Yan Ru and the children picked a lot of soap beans, peeled out the seeds, washed the mud and sand off the soap bean skin, dried it, and then put it into a stone mortar to pound it.
Take the pig pancreas that you bought in advance, wash away the blood and remove the fascia, cut it into small pieces, put it into a small stone mortar and pound it into a paste.
Then put the pig pancreas paste into the soap bean paste, add some osmanthus and grind again until the three are fully blended.
Yan Ru took out two carved molds, pressed the paste into the molds and smoothed them out, let them solidify naturally, then poured them out to dry, and they became a piece of osmanthus scented soap.
She made a total of twenty pieces of scented soap, gave some to her eldest sister-in-law and her third brother's wife, and kept a few for herself.
The remaining soapberry peels were given to Dani, Erni and Yingbao, so that they could also learn how to make soap.
As for the soapberry beans, soak them in water to remove the shells, then remove the outer layer of skin and pick out the soapberry seeds that are as white as jade.
After these soapberry rice are dried, they can be stored for a long time.
When you want to eat it, grab a handful, soak it in water, and cook it with rice, lotus seeds and wolfberries. It tastes great.
"You can't eat too much soapberry rice, and you can't eat it every day."
Yan Ru told Ying Bao and the others, "My aunt said that women can eat some after giving birth. It is good for the body."
As for what the benefits are, Yan Ru is not sure.
However, Yingbao knew that soapberry rice can moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, dispel wind and reduce swelling, and it has a good therapeutic effect on constipation, dysentery, tenesmus, hernia, and sores and swelling.
It can also treat dysmenorrhea and metrorrhagia in women, and help postpartum women to lactate.
However, soapberry rice is slightly poisonous and there are many taboos when eating it, such as pregnant women and young children cannot eat it.
After peeling all the soap beans and taking a few days off, Yingbao returned to the pharmacy.
Maybe it was because of the cooler weather, but the number of patients in the pharmacy suddenly increased, and Doctor Li and his grandson were very busy.
Yingbao and Li Xihua helped to boil medicine for critically ill patients who were receiving treatment here from abroad.
The patients lived in the sick rooms behind the pharmacy.
The place for decocting medicine is a bamboo shed built with moso bamboo. There are several small medicine stoves inside, and some firewood and charcoal are piled up.
"Oh my, that person was peeing blood, his face was extremely black, my grandfather said that patients at this stage would basically not survive more than a month."
Li Xihua sighed: "How pitiful, he is only fourteen or fifteen years old."
Yingbao paused with the fan in her hand.
It's such a pity that he died at the prime age of fourteen or fifteen.
How about I use this person as an experiment to see if my Wudingzhi can still cure kidney disease
After the medicine was boiled, Yingbao threw a little Wudingzhi juice into it while pouring the medicine liquid, and then took the medicine bowl to the pharmacy.
Chen Tiantian stood at the back door and stretched out her hand with a smile: "Let me take it."
Yingbao looked at her strangely, "Are you free?" She had already brought the medicine bowl to the door. It was not like she couldn't get in. It was just a matter of a few steps. Why did she have to take over
Chen Tiantian shyly retracted her hand and said with a smile: "I'm just afraid that you'll get burned."
"It's not hot." Yingbao walked around her and went inside, keeping a vigilant eye on her to prevent her from tripping.
Walking into the ward, the woman who was kneeling and crying beside the boy with kidney disease stood up and tried to take the medicine bowl, but Yingbao refused. "Help her up, I'll feed her."
"Oh." The woman picked up the young man, let him lean on her, and looked at the little medicine boy in front of her.
He looked about five or six years old, very handsome, with a pair of clear eyes that seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts.
It's rare to find such a smart child in this country.
Yingbao stirred the medicine with a spoon, and when it cooled down, she fed it to the boy one spoonful at a time.
The boy had a strong desire to survive, so he drank it all without leaving a drop, then lay down, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"Thank you." The woman bowed slightly to Yingbao and took out a silk handkerchief to wipe her eyes.
Yingbao took a look at the sick boy and saw that his face was dark and gray, his eyelids were swollen, and even his lips were dark blue. If Doctor Li had not examined him, she would have thought he was poisoned.
The woman next to him was wearing a blue muslin skirt, which was completely different from the brocade on the young man, and it seemed as if they were not mother and son.
At this time, Chen Tiantian came over, bowed to the woman, and said softly: "The young master has gone to bed, you should go and rest, I will take care of him."
The woman shook her head: "Thank you for your kindness, young lady. I am not tired and do not need to rest."
Yingbao walked out of the patient's room carrying the empty bowl, placed the empty bowl on the medicine jar, put a number plate on it, and then boiled another packet of medicine.
This packet of pregnancy-preserving medicine belongs to a pregnant woman who, like the young man with kidney disease, is a traveler passing by here.
I was busy until sunset and only then all the patients in the queue were seen.
The local patients took the medicine and went home, leaving only two out-of-town patients.
The boy with kidney disease had woken up once and was helped to go to the toilet by a servant. He did not urinate blood again.
In the evening, Doctor Li's daughter-in-law brought a pot of white porridge, and the boy actually ate a bowl of it.
This made the woman very happy and she insisted on staying here for a few more days.
Several servants were a little unhappy, but didn't say anything. They went to the inn in the town to get a room to rest, while the woman stayed in the sickroom with the young man.
The next day, Yingbao got up early, washed, and then practiced a set of boxing in the yard.
After the pharmacy opened, she went in to get the medicine bag for the boy with kidney disease and boiled the medicine for him.
While slowly fanning the fire, Chen Tiantian walked quietly behind Yingbao, watching her every move with burning eyes.
In fact, Yingbao had already sensed it, but she pretended to be unaware of it, wondering in her heart what kind of illness Chen Tiantian had and why she stared at her like a ghost every day.
Chen Tiantian stepped forward and said with a smile: "Let me do it."
Ying Bao glanced at her and said, "You want to boil medicine so badly? Then go to the pharmacy and get another pack. There is another patient who needs medicine boiled."
Chen Tiantian's face darkened for a moment, but soon returned to normal: "Okay." Then she turned around and went to the pharmacy to get the medicine.
Yingbao couldn't understand why Chen Tiantian had to snatch it from her. Yesterday she was the one who brought the medicine, and today she had to boil it again. Could it be that the boy had some 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 it, not much, just a drop the size of a little fingernail.
When I walked into the ward with the medicine, I saw that the young man had already sat up and the woman was saying something to him.
When he saw Yingbao coming in, he immediately shut up.
"It's time to take the medicine." Ying Bao handed the medicine bowl to the woman and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "May I ask your name, sir? My master wants to prescribe another medicine for him."
The patient's condition has improved, and the previous prescription does need to be changed after a few days.
The woman didn't understand why the doctor asked for the surname before prescribing medicine, so she replied, "My young master's surname is Zhao."
Last name Zhao
Yingbao immediately searched the plot in her mind, and there seemed to be quite a lot of people with the surname Zhao.
The most important ones among them were Zhao Yi and Zhao Yang. They were cousins and also frontier generals with heavy troops under their command.
But now this weak boy will never be able to become such a powerful general even in ten years.
However, maybe he is a descendant of a powerful general's family, so the heroine tried her best to get close to him.