Speaking of strychnine, it is a fighter in Chinese medicine, even people who do not understand Chinese medicine may know a little bit, especially the audience friends who love to chase the palace fight drama, they are more aware of its lethality. However, if you only know that it is poisonous and do not know that it can cure low back pain, then I have to say: you are out!
There is a story of Ma Qianzi: poison the Queen Lord, give death to the concubine
The Ming Dynasty medical work "Materia Medica Primitive" records that strychnine "tastes bitter, cold, and has great poison, and if it is mistakenly taken, it will make people's limbs cramp." Folk have more "eat before the horse, after the horse dies" saying, which shows how toxic the strychnine is.
Although the earliest inclusion of ma qianzi in medical books was the Ming Dynasty, as early as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Ma Qianzi had an important role in court assassination. At the 42nd birthday feast, Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was depressed and missed his homeland, and at the 42nd birthday banquet, he asked Kabuki to sing his "Yu Meiren": "Xiaolou had another east wind last night, and the homeland could not look back at the moon and the middle of the moon..." Zhao Guangyi, Emperor Taizong of Song, was greatly annoyed, so he sent Li Yu a congratulatory gift - the poisoned wine of ma qianzi. Li Yu borrowed wine to dispel his sorrows, and soon died of poison, convulsing and convulsing when he died, his waist and back arched back, his head and feet were connected, and his body shape was like an ancient stretched loom, so Strychnine was called "lead medicine", and the three poisons of the hook kiss and the crane top red were juxtaposed with the palace fighting.
The concubine Wei Wanwan in the palace fight drama "Ruyi Zhuan" also died of horse money poisoning. This concubine, who gave birth to four sons and two daughters for the Qianlong Emperor, was repulsed after repeatedly harming Ruyi, and after the collapse of the gentle and weak people, Qianlong beat her into the cold palace and gave her a lead medicine, while Li Yu and Jiang Taiyi of the hostile camp deliberately adjusted the medicinal properties, so that she was tortured for six hours before she finally died miserably.
The reformed strychnine: pain relief and treatment are flashy and lovely
Coming out of the palace fight drama, careful friends will find that some proprietary Chinese medicines such as waist pain Ning actually contain horse money powder, which can't help but make people shiver: is horse money not a poison, why use it to treat waist pain?
In fact, since ancient times, the use of poison to relieve pain has been commonplace. Folk so-called "five poisons" - centipede, snake (five-step snake), whole scorpion, gecko, toad, have detoxification and disintegration, paralysis and pain relief effect, obviously are poisons, as long as they are properly prepared, they become non-toxic and effective curatives, surprised or not surprised?
Speaking of Strychnine, the Compendium of Materia Medica says that it can cure "typhoid fever, sore throat, and eliminate lumps"; Zhang Xichun praised it for "opening up the meridians and penetrating the strength of the joints, which is far better than other medicines"; "The Complete Collection of Surgical Life" says that it "can search for rheumatism in the bones and bones into the marrow, and remove the phlegm poison of coagulation outside the skin"; "Modern Chinese Medicine Sea" says that it is "through the network, strong tendons, loose knots, pain relief, swelling reduction, and detoxification." Therefore, the treatment scope of strychnine is also particularly extensive, such as the treatment of tuberculosis, fatigue, blood evidence, paralysis, stroke, dementia, headache, epilepsy, boils, fractures, low back pain and so on.
From the point of view of composition, the main active ingredients of strychnine are strychnine and strychnine, these two substances have similar structures and the same mechanism, but the activity of strychnine is more than 10 times higher than strychnine, and the toxicity is also much higher. But there is a saying that goes well: "Talking about toxicity aside from the dose is all hooliganism." "After in-depth study of the active ingredients and pharmacological and toxicological effects of strychnine, modern medicine adjusted the ratio of strychnine and strychnine in the process of traditional Chinese medicine processing, and most of them were converted into isamyramine and heterophyllamine, the toxicity of alkaloids was greatly reduced, and at the same time, it was compatible with other Chinese medicine sciences to achieve the effect of attenuation and efficiency, and played a powerful anti-inflammatory and analgesic role in the safe dose range."
The above-mentioned low back pain Ning, that is, strychnine powder with earth turtle insects, ephedra, frankincense, myrrh, Sichuan beef knee, whole scorpion, zombie silkworm, Cangshu, licorice and other multi-flavored Chinese herbs, to achieve swelling and pain relief, evacuation of cold evil, warm meridian communication effect, mainly attack lumbar disc herniation, lumbar hyperplasia, sciatica, lumbar muscle strain, lumbar fibrosis and other caused by low back pain.
Now you get the idea, right? Strychnine can be fatal when used incorrectly, and can be cured by using it correctly, which can be said to be a treasure of Chinese medicine with ever-changing opportunities.
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