Traditional Chinese Medicine vs. Witchcraft Famous doctors meet witches and the result is surprising!

Human beings, while struggling with nature, inevitably struggle with their own injuries and death. Archaeology shows that the life span of primitive human beings is very short, and most of them die at a young age. It is only natural that human beings should strive to eliminate injuries and prolong their lives. After using fire, cooked food and clothing, our ancestors learned to select natural materials to make medicines and gradually invented the technique of acupuncture, which eventually led to the unique science of medicine in ancient China.

In ancient times, medicine was always intertwined with sorcery, and the two were often one and the same, with the doctor and the sorcerer often being the same person. This was a natural phenomenon in primitive times. But essentially science and religion are different melting pots, and the separation of medicine and witchcraft was bound to happen.

In ancient China, the separation of witchcraft and medicine began at the intersection of primitive and slave societies. By the time of the Warring States period, the separation of witchcraft and medicine had been basically completed. From the primitive period to the Warring States period, ancient Chinese medicine grew from nothing to something, from micro to micro, and eventually laid the foundation of the entire ancient Chinese medicine system.

Today we will take a look at the interesting stories of Chinese medicine in history, and explore all the traces of the separation of witch doctors~~

Bian Magpie was falsely accused of fighting with a witch.

Bian Magpie, formerly known as Qin Yue Ren, was a medical doctor during the Warring States period. He spent his life healing people and traveling the world, and his medical skills were comprehensive and excellent. When he visited Zhao, he was praised for his expertise in "bringing doctors"; when he visited Zhou, he was praised for his proficiency in "hearing and sight paralysis"; and when he became a doctor in Qin, he was called a "pediatrician. 2,300 years ago, Bian Magpie became famous for pioneering the traditional Chinese medicine technique of pulse-cutting, which successfully saved the life of the son of Guo Guo's "corpse".

Bian Magpie hated the witchcraft of witch doctors, which cheated people of their money and jeopardized their lives. One of his "six incurable diseases" was that "people who believe in witches and not doctors will die. For this reason, many witch doctors tried to kill him by all means. Later, when King Wu of Qin called for his treatment because he was sick, he was informed by Li Yi of the Qin Dynasty, who secretly ordered his diners to kill Bian Magpie.

Bian Magpie died to promote medicine and fight witches, and his fame will live on forever. Later generations compiled his life's experience in practicing medicine into a book called Nanking, signed by Qin Yue Ren, which became one of the famous classics in the treasury of Chinese medicine.

Zhang Zhongjing used medicine to fight witchcraft.

Zhang Zhongjing, also known as Zhang Ji, was a medical doctor in the late Han Dynasty. In those days, warlords were at war, and years of conquest led to epidemics and corpses. The ruling class used their divine power to raid the people's wealth, while the witch Shen Han applied incense ash, perfume, and sword dances to exorcise evil spirits and deceive the people. Zhang Zhongjing, who hated witches and demons, the best way to fight witchcraft was to use Chinese medicine to cure the sick and save people.

On one occasion, a village woman became mentally ill. The witch said she was "haunted by evil spirits" and needed to be "exorcized". As a result, she swindled the money and left. The village woman was still crazy and talking nonsense. Zhang Zhongjing was invited to see her. He smiled and said, "Where is this evil spirit? It is actually a gynecological disease of 'heat entering the blood chamber'. A trickster witch can be called a living ghost that harms people!" Zhang Zhongjing gave the sick woman a silver needle and prescribed a prescription for clearing heat and tranquilizing the mind, and the patient soon recovered.

On another occasion, a child who often talked in his sleep at night was getting worse and worse when his parents invited a sorcerer to fool them with incantations. Zhang Zhongjing examined the child and realized that the child was talking nonsense at night only because he had a fever, and it was never due to ghosts or gods. He prepared medicine for the child, and after taking it a few times, he was cured.

To promote the academic study of traditional qi

Li Shizhen, known as Hulin, was an outstanding medical practitioner in the Ming Dynasty. He inherited his ancestral experience in practicing medicine and began practicing medicine at the age of 24. Throughout his life, he emphasized on clinical, especially on the research of herbs, removing the forgeries, and advocating innovation. In order to collect and study herbs in the field, he traveled to many famous mountains and rivers all over the country, traveling no less than 10,000 miles.

