Text Chapter 314: Plant Medicine
The gossip stopped, and after Zhou Jiexi looked around inside, he followed Xiao Ait and walked out, the hard hat on his head was a bit uncomfortable to wear. He really didn't like the feeling of wearing a helmet. In his previous life, he had worked on a construction site, and he was exposed to dirt, cement, steel, dust, and the hot sun every day.
That feeling was really terrible, he had had enough after experiencing it once, and he simply hadn't understood the feeling of winter yet. Now when he is wearing the hard hat, it reminds him of this memory, which makes him uncomfortable.
"Mr. Zhou, I will let them go as fast as possible. These people are not bad, at least they are willing to work overtime. It's not like my engineering team, who will leave when the time comes. It's really troublesome!" Those who worked overtime couldn't help complaining to those who followed them before.
Zhou Jiexi cast him a glance: "Satisfied with this level, it seems that you don't know the strength of our migrant workers in the Great Heavenly Dynasty. It's nothing to work extra hours, two shifts a day, It can be done in 24 hours. Don't start the project too fast, the price I paid is much cheaper than yours!"
"If it weren't for me not being so dark, I would still need you rabble! Really!" Zhou Jiexi secretly thought that he was exploited by so-called capitalism in his previous life. It's time to try to exploit people in these capitalist countries! "It feels good!"
Zhou Jiexi followed him back to the small greenhouse, and the old ladies inside were all satisfied with it after looking at it. The next step is to go to the storage greenhouse in the city and bring back the plants. But before that, the old lady decided to plant some seeds first.
After wandering around Jessie Zhou's farm for a while, she found that the soil in the vegetable area and the orchard area was very fertile, so she dug a lot from there, and added some other organic fertilizers. , can now be transported in for cultivation.
So after lunch in the afternoon, Zhou Jiexi asked Atwood to find someone to do this. As for how much to pay, it was a matter, so he just went to the accountant to settle the bill. With his current wealth, he really doesn’t need to do it himself. When the old lady got it back, she also asked Atwood to find someone to help. He is not stupid. He has to do everything by himself, and he doesn’t have to do it himself. clearly.
Speaking of which, when Zhou Jiexi saw Atwood after coming back, he suddenly felt a little weird. The old man must have been a little too attentive to his master recently. Do you still have your own boss in your eyes? This old man is supervising the work of those cowboys, one by one using the car to transport the dirt in.
The people inside sorted it out piece by piece. The planting field is multi-layered. Since the height is sufficient, it is not enough to just plant a little bit underground, and two layers will be planted on the top. After the difficulty, the principle of optical refraction is used to ensure that they can all get light. for cooperation.
"This old guy seems to have a wife. Could it be that he is interested in the master? That's not true. The master looks quite young, but he is much older than Wood. The old man seems to be only in his fifties now!"
Zhou Jiexi saw that the master was here too, so he didn't want to be lazy, so he came over to supervise. In fact, he was teasing Saiyan behind him with a blade of grass. Sometimes I still talk to Nikki about love. Nikki thought that the herbal medicine that the old lady said might be very interesting, and it was actually not ready to admit such things in the United States before.
The United States is an immigrant country with immigrants from various countries and ethnicities. Their religious beliefs, social and cultural backgrounds, and value orientations are extremely complex and varied. However, the government and society have always adopted a tolerant attitude towards this, without intervening, thus forming a unique pluralistic society.
In disproportion to this, the government and the medical profession have always adopted a false rejection attitude towards botanical medicine. To put it bluntly, we just don't recognize your Chinese medicine, witch doctor, spiritual doctor and other titles and treatments. We recognize Western medicine.
Western medicine is the mainstream medicine, and most state legislation stipulates that only western medicine can legally practice medicine, and all other treatments are illegal, and no license to practice medicine is issued. Only in areas where ethnic minorities live in a relatively concentrated area (such as California) can we make an exception and give special approval. This is the so-called adapting measures to local conditions!
