Chapter 166: Shennong's Materia Medica
Ji Wenming asked curiously: "Grandpa Shenwang, have you ever seen the old man Shennong......?" What does it look like?"
King Sam was immersed in the memories of the past, and said very nostalgically: "That old man is dressed in animal skins, his feet are wearing straw sandals, his skin is dark, dry and yellow, he is less than six feet tall, his face is thin, his beard is like grass, and he is no different from ordinary people, the only thing that makes people remember is that pair of eyes, firm and calm, fresh and bright, full of green, and full of vitality!"
In addition to a pair of green eyes, this old man is no different from the ordinary old man in the tribe, the years have added wrinkles to their appearance, the wind and dust have made their skin rough and yellow, and the poison of the herbs has poisoned his body, and he often has diseases, but for the reproduction and prosperity of mankind, he never regrets it, and still focuses on identifying the herbs, using his body to identify poisons for human beings, expanding the available food circle, and because of the nature of medicinal herbs, he has created a medical theory that treats diseases and saves people, what a great person this is๏ผ
Ji Wenming couldn't help but admire: "They are also seven-foot men, but what Shennong's predecessors have done deserves to be glorious for thousands of years!"
King Sam also exclaimed: "That old man should be the cultivation of the wood Yuan Li, so he can have such achievements in herbs and trees, I have seen him taste the scene of plant poisoning, need to work hard to refine, in order to get rid of the toxins, many times the toxins can not be eliminated in time, accumulated in the body, all rely on the Yuan Force to suppress, so, causing his fingers to be black, extremely rough, the skin on it is eroded by toxins, layer by layer falling off, but I have never heard him cry out in pain!
Ji Wenming said: "There are many heroes of the ancient human race, and they do not hesitate to sacrifice themselves for the development of mankind, and people like Shennong's predecessors can be called the ultimate in being a human being!
Seeing that Ji Wenming was full of interest in the "Shennong Materia Medica", the king was also very happy, and it was inducted by the divine mind to release a leaf of pure wood yuan strange things that had been collected for many years in the roots of the body of King Shen's body, and transferred it to Ji Wenming, this piece of wood yuan strange things is very magical, the whole body is green, shaped like a bay leaf, and with the transmission of the two people's divine thoughts, it directly entered the sea of knowledge of Xi Wenming.
Baye has a spirit, and he noticed that the five elements of the transformation fruit spirit source rooted in the sea of Xiwen's destiny consciousness happened to be connected with himself, so he escaped into it with a whoosh, and Xiwen ordered the divine thought to sweep this bay leaf, and found that this palm-sized bay leaf stored dense messages, enough for tens of thousands.
Although King Sam was fortunate to get a fragment of "Shennong's Materia Medica", at that time Shennong's family was traveling the world and tasting all kinds of herbs, so this masterpiece was not complete, but even so, the content was very rich.
The ancient Cangjie made words, and was promoted by the emperor of the human race, and many great witches have mastered the meaning of these words, some of which were originally Wuwen Yun Seal, but they are also in the same line, but Xi Wenming himself does not like to learn, with his level of coarse literacy, this piece of Baye Leaf passed down the "Shennong Materia Medica", to more than half of the text is not familiar, fortunately, there are not only words on the Baye, but also maps, which make people clear at a glance.
He slightly distinguished, the content of the bay leaf is divided into upper, middle and lower three grades, the upper grade records more than 1,200 kinds of herbs, basically non-toxic, most of them are drugs that prolong life; the middle grade records more than 1,200 kinds of herbs, some of them are poisonous, most of them are drugs for nourishing and strengthening the body; there are more than 1,300 kinds of lower grades, most of them are poisonous, and they are used to treat diseases and heal drugs!
The "Shennong's Materia Medica" not only records the medicinal use of plants, but also includes animals, minerals, foreign bodies, etc., including more than 2,500 kinds of plants, more than 700 kinds of animals, more than 400 kinds of minerals, and hundreds of miscellaneous species.
What is particularly valuable is that Shennong's not only tried to record the taste, function characteristics and other contents of various drugs, but also wrote a separate text at the front of the scriptures, and also gave a detailed description of the drug's taste, briefly proposing: "Medicine has five flavors: sour, salty, sweet, bitter and pungent, and there are four gases of cold, heat, warmth, and coolness, and poison and non-toxicity. "Treat cold with hot medicine, cure heat with cold medicine, and eat and drink without vomiting medicine...... According to the "according to its own suitability", it is pointed out that the four qi of cold, heat, warmth and coolness, and the five flavors of sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty are the basic temperament of medicine, and drugs can be selected according to the different properties of cold, heat, dampness and dryness of the disease.
Select hot medicine for cold disease, choose cold medicine for fever, choose warm and dry products for wet disease, and choose warm and dry products for dry disease, and refer to the relationship between the five elements and shengke, and have a good understanding of the meridian, trend, rise and fall, ups and downs of drugs, so as to select the basic theories and principles of drug formulation, compatibility and medication. And summarized the drug compatibility methods such as "medicine has a monarch and a minister", "there are one-way people, there are people who have a beard, there are people who are afraid of each other, there are people who are evil, there are opposites, and there are people who kill each other".
In order to ensure the quality of the drug, it is also pointed out that it is necessary to pay attention to the origin of the drug, the time, method and authenticity of the drug. It is made into various dosage forms, depending on the medicinal properties. The use of poison should be started in small doses and increased as the disease progresses. The time of taking the medicine should be determined according to the location of the disease, and the medicine should be taken before eating, after eating, or in the morning and before going to bed.
Since the king got the fragment of "Shennong's Materia Medica", he has been cherishing and hiding it, lest he trust it to be a non-person, and now he has passed the Bayeux Sutra to Ji Wenming, and he is still not very relieved, and he earnestly taught: "Wenming, since you have obtained the "Shennong's Materia Medica", you can find a way to carry it forward, in ancient times, the human race lived by the river, fishing and hunting for a living, it was because of the old man Shennong, that he could settle in a place, fire and water, harvest every year, and continue to reproduce and grow! You can't live up to the hard work of the old man!"
Ji Wenming nodded and said: "Grandpa Shenwang rest assured, I have long heard of the name of the Shennong clan, I didn't expect him to do such a great thing for the human race, this "Shennong's Materia Medica" not only records the truth of curing diseases and saving people, but also has a lot of records about prolonging life and strengthening the body, which is by no means inferior to a top exercise, I will definitely promote this knowledge to the human race, so that everyone can benefit from it!"
Ji Wen's life to save the common people, the promotion of the "Shennong Materia Medica" of the mind moved, and suddenly felt that there was a mutation between heaven and earth, it seemed to be the vitality of the human race's high-spirited struggle, and it seemed to be the operation of heaven and earth, the law of the cycle, from the sea of knowledge into the body, so that he from the inside to the outside of the rise of spirit.
Ji Wen said strangely: "Is this the power to feed back the sentient beings who have established their hearts for all the people and the heavens and the earth? If so, maybe what I can do is not only to promote this "Shennong's Materia Medica"! The world is so big, the eight wildernesses are strange, people yearn for it, if I can make the mountains and seas, strange beasts, mineral deposits, and plants between heaven and earth into a book, maybe the merit will be far better than this!"
Inspired by "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica", Ji Wenming had the ideal of traveling all over the Great Wilderness for the first time and recording and producing a book of mountains and seas in the Great Wilderness.