In the southeast of Yiyang County, at the junction of Yiyang and Yichuan, there is a small village called Kangcun. KangCun is under the jurisdiction of Angu Village in Fancun Town, Yiyang County, and is one of the five natural villages under the administrative village of Angu.
Although the name of Kang Village is unknown, the old houses in the whole village are basically made of stone. From a distance, the stone walls, stone houses and stone doors under the shade of green trees give people a sense of primitiveness, simplicity and seclusion.
In 1957, Gu Jiansong of the Eighth Generation Blood Disease Research Institute of The Gu Clan jishan hall in Luoyang was born here.
Gu Jiansong's grandfather, Gu Jindou, was an ancestral old Chinese medicine doctor. During the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid the intrusion of bandits, he took his four young sons from Hexia Village in Luohechuan District to this relatively remote place, and has lived here ever since.
Gu's Jishan Hall flourished during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty and flourished during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. By the early days of the Republic of China, the hospital had become a scale, and patients from all directions would come to seek medical treatment. The Gu family still retains several stone tablets and plaques from the Tongzhi period, the Guangxu period and the 1955 post-liberation period, and still records the history and glory of the Gu Family Jishan Hall.
In 1976, Gu Jiansong graduated from Shapo Junior High School in a neighboring village. During his schooling, Gu Jiansong, because he liked to read and had a good level of language, he had always been responsible for issuing a blackboard newspaper to the school, so he also practiced a good font. After graduating from junior high school and returning to the village, he also participated in the "Barefoot Doctor" training class. Later, whether he was a technician in the forestry team of the brigade, or went out to do a side business for the production team, or after the reform and opening up, he began to keep bees on his own, but no matter what he did, he would take his favorite medical books, take time to study, and study and discuss his family's ancestral medicine, and then embarked on the road of treating blood diseases.
On the basis of the ancestral secret recipe, Dr. Gu Jiansong developed the "Gu's Jishantang Gu's Marrow Filling Blood Dan", and applied for a national patent in 2012; later, it was awarded the "China Time-honored Brand" by the China Quality Certification Supervision and Administration Center. In addition, under his unremitting efforts, he was admitted as a physician of traditional Chinese medicine in 2010 and obtained the title of "Senior Clinical Chinese Medicine Physician". In 2013, with the increase in the number of people seeking medical treatment in Gu's Jishan Hall, Dr. Gu first moved his research institute from his hometown Kang Village to the Beicheng District of Yiyang County; in the spring of 2016, he built a hospital of more than 2,000 square meters in the knotty village of Luoyang High-tech Zone, and then moved the hospital to Luoyang High-tech Zone.
In addition to his expertise in the research and treatment of blood diseases, Dr. Gu also made certain achievements in literature and calligraphy.
When I came to Dr. Gu's Institute of Blood Diseases, the first thing I saw was the couplets on both sides of the gate. The upper link is the medical self-treatment of benevolence to benefit all sentient beings, and the lower link is the four sides of the virtuous generation of Liang Xiangze. On the wall on the left side of the gate, there is a seal engraving "Gu's JishanTang Traditional Chinese Medicine Testament"; on the wall on the right side of the gate, there is a seal engraving "Luoyang Gu's Jishantang Traditional Chinese Medicine Monument".
In the "Testament", the aphorism that "the healer is benevolent, but the technique is not benevolent, is greedy for medicine, enough to mislead the world; benevolent but not skilled, is a quack doctor, enough to kill people" Aphorism, making people feel very real and very kind.
The "Inscription" records the development history of Gu's Jishan Hall from the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is still recorded in the Yiyang County Chronicle and the Yiyang County Health Chronicle.
This painting, testament and inscription are not only from Gu Jiansong's hand, but also by Dr. Gu himself. From these links, testaments and inscriptions, we can not only see Dr. Gu Jiansong's certain literary skills, but also see Dr. Gu's profound calligraphy skills.
Gu Dafu has a solid foundation in calligraphy, and was admitted as a member of the Luoyang Calligraphers Association in 2012, a member of the Henan Calligraphers Association in 2014, and a first-class calligrapher by the China Academy of Calligraphy and Painting in 2016; later, he passed the national second-level calligraphy qualification examination.
Gu Jiansong said that calligraphy is only a hobby, and learning calligraphy is only for self-cultivation. In 2016 and 2017, he spent more than two years copying the entire contents of the Emperor's Inner Classic and the Three Character Classic of Medicine in small letters. Among them, the "Emperor's Inner Classic" has more than 130,000 words, and the long scroll after mounting has more than 130 meters; the "Three Character Classic of Medicine" has more than 20,000 words, and the long volume after mounting has more than 20 meters. After being exhibited at the Luoyang Museum, these two long scrolls were unanimously praised by provincial and municipal experts and scholars, and were called superior works by many calligraphers.
When we asked Dr. Gu about his future plans, he said that he was 65 years old this year, long past the retirement age; and that after he was ready to send Gu Haiyang, the son of the ninth generation of Gu Jishantang, to enable him to practice alone, he would have to calm down and spend a few more years to copy each of the medical masterpieces such as "On Typhoid Fever," "Outline of the Golden Plateau," and "Debate on the Passage of the WenJing Articles," and at the appropriate time, he would donate these long manuscripts to the relevant medical museums for the museum to collect free of charge.
In addition, he is also preparing to compile a common, economical and practical secret recipe and test recipe for the reference and use of the majority of patients. He said that in 2010, a five-year-old girl in Minggao Town, Yichuan County, accidentally swallowed an iron nail while playing, and the child was sent to a hospital in Luoyang by her mother. After examination, the hospital proposed to use surgery to remove and let his mother pay 5,000 yuan in advance for the operation. Because the girl is a single-parent family, the mother simply can't make up the 5,000 yuan fee, so the mother has a glimmer of hope and finds Dr. Gu. Dr. Gu gave her a simple prescription: 30 grams of charcoal powder, 30 grams of magnet powder, and 30 grams of honey, let her stir together and let her daughter take it, and the next day the iron nails were discharged. He said that magnet powder has the effect of attracting iron, honey has laxative and intestinal effects, and when these two drugs are mixed with charcoal powder, iron nails can be safely discharged from the abdomen.
Dr. Gu said that there are many such unilateral and test prescriptions; although these formulas have long been recorded in ancient books, they have not been well known and accepted. He also said that, for example, shark fins stuck in the throat can be dissolved by taking duck or goose saliva after turning them upside down; mushi stuck in the throat can be dissolved by using foam liquid poured by cattle. He said that Chinese medicine is a treasure trove, and many of its mysteries are simply incomprehensible to ordinary people. These simple and easy unilateral and test prescriptions can not only eliminate the pain of surgery for patients, but also reduce the financial burden of patients, and the effect is indeed very good.
He said that he would organize and edit these simple and easy unilateral and effective prescriptions that had been tested many times into pamphlets and circulate them in the world, which was another good deed done by Gu's JishanTang to society, and it was also a small contribution of Gu's Jishantang to Traditional Chinese medicine.
We sincerely look forward to the early publication and distribution of Dr. Gu's book "Collection of Practical Unilateral Examinations"; we also look forward to the early completion of the long volumes of medical masterpieces such as Dr. Gu's handwritten books "On Typhoid Fever", "The Outline of the Golden Shortage", and "Wen Jing Tiao". At the same time, we also wish Dr. Gu Jiansong that he can go farther and farther on the road of medicine, literature and calligraphy, and can continue to achieve greater achievements!
Author: Yao Hui, lawyer of Henan Law Firm, member of Luoyang Writers Association. Phone: 13603888058.