In The Outer Chapter of Bao Puzi, he devotes himself to the gain and loss of the world, whether it is hidden or not. Advocating that severe punishment should be applied in troubled times, and advocating severe punishment and heavy law. Shi Kuang Zuo's family is eclectic in Confucianism, Mohism, Ming and Fa, and respects the monarch as heaven. Dissatisfied with the talk of Wei and Jin dynasties, he advocated paying equal attention to literature and morality, and his words should help to educate. Ge Hong has been engaged in alchemy experiments for a long time under the guidance of the idea that alchemy can live forever. He has accumulated rich experience in the practice of alchemy and learned some characteristics of substances and their chemical reactions.
He systematically summarized the achievements of alchemy before Jin Dynasty in two chapters, namely "Jin Dan" and "Huang Bai" in Bao Puzi's Inner Chapter, specifically introduced some alchemy methods, recorded a large number of ancient alchemy classics and alchemy methods, outlined the historical outline of China's ancient alchemy, and also provided us with precious materials of original experimental chemistry, which had a great impact on the development of alchemy in Sui and Tang Dynasties and became a link between the past and the future in the history of alchemy. Luo distinguishes medicine from pharmacology, and advocates that Taoist priests should also learn medical skills. "Since ancient times, Taoists must learn medical skills to save the near future." They believe that if monks don't learn medical skills at the same time, they will be "unable to attack themselves", not only unable to live forever, but even unable to save their own lives.
His medical book "Elbow Emergency Prescription", the title of which means an emergency book that can always be put behind the elbow (taken with you), is a practical book that should always be preserved. The book collected a large number of emergency prescriptions, which he collected and screened during his medical practice and travel. He deliberately selected some easily available drugs, which were very cheap even if he had to spend money to buy them, which changed the shortcomings of the previous emergency prescriptions that were difficult to understand, drugs were hard to find and expensive. He particularly emphasized the application of moxibustion, and clearly recorded the usage of various moxibustion methods in plain language. As long as the proportion of moxibustion is clear, people who don't understand acupuncture can use it.
Luo bian pays great attention to the study of acute diseases. Most of the acute diseases he refers to are what we now call acute infectious diseases. People in ancient times called it "heavenly punishment" and thought it was a disaster from heaven, and it was caused by ghosts and gods. Luo Bian said in the book: Acute illness is not caused by ghosts and gods, but by the outside world. As we all know, acute infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms (including protozoa, bacteria, rickettsia and viruses). These microorganisms must be magnified at least several hundred times before they can be seen. Microscope was not invented more than 1600 years ago, and of course there is no such thing as bacteria. Luo Bian can get rid of superstition and point out that acute diseases are caused by external material factors, which is already remarkable.
Luo Bian described a disease called "corpse note" in "Elbow Emergency Prescription", saying that this disease can be contagious and ever-changing. People infected with this disease don't know what's wrong with them. They just feel afraid of cold and fever, exhausted, in a trance, wasting away day by day, and will die after a long time. The disease described by Ge Hong is what we now call tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can make many organs of the human body sick. Tuberculosis, osteoarticular tuberculosis, meningeal tuberculosis, intestinal tuberculosis and peritoneal tuberculosis. , are caused by tuberculosis. Luo Bian was the first scientist in China to observe and record tuberculosis.
