The author has a deep research on the anecdotes and legends of Chinese herbal medicine, and has written the book "Interesting Tales of the Names of Baiwei Chinese Herbal Medicine", and now uses the platform of "Today's Headlines" to reorganize the anecdotes and legends of Chinese herbal medicine and contribute them to you one by one:
1. Interesting Facts
Legend has it that there were twin sisters by the Lilac River, the older one was called Jinhua and the younger one was called Yinhua. One day, when he saw someone chasing a thin woman covered in bruises, he struggled to rescue her. However, the woman's injuries were too serious, and her whole body was red and feverish. Jinhua was killed in search of a fairy grass, and Yinhua then found this grass to recover, but Yinhua also died of overwork. The rescued woman planted the grass in front of the sisters' graves as a token of consolation. Every summer, it is white and then yellow, and people call this flower honeysuckle. Because gold and silver are treasures, it is also known as two treasure flowers.
Folk Love Song Cloud:
The world is thick and the summer is long, and the two treasures of gold and silver are knotted with mandarin ducks. The mountain league does not change with wind and frost, and it is fragrant everywhere.
Therefore, it is also known as "mandarin duck clam". In winter, the old leaves wither, and the leaf axils are clustered with new leaves, which do not wither in winter, so there is the elegant name of "honeysuckle".
Cai Chun's "Honeysuckle" cloud:
Gold and silver are all over the world, and the flowers are full of gold and silver. The bees and butterflies have formed a team, and they know that the state of matter is also cold.
Honeysuckle detoxification monk rescue, Chen's good use of silver flower show. Sores and wounds are no different products, relieving pain, removing pus, and sinking quickly. Clear away heat and detoxify, benefit the spleen and stomach, and improve the circulation of blood and thrombolysis. You have to take a large dose, and you will be more worried about the disease. First white and then yellow, white and yellow, the smell is fragrant and sweet. Yimengyi is famous, simple and cheap, and good medicine flows.
Zhang Bangji's "Mozhuang Manlu" in the Song Dynasty recorded: During the reign of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing and Gao Yu were autocratic, and swords, disasters, and natural disasters all came. The monks of Baiyun Temple in Taiping Mountain, Suzhou live by digging wild vegetables, the mushrooms on the mountain are fat and bright, thick and smooth, pick back and cook, soon the abdominal pain and phlegm, vomiting and fainting. In the spring of March, the grass is abundant, and one of the monks remembered that the monk Yunyou of Yuzhang used mandarin ducks to treat poisonous sores, even if he could not solve the mushroom poison, he could also give it a try. He went up the mountain to pick up mandarin ducks and cook them for the poisoned and ate them, but the eaters were saved, and those who did not eat for fear of bitterness died. The Southern Song Dynasty writer Hong Mai (1123~1203) recorded in "Yi Jianzhi": "Those who are wild fungi are eager to pick mandarin ducks and grass to eat them, that is, this honeysuckle." "Honeysuckle, mandarin duck grass is honeysuckle.
According to legend, Sun Simiao returned from seeing a doctor one day and saw the two sisters drying medicine, so he begged for tea. Sun Simiao drank it in one go, only to feel sweet and sweet, hot and refreshing, so he asked what the name of the flower was. The day of the notice: "This kind of flower is like silver at the beginning, and it is like gold for a long time, so it is called honeysuckle." Sun realized its medicinal properties, and later used this flower as the main medicine in many later prescriptions.
Chen Shiduo of the Qing Dynasty said in "The Mystery of the Cave": "Sores and diseases are one thing, and there is no other taste for them." "Advocate that "honeysuckle must be used to eliminate the poison of fire", "if you can use more, why not take your life in a moment, and die in an instant", "Sincerely use honeysuckle less to be single, and more to use is thick and great". Chen's experience is that when sores arise, honeysuckle will be used to relieve pain, and sores and ulcers must be pus, and honeysuckle will be used to remove pus. When the sores are closed, they will get honeysuckle, which can be sunken. Sores and sores must be reused, and two taels are used constantly, generally half a catty to twelve taels.
