Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower-Chapter 77 - 76 Prescription

Chapter 77: Chapter 76: Prescription

Chapter 77 -76: Prescription

Malaria was a more terrifying presence to those fleeing famine than bandits.

After all, one might still find a slim chance of survival against bandits, but malaria didn’t care who you were, and once contracted, it was exceedingly difficult to eradicate due to its recurrent nature.

Therefore, people couldn’t help but turn pale at the thought.

Xiao Chan also frowned at the news and immediately went back to report.

After Xiao Chan left, the refugees here continued to fervently discuss the sudden outbreak of malaria, but such a question was beyond the understanding of these commoners.

Even the old doctor couldn’t pinpoint the cause, only able to say dryly, “Since ancient times, malaria has been most likely to occur from the beginning of spring through summer. Its proliferation is mostly related to diet and environment, but pinpointing the exact source of the disease is probably not easy.”

In ancient times, people would drink herbal medicines that ‘cool the blood’ at the start of spring or in summer as a preventive measure against malaria, but the cause of its outbreak was elusive.

After all, there were no precise laboratory instruments or equipment here, and despite their desire for knowledge, they were unable to find an answer.

But what the old doctor didn’t know, Bai Junjun understood clearly.

Just last night, she was muttering about how the annoying mosquitoes would sooner or later cause a disaster, and now the first wave had indeed arisen.

Eighty percent of this outbreak of malaria was caused by mosquitoes, and she feared that by midsummer, it would become even more severe.

After all, that was when mosquitoes were most rampant.

However, since people didn’t know that mosquitoes were the culprits, they wouldn’t take targeted preventative measures, and this kind of malaria would likely recur endlessly.

To make matters worse, the spread of this type of malaria was too fast; if one person in the crowd was infected, practically everyone who had come into contact with them couldn’t escape it.

Bai Junjun’s special ability could certainly save them, as long as she connected with the patient and transferred the energy of plants and trees into them. Helping them kill the virus inside their bodies wouldn’t be a problem.

However, such a method of healing was overly simple for her at the stage of Great Perfection, where a single healing technique could solve the problem.

But, having exhausted all her special ability in healing Old Uncle Qiu’s family earlier, she now wasn’t at all capable of casting a healing technique, let alone saving a large number of people.

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“Doctor Wang, we don’t want to die, can you save us?”

“I still have to look after my elderly mother, I can’t die.”

“Child, be strong, it’ll be alright once you pull through.”

“Big brother, why did it have to be you who fell ill?”

“Doctor Wang, please help us quickly!”

All these patients or their relatives were in utter despair.

It was then that Bai Junjun realized that most of those following the Seven-Person Team still possessed “humanity.”

Watching their fervent emotions and the vivid human nature they displayed, she was slightly moved.

“Doctor, is there any way to save them?”

Doctor Wang was staring blankly at these people when suddenly a little girl in the crowd calmly inquired.

He opened his mouth hesitantly, wanting to say that in times like these, even if there were methods, there were no means to save people.

But what came to his lips was, “If we could find Artemisia, arsenic, and bupleurum and brew them in water to drink, we could generally save them.”

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, as they were not familiar with herbs, except for recognizing Artemisia; they were clueless about the rest, wondering how to find them?

Moreover, in these times, even wild grasses had been picked clean, to say nothing of life-saving herbs.

Finding these items here was as difficult as reaching for the sky.

“Artemisia and mugwort look similar, and their living habits are quite alike, so we should be able to find them along the riverbanks. As for bupleurum, it’s rather short but blooms yellow flowers; it should still be findable in this area,” Doctor Wang rambled on.