In the lecture, Miss Li told a very ironic joke. What is a professor? He spoke on the stage all day and didn't understand a word. This is the professor.
The audience burst into laughter. Such a professor, if not an impostor, is a bookworm with a dull head, seemingly knowledgeable, but actually has no practice, and may even be unable to take care of himself.
Because truth is definitely not so boring, nor so profound, but often very simple and interesting. The occurrence of the disease is the disorder and imbalance of qi and blood in the five internal organs. The doctor came to make up a little medicine, which worked normally and the disease was cured.
The balance of five internal organs is self-healing, which is the ultimate goal of TCM health preservation and the general program of TCM treatment.
What is the difference between folk Chinese medicine and academic Chinese medicine?
I once met a patient with sinusitis. He is in his thirties. He said that he had a stuffy nose and a runny nose for three or four months every year after he got this lingering disease in his teens. He always takes at least two packs of paper towels in case of emergency.
It's really not like a man in his thirties to wipe his nose all day. It's not fatal, but it's annoying. In severe cases, it may even cause a severe headache and want to hit the wall with your head. The patient's economic conditions are good. Well-known hospitals have seen a lot of Chinese medicine and western medicine, and spent tens of thousands of dollars, but there has never been a fundamental improvement. I even went to hang up the expert number of a famous old Chinese doctor, and the registration fee was 800. After seeing it for more than two months and taking more than three thousand medicines, my condition remains the same.
He was in a hurry to see a doctor. Later, he found a folk Chinese doctor and used a folk prescription circulated in their hometown to cure the disease in only one month without spending a penny.
This method can be provided to everyone: use an old loofah vine, cut it off, bake it on an old tile until it is semi-charred, grind it into fine powder and put it in a bottle for later use. Before going to bed every night, clean your nostrils and wipe them with a clean cotton ball. Then use the kind of sesame oil that you eat at home, mix a little bit of loofah vine powder, drop it into your nose, and then plug it with a dry cotton ball. This method can relieve the symptoms of nasal congestion on the same day, and many people's rhinitis can be cured in a month.
Chinese medicine practitioners who can pay a registration fee of 800 yuan are rare in China. He was originally a doctoral supervisor of a well-known first-class Chinese medicine college, and was also considered a doctor in ancient times. There must be real skills under fame. He has a disease that can't be cured by more than 3,000 yuan of medicine, and he didn't spend a penny on a folk prescription.
Such a thing is not uncommon in the field of Chinese medicine, not only now, but also in ancient times.
Nowadays, there are more people selling medicine, and they always talk about "the secret recipe of the palace handed down by the imperial doctor" and preach how magical its curative effect is. Maybe they don't understand that doctors in ancient times were people who kept in good health. How to teach people not to get sick is quite rewarding, but most of them are not as good as folk doctors in treating diseases.
As a person who can be selected into the highest medical research institution at that time, isn't the doctor the best? How can a person who is loved by the emperor not be the best? Impossible, right?
When Emperor Qianlong summoned Huang Yuanyu, he repeatedly refused to go. Why? Because I'm afraid of adventure.
In ancient times, most doctors working in Imperial Hospital came from examinations. Imperial Hospital enrolls students once a year, and the procedure is similar to the imperial examination. Those who pass the exam will be apprentices in Imperial Hospital and will be tested by the masters for three to five years. Only when you feel qualified can you be officially sent out to see a doctor. Show it to some unimportant officials first. If the performance is good, the patient's specifications will continue to rise. Finally, I can become a real doctor. If I meet the emperor, I won't last twenty or thirty years.
The last person to come out is wearing a rice bowl on his head and his feet are going to the gate of hell. Because the object of doctors' service is not the emperor or empresses, but also the princes and ministers of the last days. These people are sick. You should cure them. If you can't cure them, you must test your prescription. If the prescription goes well, there is still the possibility of exemption. If the medicine is not used properly, the doctor will die
Even without improper medication, it is not completely safe. Uncle Bai in the TV series "Da Zhai Men" a few years ago is an example.
This is the living condition of a physician. Therefore, doctors never worry about not having a job. Even if they do nothing all day, they still get paid. As long as there are patients, there are risks.
