When Uncle Park heard me ask about this, he couldn't help but sigh, as if he had something distressing, and then slowly told us what had happened.

This happened half a month ago, a patient suddenly came to the town health center, this patient did a detailed examination, but did not find the cause, and went to the big hospital in the province for examination, and the result was still the same.

Later, after being introduced, the patient found Uncle Park, and I heard that Uncle Park is an ancestral Chinese medicine practitioner, who is very interested in some incurable diseases, and some home remedies are particularly effective.

Uncle Park was shocked when he saw the patient, this person is not skinny, he is completely skinny, it seems that he can be 1.8 meters tall, and his weight is less than 80 pounds, you can imagine how thin he is.

Uncle Park carried out normal looking, smelling and asking, but did not find any cause, can only see that this person has a problem with gastrointestinal function, this patient said, since he went out to fish and came back, he began to have stomach trouble, and then he actually pulled some green little insects, and ate all kinds of insecticides to no avail.

Uncle Park prescribed a prescription to the patient, but it had almost no effect after taking it, and later Uncle Park told the patient that maybe he had been hit by Gu! That is what the southern folk call Gu poison!

Speaking of Gu poison, we have to introduce Gu art, Gu art is a mysterious witchcraft inherited in ancient China.

Gu is commonly known as the "grass ghost" in the Miao area, and according to legend, it is attached to women and harms others. Those so-called women with Gu are called "grass ghost women". After investigation, some Miao scholars believe that almost the entire Miao nationality believes in Gu, and is divided into green Miao and black Miao. It's just that the weight varies from place to place.

In addition to some sudden symptoms, they believe that some chronic diseases that are difficult to treat such as long-term cough, hemoptysis, blue complexion and emaciation, as well as internal organ discomfort, bowel sound, abdominal distention, loss of appetite and other symptoms are the main chronic diseases. It's all Gu.

If it is sudden, you can use the method of shouting to let the so-called Gu person take it back by himself; If you are a chronic patient, you have to ask a wizard to do "detoxification".

This kind of intimidating Gu is not the patent of the Miao people. Gu art has long been widely spread in the Jiangnan region of ancient China. Originally, Gu referred to insects that were born in utensils, and later, moths and other objects born after grain decay were also called Gu.

The ancients believed that Gu had mysterious properties and great toxicity. Therefore, it is also called poisonous Gu, which can enter the human body through food and drink to cause diseases. The patient seems to be bewitched by a ghost and is delirious. Most of the Gu insects mentioned by the pre-Qin people refer to naturally occurring mysterious poisonous insects. The long-term poisonous superstition has also developed the concept and practice of creating Gu and harming people. According to scholars. During the Warring States Period, there were already people in the Central Plains who used and taught the method of creating Gu and harming people.

The legendary method of creating poisonous Gu is generally to put a variety of highly poisonous poisonous insects such as snakes and scorpions, such as scorpions, scorpions, etc., into the same utensil, so that they can eat each other and kill each other, and the only surviving poisonous insect left in Zuihou is Gu. There are many types of Gu. The more influential ones are snake Gu, dog Gu, cat ghost Gu, scorpion Gu, toad Gu, insect Gu, flying Gu, etc.

Although Gu is a tangible thing on the surface. But since ancient times, Gu has been considered a mysterious thing that can fly, change, glow, and come and go like a ghost. Gu makers can use spells to remotely control Gu worms to bring various diseases to the target and even kill them.

The ancients were convinced of the spells that poison Gu caused diseases, and Song Renzong issued the book "Qingli Good Cure Prescription" in the eighth year of Qingli (1048) to introduce the method of curing Gu, and even the medical books such as "Treatise on Diseases and Diseases", "Qianjin Fang", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other medical books have detailed medical prescriptions for the detailed analysis and treatment of the symptoms of Zhonggu.