"Materia Medica" said: "Honeysuckle is good at poisoning, so the treatment of carbuncles, swelling and poison, blisters, bayberry, rheumatism and other poisons is really a medicine." Those who have not become poisonous can be dispersed, and those who have become poisonous can collapse. However, it is slow, and it is doubled with mustache, or boiled with wine, or mashed with juice and stewed with wine, or ground and mixed with wine and thickened. If the upper part of the scrofula is divided into poisons, when it is used for one or two, it is often decocted, and it is extremely effective. ”
"Essentials of Surgery" cloud: honeysuckle "cures carbuncle on the back, no matter where it is, it has miraculous effects".
Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle, double flower, honeysuckle flower, heron flower, two treasure flower, is a perennial semi-evergreen winding woody vine of the honeysuckle family, honeysuckle flowers are white at the beginning of blooming, and then turn yellow, so it is called honeysuckle. Honeysuckle has an inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, and is known as a broad-spectrum antibiotic in traditional Chinese medicine, and the first to clear heat and detoxify. There is a touching legend about the origin of honeysuckle.
Legend 1: It is said that a long time ago, there was an elderly couple living in a village, who opened a small pharmacy and lived a good life. The old couple has an only daughter, who is ingenious and has clear eyebrows. The girl loved gold and silver flowers, and people called her "Honeysuckle Girl".
When the honeysuckle girl reached the age of sixteen, she was able to do a good needlework and learn to diagnose and dispense medicines. One year there was a plague, and the sick people vomited and diarrhea, and it was useless to take medicine, and in less than a day, they would die. So everyone was unsettled and worried. When the honeysuckle girl saw it, she couldn't eat well during the day and couldn't sleep at night, so she said to his father: "It is our duty to relieve disasters and cure diseases, so let's find a way to save the people." When her father heard this, he wrote a lot of red paper posters: "My family specializes in treating the plague, and the poor are sent to the clinic for medicine." "The streets and alleys are full of posters.
The news spread ten, ten, and hundreds, and soon spread. People from five miles away from Sanxiang came to consult and ask for medicine, and the shops were packed. The honeysuckle girl was diasporing and dispensing medicine day and night, and in less than half a month, all those who were sick were cured. Since then, the name of the honeysuckle girl has also spread far and wide.
Soon, a big man found out about the honeysuckle girl, and asked someone to say goodbye to the fool's son.
The honeysuckle girl was unwilling, she wanted to marry a young man who was in love with her skills. However, how could the poor family screw the big family, and the honeysuckle girl was still forced to marry into his family.
After the honeysuckle girl got married, she cried all day long, didn't eat food, didn't drink tea, and her body lost weight day by day. When a bad guy found out about this, he had a bad idea in his heart and wanted to seduce the honeysuckle girl. The villain looked for the girl's stupid boy husband and said, "Your daughter-in-law has a disease, and I have an ancestral secret recipe at home, as long as she looks at it, she will be fine without even taking medicine!" The silly boy happily went home with the secret recipe and handed it to the honeysuckle girl. When the girl saw this, she cried more and more. It turned out that a lot of cow dung was drawn on the prescription, and a handful of honeysuckle was inserted on the cow dung, and it was written next to it: There is good water in the high mountains and good flowers in the flat land. It's a pity that the honeysuckle fell into the fool's house.
The more the honeysuckle girl cried, the more sad she became, crying from dark to dawn, and quietly returned to her parents' house the next day. The villain relied on his father to be a county official, rich and powerful, and domineering. He knew that the honeysuckle girl was coming home, so he sent someone to wait halfway. When the girl arrived, she pulled the girl into the sedan chair and asked someone to lift her up and run straight home. The honeysuckle girl cried and cried, not knowing what was going on.
As soon as I arrived at the villain's house, I saw the villain bending over and pulling her with a hippie smile. The honeysuckle girl was so angry that she "snapped" two mouths, spit out again, and then slammed her head on the stone pillar and died. The news spread throughout the village, and in order to repay the honeysuckle girl for her kindness, they buried the girl in the most scenic place. Soon, many golden and silver-white flowers grew on her grave, bright and beautiful, fragrant, and people said that the honeysuckle girl had changed. They hoeed, watered, and named it "Honeysuckle".
The next year, many people in the village suffered from eye diseases, and the men could not go to the fields, and the women could not grind. One night, people dreamed of the honeysuckle girl, and she said to everyone, "Uncle and aunt can hear clearly, honeysuckle can cure all diseases;
My aunt can hear clearly, honeysuckle can cure eye diseases. ”
Since then, people have used honeysuckle as a medicinal herb. In the summer, when children drink the water boiled with it, they will not have boils or prickly heat. If you have eye diseases, you can wash them once or twice with honeysuckle boiling water.
