After buying the herbs, Xia Lin asked the toothless fat man to boil the medicine for him. Qin Zhi ordered people to bring a dozen charcoal stoves and a dozen medicine pots, and boiled the medicine directly in the yard.
Zi'an and the imperial physician also got involved, and Zi'an now understood the trick.
He had figured out several poisons, but the toxicity was different and the detoxification methods were also different. What he had to do now was to detoxify all the poisons one by one, and then mix and match the detoxification to verify the final antidote, but this was a huge project and it might not be completed in just over a day.
So, after testing the first batch, Zi'an asked Xia Lin, "Linlin, tomorrow I will untie the needles that seal her acupoints, so that the poison will take effect immediately. Do you have any way to temporarily slow down the spread of the poison?"
Xia Lin searched in his bag and found a bottle. In the bottle was a worm, which looked like a centipede, but didn't have as many legs as a centipede. It was red all over and had circles around it. It was slowly wriggling in the bottle, which looked creepy. Xia Lin said, "Use this."
"What is this?" Zi'an asked.
Xia Lin said, "This is called a seven-segment worm. Each segment can condense poison. If you take it, it will absorb most of the poison in your body. However, the centipede will die in the body after seven days. Once it dies, all the poison, including its own poison, will burst out, and the person will die."
"In other words, it can be postponed for seven days?" Zi'an asked.
"Yes, after seven days, we will lure out the seven-segmented worm."
"Then after it is lured out, won't the poison in the princess' body be detoxified?" Zi'an asked with hope on his face. From what he meant, the seven-segmented worm enters the body and absorbs most of the poison in the body, so when the seven-segmented worm comes out, it will naturally take the poison away.
Xia Lin shook his head, "Sister, if this is possible, then why do we need to detoxify? After the seven-segment worm goes down, its segments temporarily contain poison. It cannot be pulled. Once pulled, the segments will loosen and the poison stored in the segments will be released. So after the princess eats the seven-segment worm, the seven-segment worm will enter the stomach and intestines. Do you see its two hooks? These hooks will hook the intestines, and the body will remain in one position. It will not move unless it smells fresh blood. If we want to lure it out, we have to use blood to lure it out."
Zi'an really didn't understand, even if a bug had the ability to absorb toxins, how could it absorb all the toxins in the body in the intestines? You know, once the toxins take effect, the blood vessels and internal organs of the body will be poisoned.
Oh, okay, she was confused and her brain hasn’t been working well lately.
Once the acupoints are unblocked, the blood will flow and the toxins will pass through various organs, naturally absorbing the toxins.
But this centipede is really amazing.
If she could go back to the modern times, she really wanted to take it back and study it carefully. She had never seen such a thing in the modern times.
Just like this, Zi'an followed Xia Lin like a little follower to prepare the antidote. However, this was just the beginning. Slowly, she took the lead. Because, although Xia Lin knew how to detoxify and how to distinguish toxicity, she had no practical experience and could not grasp the dosage properly. Zi'an and the imperial physician could just supplement in this aspect.
Xia Lin has a silver needle that is specifically used to test poison. The magic of this silver needle is that different poisons will show different colors.
Zi'an didn't believe in testing poison with silver needles at first. The ancients used silver needles to test poison because they mostly used arsenic to poison people. Arsenic, because it was not refined pure, would have some sulfur left, and sulfur would make the silver needle turn black. If the arsenic was refined pure and no sulfur was left, the silver needle would not turn black. Therefore, many poisons that do not contain sulfur cannot be tested with silver needles.
However, Linlin's silver needle can really make different toxins appear in different colors. It's magical.
Zi'an felt that she knew too little about the wisdom of the ancients and underestimated them. It was like the ancients could never have imagined that one day humans would be able to use urine on a test strip to know whether they were pregnant.
After she came to this dynasty, the medical skills she came into contact with were not very advanced, so she thought there was no advanced medical skills here. However, she didn't know that there were doctors who were better than the modern ones, but she just hadn't met them.
Not encountering does not mean not having it.
On the third day, before Zi'an removed the sealing needles, Xia Lin put the seven-segmented insect into Zhuangzhuang's mouth. An hour later, she removed the sealing needles, but Zhuangzhuang did not wake up.
On the fourth day, Zhuangzhuang still didn't wake up, but she could be fed some rice soup and she had basic swallowing function.
On the evening of the fourth day, Xia Lin finally identified the poison and extracted the venom.
He put the extracted poison into water and fed it to a cow. After a moment, the strong cow fell to the ground and fell into a coma. A quarter of an hour later, it stopped breathing.
The cow did not struggle and did not feel any pain, which is consistent with the medicinal properties of the sleeping pills.
There is an antidote for the poison extracted in this way. It is known that among these eight poisons, two poisons cancel each other out, two poisons combine to become another poison, and the remaining four poisons, when mixed together, become the medicinal properties of the love potion. It is the medicinal properties of the love potion that causes a person to fall into a coma and lose pain when he dies.
As for the two poisons that cancel each other out, they are completely useless and are only used to confuse the detoxification process.
The results for the antidote were also out. Xia Lin told Zi'an that the prescription for the antidote was ready, but it needed a medicinal guide in order for the prescription to be effective.
Zi'an knew what a medicine guide was. A medicine guide is the common name for guiding medicine to the meridians. It means that certain medicines can guide the medicinal power of other medicines to the diseased area or a certain meridian, playing a "navigation" role.
In addition, the medicine guide also has the functions of enhancing efficacy, detoxification, correcting taste, and protecting the gastrointestinal tract.
Without a medicine guide, these medicines cannot reach every meridian in the body, and will not have the effect of detoxification, or the poison cannot be completely eliminated and will remain in the body, causing irreparable damage to the body.
"Then what kind of medicine do you need?" Zi'an asked.
Xia Lin wrote a lot of symbols on the paper. These symbols looked like a formula. Of course, now everyone knows that it is the Xijiang language.
After writing for a while, Xia Lin looked up and said, "Blood antelope horn."
The imperial physician was stunned. "Blood antelope horn? It's an antelope horn, right?" If it was an antelope horn, it would be easy to deal with. Although it is relatively expensive, it is also a common Chinese medicine.
Zi'an shook her head, "No, it's different. Blood antelopes are very rare." She had seen blood antelopes in an ancient book by Professor Lin in modern times, but there are very few records about blood antelopes in modern times.
Xia Lin said: "There is a mild toxin on the tip of the blood antelope's horn that can act as a medicine. Apart from this, there is no other suitable one."
Murong Jie asked Xia Lin, "Do you know where to find blood antelope horns?"
Xia Lin shook his head and said honestly, "Brother-in-law, I don't know."
In the past two days, he has known that Murong Jie is his brother-in-law. Murong Jie is very pleased to be called brother-in-law, and he immediately looks at him with the vision of a promising boy.
(End of this chapter)