According to legend, Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty, in order to treat the people, often slept in the open air, worked tirelessly, and went up the mountain to collect medicine. Every time he collects medicine, Li Shizhen has to observe carefully, taste it with his own mouth, summarize clinical experience in practice, and then record it.
Li Shizhen's professionalism is a model of traditional Chinese medicine. Because of this, for the people's best diseases, the pain of countless relieves of diseases, and has become a famous Chinese medicine doctor in the Ming Dynasty. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Li Shizhen with his life's experience is a precious wealth left to our future generations.
One day, Li Shizhen went up the mountain to collect medicine and found that a group of monkeys were playing in the woods not far away, flashing and moving in the trees, jumping around, chasing and playing, and having a very happy time.
Li Shizhen was dazzled, and at this time, he suddenly heard a "click", the branch was broken, and the little hairy monkey dragging the branch fell to the big stone, his right arm was broken, he didn't dare to move, and he screamed in pain.
The old monkey king saw the little hairy monkey fall on the stone, flew down from the tree, and when he got closer, he knew that the little hairy monkey was injured. The old monkey king moved the limbs of the little hairy monkey, and when he touched the little hairy monkey on his right arm, he screamed in pain. The old monkey king paused slightly, scratching his head, as if he had an idea.
I saw the old monkey king fly up, climb an ancient tree, pick a large handful of vine leaves, put it in his mouth and chew it into a paste, and then, put the little hairy monkey on his right arm, and bandaged it with vine leaf branches, and carried the little hairy monkey back to the cave.
Li Shizhen saw it clearly from beginning to end, he had an idea, and suddenly thought: This leaf may be fractured. When the monkeys had gone away, he came under the tree, climbed up the old tree, and plucked many vine leaves.
Later, when a patient with a bruise came to him, he applied vine leaves to the affected area, and the patient quickly healed, and after using it many times, it proved that the effect was very good, and Li Shizhen named the vine leaves "monkey bones", which has been passed down to the present.
The monkey bone is also called green cotton Teng. It grows at an altitude of 400-1300 m in humid valleys, rocky slopes and shrub forests. It is distributed in southwest China, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and other places.
The National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine records: It has the ability to "dispel wind and remove dampness, disperse stasis and relieve pain, and connect bones." Indications for waist and leg pain, rheumatism and numbness;External treatment of bruises, fractures, traumatic bleeding. ".