Moreover, hospitals across the United States only provide Western medicine services. The insurance company only covers applicants who have been treated and used western medicine. The cost of other treatments will not be compensated or reimbursed.
There are also pharmacies that only distribute western medicines and do not provide herbal medicines. Schools of medicine and pharmacy only teach courses in western medicine and western medicine, never involving various other therapies and herbal medicines. From this point of view, the medical education in the United States is extremely advanced, but also very closed and conservative. It is inevitable that there is still a feeling of dominance in the family. This kind of policy and practice of rejecting others and monopolizing Western mainstream medicine is really hard to imagine for the most culturally diverse country in the world. It was not changed until 1970, nearly 2,000 years after the founding of the country.
After nearly 20 years of brewing and slow quantitative changes, amazing changes occurred in the 1990s. According to a sample survey conducted by Harvard Medical School and Boston Israel Beth General Hospital.
The number of people using other treatments has skyrocketed. In 1990, those who used alternative medicine accounted for about 33.8% (60 million people) of the adult population; in 1997 it surged to 42.1% (83 million people). That is, 4 out of every 10 adults have used other treatments.
According to a 1998 survey conducted by the Stanford University School of Medicine, 40% of those who were dissatisfied with western medical treatment chose alternative therapy, and 39% of those who were very satisfied also used alternative therapy. In 1990, the number of users was 1.5 million. In 1997, it increased sharply to 9.96 million, and the number of patients reached 10.49 million. Many patients use Western medicine in combination with other treatments. Among Western medicine seekers, 31.8% (26.39 million people) also used alternative medicine, and 61% (16 million people) of them did not consult their own doctors. In 1997, among the above-mentioned 83 million people, 17 million people took herbal medicines, and 3 million people were over 65 years old. In 1997, American adults spent $21.2 billion on alternative medicine, including $5.1 billion on botanicals.
The out-of-pocket spending of the American people on alternative medicines ranges from $27.0 to $34.4 billion. The out-of-pocket cost of using western medicine is 29.3 billion US dollars. The two have become equal.
The public's growing enthusiasm for alternative medicine has forced 63 of the 135 medical schools in the United States to offer various alternative medicine courses. These include the world's top institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Stanford, and the University of California.
This general trend has also forced the American Medical Association (ama), which used to regard alternative medicine as heresy, to call on its 300,000 members to learn more about alternative medicine and learn its diagnosis techniques.
A later individual insurance company (California Western Life Insurance Company) has begun to allow insurers to reimburse the expenses of botanical medicines, and other companies are also studying.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand the main factors leading to this great change. The craze of returning to nature and the use of natural herbal medicines in the world, especially in the United States, are completely in line with the concept of hundreds of millions of people.
Although the chemically synthesized drugs of Western medicine have special effects, they have large side effects and high prices. Some diseases cannot be cured with chemically synthesized drugs. For the elderly in the United States, various common and frequently-occurring diseases occur frequently, and the use of herbal medicines has significant curative effects and few side effects, so it is very popular.
Coupled with the advocacy of the new social fashion: in order to live healthier, look younger, and live longer, more and more people pay attention to physical fitness and often take various health care drugs such as vitamins, minerals, and herbal medicines.
Moreover, people are gradually inclined to self-treatment, rather than relying entirely on doctors for treatment. The higher the level of education, the stronger this belief. Herbal medicines are food supplements that can be purchased and taken freely, thus fully meeting the needs of the public for self-treatment.
Those members of Congress are also very smart. They passed the "Food Supplement Health and Education Act" (d-a) in 1994, including herbal medicines, vitamins and minerals, etc. in the category of food supplements.
This law greatly restricts fda's intervention in herbal medicines, provides the most powerful legislative guarantee for the rise of herbal medicines, and creates a good environment for great development.
A series of clinical trials conducted on botanical medicines in Europe and the United States have successively proved that the curative effect of botanical medicines is conclusive, which is explained by scientific pharmacology and has enhanced the confidence of the public.
