When there was a pox epidemic in the 1950s and 1960s, the school boiled a large pot of soup with sesame or eucalyptus leaves, and the students drank it themselves, with good results.
In our hometown, my mother respects an old Chinese doctor very much. When he was chatting with my mother before his death, he said that whenever there was an epidemic and whenever there was a plague, Chinese medicine had epidemic prevention methods.
I remember that in the late 1990s, the flu was so severe in winter and spring that almost every family in the area was not spared.
At the beginning of the epidemic, my mother asked him if his old man had any anti-epidemic methods, and he answered yes.
Without any delay, he gave me two pairs of Chinese medicine, the size of a fist. He asked his mother to go home and cook two bowls for the whole family at a time, twice a day for three days.
I have to admit that Chinese medicine is one of the most mysterious medicine in the world.
Most rural farmers' families have the flu, and their money is spent very hard. There are six people in my family, and none of them is infected.
Old people are barefoot doctors in the new society. At that time, there were doctors in the provincial capital affiliated hospital and the infectious disease epidemic prevention hospital who knew and admitted that I heard them say that there was a Xia traditional Chinese medicine doctor with great medical skills.
I think Chinese medicine is science, not metaphysics. Chinese medicine treats physical diseases and heart diseases.