Legend 2: In ancient times, in a small mountain village, there was a kind couple, the wife was pregnant with twins, and gave birth to a pair of lovely daughters, one called Jinhua and the other called Yinhua. They are as beautiful as flowers, smart and clever, their parents love them, and the villagers and neighbors also like this lively and lovely sister very much.
In the blink of an eye, the two sisters were eighteen years old, and there was an endless stream of suitors who stepped through the threshold. But neither of the sisters wanted to marry, for fear of separation. They swore privately: "I wish to be in the same bed in life, and I wish to be buried together in death!"
Who knew that the good times would not last long, and suddenly one day, Jinhua fell ill, the disease was fierce and urgent, with fever all over her body, red spots, and bedridden. The doctor called in to see her, and the doctor exclaimed, "Oh! This is a fever poison, there is no cure, so I have to wait for death!"
Yinhua heard that her sister's illness was not legal, so she guarded her sister all day long, crying to death. Jinhua said to Yinhua, "Get away from me, this disease is contagious." Yinhua said: "I can't wait to suffer for my sister's illness, what are I afraid of infecting people and not infecting people?" Jinhua said: "I can't live, my sister still has to live!" Yinhua said: "Why did my sister forget? We have an oath first: live in the same bed, die and bury together." If my sister is a good person, I will never live alone. ”
Within a few days, Jinhua's illness became more serious, and Yinhua was bedridden. They said to their parents, "When we die, we will become herbs for the treatment of fever and poison." We can't let people with this disease wait to die like we do. After they died, the villagers helped their parents and buried them in a grave.
In the spring of the following year, the grass sprouts. But on this sister's grave, no grass grows, and only a small vine with green leaves grows. Three years have passed, and this small vine has grown very luxuriantly. When it blooms in the summer, it is white and then yellow, yellow and white. People were amazed, and thought that the golden one was the golden flower, and the silver-white one was the silver flower, and remembered the words of the two sisters before they died, so they took the flowers into medicine and used them to cure heat poison, and it was effective. Since then, people have called this vine flower "honeysuckle".
Legend 3: The legend of honeysuckle, which tells a beautiful and touching love story. In ancient times, there was a pair of loving men and women, the man was called Yinhua, and the woman was called Jinyin. Yinhua's parents disapprove of them being together and kick Jin Yin out of the house. The two drifted together, and Jin Yin gave birth to a child on the way. Yinhua and Jinyin were separated by famine, Jinyin lived with her children, and Yinhua died in the war. Many years later, Jin Yin returned to his hometown with his child and found that Yin Hua had died, and eventually, Jin Yin and the child together spread the story of Honeysuckle to all parts of the country, and the story of Gold and Silver is still sung to this day due to the unremitting efforts of Jin Yin mother and son.
Legend 4: In the process of Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng, most of the soldiers were not accustomed to the soil and water, and they were hit by the miasma of Shanlan. Later, after passing through a small village, seeing that the villagers had yellow faces and thin muscles, Zhuge Liang suddenly felt compassion and distributed military rations to rescue. The villagers were very grateful, and when an indigenous white-haired old man learned that many Shu soldiers were suffering from "heat poison", he called his twin granddaughters: "Jinhua, Yinhua, you go and pick a few baskets of immortal medicine to solve problems for the Shu army." Three days later, however, the sisters had not returned. People searched in many ways, in a mountain cliff, only to see that two medicine baskets have been full of herbs, there are wild wolf footprints and torn clothes and shoes on the side of the basket? The soldiers of the Shu army ate the herbs and were saved, but the golden flower and honeysuckle gave their lives for this, in order to commemorate them, people called the flowers of this herb "honeysuckle".
Legend 5: There is also a legend about honeysuckle, a place called Huangchi (now Fengqiu County) in the land of Shenzhou, there is a divine doctor surnamed Huang who hangs the pot to help the world. He gave birth to a pair of twin daughters, the elder sister is called Xiao Jinhua, and the younger sister is called Xiao Yinhua, the family is kind and charitable, and is deeply loved by the local people. One day there was a terrible plague in the village, and spread throughout the village, the little sister saw that the villagers drank the detoxification soup that their father had spent several days of hard work to prepare and still could not dissolve the poisonous plague, and saw that they were painfully tortured by the epidemic for several days and died, and they were even more distressed that their father was anxious every day, so he carried his father to Qinglong Town (note: now Jiangxi Village, Huangde Town, Fengqiu County) in front of the medicine temple to worship, and swore that the sisters would be united to turn into good medicine to solve this evil disease, and the medicine god fairy was sincerely moved by his sisters, so he agreed to their request, and turned them into plants with the same pedicle and floweringThe next morning, I went to the temple to pick the flower tea made by my children, returned home, and brewed tea according to the guidance of the gods and distributed it to the villagers.
