That's not true.

I won't elaborate on ginseng and pilose antler. Only Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, which looks like a human figure, has the effect of rejuvenation in the hearts of people who are superstitious about "supplementing shape with shape". However, ancient notes did record the case of "eating bad and directly killing".

polygonum multiflorum

First, the mother-in-law catches "Uber"

According to scholars' research, the allusions of Shouwu originated from a note by Li Ao in the Tang Dynasty, which was included in Tao's Wan Shuo in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that there was a man named Tian Nengsi, who was castrated and had no fertility. He likes drinking all his life. At the age of 58, he drank too much one day and couldn't walk home at night, so he "lay in the wild". When I woke up, I saw two vines in the field. "Three feet apart, the seedlings and vines intersect." Tian Nengsi untied them and closed them again, going back and forth three or four times. Tiannengsi felt strange, so he dug them up and asked the villagers what it was, but no one could tell. Tian Nengsi brought them home for exposure. Some villagers teased him and said, look at this thing, it has sexual intercourse. Maybe this is a magic medicine. Eating it can cure your illness. Tian Nengsi grinds it into powder and drinks it with wine. For seven days in a row, he suddenly had sexual desire, and after eating for several days, his physical strength also increased. He married a widow in the village and gave birth to a boy two years later. At this point, he has been giving birth to children, as if he had already started to hang up. According to the final statistics, he lived to 160 years old and had 19 children. Moreover, he passed on the secret recipe of "crossing vines" to future generations, so that they could live long and have many children. One of his grandsons, named Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, lived 130 years old and gave birth to 2 1 children. From then on, people named Polygonum multiflorum Thunb as "Jiaoteng".

Wan Shuo

Here, the function of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It is described as "sweet in taste, non-toxic, treating five hemorrhoids with chronic cold in the waist and abdomen, strengthening tendons and nourishing essence, making people fertile, eating, benefiting qi and prolonging life" ... almost every one is desirable. In many later medical books, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb was praised for tonifying kidney and blackening hair, especially in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, there was a tonic prescription based on Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, which made this medicine truly "sacred". The habit of the ancients has always been to pursue falsehood and invent more illusions to strengthen and gild falsehood. Therefore, in ancient notes, the content related to Polygonum multiflorum Thunb is more and more fascinating. For example, in Five Miscellanies written by Ming Metabolism, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. "Fifty years is as big as a fist, and a year's service will be black; A hundred years is as big as a bowl, and a year of service is pleasant; One hundred and fifty years is as big as a basin. After serving for one year, teeth will grow stronger. Two hundred years as big as a bucket, serving for one year, looking like a teenager, walking like a horse; At the age of 300, it is as big as three barrels of handcuffs (wicker baskets), and there are mountain-shaped birds and animals. If you take it for a long time, you will become immortal. "

Obviously, the last sentence has begun to let go of yourself.

In the Qing dynasty's note "Guest Window Gossip", Shouwu. It has "evolved" to this description: "There are many immortal products in medicine, and there are many people in the city. Their roots have become the shape of adults, so that they can get the essence of people and have many ears. However, people who are humanoid can be psychic, but they will never be constant, and people can't get it. If you get it, you will eat it, that is, you will die. It has been passed down for a long time. "

Author Wu Shuo, his hometown has two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Their husbands are all ordinary students. Because the family is poor, they teach outside, while two women make a living by spinning at home and work until midnight every day. Whenever the autumn moon is bright, I always hear the children chasing in the yard. When I opened the window, I saw nothing. Later, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law discussed that one person was still spinning, making the loom make noise, and the other person secretly opened the window to spy on the yard. Sure enough, she saw two children in the corner, a man and a woman, all naked. "Hand in hand in the yard, worship for another month and throw yourself into each other's play." When mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are married, they must be descendants of Uber. I'm afraid that offending them will bring disaster, and I dare not go to the yard again at night.