But at that time, as far as the emperor, princes and ministers, down to many rich merchants, scholars, all believe in alchemy to seek immortality, taking alchemy immortality. In fact, the so-called elixir is made of mercury, lead, tin, gold, arsenic, sulfur and other minerals. Long-term service is not only useless, but even fatal.

Seeing that the elixir was harmful to people, Li Shizhen hated the Founder. Throughout his career of collecting medicines and diagnosing diseases, he never forgot to publicize the dangers of elixirs to people. He cited successive emperors and generals, relatives swallowed the "golden elixir", taking the "immortal medicine" sudden death examples, to warn those who take it. For this reason, the mediocre rulers, the power of the alchemist, had sent people will be Li Shizhen's disciples and other people tied together to collect medicine, drive down the mountain.

But Li Shizhen defied the powers that be and severely criticized the fallacies of mercury's "non-toxicity" and "longevity if taken for a long time" in his 27-year-old drug tome Neijing. At that time, almost all the officials and ministers of the imperial court were superstitious about alchemy, so the big booksellers did not dare to publish the book after the difficult scripture. It was not until Li Shizhen's death that the book was published for the benefit of future generations, and is now known throughout the world.

Witch seeking medicine, Ye Shi Tian.

Ye Qingchu famous doctor, specializing in the treatment of the four seasons and a variety of diseases, writing from 0755 to 79000 years. In the history of medicine in China, he is a humble and studious, good at the collection of many famous doctors.

At that time, there was a sorcerer god in Jiangxi named "Zheng Yi Pao Zhen Zhen", who was famous for his sorcery and evil methods. His life was in danger because he had contracted the plague through Suzhou, and his own witchcraft could not cure him. In order to survive, he had to seek medical advice from Ye, a famous local doctor. But the witch was defeated by the doctor, so it's a shame."

In an attempt to save face, Zheng Zhenzhen exclusively buys off Ye's child servant. When he learned that Ye would be taking a boat from the Wannian Bridge at a certain time, he boarded a sedan chair a few moments early and traveled to the bridge station at the Wannian Bridge. He looked up and down as he murmured. When Ye descended the Wannian Bridge, he immediately ordered the palanquin bearers to carry him to the bridge. The onlookers were puzzled at the time.

He bragged, "I figured out that a 'Heavenly Doctor Star' had just passed under the bridge. I rode over his head in a sedan chair, how could I be rude?" When everyone inquired, Dr. Ye had just sailed under the bridge. See how brazen the sorcerer's deception was!

Sun Simiao skillfully used leeches.

Sun Simiao is not only a famous health practitioner in the Tang Dynasty and a 101-year-old birthday boy, but also an outstanding medical doctor and medicine king, author of books such as Typhoid Miscellany and Typhoid Fever. The following is a small dish, which shows the high level of his medical skills and pharmacology.

When Sun Simiao was 40 years old, one day he was taking a nap in his Chang'an apartment. Suddenly awakened by the noise outside his door, he saw a group of people surrounding a large man who had injured his right eye and came in to ask for his treatment. Sun Simiao got up and looked. Oh, my goodness! The big man's right eye was swollen with a large hematoma, like a red persimmon, and it hurt so much that the big man couldn't open his eyes.

Sun Simiao was a bit hesitant: if he used a needle to pick out the bruise, it would be easy to prick his eye; if he used a knife to cut out the blood, the risk would be even more unimaginable. He suddenly thought of leeches, rushed to the small pool in the backyard, grabbed four leeches, carefully wrapped them in cloth, pinched them tightly, and placed them on the hematoma of Dakhan's right eye. Everyone was surprised, "Leeches?"

