Chapter 59 Drinking Noodle Soup
Tian Xiaoyu didn't realize that she was just asking Dr. Zhu if he had any medicines like ephedra and licorice.
After all, she had only been in the hospital for a short time and didn't know what medicines were available in the hospital.
But she didn't expect that as soon as she asked, Dr. Zhu looked at her in surprise and asked what she wanted these things for.
She didn't think too much about it, she just took out the notebook and turned to the pages of cold cases and medications she had just looked up.
"I asked the kid just now, and the answer I got was that the symptoms were a cold.
It is said here that for colds caused by wind and cold, Ma Huang Tang can be used. The prescription of Ma Huang Tang is recorded here.
Instead of letting the child go home and leave it to fate, why not try this?
Doctor Zhu, take a look!"
After saying that, he handed the notebook over. Doctor Zhu took the notebook and looked at it for a few seconds. The more he looked at it, the uglier his expression became.
“Using herbs to treat diseases is nothing more than a trick used by ignorant wizards and sorcerers to deceive the even more ignorant people.
You are asking me, a doctor who studied abroad, for these herbs from witch doctors?
Tian Xiaoyu, are you insulting me?
What kind of society is this now?
Now we live in a society of airplanes and cannons, there are no such things as gods or Buddhas.
These shaman tricks of using herbs to treat illnesses are outdated.”
After that, he said sternly: “If you want to study medicine, you can learn from me, don’t look for some weird notes on your own.
Society is moving forward, not backward. This note looks so dishonest, such as the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual". Throw it away!"
Originally, he was a doctor, and Tian Xiaoyu was a nurse who had just arrived. After all, doctors are professionals, so it was only right to show respect when listening to him speak.
But unexpectedly, he asked me to throw away the notes given by Chen Xiao. This was impossible.
There was a flash of rejection in her eyes, which was seen by Dr. Zhu.
Doctor Zhu withdrew his hand that was about to hand the notebook back to her and said, "Let me help you throw this away! I won't lead you astray."
Stay with me from now on, and I will teach you the orthodox medical skills, not the witches’ magic tricks and herbal medicines.”
Although Tian Xiaoyu is a girl from the south of the Yangtze River with a gentle and graceful temperament, she is soft on the outside but strong on the inside and insists on being herself.
The notebook that Chen Xiao gave her was more than just a notebook.
So she quickly snatched the thick notebook from Dr. Zhu's hand and carefully checked it for any damage.
Doctor Zhu said with a look of disappointment: "Tian Xiaoyu, it seems that you have not yet realized that your life is at a very important fork in the road.
If you do it right, you will be a respected doctor.
If you take the wrong path, you will become a despised charlatan or fortune-teller.
Throw away the crooked ways in your hands. You are an educated person and you should know what is right and what is wrong."
Seeing that Dr. Zhu was about to force her again, Tian Xiaoyu quickly and carefully put away the notebook and said anxiously: "Doctor Zhu, I will never throw away this notebook. It is a gift from my fiancé."
She got so anxious that she spoke out her true feelings.
Dr. Zhu, who was worried because one of the few female students in his hospital who was knowledgeable and had a good personality had gone astray, said:
"Giving you something like this as a gift, it seems your fiancé isn't a very smart man either!"
I regretted it as soon as I said it. Insulting others is not what an intellectual or a doctor should do.
He was just anxious. He went abroad to study at the age of eight, and all he saw were Western cars, trains, ships, cannons and airplanes.
Over the past decade, what he heard most was the British people's evaluation of their own people as ignorant and stupid.
He felt very ashamed and had a strong sense of mission, so he returned after completing his studies to contribute to his country.
He believed that the greatest help to the country was for everyone to fulfill their due obligations, and what he was most proud of was his medical skills.
He wanted to spread his medical skills so that more people could learn and save more people.
Unfortunately, studying medicine requires culture. In this era, there are not many educated people, and even fewer people who are educated and willing to study medicine.
