Panax notoginseng, Bupleurum chinensis, Eucommia ulmoides, Yunnan Baiyao, Xianhe grass,

Sanqi is also called Jin Buchang, and we usually call it Tian Qi. Panax notoginseng is the rhizome of the plant of the five plus family, because of the miraculous effect of hemostasis and pain, so it has the name of "hemostatic gold does not change". Panax notoginseng entered medicine late, more than 400 years ago, and it is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Yi Medical Miscellaneous Disease Prescription" and "Xianbo Prescription".

"Xian Bo Fang" narrates: "Between the valleys of Mantong in the three prefectures of Donglan, Nadi and Nandan, Guangxi, there is a kind of golden gun medicine, named Sanqi, which resembles atractylodes atractylodes, and the taste is sweet and thick like ginseng. One or two nights will scab off as before, and it can also treat vomiting blood and other diseases. "My country used Panax notoginseng at the earliest, and it is also the hometown of Panax notoginseng.

The legend of Sanqi

Legend one

Legend has it that a beautiful and kind fairy came to the world and taught people to plant. One day, the fairy was working in the field, and suddenly a big black bear pounced on her, and at this critical moment, a young man of the Miao nationality named Ka Xiang shot the black bear with an arrow. Ka Xiang's family is very poor, and his mother has been ill for many years and has no money for medical treatment.

In order to repay the grace of saving his life, the fairy said to Ka Xiang: "There is a herb on the back slope, the leaves are like my long skirt, and the branches are like my belt, which can cure Grandma's disease. Ka Xiang followed his instructions, and really found this herb, and my mother ate it a few times, and the illness was really cured. Later, Ka Xiang used this herb to cure many villagers' diseases.

In order to express their gratitude, the villagers came to Ka Xiang's house to thank them and asked what kind of medicine this is? The fairy smiled and said, "Let's take a plant and count it, how many branches are there, and how many leaves are there?" After everyone counted them, there were three branches and seven leaves, and a clever girl immediately called out "Sanqi". Since then, this medicinal herb has spread under the name of "Panax notoginseng".

Legend II

Once upon a time, there was a pair of brothers. The elder brother practices medicine and cultivates medicinal herbs every day, but the younger brother is idle and does not do his job. One day, my younger brother suddenly fell ill and was bleeding from all seven orifices. When the elder brother learned about it, he hurriedly cut a herbal decoction for the younger brother to take. After his younger brother took several doses, Huo Ran recovered. He asked his brother what medicine he was wearing, and he told him that it was an ancestral herb to stop bleeding. Later, he asked his brother for some small herb seedlings to plant in his garden, and the next year, the herbs had grown vigorously.

One day, a rich man from a neighboring village, and the rich man's son was also sick with hemorrhage, and when he saw that he was dying, he heard that there was a grass that could cure the disease, so he went to his brother's house to seek medical advice. When the younger brother heard about it, he dug up the herb that had been planted in his own garden and gave it to the rich man's son to decoction. The rich man went to the magistrate like crazy, and his brother was arrested.

When the elder brother learned about it, he hurriedly went to appeal and told the county magistrate that it was not the fault of the younger brother, and that the younger brother used the soup of hemostatic herbs for the rich man's son, but this herb had only grown for a year, and it had no medicinal properties, and it would be the strongest when it grew to three to seven years.

This story spread in ten miles and eight villages, and people knew when this herb was harvested. Later, people gave the herb the name Panax notoginseng, which means that it grows for three to seven years at its best.

