The Wei and Jin dynasties are a period that many people miss, during this period, the real celebrities were self-indulgent, they spoke freely, they were wandering skeletons, and the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest were outstanding representatives. Wei and Jin celebrities liked two things: Qing Tan and Wu Shi Shan.
Speaking of five-stone powder, it is similar in nature to modern opium, and it was once a drug, but the formula was modified to become an addictive drug. Wushishan, as the name suggests, is composed of five stones, and it is rumored that Wushishan is a prescription invented by Zhang Zhongjing, whose ingredients are purple quartz, white quartz, red stone fat, stone stalactite, and gravel.
However, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, there were already examples of the use of five stones into medicine to treat diseases, and it is recorded in the "History of Bian Quecang Gonglie" that "the King of Qi served the doctor and practiced the five stones to serve himself." The famous doctor at that time, Chun Yuyi, told this person that "those who are not hot in the middle should not take five stones", but this person did not think so, and as a result, three months later, the person died of gangrene. Of course, the five stones here do not specify which five stones are referred to.
In fact, earlier, the five stones have been used in alchemy, but the five stones used may be different, this is likely to advance with time, people may improve the ingredients, and Zhang Zhongjing clearly recorded the prescription for the five stones, accurately speaking, it should be the prescription of cold food. Zhang Zhongjing left this fangzi originally for the benefit of mankind, but he did not expect that after his death, the five stones scattered into something harmful.
I believe that many people know such two cognitions, that is, "is the drug three points of poison" and "poison to attack the poison", any drug basically has a certain degree of toxicity, so when used to treat the disease will be prescribed dosage and taking method, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment, and the harm to the human body to the minimum. Once the dose is exceeded, it is likely to cause damage to the body, and severe ones can even be fatal.
The medicinal formula of Wushishan itself is also poisonous, it is used to treat typhoid fever, and the reason why it became the favorite of Wei and Jin celebrities is due to the endorsement of one person. This person is Cao Cao's adopted son and son-in-law He Yan, He Yan discovered the special function of Wushishan in a very fortuitous situation, he had a friend who was sick and needed to take Wushishan, and it was this friend who informed He Yan of the situation after the use of Wushishan, and then He Yan was obsessed with Wushishan.
So, what are the functions of five stones? In addition to its original healing function, it can also beautify the face, aphrodisiac, refresh the mind and so on. So He Yan, who likes sound and color, began to take Five Stones Scatter, the effect is very obvious, this famous man with a face like Fu Powder was really happy for a long time, and he also personally spoke for Five Stone Scatter, saying: "Serve Five Stone Scatter, not only cure diseases, but also feel that the gods are cheerful."
He Yan's endorsement was even stronger than the current traffic star endorsement, and soon the five stones were spread in the upper class, and the five stones became the standard for nobles and celebrities. And some people have improved the formula of five stones to achieve better use effect. Of course, no matter how you change it, you can't change the fact that it is toxic, because once you eat a certain amount, it will be addictive and hallucinogenic.
Often taking five stone scatter is the whole person is very ethereal, loose skeleton, and must divergence of the heat in the body, and the five stone scatter to eat with wine, so we will see a lot of people in the Wei and Jin dynasties like to expose their chests and run wildly. After people formed dependence on the five stones, they couldn't help themselves, and while floating up, their bodies quickly collapsed.
At that time, many people died on the Five Stones, and the famous physician Emperor Fumian of the Wei and Jin Dynasties made many records of the people who took the Five Stones, and he himself also took the Five Stones, and also caused illness, which is recorded in the "Biography of emperor Fu Mi of jin" that Emperor Wu of Jin wanted emperor Fu Mi to enter the dynasty as an official, and Emperor Fu Mi refused in the letter, in which he wrote:
"And taking cold food and medicine, violating the wrong degree, hard tea poison, in this seven years." In the middle of winter, naked eating ice, when the heat is boring, coupled with cough reversal, or if warm, or typhoid, puffy air edema, limbs are sore. ”
Even Huang Fumi, who was a doctor, was powerless against his already addicted self, and even wanted to commit suicide at one point. In his medical book, he also recorded the situation of many people who took five stones at that time, many of whom lost their lives. Therefore, the later medicine king Sun Simiao saw the great harm of the five stones, and he wrote in his later book "Preparing for Emergencies and Thousands of Gold":
"There are baiters, all of them disintegrate their backs and take subversion." Since Yu Zi had his own knowledge, he had seen that the people of the Dynasty and the Wild Shi had suffered from different people, so he preferred to eat wild kudzu and did not accept the five stones, knowing that it had a great poison, and he must not be careless. Those who have knowledge must burn it when they encounter this party, and do not stay for a long time. ”
Any prescription, if it can cure the disease, has its rationality of existence, even Sun Simiao can not abolish it at will, so he first improved the five-stone powder prescription, so that the effect achieved by its treatment is the same, and there is not so much damage to the human body, to be precise, there is no original toxicity.
After the new five-stone scattered medicine prescription came out, Sun Simiao instructed future generations to burn and destroy the original prescription immediately when they encountered the original prescription, so that it could no longer be passed on to the world, so as to prevent the continued spread of the five-stone powder, which was naturally a great achievement, which was the best embodiment of Sun Simiao's medical ethics.
However, it may be that the new prescription has not yet opened the popularity and the original five stone scatter is too widespread, sui and Tang dynasty still have people who take five stone scatter, although the number of people who take five stone scatter is less, but still exists, even in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there are still people who take five stone scatter in addition to treatment. Fortunately, more and more people have an understanding of the toxicity of five-stone powder, coupled with the rush of doctors. The Five Stones were eventually abandoned by history and became a bygone tense.