"What do you mean by four ones, thirty-six and seventy-two?"

Lao Li Tou said proudly: "The so-called four one is worth four types of herbs: a bowl of water by the river, seven leaves and a flower, a bead on the head, and a pen for King Wen." ”

The four people were also curious to hear this name, and Lao Li Tou continued: "First of all, a pearl on the top of the head, also known as Trillium, is a very precious Chinese herbal medicine, it blooms a yellow flower from three small leaves in summer, and in autumn it breeds a small purple red pearl fruit in the flower, and the medicine is named after it, and the pearl fruit on the top of the branch is called "Tianzhu", which is the most valuable, and is generally eaten by the medicine picker at that time, and it is said that swallowing one does not know hunger, thirst and fatigue. The medicinal part is actually an underground bulb, that is, the "earth", which has a special effect on curing dizziness and headaches, and nourishes yin and nourishes blood, and can prolong people's life when taken regularly. ”

Brother Kan said anxiously when he heard this: "It can make people forget hunger, thirst and fatigue, quickly say what kind of "dzi" there is, this way is really tiring, let me have two to taste the saltiness first." ”

Lao Li Tou pulled around the grass and said, "There is one here, come and take a look." ”

Brother Kan took the lead and couldn't wait to surround him, only to see a stubby rhizome in the weeds, ten centimeters high, the leaves are diamond-shaped round, the outer tepal is ovate-lanceolate, green, the inner tepal is white, rarely lavender, ovate-lanceolate, and a small pale yellow flower in the middle that is not fully bloomed.

Brother Kan, who was looking left and right, asked, "What about the dzi?" Where's my dzi? ”

Long Ziyan reminded: "Autumn, autumn will bear fruit." ”

"What's that? Autumn, what am I excited about? ”

"Ask you." The purple kite can't stand the nervous Brother Kan.

Lao Li Tou continued: "King Wen a pen, legend has it that King Wen of Zhou passed through Shennongjia, once used it as a pen to write poems and paintings, review official documents, so get this name, and because this plant is a parasitic plant, often parasitic in the roots of other plants to grow, so there is also the alias of "borrowing the mother to return the womb", fleshy herbs, parasitic on the roots of plants, its shape is like cistanche and no scales, like a lock yang and slender, the purple-red flesh column stands upright, like a red pen, so it gets this name. The rest of the plant is rich in honey, I have seen a group of bees flying around it during the summer flowering, lingering, it can be seen that its nutrition is rich, this medicine has a good hemostasis, blood activation, blood nourishment function. ”

"The so-called bowl of water by the river, mostly grows by the stream, its top leaves are like lotus leaves, large and deep into a concave shape, and the rain often fogs in it, such as a bowl of water, so botanists give it a strange name: podophyllus, a good medicine for the treatment of bruises.

"The most powerful thing is this seven-leaf flower, also known as Chonglou, iron lampstand, all because of the seven-leaf wheel top blooming a yellow-green flower. The herbalist has the saying of "seven leaves and a flower, a hundred poisons to grasp", which has a special effect on insect and snake bites, nameless swelling and poison, for people like us who come to the mountains in the mountains, meeting it is equivalent to picking up a life, but unfortunately it is too rare. ”

Brother Kan was impatient to hear this, shook his hand and said, "Who wants to listen to these things that are not there, what they say is better than what they sing." ”

The purple kite reprimanded: "Brother Kan, you are too rude, listen to the old man." ”

Lao Li Tou didn't feel angry, and explained with a smile: "These are all precious legacies passed down from generation to generation, but unfortunately fewer and fewer people know about them, so ah, I remember these clearly, and every time I am a guide for others, I will tell them about it, and I will be happy for a while if I know one more." ”

Long Ziliang said respectfully to Lao Li Tou: "Old man, you continue to speak, we are all willing to listen, and we all remember it in our hearts, what else is called thirty-six returning to the yang?" ”