One day, a relative who studied medicine came to visit, and her mother-in-law told him about it. The relative said, "If there are demons in the house, how can you live in peace? Therefore, those two children can't be descendants of an evil spirit. They must be changed by Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. " The daughter-in-law smiled and said, "They will hide when they hear a little noise. How can they catch it? " Relatives said it was not difficult: "I heard that rice is bound by the meaning of heaven and earth, which can be a treasure." If you throw it out of the window, you will hit your body, that is, you can't escape. " In other words, throwing rice at those two children will make them give in easily. After the relatives left, the daughter-in-law calculated that the place where the two children played was ten feet away from the window, and throwing rice might not hit them. So she cut bamboo into a tube, scattered rice in it, made a "launcher", and practiced shooting rice out of the tube every day, "to practice its technology every day." That night, I ambushed under the window. "Before the two children came, the woman hit it with a bucket of rice and the fruit was in the middle." The two children immediately fell, and the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law rushed out of the door. One of them caught one, but felt his hand "stiff" and raised a fire. "The woodcarver is picturesque and very angry." Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cooked two immortals' things in an iron pan, and then "ate one each, which was delicious."

Who knows that the next day, both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were bedridden, and the neighbors came to see that "the face was swollen and the whole body was swollen, and the eyes were open, so they could not speak" and quickly asked for help. Relatives studying medicine came to see it and said with a smile, "This is not a disease, but two' Dan medicines' have been caught, but I don't understand that Polygonum multiflorum Thunb can only be eaten after nine steaming and nine drying, and it is cooked in an iron pan, which is taboo, so it is poisoned." So I filled it with medicine and detoxified it. On the seventh day, the swelling disappeared and people woke up. After getting up, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law became extremely strong. The 60-year-old mother-in-law is "white and black, her teeth are thoroughly remoulded, her shriveled skin is peeling off, and she is moist like a 20-year-old", and she also gave birth to a child. The daughter-in-law is nearly forty years old, "turned into a 28-year-old woman" and gave birth to more than a dozen children. Both of them lived to be over the age of One Happy and Fifty.

Guest window gossips and listens to Yuxuan's notes.

The 270-year-old man dug vines.

As the legend of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, this is by no means an isolated case. The author also found an equally fascinating story in Xu Chenglie's Notes on Listening to Yuxuan.

"In the mountains of Lin 'an, there is a man named Wei who takes firewood as his profession. He is only an old man and is seventy years old. "There is a tall Gu Teng where the old couple live, and its branches extend to the roof. Old man Wei had this vine when he was young, so he didn't know how old he was. One day, Wei Laohan fell into a mountain stream while chopping wood, injured his thigh and lay on the side of the road moaning. At this time, a Taoist priest with a red face and a snowy face came to pity him for being old and hurt, so he took out a red pill the size of a bean from the gourd and gave it to him. " After a while, Wei Jue was too hot to stand, and the wound collapsed. "The Taoist priest helped him up and let him run. Wei Laohan endured the pain and ran away. "Run more than one hundred steps, the stock also behave as usual, no pain at all. "

Wei Laohan was very grateful to the Taoist priest and invited him to his home. He knelt down and said, "I'm over seventy years old and I'm exhausted for a long time." After taking your pills, I not only got rid of the pain, but also felt soft and energetic, just like when I was a teenager. I think you must be a fairy. I want to learn the art of immortality from you. I wonder if the teacher is willing to teach you? " Taoist priests say that your immortal roots are too shallow to cultivate immortals, but it is easy for you to live longer. After that, he pointed to the Gu Teng plants in the yard and said, "There is something below, you can try it." Then he left.

Wei Laohan tried to cut vines and dig roots, but his wife stopped him, saying that this Gu Teng is a century-old thing, so I'd better keep it. This winter, heavy snow closed the mountain, and Wei Laohan and his wife had nothing to eat, so they decided to dig vines to satisfy their hunger. "If you move the soil more than three feet away, you will see that the roots of vines are as big as a stone urn. If you accidentally hurt its skin, white fat will overflow like thick milk and cover it on Polygonum multiflorum. " The husband and wife dug it up, cut it and cooked it. Because this thing is "hard goods", you can eat it for a few days without being hungry. As a result, I ate it for two years. "They both have white hair and black hair." Even the lost teeth grew back and they gave birth to two sons. The old couple lived to be 80 years old before they died.

