[Yu Jian Traditional Chinese Medicine] Medical Eye Watching "Water Margin": What does Bai Hu mean?

"Water Margin" is one of the four major literary books. We can appreciate the historical stories described in it, and we can also glimpse one of the medical development of my country during the Northern Song Dynasty. At the same time, we can also harvest many traditional medicine knowledge and allusions in accidents.

At the end of the seventh time in the book, Lin Jiaotou fell into the trap arranged by Gao Taiwei without knowing it. In front of the eaves, the two entered themselves. When a cup of tea, I didn't see it. Lin Chong was doubtful, when the probe was looking at the curtain, I saw four green characters on the front forehead of the eaves, and wrote: "White Tiger Festival Hall". Lin Chong Meng's provincial highway: "This church is a big deal to discuss military planes. How can you dare to enter for no reason? It is not a gift!" Urgently waiting, only listening to the sound of the boots and footsteps, and a person entered from the outside. When Lin Chong watched, it was not someone else, but the master Gao Lieutenant.

"Entering Baihu Hall" is a major turning point in the life of Linjiao, and it also indicates that he is about to have an extremely sad and sad experience.

Today, I borrowed this story to tell you the origin and meaning of "White Tiger", as well as the "white tiger" in Chinese medicine.

Ancient Chinese astronomers divided the stars in the sky into 28 groups, called 28 places. The meaning of "Su" is similar to the "palace" of the 12th house of the Zodiac, which is the meaning of the constellation table, which means where the sun and the moon and the five -star are located. Twenty -eight places are divided into four groups, which are called four elephants, four beasts, four -dimensional, Quartet gods, namely Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, and Xuanwu. Each group has seven stars.

For example, Scorpio's main star heart stays two, which is one of the seven -bedrooms of the Oriental Qinglong. The hunter's main star participates in the fourth, is one of the Seven Western Bai Tiger Seven Pot.

Every fall, the white tiger seven places sat in the town in the town. The ancients were in awe of the phenomena, thinking that there was a serious and ruthless white tiger Xingjun in charge of the seven -bedroom, and he could town all evil. Therefore, the prisoners in ancient times chose to "ask after the autumn". The purpose of executing the prisoner is to educate the people not to do evil. In the autumn, they must use the power of Baihu Xingjun to come to the evil.

Baihu appeared in autumn, and has the functions of town evil and evil spirits. It is a ruthless beast, and its image is small. In Li Qingzhao's "Drunk Flower Yin", there is a phrase "fog and strong clouds and sorrows, and the brain to eliminate gold beasts", creating a sad atmosphere. Similarly, the military planes are in charge of fighting and killing, named "White Tiger Festival", which is also the meaning of Xiao Khan and town evil. The mistakes of Linjiao's mistakes are also borrowing the meaning of Xiao killing, implying that the situation is desolate and there is a prison disaster.

There is a famous "White Tiger Soup" in traditional Chinese medicine, and the "four major heat certificates" are the leaders, namely, hot, sweaty, thirsty mouth, and veins. In the white tiger soup, there is a drug that blindly played -plaster.

Gypsum is also known as white tiger, sweet, Xin, cold, functional clearing heat and diarrhea, removing annoyance and quenching thirst. It is commonly used for external fever, high fever and thirst, lung heat asthma, hyperactivity of stomach fire, headache, and toothache. On the one hand, the alias of "White Tiger" is because of the white color of gypsum, and on the other hand, it also contains the merits of gypsum clearing heat.

"White Tiger" is not only one of the symbols of traditional culture, but also the medicinal materials and famous prescriptions in the motherland medicine. It can be seen that our motherland medicine and traditional culture are inseparable. To truly understand and learn Chinese medicine, we must learn traditional culture. "Xiucai learn medicine, catch chicken in the cage" is probably the meaning!

(Author: Book Xiaoyan Editor: Yang Hua)

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