Chinese medicine doctor Xu Yang

Xu Yang also smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He came from later generations, so he naturally knew that the ancient tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty were excavated this year, and the dosage during the Eastern Han Dynasty was also confirmed. At the same time, he also knew that the two ancient people that Mr. Li scolded most often were Li Shizhen and Zhu Danxi.

Zhu Danxi's words are an academic dispute.

Li Shizhen, this is really cheating.

In the hearts of the general public, among the traditional Chinese medicine doctors of all dynasties, Li Shizhen's reputation is second only to Hua Tuo and Bian Que. When it comes to Chinese medicine works, ordinary people can only name "Compendium of Materia Medica".

But to be honest, in the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, "Compendium of Materia Medica" is really average, and they even dislike it.

why?

Because there are a lot of conjectures and superstitious things in the book. For example, pregnant women should not eat rabbit heads, otherwise their children will have harelips; there are also fish bones stuck in the throat, which can be burned to ashes with a fishing net, and the fish bones can be eliminated by drinking water.

During the Lantern Festival, people steal a lamp from a rich person’s house and put it under the bed to treat infertility. All kinds of nonsense like this, including human excrement and pig excrement, and souls used as medicine!

His "Compendium of Materia Medica" is just a brief summary of the Materia Medica of previous generations. Of course, there are many valuable things in the book, but it also contains a lot of hearsay and even imaginary things.

Li Shizhen's brain was twitching, and he dared to stuff anything into it. Moreover, he only recorded it but did not test it. He had not verified the medicine in it.

There are many books that record herbal medicine in the past dynasties. In the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, the first one must be "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".

That being the case, why do ordinary people only know the "Compendium of Materia Medica"?

This is mainly because Darwin once praised it, so during the modern Republic of China, many enlightened people began to praise this book.

Although they are opposed to traditional Chinese medicine, they feel that traditional Chinese medicine is still a treasure house, especially the Compendium of Materia Medica, which contains huge treasures.

Is this argument very familiar? It is exactly the same as now. If you look through the negative comments about Chinese medicine on the Internet, they all say the same thing.

In later generations, those who compiled textbooks incorporated the Compendium of Materia Medica and Li Shizhen into the textbooks. They also said that Li Shizhen went through untold hardships, went deep into the mountains and old forests, and corrected his predecessors one by one.

He himself was so wrong!

Nowadays, "Compendium of Materia Medica" has almost become the exclusive use of scammers.

The kind of health care products that deceive people will definitely say that the medicine is described in the Compendium of Materia Medica, and then it will be based on modern scientific pharmacological research... a very good combination of Chinese and Western medicine.

In fact, Li Shizhen's greatest contribution was not "Compendium of Materia Medica". His contribution is to the study of pulses, and both "Pinhu Pulsology" and "Eight Meridians of Qi Jing" are very good.

In addition to making up the "Compendium of Materia Medica", another biggest problem is the research on ancient dosages. Li Shizhen didn't even test the properties of the medicine, let alone bother to verify the ancient dosage.

So he thought again and thought very simply that one tael in ancient times is worth one penny today. Okay, all of a sudden the dose in Zhongjing's ancient prescription dropped several times, theoretically to one-fifth of the original prescription. In actual use, the dosage is only one-tenth of the original actual dosage.

Of course, Li Shizhen was not the only one who thought so. All the traditional Chinese medicine doctors in the Ming Dynasty thought so. Then why do you always criticize Li Shizhen? Hey, it's not because he is the most popular.

And he still had to go to practice materia medica. What is materia medica? This is the current pharmacopoeia, which requires determining the dosage. If you get the dosage wrong, who are you to blame?

After the Ming Dynasty, traditional Chinese medicine suddenly became more flexible. Although this will not cause a big mistake, it will not cure critical illness.

In the late Ming Dynasty, a plague broke out. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners sadly discovered that the prescriptions from the Treatise on Febrile Diseases could not save people, and the prescriptions passed down by medical sages were of no use at all.

At this desperate moment, Chinese medicine practitioners took a new path with great perseverance. They developed and modified Zhongjing's prescriptions and derived new theories. From this, the School of Diseases emerged.

It’s just that the medical sage’s unique knowledge has long been covered in dust!

In the modern battle between Chinese and Western medicine, Chinese medicine has completely lost the field of acute and critical illness and has become a well-known slow doctor! Now it is almost reduced to health care medicine.

So this is why true Chinese medicine practitioners don’t like to hear the words “advance with the times and embrace modern science”. Because there is a huge golden mountain behind Chinese medicine, which is just covered with dust.

