? Yeyede Chinese medicine shop
When I was very young, I went to school with my schoolbag on my back every day. Grandpa zu's Chinese medicine shop is the only way. There is a square plaque on the door that looks like vicissitudes of life, and several big characters are written on the left. At that time, I was only in the first grade, and I didn't know many Chinese characters. I always feel that the emblem is as long as a teapot. In addition, my grandfather used a chubby medicine pot with a spout to boil medicine every day, so I recognized the word "pot" in my heart and shouted "pot hall" at my grandfather every time. My grandfather always smiles happily. Touching my head, I said, "Grandpa is from Anhui, and this word pronounced emblem", and then dragged me into the pharmacy, took out the medicine box and put a piece of yellow licorice in my mouth. My Sweetie tastes a little cold, so I ate it in my mouth for a long time. I thought this medicine could be so sweet. This is my first contact with Chinese medicine when I was a child, so I always wanted to run to grandpa's drugstore.
? In my impression, my grandfather always wears a smoky gray gown with a silvery white beard under his thin face. He walks up and down in front of the medicine cabinet every day. Now I feel a bit like Kong Yiji in a primary school textbook, wearing a pair of round-rimmed glasses. When talking, he always looks at people from above his glasses. He carries a delicate copper rod every day and talks about taking medicine from different medicine boxes. After weighing, he fell on the toilet paper cut from the counter. I kept repeating the name of the medicine in my mouth. This is Radix Isatidis, this is Herba Houttuyniae, this is Radix Bupleuri, and this is Radix et Rhizoma Rhei. People who come to get medicine are all called Mr. Grandpa Zu, so no matter who is sick in those days, Mr. Zu should be invited. ..
One autumn, I had a bad cough because of a cold. Grandpa zu gave me a dose of reed rhizome and astragalus and so on. This is Qianjin reed soup, which can cure lung heat and has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Grandfather Zu said, "Reed root is sweet in taste and cold in nature. If it is diuretic, it will be before the car is matched.". Some people feel cold, and you feel wind-heat and cold, and the treatment is different. Although Chinese medicine is bitter, treating diseases is really a quiet process. Many patients died under the prescription of grandpa's grandpa. It feels a little magical. It turns out that reed root by the reed pond, cicadas in summer, skins and bones of animals can also be used as medicine to treat diseases. At the same time, I feel very mysterious. Small herbs can cure so many diseases. How many such formulas does grandpa have in his mind?
Influenced by my grandfather, I remembered the names of many Chinese herbal medicines when I was a child. The names of these Chinese herbal medicines are very interesting. Some medicinal materials are named after animals, such as green bristlegrass, Spatholobus suberectus, sheep's hoof root, purslane and other interesting names. Some are named after seasons: for example, spring grass, selfheal, autumn chrysanthemum, sunflower seeds and so on. Some of them are named after colors, such as safflower, Huang Ju, cogongrass rhizome, isatis root and perilla leaf. And many traditional Chinese medicines are commonly used foods in our daily life, such as ginger, garlic, jujube, purslane, black sesame, wax gourd peel, yam, medlar and so on. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the food we eat every day also has the function of preserving health and treating diseases.
Grandpa zu is very serious in his work. Every patient has to look up and down for a long time, then take his pulse leisurely and finally write a prescription. It seems to be a very scientific and rigorous attitude today, especially when taking medicine. Not a milligram can be careless. Grandpa zu said that the effect of one more dollar and one less gram is completely different. Not without it. Any more will be too late. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to compatibility, and pays equal attention to monarch, minister, assistant and dosage. Some drugs are fatal when more than one gram is taken, such as Pinellia ternata and nux vomica. So I basically remember the names of those poisonous herbs that Grandpa Zu said, and I even have some fears about those herbs. I always stay away from those medicine cans for fear of accidentally touching them.
? Grandpa zu is very patient with patients. Every time I give a patient medicine, I will patiently tell them how to use it. This medicine should be soaked when going back, and it should be boiled with ceramics or casserole on low fire. I drink as much as I can every time. I can drink a pair of Chinese medicine three times every day after meals. Grandpa zu always tells this to the patients who come and go, which gives me a general understanding of some Chinese medicine at that time. When drinking Chinese medicine, you must drink it while it is hot, and you will sweat in one breath. Eat less spicy, avoid greasy, radish and mung bean, eat raw and cold, don't stay up late during drinking Chinese medicine, and rest more, otherwise it may reduce the curative effect and affect human health.
? Grandpa zu is very hardworking, and he is constantly busy every day. He either dries and sorts the herbs in the yard, or grinds the flax and walnuts with his medicine mill in the pharmacy. Whenever this time, I volunteer to help and get powder everywhere. Every time my grandfather would give me some slices of jujube or hawthorn and licorice.
Grandpa has a regular schedule. Every noon, he will lie in the plush chair and close his eyes for half an hour. He likes to eat vegetarian food and doesn't eat after noon. He often said, "Heaven and man are one. People should conform to nature and rest at sunrise and sunset, although I didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence when I was a child. Grandpa zu said, "when you see cats, dogs and chickens entering the circle, you should go to bed, and when they wake up, you should get up." My simple understanding is that going to bed early and getting up early is good for your health. Now that I think about it, it makes sense. Every word of Grandpa Zu can be regarded as the essence of health preservation today.
? Every time I see Grandpa Zu busy in front of the counter, I still feel a sense of awe. There are so many people who need grandparents and Chinese medicine. Influenced by my grandparents and influenced by Chinese medicine since childhood, the profoundness of Chinese medicine attracted me, and it also gave me a unique appreciation and understanding of Chinese medicine, and planted the seeds of my love for Chinese medicine in my heart.
Time flies, grandpa in my childhood memory has been playing in my heart like an old scene. Although I haven't fulfilled my childhood dream today, I am also engaged in a great health cause, creating the brand of Meiyunsen, and inheriting a beauty and health through the application of Chinese medicine!
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