Li Shizhen's grandfather was a herbalist, his father Li Yanwen was a famous local doctor, at that time the status of folk doctors was relatively low, life was more difficult, his father did not want Li Shizhen to learn medicine, but Li Shizhen was edified by medicine from childhood and especially liked to study medicine, gave up the road of career to study medicine, and later wrote the "Compendium of Materia Medica".
In order to write the Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen personally tasted hundreds of herbs and went to many places. When Li Shizhen studied whether different shapes of yellow essence had different effects, he once went to Longfeng Mountain to collect medicine, and when he passed by the river, he met a woman crying by the river. When Li Shizhen went forward to check it, she found that the woman's face had many spots and a yellow complexion. The eyelids and dark circles are very edematous. As soon as I asked, I knew that this woman did not know why, in recent days, there have been many spots on her face inexplicably, and the person who was supposed to be promised to the family has now retired from marriage.
Li Shizhen explained to the woman that she was a Langzhong and whether she could let him see the symptoms. The woman's pulse is weak, the tongue is relatively white, not the normal rosy color. Thus, it can be concluded that the face is spotted, the skin is yellow, there is no spirit, and the body is weak caused by the double loss of qi and blood. It may be that the body does not absorb nutrients due to indigestion, resulting in insufficient qi and blood.
How to regulate insufficient qi and blood?
Li Shizhen told the woman that mulberry, yellow essence, ejiao, guiyuan, lily, etc. could be boiled together in cold water and drunk every morning and evening. Later, after the woman took the medicine for more than a month, the spots on her face faded, and her complexion became rosy, and she wrote a letter to Li Shizhen to thank him.
Let's take a look at Li Shizhen's formula for conditioning qi and blood
1. Mulberry
Mulberry words we can eat as fruit after meals, mulberry juice is purple generally difficult to get on the clothes, be careful when eating. It is very good for our skin.
2. Ejiao
Ejiao is a rubber block made of donkey skin hairless, and the grinding effect is better if you soak it in water. It is very nutritious and can replenish qi and blood.
3. Huang Jing
There are many shapes of yellow essence, if you boil to drink or soak in water, then choose ginger-shaped suitable, phlegm wet people are not recommended to use alone, yellow essence is generally very greasy.
4. Guiyuan
Guiyuan is the dragon's eye, replenishing qi and nourishing yin.
5. Lily
At night, you can drink some lily water before going to bed, and drink less water after ten o'clock to avoid getting up the next day to be more edematous. Helps with sleep and calms the nerves.