Die of tradition

In ancient books, many famous historical figures "died of gangrene". A general rule is that it is not the ancients who died of this disease, but the politicians who died of this disease. We can think that this is a way for historians to write and borrow the real cause of death.

This kind of account first appeared in Historical Records, and then it was mentioned in Historical Records that this kind of reason frequently appeared in the death of characters, almost in every dynasty. What can appear in official biographies are all temporary heroes, and the frustration, lack of talents, lack of reuse and sudden decline of historical figures are important prerequisites for this disease and become a model recorded in later historical books.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, back to the 097th, begged the marquis of Wei to go to the table, and broke the book of Cao Bing and Jiang Wei.

According to legend, in the autumn and September of the 6th year of Jian Xing in Shu Han Dynasty, Cao Xiu, commander-in-chief of Wei State, was destroyed by Lu Xun in Shi Ting, and his chariots, horses and weapons were exhausted. Don't be afraid that he will get sick because of anger. He went to Luoyang and died of gangrene. Cao Rui, ruler of Wei Dynasty, ordered reburial.

In the early classic of traditional Chinese medicine "Lingshu Wan", it is said that the heat is abundant, the skin is sunken, the tendons and marrow are dry, the five internal organs are connected, and the blood gas is exhausted. When it is under carbuncle, there are few bones and muscles left, so it is called gangrene. Gangrene, the skin on the head is very strong, and the skin on the head is like the skin of a cow collar.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carbuncle is caused by disharmony between viscera, which is easy to produce carbuncle, and disharmony between six viscera is easy to produce carbuncle. Zang-fu organs are out of balance, infected with wind-cold, blood gas coagulates into lumps, deep skin is gangrene, and shallow skin is carbuncle. The medical book "Liu Gui's Legacy" also said: At the back of hair, the skin is as thin as carbuncle, and the skin is as hard as gangrene.

Some Chinese medicine practitioners who insist on the theory of wind-heat believe that skin diseases are caused by wind evil or evil heat hurting skin and muscles. Since modern times, Chinese medicine has been westernized, and the causes of ulcers have been identified as bacteria, fungi, viruses, tumors and so on.

Such as Fan Zeng, Cao Xiu, Xu Da, Meng Haoran and others, suffered political blows, became depressed, and their resistance declined. What should have been a fatal abscess suppurated, but now it caused sepsis and died. Endogenous gangrene and external sores. For example, Fan Zeng's gangrenous hair and back was probably depressed and could not be solved, so he died of gangrene.

Zhang Shoujie's "Justice in Historical Records" also quoted Cui's words: gangrene is also attached to the bone carbuncle. The ancients said that the disease was caused by illness. Carbuncle is superficial and harmless. In contrast, gangrene is extremely harmful, difficult to cure after onset, and has a high mortality rate.

According to the syndrome monograph "General Theory of Various Diseases and Syndrome" of the Sui Dynasty, gangrene is heavier than carbuncle, and many people die. At the same time, meridian experts believe that the two acupoints of the plaster are located inside the scapula, and gangrene on the back is an incurable disease. Song Hongshi said in "Epilogue of carbuncle":

Gangrene of the back, three-foot boy is also called paste blindness.

There are many reasons for the death of gangrene in the back, which were discussed by ancient doctors. Li Xun's Ji Yan Bei Fang Gang can be summarized in five aspects: first, heaven; second, emaciation and qi stagnation; third, internal heat; fourth, kidney qi deficiency; drinking and eating? Scrape? Yao Dan Hot Poison Dance.

Yang Qing CuO, a native of the Yuan Dynasty, also said in the Collection of Immortal Biography that it originated from five aspects: First, the weather was good; Second, seven emotions are depressed; Third, physical deficiency and exogenous factors; Fourth, the body is cold and hot; The fifth is food? ? [ 14]? Beer once? Stan and other heat poisons. In other words, weather, mood, physique and diet may all induce the disease.

According to the Biography of Xu Da in the Ming Dynasty, in the seventeenth year, the general was offended by the lunar calendar, and the emperor hated it. Da suffered from gangrene in his back in Beiping and recovered slightly. The emperor sent his eldest son, Huizu, to work and found a man named. In February of the following year, he died of serious illness at the age of 54. Judging from the causes of death of famous people in history, they all died of gangrene on their backs, and they were all very worried and angry, and their emotions fluctuated greatly, causing emotional internal injuries and passing away.

Based on ancient theories, modern Chinese medicine believes that carbuncle is only a common disease in Chinese medicine surgery, and its causes are three: emotional internal injury, qi stagnation and excessive fire; The disharmony between atrioventricular organs leads to exhaustion of essence, which leads to kidney water loss and excessive fire evil; Usually eating bright and strong flavor makes the spleen and stomach transport abnormally, and damp heat and fire poison are endogenous. What is born on the back is called "hairy back". A large part of it is caused by diabetes.

Due to some major changes, historical figures have produced emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, or panic, which has caused pathological changes in the five internal organs, presenting in the form of gangrene and dying. "Death with gangrene on the back" emphasizes not the result of death, but the mental state before death. On the one hand, it is a concrete description of abstract emotions such as "great anger", "anger" and "worry and anger".

It is not surprising that many celebrities died of this disease during the political changes and power transfer in ancient times. However, historians have taken pains to mention this cause, which is often not just a "record", but has a profound meaning.

In fact, it is similar to podiatry, which reflects that this person's political loss of power or failure in struggle has gone beyond the scope of disease.