Is Xue Baochai's cold fragrant pill a "poison"? Can you really cure her illness?

In A Dream of Red Mansions, apart from the heavy gold lock around her neck, the "cold fragrant pill" that Xue Baochai took was the most talked about.

Among the aristocratic women in Jiafu, Xue Baochai is one who relies on drugs all the year round except Lin Daiyu. About Daiyu's medicine, she introduced it when she entered the government. That's a "ginseng tonic pill" taken since childhood. This medicine mainly regulates blood gas, and it is also the right medicine for Daiyu's congenital deficiency and weak qi and blood. Compared with Daiyu's "Ginseng Nourishing Pill", Baochai's "Lengxiang Pill" is more legendary.

The seventh time, the author hasn't described Xue Baochai's appearance, so he first focuses on the "cold fragrant pill" she took.

Zhou Rui's family sent Granny Liu to pear fragrance court and returned Mrs. Wang. When I came in, I saw the Wangs discussing the world in a long article. I didn't dare to disturb them and consciously came to Xue Baochai's room. At that time, Xue Baochai and Yingying were painting embroidery. When they first appeared in the government, they worked as women workers. It can be seen that Baochai said in the article that "attaching to the mother's arms is more important than sewing". Baochai greeted Zhou Rui's wife when she came in, so she gave up her seat.

Zhou Rui's family sat down and asked Baochai, "Why don't you go there to play? Did Brother Bao collide with you? " Xue Baochai quickly said no, but "that kind of disease" has happened again these days and she can't go out. When Zhou Rui's family heard this, they all showed great concern (compared with her indifference to Daiyu, it is clear who Mrs. Wang is close to and who she is alienated from). They asked what disease it was, and why not ask a doctor to fill it up, so as not to leave the root of the disease. This led to Baochai's "that kind of disease" and the "cold medicine" for treating that kind of disease.

According to Baochai, her illness was a "heat poison" brought out of the womb. It's no use eating all the prescriptions to see a famous doctor. Later, a monk gave her a prescription, but it only relieved her illness and could not be eradicated. She had to take medicine. And the formula of this "cold fragrant pill" is called "pit the dead". Then Baochai told Fang Zi that it was made from the rain, dew, snow and frost on the pistil in the 24 solar terms of a year, and it was prepared on schedule, according to quantity and quality, and it was really trivial to rely entirely on the word "Qiao".

Then, according to the symptoms given by Baochai, can "Lengxiang Pill" really cure this "heat poison"? Let's see what disease Baochai has.

When Zhou Rui's family asked about the symptoms of the disease, Baochai said, "I don't feel bad, just a little cough." Before this, Baochai said that this "heat poison" was brought by the mother's uterus, which is also commonly known as fetal poison. It has been recorded in Chinese medicine books. This is caused by mother's toxic heat. Common symptoms are aphtha, measles and smallpox. , and more common in infants. If an adult is sick,

Moreover, if Baochai really says that the disease is a symptom of "breathing", then it is a respiratory disease and needs bed rest, but Baochai is enjoying herself and Yingying is collapsing. But from Zhou Rui's entrance to Baoyu's visit, he didn't cough.

So Baochai's illness was invented by herself. Then why did Baochai do this? The obvious purpose is to attract Jia Baoyu to visit and then sell a "golden wedding" behind her back. This plot is well known, needless to say.

So strictly speaking, this "hot poison" is just that the author wants to ridicule Baochai and see Baoyu. This kind of "enthusiasm" is an eager expectation for Baoyu's arrival and an "eager" mood for Jia's family. In this way, the "cold fragrant pill" taken by Xue Baochai is not only a medicine for treating diseases.

First of all, simply from the formula given by Baochai, glistening, rain and dew, frost and snow are all cold things, and with extremely cold Huangbai decoction, they are the first-class things to clear away heat and purge fire. This means suppressing Xue Baochai's "hot poison" with "cold fragrant pills", that is, suppressing desire. This is irony. Baochai is duplicitous.

Secondly, let's look at this formula again. This formula is extremely trivial, as Zhou said, "It's a pity that waiting for ten years may not be so clever." Look carefully, does the Xue family's process of making this pill seem to be planning a "golden wedding"? 365 days a year, tighten your nerves and don't miss any opportunity. It can be said that I have racked my brains and thought hard. However, in the end, the balls made of stamens, sugar and honey need to be sent with 12% Cortex Phellodendri decoction. What do you mean? This pill is supposed to be sweet, but Baochai can only taste bitter. The author did not write a dime of Cortex Phellodendri decoction, but selected 12 cents. Isn't it pointed out that this bitter taste is hard to see?

Therefore, this "cold pill" is an allusion to Xue's family's deliberate efforts to seek marriage with Baoyu, but in the end, even the happiness that marriage should have failed to be realized, and some were just bitter.