China's culture is profound and has a long history, and medical skills are among them. Traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine are the great crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. In the history of China for thousands of years, many famous doctors have emerged, such as Hua Tuo, Bian Que, Sun Simiao, Zhang Zhongjing, Li Shizhen and Ye, and Meng Ao is one of them.
Meng E is from Pingli, Xinfeng Township, Liang County, Ruzhou City. He was a famous scholar and physician in Tang Dynasty, and the founder of dietotherapy in China. He is the 3 1 grandson of Mencius, an ancient thinker and educator. Meng E was gifted at an early age and never forgets anything. He likes medical technology and collects and studies folk dietotherapy remedies. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, he became a scholar and served as a county magistrate, and moved to Fengge to give up his family. Later, he was demoted to Taizhou Sima for offending the marquis of Wu, and later promoted to assistant minister of rites.
Li Dan, the prime minister of the Prince, appreciated Meng Ao's talent and asked him to be an attendant to explain Confucian classics. In the third year of Chang 'an (703), Tongzhou was worshipped as a secretariat, so it was called Meng Tongzhou in the world. In the early years of Shenlong, when he was old, he became an official and lived in seclusion in Yiyang Mountain, Ruzhou. Every day, he took medicine bait as his profession. In the early years of Kaiyuan, he was 93 years old.
Meng E has a good knowledge of medicine and the art of health preservation. When I was young, I had close contacts with the famous doctor Sun Simiao. After he retired in his later years, he often concocted drugs to help the world and save people. Although he is old, he is still in his prime. So someone asked him how to maintain it. Meng Wei replied: "If you want to keep healthy, you must do what you say and get rid of the disease." In order to popularize the knowledge of treating diseases and keeping in good health among ordinary people, Meng Chang combined the practical experience accumulated in his life with the dietotherapy prescriptions in previous medical monographs, compiled three volumes of Buyi Prescriptions, and copied them in his hometown. Later, it was supplemented by Justin Cheung, a monk doctor, and adapted into a dietotherapy herbal medicine.
Herbal dietotherapy system summarizes dietotherapy drugs and prescriptions before Tang Dynasty. It is the first monograph on dietotherapy in China, and the earliest monograph on dietotherapy in the world. It conforms to modern nutrition and has made great contributions to the development of medicine in China and the world. Materia Medica for Dietotherapy still has clinical value, so Meng Ao is known as the "originator" of dietotherapy in the world. According to written records, the earliest tea substitute also came from dietotherapy materia medica, among which there were prescriptions for treating heat toxic diarrhea and low back pain.
In addition to Dietotherapy Materia Medica, Bixiao Prescription, another medical monograph for treating intractable diseases in Mongolia and Hubei, puts forward the method of examining, diagnosing and treating icteric hepatitis with anesthetic preparations. Some people say that this is the earliest pH test paper.
Meng E started the dietotherapy in China with her own efforts. In his life, he paid special attention to the taboos of various dietary drugs and advocated "seeking effectiveness in harmony". In his later years, due to Li Dan's old illness, he was given the name "Meng Yutang", which means "Meng distinguishes yellow and jade is immortal". It was passed down by later generations of Meng and has now been selected into the intangible cultural heritage of Henan Province and Ruzhou City.