50-60% of the public believe that herbal medicine therapy is effective, and 70-80% believe that herbal medicine comes from nature, which is safer than chemically synthesized medicines and has fewer side effects.
Various media outlets across the country have repeatedly reported that the whole country began to discover and accept herbal medicines with the curiosity of "discovering the New World". Many people even regarded it as a panacea.
The medical system in the United States has many problems. Medical expenses have been rising year after year, and medical insurance costs have also risen. The financial burden on the people is too high. In addition, Western medicine and synthetic medicines are not a cure-all. They cannot meet the needs of the people, prompting them to find new ways.
Don't look at the United States as if it is awesome. There are only so few people in the United States, and there are still 40 million people without medical insurance. It is a big financial burden for these people to see a doctor and take medicine. For some common diseases or mild diseases, taking herbal medicine according to the symptoms is the most economical choice.
Now it’s Nikki’s generation, in fact, they have a good impression of botanical medicines. Even cosmetics advocate that they are botanical medicines and do not contain any pharmaceutical additives. It can be seen that women’s hearts are actually easy to choose.
Now Nikki suddenly found out that the old lady still has this skill, and she also knows that the old lady is now in her eighties, but she looks healthy and elegant like she is in her fifties!
Speaking of it, Zhou Jiexi really didn't realize the big difference. Some hard-working old people in their sixties are about the same as those in their eighties, and those who are well-maintained are similar to those in their sixties. The old lady is in her fifties, and it doesn't look too much to say.
"Ms. Yang, is this kind of grass really as magical as you said after it was planted?" Nikki looked at the old lady who was planting at this time, and was still fiddled with the seeds she gave her, and looked at it in disbelief. said the old lady.
"Yes, this type of plant can improve the skin and delay aging as long as it is mixed with some other medicines in a few special ways. However, one of the medicines is not easy to get, even if you go to the market and spend a lot of money Acquisition, it is also very difficult to buy! But Jesse has it, and I will make a copy for you to try!" The old lady said kindly.
Her expression at this meeting is not as scary as Xiao Aite thought at all. The person must have been frightened, and he is also a kind of imaginative one. The more she thinks about it, the scarier she becomes. mystery. It feels a little scary just looking at it, as if the students feel a little uncomfortable when they see the teacher.
Nikki's eyes lit up when she heard this, she saw Jessie Zhou's master when she came here, and every time she was surprised, it was not only because of her appearance that didn't match her age, but also because of her amazing cooking skills. art. The most important thing is that the old lady is still a very powerful pharmacist and doctor. To be able to help people see a doctor without using medical equipment, and to be able to know the weight of an object with just hands is incredible.
Moreover, she still remembered that at night, the old man gave her a strange soup, saying that it was good for his current body. Zhou Jiexi also persuaded her, and she drank it. But the result is gratifying. Her body, which was a little uncomfortable, has improved a lot this morning, and her spirit has also improved a lot. So now she firmly believes in what the old lady said to improve her skin.
"Wow, that's definitely the best gift I've ever received here, thank you Ms. Yang!"
"Okay, you're welcome, as long as you like it, it's also fate!"
"Fate, I know that, everything happened to happen, and it's probably a good thing to meet together!" Nikki explained in a serious manner.
Over there, Atwood watched Zhou Jiexi look at him strangely, then turned to think about something after a while, he couldn't help but feel a little strange, 'Is the boss going to say something to me? But why didn't he ask me? '
After pondering for a while, he felt that he still needed to talk to Zhou Jiexi. After all, as his boss, he always had to help solve his doubts, right? "Boss, do you have something to talk to me about?"
Zhou Jiexi looked at Atwood, pondered for a while, and was struggling with how to say this. Why don't you just tell him, don't look at my master as young, but in fact, he is already over eighty years old, so don't think about her! But is it appropriate to say that? If the kid didn't mean that, this thing would be ridiculous.
"Um, Atwood, I think you treated my master today..."