The historical story of Lao Tianxiang

Zhang Fu and his grandfather said that he is a descendant of Laotianxiang, the four major pharmacies in China, and a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner of Laotianxiang in Dandong-Shuling Shencao School. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, authentic Chinese medicine was in the prescription room in China, and the pharmacy before the Qing Dynasty was equivalent to today's University of Chinese Medicine. It consists of pharmacy (pharmacy), outpatient service and pharmaceutical factory. Pharmacy consists of doctors and pharmacists, commonly known as "front shop and back factory".

The development of traditional Chinese medicine is divided into three parts: the school of "one skill, spirit and grass", also known as the school of "four kings". The second place belongs to Xiongpai, also known as Siwu School. There are three schools, namely Xiangxiangfu, Ginger, Tea and Clove, which developed from ancient times. The characteristics of the three parties are the three branches of traditional Chinese medicine. Instead of using one side to cure diseases, use one side to cure all diseases. Take Siwu decoction as an example, cultivate white peony root, enrich blood, and then use blood. Angelica sinensis and Ligusticum chuanxiong, promoting blood circulation and enriching blood, and promoting blood circulation for reuse. Clinically, in addition to these four herbs, it is still Siwu decoction (pie). Four methods of addition and subtraction cure the disease before it happens, four points eight, eight points sixteen, sixteen points thirty-two, and life goes on. This is very common in ancient prescriptions.

In the era of Huangdi Neijing and Difficult Classic, there was no prescription for TCM to cure diseases. During the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing was a satrap, and his family died of typhoid fever due to plague in his hometown. However, he abandoned his official position to become a doctor, and wrote a masterpiece of Chinese medicine: Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases, which is the earliest prescription for TCM treatment based on syndrome differentiation and legislation in China, and has set a precedent for TCM treatment based on syndrome differentiation. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing is called the grandfather by Chinese medicine. Typhoid fever is the earliest plague. The reason why there are so many people in China is related to Zhang Zhongjing's invention of treating typhoid fever. Founder Zhong Jing loves Chinese medicine. Every time he treated in the lobby, later generations named the pharmacy "Tang", which originated from this. Before Zhongjing, the three parties gradually branched through the ages, forming our traditional Chinese medicine system today. At the end of Qing Dynasty, the descendants of TCM required to recite four classics: Pulse on the Lake by Li Shizhen, Melody of Tangtou Song, Four Hundred Flavors of Medicinal Properties and Fu of Medicinal Properties. Familiar with the four etiquette: Huangdi Neijing includes Lingshu and Su Wen, but I don't know who wrote it. Shennong wrote Shennong's Herbal Classic. Qin Yueren wrote 8 1 classic. Zhang Zhongjing wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases. "The Qing government asked to recite the Golden Mirror of Medical Cases. The descendants of the School of Pharmacy directly asked to recite the twelve meridians, the eight odd meridians and the nine odd mouths before they could be considered as teachers, and they had to master medicine for three years before they could be teachers. At the same time, you must be able to process and produce drugs. And there is a grand competition every year.

A real master is needed to identify, distribute and develop drugs. The four major pharmacies in China have semicolons all over the country. The four major pharmacies referred to in the Qing Dynasty were: Beijing Tongrentang, which mainly researched and developed honey pills; Tianjin Darentang mainly develops Dan medicine; Shenyang Tianyitang mainly develops powder; Dandong Laotianxiang mainly develops plasters, and the most famous dog skin ointment in the world was invented by Dandong Laotianxiang. The four major pharmacies have a mentoring relationship, and medicines communicate with each other, with equal technology, regardless of level. The four major pharmacies stress virtue: "money can cure diseases, money can cure diseases, the poor can take medicine, and the rich can get money." They also help the poor and save people, and those who have grievances at ordinary times are not allowed to be self-indulgent. Drugs are expensive and cheap, the poor use cheap drugs, and the rich use expensive drugs.

Three parties, one divided into two, two divided into one, one divided into three, three things. The three parties have changed a lot, also known as their factions. The so-called school refers to the origin of medicine. Disciples are required to learn from the past and understand the present. Others will, we must, others won't, and we won't allow it.

Due to historical reasons, many pharmacies have no successors. I'm trying to sort these things out. I hope that one day, I will definitely meet you ..... The real inheritor of Chinese medicine must "come without asking, take the pulse".