In ancient times, medicine was always mixed with witchcraft, and the two were often integrated. Doctors and wizards are usually the same person. This is a natural phenomenon in primitive times. But in essence, science and religion are different melting pots, and the separation of medicine and witchcraft is inevitable.
The separation of ancient witch doctors in China began at the turn of primitive society and slave society. By the Warring States period, the separation of witch doctors had been basically completed. From the primitive period to the Warring States period, China ancient medicine developed from scratch, from micro to micro, and finally laid the foundation of the whole ancient Chinese medicine system.
Today, let's take a look at the interesting stories of traditional Chinese medicine in history and explore the traces of the separation of witch doctors ~ ~
Bian Que was framed for fighting witches.
Bian Que, formerly known as Qin Yueren, was a doctor in the Warring States Period. He has treated people all his life, traveled all over the world, and his medical skills are comprehensive and excellent. When Zhao saw a doctor, people praised him for being good at "taking a doctor"; When visiting Zhou Guo, people praised him for being proficient in "audio-visual joint pain"; When he became Qin's doctor, people called him a "pediatrician". 2,300 years ago, Bian Que became famous all over the world because he initiated pulse diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine and successfully saved the son of Guo Guo's corpse Jue.
Bian Que hates the witchcraft of witch doctors, which swindles people's money and endangers people's lives. One of his "six incurable diseases" is that "anyone who believes in witches and does not believe in doctors will die." To this end, many witch doctors tried their best to kill him and kill him. Later, Qin Wuwang sought medical treatment because of illness, and was told by Qin Liyi that he secretly ordered the diners to kill Bian Que.
Bian Que died to promote medical development and fight against witches, and his reputation is immortal. Later generations compiled his life's medical experience into a book called Difficult Classics, which was signed by Qin Yueren and became one of the masterpieces in the treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine.
Zhang Zhongjing resisted witchcraft with medicine.
Zhang Zhongjing, also known as Zhang Ji, was a physician in the late Han Dynasty. At that time, warlords were fighting for years, epidemics were rampant and corpses were everywhere. The ruling class used theocracy to plunder people's wealth, while the witch Shen Han used incense ashes, perfume and sword dancing to exorcise evil spirits and deceive people. Zhang Zhongjing, who hates witchcraft, the best way to fight witchcraft is to cure diseases and save lives with Chinese medicine.
Once, a village woman was mentally ill. The witch said that she was "haunted by evil spirits" and needed "exorcism". As a result, she cheated the money and left. That village woman is still crazy and raving. Zhang Zhongjing was invited to see a doctor. He smiled and said, "Where is this evil ghost? In fact, it is a gynecological disease of' heat entering the blood room'. A witch who plays tricks can be called a living ghost who harms people! " Zhang Zhongjing gave the sick woman a silver needle and prescribed a prescription for clearing away heat and calming the nerves. The patient recovered quickly.
Again, a child often talks in his sleep at night. His parents hired a wizard to fool themselves with magic, and his illness became more and more serious. Zhang Zhongjing found that children only talk nonsense when they have a fever at night, not ghosts and gods. He prepared medicine for the child, took it several times, and it was fine.
In order to carry forward traditional academic research
Li Shizhen, Lin Hu-ren, was an outstanding physician in Ming Dynasty. He inherited his ancestral medical experience and began to practice medicine at the age of 24. Pay attention to clinic all his life, especially to herbal medicine research, discard the false and retain the true, and advocate innovation. In order to collect and study medicinal materials on the spot, he traveled to many famous mountains and rivers all over the country, without stopping in Wan Li.
But at that time, from the emperor to the princes and ministers, to many wealthy businessmen and scholars, they all believed in the art of alchemy and sought immortality. In fact, the so-called elixir is made of minerals such as mercury, lead, tin, gold, arsenic and sulfur. Long service is not only useless, but even fatal.
Seeing that Dan medicine is harmful to people, Li Shizhen hates the guts of others. In his career of collecting herbs and diagnosing diseases, he never forgot to publicize the harm of Dan medicine to people. He cited examples of emperors, generals and relatives who swallowed "elixir", ate "elixir" and died suddenly to warn users. So the fatuous ruler, the alchemist in power, sent someone to bind Li Shizhen's disciples and others together, collect herbs and drive them down the mountain.
However, Li Shizhen was not afraid of power, and in his 27-year-old drug masterpiece Neijing, he severely criticized the fallacies of mercury, such as "non-toxic" and "longevity after long service". At that time, almost all the officials and ministers in the imperial court were superstitious about alchemy, so the big booksellers dared not publish it after all kinds of hardships. It was not until Li Shizhen's death that this book was published for the benefit of future generations, and now it is famous all over the world.
Witches seek medical advice, Ye Shi Tian.
Julia was a famous doctor in the early Qing Dynasty, who was good at treating the four seasons epidemic and various diseases. His works range from 0755 to 79000. In the history of traditional Chinese medicine, he is a modest and studious person who is good at collecting the strengths of many families.
At that time, there was a witch god in Jiangxi called "Zhengyi Real People", who was famous for witchcraft and evil laws. He was infected with the plague through Suzhou, and his life was dying, and witchcraft could not be cured. In order to survive, he had to seek medical treatment from the local famous doctor Ye to tide over the difficulties. But the witch was defeated by the doctor, so it's a pity. "
In order to save face, Zheng Zhenren bought Ye's boy servant. When he learned that Ye would take a boat from Wannian Bridge at some time, he got on the sedan chair a little early and arrived at the bridge station in Wannian Bridge. He looked up and down and muttered to himself. Ye got off Wannian Bridge and immediately ordered the bearers to carry him to the bridge. The onlookers were puzzled at that time.