Sun Simiao nodded and quietly watched as the four leeches raced to suck blood from the hematoma. In the blink of an eye, the four leeches became thick and large, and the hematoma in Dakhan's eye was collapsing. Sun Simiao then rinsed the wound with cool boiled water, app

Yeh was very eager to learn. As soon as he heard that others had cured him well, he went to seek advice and visited 17 famous teachers. In this way, he soon became a famous doctor in Suzhou, the people praised him as a "living god". One year, a scholar who was going to Beijing to take the examination came to see him because he was sick during the journey.

Ye Shi Tian said he was suffering from a terminal illness, declined, and asked him to find another master. However, a year later, not only did the scholar not die, he came to talk to him. Ye was very surprised. He busily greeted him and sat down for tea. After careful questioning, he learned that the scholar's serious illness last year was cured with herbs by an old monk from a nearby temple. After sending the scholar away in shame, Ye immediately packed his bag, closed the clinic, and went up the mountain to find his 18th master, Old Monk San San Wu Si.

Qian B attacked the "mute family"

Pediatrics, commonly known as "mute", can not or do not clearly self-reporting is because the object of treatment is a child, and the child is sick because of the immaturity of the intellectual and linguistic development. Therefore, in the field of medicine, especially in ancient times, compared to other doctors of medicine, pediatricians are not "hot", and very few have achieved great success.

During the Song Dynasty, many children's lives were lost because of measles and other pediatric diseases. That's why "mute science" was so intimidating to many medical students. However, a young man named Qian B in Yunzhou was dedicated to attacking the "mute family". He lost his mother at a young age, and his family was poor. He was brought up by his aunt and studied medicine with him. He witnessed how many of his siblings' lives were taken by disease, and made great efforts to study the pediatric medical books of his predecessors.

"Where there's a will, there's a way." He studied tirelessly, and finally found the "five-organ identification method" to overcome the "mute science". According to the physiological characteristics of children's organs and bowels incomplete, the disease is easy to false and easy to real, easy to cold and hot, he proposed the treatment of pediatric diseases to "warm", avoid "fierce attack", "big relief", The first is the "big tonic".

He was good at observing the children's conditions, flexibly adding and subtracting ancient prescriptions, and creating new prescriptions, which saved the lives of countless sick children struggling on the death line. For example, he developed the "Guiding Chi San" for treating heart fire in children, the "Ma Sheng Ge Gen Tang" for treating early acne rashes, and the "Gong Yi San" for treating spleen deficiency.

Qian Yi was appointed by the imperial court as a doctor of imperial medicine because he cured the niece of the emperor of a strange disease. But he couldn't forget the suffering of the common people, and soon resigned and returned to his hometown. In his later years, he asked his student Yan to help him collect and organize his 40 years of medical treatises, medical cases, and prescriptions into a book called the Essentials of the Golden Chamber, which has been passed down to future generations. In the history of Chinese medicine, Qian Yi enjoys the reputation of "the originator of pediatrics".

Huang Fu Jing was good at acupuncture and moxibustion.

The world's marvelous acupuncture originated in China, and the most outstanding acupuncturist in ancient China was Huang Fu Qui during the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Huang Fu Qui was famous as a child, but he was always active and playful, and when he was 20 years old, he was still a prodigal son with no heart and no lungs. Once, he gave his stepmother some fruit, stepmother said: "These fruits can comfort me?" Huangfu Tran didn't understand, but his stepmother continued with tears in her eyes, "Jing, you are an adult in your twenties. When will you understand things? Do you love to read and follow the right path?" His stepmother's grief touched him. From then on he worshipped a teacher named Tan Xi and began to study quietly. He worked in the fields in his spare time and changed his name to Mee.

When he reached middle age, he suffered from wind paralysis, pain in the tendons and bones, and difficulty in walking; he sought medical treatment from all over the world, with no obvious effect, and resolved to study medicine. He based on his ancient books of Materia Medica, Materia Medica, warm theory, groping for acupuncture at his own points, finally cured his wind paralysis. He also often used acupuncture and decoctions to treat the chronic diseases of many villagers and elders.

His proficiency in acupuncture and moxibustion was so well known that he alarmed the imperial court. The emperor ordered him to be appointed to the palace, but he was always kind and charitable, enjoying "idyllic pleasures" and peace

The emperor ordered him to be appointed to the palace.