Traditional Chinese medicine should not look forward, but backward.

Mr. Li just dug a few hoe in this golden mountain, and he has already become like this. His treatment of acute and severe cases not only provides faster results than modern medicine, but also has a much higher prognosis than modern medicine.

Mr. Li is the most typical supporter of the ancient Chinese medicine school. He studied typhoid fever and Zhongjing, and only used the Six Classics and Eight Cardinal Dialectics. It was precisely because he was able to break through the dosage that he achieved what he has achieved today.

Who said that pure Chinese medicine cannot compare with Western medicine? Who said we have to keep pace with the times and combine Chinese and Western styles?

…

After Mr. Li scolded Li Shizhen, he gradually calmed down. He suddenly turned around and asked Xu Yang: "Since the ancient dosage has been corrected, what about the pharmacopoeia..."

Before he finished speaking, Mr. Li himself paused.

"Alas..." Xu Yang also sighed.

Although the dosages in ancient times have been corrected, in today's traditional Chinese medicine community... there are not many real traditional Chinese medicine doctors left, and real traditional Chinese medicine doctors no longer have the final say.

Mr. Li also sighed, with a look of dejection on his face. He stood up and his figure became a little rickety. He said, "Let's go, the medicine is ready."

Xu Yang stood up and poured the medicine in the two pots together, a total of about 1,000 ml.

It's 6pm now.

Xu Yang first asked the patient to drink 300 ml. Two hours later, around 8 pm, the patient suddenly suffered from abdominal pain like cramping. She had not breathed for three days and suddenly farted continuously, which meant that the triple burner Qi had been unblocked.

Xu Yang respected Mr. Li's wishes and made the patient take about 500 ml of concoction. The patient wanted to defecate but could not pass it out. It's just that the urn-like bloating in the abdomen has now dissipated a lot, the bloating has been greatly relieved, and the patient is greatly relieved.

At 11 o'clock at night, Xu Yang gave the patient the last concoction to take.

At 2 o'clock in the night, the patient's stool was as black as sludge, extremely smelly, and contained hardened feces in strips and lumps, as well as pus and blood, and filled the toilet bowl.

At this point, the patient finally felt comfortable. After not eating for two days, she suddenly felt hungry and ate a small bowl of noodles.

I drank medicine from 6 o'clock in the evening to 2 o'clock in the morning. After five days of serious appendicitis abscess and intestinal obstruction, I was declared cured. It lasts eight hours and only takes one dose.

Faced with this result that would shock any medical worker, Xu Yang and Mr. Li couldn't even laugh at all.

It was already 2 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Li and Xu Yang walked to the farmyard and sat in the starry sky.

Mr. Li lit up another cigarette. He liked smoking very much and would almost never leave his mouth. He puffed out the smoke and said slowly: "If I have any experience that I can teach you, it must be the anti-toxic medicine." control.”

Xu Yang turned to look at Mr. Li.

In the darkness, a red star flashed in front of Mr. Li's mouth, and he said: "Every traditional Chinese medicine has its own deviations in properties. From this point of view, no medicine is not biased, and no medicine is not poisonous."

"Some medicines have smaller deviations and can be used by almost everyone, such as astragalus and ginseng. Some medicines have larger deviations and have a smaller range of applications. The most typical ones are poisonous drugs."

"Aconite is just one of them. Do you still remember the dying patient with pulmonary heart disease that I treated before? I decoction it with Wuhuo and take it with you. This is when Aconite is at its most toxic, and even healthy people cannot bear it. "

"But the patient with only one breath left, not only did not die, but was saved. This is because the dying heart failure patient was trapped by a lot of cold and cold in the body, and the great heat and poison of aconite is the secret of his resurrection. .”

"If you use it on normal people, there will be big problems. Therefore, doctors must be good at controlling poisonous drugs. When you really know how to control them, you will find that these drugs are miraculous when you use them."

"If you want to learn to control poison, you must first taste it yourself, and you must constantly increase the dose. Only after drinking it yourself can you know how to use it. Don't be afraid of being poisoned. Just detoxify yourself after being poisoned. The essence of Chinese medicine is Shen Nong learned to taste hundreds of herbs."

Xu Yang nodded seriously.

Mr. Li put down his cigarette and turned to ask Xu Yang: "Why didn't you use my prescription to save someone that time? I know that you were sent to the grassroots level from the provincial capital. It stands to reason that a young doctor like you, You’re not qualified to participate in first aid.”

Xu Yang's expression suddenly froze.