Legend III

In ancient times, a young man named Zhang Er suffered from a disease that caused bleeding from his mouth and nose, and although he was treated by many parties, it still had no effect. One day, a doctor surnamed Tian passed by, he took out the root of a herb, ground it into powder for Zhang Er to swallow, and with little effort, the bleeding actually stopped. Zhang Er's family was very grateful and asked the doctor to leave the seeds of this miraculous herb. A year later, Zhang Erjia's herbs grew very luxuriantly. Coincidentally, the only daughter of the prefect suffered from hemorrhage, and many treatments did not improve, so he had no choice but to post a notice: those who can cure his daughter's illness will be recruited as a son-in-law. When Zhang Er heard about it, he brought his own herbs, and without saying a word, he took out the herbs and gave them to the young lady. Who knew that in less than an hour, the young lady died. The prefect was furious and ordered Zhang Er to be tied up and tortured, and he was forced to tell the truth. The prefect immediately ordered Dr. Tian to be arrested and convicted of "murder". On the day of his execution, Dr. Tian had no choice but to explain to the prefect: "This herb is effective for all kinds of blood disorders, but it must be three to seven years old to be effective. The medicine used by Zhang Er has only grown for a year, and it has no medicinal properties, so of course it can't save Miss. After that, he asked for a sharp knife from the hand of the servant, cut a knife on his thigh, blood flowed, he took out the medicine powder from his medicine bag, took it internally and applied it externally, and immediately stopped the scab from bleeding, the people present were surprised, and the prefect regretted it, so he had to let Dr. Tian go. In order to remember this painful lesson, people set this medicine as "Panax notoginseng", which means that it must grow to 3~7 years before it can be useful. Because this medicine is passed on by Dr. Tian, in some places in China, Panax notoginseng is also called "Tian Qi".

The past and present life of Banlangen

On the way back to the Dragon Palace from the Heavenly Palace, the Dragon King of the East China Sea and the Dragon King of the South China Sea saw corpses all over the field. Upon inquiry, it turned out to be caused by an epidemic of plague. If it is not controlled, it will spread to the sea, and the two dragon kings are anxious, so they hurriedly discuss countermeasures, and send the son of the South China Sea Dragon King, Qingjin Dragon, and the grandson of the East China Sea Dragon King, Ziyin Dragon, to the human world to eliminate the plague.

The green gold dragon and the purple silver dragon bid farewell to the old dragon king and came to the world in the guise of Langzhong. The uncle and nephew first went to the medicine king Bodhisattva to take the seeds of the divine medicine, spread them everywhere, and taught people to carefully manage the medicine seedlings. Soon, the seedlings grew as strong as reeds by the lake, and the uncles and nephews taught the people to use the roots of the seedlings to fry into water and give them to the patients. This miracle drug actually has a miraculous effect, and the patients recover quickly one by one. As a result, men and women of all ages in the world worship the green gold dragon and the purple and silver dragon as gods and treat them as guests. The uncle and nephew were deeply moved, and decided to stay in the world forever and concentrate on the prevention and control of the plague, so they submerged into the magic medicine bush by the sea, and turned into two particularly strong medicinal seedlings, which people knew that the dragon king's dragon grandson had changed, so they called it "dragon root". Later generations of physicians wrote books and called it "Banlan Root".

The root of Banlan, whose name originates from the "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica", is the rhizome and root of the cruciferous plant woad, grass blue, or the jue family plant horse blue, knotweed indigo, verbena plant roadside green, etc. It tastes bitter, cold, into the heart, stomach meridian, "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" 2005 edition of a collection of Banlan root said that it has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and pharynx, to detoxify temperature poison, heat poison, fire poison, treatment of warm fever disease, often used in warm epidemic poison, high fever headache, fever and sore throat, warm poison spots, cheeks, rotten throat Dansha, big head plague, carbuncle swelling poison and so on.

Chaihu: It used to be burned as firewood!

It is rumored that there was a Hu Jinshi in ancient times. The family hired a long-term worker named Zheng Asan. One day, Zheng Asan was sick, sometimes shivering with cold. Hu Jinshi was afraid that Ah San's illness and fever would be given to his family, so he asked him to bring his salary and leave the village quickly. Zheng Asan left the Hu family and walked all the way to the east. When I walked to the edge of a vast lake, I felt that the sky was spinning, and I fell into the grass and couldn't move. After Zheng Asan woke up, he drank lake water when he felt thirsty, and chewed grass leaves and grass roots to satisfy his hunger when he couldn't bear hunger.

