"World Lycium barbarum is in China, China Lycium barbarum is in Ningxia, and Ningxia Lycium barbarum ranks first in the world". Due to the special natural environment in Ningxia, Lycium barbarum produced in Ningxia is superior to other areas in China. According to China Pharmacopoeia, Lycium barbarum can only be used as medicine. Lycium barbarum used as medicine is a dried and mature fruit of Lycium barbarum, which has the functions of tonifying kidney, replenishing essence, protecting liver and improving eyesight. The medicinal value of Lycium barbarum is also recorded in many ancient medical books in China. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica records that "taking Lycium barbarum for a long time can strengthen bones and muscles, resist cold and heat, and keep young, which is the top grade of Chinese medicine". Compendium of Materia Medica says, "Long-term service strengthens bones and muscles, makes people healthy but not old, and resists cold and heat". China is the first country to utilize Lycium barbarum resources. The ancients worshipped the magical efficacy of Lycium barbarum and wrote many stories related to Lycium barbarum. Lycium barbarum can tonify kidney and essence, nourish liver and improve eyesight, moisten lung and nourish yin, which is the fruit of longevity in the world. Speaking of Lycium barbarum, there is such an interesting legend.
It is said that before the Queen Mother became immortal, she used to collect herbs in Wulonggou area of Kunlun Mountain for a living. Because he didn't want money, he gave the collected herbs to the sick poor, and was turned into immortals by immortals, and was named the queen of the Jade Emperor, that is, the Queen Mother. In the sky, the heavenly queen is obsessed with the poor people on the earth, thinking that a person who delivers medicine and cures diseases on the earth will replace herself and benefit the people on the earth.
One day, the Queen Mother dressed as an old woman was begging in a village, and he asked the onlookers to say that anyone who wanted to recognize her as a mother could teach her the skill of picking herbs. For a time, the news that begging old women can know all kinds of medicines spread like wildfire. Soon, a businessman found an old beggar. The businessman has his own abacus. He wants to learn to recognize medicines, and he can collect medicines to treat diseases, sell medicinal materials and make a lot of money. So he took the old woman to his home and served her with good clothes and food. But after a few days, the old woman never mentioned the matter of spreading medicine to treat the disease. One day, the businessman called his mother hypocritically and asked about sending medicine. The old woman replied, I am too old and weak to climb the mountain, so I need you to carry me up the mountain. In the businessman's mind, it takes dozens of miles to get to Kunlun Mountain, and I can't carry it. So he asked some farmers to carry the old woman in a sedan chair, but the old woman said, you must carry me yourself before I can pass on my skills to you. This businessman can't stand this pain and thinks that this is not the whole me! The businessman was furious: "I have fed you for so many days for nothing." If you want to cheat on eating and drinking, fuck you! " "The old man was not angry, so he put on his rags with a smile, left the merchant's house and began to beg in the street again. Not long after, another rich man found her and wanted to recognize her as a mother. The rich man thought, what a wonderful thing it would be if the old woman could teach him the skill of picking herbs, collect valuable ginseng and ganoderma lucidum and give them to the powerful and powerful, so as to get an official position! So he took the old woman home. At first, she was delicious and entertaining, but after more than a month, the old man still didn't pass the medicine. The rich had no choice but to drive the old man out of the house like a businessman.
In this way, the Queen Mother still pretends to be a beggar and expresses her thoughts everywhere, but many people regard the old man as a madman and a liar, and no one wants to recognize her as a mother. Finally, the heavenly queen drove Xiangyun to the Ningxia border. Pressing the cloud head, the queen mother saw the mountains and rivers flooding, and a woodcutter carried an old man across the flooded stone bridge. The queen mother looked at it and thought, isn't this the person I am looking for to deliver medicine? When the Queen Mother saw the woodcutter crossing the bridge with the old man, she pretended to be a beggar and called the woodcutter and asked him to carry himself across the river. When the woodcutter heard the cry, he immediately crossed the river, carrying the beggar on his back. Seeing that the woodcutter was so kind, the queen mother wanted to teach him the skill of recognizing medicine, so she tested the woodcutter and said that she had not eaten for several days. The woodcutter helped the old man to his home not far away. After asking for help, he asked his wife to serve. The beggar girl was about to leave after dinner. The couple stopped her and said, "Where are you going on such a hot day?" When the old man said he was going to beg, the kind couple sympathized and advised her, "It's very difficult to beg at your age!" " If you think my family is not poor, stay here and be my blind mother's companion? "The beggar woman hesitated, and then nodded.
The days passed quickly and turned for half a year. One day, the beggar woman tried to say, "I'm sorry to live in your house like this, but please let me go?" The woodcutter was anxious: "You have no children. I think you are an adoptive mother. Isn't that great? " In the future, I will give you a pension. "The heavenly queen thinks that this is the kind person I am looking for, and I will be able to pass on the sacred fruit that benefits the world in the future.
