Chapter 81: Good Medicine and Poison

"It is those who do not feel the cold, the seven days of Juyang disease decay, headache is less healed; on the eighth day of Yang Ming disease decay, the body heat is less healed; on the ninth day of Shaoyang disease and decay, deafness is faintly heard; on the tenth day of Taiyin disease and decay, the abdomen is reduced as before, then they think about eating; on the eleventh day, they are less sick and weak, thirst is dissatisfied, and the tongue is dry and sneezes; on the twelfth day, the yin is weakened, the sac is longitudinal, the abdomen is slightly lower, the atmosphere is gone, and the sick day is gone. Qu Fan replied in one breath.

"Okay, come again. Hu Guanyue closed his eyes, "What does it mean that there are more than five and two are insufficient?"

Qu Fan took a deep breath to calm his mind, and said, "The so-called five are more than five, the five diseases are more than enough, and the two are insufficient, and they are also ......."

"Stop," Hu Guanyue interrupted him loudly, "Who asked you to memorize the original text, I'll let you explain." ”

Qu Fan lowered his head slightly.

"Can't answer?" Hu Guanyue scolded, "If you can't answer, you ......"

"The five more than five are the symptoms of body heat, such as charcoal fire, the feeling of obstruction in the neck and feet, and the five symptoms of restlessness in the pulse, shortness of breath, and reversal of qi, which are caused by the excess of evil qi; Qu Fan replied calmly.

Hu Guanyue didn't speak, and looked at Qu Fan coldly. Qu Fan lowered his head and did not say a word.

After two minutes, Hu Guanyue shouted, "Okay, come here, you can take this thing back." As he spoke, Hu Guanyue took out a small rectangular box from behind him and handed it to Qu Fan.

"Thank you, grandpa. Qu Fan took it, looked at the box in his hand, and didn't know what was inside?

"In this is a set of silver needles and a small silver knife that I gave to your father, and he left them behind when he left here, and today I will hand them over to you for safekeeping. Hu Guanyue said to him, "From tomorrow onwards, follow your grandmother to learn all kinds of herbal knowledge, follow your senior brother to learn meridian acupoints, and when you learn it, when you come to me again, go." ”

"Yes, Grandpa. Subsequently, Qu Fan left the pharmacy, walked to the medicine garden, and went to find Hu Ziyi.

Seeing Qu Fan walking to the medicine garden with an expressionless face, Hu Ziyi comforted him, "Xiaofan, it's okay, it's okay if you don't memorize it, there will be a chance in the future." ”

Suddenly, Qu Fan turned into a smiling face and told him, "Brother Ziyi, grandpa asked you to teach me meridians and acupuncture points, and let grandma teach me herbal medicine." ”

"Congratulations, Xiaofan, but, why aren't you happy at all after you passed the grandfather level?" Hu Ziyi was a little surprised.

"Because this is the only way for me to return to Yudu as soon as possible, and it is also the reason for my hard work, so I don't feel anything to be happy about. Qu Fan said calmly.

At this time, Shen Chunhua heard the sound and walked over, "Learning Chinese medicine pays the most attention to Buddha nature, and Xiao Fan has done a good job of this." She praised Qu Fan, "Xiao Fan, you come." Shen Chunhua waved at him and motioned for him to come over.

Qu Fan walked up to her and asked, "Grandma, what's wrong?"

"Look, how many kinds of medicinal herbs have been planted in our medicine garden?" Shen Chunhua asked him.

Qu Fan glanced at it a few times and replied, "No more than two hundred." ”

Shen Chunhua nodded, "That's right, there are a total of one hundred and eighty-four kinds, all of which are the most common and common herbs. In Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty, nearly 2,000 kinds of herbs were recorded, but less than 10% of the types we have here, why is that?" Shen Chunhua asked him.

After thinking about it, Qu Fan shook his head and said, "Grandma, I don't know. ”

"Herbs vary from one herb to another in terms of shape, smell, function, and healing, but the most common herbs are often the most effective. Don't look too much for those herbs that you can't see and are too valuable, just look for the common herbs at hand, which are often the most common and the most effective. Shen Chunhua nodded at him.

After listening to this, Qu Fan carefully recalled the meaning of these words in his heart, and then nodded.

"Xiao Fan, did you think of anything?" Shen Chunhua couldn't help but ask when he saw Qu Fan's look of awakening.

"Hmm," Qu Fan nodded.

"Well, you don't have to say it, just keep it in your heart. After speaking, Shen Chunhua squatted down and began to teach Qu Fan to identify various herbs.

"This is a gardenia, the taste is slightly bitter, the fire is relieved, the heat and dampness are cleared, the blood is cooled and the blood is detoxified, the swelling is relieved and the pain is relieved; this is the red peony, slightly bitter, cold, has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, removing stasis and relieving pain; ...... This is a white-flowered snake tongue grass, slightly bitter and sweet, cold in nature, can clear away heat and dampness, detoxify and reduce swelling. Shen Chunhua taught Qu Fan with his heart.

Qu Fan never knew that there were so many magical plants in this world, such as purple lily, andrographis, white myrtle, silver bupleurum, morning glory, magnolia, psyllium, desmodium, and large green leaves...... What's even more incredible to him is that these weeds and other plants can have such a big effect.

