Hong Kong Zongli Monks

Chapter 94 Medicinal Materials and Alchemy

Zhixing doesn't know what other people are doing, even if he knows, it doesn't matter, too many things have been exposed tonight.

But when you think about it, only a few people know, and it's still night. Although there are lights, only Kim McKee and the other three policemen can see clearly.

As for Zhong Fabai, Chih-hing is sure he didn't see his face clearly. There was a light inside, but he could only see his back. Outside, it was a bit dark, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

Fanny is highly educated and has a strong personality, but she is not an eighth wife.

Kim McKee and Meng Chao are two teasers, and it will be spread all over the police station at dawn, and they will only exaggerate. At that time, no one will believe them. They will only believe that there is a Taoist priest catching a ghost. The underground is a haunted place.

Zhixing returned to the Taoist temple, recalled what happened tonight, and wondered if he would need to wear black clothes, wrap his head, and cover his face when fighting in the future?
That's too low, it looks like a villain, and it hurts the image too much.

Shaking his head, he definitely can't dress up like this.

Thinking about it, and not thinking about it anymore, I entered the main hall of the Taoist temple to practice.

The wispy aura enters the meridian, then enters the dantian, and is slowly compressed, turning the invisible aura into mist.

Absorbing, compressing, instilling spiritual energy into the system shortens countless days to accumulate, and when the critical point is reached, one can go to the next level.

The fetal breath method on the eighth floor is already in the late stage of Qi training, depending on the situation, it will not take long to reach the critical point of the ninth floor, but it is difficult to say whether it can be broken through at once.

Therefore, in order to break through smoothly, I continued to save ghosts from time to time at night, to be free and free, to go when I wanted to, and not to go if I didn’t want to.

The countryside on the map of Hong Kong, or abandoned villages, etc., have been gone in more than a month, and more than 200 ghosts have been saved.

The city is densely populated, and except for the old neighborhoods, few ghosts can be seen.

Old streets, after years of baptism, outdated design, old, dirty, will gradually become gloomy, and it is easy to breed ghosts.

After more than ten days, I walked through these old streets, but I didn’t save ghosts many times. One or two, the ones who had a lot of resentment were killed by golden needles. It dissipates, and you don't have to manage it yourself.

In the August lottery, the fire refining technique was drawn. The aura is separated from the body in the hand and turned into a flame. It is needed for refining medicine, alchemy, and forging.

Fortunately, you can practice at the later stage of Qi training, but the support time is not long, as long as the temperature of the fire is controllable.

In September, the lottery draws the Herbal Medicine Encyclopedia.

The development of the traditional pharmaceutical industry has formed my country's four major pharmaceutical capitals.

Each of the four major medicines has its own medical culture and a long history.

There are different opinions about the four major medicines.

According to some information, the four major medicines in my country are: Bozhou, Anhui, Yuzhou, Henan, Huixian, and Anguo, Hebei. It is also said that the Chengdu Hehuachi Chinese medicine professional market is also one of the four major medicine capitals in my country.

In addition, camphor trees in Jiangxi are known as the "Medical Capital of Southern China".

In fact, no matter who the four major drugs are, there is no doubt that the pharmaceutical industry in these areas is relatively developed.

Bozhou, Anhui, known as "the ancient capital of Shang Tang, the hometown of Wei Wu", Bozhou is located at the western end of northern Anhui, adjacent to Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan on three sides, and the Guo River runs through the city from west to east.

Since ancient times, Wuhua Tianbao, outstanding people, Laozi, Cao Cao, Hua Tuo and other sages and sages were born here. It is one of the four famous ancient medicine capitals in the whole country.

Bozhou's unique phenological and geographical conditions have become a distribution center for medicinal materials in the Central Plains.And because of the legacy of the genius doctor Hua Tuo in Bozhou for a long time, there are many famous doctors and pharmacists, and the cultivation and processing skills of Chinese medicinal materials are even more superior.

There are more than 130 kinds of traditional Chinese medicinal materials produced, and Bozhou, the four famous medicines in Anhui, accounts for two kinds.

Due to the thriving trade of medicinal materials, there are row upon row of shops, stores, shops and shops on the 72 streets of Bozhou.

Chinese herbal medicines from all over the country come here, and the medicinal materials trading market is very large. There are four or five streets in the city that specialize in medicinal materials.Therefore, there was a saying at that time that "come to Bozhou City and see the world's medicine at a glance".

Anguo County, Hebei Province, was called Qizhou in ancient times. It is famous all over the country and Southeast Asia because of the prosperity of the pharmaceutical industry, and is known as the "Medicine State".Historically, it has been called "South Yuzhou and North Qizhou" together with Henan Yuzhou.

As early as 1101 A.D., Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty established the "Yaowang Temple" in Anguonan in memory of Pitong, and held a temple fair every Qingming Festival.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it became the general hub for the distribution of medicinal materials in the country. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, drug dealers began to form gangs. During the temple fair, drug dealers from all over the country gathered.

Merchants from all walks of life exchange tens of millions of catties of medicinal materials every day, and the turnover reaches tens of thousands of taels of silver.

It has become the center of the exchange of Chinese herbal medicines in all directions, and it is a famous medicinal material distribution market in the history of our country.

After hundreds of years of production practice, Anguo's medicinal material processing has accumulated a complete set of experience and has many unique features.

Its "knife technique" is the crown of the pharmaceutical industry.For example, "Hundred Knife Betel Nut", one betel nut can be cut into more than 100 pieces, and the pieces are uniform.