Luo Bian's Elbow Urgent Prescription also recorded a disease caused by dog bite. Dogs are mad dogs. People are bitten by mad dogs, which is very painful. The patient can't stand any stimulation. As long as they hear the slightest sound, they will twitch, even when they hear the sound of pouring water. So some people call mad dog disease "water phobia". In ancient times, this disease was incurable. Luo Bian believed that there was a way to fight poison with poison in ancient times. For example, Huangdi Neijing, the oldest medical work in China, said that "poison" medicine is needed to treat diseases, and without the nature of "poison", diseases cannot be cured. Ge Hong believes that when a mad dog bites, there must be venom in the dog's mouth, which invades the human body from the wound and poisons people. Can you treat this disease with the venom of a mad dog? He caught and killed the mad dog, took out its brain and applied it to the wound of the dog patient. Sure enough, some people don't get sick again, and some people get sick, but they are mild. (The mild illness should be the misunderstanding caused by the lack of knowledge of the ancients. Once rabies attacks, the mortality rate is 100%, regardless of the severity. )
Luo Bian's method is scientific and contains the idea of immunity. As we all know, vaccination can prevent smallpox, injection of encephalitis vaccine can prevent encephalitis and injection of tetanus toxin can treat tetanus. These methods are the research results of modern immunology. "Immunization" means that there are no infectious diseases. Bacteria and viruses invade our bodies, and our bodies have the ability to repel and destroy them, so they don't necessarily get sick. Only when the body's resistance is poor can bacteria and viruses make people sick. The method of immunity is to improve the body's disease resistance as much as possible to prevent people from getting sick. Vaccination is an immunization method (the content of modern immunology is getting richer and richer, and vaccination is only one aspect). Luo Bian can take preventive measures against rabies, which is a pioneer in immunology. Immunology in Europe began in Pasteur, France. He artificially induced mad dog disease in rabbits, and took out the brain marrow of diseased rabbits to make injections for preventing and treating mad dog disease. Its principle is basically similar to that of Luo Bian. Pasteur's working method is certainly more scientific, but it is later than Luo Bian's 1000 years.
In the history of world medicine, Luo bian also recorded two infectious diseases for the first time, one is smallpox and the other is tsutsugamushi disease. Luo Bian wrote in Elbow Urgent Prescription: One year, a strange epidemic occurred, and the patients were covered with blisters and sores. At first it was little red dot, and soon it became a white pustule, which was easy to break. If not treated properly, blisters will grow and fester, and people will have a high fever. Nine times out of ten, it can't be cured. Even if it is cured by luck, it will leave a small scar on the skin. The small scar began to turn black and became the same color as the skin after one year. This strange epidemic described by Luo Bian was later called smallpox. Western doctors believe that the earliest record of smallpox was the Arab doctor Rezas. In fact, Luo Bian lived more than 500 years before Reza.
Luo Bian called tsutsugamushi disease "sand louse virus", and now it is clear that the pathogen of sand louse virus is a microorganism smaller than bacteria, called "rickettsia". There is a kind of insect called sand lice, which is injected into people's bodies when they sting blood, making them sick and have a fever. Sand lice grow in the south. According to the survey, tsutsugamushi disease is only prevalent in Guangdong and Fujian, and it is extremely rare in other places. Luo Bian gained knowledge about this disease through hard practice. It turned out that he loved alchemy and lived in Luofu Mountain, Guangdong Province for a long time. There are sand lice in the mountains and grasslands near here. Sand lice are smaller than small grains of rice, so you can't find them without careful observation. Luobian not only discovered sand lice, but also knew that it was the vector of infectious diseases. His record is earlier than that of American doctor Pam 1500 years.
According to records, Luo Bian also wrote Save the Dead after Elbow and Jade Letter. "I wrote this one hundred volumes, named Yu, with different names of diseases, and they are continuous and not mixed with each other. All three volumes of "Healing the Wounded" are easy to handle, easy to make an appointment and easy to search. Between the hedge and the stranger, all the medicines were taken and all the emergencies were ready. If you have this prescription at home, you don't need a doctor. " Luo Bian recorded and explained in detail the morphological characteristics, growth habits, main producing areas, medicinal parts and therapeutic effects of various medicinal plants in the book "Differentiation of Immortals: Fairy Medicine", which had a great influence on the development of Chinese medicine in later generations.
Every famous doctor must have a difficult course of study and explore and learn with his superhuman perseverance. Luo Bian's life can be described as a wonderful legend. His intelligence helped him to open up new fields of medicine and made outstanding contributions to clinical emergency medicine.
Luo Bian has rich works in his life, claiming to be 20 volumes of medical articles, 50 volumes of nourishing articles, 30 volumes of Luo Xianweng 100, 30 volumes of art books, 30 volumes of immortal biography 10 and hermit biography 10. He also copied the words of a hundred schools of thought from the Five Classics and Seven History, and asked for 3 10 volume "The Art of War". In addition, there are "synopsis of the golden chamber" 100 volume and "elbow backup emergency prescription" 4 volumes. However, many people died, and the Orthodox Taoist Collection and the Wanli Continuing Taoist Collection collected 13 kinds of works.