He boasted: "I figured out that a' heavenly doctor star' passed under the bridge just now. How can I be rude if I ride over his head in a sedan chair? " When everyone inquired, Dr. Ye happened to pass under the bridge. Look, how brazen the wizard's deception is!
Sun Simiao skillfully uses leeches.
Sun Simiao is not only a famous health care scientist in the Tang Dynasty, the birthday girl of 65,438+0,065,438+0, but also an outstanding physician and drug king, with works such as Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Febrile Diseases. The following is a piece of cake, which shows its high medical skill and fine pharmacy.
One day, when Sun Simiao was 40 years old, he was taking a nap in Chang 'an apartment. Suddenly awakened by the noise outside, I saw a group of people around a big man with a wounded right eye coming in and asking him for treatment. Sun Simiao got up and took a look. Oh, my God! The big man has a big hematoma in his right eye, like a red persimmon, which hurts so much that he can't open his eyes.
Sun Simiao is a little hesitant: if you pick up blood with a needle, it is easy to stab your eyes; If you cut the bleeding with a knife, the risk is unimaginable. He suddenly thought of leeches, hurried to the small pool in the backyard, caught four leeches, carefully wrapped them in cloth, and put them on the hematoma in Dahan's right eye. Everyone was surprised: "leech?"
Sun Simiao nodded, quietly watching four leeches competing to suck blood at the hematoma. In the blink of an eye, four leeches became thick and big, and the hematoma in Dahan's eyes collapsed. Then, Sun Simiao washed the wound with cold boiled water.
Ye is very eager to learn. As soon as he heard that someone else had been cured, he went for advice and visited 17. In this way, he soon became a famous doctor in Suzhou, and the people praised him as a "living fairy". One year, a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam came to see him because of illness during his trip.
Ye said that he was terminally ill, but declined politely and asked him to find another teacher. However, a year later, the scholar not only didn't die, but also came to chat with him. Ye is very surprised. He asked him to sit down for tea. After careful inquiry, he learned that the scholar's serious illness last year was cured by an old monk in a nearby temple with herbs. Ye shyly sent the scholar away, immediately packed his bags, closed the clinic, and went up the mountain to find his 18 th master, the 3354 old monk.
Qian Yi attacks "dumb family"
Pediatrics, commonly known as "dumb department", can't or don't know that private prosecution is because the patient is a child, and the child is sick because his intelligence and language development are immature. Therefore, in the medical field, especially in ancient times, compared with other medical doctors, pediatric experts were not "hot" and made few achievements.
In the Song Dynasty, many children died of measles and other pediatric diseases. Therefore, "dumb subjects" make many medical students daunting. However, in Yunzhou, a young man named Qian Yi devoted himself to cracking down on "dumb households". He lost his mother when he was young and his family was poor. He was brought up during his menstrual period and studied medicine with his uncle. He witnessed how many brothers and sisters were killed by diseases, and made great efforts to study the previous pediatric medical books.
Where there is a will, there is a way. He studied tirelessly, and finally found a "five-zang syndrome differentiation method" to overcome the "dumb disease" according to the physiological characteristics of children's internal organs deficiency, their diseases are easy to be deficient, easy to be solid, and easy to be cold and hot. He suggested that the treatment of children's diseases should be "moist" and not "stormed", "relieved" or "supplemented".
He is good at observing children's illness, flexibly adding and subtracting ancient prescriptions and creating new ones, which has saved the lives of countless sick children struggling to die. Such as "Daochi Powder" for treating heart fire in children, "Asugegen Decoction" for treating initial acne rash, and "Gongyi Powder" for treating spleen deficiency.
Qian Yi cured the strange disease of the emperor's niece, and was named Cure Too much by the imperial court. But he was obsessed with the suffering of ordinary people and soon resigned and returned to his hometown. In his later years, he asked Yan, a student, to help him collect and sort out medical works, medical records and prescriptions in the past 40 years and compile them into synopsis of the golden chamber for future generations' reference. In the history of TCM, Qian Yi enjoys the reputation of "the originator of pediatrics".
Huangfu Mi is good at acupuncture.
The wonderful acupuncture in the world originated in China, and the most outstanding acupuncturist in ancient China was Huangfu Mi in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Huangfu Mi was famous when he was a child, but he was active and playful since he was a child. At the age of 20, he was still a "heartless" prodigal son. Once, he got some fruit for his stepmother, and her stepmother said, "Can these fruits comfort me?" Huangfu Mi didn't understand, but the stepmother continued with tears, "Jing, you are an adult in your twenties. When will you be sensible? Do you love reading and take the right path? " His stepmother's sadness touched him. From then on, he worshipped a teacher named Tan and began to settle down to study. I worked in the fields in my spare time and changed my name to Mi.
When people reach middle age, they are determined to study medicine because of wind arthralgia, muscle pain and difficulty in walking. According to his own ancient book outline, compendium of materia medica and theory of warming classics, he groped for acupuncture at his own acupoints and finally cured his wind arthralgia. He also often uses acupuncture and decoction to treat chronic diseases of many villagers and elders.
He was famous for his mastery of acupuncture, which shocked the court. The emperor ordered him to be an official in the palace, but he has always been charitable and enjoying the "pastoral flavor."