Great Chinese medicine has been growing and brilliant in the long river of history, and countless famous teachers have emerged since ancient times. Bian Que, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing are familiar figures in our lives. The medical celebrity to be introduced to you today is Li Shizhen, the famous author of Compendium of Materia Medica. Through our understanding of Li Shizhen, we can learn from some ideas and behaviors in his life, which is helpful to our health. Let's go through history and approach the medical legend Li Shizhen.
Li Shizhen, whose name was Dongbi, was a medical family in qi zhou (now Qichun County, Hubei Province) in the Ming Dynasty. He was eager to learn since he was a child, and he was admitted to a scholar at the age of fourteen, but he failed in several imperial examinations later. Li Shizhen, who lost confidence in the imperial examination, decided to give up the imperial examination and began to concentrate on studying medicine. After many hardships, Li Shizhen's greatest glory in his life lies in his achievements in the classic Compendium of Materia Medica and various medical works in medical history. Left a variety of valuable medical and medical knowledge for future generations. And this knowledge can be applied to our lives to help us stay healthy.
Li Shizhen's concept of health preservation. Li Shizhen's research on food supplement can also be very in-depth, and he found many foods with food supplement function. Such as carrots, Li Shizhen thinks it can "lower qi and tonify the middle energizer, benefit the chest, diaphragm and stomach, strengthen the five internal organs and make people healthy." ; Duck meat, "the main tonic, the most heat-clearing and toxic, conducive to urination, in addition to edema, eliminate fullness." He thinks that food supplement has a great effect on human body.
Old people should eat more porridge. Li Shizhen emphasized that most elderly people have loose teeth and decreased gastrointestinal function, so they should eat more japonica rice porridge. He believes that "eating a big bowl of porridge every day, on an empty stomach, will make it full of grain gas, and it is not refined, but also very soft and greasy, which is in line with the stomach. It is also the most wonderful way to eat. " . This paper expounds the benefits of porridge for the elderly.
Avoid tea after drinking. Li Shizhen wrote in his Compendium of Materia Medica: "Wine is the beauty of heaven. Drinking less will promote blood circulation and qi circulation, strengthen the spirit to keep out the cold and eliminate troubles. If you drink too much, you will be sad and bloody, hurting your stomach and killing sperm, causing phlegm fire. " Tell everyone to pay attention to moderate drinking. In addition, he also mentioned that "drinking tea after drinking hurts the kidneys, the waist and feet are heavy, and the bladder is cold." Never drink tea after drinking.
Carrots are good for health. Li Shizhen studied carrots all his life and found that carrots have many magical functions. He believes that eating carrots regularly can regulate the heart function of human body and help people get healthy, which can be described as a good health care product.