Later, when the villagers learned that the life-saving medicinal tea was the little golden flower and the honeysuckle sisters exchanged their lives for their lives, they went to the medicine temple to pay respects, and in order to commemorate the life-saving grace of the kind little sisters, the fairy medicine tree was called honeysuckle, also known as: "two flowers". In order to remember the kindness of the Huang family to save the world, the village where he lived was renamed Huangde Village, which is now Huangde Town in Fengqiu County, Henan Province. To this day, the people of Huangdezhen still hold a lively temple fair every year to commemorate this little sister to thank the honeysuckle sisters for their merits. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor learned of this righteous act, very moved by the little sisters, and named the little sisters as honeysuckle fairies, accompanied by the medicine fairy to permanently guard the hometown they love, and now, the folks of Huangdezhen have already introduced honeysuckle tea to Kyushu and overseas, and let more people share this magical precious flower tea and this beautiful legendary story. As a result, there is a poem of "there are vines, herons and vines, born non-human, silver stamens between golden flowers, and green and self-clustered".
Legend 6: A long time ago, there were twin girls in a remote village, the eldest child was called "Jinhua", and the younger one was "Yinhua". One year, an unknown disease was prevalent in the village. The symptoms of the patient are high fever that does not go away, erythema or pimples all over the body, and the patient dies soon after the illness. Lang Zhong in the village was helpless, and the whole village had to wait for death. At this critical juncture, Jinhua Yinhua took the initiative to leave her hometown to go outside to seek medical treatment for the villagers. The sisters traveled all over the mountains and rivers, experienced many hardships, and visited famous doctors in the Central Plains, but they found nothing. One day, the sisters spent the night in an ancient temple in Huashan. An old monk in the courtyard asked them about their situation and told them the location of an old man. The sisters immediately went to the area, only to see an old man treating an old farmer who was dying. The sisters stepped forward to explain why. "Your fellow villagers are suffering from ......fever," and then he pointed to a room of peasants waiting to see a doctor, and said to the sisters, "I need to see these patients, and I can't go with you." But I can tell you how to cure a disease, go to the hills, valleys, and woods to gather a medicinal herb, whose flowers grow in pairs in the axils of the leaves, and when they first bloom they are white, and then they turn yellow or yellow and white combined, and they do not wither in the harsh winter, and they can be cured by decoction of it. After hearing this, the sisters immediately went to collect this herb after saying goodbye to Lao Langzhong, and soon returned with a full load. The sisters used the herbs they had gathered to make a soup for the villagers. The villagers recovered quickly after taking the medicine. Since then, the villagers have called that herb "honeysuckle" to commemorate the merits of the sisters. Later, it was gradually shortened to "honeysuckle".
Honeysuckle Legend VII: Legend has it that a long time ago, there was an outbreak of plague in the Luanchuan area, and countless people died because they could not be treated in time. A local rich man thought that this was an opportunity to make a fortune, so he hired several pharmacists, opened a pharmacy, raised the price of medicines, and made huge profits, causing the people to complain and complain. One day, two twin sisters came out of nowhere, looking like fairies. Sister Jinhua has a shiny gold hairpin in her bun, and sister Yinhua has a shiny silver hairpin in her bun. I don't know who helped, but a small bamboo building and a fenced courtyard were built on the hillside overnight, and the courtyard was still growing with green branches and green vines. The villagers gathered outside the hospital in amazement to watch, and the sisters hurriedly beckoned everyone in, saying that they had just moved from other places and made a living as doctors. The villagers were extremely happy and were busy helping the old and the young to come to the doctor. Strange to say, those who came with their stomachs covered by the sisters' silver needles, the pain stopped immediately, and then took some soup made of flowers in the hospital, and the illness was completely cured, and for a time the sisters' reputation spread far and wide, and there was an endless stream of patients. The rich man was so angry that he was so angry that he took a group of people up the mountain and burned down the bamboo building. For a time, a thick fog rolled out of the bamboo building, covering the sky and the earth, and when the smoke dissipated, the two sisters on the bamboo building were nowhere to be seen, only those flowers and plants were still competing for beauty. The vines are covered with gold and silver trumpet flowers, which resemble hairpins on the heads of gold and silver flowers. The rich man was so angry that he pulled out all the flowers and plants and chopped them with knives. At this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew, and the wind threw the scattered flowers and branches into the air and scattered them all over the earth. Immediately afterwards, thunder and lightning and heavy rain poured down the rich man and his entourage. These flowers and plants are honeysuckle vines, which take root and climb all over the hills and the earth in a short time, and bloom from white to yellow flowers one after another. People say that it is the embodiment of golden flower and honeysuckle, so it is named "honeysuckle".
