Excuse me, which Chinese herbal medicines have allusions?
An old man digging medicine, childless and childless, brought an apprentice. Who would have thought that this apprentice was very arrogant, and only learned a little fur, so he looked down on the master. Sometimes the money for selling medicine is not given to the master, but spent secretly. The master broke his heart and said to his apprentice:
"Your wings are hard, so set up another door."
The apprentice didn't care: "All right!"
The master said uneasily, "However, there is a medicine that you can't just sell to others."
"What medicine?"
"Bare grass."
"What's the matter?"
"The roots and stems of this grass have different uses; Sweat with stems, stop sweating with roots, and die if you make a mistake! Remember? "
"Remember."
"You recite it again."
The apprentice recited it with his mouth open, but when he recited it, he was careless and completely useless.
From then on, mentoring broke up and sold medicines separately. Without the master, the apprentice is more courageous. Although he doesn't know much about medicine, he dares to cure any disease. A few days later, let him kill one with bare grass. The family of the deceased refused to let go, so they arrested him and went to see the county magistrate. The county magistrate asked:
"Who did you learn from?"
The apprentice must name the master. The magistrate ordered people to call the master and said:
"How do you teach? Let him rule people to death! "
Confucius said, "The villain is innocent."
"How can you say that you are innocent?"
"I obviously taught him several formulas about leafless grass."
Hearing this, the county magistrate asked his apprentice:
"Do you remember? Recite it and I'll listen. "
The disciple chanted, "Sweat follows the stem, and stop sweating follows the root. Make a mistake and die. "
The magistrate asked again, "Did the patient sweat?"
The apprentice replied, "I am sweating all over."
"What medicine did you use?"
"The stem of leafless grass."
The magistrate was furious: "It's just Hu Zhi! The patient sweated and used antiperspirant. Can he not die? " Later, he ordered someone to beat his apprentice forty times and was sentenced to three years in prison. Master, it's okay. Let him go to class.
After three years in prison, the apprentice became honest. He found the master, admitted his mistake and expressed remorse. The master saw that he had changed, so he stayed to teach him medical skills. From then on, disciples will be very careful when they use "leafless grass" again. Because this kind of grass brought him great trouble, it was named "trouble grass", and later it was renamed "ephedra" because its roots were yellow.
2┃┃[ Perilla] short stories
On September 9th, the Double Ninth Festival, a group of rich children competed to eat crabs in a hotel. The big crab is oily and yellow, and the more you eat it, the more fragrant it becomes. The eaten crab shells piled up on the table into a small tower.
Hua tuo also came here to drink with his disciples. He saw the teenagers scrambling to eat crabs like crazy, so he kindly advised:
"Crabs are cold, don't eat more. Young man, it's no good for you to eat crabs in the competition. "
The teenager is very unhappy: "we eat what we pay for, who listens to your discipline!" " "
Hua Tuo said, "If you eat too much, you will definitely have a stomachache. At that time, your life will be in danger! "
"Come on, don't scare people here! We just ate to death, it's none of your business! "
These drunken teenagers didn't listen to advice at all and continued to eat and drink. Some also cried:
"Crabs are delicious. Who ever heard of eating dead people? We let go of our stomachs and ate ours, and the old man died! "
Hua tuo saw that they had gone too far, so he said to the hotel owner:
"I can't sell it to them any more. People will die."
The hotel owner intends to make more money from these teenagers. How could he listen to Hua Tuo? He put his face plate, and said:
"It's none of your business. Your husband mind his own business and don't mess with mine! "
Hua tuo sighed and had to sit down and eat his own wine.
Until midnight, teenagers suddenly shouted that they had stomachache, some were sweating with pain, and some fell and rolled under the table.
The hotel owner was surprised and quickly asked, "What's the matter with you?"
"It hurts badly, please call a doctor for us!"
"Where can I find a doctor in the middle of the night?"
"Please be kind to the boss. If the doctor doesn't come again, our lives will be in jeopardy! "
At this moment, Hua Tuo came over and said:
"I am a doctor."