Ah San, who recovered, returned to the Hu family, this matter, the young master of the Hu family was suffering from the same disease as Ah San, and the doctors diagnosed and treated, but there was still no good solution, and the cold and heat were difficult to control. When Hu Jinshi saw Ah San, he asked in amazement: "Who cured your illness with a miracle medicine?" Ah San recounted the experience in detail, and Hu Jinshi ordered Ah San to go to the lake to pick up the life-saving "divine grass" to treat the young master.

Ah San came to the lake to save his life again, and when he saw the grass that grew luxuriantly and looked like thin bamboo leaves, he picked a large bag and brought it back. Within a few days, Young Master Hu had eaten herbs, and the cold and fever were also cured. At this time, Zheng Asan became famous, and people called him "Zheng Herb", and there were many people who begged him for herbs. The villagers near this grass near the lake were originally used as firewood, and in order to commemorate the merits of this grass in treating Young Master Hu, they simply named it "Bupleurum".

Zheng Asan used wild grass to satisfy hunger and discovered Bupleurum that can treat cold and fever, which shows that human beings gradually understand and discover medicine in labor, production and life.

Bupleurum chinensis, also known as northern Bupleurum chinensis, southern Bupleurum chinensis, and vinegar Bupleurum chinensis, is the root of Bupleurum chinensis and Bupleurum narrow-leaved perennial herbaceous plants of the family Umbelliferae. Bupleurum is bitter and bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature, returns to the liver and gallbladder meridians, and has the function of reconciling and reducing fever, soothing the liver and relieving depression, and lifting yang qi. It is fragrant and sparse, can be raised or dispersed, good at removing half of the evil on the surface and half of the inside, and has a good antipyretic effect; It is also good at reaching the liver qi and relieving depression, and is long in the qi of ascending and clearing the yang, so it can treat cold and heat, liver stagnation and qi knots, and sagging organs. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "cures the sinking of yang qi, flattens the liver and gallbladder and envelops the fire". The "Benjing" says that it "removes the stomach and intestines, accumulates in the diet, colds and heats, and pushes the old to the new".

The legend of the Chinese medicine Eucommia ulmoides

Legend one

According to ancient Chinese records, the origin of the name "Eucommia" is that a man named Eucommia ulmoides found that after drinking the decoction from the bark of a certain tree, his body became very light, and his illness was eliminated, and his physical strength was restored. Therefore, this tree is called the eucommia tree.

In ancient times, there was a doctor named Eucommia, one day he went into the mountains to collect medicine, and occasionally saw a tree with many white silk "bones" like "tendons" in the bark. He thought that if people ate these "muscles and bones", would they be as strong as trees? So, I decided to try. A few days later, not only did he have no adverse reactions, but he felt energetic, his waist and legs were relaxed, and after he took it for a while, the result was a miracle, not only was he light and healthy, his hair was black, and he became an immortal.

After people knew about this plant, they called it "Sixian", "Sizhong", and later simply called it "Eucommia".

Legend II

Once upon a time, there was a group of slender men on the shore of Dongting Lake, who suffered from waist and knee pain for a long time because they bent over to pull fibers every day. In order to solve this problem, one of them, a young slender man named Eucommia, decided to go up the mountain to collect medicine for himself and his companions to treat diseases. On the way, he met an old man, so he asked the old man for advice, and the old man was moved by his kindness, so he gave him a piece of bark and told him that the bark could cure the symptoms of low back and knee pain.

