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Text Chapter 242 The Nemesis of Malaria

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    "Your Highness, are you sure you want to use Artemisia annua instead of Artemisia annua?" Cui Wei asked again, still unsure.  Just now Li Min asked him to prepare some medicinal materials, but what he didn't expect was that what Li Min was looking for turned out to be Artemisia odorifera.

    The so-called mugwort is actually a type of mugwort, and it is of the same species as the mugwort used to smoke mosquitoes for a hundred days.  In fact, there are many types of wormwood that can be used as medicine, such as mugwort and artemisia annua, which are commonly used for medicinal purposes. However, wormwood is different because it has a strong odor, so few people use it.  Used as medicine.

    "Yes, to be precise, it is a kind of yellow-green wormwood with small yellow flowers." And it is best to be fresh. The stronger the smell, the better," Li Min reminded again. There are actually several types of stinky wormwood, among which  Only Artemisia annua has the effect of treating malaria.

    When talking about malaria, Li Min mainly heard it from a friend in his previous life. This friend went to Africa for work and talked about how he almost died from malaria. He also gave Li Min a general introduction to malaria.  Li Min had relevant knowledge, so Li Min was very impressed. He knew that artemisinin in Artemisia annua was the nemesis of malaria, so he was so sure.

    "This" Cui Wei looked at Li Min's confident look. He was obviously very confident. He couldn't say anything for a while. He carefully recalled the wormwood described by Li Min in his mind, and immediately thought of a plant.  He nodded immediately and said: "Okay, since His Highness insists, I will go and do it now. According to the form of Artemisia that His Highness said, it should be the Artemisia odorifera called wine cake grass by southerners. It also grows in many places in Liuqiu.  , I will send someone to collect it right now.¡±

    Li Min was overjoyed when he heard that Cui Wei already knew what kind of wormwood it was. He immediately asked Cui Wei to do it quickly. After all, saving people is like putting out fires. If he hadn't wanted to establish his authority before, he wouldn't have delayed until now to remember it.  .

    Cui Wei is indeed a person who can be the governor, and his work efficiency is indeed not comparable to ordinary people. He has not left for two hours, but he has already sent people to deliver the first batch of Artemisia annua, and they are all freshly cut.  In fact, because of its peculiar smell and slight poison, no one eats this kind of Artemisia annua. However, some ethnic minorities in the south use it to make wine, and this is where the name of Artemisia annua comes from.

    Artemisia annua has a strong vitality, so it is almost everywhere in the mountains and roadsides. Most people just regard it as a weed. No one has ever thought that this thing is actually a grass jelly that can treat malaria.

    "Your Highness, you don't want to use wormwood to make medicine for the people on the ship to drink, do you?" Cui Mengxue asked speechlessly as she looked at the wormwood that had piled up like a hill in front of her.  After resting for a while, she immediately ran over to urge Li Min to save people. Unexpectedly, what she saw was such a pile of smelly wormwood.

    Cui Mengxue has studied medicine for so many years, and naturally knows that some predecessors have proposed using Artemisia annua to treat malaria, but it was Artemisia annua, not Artemisia annua.  Moreover, she also asked Sun Simiao for advice, but he told her that using Artemisia annua as medicine had no effect on malaria at all.  As for using wormwood as medicine, Cui Mengxue feels that it is even more nonsense, because she has never heard that wormwood can also be used as medicine?

    "Of course this thing can't be used to make medicine," Li Min said with a mysterious smile.  After Cui Mengxue heard this, she immediately felt relieved, thinking that her memory was indeed correct, and Artemisia odorifera could not be used as medicine.

    Before Cui Mengxue could be happy for a long time, she heard Li Min continue to say very confidently: "But this smelly wormwood is used to extract juice for patients to drink. As long as you drink this, you can definitely cure malaria."  "

    "Juicing?" Cui Mengxue was even more surprised after hearing this. She did not expect that some herbs cannot be boiled with strong fire, otherwise they will lose their efficacy. Is this the same for Artemisia odorifera?  In fact, Cui Mengxue guessed well that the artemisinin in wormwood is the main ingredient in the treatment of malaria. However, if it is heated, the artemisinin will be destroyed and naturally it will not have any effect.

    Seeing Cui Mengxue's surprised look, Li Min felt even more proud. He ordered people to squeeze all the wormwood sent by Cui Wei into juice, then filled it in several large barrels and sent it to the fleet outside the port in a small boat.  , let the sick people drink as much as they can. After all, the only effective ingredient in it is artemisinin. Li Min doesn¡¯t know the content of artemisinin in Artemisia annua, so it¡¯s better to let them drink more to be safe.

    However, in Li Min¡¯s view, it is not enough to just let the people on the ship drink wormwood juice. After all, the weather in Keelung Port is hot and there are many mosquitoes. Two days is enough for them to spread the malaria parasite.  Therefore, Li Min did not ask Cui Wei to stop collecting Artemisia annua. Instead, he sent more people to assist him to speed up the collection of Artemisia annua.