Honeysuckle Legend 8: A long, long time ago, there was a girl named Jin Yin, who was kind and beautiful, and devoted herself to treating the local poor people, and never charged a penny. Once, she went up the mountain to collect medicine and ran into an old fairy. The old fairy conjured up a lot of gold and silver for her, and said to her, "Use the money to buy medicine for the poor to cure their diseases!" This was soon known to the rich man, and the rich man took a group of people to rob the gold and silver of the gold and silver maiden. The gold and silver girl fled overnight with her belongings, and the rich man came after her, and she was about to be caught by the rich man. The girl thought, "Even if I die, I can't let the rich man take the money." He jumped down the valley with his things in his arms. Soon, clusters of brown vines with green oval leaves and small white or yellow flowers bloomed on the ridges and in the crevices of the rocks. In April and May, the flower emits a delightful fragrance. In order to commemorate the gold and silver girl, people named this flower "honeysuckle".
Honeysuckle Legend 9: It is said that in ancient times, there was a village in the village, and there was a young man named Jin Ge and a little girl named Yinmei. In today's words, one is handsome, one is beautiful, one is a male god, and the other is a goddess. The people in the village felt that the two of them were a match made in heaven, and they all happily blessed them both and hoped that they would get married as soon as possible. However, a plague crept into the village. The adults and children in the village all fell ill, but only Brother Jin and Sister Yin were not sick. The two of them secretly vowed to cure the people of the village. The two of them climbed the mountain together, collected medicine together, and boiled medicine for the people in the village to drink, but the people in the village never got better. On this day, they asked the eldest man in the village, the old man with the white beard, "Where can I collect medicine to cure this plague?" The old man with the white beard said, "There is a hundred medicine ridge five hundred miles to the south, and there is an old fairy at a height of five hundred zhang, so go and ask him." ”
Brother Jin and Yinmei set off, and the two of them climbed mountains and waded through rivers, and walked for a long time before they came to Baiyaoling. Baiyaoling is a good place with many flowers in bloom. When Brother Jin and Yinmei were worried about where to find the fairy, an old fairyman with a childish face came out. He handed Brother Jin a yellow seed, and handed Yinmei a white seed: "I will give you these two seeds, you go home and soak them in water to sprout and bloom, you use this flower to soak in water and drink, and your parents will be well with the plague."
Jin Ge Yinmei anxiously asked, "What about the people in the village?" The fairy Weng said in embarrassment: "If you want to save the people in the village, unless you two eat two seeds and turn them into flowers." ”
Brother Jin and Yinmei rushed back to the village, and Brother Jin said to Yinmei: "You stay in the world to take care of your father and mother, and let me turn into flowers to save the people in the village." Yinmei said to Brother Jin: "Brother Jin, you stay in the world to take care of your father, and I will save the people in the village." ”
Neither of them wanted to stay, and they both swallowed the seeds.
Brother Jin fell to the ground and turned into a vine and bloomed yellow flowers, and Yinmei also fell to the ground and turned into a vine and bloomed with white flowers, and the two vines grew tightly together after a while. When the people of the village smelled the fragrance of the white and yellow flowers, they were immediately cured.
But the people in the village couldn't see Brother Jin and Sister Yin, and people shouted to look for the two of them, but no one found them. Finally, a child in the village said that he saw Brother Jin and Yinmei turn into small yellow and white flowers.
The people in the village understood that Brother Jin and Sister Yin were the yellow and white flowers who saved their lives. In order to miss Brother Jin and Sister Yin, the people in the village named this little flower: honeysuckle.