Du Zhong took the bark and continued to search for it up the mountain, and when he found the bark, he desperately picked it, but because he was exhausted, he fell into Dongting Lake. Later, his body was found in the lake, and he was clutching the bark he had picked, and after the slender men ate the bark, the pain in his body was cured. In order to commemorate the heroic deeds of Eucommia, people named this bark "Eucommia".

Legend III

In ancient times, there was a man named Du Zhong, whose family was very poor, and he relied on going up the mountain to chop firewood to make a living. One day, when he went up the mountain to chop wood, he suddenly suffered from a pain in his waist and legs, so painful that he held the tree pole and bit the bark and did not dare to let go of his hand or mouth, and unconsciously sucked the bark juice into his stomach. After a while, the pain in my waist and legs seemed to be less severe, and then it really didn't hurt anymore. Du Zhong thought: "Every time I get sick, it hurts me to death, but this time, how can I bite the bark and suck in the bark sap without pain?" He looked curiously at the bark he had bitten on, and found that unlike other barks, there were silvery-white filaments connected to the sections, so he peeled some and took it home to be used again when he became ill in the future.

Du Zhong knew that the neighbor old man was also suffering from waist and leg diseases, which were exactly the same as his, so he brought the spare bark to the old man to drink, one bowl or two bowls...... The old man's illness was also cured. In this way, the news spread, and patients with back and leg pain from all over the world came to the door to be cured by Eucommia, and people were cured after eating soup fried in the bark of trees. In gratitude for Eucommia, the bark is also called Eucommia, and it has been passed down to this day.

Qu Huanzhang invented Yunnan Baiyao

Qu Huanzhang, formerly known as Qu Zhanen, was born in 1880 in Zhaoguan Village, Jiangchuan County, Yunnan Province.

Legend has it that Qu Huanzhang was a hunter who was good at hunting ferocious animals. Once, he hit a tiger that was too big for him to carry on his back. He took a look at the tiger's injuries and estimated that he would die soon. So he went down the mountain and found someone to carry him. But when I came back, the tiger was gone. They followed the trail of blood in the grass and finally found the badly injured tiger. The tiger was "collecting medicine", chewing the medicine and applying it to the wound, then chewing some more. The tiger quickly stopped the bleeding and fled. The latter hurriedly stepped forward, took a closer look at the herb, and picked many of them to take home. Later, this later life used this medicine to treat people with bruises, and the results were very effective, and the later life soon became a well-known wound doctor. Later, later generations collected folk herbal medicine prescriptions for wound treatment, and improved their own wound medicine many times. In 1914, he officially prescribed this wound treatment drug and named it "Qu Huanzhang Baiyao".

In 1902, Qu Huanzhang successfully developed the predecessor of Yunnan Baiyao, "Baibaodan". It has become a well-known "Yunnan Baiyao" at home and abroad today.

Crane grass

The Yellow Crane Tower is a famous scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River at home and abroad, and the crane grass is a traditional medicine for stopping bleeding. The two seem to have nothing to do with each other, but a legend shows that they are closely related.

A long time ago, there was a small island in the Yangtze River called Parrot Island, and there was a building not far from the continent, and there was an old man with gray hair living in the building. The old man understands the way of medicine, and while practicing medicine on a voluntary basis, he cultivates his temperament and cultivates his temperament, and is deeply respected by the four towns. One day in late autumn, a yellow crane flew from nowhere, fluttered and landed in front of the building, and let out a miserable wail. The villagers gathered around and saw that the yellow crane was full of blood, so they talked one after another, saying that the yellow crane wanted to fly back to his hometown, but lost his way, so he fell down; It is said that the yellow crane was injured and deliberately landed here, hoping that someone would save it, etc. When the old man heard the sound, he went out of the building, looked at the bleeding yellow crane, and then went into the mountain forest behind the building, and after a while, he picked a handful of wild grasses with feather-like leaves and white flowers, sprinkled them on the yellow crane's wounds, and it didn't take long to stop the bleeding. After that, the old man carefully fed the yellow crane, and the yellow crane recovered quickly. After some time, early one morning, the old man said goodbye to the villagers, and flew to the sky on a crane. The villagers speculated that the old man had become an immortal, and the yellow crane was sent by the fairy world to welcome the old man. But they didn't know where the old man had gone. Later, the villagers called the building where the old man lived "Yellow Crane Tower", and the weeds that the old man healed the Yellow Crane called "Crane Grass". Since then, the Yellow Crane Tower has become a scenic spot, and many literati and artists have left footprints here; The medicinal effects of crane grass are also gradually becoming known.