    Early the next morning, Li Min asked Lu Qing to post notices throughout the city, warning the people in the city to go to various city gates to collect herbal medicines as soon as possible. A special medicine collection office was even set up at the port.  There was a suspected patient on the ship, so he immediately poured a few bowls of it without saying a word.  Anyway, artemisinin not only kills malaria parasites, but alsoIt can also kill other parasitic diseases, and it also has cooling and antipyretic effects, so it is also good to drink as herbal tea. Of course, the premise is that you have to adapt to the strange taste.

    Artemisinin is indeed the nemesis of malaria. After the people on the waiting fleet drank the juice, their condition improved the next day. As a result, this not only greatly increased Li Min's confidence, but also made them more confident.  Those patients saw a glimmer of hope of survival in their despair, so they immediately became active. Every time a vat containing wormwood juice was delivered to the ship, there would be a scramble, and everyone wanted to drink more.  Let yourself heal faster.

    After three days, the conditions of the malaria patients on the ship improved greatly. Some of them even recovered faster and were almost like ordinary people. However, for safety, they still had to stay on the ship.  Of course, not everyone can be cured. For example, there were several critically ill crew members on the ship. Even after drinking wormwood juice, their condition did not improve at all, and they died in pain in the end.

    Li Min estimated that the reason for this is that the concentration of artemisinin is too low. After all, the primitive method of extracting juice from Artemisia annua makes the content of artemisinin extremely low, and at best it can only have an effect on patients in the early and middle stages.  , as for late-stage malaria, it is estimated that it will not have much effect.

    It is also worth mentioning that Li Min did not deliberately keep the fact that Artemisia odorifera can treat malaria a secret. After all, such a big move as purchasing Artemisia odorifera could hardly escape the eyes of interested people.  In addition, Li Min did not make money with this thing, and it was also related to the lives of countless people, so Li Min simply announced the functions of Artemisia odorifera and sent people to notify several major ports closer to Liuqiu.  And asked local officials to report it to the court. After all, malaria is a common plague. If you can prepare earlier, you may be able to save many lives.

    Of course, Li Min is not that pedantic. The weather in the south is hot, and malaria will definitely not be eradicated. Therefore, after the efficacy of Artemisia odorifera is announced, its value will definitely double. The wild ones alone will definitely not be able to meet the requirements.  , so he was already discussing artificial planting with Yan Bei, Cui Yu, Wang Kuang and others. However, this matter was not that easy. At least he had to understand the habits of Artemisia odorifera in advance, so they discussed it.  Finally, each person contributes a part of the funds, and then organizes manpower to conduct trial planting, and the technology obtained is shared by everyone.

    With the malaria issue settled, Li Min finally had to deal with the mysterious force in Tainan.  Of course, with his status, he would not take risks by going to the other party. Lu Qing had already sent someone to notify the other party and asked them to come to Ji Man. Calculating the days, there would be news in the next two days.  But Li Min didn't wait for the other party all the time. He had one more thing to do before meeting the leader of the mysterious force.

    Li Min was accompanied by Xi Junmai and a dozen other guards. A confidant from the Lu Qing faction led the way. After passing through several heavily guarded checkpoints, he entered a tall cement building. There were patrols from time to time.  The soldiers passed by and when they saw Li Min and the others, they immediately saluted.

    The place where Li Minlai was was the Niuchou Port where he landed. As I had already explained before, all the warships were parked in Niuchou Port, and the land around the port was also a major military area. It was very heavily defended. However,  Taking advantage of this, there is another building in Niuchou Port, which is the prison in Keelung City. This is why Li Min came to Niuchou Port today.

    The warden of the prison, whose surname is Huang, is a middle-aged man in his forties. He had already received the news that Li Min was coming, so he had been waiting in front of the gate. When he saw Li Min and his group, he immediately came up to them.  , bowed and saluted and said: "Keelung prison is very quiet, please see the prince."

    "Huang Yucheng, there's no need to be polite, take me to see those three people quickly," Li Min said with a raised hand.  What he wanted to see today was the three assassins who killed Lu Qing. The three were captured at that time. Lu Qing admired the strength and character of these people, so not only did he not kill them, but he also sent doctors to heal their injuries.  However, these three people were not ordinary people. Lu Qing was afraid that they would escape, so he sent them to prison for custody.

    "Your Highness, please follow me." Huang Yuancheng heard Li Min's instructions and did not dare to neglect at all. He immediately opened the prison door and led the way. Li Min also followed him into the dark prison, but because this prison was newly built  Yes, there weren't many prisoners inside, so there wasn't much of a smell.

    Under the leadership of Huang Yuancheng, Li Min quickly arrived at the deepest part of the prison. This is where felons are detained. The iron bars on the cells are obviously thicker than those outside, and there are also special guards guarding them. It can be said that they are heavily guarded.  .

    When he arrived at the prison cell for serious offenders, Li Min didn't need Huang Yucheng's introduction. He immediately found the three killers he was looking for, because there were only three of them prisoners here, and each of them had a separate small room. They were all cleaned very clean.  They are treated well here.  To be continued
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