Chapter 172 Treatment
The woman, Taozi, and Brother Liu all looked at me with serious expressions, silently without saying a word.
Actually, I'm not sure myself. I've never been a doctor before, and based on just a few medical books I've read, I might not be able to save someone's life.
However, since the person has been brought here, there's no reason why the condition shouldn't be cured.
Before taking any action, I think I should give myself a guarantee: "I'm not a professional doctor, I've only learned a little bit here and there. Are you sure you want me to help you treat this? I can't guarantee that it will be cured."
The woman looked sincerely into my eyes: "I'm sure. My husband was about to die. It was Old Liu who said you knew medicine, so we brought him here to try. I'm already very grateful that you can help. Please treat him. No matter what happens, I definitely won't try to extort you."
Hearing the woman's words, I turned to Brother Liu and said, "Then Brother Liu, be my witness."
Brother Liu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sister, whatever happens, Brother Liu will take care of it!"
Brother Liu always speaks in a mysterious way. If Sister-in-law Liu knew that he would even risk his life, she would probably be furious.
However, since I have received a guarantee, I will do my best to treat him.
Carefully cut the gauze from the side with scissors, gently lift it up to reveal the wound inside.
The wound inside was about what I had imagined; a coin-sized, gaping hole where the flesh had already begun to rot.
However, it's clear that the wound has been treated regularly and isn't too bad.
I've read quite a few books on traditional Chinese medicine as bedtime stories, and I only have a superficial understanding of them. If a wound is festering, it definitely needs to be cut off with a knife.
Alcohol, iodine, and gauze are all needed, and the first-aid kit in the wardrobe in the east room has them all.
To cut away rotten flesh, one would need to use the silver tools used in traditional Chinese medicine.
After looking around at everyone in the room, even though I trusted Brother Liu and Taozi, I still didn't want them to know that I had a lot of medicine.
He quickly ran to the small west room to retrieve the bag of silver tools and two candles, then said to the others, "I'll stay in the room by myself. The more people there are, the greater the chance of bacterial infection. You all go outside and wait."
The three nodded and turned to leave.
"Taozi, move a chair outside and sit down."
Pointing to the chair on the ground, Taozi nodded and they carried the chair out together.
Seeing the three of them sitting properly in the chairs, I closed the door and took out the first-aid kit from the wardrobe.
Place a thick towel under the wound on your thigh.
Soak the scissors, tweezers, and knife in alcohol.
Put on gloves, soak the utensils in alcohol for 10 minutes, then take them out and light a candle. Heat the scissors, tweezers, and knife over the flame one by one.
The disinfection and sterilization are almost done; place it on a clean gauze.
Unscrew the cap of the saline solution bottle and pour it directly onto the wound, rinsing the wound while observing the patient's condition.
The injured person's expression remained the same as before, indicating that they were no longer feeling pain from the wound.
After rinsing away the blood and other debris from the wound, pick up the scissors to prepare for initial cleaning.
Using tweezers, the obviously rotten flesh was picked up, and the scissors were used to cut it off from the top. At first, the injured person did not react. But when the scissors were cut close to the healthy flesh, the injured person's leg visibly twitched.
The flesh here is painful; the rotten flesh has been mostly removed.
I put down the scissors, deciding that removing the rotten flesh would stop here; cutting too much would cause further trauma to the wound.
Use a clean cotton swab dipped in iodine solution to gently wipe the wound twice, and then gently wrap it with a layer of gauze.
Put the alcohol and iodine solution back into the medical kit.
"Alright, come in."
After Chaowai finished speaking, the three of them came in a few seconds later.
Why wasn't the wound cleaned while it was in the infirmary?
I had some doubts; the doctor in the infirmary should be more professional than me.
"The doctors in the clinic aren't proper doctors. There was only one doctor from a small town before, but he didn't survive the last infectious disease outbreak. Also, the clinic's medicine was almost used up during the infectious disease outbreak, so even if they cut off the rotten flesh, there was no medicine left to use."
I nodded knowingly.
First, I went to the basement and found a box of amoxicillin and a box of ibuprofen. I took out the capsules from each and poured out the powder inside to dissolve in water.
"Find a way to get him to drink this."
The woman didn't ask any questions, and helped the man up, feeding him little by little.
Although the injured person was unconscious, he still made unconscious swallowing movements.
Seeing that the wound could only be treated by drinking it sip by sip, I felt a little relieved.
"Please have a seat, I'll go find a prescription."
Applying only iodine to such a large wound on the patient's leg is definitely not enough. Now that the patient is taking amoxicillin orally, it is also necessary to find some topical anti-inflammatory and antibacterial medications.
I found a book on traditional Chinese medicine for external injuries on the bookshelf and looked for which topical ointments could treat festering and infected wounds.
I looked at a few prescriptions, but some of the expensive medicinal herbs weren't in the medicine cabinet.
Until I saw a prescription in the book called "Shengji Yuhong Ointment", I was able to gather all the ingredients.
"Angelica sinensis, beeswax, Angelica dahurica, dragon's blood, calomel, Lithospermum erythrorhizon, licorice."
Take out the necessary medicinal herbs, weigh them according to the weight specified in the book using a small copper scale, and put them together.
According to the book, angelica, angelica dahurica, and licorice should be soaked in sesame oil for three days.
But there isn't enough time right now, so I'll skip this step.
The steps to make the ointment were a bit complicated, so to save time, Taozi helped out.
I used a medicine grinder to grind angelica, angelica dahurica, and licorice into powder.
Taozi used a stone mill to grind the blood dragon into a fine powder.
Grind the angelica root, angelica dahurica, and licorice root into powder, then fry them together with sesame oil in a pan until they turn a deep yellow color, as instructed in the book.
After turning off the heat, add the purple gromwell root to the pot and let it soak for a while.
After soaking, filter out the dregs from the herbs fried in sesame oil in the pot, reheat, and add beeswax while stirring. After stirring well, turn off the heat.
Add bloodwort to the pot and stir well, then add calomel and stir again.
Although I don't know why the ointment procedure is so complicated, the more strictly you follow the steps, the better the effect should be.
In just one hour, the quick-make "Skin Regenerating Jade Red Cream" was completed.
He carried the pot directly to the east room and carefully applied the ointment to the affected area.
Find a clean glass bottle, disinfect it by soaking it in boiling water and alcohol respectively, and then put the Shengji Yuhong Ointment into it.
Just as the installation was finished, the woman shouted, "You're awake now!"
I hurried back into the house, touched the injured person's head, and found that the fever had subsided.
The injured man's complexion had returned to normal, and his eyes were brighter; he seemed to have regained consciousness.
How are you feeling now?
I asked with concern.
"It tastes a little bitter, but otherwise it's okay."
Hearing the man say that, I almost wanted to chuckle. How could drinking ibuprofen and amoxicillin capsule powder raw not be bitter?
But he still said seriously, "You just drank the medicine powder that I ground myself. It contains Coptis chinensis, so it's normal that it's bitter."
"So Coptis chinensis can reduce fever!"
Brother Liu thought for a moment, then exclaimed in sudden realization.
I just made it up on the spot, but who would have thought Brother Liu would take it so seriously.
Coptis chinensis... What are the effects of Coptis chinensis again?
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