"What is this?" Li Chu took the paper handed over by his daughter and asked.
"Please help me answer the question about Chinese medicinal materials." After saying this, Wenhui ran into the house.
"Sit down, Xiaoyi, this girl is still so crazy."
"Dad, Huihui and I went home today during the day. My grandpa asked me to tell you that if you have nothing to do in the past two days, please come over."
"Okay, originally I thought he was in a nursing home, but when I got there I found out he had gone back."
As he spoke, Li Chu opened the paper that Wen Hui had just handed him. There was a question on it: different positions of the roots of herbs have different effects on the human body.
"Eh? Isn't this the character Hui Hui?"
"Oh, Dad, I know something. Huihui didn't ask this, she asked it for a colleague."
"Let me tell you, if her handwriting is so soft, I should let her practice calligraphy again." Li Chu said as he put the piece of paper on the table, picked up the teapot and drank. A sip of water.
After hearing what his father-in-law said, Shen Yi pursed his lips and smiled.
Regarding practicing calligraphy, he heard his wife talk about the history of suffering when she was a child, saying that she, Wenxuan and Yueyue were punished for writing too casually.
Who hasn't had that experience as a child? I just wanted to go out and play, so I did my homework casually. It doesn't matter if it's not seen, but as long as it is seen, it's over.
Li Chu's punishment for them is not to be beaten, but to throw you a book and let you copy it. He will stop when he is satisfied.
The result of this is that the handwriting of the three of them is very beautiful. Now at home, Shen Yi does not dare to let his wife read what he writes, for fear that she will laugh at his ugly handwriting.
As for showing it to his father-in-law, he would not dare to show it to his father-in-law. If such an old man was spoken to in a few words, he would lose face.
Weng and his son-in-law sat in the yard chatting for a while before Wen Hui came out of the house.
"Dad, do you guys call me grandpa and grandma now?"
"Well, I can bark once or twice occasionally."
"Oh, I don't know when I can call you aunt."
"Just wait."
"Dad, please read this and tell me about it. I will pass it on to our colleagues later."
"Who is this? Why are you studying this?"
"Xiao Jing, the person at our research institute seems to be talking about some kind of pictographic thinking interpretation."
"I remember there was this explanation about the use of herbal roots in Suwen."
"Dad, don't mention it. It's all in classical Chinese. If you want to understand it, you have to learn how to segment sentences. How troublesome it is.
Just in case you are fine, please translate all the rubbings of ancient books in the library into vernacular. Otherwise, if you occasionally want to look up information, you will get a headache just by looking at the contents.
Although there are several books with interpretations, the meanings written in the same book are not the same, and we don’t know who is right and who is wrong.”
"What about this matter?" Li Chu raised his eyebrows and looked at Wen Hui.
"Yes, you don't go to the library very much now. There are several ancient books there and I don't know who interpreted them. One of them has two versions, or two meanings. It's not rigorous at all. I don't know what they mean. How did it get published? Didn't anyone proofread it?"
"Okay, I understand. I'll go over and have a look later."
Li Chu did not continue to ask any more questions. He would go over and take a look and find out.
He picked up the piece of paper on the table and looked at it again before saying: "The roots of herbal medicine are more complicated to use, such as Angelica sinensis. Do you know this medicine?"
Seeing his daughter nodding, he continued: "The head of Angelica sinensis goes up and promotes blood circulation. The body of Angelica sinensis keeps the middle and nourishes blood. The tail of Angelica sinensis goes downwards and breaks blood. Nowadays, when many Chinese medicine doctors prescribe medicine, it is not clear what root to use.
Yes, but the use of reeds and whiskers is still very particular.
For example, ginseng has a ginseng reed, because the nutrients from its roots need to be transported to the top of the entire plant through the reed. Hui Hui, I didn't take anything, can you imagine it?"
"Dad, is the ginseng you are talking about the top of the entire root of the ginseng?"
"Yes, that's that piece. It's called ginseng reed. Because reed transports nutrients upwards, reed has a strong ascending effect. Eating reed can even cause vomiting. When we Chinese medicine practitioners use root medicine,
Usually the reeds are removed.
But ginseng is a relatively precious medicinal material, so you won't just throw away the ginseng, but keep it. If you encounter a person with a weak constitution who has burns and you want him to vomit, you don't dare to use those ginseng.
The most popular emetic medicine is ginseng.
And you are like a beard. It is at the bottom of the root. When it is underground, it goes down hard and burrows into the soil, so the beard has the function of breaking through."
Seeing that his daughter was listening seriously, Li Chu picked up the jar and took a sip of water, then continued: "Take licorice as an example, if you use it to blend various medicines and don't want it to stick to the middle burner too much, you can use licorice tips.
It will go down faster.
For example, if you have blood in your urine or stinging in your urine, you will usually use licorice tips, which can pass through the urethra and play a cleaning role.
Chinese herbal medicine is so magical. It grows on the same rhizome of the herb, but in different locations, it corrects life from different angles. And if you want to use scientific components to analyze and measure this, there is no way to analyze it, because
Its ingredients are all the same."
That's right, Wen Hui nodded. Just like the licorice I just mentioned, the licorice tips and the main body ingredients are the same, but if you use the main body as medicine when urinating, it will not cure the disease at all.
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And this situation can happen with every herbal medicine, which makes many people say it is unscientific.
"Alas" Li Chu sighed and reached out to touch the great sage lying beside his legs.
"The debate between Chinese and Western medicine has been going on for almost a hundred years. Especially as Western medicine became more developed, Chinese medicine suffered more ridicule, and even almost disappeared in some periods. However, Chinese medicine has been practiced and practiced repeatedly for thousands of years.
It’s been passed down through verification, and that’s what it does.”
"Dad, I believe that with your efforts, traditional Chinese medicine will be revived again." Li Wenhui said and waved her fist.
"Me? Haha, I hope so!"
He said so, but Li Chu understood that completing this task was not much easier than reaching the sky, especially in the next ten or twenty years, when those pharmaceutical companies discovered that Chinese herbal medicine had even begun to shake the foundation of their chemically synthesized drugs.
They will go to any lengths to discredit traditional Chinese medicine.
They desperately support agents in China to attack Chinese medicine.
At that time, Chinese medicine will also be in a difficult position.
This does not rule out the fact that there are many doctors of traditional Chinese medicine who dare to consult without knowing anything. This also makes many patients and their families who do not know what is going on think that traditional Chinese medicine is a scam.