In the world of traditional Chinese medicine, many plants are given the title of "dragon", and their medicinal properties and effects are different, giving people endless reverie. Chinese medicinal materials such as gentian grass and nightshade have great medicinal properties and bitter cold, but they have excellent fire and detoxification effects, and have significant curative effects on fever, jaundice and other diseases. The Chinese medicinal materials such as dragon's blood exhaustion and dragon's beard vine have the effect of invigorating blood and relieving pain, and have a good effect on bruises, rheumatism and other diseases. In addition, Chinese medicinal materials such as longan meat and blood dragon vine (chicken blood vine) are good blood tonic products, which have a significant improvement effect on symptoms such as anemia and blood deficiency.
However, these botanicals are only borrowed from the name "dragon", not the actual "dragon" itself. Among animal medicines, there are also some medicinal herbs related to "dragons". Among them, the most mysterious and precious are the relics of the body of the legendary "dragon" - dragon bones and dragon teeth. Legend has it that these herbs were made from fossilized bones and teeth of large mammals from ancient times, and the ancients believed that they were the remains of "dragons", hence the belief that they had the miraculous medicinal properties of "dragons".
Li Shizhen once recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The dragon is the god of the East, so its bones, horns, and teeth are all liver diseases." He believes that dragon bones and dragon teeth can ** liver disease, this is because the ancients believed that the liver is the main soul, and the "dragon" can change, so it can stabilize the soul. Since these herbs have been mineralized, they are longer than soothing the nerves. In the Song Dynasty, there is a medical case recorded in the "Ben Shi Fang", there is a scholar surnamed Dong whenever he sleeps, although his body is in bed, he feels that his soul is out of his body and he can't sleep all night. Later, the doctor used pearl pills to ** his illness. There are dragon teeth in the pearl pill, and the doctor thinks: the liver is evil, and the soul cannot return. Those who heal the soul and fly should use dragon teeth.
Of course, the ancients mainly used the thinking of "taking images and analogies" to explain the mechanism of action, and modern doctors can also refer to scientific data. According to research, keel and keel mainly contain minerals such as calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate, which have the effect of reducing the permeability of blood vessel walls and inhibiting the excitability of skeletal muscle, which may be one of the mechanisms of its calming effect. In general, although these Chinese herbal medicines related to "dragons" are magical, they must also be used under the guidance of doctors.
A specimen of dragon tooth on display at the Zhejiang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Although there are no real dragons in our world, this mysterious image is derived from the characteristics of various animals. In order to express their awe and worship for dragons, some animals with dragon-like characteristics have been given names or aliases with "dragons". For example, the traditional Chinese medicine Dilong, also known as earthworms. Although earthworms live underground and have a long, round, supple body, their unique form resembles the body of a legendary dragon, hence the name.
As a traditional Chinese medicine, Dilong's efficacy is very remarkable. Since the earth dragon is related to the "dragon", it is naturally classified into the category of the liver meridian, which can calm the liver and extinguish the wind. Of course, what the earth dragon is best at is through the meridians and activating the meridians. In the famous prescription of the hemiplegic sequelae of stroke in traditional Chinese medicine, Dilong is one of the important medicines. In addition to the earth dragon, there is also an animal medicine skink with the word "dragon".
The skink is a type of lizard, with a cylindrical body, a conical head, and a slender and pointed tail, which has the majesty of some "dragon". This animal often moves among the rocks in the mountains, hence the name skink. Li Shizhen specifically pointed out in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that the effect of skinks lies in the benefit of water. Although there are not many prescriptions for shikprim, one of the very famous prescriptions is the "Biwen Dan" produced by Hangzhou Huqing Yutang, a time-honored brand of traditional Chinese medicine.
It is said that during Zuo Zongtang's expedition to the west, the soldiers fell ill with the plague. In order to save lives, Zuo Zongtang urgently ordered Hu Xueyan to send this medicine to the front line, thus alleviating the spread of the epidemic. In modern times, when plague occurred in Hangzhou, Shanghai and other places, the "plague pill" was also in short supply, and became a life-saving medicine for treating patients. The production of this drug requires the use of "copper skink" mainly produced in the Lingyin area of Hangzhou, its back is golden yellow, the belly is white, is the authentic medicinal materials in Hangzhou. Every summer, the pharmacists of Huqing Yutang would take their apprentices to Lingyin and Tianzhu Mountain to catch this lizard to prepare medicine.
The monks of Lingyin Temple were originally opposed to killing, but considering that the drug was used to save people, they no longer interfered with the capture process. It is worth mentioning that dragons have a special place in traditional culture. As the "I Ching" Qiangua proverb says, "don't use the hidden dragon", "see the dragon in the field" and "fly the dragon in the sky", symbolizing the different states of human life. Ancient physicians were good at understanding the characteristics of the viscera and the mechanism of prescriptions from the image of the dragon, but they also remembered that they could not "have regrets about the dragon", so they used various ingenious treatment methods to give full play to the advantages of the medicine and avoid its drawbacks. This fully reflects the cultural characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine "to neutralize".
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