Folklore of Chinese Skullcap Herb

Folklore of Chinese Skullcap Herb

Li Shizhen was born in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. She was smart and eager to learn. She was determined to obtain fame at a young age. Shine on the court. But something unexpected happened. When Li Shizhen was ten or six years old, he suddenly fell ill, coughed and couldn't recover for a long time. With the aggravation of his condition, he spits in bowls every day. He is tired and thirsty to drink, steaming bone, exerting heat, and floating flood in the six veins. Although he takes bupleurum, Ophiopogon japonicus, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Zhuli and other agents to relieve exterior and antipyretic, moisten the lungs, clear the heart, clear away heat and dissipate phlegm, they have no effect. The famous doctors within a hundred miles were helpless and thought they were hopeless. Seeing that Xiaozhen's life is at stake.

At a time when Li Shizhen's parents were sad and desperate, a Taoist came to the village from a distance. The Taoist had white hair and long beard, which was quite like a fairy spirit. Hearing that the Taoist specializes in treating difficult and miscellaneous diseases, Xiao Zhen's parents hurried to invite the Taoist to his home to see a doctor. After the Taoist priest gave Xiaozhen a pulse, stroked her long beard and said, "well, well, just take 30g of Chinese Skullcap Herb, add two cups of water, fry it until one cup, and take it for half a month to recover." Shizhen's parents decocted the medicine according to the prescription with dubious confidence. A miracle occurred. Half a month later, when she was a child, her body heat completely subsided, her symptoms of phlegm and cough disappeared, and her body gradually recovered. Chinese Skullcap Herb baicalensis actually had an immediate therapeutic effect.

Li Shizhen deeply felt the magic of Chinese medicine and admired the Taoist priest with unique skills. From then on, she followed the Taoist priest to study medicine assiduously, read medical books of all dynasties and set foot in mountains and rivers. Hard work pays off. Li Shizhen finally made great achievements in medicine and became a great master in the medical field. In his compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen praised and prepared the traditional Chinese medicine Chinese Skullcap Herb, which saved his life. He called it "a kind of medicine, such as a drum should be a kind of medicine. How wonderful it is in medicine!