He finally met Tian Xiaoyu, a promising young man. He was just trying to persuade her to learn medicine from him. She had been doing very well for over a month, but he did not expect that Tian Xiaoyu would become a witch doctor in the blink of an eye.
(Although there was a dispute between Chinese and Western medicine at that time, the term Western medicine was given by Chinese medicine, and the term witch doctor was given by Western medicine to Chinese medicine, which was considered unscientific.)
As mentioned before, although Tian Xiaoyu has a gentle personality, she is actually a stubborn and tough person at heart, and she will definitely get angry if you touch her bottom line .
And now, she thought that her fiancé Chen Xiao was her bottom line, and she had been asking around about Chen Xiao in the past few days since she came back.
I heard that 40 kilograms of potatoes were carried back from Europe, cultivated and harvested, and that one potato plant yielded six to ten kilograms!
Even though she was a daughter of a scholarly family, she knew the yield of crops in the fields.
What does 6~10 jin mean?
So these two days, she was always smiling for no apparent reason, feeling quite proud.
Moreover, Chen Xiao's excellence is not just because of his patriotism and tenacity in escorting excellent grain seeds back from Europe thousands of miles away.
He was also good at training soldiers and was both civil and military. She was actually very satisfied and proud of her husband.
When she heard Dr. Zhu say that her fiancé was not a smart man, she immediately became angry: "Dr. Zhu, why don't you find out who Chen Xiao is before judging whether he is a smart man!"
After saying that, he turned around proudly and walked away!
What should we do if we don’t have ephedra, licorice and other medicinal materials?
Tian Xiaoyu was flipping through her notes, and suddenly she saw a folk recipe under Ma Huang Tang:
"Barefoot doctors mostly practice medicine in rural fields. We should combine reality with reality. If we cannot find a pharmacy to get medicine, we can try the following folk remedies.
For a cold caused by wind and cold, cook a bowl of hot noodle soup, beat an egg, add more pepper, add the right amount of oil and salt, and drink it slowly while it is hot .
Sweat out, and symptoms such as fever and headache will disappear after sweating.
If you have food in your stomach, your body will have the strength to fight the cold, and you will recover quickly."
Hey, this is good!
The kitchen has flour and pepper. Ask the kitchen to help make some and beat an egg into the mix.
He took out his small purse and took out twenty cents to pay for the big bowl of noodle soup.
When she arrived at the door carrying the noodle soup, the old man had been stopped by someone she had asked.
"Uncle, this is for the child. Just drink it and sweat it out!"
This method was still used in the 1950s and 1960s when there was a shortage of medical care and medicine after the liberation. The effect was very good and a song was even made about it: "If you have a headache or dizziness, have a bowl of noodle soup."
The old man looked at the big bowl, one of those big bowls in the countryside, full of noodle soup with an egg on top.
I was so moved that tears came out. Whether it was white flour or eggs, these were things we eat during the Chinese New Year, and usually we exchanged them for money.
"How can we take advantage of the hospital? You, the Eighth Route Army, are soldiers of the common people. If you say you can't cure it, then you can't cure it.
Forget about the noodle soup and eggs, save them for the wounded!"
Tian Xiaoyu saw that this was impossible!
"Uncle, please let the child eat it quickly, this soup is full of medicine!
Just go back and sweat it out after eating!"
The old man took it doubtfully. The child was put down and didn't want to eat at first, but when he saw the white flour soup and the egg, he suddenly felt hungry.
He emptied the entire bowl into his small stomach, and was sweating profusely while eating.
Half hot and half peppery.
After gulping down a bellyful of noodle soup, the child actually felt a little more energetic.
"Hurry back! Luckily your home is not far away, so you don't have to walk too long. When you get back, don't be blown by the wind, just let the sweat out."
Doctor Zhu watched from a distance and sneered at Tian Xiaoyu's actions: "It seems that Tian Xiaoyu has gone astray and foolishly learned the methods in that notebook.
What a joke! If drinking a bowl of noodle soup can cure a cold, then what is the need for doctors? "
But he never thought that although he was a doctor, he had no way to treat the common cold.
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