"What medicine is this person selling in the gourd?" It means that people are unpredictable, mysterious and at a loss. But have you ever considered such a question: why should medicine be packed in a gourd?

Ancient Taoist priests generally used gourds as containers for Dan medicine. For example, Tie Guai Li, one of the Eight Immortals, often travels around the world with a gourd filled with a "panacea" to save lives.

Later, some doctors valued the practical value of gourd and used it to preserve drugs. Facts have also proved that it is better to pack drugs with gourd than other containers such as iron box, clay pot and wooden box, because it has strong sealing, moisture is not easy to enter, and it is easy to keep drugs dry. Therefore, there is also a saying of "medicine gourd".

Wooden pharmaceutical boxes were also widely used in ancient times, but compared with gourd, the sealing performance was still poor.

So the doctor is carrying a medicine gourd, and most people don't know what medicine is in the medicine gourd. This is the origin of "what medicine is in the gourd". In addition, an idiom came into being: hanging pot helps the world. What does this mean?

It turns out that gourd was called "pot" in ancient times. The story of "The Biography of Fei Changfang in the Later Han Dynasty" says: During the Han Dynasty, the plague was rampant in Henan and the people were poor. There is a doctor who runs a Chinese medicine shop in the alley, and there is a gourd hanging in front of the door, which contains pills for treating this plague. This "pot Weng" is charitable. Whenever someone comes to see a doctor, the old man takes out a pill from the medicine gourd and lets the patient take it with warm water. In this way, people who drank this "pot Weng" medicine got better one by one. A man named Fei Changfang saw the old man jump into the pot after the people dispersed. Knowing that there would be differences, he went to visit sincerely, and the old man invited him to join the pot. Fei Changfang learned from it, and Hu Weng passed on his medical skills to Fei Changfang.

Later, people who practice medicine will hang a gourd in front of the door, which means hanging a pot to treat patients. This is the origin of "hanging pot to save the world". From then on, the image of doctors and gourds were inseparable until Western medicine entered China.

Is there any connection between gourd and medicine today?

Of course there is.

If you don't believe me, look at the packaging of Xiao Su Jiuxin Pills, a commonly used medicine.

It turns out that Western medicine is very popular in China today.

We also use it for small thoughts.

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