"ah!" The teenagers were shocked: Isn't this the old man who won't let them eat more crabs? They also did not care what face, clutching their stomachs one by one, pleading: "Sir, please treat them!" " "
"Didn't you just say not to let me take care of it?" Hua tuo said.
"Adults don't remember. Please be kind and help us. How much is easier said than done. "
"I don't want money."
"Then you want something else."
"I want you to promise one thing!"
"Don't say one, one thousand, ten thousand. Why didn't you tell me quickly? "
"In the future, you have to listen to the old man's advice and stop fooling around!"
"Of course, of course. Please help! "
Hua tuo told them to wait, took his disciples to the wilderness, collected some stems and leaves of Arnebia euchroma, and boiled soup for the teenagers. After a while, their stomachs stopped hurting. Hua tuo asked:
"How do you feel after drinking this medicine?"
"Much more comfortable."
Hua tuo thought: this herb has no name yet, and patients will really feel comfortable after eating it. Call it "Zishu" in the future!
The teenagers were so grateful that they bid farewell to Hua Tuo and went home. Hua tuo said to the hotel owner again:
"It's a close call. You must never patronize to make money in the future, regardless of people's lives! "
The hotel owner nodded again and again.
When Hua Tuo left the hotel, the disciple asked:
"What book is this Lithospermum leaf used to relieve crab poison?"
Hua Tuo told his disciples that there was nothing in the book, but he learned it from animals.
It turned out that one summer, Hua Tuo was collecting herbs by a river in the south of the Yangtze River. He saw an otter catch a big fish. The otter swallowed for a long time, bulging his stomach. It is in the water for a while and on the shore for a while; Lying still for a while, tossing and turning for a while. It seems that this otter is very uncomfortable. But later, it climbed to the shore next to a piece of Arnebia euchroma, ate some grass leaves and lay down for a while, but it was all right. Hua Tuo thinks that fish is cool and Arnebia euchroma is warm, and Arnebia euchroma can definitely detoxify fish. Since then, he has kept it in mind.
Later, Hua tuo also made the stems and leaves of Arnebia euchroma into powder. He also found that this herb has the functions of dispersing exterior, benefiting spleen, benefiting lung, regulating qi, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and can cure many diseases.
Originally, because this herb is purple and comfortable to eat in the stomach, Hua Tuo named it "Zishu", but somehow, people later called it "Perilla frutescens"-probably because of its close sound, which is easy to be confused.
3 [Xinyi] ┃ ┃ Short stories
Qin has a strange disease, with pus, runny nose and foul smell. This disease is so annoying that even my wife and children are far away. Qin invited many doctors, but nothing worked. He thought: it is better to live so disgusting than to die, so he planned to die. A friend advised, "The world is so big that local doctors can't cure it. Why not go outside for medical treatment? " ? You can also visit famous mountains and rivers to relax. "
Qin is reasonable. Anyway, he stayed at home and got angry with his wife and children, so he took a family member and went out by bike.
Qin went to many places, but he didn't meet a doctor who could cure his nose. Later, he went to an area where the Yi people live in concentrated communities in the south. A doctor of the Yi people said, "This disease is easy to cure."
Qin Juren was overjoyed and hurried to ask him for treatment.
The doctor picked a bud from the mountain and gave it to Qin Ju. Qin Ju ate for half a month, but his nose really stopped running. He was very happy and said to the doctor, "This medicine is really effective. Can you let me take some home, so that if I get sick again, I don't have to travel so far for medical treatment? "
The doctor thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you take some seeds back to plant?"
Qin is happier. He rewarded the doctor and went home with the seeds. He planted this herb when he came home. A few years later, a large area grew in the yard. Anyone with nasal diseases can be treated with this herbal medicine.
People ask, "What's the name of this herb?"
Qin juren thought about it and forgot to ask Doctor Yi. On second thought, it was introduced from the Yi people in191year. He said, "This is called' new meaning'."