Original Cao Yu Cao Yu's Qi Huang Zhi Technique
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Amber with sour date kernels
Amber is a pine resin from the pine trees of the ancient pine family that has been buried in the ground and has been sealed for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years. The underground of Jiuzang is so large that the mellow atmosphere of Middle-earth is flat, so it belongs to the Taiyin Spleen Sutra. Each leaf of the pine tree is slender and sharp like a needle, which shows that its hair is very thick. It is precisely because it is very yang, so it can resist the winter cold without falling leaves. When pine resin spills from the trunk, it is mostly pale yellow or colorless and transparent, resembling human sweat and entering the heart meridian. It falls from a tree, with the meaning of leading the sun down. The fire of the heart should fall, and the water of the kidneys should rise, so it becomes a trend of water and fire.
Tao Hongjing said in the "Famous Doctor's Catalogue": Amber flavor ganping, An Five Viscera, fixing the soul, killing the spirit of the evil ghost, eliminating blood stasis, and passing the five showers. The heart and kidneys are intertwined, and the heart fire is peaceful, that is, the normal state of the god of the heart is restored, then the spirit and evil spirit have nowhere to attach, and the disease and evil can be produced, so the heart is harmonious and the body is harmonious. Pine resin endowed pine wood with a strong breath, which was buried deep in the ground for tens of millions of years before finally becoming amber. Yang Qi likes to be flexible, ascending and dissipating, and the evil is stagnant, imprisoning it for a long time, and has been preparing for a long time, so after reaching the human body, its hair-generating qi must have a strong release, so it can disperse blood stasis and break the fistula when entering the heart meridian. In the face of the heart and the small intestine, it is natural to benefit the waterways and pass through the five showers.
Amber is flat into the spleen, the ancient formula is used to dry the wetness of the spleen soil, the spleen soil is transported smoothly, it can produce gold, and the lung gold is lowered, then the urination can be profitable. Amber falls from the trunk of the tree, which has the meaning of descending, so it can calm the nerves and make the water flow. When there is unfavorable urination, urine waiting, and the effect of using winter sunflower seed drugs is not ideal, it can be taken with amber fine powder, 1 time a day, 1 gram each time, the effect is better.
Zhang Jingyue used amber to cure forgetfulness, trance, mental fatigue, etc., with amber, antelope horn, ginseng, poria, yuanzhi, licorice and other parts, made of fine powder, refining honey into pills, called amber more sleep pills, take the meaning of lowering the fire and calming the gods. Predecessors use amber, cinnabar powder to quench the shock, although amber can fall again, settle, fix the shock, but it is dry, so when you see the yin deficiency internal heat, less blood, although there is a urination disadvantage, you must use caution.
Feeling the restoration of the ancient people's cubic prescription perspective, you can understand the Chinese medicine more thoroughly, flexible, if you remember the return and function of amber, the impression is not deep enough, there will be no three-dimensional sense of the unity of medicine (prescription).
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Sour date kernels
When it comes to sour jujube kernels, everyone thinks of Zhongjing's sour jujube kernel soup that cures the boredom. Sour jujube mainly grows in the hills, wilderness, roadsides, ravines and cliffs of northwest China and North China, and other windy and water-scarce places, and is harvested in late autumn.
When I was a child, I used to pick sour dates to eat, there was almost no flesh, a layer of skin, all kernels, the core was yin in the inside, and the flesh belonged to the yang outside, that is, the sour dates were yin and less yang. Jujube trees grow in the wilderness, hillsides, roadsides, arid and windy cliffs in the northwest and north China, and the wind means dissipation and is not easy to concentrate. Wind is better than wet, a wind blows the water away, lack of moisture, is less yin. In such a place where the wind is strong, the yin is consuming, and it is easy to dissipate, the acid date core can grow so big, what is the problem? It is very obvious that the sour date has a super ability to collect yin, if the acid date yin ability is not enough, its core can not grow so large, and even it has long been drought, withered and dead, unable to flower and bear fruit.