The rhino horn is pounded into very thin slices with a special steel rasp, which looks like shavings.After many medicinal materials are processed by special production methods, their efficacy is improved.

It is the collection of medicinal materials from all sides and the exquisite processing skills that have won the high praise of "the grass arrives in Anguo to make medicine, and the medicine passes through Qizhou to produce fragrance".

Jiangxi Zhangshu Town relies on the geographical and transportation advantages of "the thoroughfare of eight provinces". There are a large number of drug dealers and a thriving pharmaceutical industry.

Because camphor trees gather medicinal materials from all over the country, the self-produced medicinal materials of camphor trees also complement each other. For example, camphor tree aurantium was listed as a tribute and entered the inner garden of the imperial palace because of its excellent quality.

The medicinal material of camphor tree is called: "Eclectic in the southeast, northwest, and middle east, sweet, hard, salty, sour, and five natures are all available, and you can find everything you want."

At the same time, Zhangshu Pharmaceutical has unique technology and characteristics in the identification and processing of medicinal materials. There are many kinds of cutting slices, moderate thickness, and strong practicability. , Guizhi melon seeds slices, licorice willow leaves", etc.

Technically, "White peony flies to the sky, Poria cocos can't see the edge, Chuanxiong butterfly double-fly slices, and Ophiopogon japonicus three-knife into spoon slices".

Therefore, it has won the reputation of "the medicine is not effective for the camphor tree, and it is not enough for the camphor tree".

Baiquan is located in the northern part of Henan Province, at the southern foot of Sumen Mountain in Wuhuali, northwest of Huixian County.

As early as the Sui Dynasty, the "Weiyuan Temple" was built on the north bank of Baiquan. Every year on April 1375th of the lunar calendar, the birthday of Sakyamuni Buddha was commemorated here. The Baiquan Medicinal Materials Conference was formed.

According to "Hui County Chronicle" in the 15th year of Qing Daoguang: "Baiquan, starting at the beginning of April and ending on the tenth day of the first day, converges in all directions, gathers merchants, and has medicinal materials from the north and the south." It can be seen that merchants come here to exchange medicinal materials.

According to statistics in 1931, there were 42 shops in 623 counties in six provinces and cities in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Beijing, and Anhui participating in the Baiquan Medicinal Materials Conference.

There are Nanhuo, that is, medicinal materials produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang and other places; Shanhuo, that is, medicinal materials produced in Henan, Shanxi, and Taihang Mountains;

And there are more than 200 kinds of rehmannia glutinosa, Achyranthes bidentata, chrysanthemum, and yam "four major medicines" produced in Huaiqing Prefecture.

The beautiful scenery of Baiquan attracts people from all over the world to visit Baiquan during the conference. At the peak of the conference, there are as many as 10 people. Therefore, it is said that "the spring flowers bloom in Baiquan, but the medicine is not complete without Baiquan".

In October, I got the elementary alchemy.

From the emperors and princes down to the common people, they all showed infinite desire for longevity.

Qin Shihuang once sent Xu Fu overseas to search for fairy prescriptions, trying to achieve his wish, but of course there was no result. After Xu Fu took the people away, he never came back. It is said that Xu Fu is short in stature and is the ancestor of the Japanese.

Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty was keen on cultivating Taoism and alchemy, longing for immortality, and ignored political affairs for many years.

The most outrageous thing is that he was almost strangled to death by Yang Jinying and other court ladies who suffered from the scourge because he used some strange methods to make alchemy.

Even so, Emperor Jiajing still did not change his original intention. On the road of alchemy, he was called a model worker. He worked overtime and conscientiously. In the end, the fire player set himself on fire, and died of alchemy and medicine for a long time.

There was also Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo in the Ming Dynasty who also liked it, but he took the medicine to have a good health so that he could pamper more beauties, but his physical condition was not as good as that of Emperor Jiajing. After taking Dahong Pills, he died after only 29 days in office. , One of the three major cases of the Ming Dynasty, the "Hongwan case" came about in this way.

It is really unreliable to make alchemy and cultivate immortals, but those who do not give up are always emerging one after another.

Alchemy has become a hot industry, and it will last forever. Ge Hong, a Jin native, said in Baopuzi Golden Pill Chapter: All plants and trees are burnt to ashes, but cinnabar is smelted into mercury, and the accumulated changes are turned into cinnabar. It is also far away from plants and trees. Yes, so it can make people live longer.

The pills made of cinnabar are said to be able to live forever, and each pill contains a huge magic power, which makes people so intoxicated that they are completely dizzy.

In addition to Baopuzi Ge Hong, famous alchemists also include Tao Hongjing, the "Prime Minister of the Mountain", and Sun Simiao, the king of medicine.

Tao Hongjing worked hard to seek longevity in alchemy. Not only did he live in seclusion, visit famous mountains, and seek immortal prescriptions, but he also compiled the ancient book "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", absorbing new achievements in pharmacology between the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and wrote seven chapters. Volume "Materia Medica Collection Notes".

"King of Medicine" Sun Simiao believes in Taoist Laozhuang theory, and is also keen to use knowledge to explore the refining of elixir. He has written a large number of medical books, especially "Thousand Gold Prescriptions" and "Thousand Gold Wing Prescriptions" Wait for the most famous.

The most amazing thing is that those emperors and dignitaries who wanted to live forever all ended up short-lived after eating the golden elixir.

And these three are all long-lived. As the old saying goes, it is rare for people to live to 80 years old. Ge Hong and Tao Hongjing both lived to [-] years old, and Sun Simiao even lived a long life. His eyesight and hearing did not decline when he was over [-] years old.

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