The Chinese medical classic The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classics once recorded:
"The ancient man, his knower, the Law is in yin and yang, and in the number of arts, eats and drinks in moderation, lives and lives constantly, does not work in vain, so that he can be in the form of a god, and he will spend his whole life and a hundred years."
That is to say, in ancient times, because people's actions and behaviors, thinking and thinking are in line with the laws of nature, living to more than a hundred years old is a normal lifespan, which makes modern people feel completely incredible, feeling that this is the ancients in the "blowing", but regardless of whether people can live to more than 100 years old in ancient times, but many famous doctors who are proficient in Chinese medicine can indeed live more than 100 years old, much more powerful than the "nutritionists" in their fifties, such as the medicine king Sun Simiao.
The medicine king Sun Simiao is a legendary figure, everyone knows that he is a doctor, in fact, he is also a Taoist, the vast majority of famous doctors in ancient China are the heirs of Taoist thought, because "Huang Laozhixue" is Originally Taoist thought, Sun Simiao especially likes "Lao Zhuang". At the same time, there are many disputes about sun simiao's life span, but no matter how controversial, the lowest said that he lived 101 years old, the highest said that he lived 165 years old, and the more recognized is that Sun Simiao was born in 541 AD and died in 682 AD, that is, 141 years old.
The ancients "pushed themselves and others", if a person himself can not be old and full of form, but claims to be able to prolong the life of others, then he must be lying. And Sun Simiao used his age to prove that his medical skills can really be "old and full-fledged, immortal", he was born in the Western Wei of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, experienced the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin period, Sun Simiao was more than 70 years old, but his appearance, voice, gait was like a teenager in his twenties, Tang Taizong sighed after seeing him:
"Therefore, those who know the Tao, envy the door, Guangcheng is not vain!" Chisel open the meridian road, the famous doctor. The three saints of the wings, reconcile the four hours, descend the dragon and ambush the tiger, save the decline and save the danger. Majestic hall, the master of hundreds of generations. ”
Before, I only heard that there was such a noble person as Guangchengzi, but I didn't believe it very much, but after seeing you, I finally believed it, which was Li Shimin's sigh after seeing him. As a famous old man with a high life expectancy at that time, many of his prescriptions were highly respected, but there was one prescription that sun Simiao repeatedly told his disciples before his death: it must be destroyed, so as not to be lost to the people. Why?
Originally this prescription is called five stone scatter, five stone scatter is also called cold food scatter, it is recorded in the "Typhoid Fever Miscellaneous Diseases", is a kind of prescription for the treatment of typhoid fever, because the prescription has stalactite, purple stone, white stone, sulfur, red stone fat five kinds of stones and famous, this prescription because of the medicinal fever, has a certain effect on typhoid patients. But its real widespread use began in the State of Wei, where He Yan, because of his preference for sound and color, used this prescription, and then felt that "the gods were enlightened and cheerful, and their physical strength was enhanced." Since then, the five stones have become an indispensable "good medicine" for wei and Jin celebrities.
Since ancient times, there have been many stories of Shengxian Dedao, but Shengxian Dedao can not be easily obtained, eating a dose of five stones to make yourself a short "Chengxian" is very easy, so this prescription was still very popular until the Tang Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, it developed into "red lead", and also caused the tragic "Red Pill Case". Eating five stones does not make people immortal, but it has caused many people in history to die of drug poisoning, and even some celebrities have died because of eating five stones.
As a highly qualified doctor, Sun Simiao naturally saw what the effect of wushishan had, although it could indeed treat some typhoid symptoms, but compared with the bad effects he brought to people, the effect of treating typhoid fever was really minimal. Moreover, its effect on the treatment of typhoid fever can be completely replaced by other prescriptions, so Sun Simiao explained to posterity that "when encountering this party, it must be burned, and it should not be left for a long time", which can be described as hating it to the extreme.
Unfortunately, the benevolent Sun Simiao of the healer still did not completely block the spread of the five stones, and it was still spreading in various forms in later generations, seducing those who wanted to experience the feeling of becoming immortal.