The sour jujube color is red into the heart, the taste is sour and returns to the liver, harvested in the golden autumn of October, and the autumn gold is the qi of the fallen. It is precisely because of the strong ability of sour jujube to collect and descend, so the core is less flesh, yin and yang are less, and the sour jujube kernel we use is even more yin in the yin, so Tao Hongjing said in the "Famous Doctor's Catalogue" that the sour jujube kernel can supplement the middle, benefit the liver, strengthen the muscles and bones, and help the yin qi.
Yin deficiency can not contain yang, so insomnia, the focus of taking acid jujube kernel is not to directly supplement the liver yin, but to restore and improve the ability of the yin and liver itself to hide. The so-called supplement, one is to directly supplement the yin, and the other is to restore the ability to collect the yin. Restoring the ability to collect yin is the foundation, directly supplementing the yin is the standard, the so-called "giving it fish, it is better to teach it to fish", which is exactly the meaning.
According to the "SuQin Paralysis Theory": "Those who have liver paralysis are frightened when they lie down at night. And the "Lingshu Ben Shen" says: "The liver hides blood, and the blood gives up the soul." "One of the main symptoms of liver paralysis is that it is easy to be frightened when lying down at night, and the liver hides the soul, that is, the soul can hide in the liver, and the night sleep is safe." If the liver blood is insufficient, the soul has nothing to give up, so it is easy to lie down at night and not sleep. Song physician Xu Shuwei discussed the cause of sleeplessness in the "Puji Ben Fang Vol. 1": "The liver of a peaceful person is not subject to evil, so the soul returns to the liver, the god is quiet and sleepy, and now the liver has evil, and the soul cannot return, so the soul of the lying is outside and leaves the body." This explanation is very clear and in place, whether it is the blood is not nourished, or the soul is exhausted due to the exuberance of the evil fire, the general mechanism is that the liver cannot guard the soul.
When clinically using the sour jujube kernel soup of Zhongjing to cure fatigue and insomnia, the sour jujube kernel does not need to be mashed into medicine, and the word "not pounded" is often specially noted. If you don't say, the pharmacy will be directly mashed, and all the children will be smashed? Thinking about it carefully, we take the collection qi of sour jujube kernels, the purpose is to restore the liver's ability to collect yin, so how to harvest if it is mashed? It is taken in the sense of harvest, not divergence. Traditional Chinese medicine is very particular about the selection of prescriptions, such as the amber just said, breaking and taking a fine powder, which is intended to dissipate. Seeing all the children mashed, it is a very Western medicine-style thinking, it is easy to boil after mashing, it is easy to precipitate effective ingredients, and our Chinese medicine thinking is not so.
Then there is the aroma after frying, the aroma can enter the network, into the network means into the blood, the sour jujube kernel into the liver, into the heart for use, are yin meridians, of course, the level should be deep, take this meaning.
We always emphasize that we can't prescribe the formula well and wait for the patient, and when you see insomnia, you will throw sour jujube soup, which is definitely not OK. Zhongjing pointed out in the "Outline of the Golden Plateau": "Vain labor, tired and sleepless, sour jujube kernel soup master. Not all insomnia is the same cause, everything looks for a cause. Insomnia is the fruit, but there are many causes of insomnia: for example, stomach discord is restless, and it is necessary to lower stomach qi; hyperhepatic insomnia, of course, flat liver; tiredness and sleep are not yang and what, lifting the sun and so on... In all these ways, it is necessary to specifically identify the disease mechanism.
The understanding of a medicine should be based on the growth environment, harvest time, shape, four qi and five tastes, color, etc. of the drug itself, and use the analogy thinking of Traditional Chinese medicine to judge its performance, knowing it but knowing why it is so. When we master this method, we find that the classic is just a summary, there is no need to memorize by rote, but to really understand it, to understand the meaning outside the text, it is much simpler.