Chapter 238 Natural bezoar and artificial bezoar (more updates with monthly ticket)
Bezoars are stones in the body of cattle.
"Bile jaundice" produced in the gallbladder has the best medicinal properties.
Followed by "tube yellow" produced in the bile duct and "liver yellow" produced in the liver duct.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bezoar has a fragrant smell and is slightly bitter when chewed, but then becomes sweet again.
It is generally used to relieve wind and spasm, clear away heat and detoxify, resolve phlegm and resuscitate one's ideas.
It can be used to treat high fever, coma, madness, infantile convulsions, convulsions, sore throat, aphtha and carbuncle, uremia and other illnesses.
Speaking of this bezoar, its origin is somewhat legendary.
It is said that more than 2,500 years ago, Bian Que came to the Bohai area to practice medicine and develop medicines.
One day, he was taking out the concocted Qingzhen stone from the medicine jar and preparing to grind it into powder to treat a patient named Yang Wen who had suffered a stroke and hemiplegia. Suddenly he heard a noise coming from outside the door.
Bian Que went out and took a look. It turned out to be an old scalper raised by Yang Wen's family for more than ten years. For some reason, it had become thinner in recent days and could no longer farm. Therefore, Yang Bao, Yang Wen's son, invited someone to slaughter the cow. .
Unexpectedly, when decomposing the cow, Yang Bao found a stone in the cow's gallbladder.
Everyone watching the slaughter of the cow was curious, and Bian Que was also very interested, so he asked Yang Bao to keep the stone for further study. Yang Bao smiled and asked:
"Could it be that Sir wants to use this stone to make medicine?"
"The disease of my cattle originated from this stone. This is the root of the disease. How can it be used to cure diseases?"
After hearing this, Bian Que couldn't answer for a while, but he still put the stone and Qingmao stone together casually.
Later later, Yang Wen's illness broke out again. Bian Que rushed to Yang Wen's side and saw that Yang Wen's eyes were white, phlegm was coming from his throat, his limbs were cold and he was short of breath. He was very critical, so he gave Yang Wen an injection and asked Yang Wen to give him first aid. Bao "Hurry up and get the green stone from my bag."
Yang Bao brought the green stone, but Bian Que didn't even notice. He just crushed it into powder and gave Yang Wen a fifth of it to drink. After a while, Yang Wen actually stopped twitching, his breathing was stable, and he even regained consciousness. A lot.
Only then did Bian Que realize that what he had just fed was not Qingzhen stones, but stones from the cow's gallbladder.
This accidental mistake brought Bian Que deep thought.
The next day, he directly replaced the Qingzhen stone in Yangwen's medicine with the remaining cow stones. On the third day, Yangwen miraculously improved. Not only did he stop convulsing, even his paralyzed body could heal. Moved.
The story of Bian Que mistaking ox gallstones for gallstones and having miraculous results in treating acute stroke was later included in the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
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"I'm afraid it's worth a lot of money, right?" Fang Yan has never seen this kind of fresh bezoar just extracted from the body of a cow.
He had seen the partially used dried bezoar in Tongrentang.
The price is 40 yuan per gram, which is exactly twice that of gold.
Only the musk I used yesterday could compare its price with him.
Dean Ouyang looked like he had found something cheap and said:
"After discussing with their production team, we settled on ten yuan per gram."
"How about it? The price is not bad!"
When Fang Yan heard the price, his eyelids twitched, he returned the bezoar and gave Dean Ouyang a thumbs up:
"You are really a good bargainer..."
Dean Ouyang held the bezoar bottle and said with a smile:
"That's not true. We haven't let our farmer brothers suffer. Every few days, we organize a village-wide physical examination and health promotion for them. We also let their village doctors come to the hospital to study and provide some medicines for free."
Hearing the dialect here, he was stunned. After all, people in the village were not fools. He nodded:
"Oh, that's... not bad."
Dean Ouyang showed a helpless expression and said:
"There's no way, the artificial ones are useless now, I still have to use this thing."
"Every traditional Chinese medicine hospital across the country is in demand, and even Western medicine hospitals have begun to accept them. Previously, the superiors said they would wait for allocation, but when our inventory was all used up, no allocation was received. We had no choice but to go out and inquire about the information. Who If there is bezoar, we will take the money to collect it.”
"If we don't accept them, other hospitals will accept them."
Fang Yan nodded after hearing this. He was right. Natural bezoar has been in short supply since ancient times.
Five years ago, in 1972, artificial bezoar was synthesized.
The Ministry of Health has approved artificial bezoar as a partial substitute for the raw material bezoar. But then it was discovered that the effect of artificial bezoar is far less than that of natural bezoar. The artificial bezoar with only 0.7% bilirubin has little effect in treatment.
In the end, I had no choice but to use natural bezoar.
Fang Yan also knows that the situation will be similar in the following decades.
In the 1980s, they tried to implant foreign bodies and bacteria into the gallbladder of live cattle to cultivate bezoar, and then removed it through a second operation. However, this growth cycle lasted three to five years, and the quality could not be guaranteed, which was economical. The effectiveness was not good, and the method was subsequently abandoned.
In the 1990s, Academician Qiu Fang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor Cai Hongjiao of Tongji University invented the method of cultivating bezoar in vitro, and finally cultivated artificial bezoar with more than 18% bilirubin.
However, compared with natural bezoar, the effect of artificial bezoar is still far behind.
It has just reached the stage where it can be used.
So until Dialect traveled through time, their traditional Chinese medicine hospital also had a position, which was dedicated to purchasing these rare medicinal materials.
"Fangyan, the things are bought!"
At this time, the Queen had already bought the invitations and came back.
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After hearing this, Dean Ouyang in the car immediately greeted:
"Hello, Comrade Xiao Zhu!"
The last time they met at the Ministry of Health conference, Zhu Lin still had a little impression of the old man. She said:
"You are...from Dongzhimen Hospital..."
Having said that, I can't remember it anymore.
"Dean Ouyang." Fang Yan reminded in a low voice.
Zhu Lin suddenly realized it and said hurriedly:
"Oh, yes, hello, Dean Ouyang!"
He said and went up to shake hands.
Then asked:
"You come here to buy things too?"
Dean Ouyang shook his head with a smile:
"No, I just came back from outside the city. I saw Fangyan here, so I came over to have a chat."
As he spoke, he looked at the red invitation in Zhu Lin's hand and asked:
"Did you buy the invitation?"
Zhu Lin nodded:
"Well, yes, we got the marriage certificate the day before yesterday. Isn't this a wedding at the beginning of the month? I'm just going to write invitations."
After hearing that the dialect was spoken, Dean Ouyang hurriedly handed over his hand:
"Hey, congratulations to you two on your marriage!"
After that, he pointed to the dialect and said:
"Dialect, this is what's wrong with you. You didn't ask me to write a letter of introduction?"
Fang Yan said with a smile:
"Aren't you busy? I won't bother you."
Dean Ouyang waved his hand:
"Stop talking, I must be invited to the wedding when the time comes."
Fang Yan nodded repeatedly:
"Then we must not forget you!"
Then Dean Ouyang said:
"By the way, the hospital provides subsidies for doctors who get married. When are you free in the afternoon, go fill out the form and get the things."
PS: The monthly ticket has increased by more than 100, so I still owe everyone 45,000 after finishing this chapter.
There will be more in the afternoon.
(End of chapter)