It turns out that 1500 years ago, the famous medical scientist Tao Hongjing called licorice "the king of Chinese medicine".
Licorice is also called sweet grass and sweet root. As the name implies, it must be sweet. However, if you taste it, it is not only sweet, but also bitter. If you taste it carefully, it is a little salty, a little sour and a little pungent.
Maybe it's because most sweets are always a little sour and salty. It's hard to tell the difference between sour and sweet, just like brown sugar, the first bite is sweet, and the second bite is a little salty. Drinking too much will make your mouth and stomach sour.
There is also a Chinese medicine called Schisandra chinensis, whose main taste is sour. I think the taste of licorice can be compared with it.
It is said that there are many flavors in the world, and five flavors are the main ones. I prefer to compare life to licorice. Life can be sour, bitter, spicy and salty, but it must be based on sweetness. This is also in line with the human body's demand for major nutrients.
Since it is a traditional Chinese medicine, of course, the most important thing is its attending effect. Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is the most commonly used medicine in Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine has the saying that there are "ten prescriptions and nine medicines", and there is even a saying that there is no prescription without licorice? This is why licorice is called the national old man!
Zhen Quan, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: Among all the medicines, licorice is king, treating 72 kinds of milk stone poisoning and 1,200 kinds of plant poisoning.
Modern medical research has found that licorice contains as many as 100 chemical components.
Licorice, a traditional Chinese medicine, has similar hormone effects, but its indications are wider than those of western medicine.
If you can do this, it's really worthwhile. I can be independent and have perfect cooperation ability. Can be a king, can be a Hou, can be a general, can be a phase, can also be a panacea in life.
Although licorice is good, there are some taboos. Eighteen kinds of resistance are recorded: licorice, spurge, Daphne genkwa and seaweed.
Just like people, no matter how gentle and tolerant they are, they also have their own thin slices.
I don't understand why the prescription preparation of licorice is classified as western medicine, but I didn't understand until I checked Du Niang. The reason is that the compound preparation contains western medicine ingredients.
It feels like Tai Chi in China. It has achieved effective integration. Go out and introduce, you have me and I have you. This is the way to survive.
I even think that this licorice is not just an old man in Chinese medicine.
And look: it is calm and steady; It tastes sweet and mellow. The five elements belong to five internal organs, heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney. Almost all the five internal organs go, and all the five elements pass. Although it belongs to tonic Chinese medicine, its functions and indications are very wide, and it can eliminate all diseases and thousands of poisons. However, it adheres to the Five Principles of Peace (five of which are eighteen evils) and will never be violated.
Gansu grassland plants are easy to reproduce, have strong adaptability, high cold resistance and drought tolerance, are widely distributed, have low cost, high yield and particularly beautiful prices, and follow the mass line.
Therefore, the licorice in my heart, like an enduring miracle slowly coming from an ancient civilization, has the demeanor of our great country.
The country is like this, let alone us!
A national treasure worth inheriting and a life worth savoring.