A few days later, the beggar woman suddenly said to the woodcutter, "Son, take me to Longquan Mountain!" " "The woodcutter didn't understand the old man's mind, but he agreed happily. He carried the old man down the mountain, running around, sweating like a pig, and occasionally Doby him. The old man was happy from beginning to end. So, the old man began to teach the woodcutter the skills of recognizing medicine and collecting medicine to save lives. The woodcutter knows a lot of herbs every day and remembers the way to treat diseases.
One day, the Queen Mother still asked the woodcutter to carry him up the mountain early, and a red sun Ran Ran rose. The queen mother said to the woodcutter, "my mission has been completed and I will leave you today." I should go to heaven. " He took off his earring and gave it to the woodcutter together with his cane. He told the woodcutter to put the crutch in your yard when he came home, and the eardrop hung on the crutch, so that you could bear the red fruit of the tree and cure your blind mother's eyes. You want to benefit the people, and you must not get rich and harm the people. After that, he turned into a breeze and went to heaven.
The woodcutter followed the old man's advice. When he got home, he put his crutches in the yard and hung earrings on the crutches, so he could bear red fruits all over the tree. Later, the woodcutter switched to practicing medicine and collecting herbs, and gave red fruits to the villagers. He has always kept the words of the heavenly queen in mind and sincerely sent medicine to treat the poor.
This is the origin of Lycium barbarum, so Lycium barbarum is also called "fairy wand", "Queen Mother Stick" and "Red Earrings". According to legend, during the Warring States Period, on the south bank of the Yellow River in the territory of Qin, there was a young farmer, nicknamed Dog, who took farming as his profession and married Qi Baishi, who was hardworking and virtuous. The couple work at sunrise and rest at sunset, but they can barely make ends meet. When Qin annexed the six countries, the traitors fought in Xinjiang, and the dogs were called to guard the border.
The general died in a hundred battles, the strong man returned in ten years, and the dog returned from the border defense, with a full face of hair. On the way, I saw famine in my hometown, barren countryside, passers-by begging, hunger everywhere, neighbor's food everywhere, children starving, and dogs scared. I don't know how my mother and wife are doing at present. When I got home, I was surprised to see my mother with silver hair and rosy face, unlike a hungry passerby. He said to his wife, "If you meet your neighbors, you will be hungry. Only your mother and your son are full. Why? " My wife said to me, "after I joined the army, I worked all day to make a living." Last year, there was a plague of locusts and no harvest. I took the red fruits in the mountains and my mother to satisfy my hunger, lest. " His mother said, "If my daughter-in-law hadn't eaten the red fruit, I would have died!" " Dogs love to cry and respect their wives more. Neighbors smell it and scramble to eat it, calling it "the dog's family."
Later generations found that the red fruit picked by the dog's wife Qi had the effects of nourishing yin and enriching blood, tonifying lung and strengthening stomach, so folk doctors used it as medicine and renamed it Lycium barbarum. According to legend, a frail scholar went to Zhong Nanshan to seek immortality and Taoism, and lived in the mountains for several days, but he didn't see the immortal. When I was in trouble, I suddenly saw a young woman scolding and beating an elderly woman, so I quickly stepped forward to dissuade her and accused the young woman of her outrageous behavior.
Hearing this, the woman smiled and said, "Who do you think she is to me? She is my daughter-in-law. " The scholar didn't believe it, so he turned to the old woman for help. The old woman replied, "It's true, she is my mother-in-law. She is 92 years old and I am the daughter-in-law of her seventh son. She is almost 50 this year. " The scholar looked as if nothing had happened, and then asked why. My mother-in-law said, "I eat Lycium barbarum all year round. I eat seedlings in spring, flowers in summer, fruits in autumn and roots in winter. The more you live, the more energetic you are. My hair is black and my face is smooth. I look thirty or forty years old. Daughters-in-law often eat Lycium barbarum as I say, and they all get rid of illness and prolong life. Only this kannika nimtragol is too lazy to cook. Not only does she not eat Chinese wolfberry, but she doesn't even eat vegetarian dishes. She eats chicken, duck and fish all day and suffers from this problem. " After listening to these words, the scholar went home and bought more Chinese wolfberry. After a long time, all the diseases were eliminated and he lived to be over 80 years old. Li Qingyun, a 250-year-old Sichuanese (who died in 19 19), has a self-report: When I was 139 years old, before I met my teacher, I was able to have a light skin, full of energy and seemed to have some kung fu, so some people suspected that I was a fairy and a swordsman. I just thought it was funny. I lived to 139, and I was as healthy as before. That's because I can be "indifferent" after the age of 40, so my heart has been very calm, my heart is very peaceful, my mind is peaceful, and I am away from all diseases, so I am healthy and happy. At the age of 50, I went into the mountains to collect herbs and met an old man who seemed to be out of touch. He walks like a fly in the mountains and rocks; I ran as fast as I could, but I couldn't catch up with him. After a while, I met him again, so I knelt down and asked him for advice. The old man took out some wild fruits for me and said, that's what I often eat. Look, it's Lycium barbarum. Since then, I have been eating San Qian for a long time. I am light and healthy. Walking a hundred miles is not tiring, and the strength is stronger than ordinary people.