As he listened, he wrote it down in a small notebook with a pen so that he could review it at night. Sometimes, if you write it down in one day, you can organize a whole book. While tidying up the medicine garden, Qu Fan was also constantly looking at his notes and reciting them quietly.

Qu Fan studied hard, Shen Chunhua also taught wholeheartedly, and under the alternating training of Shen Chunhua and Hu Ziyi, Qu Fan gradually became familiar with medical skills.

Every night, after leaving his master's room and returning to his room, Qu Fan read all kinds of medical books, learned rich theoretical knowledge, and tasted all kinds of medical records.

Unconsciously, Qu Fan entered the world of Chinese medicine.

After Qu Fan mastered these things, he came to Hu Guanyue's study and asked him, "Grandpa, what you told me has been completed, what should I do next?"

Hu Guanyue took out a few pieces of paper and a pen, put them in front of Qu Fan, and said, "Now, write down all the poisons you know, if you are wrong, you don't need to eat dinner tonight." ”

Qu Fan picked up the pen and prepared to write down what he knew. However, among the thousands of herbs, there are countless kinds of poisons, and it is not easy to write them all, besides, Qu Fan can't complete such a large amount of work.

"Why don't you put pen to paper, the time is almost up. Hu Guanyue scolded him.

"Is there still a time limit?" Qu Fan asked suspiciously.

"Of course", Hu Guanyue said very naturally, "within an hour, you can write as much as you can, but the premise is that you can't make mistakes, otherwise you can't pass." ”

Qu Fan didn't hesitate any longer, picked up the pen, and began to write the names of various poisons, "Broken intestine grass, crane top red, natural arsenic, oleander, quinine, tripterygium wilfordii, poison, yellow frangipani root, yew, wild celery, turtle, nightshade root, blood seal throat, hook kiss, poinsettia ......"

In just one hour, Qu Fan wrote down more than a hundred poisonous herbs. He showed it to Hu Guanyue, thinking that it was no problem, but who knows, after Hu Guanyue finished reading it, he tore off the paper, looked at Qu Fan, and said, "It's all wrong, I'll give you two more days, if you still make a mistake, you will consider the consequences." ”

"Grandpa, can you tell me what went wrong?" Qu Fan asked him.

"Can't", he still refused very bluntly, "Where is wrong, it depends on your own experience and understanding, go out." ”

"Yes, Grandpa. ”

Qu Fan was just about to walk out of the pharmacy when he was stopped by Hu Guanyue again, "You don't have to ask your grandma and Ziyi, they won't tell you." ”

Qu Fan nodded and returned to his room.

He looked at the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and compared it with what he wrote, there was nothing wrong, everything he wrote was poison, but how could grandpa say that it was wrong?

Qu Fan thought about it carefully, one night, he didn't have a clue at all, his grandfather, what did he mean, Qu Fan never figured it out.

"Forget it, instead of wasting time thinking about it now, it's better to read more books for a while, and come to the truth. Qu Fan said in his heart, took out the medical case he brought from the study, and looked at some strange cases.

After turning a few pages, it was normal, but suddenly he saw that in the prescription of a case, there was a medicine called mandala seeds, which were white flowers, one to two meters high, with erect stems, round leaves, summer flowers, cylindrical flowers, the whole plant was poisonous, and the seeds were the most poisonous.

Obviously it is a poison, how can it be used here, Qu Fan doesn't understand why this is.

He continued to rummage to see if anything like that was going on. After flipping through this medical case, Qu Fan brought a few more medical cases from the study, intending to continue looking for it.

Sure enough, in another medical case, a case similar to the mandala seed was found, "It turns out that poison can also be used in medicine." Qu Fan told himself.

Qu Fan closed the medical case and reviewed what he was thinking, and after a long time, Qu Fan laughed, and finally figured it out, tomorrow.

Qu Fan came to the pharmacy again, and Hu Guanyue still took out a few pieces of paper and a pen for him and asked him to write down the poison he knew.

Qu Fan didn't hesitate this time, directly picked up the pen, and wrote in the first line, "Poison and antidote, in fact, there is no strict distinction standard, if used properly, poison can also be an antidote to save people's lives, and if it is used, the antidote will also harm people's health." ”

Then, Qu Fan continued, "Salvia, bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature, has the functions of invigorating blood and dissolving stasis, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncles, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. Disease prevention and health care: take an appropriate amount of salvia, grind it into powder, and take it with a small glass of warm wine or light salt water before going to bed, which is effective for all kinds of menstrual irregularities, but pregnant women and women during menstruation should not use it.

Goji berries have the effects of nourishing the kidneys and lungs, nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes. During the period of taking, stop taking other Chinese and Western medicines, which is also effective for the elderly at home who have dry mouth at night, but the dosage should not be excessive. For male infertility patients, you can also take some wolfberries every night and chew them carefully, and abstain from sexual intercourse during the period of taking

......”

This time, Qu Fan wrote down the detailed usage and dosage of each herb, and the corresponding details, the time was only one hour, and after the time, Qu Fan only wrote less than thirty kinds of medicinal materials.

He handed the paper to Hu Guanyue and waited for his reply.