Most Chinese people are familiar with this name, and the story of Shen Nong tasting a hundred herbs is really well known to women and children.
Xu Guangling knew a little more, ignoring other irrelevant things that I won’t mention here. What he also knew was that Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs and then selected the “five grains” from the herbs, which established the Chinese planting pattern for thousands of years.
Shen Nong Jue.
This thing may not have anything to do with Shennong.
As the saying goes, a fly can travel thousands of miles by attaching itself to its tail. China has attached great importance to "climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix" since ancient times. This can be seen from the fact that many things like to be related to celebrities. In reality, Xu Guangling just heard the "Yellow Emperor" from his teacher last night
This is also the case in "Nei Jing" and "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
Most of the Huangdi Neijing has nothing to do with Huangdi.
Shennong's Materia Medica is mostly unrelated to Shennong.
Similarly, in the dream, the two things he learned successively, "Fuxi Jue" and "Shennong Jue", may not really have anything to do with the two figures in history.
These two things belong to one of the "Twenty-Four Cheap Techniques". Xu Guangling is a little curious about this. What will the next trick be? Are they all named after Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors?
But now let’s go back to this place, “Shen Nong Jue”!
Different from Fuxi Jue, Shennong Jue is just an application know-how and does not require practice, or in other words, it does not need to be practiced day after day. Yesterday, in his dream, he had already learned this thing.
"Eating and maintaining health is the beginning of spiritual practice. The method of identifying plants and trees is the second best among all methods."
This is an introduction to Shennong Jue.
Xu Guangling's first experience with Shennong Jue was when he woke up and sat in bed for a while, then got out of bed to brush his teeth.
Experience comes unexpectedly.
When a small amount of toothpaste inadvertently touched the tip of his tongue, Xu Guangling felt like he was struck by thunder.
The human tongue can distinguish the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, salty and fresh. This is something that many people know. Among these five flavors, the tongue is the most sensitive to bitterness. The so-called bitterness, bitter and astringent, mostly means that it is harmful to the body. Tongue
I am least sensitive to sweetness, because sweetness is mostly good. It can even be said that in nature, the natural taste and sweetness are not mostly but basically good, so you don’t need to be so sensitive in terms of discrimination.
Can the tongue distinguish other tastes besides these five flavors? Or, in other words, are there other tastes besides these five flavors?
Just like the eye can distinguish black, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, are there other colors besides these colors?
This morning, this moment.
When the toothpaste touched the tip of his tongue, Xu Guangling felt that his entire tongue "came alive". It was an unprecedented experience. It quickly spread from the tip of the tongue to the entire tongue, and then quickly seeped down from the tongue, throughout the entire body. The next moment, it was truly called...
Something magical happened.
A picture appeared in Xu Guangling's mind, or he "saw" it.
Just like a clock, twelve lines are equally distributed in a circle with the same center. At this time, a color band of cyan, blue, and purple dyes one of the line areas, and then slightly spreads over the other areas.
Two line areas.
Then, through the experience in the dream, Xu Guangling understood what effects the certain ingredients that were touched by his tongue at this moment had on the body.
Those twelve lines directly corresponded to the twelve meridians that he had just initially come into contact with yesterday.
In his mind, the meridians represented by the lines dyed by the ribbons were connected to the lungs, and the three colors of cyan, indigo, and purple represented different functions.
Green is for reconciliation, blue is for calming, and purple is for dissolution.
In other words, the ingredients his tongue comes into contact with have a harmonizing, calming and dissolving effect on the lungs and the entire body parts directly affected by the lungs. The next moment, the knowledge he has learned from Zhang Lao these days,
is applied here.
This ingredient can be used for inflammation of the tongue and eyes, sore throat, pharyngitis, trachea and bronchitis, and pneumonia.
For a moment, Xu Guangling didn't care about brushing his teeth, so he put the toothbrush in his mouth and took the toothpaste.
There are no ingredients listed on the toothpaste, but there are two big words on the side, "Mint".
Xu Guangling also immediately understood that the component analyzed by his tongue just now was mint.
Next, Xu Guangling was a little stunned throughout the whole process of brushing his teeth.
At this time, he probably knew how, in the legend, Shennong tasted the herbs, and how he sorted out the grains from the herbs for daily food.
Until now, he didn't know what mint looked like, whether it grew in water or on the ground, whether it was similar to "he" or another completely different thing. He didn't know any of these.
.
but!
He has a complete understanding of the effects of mint on the human body. Further, with a little research, he can develop a series of medicines with mint as the main body.
For example, peppermint extract and alcohol can be used to prevent and treat colds.
Among them, the two main functions of mint are "blue" and "purple". "Blue" is not helpful for colds, but it can relieve the discomfort caused by colds to the entire tongue cavity. "Purple" has a digestion effect.
Another way to put it is that it has permeability and has bactericidal or anti-inflammatory effects.
This effect corresponds to colds.
However, the main functions of mint are still reflected in the two aspects of "green" and "blue". The "purple" aspect is less involved and is only slightly involved.
Therefore, if you really want to prevent and cure colds, you need to add something else besides mint, something that has more of a "purple" effect.
This is just one example.
Many other ideas and plans flashed through Xu Guangling's mind.
So much so that he brushed his teeth for almost seven or eight minutes, and then ended the brushing process in an instinctive and habitual action. He put the toothbrush into the cup and made a gentle click before he finally came to his senses.
Xu Guangling's second experience with Shennong Jue was immediately after the washing and so on.
Have a cup of wolfberry tea in the morning.
This is about health preservation. Xu Guangling has seen this statement more than once before. Generally speaking, he drinks a glass of water when he wakes up in the morning, and then it is best to add some wolfberry or something. However, Xu Guangling did not have such a mood before, and now his body is not in the same mood.
There is absolutely no need for this trivial adjustment.
However, in order to get rid of the smell of boiled water in the cup of water in the morning, he did add a few wolfberry berries.
And just after taking the first sip of water, the same experience as when I brushed my teeth happened again.
The next moment, he completely understood the role of wolfberry on the body.
Xu Guangling's third experience with Shennong Jue was later when he was boxing in the park.
Before boxing, it is a necessary process to concentrate and calm the mind, and it is also a habit that Xu Guangling has developed over the past month. And just this morning, during this process of concentrating the mind and calming the mind, with Xu Guangling's deep and slow breathing, it was
The breath of the old pine tree beside him and on top of him penetrated into his body as if tangibly.
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