2. In ancient times, there were two showmen who entered Beijing to take the exam, passing by a sandy beach on the way. It was a hot summer, the scorching sun was in the sky, and they were sweating, thirsty and tired. this

When one Xiucai had a nosebleed, the other panicked, he couldn't go to the village in front of him, he couldn't go to the store in the back, where to find medicine? In a hurry, they stuffed it with clods of earth and plugged it with paper, but to no avail, and blood flowed out of their mouths again. At this moment, I suddenly saw a crane holding a piece of grass in its mouth, slowly flying over its head. They thought, "How nice it would be if we were like the cranes, with wings and flying away!" They shouted in an envious tone: "Crane, crane, fly slowly, lend us your wings, let us fly out of this ghost place quickly!" Who knew that the crane was startled by their cry, opened its mouth, and the weed it was holding fell down. They quipped, "If you can't borrow wings, let's moisten your throat with weeds." Xiucai, who had a nosebleed, hurriedly put the weeds in his mouth and chewed it, moistened with water, his throat was not dry, his mouth was no longer thirsty, and after a while, the nosebleeds stopped flowing. They hurried away with joy. Later, they all became Jinshi and became Qipin county officials, so they sent people to the mountains to find that kind of weed. After the doctor's identification test, it was proved that it did have the ability to stop bleeding. In order to commemorate the crane that sent herbs, it was named "crane grass".

3. Once upon a time, there were more than 100 cranes living in the reed pond in Liaoheyuan Town, Dongliao County, and one of the leading female cranes was very beautiful, and according to legend, she came down from the fairy in the sky. Not far from the reed pond, there is a Zhuanxin Lake Spring, and the eye spring is formed by an earth dragon drilling out of the ground. The spring water in the company is fragrant and sweet, and the water is clear and does not dry all day long. One year there was a great drought, the reed pond dried up, and the crane was so thirsty that she had no choice, so she begged the crane goddess to go to the spring of Zhuanxin Lake to get some water to drink. The goddess of the crane agreed, and when she called out, she became a village girl, carrying a jug in her hand, and came to the spring. She stretched out her head to look into the spring, and the beautiful figure was reflected in the spring, and Tulong saw this flower-like village girl at the bottom of the spring, and suddenly burst out of the water, and pounced on the crane girl with her teeth and claws. The Crane Girl struggled with the Earth Dragon and smashed the jug into the Earth Dragon's eyes, not wanting the Earth Dragon to bite the Crane Girl's foot and grab the Crane Girl's collar. The crane girl was almost angry, and she had no intention of fighting, so she screamed, and immediately returned to her original form and flew into the air; The crane sisters in the reeds also flew away with her. Since then, a kind of grass has slowly grown on this land, with feathery compound leaves, flower spikes at the top, black roots, and white buds at the roots, which people call it crane grass.

Crane grass is the whole grass of the perennial herbaceous plant dragon bud grass of the Rosaceae family. In most parts of the country, the stems and leaves are harvested in summer and autumn when the stems and leaves are luxuriant, impurities are removed, dried in the sun, and cut into raw sections.

Through the above three stories, we already know that Crane Grass is good at stopping bleeding and replenishing deficiency. According to the book "Materia Medica", Xianhe grass can also kill insects, stop dysentery, strengthen the heart, kill bacteria, fight cancer, and can treat many diseases.

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