Chapter 3684: : Native African wormwood

It was the fifth day that Ye Chen and Dr. He came to this small town in Tanzania.
In these five days, Ye Chen didn't know exactly how many patients he saw. However, Dr. He and the others knew that the number of patients who had been in a domestic hospital in five days was more than that in a month.
Now the Chinese medicinal materials in the medicine cabinet have been used up, and the Chinese medicinal materials sent by the female translator have not been delivered yet.
In this case, even after treatment, no medicinal materials continue to be given to those patients.
It can be said that there seems to be nothing here except people.
If it weren't for buying back the food from that small city nearby, I really don't know how to keep it going.
That morning, when Ye Chen got up, he found that many patients had come to visit.
Like at the beginning, some Africans did come to watch the excitement, and those who were not sick also came to see Ye Chen and the others.
And the patients who are really sick have basically finished watching this week.
So what do you do with the rest of the time?
Ye Chen knew that he definitely couldn't do nothing like that.
He is going to look around the town to see if there are some local Chinese medicinal materials. If there are, then there is no need to worry about the source of medicinal materials in the future.
If you want to rely solely on other people’s support, this is simply impossible.
After Ye Chen and Dr. He explained some things, they brought two black Chinese doctors.
One is called an elephant and the other is called a turkey.
Ye Chen knew them when he came over on the first day.
They have the opportunity to follow the traditional Chinese medicine that came to support African Chinese medicine to get some furs, but when it comes to pulse conditions, neither of them knows.
Now Ye Chen is going to take them around to see if he can find some effective Chinese medicine.
"Elephant, turkey, go out with you to see if there are any medicine."
"Chinese medicinal materials? How can there be Chinese medicinal materials in Africa? Chinese medicinal materials are only available in China."
Said the elephant.
In fact, the so-called Chinese medicinal materials, not really all venues are in China, like rhino horns, Africa has them, of course, rhinos are now protected animals, Ye Chen does not advocate, and will not use rhino horns for patients. treatment.
On the one hand, rhino horns are too precious; on the other hand, these rhinos are hunted for rhino horns and are almost extinct.
Ye Chen knows that it has something to do with Chinese medicine, but it cannot be said that it is the cause of Chinese medicine.
Therefore, if it can be replaced by other plants, other plant medicinal materials will be used instead.
In this regard, before, when Ye Chen treated other patients, he did just that.
"Elephant, this Chinese medicinal material is not required to be produced in China. It is available in Japan, South Korea, and even Southeast Asia."
"Then there is it here in Africa?" the elephant asked in disbelief.
"Let's go and see first."
Because this area is close to Lake Victoria, it rains all the year round, so it is not a desert as most people imagine, but a desert area.
Plants and trees in this area are still very rich.
The elephant and the turkey followed Ye Chen, introducing him to the situation from time to time.
"You know Chinese and some medical skills, why don't you go to a big city to develop?" Ye Chen asked.
The level of these two people is a high-level talent in Tanzania.
It stands to reason that the two can go to a better city for development. Why should they stay in this small town?
"Doctor Ye, why are you here in Africa?"
"I am not sure as well."
Why come here?
It may be a kind of spirit.
However, these two people are Tanzanians, and they have reasons to treat ordinary people in their country.
It didn't take long for the two of them to bring Ye Chen to a nearby hill, and many barefoot black boys and girls, these little children didn't wear clothes at all, they followed by to watch the fun.
"Doctor Ye, look at the many plants here."
Ye Chen looked over and found that there were indeed many trees and plants.
However, he didn't even recognize these trees and plants.
Without knowing it, he is not a biological botanist, so he certainly doesn't understand this.
Ye Chen couldn't test these plants directly like Li Shizhen.
Picking up a leaf and smelling it, the smell is a bit unpleasant.
"Do you know what plant this is?"
"You know the local name." Turkey said.
"Then what use is it, you know?"
Ye Chen asked.
The two shook their heads.
They naturally don't know what's the use.
However, turkeys and elephants know that some local herbalists know which herbs are useful.
These people are also called a kind of wizard.
In the absence of western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, those Africans usually only find these patients.
Suddenly, Ye Chen looked down.
He is very familiar with this plant.
Isn't this the wormwood?
Wormwood, aliases: Xiaomao, Bingtai, Cuicao, Fragrant Wormwood, Artemisia wormwood, Aixiao, Mugwort, Mugwort, Pengjiao, Moxa, Moxibustion, Medical Grass, Yellow Grass, Moxa, etc.
Perennial herb or slightly semi-shrub-like, plant has a strong aroma. The stem is solitary or a few, brown or grayish-yellow, the base is slightly lignified, and the upper part is lush with a few short branches. The leaves are thick and papery, and the upper part is gray-white pubescent. The base usually has no false stipules or very small False stipules; the upper leaves and bracts are pinnately half-cleaved, the inflorescence head is oval, the corolla is tubular or goblet, with glandular points on the outside, the anthers are narrowly linear, the style and the corolla are nearly as long or slightly longer than the corolla.
The achenes are long ovoid or oblong.
Flower and fruit period from September to October. The whole herb is used as medicine, which has the functions of warming menstruation, dehumidification, dispelling cold, hemostasis, anti-inflammatory, anti-asthmatic, relieving cough, anti-allergy, etc. Moxa leaves are dried and mashed to obtain "moxa", which is used to make moxa sticks for moxibustion, and can be used as a raw material for "inkpad". Distributed in Asia and Europe.
Ye Chen lowered his head and picked up one, and sniffed it. It smelled very strong of wormwood.
This is wormwood.
You can see a lot here.
Wormwood is still very commonly used.
"Do you know what medicinal material this is?"
Ye Chen looked at the two turkeys and asked.
The two shook their heads.
"This is wormwood, very commonly used, but I didn't expect it to be used here."
Wormwood?
The turkey and the elephant hurriedly wrote down.
In addition to this, Ye Chen discovered a kind of Gutguinum, but it is still somewhat different from the domestic ones. This Gutnessnum can be used as medicine, but if used inappropriately, it may cause poisoning and even death.
The three Ye Chen and the little black boys and girls followed into the mountain and saw the papaya trees in Africa.
These papaya trees look similar to those in China, but the papaya produced is very small.
In fact, papaya is also a kind of medicinal material.
The locals have eaten these papaya, but they find it unpalatable and never eat it again.