send someone to their corps as soon as possible to verify. I suspect that there are more than this number of infected educated youths."

Since Zhang Heping submitted an article to the newspaper in January last year to expose the malaria incident on the farm, malaria outbreaks also happened to occur in several eastern provinces.

Then, provincial, municipal, and county-level epidemic prevention stations will be restarted, and hospitals can train “prevention and treatment personnel” openly.

"Hello, Director Dao, this is Zhang Heping. We are treating the second group of patients today..." Zhang Heping repeated what he just told the county epidemic prevention station.

"I have just reported to the county epidemic prevention station, and I will report to you again. In addition, I also need to apply to you for two malaria patient trials. You know, I don't get along with those gentlemen."

"Yes, there are only two patients... I haven't built a ward here, how can I accommodate so many people!"

"I didn't pay attention to how many vacancies there are in the guest house. I will tell Director Zhao later and he will report to you. He will go up the mountain now."

After Zhang Heping made a call in the morning, Director Dao's 212 driver, Master Chen, drove over at 6 p.m. with four thin female educated youths with fever, and arranged for them to stay in two double rooms in the guest house.

Later, Zhang Heping led nine doctors to test the blood of four malaria patients and compare it with normal blood under a microscope, allowing them to see the presence of malaria parasites and understand the mode of malaria infection.

Then, Zhang Heping divided the four patients into two groups and treated them with the ancient prescription of "one handful of Artemisia annua, soaked in two liters of water, wring it, and drink it all."

In previous lives, many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believed that artemisinin was a chemical extract, not a traditional Chinese medicine, but a pure western medicine.

emmm...that makes so much sense!

However, Artemisia annua, which contains artemisinin, has been used to treat malaria more than 1,600 years ago!

Was there any Western medicine at that time?

More than four hundred years ago, when Western medicine took mummies as a panacea, haha...

Then, another Heizi said that the ancient prescription "a handful of Artemisia annua" cannot cure malaria.

Who told you it can't be cured?

Have you tried it yourself?

Do you know that "Qinghao" refers to Artemisia annua?

Do you know that the efficacy of Artemisia annua in treating malaria depends on the region and the time of harvesting?

Did you know that the Artemisia annua in this ancient recipe uses fresh grass? Or hay?

How much does a handful of mugwort weigh?

How much was two liters of water in ancient times?

Did you use cold water? Or hot water? Or boiling water?

How long does it take for water to "stain" Artemisia annua?

What kind of twist? cotton? linen? silk?

What was the last thing you took? Twist the remaining stems and leaves? Freshly squeezed mugwort juice?

If it weren't for ancient Chinese medicine's emphasis on master-disciple inheritance, the practice of passing on male rather than female, and sectarian views, etc., would Chinese medicine be suppressed by Western medicine?

Zhang Heping asked Yishu to disinfect the white turban on her head, then wring out 4 taels of freshly squeezed Artemisia annua juice and give it to the patient, three times a day for three days, and successfully reduced the fever of two patients in a group. Microscopic examination of the blood of the two patients showed no malaria parasites.

However, Zhang Heping asked Yishu to continue taking the medicine for seven days before stopping the medication.

According to Zhang Heping, the first three days of medication only eliminate most of the malaria parasites; the last four days of medication are the most critical, killing the remaining malaria parasites and preventing the recurrence of malaria.

The remaining two patients in the second group were treated with Artemisia annua water extract, and the course of treatment was also seven days, but the amount of Artemisia annua used was much less.

Each person only uses 1 pound of Artemisia annua per day!

Monday, December 8th, sunny.

Director Dao personally led the team and sent a group of people from the epidemic prevention station, as well as 6 female educated youths infected with malaria, and 4 fellow villagers infected with malaria, by bus.

The 10 malaria patients still live in the guest house, and Yishu and Yangu are responsible for their treatment.

Zhang Heping and Director Zhao took Director Dao to visit the health center, the town's four-bedroom wooden bamboo building, as well as the Artemisia annua on the west slope and the Pu'er tea on the east slope.

When Director Dao left with four recovered female educated youths, Zhang Heping extended his right hand to him.

"What?" Director Dao asked confused.

Zhang Heping pointed to the four female educated youths behind Director Dao, and said with a smile: "Treatment fee! 4 yuan per person."

"No money!"

"Hey! Long time no see, why has Director Dao become stingy?"

"There is really no money!" Director Dao said helplessly: "Construction is going on all over Banna, and I spent all this year's money in the first half of the year."

"That won't work! We said we would only accept 2 patients to test the medicine, and you sent 4. There is no charge for treatment. You take those 6 educated youths away, and the other 4 fellow villagers can be treated for free."

A recovered female educated youth said: "Dean Zhang, when I pay my salary, I will send you the money."

Zhang Heping ignored the female educated youth and stared at Director Dao.

"I will ask the construction team to build an inpatient building for your health center, and then help the townspeople repair the wooden bamboo building."

"That's right!" Zhang Heping folded his arms and said dissatisfiedly: "We built the hospital building to send more malaria patients here!"

"The purpose of helping the townspeople build wooden bamboo buildings is to let the construction team come over and steal the work, and at the same time kick out the townspeople in the guest house to free up rooms for more patients, right?"

Director Dao also followed Zhang Heping's example, crossed his arms and said, "What do you think we should do? So many educated youths are infected with malaria, and not treating them is not a solution!"

"The educated youth who join the field are paid and their medical expenses can be reimbursed. You can ask the Corps to pay for it."

"They are even poorer!" Director Dao said: "Their so-called medical expense reimbursement only consumes some internal medicines. In addition, what other expenses are there? Just tell me directly, what do you want? A tea factory?"

"The tea factory is Director Zhao's business." Zhang Heping put his hands on his hips and said with a smile: "Open a bus from Jingcheng to Nanla Town so that the sick educated youth can bring enough money to come and see us for medical treatment."

Director Dao thought for a moment, put down his arm, and said: "The treatment fee of 21 yuan is too expensive!"

"If Director Zhao didn't ask me to raise money to build a tea factory, I wouldn't charge so much." Zhang Heping looked at Director Zhao who was silent and said with a smile: "Really! Director Zhao?"

"Okay, okay! I know it's you who often ask him to come to my place to cry for poverty behind his back." Director Dao saw a group of people from the epidemic prevention station walking back to the war preparation road, and urged: "The tea factory, shuttle bus, and hospital building are all I’ve done it for you, how much do you plan to reduce the treatment fee?”

"After Director Dao arranges these things, I will submit an article to the newspaper to introduce the malaria treatment methods of our health center to the whole country in detail. You can ask various hospitals in Jingcheng how much the treatment fees will be."

After Director Dao and the others left in the bus, the construction team came the next day to help the townspeople build wooden bamboo buildings.

On August 8, after 16 recovered malaria patients were picked up, Director Dao did not arrange for the patients to come over.

On August 8, a somewhat dilapidated bus drove onto a dirt road in Nanla Town, then reversed and turned around, parked next to the public toilet of the health center, and got off 21 pretentious educated youths.