Was He Shou Wu the earliest personal name? If so, can you tell us an allusion?

It is rumored that taking He Shou Wu can prolong life, and there is a legendary story in it. Legend has it that a long time ago, in Nanhe County, Shunzhou, there was a young man named Tian'er, who was frail and sickly, skinny, dizzy and weak, so he went out to seek folk herbal medicine to cure his illness. One day in front of a temple, hungry and exhausted, fainted to the ground, worshiped the Taoist priest in the temple as a teacher, carefully practiced Taoism, devoted himself to the study of guidance, to strengthen the physique, the body has made great progress.

30 years have passed, Tian'er more than 50 years, never married, one day Tian'er and friends got together and drank a few more glasses of wine, came back drunk on the path and did not wake up, hazy seems to see two vines more than three feet long, intersecting together, not dispersed for a long time, soon after dispersing, intersecting again, so back and forth, Tian'er saw this scene, felt surprised in his heart, suddenly woke up, found himself lying under the vines on the side of the road, so curiously dug out the roots under the vines, its shape size, thickness, length is different, go back to the temple to ask the Taoist chief is the Taoist priestI don't know what kind of plant it is. One day up the mountain came across a long-haired old man in the mountains, his steps were fast, his ears and eyes were clear, and his hair was black, Tian Er asked the old man what this was, and told the old man about the dream. The old man said, the image of the intersection of this vine is indeed strange, but there seems to be an auspicious omen of the dragon and phoenix, this is the auspicious rui sent to you by the heavens, the magic medicine given to you, you might as well take it and try it.

Tian'er felt reasonable, and said thank you for the old man's advice, and when she looked up, she found that the old man had disappeared, and she couldn't help but sweat. Go back to dry this root into powder, take it every day, take it for a period of time, Tian'er feels stronger and stronger, self-healing, after serving for more than a year, Tian'er's beard and hair become black, and his face is moist and red, as if there is a rejuvenation and rejuvenation, and in the year of the sixtieth year, he married a young daughter as his wife, and actually gave birth to children. Tian Er was overjoyed, changed his name to Nenghei, and taught the administration of this medicine to his son Yanxiu, and then passed it on to his grandson He Shou Wu.

Shou Wu after taking this medicine, must be black to old age, strong physique, full of children and grandchildren, Shou Wu is 130 years old, still have to be not white, black and shiny like a young man, the people of the neighborhood come to ask Shou Wu to take what elixir, Shou Wu took out this strange root to introduce to the villagers, but the people do not know what it is, a leader said, then call it He Shou Wu, what, is the surname of Shou Wu. Since then, the effect of He Shou Wu prolonging life has spread to the people, and it has been included in the Materia Medica as a medicine by later generations of doctors.

Polygonum multiflorum is a blood tonic drug, the effect of Polygonum multiflori, the first thing that comes to mind may be the premature whitening of the beard, in fact, there are many functions of Polygonum multiflori, the birth of Polygonum multiflorum has the effect of moistening the intestines, detoxifying carbuncle and malaria; After processing, Polygonum multiflorum has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, black beard hair, and lowering blood lipids.

Polygonum multiflorum not only has the effects of detoxification, moistening the intestines and laxative, but also prevents cardiovascular and cerebrovascular related diseases, enhances immune function, promotes blood function, and nourishes yin and nourishes blood.

There are ** cardiovascular diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hypertensive diseases, hyperglycemic diseases and cold diseases. And it also has the effect of enhancing resistance and immunity, so I think there are many effects of He Shou Wu.

It can replenish lean kidneys, lower blood lipids, lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar, tonify the liver, dispel wind, and can also relieve the symptoms of blood deficiency and dizziness, and can alleviate the symptoms of anemia.

The effect is that it can have a effect of nourishing qi and replenishing blood, which can alleviate anemia and improve sleep quality.

We have He Shou Wu everywhere on the roadside, but no one knows him.

According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a person surnamed Tian'er, who was frail and sickly, and still had no children at the age of the "Mandate of Heaven". One night, when he was drunk and lying in the field, he saw in the haze two vines three feet apart, and the seedlings intersected, and he thought it strange, and dug up the roots, but no one knew it.

Someone joked to He Tian'er: You are old and childless, this may be a godsend, why don't you eat it and try it? So, He Tian'er chopped it up and took a little every day, which was strange to say, after taking it for a few days, he felt energetic, and his old diseases were cured, and he continued to take it for a while, and his hair that had turned gray became black and shiny;

What's even more amazing is that He Tianer gave birth to several children in 10 years, excited, he changed his name to He Nenghei, lived for more than 100 years, the son of Nenghei was named Yanxiu, and the grandson was named Shou Wu, and the descendants used the name of the third generation of the He family as the name of the medicine, called "He Shou Wu".

It seems that a person surnamed He picked a medicine, and he ate it that turned from white to black, and later generations used his surname He to give the name of the medicinal material, hehe, it seems to be like this.

The origin of the name of Shou Wu.

