The other Laozhong also took the donuts and tasted them. It is hard to say that the fruit they usually eat is better than a deep-fried fruit. After all, those who make wagashi don’t even want to put the steamed buns or dim sum in the frying pan. of.

"If it is said that this fruit can cure beriberi..." Kesuga Qiyu heard that this was Chuemon's method. Although he didn't believe it very much, he felt that Chuemon's great reputation didn't need to be added.

"Only bean noodles and wheat noodles? Nothing else?" Matsudaira took it all and felt that there was nothing else.

"This morning the minister personally made it at home, only the soy-wheat noodles. If you want to say anything else, it's just sugar." Ogata Hongan went to the stall and said something about my hen.

"Sugar is a good thing." Keiyong Matsudaira nodded on the side.

These days, the poor are nourishing, that is, three bowls of brown sugar water a day. If the guests at home also bring out a large bowl of brown sugar water, they will have a lot of face. Granulated sugar is also used in Chinese medicine and Chinese prescriptions. It's not impossible for medicinal materials.

"Did you add sugar to the red bean paste?" Kusei Guangzhou ate the red bean paste without sprinkling sugar.

"Never."

Yes, everyone is really clueless.

Before long, the medical records of Ogata Hongan and the patients who were treated were brought in. According to them, their beriberi disease has reached a certain level, but after taking it for three months, it has improved greatly. The medical records did record the daily changes of these people in detail.

The beriberi itself is a disease of wealth. The poor eat chaff, but each supplement gets vitamin B1. On the contrary, wealthy townsmen, merchants, and samurai who can eat relatively well can get this disease.

They eat (shielded) refined rice at all meals, and they cannot eat a lot of fresh vegetables or other foods. The staple food and non-staple food lack vitamin B1. Undoubtedly, beriberi is widespread among these relatively comfortable people. .

"How long have you been sick?" Tokugawa Jiaqing is quite interested in this matter, after all, this thing is much more interesting than the tedious government affairs.

"The minister has been ill for almost ten years." The answer was a samurai, obviously a certain small banner in the shogunate. Ten generations of ancestors had not seen the general's face, and this meeting was very nervous.

"Then after eating this, now have hands and feet strong? Energetic?"

"Yes, you can already walk hundreds of steps."

"Sigh...What kind of decoction or other food did you take during the period?"

"I haven't taken medicine, and my diet is the same as before."

"really?"

"really!"

Tokugawa Ieki saw that the samurai was a little nervous, but he didn't seem to be a fake, and the situation of other people was similar. I have believed in five or six points, or even seven or eight points.

"It's from Chuemon!" Matsudaira Qixuan made a cameo at this time and announced outside the hall.

Seeing this large group of people following Ogata Hongan, plus Matsudaira Qisun dangling a donut and ran to the official office to find himself, Chuemon already guessed that he must give an explanation today.

"Meet the general." Regardless of other things, salute first.

"Quickly tell me what is going on." Songping Qixuan sat next to his brother and asked directly.

"Actually, this was only accidentally obtained by the minister, and it was not clear whether it was effective beforehand. The reason is very simple, beriberi is never passed on from father to son." Chuemon sat up and replied.

Of course, beriberi is not a genetic disease, it is vitamin B1 deficiency. Just like the Tokugawa Iamaki and Tokugawa Iamatsu in front of me, because I often hunt and eat miscellaneous food, I feel no symptoms of beriberi at all. However, some of the symptoms of beriberi appear in the family members who have been lying in bed and recuperating and only ate "soft rice".

"Although there are fathers and sons in the family who are sick together, it is true that they do not have this disease at birth." Everyone has seen beriberi and naturally agrees with this.

"Then this disease is not carried inside, but attacked by external objects!" Since it is not a congenital disease, it must be the disease acquired in life, and it is invulnerable.

"Not bad..." Everyone nodded.

"Since it is a foreign object violation, it is nothing more than food and water."

"Go on!" Everyone was fascinated by Chuemon's words, and no one realized that these words were actually said by the Tokugawa family who barely spoke.

"Edo has a population of millions, and the people drink river water. If the'shangshui' that you drink in the temple is related to water, then millions of people should get sick together, so it's not because of the water..."

Chuemon picked up a donut and continued on. The reason for water is ruled out. The only reason for eating is rice. Japan’s main crop is rice, so all people in the world eat rice. It's just that the rich and powerful eat polished rice that has been milled several times, while the poor people eat brown rice, which is the "brown rice" after the rice is simply husked.

The more miserable people naturally eat chaff (rice husk), bran (the outer tissue of rice grains), but also eat tares, millet, sweet potatoes, taro and so on.

"That's why the minister found that the people who eat brown rice all the time have never got beriberi!" Chuyouemon's argument is still very convincing.

"So if you eat rice the same, the difference between the two lies in this layer of bran!"

The people in the temple began to recall the entire chain of evidence. The poor did not get sick while the rich got sick. The poor ate bran while the rich ate white rice. The water they drank was the same.

"So there are people who eat white rice and can't get beriberi?" Songping Qixuan's brain turned quickly, and he immediately thought of this section.

"Yes, there are people who eat white rice without getting sick. But eating bran will definitely not get sick, and eating white rice will get sick. This joint must still be in the bran!"

No problem, UU reading www.uukanshu.com. I don’t need to prove that those people who eat white rice can not have beriberi. I just need to make sure that the poor people who eat chaffy vegetables can’t be beriberi and it’s done.

"So you use the coarse noodles of rice, wheat, and beans to make this thing for patients to eat?"

"Beriberi is a terminal illness, and medicine is difficult to cure. Rather than waiting to die, why not try?" Chungemon was very calm, admitting that he was just trying and taking a gamble.

"Hahahahaha..." Tokugawa Isaiah, who was watching, suddenly laughed.

"You are also a wonderful person!" Miraculously, Tokugawa Kasada praised a foreign minister like this for the first time.

"En?" Tokugawa Jiaqing also reacted, his own son, who is very reluctant to communicate with outsiders, actually spoke, and he still said good things.

"Since it is effective, you might as well find more patients and treat it under the castle. If it is effective, you should travel the world." Tokugawa Isaiah looked at the joyous Tokugawa Iada, and then at Chuemon.

Subconsciously, these two young people of the same age are actually five or six points similar...