When it comes to medical and health problems, modern people have another advantage, that is, everyone will take care of themselves spontaneously. Therefore, after the improvement of medical and health conditions in the whole society, people spontaneously pay attention to health and are more willing to participate in the ranks of health preservation.

However, in the Yuan Dynasty, there was much room for improvement in medical and health conditions. In life, on the one hand, most of the medicines people buy are fake, and most of the doctors they meet are quacks. So under such circumstances, people in the Yuan Dynasty began to pay attention to health care, but health care here was not spontaneous like modern people, and most people in the Yuan Dynasty were forced to do so.

First of all, in the Yuan Dynasty, people had to see a doctor and then prescribe the right medicine. The whole process is very difficult. "Yuan Zhang Dian" mentioned: "The way to save the world is greater than medical skills, and the merits of treating diseases are all in medicine."

Medicine refers to acupuncture, so it can be concluded from the context that in the eyes of doctors in the Yuan Dynasty, acupuncture was the medical skill that needed to be promoted most at that time, so if people came to Yiguang for treatment when they were sick, most doctors would recommend patients to go to acupuncture.

There is a story in "Interpretation of Putong Proverbs": "Taking Jianzhong decoction, reducing aconite and adding Guangxi, it is said that his illness can be cured." This passage describes a phenomenon that many people swindled and cheated in the Yuan Dynasty under the guise of famous doctors. What is mentioned in this article is a process in which a charlatan cheats patients on how to decoct medicine. If medical skill really comes from life, it can also reflect from the side that it was very common for people to catch drugs at that time.

Secondly, after the establishment of Yuan Dynasty politics, the Mongols still had some blood ties and experiences on the grasslands, so when the Mongols moved their political power center to the south, they also shared their previous historical experiences with other nationalities. For example, "Mongolians are on the grassland, and when they are sick, they will let nature take its course."

"Yuan Shi" records: "Take a cow and throw it into its belly. The inner mouth was soaked in the belly of the cow, soaked in blood and moved to the Soviet Union. " A scene described in such a paragraph is: "At that time, Mongolians would choose the most popular and natural way to treat some uncomfortable diseases." For example, "take a healthy and strong cow, cut open the cow's belly and soak the patient in the cow's belly." Cow's blood is helpful to the treatment of patients. After a while, the patient came out again. At this time, the discomfort will slowly disappear and the patient will slowly recover. "

It can be seen that when the Mongols established the politics of the Yuan Dynasty, they passed on such thoughts and grassland experience to the ruled people, instantly creating a social atmosphere that was not partial to science and did not advocate formal medical skills, so some cheating magicians in the Jianghu also got some opportunities, making it impossible for quack doctors at that time to cheat and buy fake drugs.

It is difficult for people to meet real doctors for three main reasons. The first reason is that Chinese medicine in the Yuan Dynasty was very limited and could not treat patients comprehensively. The second reason is that in addition to Chinese medicine, Hui medicine also seized the medical market in the Yuan Dynasty. Hui medicine refers to doctors of ethnic minorities in Central Asia and South Asia, because cultural differences hinder communication. The third reason is that people were superstitious at that time, thinking that seeking medical treatment is not as good as seeking God.

First of all, in the Yuan Dynasty, if TCM wanted to make progress in medicine, it needed to explore from the starting point, because in the Yuan Dynasty, many books related to TCM had become banned, and official research was prohibited. This phenomenon makes Chinese medicine scholars encounter great obstacles on the road of studying medicine.

"Tongzhi Tiaoge" directly points out: "Miscellaneous drugs of big room pulse, drugs of small room pulse, wind medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, stomatology, orthopedics metallurgy, moxibustion drugs for breaking ulcers, I hope your book will ban them." Two things can be seen from this brief statement.

The first point is that the distribution of departments at that time was very accurate, and most doctors were only proficient in one subject at most, so it was difficult for a doctor to treat patients with multiple diseases at the same time. The second point is that many departments can not be integrated, mainly because many medical skills prohibit reading and learning, which can not promote the progress of doctors in the Yuan Dynasty, making it difficult for medical skills in the Yuan Dynasty to develop rapidly.

