Yizhi kernel also belongs to the yang tonic, first contained in the “Herbal Gleanings”, and pointed out that: “Yizhi out of Kunlun and the Jiaotong country, now Lingnan state group often have.” The Tu Jing Materia Medica said, “Yizhizi like the forsythia seed head unopened, seedling leaves and flowers root and cardamom no difference, but the son of a small ear.” Yi Zhi Ren is one of the four major Chinese medicines in the south of China, its popularity in China, it is also said to be related to Su Dongpo. Su Dongpo official relegated to Hainan, the drug is quite a study, he recorded in the “Dongpo Miscellany”: “Hainan produced Yizhi, flowers and fruits are long spikes and divided into three sections. View its upper and lower sections, to wait for the early in the late harvest of the abundance of bad, big abundance are real, bad are not real, rare three sections and ripe.” And about the name of the medicine, there are many legends it! According to legend, a long time ago, there is a family of wealthy foreigners, more than half a hundred years before getting a son, named Lai Fu. Lai Fu since childhood frail and sickly, the head grows particularly large, and drooling, and behavioral slow reaction, stagnant and mute, while there is also a problem, that is, every day, bedwetting. A few years have passed, Lai Fu has been little speech, memory is particularly poor, up to 10 years old still do not know how to count, counting to the back to forget the front, in order to treat his son, around the famous doctors are invited all over, the results of what the cause can not be investigated, and the condition has not improved. One day, an old Taoist traveled to this place, and after listening to his son’s condition, he told him, “There is a kind of fairy fruit 8,000 miles away from here, which can cure his son’s disease.” And he drew a picture on the ground of a small tree with leaves that looked like Qiang leaves and a few marquise-shaped fruits growing from its roots, and the old Taoist left after the picture was finished. In order to cure his son, who had been passed down from generation to generation, he decided to search for the fruit himself. After a long and arduous journey, he finally found the plant mentioned by the old Taoist, and picked a bag full of fruits from the tree and set off on his way back. As the food he had brought with him had been exhausted, and the road was sparsely populated, he ate 10 fruits every day to fill his hunger, strangely enough, he felt that his memory was getting better and better since he had eaten the fruits, and the way he had traveled was very clear in his mind, and his energy was very high, and he soon returned to his home. After Lai Fu ate the immortal fruit picked back by the staff, the body is also stronger day by day, and become cheerful and lively, intelligent and lovely, compared with the former is like a different person, at the age of 18 years old, he went to participate in the imperial examination, and the results of the golden list of high school scholar. People in order to commemorate his destiny to change the fairy fruit, will be the fruit named “Scholar fruit”, but also because it can benefit, strong intelligence, make people smart, so also called it Yi Zhi Ren. Source: The dried mature fruit of the ginger plant Yizhi Ren. Origin: Mainly produced in the mountainous areas of Hainan Island, Guangdong Leizhou Peninsula, Guangxi and other areas also produced. Characteristics: Pungent, warm; attributed to the spleen, kidney meridian. Effects: Warming the kidneys to consolidate essence and reduce urination, warming the spleen and opening the stomach to take in saliva. The role of the “Compendium of Materia Medica” on the role of the Yizhiren said: 1, spermatorrhea, urinary leakage, benefit gas and tranquility, make up for the lack of, the Sanjiao, regulating the gas. 2, the guest cold offending the stomach, the treatment of the spleen, the spleen, the stomach, the saliva. 2, the treatment of cold offenders in the stomach, and in the benefit of gas, and people more saliva. 3.It benefits the spleen and stomach, regulates the vital energy, and replenishes the kidney deficiency and slippery leaching. 4, Cold gas abdominal pain, and heart qi deficiency, dream ejaculation red, heat heart system, vomiting blood hematochezia. In addition, the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, recorded a number of ancient formula, including: 1, the night more urine, take twenty-four crushed, into the salt with the decoction, there is a miraculous experience. 2, fragrant mouth odor, Yi Zhi Ren one or two, licorice two money, grinding powder to lick. 3, the leakage of fetal blood, half a pair of Chi kernels, shrinking sand kernel one or two, for the end. Each service three money, empty heart white soup, two services a day.