In recent years, Chinese medicine has received more and more attention from the Chinese people, and after thousands of years of development, Chinese medicine has long been integrated into the blood of Chinese. But the reason why Chinese medicine can go through thousands of years of inheritance is inseparable from those who engaged in medical careers in ancient times, and Sun Simiao is one of the great ones. Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist of the Tang Dynasty, was known as the "Medicine King" by posterity. During his lifetime, he made indelible contributions to the cause of Chinese medicine at that time.
Sun Simiao was born in the seventh year of the Western Wei Dynasty (541), and claimed to have been "cold from the wind at a young age, repeatedly built medical doors, soup medicines, and exhausted the family property". When Sun Simiao was young, he was addicted to books and had a wide range of knowledge, but later he suffered from diseases and often asked doctors for treatment, which cost a lot of family wealth.
Although Heaven did not give Sun Simiao a healthy body, it gave him an extremely intelligent head. Sun Simiao was only intelligent and studious, and at the age of 7, he was able to recognize more than a thousand words, and he was able to recite a thousand-word text almost every day. According to the Old Book of Tang, the chancellor of The Western Wei Dynasty, Du Guxin, was very attached to Sun Simiao and called him a "holy child", but Sun Simiao was invisible.
Because his body often suffers from hidden diseases, he cannot be cured for a long time. Therefore, at the age of 18, he aspired to practice medicine and eliminate diseases for the people. Later, he became fascinated with medicine and opened up his own road. On the way to study, he treated others for free, and often made summaries, forming his own set of theories. Sun Simiao often relied on what he had learned to help the surrounding people. When he was only 20 years old, he was already famous for his achievements in medicine, and "people with diseases in Beijing and abroad" would come to him for treatment.
Sun Simiao is a very perceptive person, not a nerd. He understood that the incurable diseases of the world could not be cured, and to completely eliminate the patients, we must start from the root cause. Healing the "unless" disease is truly clever. Therefore, Sun Simiao began to pay attention to the study of health care and studied the Taoist Huang Laozhi technique.
We know that the Taoist emphasis on "doing nothing" is not bound by merit, and Sun Simiao abandoned his career at the age of 37, that is, in 579 AD, and left his hometown. To the Taibai Mountains, more than 600 miles west of Chang'an, and to zhongnan Mountain, south of Chang'an, he spent decades of seclusion. In these decades, he studied the pharmacopoeia handed down by many famous artists such as Bian Que, Zhongjing, Canggong, Hua Tuo, Wang Shuhe and many other famous artists. For the twelve meridians of the human body, all the internal organs have been carefully and deeply studied. In particular, the exploration of the identification, collection, preparation, and storage of some herbs has reached the level of the Kaizong Sect. He wrote "A Thousand Golden Fangs" throughout his life, which was highly respected by future generations and was praised as "the most precious treasure of mankind".
Sun Simiao likes to collect and study the old prescriptions left by his predecessors on weekdays, just like some collectors love to collect antiques, but Sun Simiao himself is a master of medicine, so he can also use them when collecting prescriptions. Once, when Sun Simiao was studying the five stones left by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Han Dynasty, he frowned tightly. Before dying, he repeatedly asked his disciples: "When you encounter this party, you must burn it, and do not stay for a long time." ”
The formula of "five stones" is different in different periods, but it is generally composed of five kinds of stone medicines such as milk stone, purple quartz, white quartz, sulfur yellow, and red stone fat. Originally used as a remedy for malaria, typhoid fever or eczema. However, because of its hot and dry nature, after taking it, it can make people feel excited and fluttering. Therefore, during the Wei and Jin dynasties, it gradually became a "tide product" of the upper class, and became a symbol of the status and spiritual food of the celebrities of Wei and Jin. Taking this medicine regularly is very addictive. Once addicted, it is easy to cause symptoms such as drowsiness and mania, and even poisoning and death. He repeatedly played the emperor and demanded that it be banned nationwide. Unfortunately, it did not attract the attention of the emperor. This made Sun Simiao depressed and helpless.
Therefore, Sun Simiao has always been committed to understanding the harm of the five stones for people, and suppressing the crooked wind of the folk pursuit of the five stones. Even on his deathbed, he repeatedly told his disciples that they must destroy the five-stone prescription. The benevolence of the healer could not be more appropriately applied to Sun Simiao's body.