The two Mongolian doctors seem to have poor language talent. Moreover, what makes Marin collapse the most is that these two guys can speak Mongolian and Russian, which is popular in Eastern Europe, but they can't speak German.
Since being recruited by the Teutonic Kingdom, the two have learned a little German, but only a few greeting words. Then, their communication with Marin basically relied on simple German words and gestures.
One day, Marin was really tired of communicating with two Mongolian doctors with such gestures. Thinking that the two of them came from the hometown of Mongolia before, and they might be able to speak Chinese, they used Chinese for a segment. Unexpectedly, the two of them could really speak Chinese.
However, the Chinese of the two, how Ma Lin sounds like the dialect in the north of SX, is about the accent of Datong. It's no wonder that the tribes of Mozhigen and Bateer were originally close to Datong. In their tribe, people often send people to Datong with horses to do business, in exchange for iron pots, tea, etc. Therefore, many children of noble families in the tribe have learned the Datong dialect to facilitate trade.
At this moment, their Datong dialect Chinese finally came in handy. Fortunately, both Datong and Mandarin are northern dialects, so there are still many similarities. Therefore, as long as you speak slowly, Marin can still communicate with these two Mongolian doctors who speak the Datong dialect. If they were talking about GD, then Marin would also be caught blind. Because, GD dialect and Mandarin are too different. Even though he listened to a lot of Cantonese songs in his previous life, Ma Lin didn't read the subtitles, so he still didn't know what those Cantonese singers were singing...
After some communication, Marin was finally able to talk to these two guys. To be honest, it would be a sad reminder if patients and doctors cannot communicate normally one day. The doctor always asks about the patient's condition. The patient speaks a dialect for a long time, but the doctor doesn't understand a word. How can he treat it
Fortunately, after moving out of Mandarin, Marin became the first person on the island who could communicate normally with the two Mongolian doctors. But it's useless, because Marin is the lord, not a translator. If one day these two guys see a doctor for others and can't communicate, it will be miserable. In addition, the Mongolian doctor's treatment method is simple and rude. If you don't understand the condition, using wrong and rough treatment may kill the patient.
So, in desperation, Marin had no choice but to teach them to speak German himself, which was a miserable mess. At the beginning, when someone on the island came to them for medical treatment, Marin had to act as a guest interpreter...
Thinking of it, Marin was almost depressed to death. It's too shameful for a majestic baron to act as an interpreter for two Mongolian doctors...
However, when Marin was teaching the two guys to learn German, they often chatted. One day, Battelle suddenly said that his surname was Li, and he brought a lot of oriental medicinal seeds...
Marin was so shocked that he shattered the dish glass imported from Venice...
"What are you talking about? Medicinal seeds? How many are there?"
"Ah?" Battelle didn't expect Marin to react so strongly, and was stunned for a while.
"Don't stand still, answer my question..."
"Oh, it's just a few small packets, with more than a dozen seeds for each variety. I collected the seeds purely out of curiosity. I originally planned to plant them in the Golden Horde..."
"What are there, tell me!"
"Oh, mainly Astragalus, Bupleurum, Burnet, Fangfeng, Ephedra, Licorice, Gentian... Well, before I came from my hometown, I also collected some Artemisia annua on the grassland. For livestock…”
"Ah? Qinghao!" Unexpectedly, after hearing the name of Qinghao, Marin almost jumped up in surprise.
"? My lord, have you heard of Artemisia annua? In our place, this thing is called Artemisia annua. It tastes very bad. Most people don't take medicine..."
"Of course!" Ma Linxin said, hundreds of years later, a great Chinese god named Tu Yoyo extracted artemisinin from Artemisia stinky, and won the Nobel Prize.
If Battelle didn't say the word stinky wormwood, Marin might still wonder if what they brought was the kind of stinky wormwood that he needed that can extract artemisinin (Note: The scientific name of stinky stinky wormwood that extracts artemisinin is actually yellow flower Artemisia annua. It is also called Artemisia annua in traditional Chinese medicine, but it has nothing to do with the plant named Artemisia annua in later generations.). But he was relieved when he heard the word stinky wormwood.
Why is Marin so excited? Because artemisinin is a miracle drug for treating malaria, even surpassing cinchona cream. Moreover, the source of artemisinin is easy. Because Artemisia stinky is a perennial herb that can grow in one year, and then extract medicinal ingredients.
As for cinchona cream, it is obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree. However, the cinchona tree needs to grow for six to seven years before the bark can be peeled to make cinchona cream, which takes a long time to produce the effect. Unlike Artemisia stinky, it is very convenient to expand the planting when it is planted and harvested in the same year.
As for its use value, the most important thing is to treat malaria. Malin lives in Europe, where malaria is less likely. But once the tropics were colonized, malaria was the number one disease.
These days, most of the deaths of sailors on board are caused by scurvy. However, most of the colonists who colonized the tropics died of malaria...
Therefore, having a drug against malaria can also allow the development of tropical islands and increase safety...
With Artemisia stinky, Marin has enough confidence to conquer the tropics and engage in sugarcane planting and so on. Otherwise, even if it is done, many people will die. Generally, if you go to the tropics for colonization, if 10 people pass by, half of them will survive.
In order to adapt to the tropical climate, the colonists had to go to Africa to capture black slaves to work. Because blacks are much more adapted to tropical climates than whites.
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What surprised Marin even more is yet to come...
"What are these herbs for?" Marin asked, pointing to the Burnet, Parsnip and Gentian that he had never seen before.
Astragalus, Bupleurum, Ephedra, and Licorice are all very common herbs, and Marin also knows their uses. However, he has never been exposed to Burnet, Parsnip and Gentian. After all, his level of Chinese medicine is not half-baked. Therefore, he naturally doesn't know about some herbs that are rarely used.
When Battelle told Marin that Burnet is used to stop bleeding and reduce swelling, Marin was so happy...
It is also because his later generations did not study traditional Chinese medicine professionally, and did not know the function of Burnet. Because, people in later generations basically use YN Baiyao, which mainly uses Sanqi as the main drug, to stop bleeding and reduce swelling. Because, YN Baiyao is very powerful, and Panax notoginseng has greatly covered up the light of Burnet. Therefore, it is normal for Marin not to know Burnet.
As for Fangfeng, which can dispel wind and relieve the exterior, overcome dampness and relieve pain, and Gentiancao, which can also treat hair loss by clearing heat and dampness, purging liver and calming convulsions, Marin doesn't pay much attention to it. Because these diseases are actually rare. However, many middle-aged people in Europe seem to have hair loss problems. Maybe, gentian still has some uses...
Among these herbs, Marin probably paid the most attention to Artemisia annua and Burnet. Because, one can treat malaria, and the other can be used as a wound medicine, both of which are very useful for colonial expansion. And ephedra is also a good herbal medicine for treating colds, and Bupleurum is also good for reducing fever...
Therefore, Marin made a lot of money this time. For this reason, in order to grow these important batches, Marin decided to build a glass greenhouse to plant and protect these herbs...
Because, now it has entered the middle and late April, and the spring planting season has passed. However, these herbs are so important. Therefore, Marin decided to build a glass greenhouse to grow these herbs.
Of course, in spring, summer and early autumn, there is no need for a glass greenhouse. It's just that in late autumn, a glass greenhouse is needed. Because, at that time, the climate started to be cold, and it was easy to freeze these precious herbs to death.