Crossing the Unknown Country

Chapter 336 Su He wants to get close to the Dongjie people by treating them

People on both sides have things they want. They didn’t have the opportunity before, but now that the things are right in front of them, there is no reason not to take action.

Su He specifically followed those who knew the Dongjie language and listened to their business talks, and he could probably understand a few words. After all, his university studies were not in vain, and his learning ability was still good.

When he was almost done, he found an honest young man named Chang Yuan who could speak Dongjie dialect, gave him some money and asked him to help translate and negotiate business. Of course, Chang Yuan was willing, as he could make money just by talking.

The two of them went to find an old herdsman with a vicissitudes of life that Su He had identified in advance. There was a lot of wool in the carriage behind him. Su He had already seen that the wool was relatively clean. The old woman next to him with deformed hands and feet was obviously his wife.

Su He smiled and said to Chang Yuan: "Tell them that I can help with the old lady's illness, and then we can talk about business."

The young man Chang Yuan told the old man what Su He said. His cloudy eyes suddenly widened, and he rubbed his hands excitedly, calling the old woman to come over quickly, saying to her: "Old woman, come over quickly, there is a doctor here who can treat you."

Everyone who came with them looked over here. It was a good thing to have a doctor. There were few doctors here, so everyone treated their illnesses with their own folk remedies. Some minor illnesses could be cured, and some would heal on their own over time. For serious illnesses, they could only endure it. There was no other way, they couldn't afford to hire a doctor, and they couldn't find one.

This is also the reason why there are so few people in their tribe. Many of them died because of diseases that could not be cured. Life depends on fate. If you can survive, you are alive. If you can't survive, you are gone.

There is a doctor here to treat patients, how can everyone not be excited? Everyone is waiting to see how these two young people treat patients? If possible, see if they can ask them to treat their family members. But they are a little young, I don’t know how good their medical skills are?

Su He sat directly on a wooden stool they had brought over, and asked the old woman to stretch out her hand so that she could feel her pulse carefully. The old woman was very weak, probably with typical rheumatoid arthritis, and the bones of her hands and feet were somewhat deformed.

Su He took out a silver needle from the small bag he carried with him and gave her a few injections. Then he asked them to find a few cow horns and the people who were watching hurried back to get them.

Cow horns were something they used frequently, and after a short while, they had brought over seven or eight of them. They placed them all on the grass next to Su He, waiting to see how she would use them.

Su He took out a tinder, lit a small wooden stick, and asked Chang Yuan to help roast the horns. Then when she needed them, she roasted them again.

After Su He took out the needle, he replaced it with a thicker silver needle, first found the red and black meridians in the painful area of ​​his wrist, and after a puncture to draw blood, he reached out to take the ox horn handed over by Chang Yuan. He heated it with fire and quickly sucked it directly, and the ox horn was firmly sucked on the skin.

Watching the bulging area slowly collapse and lose its color, Su He then followed this method and pulled out the horns at the painful areas.

In fact, it means cupping. Since Su He is not here, cow horns are used instead. She has read about this in medical books. In fact, cow horns are better, but ordinary people cannot find them.

When the time was almost up, Su He took off the cow horns one by one in order. Seeing that the horns were full of black and red blood, Su He asked the herdsmen for some wine and wiped the horns dry with the cotton balls he carried with him.

Then he did it again, and this time when he took the horn off, the inside was different. There were some white sticky strips, but there were not many in the horn, so Su He pulled them out again.

After taking off all the horns, Su He went for a short walk on the grassland. She picked some herbs such as mountain fragrant grass and spatholobi, and brought them back to the old man, asking him to boil them and drink them first. Tomorrow she would go back to the pharmacy to get the medicine prepared and give it to them.

He also told the old woman some precautions, such as keeping warm, getting more sun, and massaging the acupuncture points. Chang Yuan translated every word to them, and the old man and his wife listened to them with trust in their eyes.