How did the ancients in China fight the plague? What is recorded in the history books?

In ancient times, when the plague occurred, how did the court lead the people to fight the epidemic? In ancient China, influenced by political system, medical level and war for a long time, the imperial court did not have a professional public medical supervision system. That is to say, every country now has a CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). When major plagues often occur, the imperial court usually sends some medical officers to treat them, and takes administrative measures such as relocating the population and isolating the epidemic areas. In fact, this is just a remedial measure.

In the Tang dynasty, the government finally realized? Epidemics? Focus on prevention. A doctor's patrol system has been set up, that is, professional medical officers, called medical doctors or doctors, lead some medical students to form medical teams to patrol all parts of the country. The prevention and treatment of epidemic diseases is also an important part of their work. In the Song Dynasty, the government set up official pharmacies all over the country, and also set up medical charities such as Anjifang and Yangji Hospital. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, more attention was paid to the popularization of disease prevention knowledge, and the names, dosages and usage of drugs needed for various diseases were announced. These measures have effectively prevented the occurrence of epidemics.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, the rulers realized that once the plague broke out, it would not only cause a large number of deaths, but even shake the country and endanger the rule of the dynasty. In this case, the government has made a plan to benefit the public? Huimin pharmacy? And founded the official pharmacy in the ninth year of Song Xining (1076)? Drugstore Namely, a professional organization responsible for manufacture and selling Chinese patent medicine. This kind of pharmacy is found all over the country. Every time there is a high incidence of epidemic or a year of drought, flood and famine, the government will send medical officers to the hospital to deliver medicine to treat the people.

Huimin drugstore still existed in Yuan and Ming Dynasties. As recorded in the Official History of Ming Dynasty? In the third year of Hongwu, Huimin pharmacy was established, with the government setting up a collar and the state setting up a medical officer to distribute medicines to all the poor and sick soldiers and civilians. . However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, Huimin pharmacy gradually declined. In the Qing dynasty, this excellent medical institution did not reopen. In the second year of Qing dynasty (19 10), when the plague occurred in the northeast, the government only temporarily set up a medical officer bureau, but it had no administrative effect, which was caused by the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government at that time.

The core strength of anti-epidemic in ancient China actually came from the strength of ordinary people and Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine has made great contributions to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. For example, in the Song Dynasty, Chinese medicine developed a method to prevent smallpox with human pox. Doctors in the Ming Dynasty found that the sanitation of water was very important, so they suggested that the clear water in the mountains could be drunk directly, but it needed to be boiled near inhabited places. During the Northern Song Dynasty? Wang Dong? Pang Anshi once experienced an incident in which water pollution led to the prescription of drugs and affected the curative effect.

It is said that there was a drought one year, and the plague was prevalent in Xishui County, Hubei Province, but Pang Anshi found that the medicine prescribed could cure diseases elsewhere, but not here. Through investigation and visit, he found that the water the villagers ate was too dirty. After he and his disciples found clean water for the villagers, they took medicine for treatment. Sure enough, the medicine was cured. Wu Xuansong, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, put forward the importance of environmental sanitation in "Plague Treatment". Siheyuan, shed light, kitchen ditch, neat and clean, house windows, ventilation, don't live in dark and humid places? .

Ancient medicine in China attached great importance to the prevention and research of infectious diseases. There were records about epidemic diseases in Huangdi Neijing more than two thousand years ago, and Zhang Zhongjing wrote the first monograph on infectious diseases in the history of China in the Han Dynasty.

The symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of some infectious diseases were first recorded in After the Elbow written by Ge Hong, an alchemist of the Three Kingdoms. Such as smallpox and scrub typhus. Parallel? What are the prescriptions for treating qi, epidemic disease, heat and poison? The first chapter records that plague drugs are dry and scattered, and the old man understands the degree of dispersion and harmony. Formulation, such as powder, used for treating and preventing plague.