After resting for two days, the master and disciple went to the mountains to look for herbs again, still heading south.
The geographical environment next to the saltpeter is excellent, and there are many medicinal herbs a little further away.
They discovered the bone-setting elixir. Gathered year-round, the elixir can be dried and ground into powder or used fresh. Its primary properties are to invigorate blood circulation, relieve pain, and eliminate rheumatism. For rheumatism, trauma, and fractures, three to five cents of elixir can be taken orally.
This medicine has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, setting bones, and dispelling wind and dampness. It is used for traumatic fractures, injuries from falls, rheumatic joint pain, tuberculosis, postpartum low back pain, chronic enteritis, diarrhea, etc.
We also found Prunella vulgaris, also known as Nine-story Building, Iron-colored Grass, and Big-headed Flower.
Prunella vulgaris is a traditional Chinese medicine that has the effects of clearing heat and improving eyesight, and can treat red, swollen and painful eyes, headaches, etc. It is known as the "holy medicine for clearing and protecting the liver."
There is also Millettia reticulata. Millettia reticulata is also known as Blood Wind, Blood Vine, and Blood Wind Vine.
The dried stems of the plant. It promotes blood circulation, replenishes blood, regulates menstruation and relieves pain, and relaxes tendons and activates collaterals. It is primarily used for irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, rheumatic pain, numbness and paralysis, and sallow complexion caused by blood deficiency.
There is also plantain. Plantain is also known as wheel grass, pig ear grass, and cow ear grass.
The entire plant of Plantain is sweet and cold in nature, acting on the liver, kidney, lung, and small intestine meridians. It is a diuretic, heat-clearing, detoxifying, antitussive, antiasthmatic, eye-improving, and expectorant. It is primarily used to treat urinary obstruction, stranguria, hematuria, jaundice, edema, febrile dysentery, diarrhea, epistaxis, red and swollen eyes, carbuncles, phlegm-heat cough and asthma, throat numbness, cough, and skin ulcers.
They even found some dendrobium! Of course, it wasn’t the dendrobium of Mr. Liu Shihu.
This reminded Liu Yuhan of the Dendrobium Town in Fugui Village that was popular in the south before he traveled through time.
Dendrobium can be used as both a medicine and an ornamental plant. Dendrobium Town has cultivated over 60 varieties of dendrobium, covering over a thousand acres of land. Products include fresh dendrobium strips, bonsai, decoction pieces, wine, and cosmetics.
Liu Yuhan once visited the Dendrobium Town and was amazed by it.
Dendrobium has a sweet and slightly cold nature. It enters the Stomach and Kidney meridians. Its sweet properties nourish, while its slightly cold properties clear and purge, making it primarily effective for nourishing and clearing. Entering the Stomach meridian, it nourishes stomach yin and produces body fluids, treating thirst caused by fluid deficiency or stomach yin deficiency. Entering the Kidney meridian, it nourishes kidney yin and clears heat, treating persistent heat associated with yin deficiency. Furthermore, by nourishing yin and clearing heat, it can improve eyesight and strengthen the waist. Used fresh, it is most potent.
"Ben Jing": "It is used to treat injuries, eliminate numbness and lower qi, nourish the five internal organs due to fatigue and emaciation, strengthen yin, and long-term use can strengthen the stomach." "Ming Yi Bie Lu": "It nourishes essence, replenishes internal deficiency, calms stomach qi, grows muscles, expels skin pathogenic heat and prickly heat, treats pain, coldness, numbness and weakness in the feet and knees, and calms the mind and relieves fright." "Yao Xing Ben Cao": "It nourishes qi and eliminates heat. It is used to treat weak waist and legs in men, strengthen yang, nourish the kidneys for essence accumulation, treat low back pain, nourish kidney qi, and increase strength." "Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao": "It treats deficiency and weakness, and strengthens the muscles and bones." "Bencao Yan Yi": "It treats deficiency heat in the stomach." "Yao Yao Hua Yi": "It is used to treat chronic lung heat deficiency and persistent cough." "Bencao Bei Yao": "It treats nocturnal emission and spermatorrhea."
