According to legend, Yu Zi, a red general in the era of the Yellow Emperor, lived by eating hundreds of grass flowers and was able to work as a carpenter until Emperor Yao, when he was at least 280 years old.
I often collect herbs in Hu Aishan Mountain, feed on pine nuts and give them to Emperor Yao, who has no time to eat. Legend has it that everyone around him ate and lived for more than 200 years.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu's student Guan Lingyin often gave birth to children (black sesame seeds), "I don't know the end."
In the Western Han Dynasty, it was said that Juanzi could live to be 300 years old by eating Atractylodes lancea. Father Gui often takes laurel leaves and turtle brains as pills, and he is over 100 years old. Shiyanggong also feeds on Polygonatum 100 years old. Calves ate pine nuts and poria cocos in Montenegro and lived for hundreds of years.
According to legend, Wang Lie of the Jin Dynasty often took Huang Jing, who was "338 years old, but still young". Jiao impermanently eats white stone (medical stone), and it is said that 170 years old can still chop wood up the mountain.
Monks in Wannian Temple of Jiuhuashan in Ming Dynasty were too busy to eat Polygonatum all year round. They lived 1.26 years, and their bodies did not rot for more than three years after their death. They are now preserved in the "Centennial Palace" in Jiuhuashan, Anhui Province.
In ancient books, there are countless examples of taking natural drugs to live to a hundred or even hundreds of years old. If these examples are not credible, the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen, a great doctor in the Ming Dynasty, is much more credible, because it is a world-recognized masterpiece of natural pharmacology.
There was an official in Renhe County who saw signs of aging when he was young, and his teeth fell off one by one. Someone taught me to cook raw anchovies with pig viscera, mash them into pills as big as buttonwood, and take them at any time. After eating, the official ate a lot, walked lightly, his teeth came back to life, and he was still healthy in his 90s.
Wang Zhaofu Wang Tongling jade powder (refined with sulfur as the main medicine), 90 years old, looks like a boy, and its strength is twice that of ordinary people.
Li Shouyu swallows 27 black beans with boiling water every morning. Black beans, also known as five zang-organs valley, can make up the five zang-organs, so they don't die.
Lu women often eat sesame and atractylodes raw, but don't eat them. At the age of 80, they still look like girls and walk like flies.
Once upon a time, there was a stranger named Zhang barefoot, who taught an old man in the county to eat the recipe of Lycium barbarum. The old man walked like a fly after eating, became white and black, lost his teeth, became more active in sexual life, and lived 100 years old.