Therefore, they are on tenterhooks every day, hoping that their patients will live a long life and be healthy. With the passage of time, the physician has become a health expert. However, when encountering intractable diseases, doctors know the way to save them, and often delay their illness because they dare not take medicine. After a long time, no matter how strong the medicine is, it will not be used.
Folk doctors are just the opposite. The patients they face are all ordinary people. There was no medical malpractice appraisal at that time. If the patient dies after taking the medicine, the doctor is not responsible. What if it's over? That's what doctors do.
Therefore, folk doctors are not afraid of death, and they are afraid that they will not be cured. So folk doctors dare to prescribe medicine, study hard and do experiments. From generation to generation, many effective prescriptions, folk remedies and secret recipes have been developed.
In this way, the distinctive characteristics of the two major factions, the people's school and the medical school, are formed: doctors are masters of health preservation, and they use drugs properly, preferring to be ineffective and never taking risks. Under the guidance of this policy, they are often helpless in the face of intractable diseases and severe diseases.
Folk doctors say that the sword is biased at best, wild at worst, courageous, dealing with ordinary people and seeing more patients every day. Therefore, compared with imperial doctors, they are smarter than experienced doctors and use drugs skillfully, and often have ways to cure incurable diseases.
Now the situation of Chinese medicine is similar to that in the past. Those who are teachers in universities and come out of medical schools to enter big hospitals can be called "academic schools", and they are basically "too square", so they can neither eat nor eat well. Traditional Chinese medicine, taught by the master with his disciples, can be called "folk school", and most people who have mastered several secret recipes can often receive miraculous effects.
Is there a person who has the best of both worlds, who is not only a master of health preservation, but also a bold and cautious person with expertise in treating diseases?
Yes, there was, and there is now.
In the evil old society, due to the great difference in status between folk doctors and royal doctors, there was little communication, and the probability of such people appearing was not high. However, in the past few hundred years, there have been two masters. They are all folk doctors first, then physicians, and the time of being physicians is similar to that of folk doctors. One is Huang Yuanyu, and the other is the famous Li Shizhen.
The great Comrade Li Shizhen also became a monk halfway. He studied literature first, but failed the exam many times. In his twenties, he was tortured to death by a serious illness. After I got well, I gave up scientific research and began to study medicine with my father. After mixing fame among the people, he was hired as a health care doctor by a prince, and later became famous, even the emperor heard about it. So, the emperor gave the report a will, I want this person, you find another one.
The emperor served by Comrade Li Shizhen, named Jiajing, was the second longest absenteeism in the history of China (the first was his grandson Wanli), and he did not go to court for 46 years. Why do you hide in the palace all day?
Practice alchemy.
In this respect, Li Shizhen is far less fortunate than Huang Yuanyu. Emperor Qianlong, the master of Huang Yuanyu, has a good physical foundation, and is also a person who pays great attention to health preservation, is proactive and is good at listening to other people's opinions. He ate the health care prescription prescribed by Huang Yuanyu for decades, and finally became the longest-lived emperor.
Li Shizhen's Jiajing brother, although similar to Qianlong in many aspects, has a good physical foundation, pays great attention to health preservation, is proactive, is good at listening to other people's opinions, and has been taking medicine for decades. These conditions are all the same. There is only one difference. Qianlong believed Huang Yuanyu and asked him to prescribe a prescription for himself. Emperor Jiajing trusted the Taoist priest and asked him to give himself an elixir.
This kind of elixir is only available in China, and there is no semicolon. Its main components are heavy metals such as lead and mercury. Now even children know that these things will be poisoned if eaten. Emperor Jiajing has been eating for years, and it is not easy to make do with it.
Li Shizhen worked as a physician for a period of time, fearing that the emperor would die and take responsibility for himself. Finally, he had to choose to escape and go back to the folk to continue writing his book while practicing medicine.
Jiajing got Li Shizhen, but didn't pay attention to him. Finally, he ate the elixir and died. Qianlong got Huang Yuanyu, and according to his prescription, he became the longest-lived, second-longest and most powerful emperor for thousands of years (the longest-lived emperor was Kangxi, who was one year older than Qianlong, but Kangxi became emperor at the age of six, and he led the government at the age of 15, with no power for nine years). It can be seen that even with the best conditions and the wrong choices, a person can't achieve his goal.