Secondly, in the Yuan Dynasty, people can not only find Chinese medicine, but also meet many Hui doctors. At that time, the medical culture of the Hui nationality also spread to the Central Plains. Hui Hui Fang introduced in detail that in Yuan Dynasty, Islamic doctors made great achievements in the history of surgery through different medical methods. But as we all know, surgical operation needs to touch a scalpel to a certain extent, so in the Yuan Dynasty, when traditional ideas were deeply rooted, many people were reluctant to go back to see a doctor for treatment.

Finally, people in the Yuan Dynasty were also greatly restricted in terms of ideology and culture. Therefore, under the circumstances that it is difficult to catch real medicine and meet doctors they trust, people gradually became superstitious, thinking that seeking medical treatment is better than seeking God, and it is easier to get a peace of mind.

This passage means that there is an old father in the hero's family who is very ill. In this case, the dutiful son is unwilling to seek medical treatment. Instead, I pray to God every day, sincerely praying that God will say that he is willing to shorten his life span for his father, want to prolong his life span in this way, and long for his father to recover from a serious illness as soon as possible. This form of prayer is similar to wishing, more like a kind of helplessness that is difficult to treat.

Step one: pray. During the Yuan Dynasty, children's filial piety reached an unprecedented level. In the Yuan Dynasty, if an elder was seriously ill, young people would make a wish to pray for a long life for their elders. In exchange, young people in the Yuan Dynasty chose to sacrifice their lives or change to others.

This social phenomenon has also influenced people's ideology and culture to a certain extent, because a large number of Yuan Zaju dramas were created in the Yuan Dynasty based on young people's filial piety to their elders and praying for God. In Xiao Zhang's Killing the Son to Save the Mother, the author depicts the scene in which the hero makes a wish to the gods and is willing to exchange his son under the age of 5 in order to save the life of his seriously ill mother. This absurd exaggeration full of barbaric culture criticizes some superstitious phenomena in society from the literary point of view, and it is also a tragedy of people's livelihood indirectly caused by underdeveloped medicine.

The second step: drug health care. In the Yuan Dynasty, the main ways for people to learn medical care were taking Dan medicine and eating some nourishing food. The Tomb of the Duke of Zhao Wenhui mentioned: "The air is filled with a fairy's thought ... so that the alchemist can burn mercury, sulfur, cinnabar, gold and other things to feed on the elixir." The meaning of this sentence mainly describes the materials needed to make the popular health pills in Yuan Dynasty, among which there are many metals and chemicals that the human body can't absorb and do great harm. If you think about it carefully, you will suddenly find that people who were a little poorer in the Yuan Dynasty were relatively safe to some extent. After all, gold, mercury and cinnabar, these valuables, have a high probability of appearing in the hands of the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. The people should not have much capital to refine the so-called health pills, so they dodged a bullet.

As for taking food supplement as a health care method, the range of classes involved at that time was relatively wider, because people of the lower classes could still get the materials they needed, such as ginger, cardamom and cloves. It is mentioned in the local play: "Soup can clear phlegm, dissolve yin, breathe quickly and melt into food ..." This sentence means that different cooking techniques can achieve different health effects from different spices and commonly used ingredients, some can help digestion, some can breathe in the body, some can clear phlegm and so on.

Step 3: Restrain your diet. The diet here is mainly divided into two parts. The first part is: don't touch the taboo, that is, dead and smelly food will never be served on the table. The second part is: Eating habits need to be controlled.

"Eating and drinking is about to" put forward: "Life is impermanent, I don't know how to avoid eating and drinking, I am careless, I am addicted to lust, I can't keep it, I don't know how full I am, so there are many people who are half a century old." It can be seen from this sentence that people in the Yuan Dynasty paid great attention to their eating habits. This kind of diet does not care about what they eat, but whether it can affect people's life and health.

Since ancient times, people's livelihood has been one of the most important concerns of contemporary people. Only by optimizing all the details of people's livelihood can people have confidence in living and working in peace. The reason why modern people are so happy and healthy is largely due to the optimization of people's livelihood issues in the current society, so the ultimate beneficiaries are contemporary people.