Artemisia annua in one hand, two liters of water, impregnated for thousands of years, until you appear.
Yo yo deer singing, eating wild artemisia. The verses in the Book of Poetry are inextricably linked, and throughout her life, she is inextricably linked to Artemisia annua. Tu Youyou, China's first Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. After admiring her fame, people rarely really understand how she and her team completed the discovery and development of artemisinin in a poor situation. In the TV series "Meritorious Service", the difficult process of developing artemisinin is vividly presented.
Tu Youyou has three "delusions", and it is Tu Youyou's "delusions" that have created the scientific myth of artemisinin.
A "delusion" - a vast sea of smoke to find a cure
Just as the so-called Shu Dao is difficult, it is difficult to go up to the Qingtian, and I will seek it up and down. In the process of artemisinin research and development, Tu Youyou resisted the pressure, changed her thinking, and used the most primitive method to find useful formulas from the vast number of medical books and ancient books. From zero to one, after countless trial and error, combined with the knowledge of Western medicine, 640 more credible prescriptions were selected, including the "Malaria Single Secret Test Formula", which laid the initial foundation for the successful development of subsequent artemisinin.
Two "idiots" - waste sleep and forget to eat samples
There is such a plot in "Meritorious Service" that people can't forget for a long time. During the stage when artemisinin was certified for animal testing, the first animals died of kidney failure due to the older age of the first animals, which had a negative impact on the effects of artemisinin. During the second animal test, Tu Youyou was highly nervous, woke up in the middle of the night after dreaming of the tragic death of the animal, and walked to the laboratory at four o'clock in the morning to check the animal situation.
Standing in front of the laboratory door, she hesitated for a moment before pushing the door in, and when she knocked on the cage to wake up the animals one by one, her tears mixed with worry and pressure were released in an instant, yes, her worries were superfluous, the experiment was successful!
Three "idiots" - Guo'er forgot to study artemisia annua
Because the laboratory did not have supporting ventilation equipment, coupled with long-term dealings with various chemical solvents, Tu Youyou suffered from tuberculosis, liver disease and other chronic diseases in countless experiments, and was ordered by doctors to rest at home for a year. Once Li Tingzhao returned home with a difficult face, Tu Youyou's first reaction was to ask whether there was a problem with artemisinin, Li Tingzhao denied it and said that his difficult color was because Tu Youyou took more than half a year's leave and only paid 80% of the original salary, and the family's basic expenses could not be guaranteed. Hearing this, Tu Youyou was suddenly relieved: Artemisinin is no problem, is it okay.
The ground was full of sixpence, but she only looked at the moon. The TV series "Meritorious Service" portrays Tu Youyou's image portrayal of Tu Youyou's bravery, perseverance, independence and freedom, and active pursuit of personal and social values, supplementing the image of female meritorious service and promoting the awakening of female groups. Women can not only be obscure supporters, but also creators of scientific myths.
Tu Youyou created a scientific myth, and Li Tingzhao also brought her a myth about love.
In "Meritorious Service", the director avoids the grand perspective of the hero's narrative, and shows the unique posture of love in life with a small view. Take off the love cloak of either romantic to false or crazy to the extreme, and portray each other with bland life scenes, full of love and love of the husband and wife. In fact, love is only, and life is also a myth.
Tu Youyou asked Li Tingzhao, "Why did you marry me?" ”
Li Tingzhao said, "In order to be your guinea pig." ”
In the play, Tu Youyou's health has not been good, and when Li Tingzhao learned that artemisinin had entered the human trial stage, he offered to test drugs for Tu Youyou. This is the most down-to-earth romance, giving the wife full love, no complaints, and full support for the wife's career. Their love myth is that you rush ahead, rest assured, I will always stand behind you, because your career is also my responsibility.
Her husband is not only her right hand in life, but also her confidant.
When Tu Youyou encountered a bottleneck, her husband became the biggest sustenance, and she wrote to her husband about the place where she was killed while trying medicine in Hainan:
Ting Zhao, who has been in Hainan for more than a hundred days, faces a large number of malaria patients every day, but the results of the trial are not ideal, making it difficult to sleep and eat, and everything has to start from scratch. Difficult, I am not afraid, but what bothers me the most is that I don't know where to go.
Where should I go? At the end of this dialogue, the answer is given.
The two faced the starry sky, and Tu Youyou asked: Li Tingzhao, one day we are old, will he?
Li Tingzhao: Will we get old?
Tu Youyou: Yes.
Li Tingzhao: No, I believe that people who pursue science and truth will never grow old!
In "Meritorious Service", there are often scenes of two people standing on the balcony looking up at the stars, which seem to be a symbol, symbolizing truth and science. When we are deeply confused and hesitant, continuous exploration and perseverance are the answer. The stars twinkle, science does not age, and truth will radiate this eternal brilliance waiting for tireless people to continue to dig.
The love between Tu Youyou and Li Tingzhao is to know each other in countless different situations in life, become each other's soul mates, family and work are no longer irreconcilable sharp contradictions, Li Tingzhao let the family become the most powerful guarantee for Tu Youyou's research and development of artemisinin.
Ten thousand years is too long, and we are only fighting for the day. Artemisinin is a gift from Tu Youyou to China, and it is also a gift from China to the world.