Chapter 192 Saponaria rice
Yanru and the children gathered a large amount of saponins, peeled out all the seeds, washed the sand from the saponins bark, dried them and ground them in a stone mortar.
Take the pig pancreas that you bought in advance, wash away the blood and remove the fascia, cut it into small pieces, put it in a small stone mortar and pound it into a paste.
Then put the pig pancreas paste into the soap locust paste, add some osmanthus and grind again until the three are fully integrated.
Yan Ru took two carved molds, pressed the gooey dough balls into the molds and smoothed them out, letting them solidify naturally and then pour them out to dry. It was a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus soap.
She made a total of twenty pieces of fragrant rice cakes and gave some to her sister-in-law and three younger siblings, while keeping a few pieces for herself.
The remaining sapodilla bark was given to Dani, Erni and Yingbao, so that they could also learn how to make fragrant pancakes.
As for those sapodilla beans, soak them in water and remove the shells, then remove the outer layer of skin to get out the sapodilla rice, which is as white as jade.
After drying these saponins, they can be stored for a long time.
When you want to eat it, soak a handful in water and cook it with rice, lotus seeds and wolfberry. It tastes great.
"You can't eat too much saponin rice, and you can't eat it until the weather is clear."
Yanru told Yingbao and others, "My aunt said that women can eat some after giving birth, which is good for the body."
As for the benefits, Yan Ru doesn't know.
However, Yingbao knows that saponin rice can moisturize the intestines and relieve constipation, dispel wind and reduce swelling. It has a very good therapeutic effect on constipation, dysentery, tenesmus, hernia, sores and swelling.
It can also treat women's dysmenorrhea and metrorrhagia, and help mothers to relax their breasts.
However, saponin rice is slightly poisonous and there are many taboos when eating it. For example, pregnant women and young children cannot eat it.
After peeling all the soap beans and a few days of vacation, Ying Bao returned to the medicine hall.
I don't know if it was because of the cooler weather, but the number of patients in the medicine hall suddenly increased, and Dr. Li and his grandson were very busy.
Yingbao and Li Xihua helped prepare the medicine and give it to critically ill patients who were hospitalized outside the hospital.
Those patients lived in the patient rooms behind the medicine hall.
The place where medicine is cooked is a bamboo shed made of moso bamboo. There are several small medicine stoves inside, and some firewood and charcoal are also piled up.
"Oh, that man was urinating blood and his face was pitch black. Grandpa said that a patient with this condition would not survive more than a month."
Li Xihua sighed: "It's really pitiful, he's only fourteen or fifteen years old."
Ying Bao paused holding a fan.
It is a pity that he died like this in his prime years of fourteen or fifteen.
How about you do a test on this person to see if your Wudingzhi can also cure kidney disease?
After the medicine was cooked, Yingbao took advantage of the pouring time to pour in a little of the Wudingzhi juice, and then carried the medicine bowl to the medicine hall.
Chen Tiantian stood at the back door, smiling and extending her hand: "Let me carry it."
Ying Bao looked at her strangely, "Are you free?" She had already brought the medicine bowl to the door, and it wasn't like she couldn't get in. Why should she take over if it was only a few steps away?
Chen Tiantian retracted her hand and said with a smile, "I'm not afraid that you'll get burned."
"It's not hot." Ying Bao walked around her and walked in, paying careful attention to her from the corner of his eyes to prevent anything from tripping him.
Entering the ward, the woman who was kneeling and crying next to the boy with kidney disease got up and wanted to take the medicine bowl, but Ying Bao refused. "You lift her up and I'll feed her."
"Oh." The woman picked up the boy and let him lean on her, looking at the little medicine boy in front of her.
She looks about five or six years old, and is extremely good-looking, with a pair of clear eyes that seem to penetrate people's hearts.
It is really strange that there are such smart children in this countryside.
Ying Bao stirred the concoction with a spoon, and after it cooled down, she fed it to the boy one spoonful at a time.
The boy's desire to survive was very strong, so he drank every last drop, then lay down, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"Thank you." The woman smiled slightly at Ying Bao and took out a silk handkerchief to wipe her eyes.
Ying Bao looked at the sick boy and saw that his complexion was dull and gray, his eyelids were swollen, and even his lips were dark blue. If Langzhong Li hadn't diagnosed him, he would have been poisoned.
The woman next to him was wearing a blue muslin skirt, which was completely different from the brocade on the young man, as if they were not a mother and son.
At this time, Chen Tiantian came over, saluted the woman, and said softly: "The young master has gone to bed. You can go and have a rest. I will take care of him."
The woman shook her head: "Thank you for your kindness, little lady. I'm not tired, so I don't need to rest."
Ying Bao walked out of the patient room with the empty bowl, covered the empty bowl on the medicine jar, put the number plate on it, and then boiled another pack of medicine.
This packet of anti-fetal pills belonged to a pregnant woman, and like the boy with kidney disease, they were both travelers passing through.
I was busy until sunset, and the patients who were queuing up finished reading.
The local patients took the medicine and went home, leaving only two patients from other places.
The boy with kidney disease had woken up once and was helped by a servant to go to the toilet. He did not urinate blood again.
In the evening, Mr. Li's daughter-in-law brought a can of white porridge, and the boy actually ate a bowl.
This made the woman very happy and insisted on staying here longer.
Several servants were a little unhappy, but they didn't say anything and went to the town inn to get a room to rest, while the woman stayed with the young man in the hospital room.
The next day, Yingbao got up early to wash up, and then practiced a set of boxing techniques in the yard.
When the medicine hall opened, she went in to get the medicine bag from the boy with kidney disease and boiled it for him.
While slowly fanning the fire, Chen Tiantian walked quietly behind Ying Bao, watching her every move with burning eyes.
In fact, Ying Bao had already felt it, but she pretended not to notice it, wondering in her mind what serious illness Chen Tiantian had committed, staring at her like a ghost every day.
Chen Tiantian took a step forward, smiled and said, "Let me do it."
Ying Bao glanced at her sideways: "You want to cook medicine so much? Then go to the medicine hall and get another pack. There is another patient in the hospital who wants to cook medicine."
Chen Tiantian's face darkened, but she quickly returned to normal: "Okay." Then she turned around and went to the medicine hall to get medicine.
Ying Bao couldn't understand why Chen Tiantian had to fight with her. Yesterday she was serving medicine, and today she was boiling medicine again. Did that young man have any special identity?
Thinking of the plot in her mind, she decided to ask the boy his name.
When pouring the medicine, Yingbao still put some Wudingzhi in, not much, just a drop the size of a small fingernail.
When he walked into the hospital room carrying the medicine, he saw that the young man had sat up and the woman was talking to him.
Seeing Ying Bao come in, he quickly shut up and said nothing.
"It's time to drink medicine." Ying Bao handed the medicine bowl to the woman and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "May I ask your surname, sir? My master wants to give him another prescription."
The patient's condition has improved, and he really needs to change the medicine after taking the previous medicine for a few days.
The woman didn't realize for a moment why she had to ask for her last name when prescribing medicine, so she replied: "My husband's surname is Zhao."
Your surname is Zhao?
Ying Bao immediately searched the plot in her mind, and there seemed to be quite a few people named Zhao.
Among them, the most important ones are Zhao Yi and Zhao Yang. They are uncles and brothers, and they are also frontier generals with heavy troops.
But it is impossible for this frail young man to become such a strong general even ten years from now.
However, maybe it is unknown whether he is a descendant of the fierce general family, so the heroine tried her best to get close to him.