Seriously, if not from ancient notes, the above two stories look like "real cases" mentioned in many small advertisements for health products: patients must be miserable enough and have incredible adventures. They either met the imperial doctor or found the secret recipe from their ancestors in the cracks of their home, but the prescription should be simple and easy to conform to the psychology of China people, and the ending must be a state of recovery that is in great contrast with the beginning. As fast as flying, rejuvenation and the like, the photos, home addresses and ID cards of the cured patients can't wait to be printed on them to prove their authenticity-but as long as the above characteristics are combined, they are basically fake drugs or fake health care products.

After all, ancient notes are not small advertisements. The difference is that you can "question yourself". The story of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb ends. Xu Chenglie said in "Notes on Listening to Yuxuan" that he knew that Zhen 'an Prefecture in Guangxi was rich in Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Each piece weighs about 100 kg, and the locals regard it as a potato, "but they have never seen an immortal." The note in the gossip in the guest window also vaguely emphasized the toxic side effects of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. After explaining the improper wok cooking method, I think that the correct cooking method is "fighting with Vitamin, using sand retort, using Sang Mu, using fire before fighting, steaming for nine days, and using bamboo knives for nine meals", otherwise my life will be in danger, just like my mother-in-law.

Third, "Yuan Xian" actually kills people.

In ancient notes, there are also many chapters reflecting the toxic and side effects of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. For example, Tang Yongzhong, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in The Barnacles with Wings that his grandfather Zhao Oubei "dug up a Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.". It is as big as a comb and has black pulp like paint inside. " Zhao Oubei cooked and drank, and his nine-year-old son also drank some. Later, Zhao Oubei lived to be eighty-eight years old and his son lived to be seventy-six. When the soup was used, Yin Fu, an old servant of his family, said that when he was forty years old, his hair was white and he was too weak to do heavy work. "When I went to the wild, I saw a corner of a red suitcase in the soil and thought there must be an artifact." I dug out the box and opened it. It contained two Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It looked like a child and took it home for steaming. "At the age of 90, my ears are bright and my hair is black." But whether these people's longevity can be attributed to this Polygonum multiflorum soup is unknown. The pen in the soup was changed and a scholar from Wujiang was written. Seeing that my neighbor dug up two Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, I bought it for "2,000 yuan" and cooked it like this, "I had diarrhea before I counted it" ... which was embarrassing.

Winged beard and barnyard grass series

There is no correct answer whether eating Polygonum multiflorum can prolong life or die quickly. In the use of soup, the story of a Jiangsu inspector named Yao clearly shows his point of view. Inspectors dug up two Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. from the back wall of Jiangyin Hospital, cooked them and took them away with his wife. Although the old couple's hair turned black, Inspector Yao's hair soon turned white, while his wife was always black. "The same Polygonum multiflorum Thunb has different effects, depending on its talent strength and relaxed mentality." This shows that there are great individual differences in drug efficacy after eating Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.

In reminding people to take Polygonum multiflorum Thunb with caution, the best annotation comes from Notes of Youtaixian Mansion written by Yu Yue, a master of Chinese studies. A man in Hubei, doing business in Yangzhou, usually likes to take Dan medicine to live forever. On this day, he was chatting with friends in a teahouse and saw an old man selling medicine under a cloth shed. He sells a human Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It's worth asking, money is four thousand ears. When his friend reminded him to be careful, he said it was a fairy tale. When I got home, I ate Polygonum multiflorum Thunb by myself. "Look at it the next day and you will die." The family was frightened. They looked for the old man selling medicine everywhere, but there was no sign of him. Yu Yue sighed with emotion: "As the ancient poem goes,' Eating for longevity is mostly caused by medicine', which is sincere!"

Notes on visiting Taixian Mansion

"Seeking immortality by food is mostly caused by medicine", a simple poem, how much blood and tears are behind it. If people today really want to preserve their health and prolong their lives, they might as well read another poem: "People in the world are old, but I don't know how long we can live." I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge for the gods. " I didn't recommend ginseng, velvet antler and Polygonum multiflorum, just ate and drank porridge ... The following is the author of this poem: Lu You, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, lived 85 years old and had a lot of children and grandchildren-healthy, but I still want to learn from him.

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