Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

Chapter 241 Traditional Chinese Medicine Intervention

He Shanshan was infected and is now isolated at home. Everyone else also lost their appetite and quickly finished their dinner after just filling their stomachs.

Yu Jing was so worried that she barely ate any food.

In the following days, He Shanshan was taken care of by Xu Zhiyi, who made sure she ate and took her medicine on time. However, her condition kept fluctuating, and eventually she couldn't eat anything anymore.

Everyone was extremely anxious.

Seeing that the various Western and Chinese medicines collected in the space had no effect, Zhou Yang was so anxious that he almost got blisters in his mouth, and even started flipping through Chinese medicine books himself.

Upon closer inspection, I actually discovered something interesting.

He couldn't even remember where he got the old book from, the cover of which was so worn it was almost falling off, but Zhou Yang somehow found a few potentially useful prescriptions in it.

Unfortunately, Zhou Yang didn't understand traditional Chinese medicine very well, nor was he sure about the feasibility of these prescriptions.

After thinking about it, he took his medical books and found other people, explaining the possibility of treating the condition with traditional Chinese medicine.

"Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are not working at the moment. Should we try traditional Chinese medicine?"

"It's worth a try, but we should still consult a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to see if it's feasible."

"That's what I meant too. Let's see if there's anyone in the base who knows traditional Chinese medicine, and then give it a try."

"Okay, we'll go to the base information center to look for it in a bit."

After discussing it, Zhou Yang and the other two hurriedly left and headed straight for the base's current information management office.

After searching for a long time, I finally found four people related to traditional Chinese medicine: four TCM doctors, two men and two women.

Based on the information above, the three of them located these individuals.

Unfortunately, one of the female TCM doctors also contracted the flu and was bedridden, so they had to find the other three first.

"Don't be nervous. We found you here mainly so you could see these ancient prescriptions and see if they can be used to treat this flu. We plan to involve traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment."

The oldest man took the medical book, glanced at it, and sighed, saying, "You can try these three prescriptions, but each prescription has ingredients that need to be adjusted according to the symptoms of this flu patient. But it's no use having us here; we don't have any of the ingredients on hand!"

Another traditional Chinese medicine practitioner sighed after hearing this.

They did consider practicing medicine and saving lives, but without Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is useless if you can only treat patients. They can only watch helplessly as the infected patients around them are left anxious.

Zhou Yang thought for a moment and said, "The military should have some spare medicines, and we have some here too. You should tell us all the medicines you need first, and we'll figure out what to do with the rest."

After saying that, he handed over paper and a pen.

Upon hearing this, the traditional Chinese medicine doctor nodded immediately: "Alright then."

He then wrote down a long list of material names on the paper Zhou Yang gave him.

"By the way, the demand for these medicinal herbs should be huge, the more the better."

Zhou Yang and the other two nodded, took the paper, and went with the three of them to the military headquarters to find medicinal herbs. Finally, by combining the medicinal herbs stored in their own space, they had basically found all the herbs on the paper.

As for the missing items, substitute medicinal materials can generally be found.

The prescription called for spring water, but Zhou Yang directly gave them several buckets of mineral water mixed with spring water.

Only licorice... well, at the time, Zhou Yang and the military both thought it was useless, so they didn't collect it.

However, it's not a big problem. At most, the brewed Chinese medicine will be a little bitter and a little unpleasant to drink.

But compared to my life, this is nothing.

With the medicinal herbs in hand, the three traditional Chinese medicine practitioners immediately felt they had a purpose. Without Zhou Yang and the others urging them, they spontaneously began to study the prescriptions and even personally prepared the medicine.

The three of them worked all day and brewed several doses of medicine from the three adjusted prescriptions.

The group then went directly to the clinic and suggested the intervention of traditional Chinese medicine to the medical staff there.

The clinic was also clueless about the flu, watching patients die one by one every day without being able to do anything about it.

So when they heard that traditional Chinese medicine might have a cure, they immediately agreed and sent out notices to all patients to volunteer for the experiment.

Almost all patients were eager to participate as soon as they heard about the new treatment plan.

But Zhou Yang and his group obviously don't need that many.

Therefore, in the end, three traditional Chinese medicine practitioners took the lead and selected more than a dozen patients from all those who were willing to undergo pathological experiments. They were divided into three groups for the experiment, with one person in charge of each group.

On the first day, each of the three groups was prescribed one dose of medicine.

Since it was only the first day and the dosage was not high, the three groups were in similar condition, so it was difficult to tell much from the results.

The next day, the three traditional Chinese medicine doctors discussed the matter and decided to increase the dosage directly, giving each of the three groups one dose of medicine in the morning, noon, and evening.

By evening, the changes in the first two groups were not significant, but the patients in the third prescription group showed obvious improvement.

Although the fever hadn't subsided, their physical condition had clearly stabilized, and several critically ill patients had managed to survive.

This gave everyone hope.

On the third day, the three groups were given three doses of medicine in the morning, noon, and evening.

The patients in the first two groups also began to show significant improvement, but the effect in the third group was obviously more obvious.

Not only have three critically ill patients recovered and their conditions improved, but everyone's high fever has also decreased.

On the fourth day, with the same dosage, the first two groups were still slowly recovering, while the two patients in the third group with the mildest symptoms had their fevers subside immediately. Apart from still having some common cold symptoms, they were fine.

The other patients also recovered from their high fever to a low fever and were mostly well.

At this point in the experiment, the results were quite clear: the third group's prescription was far superior to the first two groups.

After confirming that the third prescription was the most effective, everyone abandoned the first two prescriptions and switched to the third one.

After two more days of treatment, the first batch of patients with mild symptoms were finally discharged from the hospital.

The prescriptions were prepared by three traditional Chinese medicine doctors and several soldiers and distributed to all flu patients in the base.

However, Zhou Yang and his group did not take the herbs; instead, they chose to take the herbs home and brew them themselves.

Zhou Yang even took the initiative to take on the task of boiling the medicine, using the spring water from the space directly.

Anyway, Chinese medicine is so bitter, and it doesn't taste like spring water.

Cooking a single serving was too much trouble, so Zhou Yang even cooked a serving for Gu Tianqi as well.

With the blessing of the spring water, the medicinal effects are simply miraculous.

He Shanshan and Gu Tianqi recovered completely in just a few days, so they didn't need to brew the medicine for the next few days.

However, considering that there are still many flu patients in the base, Zhou Yang let them drink it for another day to consolidate their recovery.

As for the rest of the family, Zhou Yang also asked several traditional Chinese medicine practitioners for a prescription to prevent the flu, and then boiled it with spring water and distributed it to everyone to drink.

Hmm, it tastes pretty bad...

Zhou Yang had to pinch his nose to force it down.

But I must say, the results were actually quite good.