The master and apprentice unearthed Dendrobium officinale. Fresh Dendrobium officinale has a "grasshopper leg" shape, ranging from 5 to 28 cm in height. Its stem is cylindrical, 4 to 7 mm in diameter, slightly curved, and rust-colored, with a purple-red cross-section. Its internodes are short, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. It has a high gelatin content, becoming sticky after prolonged chewing and leaving little residue. When boiled in water or squeezed into juice, it turns red, with a refreshing, sweet taste.
Dendrobium candidum has the effects of nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and clearing heat. It is used to treat fluid loss caused by febrile diseases, dry mouth and thirst, insufficient stomach yin, poor appetite and retching, persistent fever after illness, yin deficiency and excessive fire, bone steaming and fatigue fever, blurred vision, and weakness of tendons and bones.
It has multiple pharmacological effects, including regulating gastrointestinal function, lowering blood sugar, enhancing immunity, anti-cataract, anti-tumor, and anti-oxidation.
The medicinal effect is really powerful!
Liu Yuhan dug a lot of Dendrobium and put it into the space, and planted it when he was free in the evening.
Not only the Iron-born Dendrobium, but also other easily-collected and planted medicinal herbs, she moved them into the space to plant. Some of them were hard to find in the mountains.
Time passed quickly on the mountain. It was hard to tell what time it was, but it felt like the sun was about to set before the master and apprentice hurried down the mountain. On the way down, they ran into Liu Shinan and his wife who were looking for them.
"Doctor Liu, Xiaohan, it's too late today. Huo and the others are heading north to look for you."
"Ah, why is he here? Dad, take this bone whistle and walk towards the north mountain and blow it to see if they can hear it."
"Okay, you guys go back first."
Liu Shinan walked to the north halfway up the mountain with the bone whistle and blew it. In less than a cup of tea, Huo Dong and Liu Hong came running over.
When Huo Dong saw that it was Liu Shinan, he inadvertently looked behind him. Seeing that it was Liu Shinan alone, he felt a little disappointed.
"Now that you're here, let's go back. Xiaohan asked me to come look for you with the bone whistle. They've already gone back."
"Yes, uncle."
When everyone returned, dinner was ready. After dinner, everyone sat in the yard to digest the food.
Liu Zhiyuan went into the kitchen, took out a clay pot filled with salt, and walked towards Huo Dong, who was sitting in the courtyard. Everyone knew that they were going to talk, so they all tacitly returned to their rooms.
Liu Yuhan returned to the room, lay down beside her mother, and entered the space. She planted the herbs she had dug today. She planted them next to the five-acre medicinal field, so she could always make some space.
Go to the vegetable area, pick the ripe fruits and vegetables that can be picked, and replant those that need to be replanted.
I went to the corn area, potato area, sweet potato area and rice field area again, set the alarm for 8 hours and then fell asleep in the space.
She felt a little tired today. If she hadn't insisted on practicing martial arts to keep fit, her body would definitely not be able to withstand a day of climbing the mountain.
Liu Yuhan didn't know what his grandfather had said to Huo Dong. Liu Yuhan had already told several adults in the Liu family about saltpeter in advance, and even vaguely said that saltpeter could be used to make ice and cannon sticks.
I informed my master in advance and let him take responsibility for this.
What could the master do? Naturally, he would protect his apprentice. He knew that Liu Yuhan was a little different. She was very smart and knew a lot.
If he kept asking her questions and it would make her feel embarrassed, he chose not to ask and would protect her if she needed him to.
He is already an old man, and he only has this one disciple, a girl at that, so he is afraid that she will be wrongly accused.
If he could help his disciple bear the responsibility, he would naturally be willing to do so.
Besides, all these good reputations were given to him for free, so he didn't feel wronged at all.
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