The old man smiled and said while walking with the four of them: "These thirty-six are Yang-returning herbs, which are divided into: Lily Yang, Cabbage Yang, Kill Yang, Bean Board Yang, Douban Yang, Powder Bone Yang, Melon Rice Yang, Melon Seeds Yang, Chicken Feet Yang, Chicken Feathers Yang, Chicken Thighs Yang, Chicken Feet Yang, Golden Ear Yang, Golden Silk Yang, Leeks Yang, Chrysanthemum Yang, Roll Groove Yang, Plum Yang, June Yang, Landing Yang, Horse Ear Yang, Horseshoe Yang, Horsetail Yang, Cat Ear Yang, Plum Blossom Yang, Floor Yang, Cover Yang, green vegetables to the yang, clear water to the yang, fan to the yang, ten steps to the yang, stone sparrow to the yang, lycoris to the yang, stalagmites to the yang, pine and cypress to the yang, pine branches to the yang, broken bones to the yang, the sun to the yang, the iron plate to the yang, the wire to the yang, the copper wire to the yang, the centipede to the yang, the crow to the yang, the rock slab to the yang, the rock to the yang, the silver wire to the yang, the pig ear to the yang, ....... ”

Long Ziyan couldn't help but sigh at the old man's memory, so many herbs actually remembered clearly, and he also understood the weight of these precious legacies in the old man's heart, perhaps this is also his sense of mission to accept the inheritance from generation to generation.

Lao Li Tou said: "Speaking of this" Returning Yang " is actually a little related to "Nine" and "I Ching". ”

"The Book of Changes?"

Lao Li Tou explained: "Nine is the extreme number, and counting to nine is repeated, which has the meaning of restoration; The Book of Changes takes yang as nine of the nine numbers of yang, so the "nine" series is also collectively called "returning yang" (also known as "nine deaths and returning yang"). It is rumored that there are as many as 99 kinds of this kind of rejuvenating grass, and there are two main meanings of rejuvenating grass: first, this kind of herb has the function of reviving some diseases of human beings; The second is that this kind of herb itself is an immortal grass, which has a strong regenerative power, even if it dies for dozens of days, it can be revived at the sight of water, and the two are mutually inducing and wonderful. ”

Huanyang grass aroused Longgang's interest, and immediately caught up with Lao Li Tou and asked: "Is there really a Yang grass in this valley?" ”

This is not easy to answer, according to the function of the herb to return yang, such as "one hundred steps to return yang", "nine deaths to return yang", "beat to death to return yang" ......; Or it is named after the shape of the plant, such as "wheat and rice return to yang", "melon seeds return to yang", "bamboo leaves return to yang", ...... Among them, the most precious and rare ones are the surgical medicine "Golden Silk Returning Yang" and the internal medicine "Golden Hairpin Returning Yang". ”

Long Ziyan asked bluntly: "Is this "golden silk returning yang" and "golden bamboo returning yang" like an elixir. ”

When Lao Li Tou heard this, he raised his head and laughed and said, "The elixir of life? If it was that magical, then I wouldn't be so old, and wouldn't it be better to stay young forever. ”

"Yes, but there are some special magical herbs in this valley that have not spread, even the very evil ones."

"Of course, no one is more familiar with this Shennong Valley than me, other herbs such as Eight Catching Dragons, Erlang Arrows, Flying Centipede, Cross River Dragon, Red Masang, Huoxue Beads, Elderberry Pill, Golden Belt, Nine Cows, June Cold, Keel Stretching Tendons, Dew a Pearl, Ink Fragrance, Seven Leaf Bladder, Three-leaf Huaitong, Mountain Pheasant Blood Vine, Shangshu Centipede, Shujin Grass, Four-leaf Ginseng, Taibai Ginseng, Iron Comb, A Penny, Cloud Grass, Cinnabar Lotus, Pig's Waist Vine, Zhuan Tendon Grass, Purple Gold Sand, Purple Gentian, Zusi Arrow, etc. It's just some common herbs. ”