Chapter 671 It Came to Life
After Wang Shuzheng made the first point, the two deputy directors of the Imperial Medical Bureau then proceeded to explain to the hundred physicians below the stage.
The hundred doctors below the stage looked at the withered flowers, still bearing fruit, in the large flowerpots carried up by servants, and were all somewhat puzzled.
The flower was, of course, a poppy. It was a pot that had been painstakingly found in the palace's greenhouse. It looked dry and withered, and was already dead.
However, the fruits on them are all intact, so they can be shown to everyone.
Yao Shucheng stepped forward, first bowing to Wang Shuzheng, who was already seated on a chair to the side, and then loudly addressed the crowd below the stage: "Everything is as Wang Shuzheng said. The main ingredient of this opium is the fruit of the poppy flower."
These few plants were found in the palace greenhouse..."
Next, Yao Shucheng had someone bring out several pieces of cooked, edible opium and put them on a tray for the doctors below to pass around and see.
After explaining what opium was, Yao Shucheng shouted loudly in the direction of Li Sanniang: "It was Li Mingfang, the physician of the Third Medical Hall under the Chang'an Medical Alliance, who first discovered this. Now, let's invite Physician Li to explain the medicinal properties of opium to us."
Li San Niang was already very sensitive, and now that Yao Shucheng had directly called her out, all those who had been secretly watching her before were now eager to see what she looked like.
But does it have three heads and six arms?
Or perhaps she is exceptionally beautiful?
Among them, Li San Niang naturally sensed that some people merely glanced at her politely, while others looked on with curiosity, but most of the gazes came from men.
Li San Niang wasn't surprised at all. After all, when she first brought up the issue of opium to the Chang'an Medical Alliance, she had already thought that this day would come and she would step into the limelight.
A young woman, barely twenty years old, dressed in red, stood calmly and composedly, her expression neither arrogant nor self-deprecating, facing dozens of pairs of eyes that held a variety of expressions.
At this moment, Li San Niang was truly at peace. She even had time to drift off into her own thoughts. She remembered the day two years ago when she had just become a doctor and went with Manager Gao and the others to participate in the alliance's request for free medical services.
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That day, she was also dressed in red, standing out among hundreds of male doctors.
On that day, a light breeze was blowing just like this, and on that day, the men's gazes were just as naked as they are today.
Li San Niang bowed slightly to Yao Shucheng on the platform and then walked up to the platform.
Perhaps it was because of her red dress, or perhaps it was because of Li San Niang's confident stride forward without any hesitation, or perhaps it was because the occasion was inappropriate and she was just making trouble, but in any case, the men standing on the road made way for her as she walked towards the high platform.
Without stopping, Li San Niang walked up to the platform with her head held high and a bright, cheerful demeanor typical of a woman, and stood on it step by step.
Originally, they were looking up at the people listening to them from below the stage, but now they were standing on a high platform, looking down at the people speaking below.
Before Li San Niang could even savor the feeling of looking down at the crowd below, she quickly snapped back to reality, first bowing to the crowd before speaking loudly to them.
"I am Li Mingfang from the Third Department of the Chang'an Medical Alliance. Greetings, everyone."
As Wang Shuzheng and Yao Shucheng said, I was the one who took the lead in reporting this matter to the Chang'an Medical Alliance, and then it was submitted to the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Now that you all know the reason for this, I will explain the medicinal properties of opium.
Li San Niang didn't give the audience any time to consider whether it was right or wrong for her, as a female doctor, to give a lecture; she just started lecturing.
"...After only three or five times, this person became addicted to it, and felt extremely uncomfortable if he didn't take it for a day."
After three to five months, the person will be completely ruined, with no part of their body or internal organs intact, and they will be queuing up to go to the King of Hell.
In the early stages, a decoction can be used to suppress the medicinal properties…
The soup recipe that Li San Niang mentioned at this moment was something she had discussed with Dr. Liang and Dr. Gao with her father and second brother. They also consulted Mr. Bu Ke, who had already tried it on a person who was addicted to drugs, and it had some effect.
However, it's impossible to say that you can get someone to quit drugs in one step; at best, it's a method to alleviate or suppress the symptoms.
If we follow Li Sanniang's suggestion, supplemented with acupuncture, and then seal it tightly, we can try letting people out to take a look after a year or two.
However, after listening to what Li San Niang said, Mr. Ke pondered for a moment, shook his head, and looked up at Li San Niang with a sigh, saying, "I understand that you, San Niang, are a benevolent doctor."
Have you ever considered that if the treatment is done as you suggested, who will pay for the care, medicine, doctors, lodging, and food?
It would be better to do as I suggested before and send them all to work in the mines. Those who can survive a year can be released and become good people.
If you can't survive, then you die.
Li San Niang immediately carried the prescription out on her back. Then she took out her gold needle pouch from her waist, picked up a gold needle and showed it to the crowd below: "If there are any doctors who know the art of gold needles, you can come and find me later. I have a set of applicable gold needle techniques to tell you."
After explaining the mechanism of poisoning and the method of detoxification, Li San Niang bowed and stepped down from the stage.
In the courtyard, hundreds of doctors gathered in small groups, sometimes a dozen or so at a time. At first, they whispered among themselves, but once they saw that Wang Shuzheng and Yao Shucheng on the platform did not reprimand them, the discussion grew louder and louder.
"I understand what Dr. Li said, but is the situation she described really true?"
"Although I have never seen a patient poisoned like this, we have always seen one or two gamblers. When a gambler is in the throes of drug addiction, he is capable of murder."
As the two doctors were exchanging ideas, another doctor with a short beard chimed in, "Are you two from Yanshoufang?"
The three men bowed to each other, and the short-bearded doctor slowly said, "I am Huang Mingquan, the resident physician of Jishetang in Xinghuafang."
To be honest, before the Lunar New Year, I took my family to the West Market. I actually saw a man in front of a shop exhibiting symptoms exactly as Dr. Li on stage described. He initially got angry and argued with someone; I vaguely heard him asking for money or something. Then, the man immediately started shivering, and soon after, he curled up on the ground, begging to be allowed to inhale some of the substance. He looked so pitiful, crying and wailing.
"Oh, Dr. Huang, please tell us in detail."
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