Sun Simiao (54 1-682), a native of Jingzhao Garden (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province), was a doctor and Taoist in the Tang Dynasty. Sun Simiao retired as an official all his life and lived in seclusion in the mountains. Collect medicine and treat diseases in person. He collected folk prescriptions and secret recipes, summarized clinical experience and previous medical theories, and made important contributions to medicine and pharmacology. Later generations respectfully called him "the King of Medicine".
Sun Simiao advocates health preservation and practices it. It is precisely because he is familiar with the art of health preservation that he can live to 100 years old and never forget it. He combined the health care thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and foreign ancient Indian Buddhists with the health care theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and put forward many practical health care methods, which are still guiding people's daily life, such as keeping a balanced mind and not blindly pursuing fame and fortune; Eat moderately and don't overeat; Pay attention to the circulation of qi and blood, don't be lazy, don't be depressed; Life should be regular, not against the laws of nature and so on.
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Sun Simiao thought that "human life is the most important, and it is hard to buy a thousand dollars. While helping it, virtue is beyond this", so he named his two works "Thousand Daughters" and called them "Thousand Daughters" and "Thousand Daughters and Wings".
Sun Simiao absorbed the theory of zang-fu organs in Huangdi Neijing, and put forward the classification, syndrome differentiation and treatment of miscellaneous diseases centered on the deficiency and excess of cold and heat in zang-fu organs in Qian Jin Fang Yao for the first time. After sorting out and studying Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases, typhoid fever is classified into twelve articles and fifteen taboos, which provides a train of thought for future generations to study Treatise on Febrile Diseases, especially for pan-typhoid fever. He founded the method of studying Treatise on Febrile Diseases from three aspects: prescription, syndrome and treatment, which initiated the precedent of taking prescription as evidence in later generations.
The 30-volume "Qian Jin Fang Yao" contains 5300 prescriptions and works, with a wide variety of prescriptions and rich contents. The contents of the book are not only medical theories such as diagnosis and syndrome, but also clinical disciplines such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics. It is divided into 232 branches, close to the classification method of modern clinical medicine. It involves not only detoxification, first aid, health preservation and dietotherapy, but also acupuncture, massage, guidance and breathing, which can be described as a good summary of the development of traditional Chinese medicine before the Tang Dynasty.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Sun Simiao (Tang Dynasty Physician)