mao bamboo
Bamboo native to Zhi Tao, alias Judy, Zhu Cong, Xiao Shunzhu, Penglai Bamboo, etc. Its bamboo is as thin as a thumb or as thick as a wine glass, with glittering and translucent color, sparse bamboo joints and soft bamboo. There are two main functions: one is its bamboo products, and the other is its medicinal value.
According to historical records, bamboo products originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and declined in the late Qing Dynasty. Bamboo mats woven with bamboo are called "bamboo mats", which are as soft as cotton and folded as cloth. People lie on it, and all diseases are cured. It is not only a treasure collected by the royal family in the palace, but also an object recited by literati. The bamboo flute made in Zhu Qi has a clear timbre and is known as "the bamboo flute in Qichun". According to legend, Toy Boy Zhang Changzong of Wu Zetian is good at playing bamboo flute, which is elegant and deeply loved by Wu Zetian.
According to Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, bamboo has the functions of clearing heat, purging fire and calming wind, and is called "Peach Branch", "Corydalis" and "Flute Bamboo" according to its shape and function. Corydalis bungeana is used as medicine, followed by Phyllostachys angustifolia, and Phyllostachys pubescens is the first choice for bamboo medicine. Also contains "Corydalis bamboo leaves, bitter and flat, non-toxic. Indications: cough against qi, muscle overflow, acute aversion to drugs, and disinfestation. In addition to annoying heat cramps, throat obstruction and vomiting. Fried soup, iron cholera tendon. Corydalis and bamboo juice are the main winds. "
Ai Qi
It is Artemisia argyi of Compositae and its related species. The difference between mugwort and other mugwort lies in its tall plants, which can reach 1.8 ~ 2.5 meters. It contains more volatile oil, has a deep smell, leaves are paper-thick and densely covered with long hair. Dried leaves can be kneaded into a pile, and their shape and quality are top grade.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi can be used for moxibustion, which is as famous as acupuncture. It can be used as medicine, and has the functions of regulating qi, dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. Used for dietotherapy, such as "thick soup and wine" and "Ai cake"; There is also the custom of using Ai as a tiger and calamus as a sword and hanging it above the door to ward off evil spirits and prevent drugs, which has been passed down to this day. There are many folk habits of using moxa in Qichun county: for example, taking a bath with moxa water on the third day after birth and applying a little moxa on the fontanel and navel can prevent colds, stuffy nose or other diseases; Puerpera should take a bath of wormwood soup three days after delivery and at the full moon to disinfect and cleanse filth, warm and replenish qi and blood, and prevent postpartum weakness; Washing feet with Tang Ai can cure colds and coughs; Stomach cold and abdominal pain, take a piece of Folium Artemisiae Argyi and rub it and swallow it; Fumigating with wormwood water can cure muscle pain or lumbago and leg pain.
turtle
Turtle, named after the green hair growing up and down on the back and abdomen and the gold thread in the hair, is commonly known as green turtle. Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Turtle, that is, green turtle, is the messenger of green ... its hair is four or five inches long, with gold thread inside, triangular spine and ivory armor." It's as big as five baht. His turtle has grown hair for a long time, but when it is big, there is no gold thread, and the background color is yellow and black. "
Its medicinal value is described in Compendium of Materia Medica: it has the same effect as tortoise shell. Turtle can be used as medicine all over the body. Nail fish is sweet and sour, which can nourish yin and replenish blood, dispel wind and remove dampness, soften liver and tonify kidney, remove fire, improve eyesight and cool blood. Nail fish can cure muscle and bone pain, cold and cough for twenty or thirty years, diarrhea and bloody dysentery. Turtle blood is the main medicine for traumatic injury; Turtle gall has curative effect on eye swelling; Tortoise version, also known as tortoise shell and Yuan Wu version, tastes sweet, salty, pure and turbid, and has a strong smell, which can tonify kidney and nourish yin. It can subdue the floating yang, benefit the kidney and strengthen the bones, and dredge the meridians. Because of its strong medicinal properties and definite curative effect, it is a medical treasure.
Cut the snake
Agkistrodon acutus is Agkistrodon acutus, and its nose (snout scales and nasal scales) is upward, which is called "Agkistrodon acutus" and "upturned nose". There are twenty-four square spots on the back, which are called "chessboard snakes"; The back is brown and black, the head is khaki, the abdomen is milky white, and there are black rosary spots, which are called "white snakes"; Because of its fierce toxicity, it is said that it fell to death five steps after being bitten, commonly known as "Agkistrodon".
In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen "explained the name of Agkistrodon halys" for the first time, saying: "Flower snakes are found in lakes and rivers, and the litigators come from the mountain of Xingguo House in the south of the Yangtze River." In Compendium of Materia Medica, he praised it as "the essential medicine for wind arthralgia, convulsion, leprosy and malignant blister".