I practiced medicine in ancient times

Chapter 165 Yes Man

The reception building is located in the northeast corner of Xunwang Mansion. It has octagonal glazed tiles and flying eaves, which is magnificent. This building is not only the landmark of Xunwang Mansion, but also the place where Xunwang receives guests and holds important banquets.

The decoration inside the building is elegant and solemn, and every inch of the space reveals nobility and magnificence. The exquisite murals, intricately carved wooden beams, and dazzling gemstone inlays all highlight the prominent status of Xunwang Mansion.

There are no distinguished guests living there now. Instead, there are six patients on the first floor, waiting to be seen by Xu Qingyi and Bai Yan.

"These two people are suffering from some strange diseases, and there are four other seriously ill patients living inside." When we arrived at the lobby on the first floor, we saw two men in their early thirties sitting on chairs somewhat restrainedly.

When he saw Lai Fu and his group coming, he stood up nervously and looked at Xu Qingyi and Bai Yan with some curiosity.

It seems that he has greeted them.

“Okay, then we two sisters know.

Come here, both of you, and sit over here. Where do you feel uncomfortable? Look at that place?" Xu Qingyi waved at the two men and asked them to sit on the round wooden stool in the middle.

The two men looked at each other, hesitant, but still walked over carefully and sat in the seat designated by Xu Qingyi. One of the men spoke nervously: "Doctor Xu, we both have a strange disease. When we speak, our stomachs make human voices, as if..."

"It's like there's another person living in the belly, another person learning to speak like us." added another man. He looked calmer, but his eyes also revealed an unconcealable worry.

In the past, people in Youzhou who had this disease were all frightened. They thought they had been offended by a ghost or were possessed by a spirit. As a result, they invited sorcerers to perform rituals, but it was of no use.

Later, he went to see a doctor and took some Chinese medicine. It worked at first, but later it stopped working. Only then did they realize that he had a strange disease, which was causing the symptoms.

"Do you have any abdominal pain or something like that?" Xu Qingyi asked with an idea in her mind when she heard it.

"That's not the case. Look, it's here again."

"That's not the case. Look, it's happening again." The man stopped talking. Xu Qingyi and the others heard the words the man had said before, repeating them.

"Do you like to eat raw food and drink raw water?" When Xu Qingyi heard the words the man had said before repeated in his stomach, Xu Qingyi knew what disease they had.

This is because they have a parasite called a yes-bug in their bodies.

The echo worm is a parasite that is very small in size and, like roundworms, lives in the human stomach. However, ordinary anthelmintics cannot kill it completely. The doctor who has treated this type of patient before should have used anthelmintics, but he used the wrong medicine and did not use it for long enough, so the medicine was effective at first but had no effect later.

However, this echoworm is not like the roundworm, which needs to absorb a large amount of nutrients from the human body and cause the body's health to deteriorate. It does not cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc., so people who have just become ill do not think it is a disease.

In ancient times, there were believers in ghosts and spirits, who might have considered this symptom to be possessed by evil spirits or ghosts. In fact, it was just the work of a yes-man.

Echoworms live in the human body and form a peculiar symbiotic relationship with the host. Unlike other parasites, they do not directly harm human health, but repeat what the host says through the sound of their speech.

In ancient times, due to the lack of medical knowledge and the prevalence of superstitious ideas, in such ignorant and backward villages, such patients were parasitized by echo insects and were thought to be possessed by ghosts, and some were directly burned to death.

There are even some people who were frightened to death or became insane.

"This disease is called echolalia. It shouldn't be called a disease. It's because a kind of worm has parasitized your body, which causes you to repeat yourself when you speak.

If this disease happened to someone else, it might not be cured, but for me, it's a piece of cake.

Lai Fu, the housekeeper, please bring the thunder pill here, grind it into powder and take it three coins at a time, three times a day. For those with mild illness, take it for three days in a row. For those with serious illness, take it for seven days in a row and they will recover.

In addition, you must not eat raw food or drink raw water in the future. Food must be cooked before eating, and water must be boiled before drinking, otherwise the echo bugs will continue to parasitize your body. "Xu Qingyi warned the two men in front of him who were parasitized by the echo bugs.

"Doctor Xu, is this disease so simple? It can be cured by grinding thunder balls into powder?" Lai Fu, who was standing aside, heard this and looked at Xu Qingyi with some suspicion. After all, this echoing insect sounded very strange. How could it be cured so easily?

Compared to the many patients who had come to see him before and had not been able to cure this strange disease, when Doctor Xu came, he only asked a few questions and was able to cure the disease with just one medicinal herb, which made Lai Fu a little unbelievable.

"What? You don't believe it?" Xu Qingyi glanced at him and said lightly.

Lai Fu shook his head and said quickly: "No, no, no, how dare I not believe Doctor Xu?

Doctor Xu could even cure the prince's illness and treat dysentery and plague, which was enough to prove Doctor Xu's medical skills.

But this yes-man sounds so weird, I can’t believe it can be cured so easily.”

Xu Qingyi chuckled and said, "Although the sound of the echoing insect sounds strange, it is still a bug after all. As long as we find the right method, we can expel it from the body.

There are many insecticides, but other insecticides are much less effective against echo insects.

Leiwan is a kind of medicinal material that can kill echo insects. Grinding it into powder and taking it can kill the echo insects and expel them from the body.

Besides, if it works, let them take it for a few days and see the effect, then you will know. "

Lai Fu heard this and thought that Doctor Xu was right and that the effect would be seen after taking it for a few days, so he hurried to get the thunder pill.

After a while, Lai Fu came over with the ground thunder ball powder and handed it to Xu Qingyi.

Xu Qingyi took the thunder ball powder and handed it to the two men who were parasitized by the echo bugs, saying, "You take this powder with water, three grams at a time, three times a day. Remember to take it on time."

The two men nodded quickly and after taking the thunder ball powder, they began to take it according to Xu Qingyi's instructions.

"You two will stay here for a few days to see the effect of the treatment.

If you have any questions or situations, please tell Doctor Xu immediately." Lai Fu also reminded the two men.

“If nothing unexpected happens, we should see the results in the afternoon.

Then you, Butler Lai Fu, can come and ask them about their situation.

Also, remember what I said before, you can write it down in a booklet and tell the people of Youzhou, so that even if someone is parasitized by a yes-bug in the future, they can take thunder balls to treat it themselves. "Xu Qingyi told Lai Fu.