After Zhao Gongming drove Shennong to Chendi on Xiangyun, he asked Shennong to hand over the tribal affairs to his subordinates. He asked Shennong to practice Shangqing with him during the day, and taught Shennong some pharmacological knowledge and governance at night. []
Cultivation has no time, and decades have passed by slowly. This is the first time that Zhao Gongming has stayed in the human race for such a long time, and Shennong has reached the early stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal under the strong stimulation of Zhao Gongming in these years. Zhao Gongming himself sighed a little. Although it was inevitable that there were two yellow plums in it, the innate advantages of this human race were fully exposed. However, even so, Zhao Gongming still had to secretly regret it. These emerging human races may be in the realm of Not weaker than others, but in terms of magic power, it is really far behind those great gods who practiced day and night.
On this day, Zhao Gongming handed the dragon-binding rope that the Japanese team had trained before to Shennong and said: "This is a treasure made by the master using the purple jade bamboo, the spirit of Yimu, and I added a few formations in it. But As a weapon, it can also identify thousands of plants and trees. As long as it is whipped with it, you will know whether the plant is poisonous or not. It is convenient for you to identify the grass. However, this thing can only identify whether the plants are poisonous or not, but it cannot tell the intensity of the poison. If you want to know the toxicity, you have to test it yourself. However, you have to remember that there are countless foreign substances in the ancient world. Some of them are unknown even as a teacher, and they dare not try them. Although your Taoism has grown rapidly, you still should not try some easily. It looks like something weird."
But Shennong said: "If I could identify all the poisonous things in the world and find a cure so that my people would no longer suffer, I would have no regrets even if I die." When Zhao Gongming heard this, he couldn't help but thought, "He is worthy of becoming one of the three emperors. This kind of heart is far beyond the four great Bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism in later generations." Then he said: "Since you have this intention, I don't want to stop you, but I still have to be careful. I have been in the human race for decades, and it's time to go back." After saying this, he walked out of the wooden house and drove away in the auspicious clouds without waiting for Shennong to stay. When Shen Nong saw the teacher leaving in the clouds, he summoned the leaders, elders and officials of each tribe to ask about the affairs of the human race in the past few decades. He heard that there were no major events in the human race, but that the old and weak tribesmen occasionally encountered headaches and fevers and were still unable to do anything about it. Think about it, some tribesmen died like this, and even some middle-aged men and women were unable to work when such a situation happened. They could only lie in bed and wait for improvement. And these phenomena are becoming more and more common now, and then they accidentally eat poison or are injured. More and more tribesmen are being injured by poisonous insects and snakes. Although there is a record of Fuxi going out and bringing back poisons last time, there are more and more tribesmen now, and more and more land is needed. The tribesmen need to go to the mountains and forests to burn mountains. In the forest, I encountered many plants and trees I had never seen before. But Shen Nong didn't know that if everything has an advantage, there must also be a disadvantage. Although grains have enabled the tribesmen to get more food, the people who eat grains are not as healthy as those who eat meat. Therefore, some diseases that were basically harmless to the tribesmen in the past are now serious. It can be fatal.
When Shen Nong heard these things, he couldn't sit still. After arranging the affairs of the tribe, he went out and walked deep into the mountains. Along the way, whenever he saw vegetation that he had never seen before, he would use the divine whip ocher made by Zhao Gongming. He whipped them to see if they were poisonous or not, and recorded them. At night, he drank the poisonous weeds to test the intensity of their toxicity. Gradually, Shennong discovered that various poisons had five elements properties, and some were powerful. The poison is mixed with the power of several five elements, so it is highly toxic. Shen Nong observed its cold, warm, flat, and hot properties, distinguished its meanings of monarch, minister, assistant, and envoy, and slowly used it to detoxify. , and can also cure diseases. One day, Shennong found a vine-like plant with small yellow flowers in a crack in the rocks. He whipped it with ocher and found that it contained highly toxic substances. His intestines felt like they were broken, and he quickly worked hard to dissolve the poison. After a while, Shen Nong stood up and wiped the sweat from his head and said: "Fortunately, I have the Taoist law passed down by my teacher to protect me. Otherwise, I would have died here. I must put this kind of I wrote it down and told it to the people to prevent them from eating it and dying. If you eat this grass, your stomach will hurt, as if your intestines are broken, so let's call it "broken intestine grass". After decades of trial and error, it was found that licorice can treat For coughs, rhubarb can treat constipation, yellow lotus can reduce swelling, etc.
After decades of debating and tasting, Shennong finally tasted almost all the plants and trees, and wrote a book "Shen Nong's Materia Medica". "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" explains the three-class classification of drugs and their performance significance. Drugs The position and role of the monarch, ministers and assistants in the compatibility of prescriptions, the coordination of yin and yang of medicines, the harmony of seven emotions, the four qi (cold, hot and warm) and the five flavors (spicy, sweet, sour, bitter and salty), poisonous and non-toxic, the collection and preparation of medicines, and the decoction of medicines Laws, the relationship between drugs and disease syndrome, etc. When the book was finished, the heaven sent blessings to Shennong. Shennong returned to Chendi and began to teach the tribesmen the art of medicine. Shennong also discovered that some diseases developed quickly. By the time the medicine was cooked, the patient was already dying. Even if I take the medicine, it won't work anymore. So Shen Nong wondered if he could find a way to preserve all the essence of the medicine and use it during the illness.If people take it when they first get sick, the patient can take it early and save his life. Shennong thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't find a way. Suddenly one day, Shen Nong remembered that when he was poisoned by snake poison, his teacher took a pill of elixir for him, which cured him. He couldn't help thinking: "The elixir is made by the immortals by removing the dregs from the jelly grass and immortal fruit, so people should You can also refine herbs into elixirs, but the teacher didn't teach me how to refine elixirs, so I'll go to the East China Sea and find the teacher."