It is said that Shennong was the inventor of agriculture and medicine. He tasted all kinds of herbs. There is a legend that Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs and was honored as the "King of Medicine" by the world?
in ancient times, people often got sick because they ate weeds, drank raw water, ate wild fruits on trees and ate bugs crawling on the ground? Poisoned or injured? Emperor Shennong was very worried about this matter, and he was determined to taste a hundred herbs, determine the medicinal properties, and eliminate disasters and diseases for everyone?
once, the daughter of Shennong, Princess Hua Rui, was ill? I don't think about tea, I don't want to eat, I feel uncomfortable all over, and my abdomen is like a drum. How can I adjust it? Shennong just catches some grass roots? Bark? Wild fruit? Stone ***12 flavor, hello stamen princess to eat?
after taking that medicine, princess Hua Rui's stomach hurts like a cramp? It didn't take long to give birth to a bird. This really scares people. They say it's a monster? Shennong, however, thinks that this exquisite bird is a treasure and gives it a name "stamen bird"?
Shennong boiled the 12 herbs that Princess Hua Rui had eaten separately in the pot? Boil blindly, feed the bird blindly, while feeding, while watching, to see where this medicine goes in the bird's stomach, what changes have taken place? Shennong also tasted it himself and realized what it felt like in his stomach. After 12 kinds of medicines were fed and tasted, Shennong observed that the medicine had gone from hand to foot, from Yin San to the twelve meridians.
Shennong carried the bird up the mountain, drilled into the old forest and picked all kinds of grass roots? Bark? Seeds? Fruit; Catch all kinds of birds and animals? Fish, turtle, shrimp and insect; Dig up all kinds of stones and minerals, feed the birds the same, and taste them yourself the same? Observe and realize which way they go in the body, what nature they are, and what diseases they treat.
Over time, Shennong formulated the the twelve meridians of the human body and the Classic of Materia Medica?
once, Shennong came to xiaobeiding of Taihang mountain with a stamen bird in his hand, and caught a very special insect to feed the bird? I didn't expect this insect poison gas to be too big, and it broke the intestinal poison of the bird at once? Shennong was so sad that he cried? After crying, I chose a good piece of wood, so I carved a bird, and I took it wherever I went. Later, Shennong accidentally tasted Herba Gastrodiae in Baicaowa on both sides of Xiaobeiding, and died of poisoning? On the top of the mountain in the northwest of Baicaowa, there is a stone like a person who bends over to hug his stomach. People say that it was changed by Shennong?
to commemorate Shennong's founding of Chinese medicine? To make herbal medicine, people renamed Xiaobeiding "Shennong Altar" and built Shennong Temple on it? A statue of Shennong was molded in the temple, with a stamen bird in his left hand and medicine in his right hand?
nowadays, many people watch the scenery of Shennong altar and admire the statue of Shennong every day?
"Shennong tasted a hundred herbs" is a well-known story? In fact, Shennong here represents people who studied the medicinal value of animals and plants in ancient China? In the long-term production practice, ancient people gained rich experience in the research of medicinal animals and plants? This knowledge is recorded in ancient books?
the earliest book on materia medica in China is Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica? It was written in the Eastern Han Dynasty? There are about 36 kinds of medicines recorded in the book, of which 25 are plants and nearly 7 are animals? In the book, drugs are classified according to their performance. What is the curative effect? Medium? The next three products? This is a functional classification of drugs, not for biological classification? This classification is relatively simple?
The description of each drug in Shennong Herbal Classic includes aliases? Growing place? Sexual taste? Attending? Function, etc? Most of them have definite curative effects, which truly reflect the efficacy of these animals and plants?
such as ginseng in "top grade"? Licorice? Dried rehmannia? Dioscorea? Jujube? Ejiao and other commonly used tonics; Dried ginger in "Chinese products"? Angelica? Mahuang? Lily? Sanguisorba? Magnolia officinalis and so on are effective drugs for tonifying deficiency; Croton in "inferior"? Peach kernel? Thunder pill is also beneficial to water? Activating blood? An effective insecticide?
this shows that the record of this book is the product of people's long-term understanding and practice, and it has high scientific value?