Avoiding the valley, that is, avoiding the valley naturally and not eating grains, is regarded as the method of cultivating immortality by alchemists and Taoists. Also known as "broken grain", "broken grain", "broken grain", "suspended grain" and "broken grain". Taoism follows that people eat whole grains and accumulate feces in their intestines, which will produce foul smell and hinder the road to immortality. "Huang Ting Neijing" says: "The land of Cooper eats essence, evil spirits smell from the outside, and the fetish of stinking gods is zero. So, how can we get the baby back from the old place? " (1) At the same time, there are three worms (three corpses) in the human body, and they live on this grain gas. With its existence, people have evil desires and cannot become immortals. Therefore, if you want to clear the dirty gas in the intestine and get rid of the three corpse worms, you must break the valley. Therefore, the immortal behavior described in "Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour" is to achieve the goal of immortality.
Classification:
A Brief Introduction to Tongzhi Medicine records one volume of Taiqing Broken Valley Method, one volume of Supreme Broken Gu Dao, one volume of Stopping Valley Prescription, one volume of Taiqing Classic Broken Valley Prescription and one volume of Stopping Kitchen Prescription (or pills). "Orthodox Taoist Classics" contains a lot. However, the contents contained in the book can be summarized into two categories: "persuading people to avoid the valley" and "taking medicine to avoid the valley".
Convinced to break through the valley:
(1) "Being persuaded to break the valley" means cooperating with being persuaded to break the valley, and on the basis of being persuaded, achieving the goal of breaking the valley through being persuaded. Specific statements vary, and some advocate that at the beginning of persuasion, you should drink one or two flax soup or crispy soup when you are hungry, or one or two glasses of wine, and only drink water when you are thirsty. Some people advocate gradually reducing food at the beginning of persuasion, reducing one mouthful a day to ten days. Some people advocate not forcing the valley, waiting for qigong to deepen, and naturally breaking the valley after three years. Specific methods can be found in all kinds of books about Qi, according to the chapter "Bao Puzi Miscellaneous Response", that is, the eating method of twelve o'clock Qi, the eating method of old star Qi, the eating method of six or five essence Qi and the eating method of thinking Qi.
Take medicine to break the valley:
(2) "Taking medicine and avoiding food" refers to taking medicine and food. There are many prescriptions, such as taking beans, dates, flax (sesame), chestnuts, crisp, poria cocos, Polygonatum sibiricum, asparagus, ginseng, honey and so on. High nutrition, slow digestion, making into pill paste, and taking orally 1-2 instead of granules after crushing. One formula is high in nutrition and difficult to digest. After a full meal, it will definitely break down and can be used for a long time. Another is to eat rice and then support what you eat with medicine. It is said that it can break the valley for three years. Others use herbs to cook certain stones and eat them. For specific prescriptions, please refer to Taiqing Meridian Breaking Valley Method and Yun Qi Seven Unique Prescriptions.