Anyone who understands Chinese medicine knows that Polygonum multiflorum is a black hair medicine that can make people's gray hair black. Shou, Tou Ye, Wu, Black Ye, as the name suggests, this Chinese herbal medicine should be called Shou Wu, but why is it called He Shou Wu? There's a story here.

In the 28th year of Jianyuan (113 B.C.), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decided to let Sima Xiangru be the general of Zhonglang, and presided over the road construction project of Bashu through Yelang State, so as to conquer Yelang Country and then use the national strength and army of Yelang Country to attack Nanyue State, so as to solve the difficulty of long-distance warfare.

Speaking of Sima Xiangru, he is also a well-known person, first, he can be poetic, and enjoys the reputation of a talented man, and second, he has a love story with Zhuo Wenjun, the daughter of the grandson of Chengdu tycoon Zhuo Wang.

Originally, Sima Xiangru's envoy to Bashu was a decent thing to glorify the ancestors, but it is a pity that Sima Xiangru was working hard, and part of his hair turned white, and at first glance, he looked like an old man in his fifties and sixties. Therefore, the early gray hair became his heart disease.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty knew about this, he comforted him and said: "Don't worry about this matter, I have a doctor who can cure all kinds of incurable diseases, isn't it just to turn gray hair black, a trivial matter." Who knows, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent the imperial physician to the mansion, Sima Xiangru was dumbfounded when he saw it, it turned out that the imperial physician had a childish face, and his hair was whiter than himself.

Seeing Sima Xiangru's doubts, the imperial physician explained: "My gray hair was deliberately left behind, because people are superstitious about Lao Langzhong, and think that the older and more experienced Chinese medicine practitioners, the more they trust, in fact, I am only 48 years old." Sima Xiangru said:

As reasonable as you may say, how can you convince me that a gray-haired man can do something for others? The doctor said, "Okay, I'll come back to treat you another day," and left after that.

When the imperial doctor came to Sima Xiangru's house for the second time, Sima Xiangru was stunned again. I saw that the imperial doctor had black hair, shining, like a piece of black satin on his head. Sima Xiangru was convinced, and he asked the imperial doctor:

What miracle medicine did you use to have this effect? ”

The imperial doctor said: "I can't name this medicine, but I know that it can be brewed with a few herbs, and it can make black hair." As he spoke, he took out a reddish-brown plant rhizome.

This stem is half a foot long, more than three inches thick, looks like a spindle, has an untidy longitudinal groove on the body, and has a mark on each end of the convex and uneven. Sima Xiangru took it, looked at it for a long time and said, "Since it can black hair, let's call it Shouwu", the imperial doctor thought for a while and said:

It's good to call Shou Wu, it's very appropriate! Sima Xiangru glanced at the imperial physician again and said, "The name is there, it should also have a surname, since the imperial physician has the surname He, let it have the surname He!" The doctor said

Don't dare". Sima Xiangru said: "You don't have to be polite, you are the inventor of Wufa, you have found that it can be black, you should have the right to invent, and it is most appropriate to name it with your surname."

Later, Sima Xiangru appeared on the streets of Chengdu with a black hair, and it was indeed beautiful.

According to legend, He Shou Wu is a native of Nanxian County, Shunzhou, his grandfather's name is Nenghei, and his father's name is Yanxiu. The original name of the heir was Tian'er, frail and sickly, unable to have children, fifty-eight years old, not yet married and married, often envious and missed the Taoist art of the fairy family, and lived in the deep mountains and old forests with the teacher.

One night, he was drunk and lay asleep in the mountains, and in the haze he saw two vines, more than three feet apart, and the seedlings and vines suddenly intersected together. Tian Er was very surprised when he saw this scene, and the next morning he dug up the roots. But no one could tell what kind of plant it was.

Later, a mountain elder suddenly came, Tian Er showed and asked, and the mountain old replied: Since you are old and childless, these two vines are more than three feet apart, and the seedlings and vines suddenly intersect together, and after a long time, they begin to solve, and then they are handed over, which is really strange, this is probably a god-given miracle medicine, why don't you take it and try it?

It is not the name of "He Shou Wu", which was first seen in the "Rihuazi Materia Medica" of Kaiyuan and Tianbao Nian in the Tang Dynasty. This book has long been lost, and some of the texts are scattered in the Song Dynasty's "Re-Cultivation of Political and Historical Evidence Alternate Materia Medica" (referred to as "Zheng Class Materia Medica") and other medicinal books. "Evidence Class Materia Medica" volume 11 "He Shou Wu" article under the quotation of "Rihuazi" said:

Sweet taste, long-term service makes people have children, cures abdominal diseases, all air conditioning and intestinal wind ......Its medicine "Materia Medica" is nameless, because of why Shou Wu saw the vine at night, he immediately picked up food, meritorious, because of the name of picking people.

This text is the earliest record of the medicinal properties, efficacy and the reason for its name, but unfortunately it is relatively simple. The "He Shou Wu Lu" by Li Ao, a writer in the Middle and Tang Dynasty, recorded in volume 638 of "Quantang Wen", gives a detailed introduction to the story of "He Shou Wu". It is summarized below: