Chapter 531 Aboriginal Homemade Medicine
Although the medical team claimed that they did not rely on microscopes to obtain their research results, they were able to achieve breakthroughs with the help of microscopes.
After all, only under a microscope can it be intuitively observed how the virus is killed.
The method to kill the virus does come from the help of local people.
As mentioned before, the main population of this blocked settlement is the local indigenous tribes and some northern immigrants. The local indigenous tribes account for the vast majority of the population of this settlement.
Because of this, when they were blocking the plague corpse before, it was the pioneer knights stationed in the local area and the ancestral warriors of the indigenous tribes who fought against the plague corpse's massacre of local residents.
Although they did not have much effect, they still bought valuable time for local residents to hide in underground shelters.
Among the local residents hiding underground, there is the shaman of this indigenous tribe, or it can be called a witch doctor. At least this shaman does work part-time as a witch doctor.
Somewhat counterintuitively, the local indigenous tribe shamans are actually more experienced in treating diseases than ordinary doctors.
This is not a technical lead, but the experience and wisdom accumulated by shamans of all generations.
In this era where modern medicine is in the ascendant, and doctors are still treating patients with bloodletting and surgery without anesthesia, and relying on various folk remedies and pills to treat patients, it is really hard to tell the difference between a doctor who graduated from a medical school and an experienced indigenous shaman. Who can cure diseases better?
At least most of the things about shamans have literally gone through the test of life and death, and medical school graduates? Sorry, getting a medical license means that he is qualified to practice medicine. As for how much medical knowledge he really has?
The medical license and medical school diploma that a doctor must have to practice medicine can be bought with bribes.
Of course, if it is just a minor illness such as a headache or a fever, as long as the doctor is not lazy during class, he can still cure it.
It just depends on your luck whether he will give you a Fushou ointment or pour you a cup of original Coke.
In contrast, a witch doctor or shaman who can skillfully use various grass roots and barks may actually be able to come up with some earth-medicine with high effective ingredients, giving you a little indigenous shock and surprise.
At least this time, the shaman of the local indigenous tribe did play a great role in the treatment of the plague.
She obtained guidance through prayers to the spirits of her ancestors, then used her knowledge of herbal medicine to prepare a special potion, and tried to treat the infected through a two-pronged approach of applying it and feeding it. .
Not everyone has been cured. The medicine made from this kind of earthy recipe that seems to have a bit of feudal superstition is often based on experience, and the amount of active ingredients in the medicine cannot be controlled at all. Naturally, the efficacy of the medicine is somewhat dependent on God's expression.
But even if just one person's condition is under control, this is a surprise to the medical team that has been confused.
Not to mention, some of them were actually cured.
So the medical team immediately reached a cooperation with the shaman. The medical team used more professional equipment and instruments to help the shaman make the medicine, and then recorded the efficacy of the medicine through various means such as comparative experiments. and observation to determine the best treatment plan.
In addition, they also did not forget to observe and record through microscopes, and the reaction occurred when the active ingredients obtained after extracting and purifying the medicine were dripped into the virus samples.
The results are naturally gratifying. After extraction and purification, the active ingredients of the drug effectively inhibit and kill the virus, and the effect is quite good. They hurriedly reported the results they had obtained, and Princess Anne, who learned of the situation, notified Perficott. Only then did Perficott come to listen to the results report in person.
Purficott was indeed a little surprised by this result. She did not expect that the plague that she thought was already difficult to cure would be cured by a local indigenous shaman.
This kind of strong contrast is as outrageous as if a muscular man with a height of two meters put on a steam knight armor and then put on a maid uniform to clean the house.
Although it is not impossible to do this, there is a big gap in the look and feel.
But Purficott is a pragmatist, as long as she can solve the problem, she doesn't care whether the shaman's earthwork solves the problem, or the doctor's medical solution solves the problem.
Especially after she summoned the indigenous shaman and asked him for relevant information, the answer she received was that the prescription came from the revelation of the ancestors' spirits.
"Ancestral spirits? It seems that I have overlooked some key things." Purficott suddenly recalled that he had studied the totem poles and ancestor spirits of the indigenous people, and couldn't help but feel that this did not seem to be that impressive. It’s hard to accept.
As a special existence that has existed in this land for hundreds or even thousands of years, the ancestor spirits have accumulated knowledge and insights far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Even if the ancestral spirit only lives in the tribe it shelters and cannot understand many things, even a pig should become a spirit after living for hundreds of years.
Not to mention that the ancestor spirits themselves have certain magic-like abilities. When they encounter problems that they cannot solve on their own, they can also seek help from nature.
There are responses from nature itself, and occasionally from other ancestral spirits.
After all, the ancestor spirits are not imprisoned prisoners. Although they reside in the totem pole, they can also move outside the totem pole.
Under such various conditions, it is indeed not difficult to accept that an ancestral spirit who has lived for hundreds of years can come up with a prescription to cure the plague.
And this also made Purficott suddenly pay attention to the local indigenous people who had been ignored by her.
You must know that this is also a civilization with a complete extraordinary system and its own. It was once a tyrannical existence that could compete with the Victoria Empire.
Even now that they have been defeated by the empire and many of their precious inheritances have been lost, this does not mean that these natives have completely lost their heritage.
The empire only defeated, defeated and drove away these natives, but did not scalp them with a clear price tag.
“Perhaps I should summarize some of the ‘earth recipes’ that the indigenous people have?” Purficott touched his chin. The ‘earth recipes’ here are not limited to medicinal prescriptions.
(End of this chapter)