Speaking of impatiens, I believe everyone is familiar with it. The ripe impatiens fruits are like small cannonballs. With a slight touch with your hand, the fruit petals will explode, and the small seeds will roll inside the fruit petals. Shoot out. When we were young, we often played with impatiens seeds. It was so fun. These impatiens seeds (traditional Chinese medicine for impatience) are also very useful!
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The phoenixes are surrounded by colorful brocades, which are full of beauty even before the autumn frost.
I studied traditional Chinese medicine with my master Mr. Li Jie since I was a child. I followed my master almost everywhere he went. Our relationship was so deep that many years after my master passed away, I often discussed treatment with him in my dreams. Difficulties.
When my master was young, he also studied traditional Chinese medicine from Lu Ganfu, Wen Zhuozhi, Pu Fuzhou and other clinical masters. He has superb medical skills and a low-key manner. He has been learning and summarizing his whole life. In his medical career of more than 50 years, he has met many people. There are so many interesting people and things, and I have seen many strange diseases. I have been attending clinics for many years and have been exposed to the disease since I was a child. These experiences are particularly rich. Some of them were passed down by my master's master, and some were witnessed by me. These experiences had a profound impact on my path of practicing medicine.
Today I want to share with you an interesting incident that happened between my master and the chef - a story about the enlightenment of traditional Chinese medicine.
A chef often came to see my master, and he and I became old friends over time. One day, in his spare time, the chef mysteriously said to my master: "Mr. Li, let me tell you a secret. Do you know how to cook beef to make it tender quickly? I wouldn’t tell the average person.”
My master listened with great interest, and the chef continued with great dignity: "I don't know, hey, just use your Chinese herbal medicine, as long as you put a little bit in every time you cook the beef, the beef will become soft very quickly. It’s very chewy. Look at the Chinese medicine’s quick temper. No matter how hard the meat is, it quickly softens in a little time. It’s really interesting.”
After returning home, we searched for a large amount of literature and found that Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica. Caobu Volume 17, Fengxian" recorded: Fengxianzi is mainly used to treat "childbirth difficulties, accumulation of lumps in the diaphragm, choking of the lower bones, and bone penetration" "Tongqiao", Fengxianzi has a fast nature, so it can penetrate bones, softness and hardness. If the fish meat is hard when cooked by the chef, it will become soft and rotten after just a few pieces of it. This is his experience.
Wei Yilin, a famous medical scientist in the Yuan Dynasty, also recorded in "Effective Prescriptions of World Medical Practitioners": "To treat bone worms, goldenrod seeds should be chewed and chewed until they melt. If you don't have seeds, you can also use the roots. Use the bones in the mouth from the bottom. Rinse with warm water to avoid damaging teeth. Chicken bones are especially effective. Break one into pieces and drink with water."
In ancient documents, we really found records of impatience softening hard objects. Hey, when did chefs read medical books? It really puts us doctors to shame.
After this incident, we have repeatedly thought about it and continued clinical practice. Based on syndrome differentiation and combined with the characteristics of acute syndrome, it is very effective to dispel certain masses in the body. This fully proves that our ancestors were great and wise people.
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Kuzi, also known as Impatiens, comes from the seeds of Impatiens, a plant in the family Impatiens. In autumn, the fruits are harvested in batches after they are ripe.
According to "Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2015 Edition)", nature and flavor: slightly bitter, pungent, warm, slightly toxic. It has the effect of breaking blood, softening hardness and eliminating accumulation. It is used for the symptoms of lumps in the fistula, amenorrhea and choking. The usual amount is 3 ~ 4.5g.
Special Note:
1. Impatience is recorded in the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" as minor poison. This is how I understand the toxicity of traditional Chinese medicine. The toxicity of traditional Chinese medicine is one of the important components of the properties of the medicine and is also the material basis for the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine. At present, the concepts of toxic and non-toxic are mostly based on modern pharmacological toxicity and safety research, but the understanding of the toxic nature of traditional Chinese medicine is not comprehensive.
The theory of traditional Chinese medicine holds that: "If there is a disease, the disease will be affected by it; if there is no disease, the person will be affected by it." This means that when the human body is sick, the body is in a state of imbalance of yin and yang (that is, the yin and yang are biased). At this time, drugs need to be treated, that is, the bias of the drug (that is, toxicity, therapeutic effect) is used to treat the disease. Correct the body's biased condition and return the body to a state of yin and yang balance. When the human body is in a disease state, the bias (toxicity, therapeutic effect) of the drug will directly affect the disease itself, without any adverse reactions to other functions of the human body.
When there is no disease, the yin and yang of the human body are in a relatively balanced state (that is, a healthy state). If excessive or unreasonable medication is used at this time, the bias (toxicity, therapeutic effect) of the drug will easily break this balance, causing Diseases that occur in the human body are adverse reactions to drugs.
2. There is also a saying that "all medicines are poisons". The classic Chinese medicine book "Huangdi Neijing" also says that "all medicines are poisons". This means that every drug is toxic (that is, the therapeutic effect of the drug). Before the Western Han Dynasty, all drugs were called poisons, which is the so-called "the effect of the drug is the effect of the poison."
For example, arsenic is a traditional Chinese medicine recognized as highly toxic. The scientific research team of Academician Chen Zhu used "arsenic extract" to treat leukemia and won the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Ernest Beutler Award.
Another example is rice. It must be a non-toxic and safe food. If you eat 10 bowls of white rice in one meal, people will be poisoned and sick. Everything must have a degree, and you can’t do it if you exceed it. There is an old Chinese saying that goes beyond the limit.
Therefore, all drugs must have a dose. As long as the drug is used in a safe dose and rationally under the guidance of a doctor, it will not cause any adverse reactions to the body (it is also safe for infants and young children).
To talk about toxicity without talking about dosage is to be a hooligan.