Xiangxi's "Gu Technique" and Thailand's "Head Lowering Technique" are known as the two major evil arts in Southeast Asia. Xiangxi's Gu technique is the same as Xiangxi's corpse chasing, and it has not been able to point out its true situation until now. Unlike chasing corpses, Gu release is almost all left in Xiangxi. The corpse is mainly spread in the four counties of Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi, and Lipu in Xiangxi. Gu is commonly known as the "grass ghost" in the Xiangxi region, and according to legend, it is only attached to women. Endanger others.

There is also a legend in this, once upon a time, there was a mother with Gu, Gu fell in love with her son, and of course the mother did not want her son. However, Gu bit her very fiercely, and there was no way, so she agreed to let Gu harm her son. When this mother said these words to her Gu, it happened to be heard by her daughter-in-law outside. The daughter-in-law hurried to the edge of the village, and when her husband came back from mowing the grass, she told him about it, and said that the bowl of eggs that his mother had fried for him should not be eaten when he returned.

After finishing speaking, the daughter-in-law went home first and boiled a large pot of boiling water. When he came home in a while, his mother brought him the bowl of eggs and told him to eat them. The daughter-in-law said that the eggs were cold, and they would eat them when they were hot. As he spoke, he lifted the lid of the pot, poured the bowl of scrambled eggs into the pot of boiling water, closed the lid and pressed it tightly, only to hear what was struggling and swinging in the pot. After a while, there was no movement, and when I opened the lid of the pot, I saw that it was a big snake that burned to death.

These Gu release methods and Gu appearances, except for the saying that they have been passed down from generation to generation, no one has ever seen them, so some people think that they are nothing.

It is believed that "Gu" is only available to women, and can only be attached to women and passed on to the next generation of women, not to men. For example, if a young man "You Fang" meets a "Gu" girl who is in love and marries her without the consent of her parents, then their next generation, all of whom are women, must inherit the Gu from her mother and pass it on from generation to generation. In the Chinese classics, the Gu casters are not limited to women, Weishenme Miao people believe that only women have Gu?

This is related to the social and cultural traditions of the Han and Miao ethnic groups. In the witchcraft beliefs of the Han people, there is only a distinction between good and evil, and there is no opposition between genders. In southern ethnic minorities such as the Miao, the remnants of cultural gender antagonism formed in the process of matriarchy being replaced by patriarchy are much stronger, and this antagonism is manifested in the belief in witchcraft, that is, the male shaman who occupies the orthodox position becomes the party that maintains social order. Witches, who once dominated matriarchal societies, became order-breakers and were falsely accused of being the inheritors of black witchcraft. All the natural and man-made disasters that the male wizards could not explain or understand, were all held on the heads of witches. As a result, the absurd conclusion that women have Gu was deduced in this way.

"Gu poison? Uncle Park, do you mean that there are still people in our Northeast who know Gu arts? I asked, surprised.

Uncle Park shook his head and said, "No, there must be no one in our Northeast who knows Gu art, first of all, Gu worms can't survive in the environment of our Northeast at all, and they can't be raised at all." ”

"Then Uncle Park, how can you say that the patient has been poisoned?" Gangzi also asked puzzled.

"First of all, this person's illness is very consistent with the performance of Gu in the book; Secondly, there are green worms in the feces he pulls, and I have also seen them, very much like a kind of green worm Gu that has become extinct! Uncle Park explained.

Uncle Pu knew the doubts in our hearts, so he continued to explain: "This kind of green worm Gu can be stored for a long time, and there is no need for a wizard to release the Gu at all, and the patient's performance is completely consistent with the symptoms of this Gu. ”

At this time, we understood what was going on, but at the same time, a question appeared in our minds, how did this person fall for the Gu?

"I asked the patient in detail about his experience, he did have the possibility of being exposed to Gu poison, he went out fishing that day, and when he pulled up the fishing net, he found that there was a green jar in the net, which looked very old and had a lot of moss on it. He thought he had hit an ancient treasure, and it took a lot of effort to open the jar, only to see a lot of disgusting green maggots crawling out of the jar! Uncle Park recalled. (To be continued......)