In fact, Zhu Yunwen did not know any medical skills.
However, as a time traveler, he possesses a great deal of basic medical knowledge.
Moreover, this basic medical knowledge made him an exceptionally skilled physician in an era when medical care was very underdeveloped.
For example, what are some simple treatments and medications for common colds and fevers?
Zhu Yunwen was quite familiar with these things.
In ancient times, fever was a difficult problem for ordinary people to solve. Some people would even suffer brain damage from a fever, leaving serious sequelae or even losing their lives.
This problem was exacerbated, especially in ancient times, due to some incorrect treatments.
For example, fever can be cooled down physically, but people in ancient times would instead try to sweat it out in bed.
If it's not serious, then covering up and sweating it out might help.
However, if the fever is too severe and you try to sweat it out, the body temperature will rise even higher, exceeding 441 degrees Celsius, which can directly lead to life-threatening situations.
This is why many people in ancient times would cover themselves with blankets after getting a fever, which ultimately led to their deaths.
In addition, Zhu Yunwen also knew of some herbs that could treat colds caused by wind-cold or wind-heat.
Of course, these cannot reflect the medical skills that Zhu Yunwen wanted to demonstrate.
If he wanted to win the respect of those doctors and physicians, then he had to treat some of the symptoms that those doctors and physicians considered difficult.
For example, Zhu Yunwen mentioned at the reception that the wound was swollen, inflamed, red, and oozing pus.
These characteristics allow doctors to diagnose it as an incurable disease.
In ancient times, countless people died from infections caused by these wounds.
Especially on the battlefield, many soldiers died from minor, non-fatal knife wounds due to infection, since there were no antibiotics in ancient times.
Antibiotics can truly save lives; without them, bacterial infections can be fatal.
Zhu Yunwen happened to know how to make antibiotics.
These antibiotics are nothing more than penicillin and erythromycin, but with the current level of technology, it is clearly impossible to produce them.
Moreover, the production process is very complex and time-consuming. It requires not only finding the penicillin strain but also cultivating it, and then concentrating the penicillin to obtain the useful penicillin.
This is too difficult, takes too long, and the success rate is not necessarily high.
Therefore, Zhu Yunwen was unable to produce penicillin, but there was something safer than penicillin and also quite effective: allicin.
In fact, in ancient times, some people used garlic to reduce inflammation and swelling.
Simply using garlic to reduce inflammation and swelling has minimal effect and is almost useless.
To ensure that allicin in garlic is fully effective, it must be extracted. Only when allicin is extracted and reaches a certain quantity can it be effective.
Zhu Yunwen then planned to extract allicin from garlic and use it as an antibiotic.
In this way, patients suffering from inflammation and bacterial infections due to knife wounds or other external injuries can receive treatment.
If this is achieved, then during the Ming Dynasty, all doctors and physicians in the world will surely regard themselves as the medical gods of their time.
So after Zhu Yunwen returned to the Eastern Palace, he had some garlic prepared.
Then he brought over the distillation equipment he had previously used to make distilled spirits and distilled water, because allicin needs to be extracted through distillation.
After everything was prepared, Zhu Yunwen had some garlic peeled, discarding any damaged parts and cutting off the buttocks area.
Ensure the garlic cloves are whole, intact, and fresh.
Then crush all the garlic cloves and let them sit for about half an hour.
Then, the crushed garlic was put into a small-mouthed bottle and filled with water.
Then it was placed into the distillation apparatus that Zhu Yunwen had made earlier, and the fire was lit to begin distillation.
As the temperature rises, the minced garlic in the bottle will slowly evaporate into allicin in the water.
Then it turns into steam, which is drawn out through a small tube with a flat top. After being cooled by a cloth dampened with water on the small tube, it turns into a liquid.
The liquid that is distilled out is allicin.
It is separated from garlic by distillation at a certain temperature, turning into steam, which then condenses into water droplets under a condenser.
These water droplets slowly dripped into the bottle at the end of the tube, successfully collecting a small bottle of allicin.
Zhu Yunwen immediately smiled when he saw the allicin; he hadn't expected it to actually work.
Furthermore, these liquids don't have much of a smell. Of course, whether allicin has actually been extracted still needs further verification.
This is why he proposed to demonstrate his medical skills three days later.
Because during these three days, he had to use the extracted allicin to see if it would have the desired effect.
If it doesn't work, then make improvements or think of other methods.
So he asked someone to find someone who had recently been injured and whose wound had become infected and inflamed. Coincidentally, there was a guard in the palace who had recently been injured, but the wound was not big.
So Zhu Yunwen summoned the guard and had the soldier take a certain amount of garlic extract.
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