"Re-fixing Cholera theory" was written by the famous doctor Wang Mengying in the late Qing Dynasty, and although the book revolves around cholera disease, the content does not only deal with cholera.
When you first read his books, you can see that its dialectical treatment is often unique, and the cubic medicine is mostly light and complicated, but repeated recitation, you can find that everywhere is in line with medical pharmacology, which makes people refreshing and open-minded.
This book is not just a plague book, but a very good book for learning, understanding, and mastering the classic theories of Chinese medicine. It would be a pity if you abandoned it and didn't read it just because of the title.
Nor is this book just a treatise on epidemiology. Although Wang Mengying is the master of the theory of Wen Disease, through reading the medical cases in this book, his theory and prescription medicine have not departed from the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic" and "Typhoid Fever Theory", and the use of Jingfang is also very frequent, and it is handy, just right.
Wang Mengying was born in a medical family, his father died when he was fourteen years old, so he decided to study medicine, and studied hard behind closed doors for ten years and finally achieved success. Wang Mengying's qualifications were intelligent, but he had long ago left the heart of seeking merit and fame, and was worried about medicine, which was regarded as a self-abandonment at that time, and the world regarded it as obsessive, and Wang Mengying called himself a half-idiot mountain man. In Wang Mengying's writings, it is often seen that he calls himself a half-idiot.
At the age of 49, he returned to his original hometown in accordance with the legacy of his ancestors. Although the name of the doctor is great, and the writings are equal, it is still "poor and coneless, living in a house", with only one brick to carry, but the name of its grass hall is Gui Yan. Wang Mengying's "Gui Yan Lu" was compiled during this period.
This period of good times lasted only about three years, and affected by the Taiping Rebellion, Wang Mengying began a life of upheaval and displacement. Everywhere you go, the place where the question is "with the breath", taking the meaning of breathing everywhere.
After Meng Ying moved to Shenjiang (in present-day Shanghai), he was able to live a relatively stable life, and "Re-fixing Cholera with Resting" was written during this period.
It can be seen from this that although he is a generation of famous doctors, Wang Mengying's life situation is very bumpy and tortuous.
When reading this book, I was impressed by the two elegies written by Wang Mengying.
First, Bang Jin Zhai.
Piao Po is bored, feeling twenty years of god, Ping gathered in Shenjiang, and will examine the remnants for tasting.
The examination was originally a blessing, and the path went to the immortals, and the wind was miserable in the autumn night, and it was a fading sideburn.
Jin Waszhai was indeed Wang Mengying's confidant, and was also a key factor that prompted Wang Mengying to write the "Rewriting the Theory of Cholera".
In Wang Mengying's time, especially in the south, cholera was rampant, so Wang Mengying compiled the "Theory of Cholera" as early as the Daoguang years.
When Wang Mengying settled in Shenjiang, it was already during the Tongzhi period. Before Wang Mengying came to Shenjiang, Jin Qizhai, who was proficient in medical science, looked around for the "Theory of Cholera" in order to relieve the anxiety of the time, but he never found it. After learning that Wang Mengying had come to Shenjiang, Jin Qizhai personally visited and became friends with Wang Mengying.
Because of the frequent wars and chaos, the original version of "On Cholera" could no longer be found, and Jin Mozhai suggested that Wang Mengying revise "On Cholera".
Wang Mengying refused Jin's request and said, "I don't think that there is any confusion in my own way, and I regret the young man's misdeeds." This means that the Cholera Treatise was written when I was young, when I was young and vigorous, and much of it did not stand up to scrutiny.
In addition to suggesting that Wang Mengying publish a book, Jin Yizhai also actively introduced Wang Mengying's illness number.
However, Jin Yizhai also died of cholera suddenly, and Wang Mengying was very sad, so he re-revised the "Theory of Cholera" to comfort Jin Qizhai, which is also mentioned in the couplet to "examine the remnants and ask for tasting".
The yellow plum has not fallen
Second, love the daughter.
The old man does not do it, only because there is no one to support him. Although I am a good traveler, I can't say that I am worried and diligent, and I hope to return another day, or use Ru Cao to entertain the twilight scene.
Endangered thinking of father healing, although it is known that death and life have a life. Erru cast a mistake, tried the dry, hot and cold medicines, recalled the past years of Juyu, and poured my tears into the autumn wind.
Wang Mengying's second daughter, named Dingyi, was twenty years old, usually physical and hardworking, and married to a fellow villager Dai.
The book records: At the beginning of the month, the female husband Xinyun: The woman on August 23, suddenly suffered from painful diarrhea, cold pulses in the limbs, Cui Moujin added and subtracted from the soup, and the diarrhea did not stop and the moss black lips were dry, quite exposing the hot elephant. Switch to rhinoceros, huo, raw pulse dispersion and other drugs, and the shape gradually falls off. He also used the eight flavor soups with gui, and died on the twenty-ninth day. At the time of his death, he said: My father is here, and he is not sick.
Wang Mengying received a letter from her daughter who died of illness, which detailed the process of her daughter's illness and medication. Not only did the white-haired people send the black-haired people, but the daughter was mistakenly treated and died. Thinking of what her daughter said before she died, "My father is here, not sick to the end", Wang Mengying, who is both a father and a doctor, can imagine his mood.
It is lamentable that a good friend and a beloved daughter actually died of the same illness on the same day.
In this book, Wang Mengying also records the process of his wife's death: he fell ill in the early morning, died at noon, and died at the time. At that time, Wang Mengying was by his wife's side, but he was helpless.
Why Wang Mengying was able to persevere in the midst of many hardships and hardships is a constant thought when reading his works.