For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has created a complete system, whether it is the four diagnostic methods mentioned in the "Ancient and Modern Medical System", or the thirteen parties of the Inner Classics first recorded in the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic", all that have been handed down are the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine. In various books and film and television works, we have also heard about some magic elixirs.
In the film and television works, the frequency of appearance can be compared with the Golden Creation Medicine, and the only thing that can be compared with the Golden Creation Medicine is the red of the world's strange poisonous crane, and whenever someone is injured and bleeding, the Golden Creation Medicine will shine on the scene. In our impression, Jinchuang medicine is always packed in a small porcelain medicine bottle, after washing and disinfecting the wound, open the cork, and scatter the white powdery medicine in the bottle on the wound, and the hemostasis effect is immediate. So what does Jinchuang Medicine use?
Jinchuang medicine is actually a general term for a class of drugs, and does not refer to only which specific drug, but all the drugs that treat bruises and injuries may be called Jinchuang medicine by the ancients. Among all the prescriptions of Jinchuang Medicine, the "sharp knife medicine" of the Qing Dynasty is the most widely circulated, and it is said that the curative effect is also the best. But the prescription of this sharp knife medicine has now been lost, what is the mystery in this?
It turns out that among the many medicinal materials in the sharp knife medicine recipe, there is a special herb called keel, of course, it is not the bones of dragons, but the skeleton fossils of some large mammals, this flavor of medicinal herbs is very precious, it is unattainable, so the best effect of jinchuang medicine production cost is very high.
During the Qing Dynasty, a farmer in Anyang, Henan Province, dug out a bone from the ground while working, and after taking it home, a fellow villager told him that it was a keel. So the farmer took the keel to the pharmacy and exchanged some money. After the treasurer got this piece of keel, he ground it into a powder and made it into a medicine to stop bleeding, in order to play his own signboard, not called Jinchuang medicine, renamed sharp knife medicine, claiming to be a miracle medicine for the treatment of knife wounds.
In 1899, Wang Yirong, who was then the Guozijian, contracted a wind chill and went to the herb shop to buy keel dispensing, but found that there were faint words on the keel he bought back. He felt strange in his heart, so he bought all the keels in the store and studied them. Wang Yirong, a connoisseur of cultural relics, has a big problem with this research, and these engraved keels are likely to be the oracle bones of the Yin Shang period.
Combined with li Daoyuan's description of the Water Classics, the present-day Anyang in Henan may be the capital of the Shang Dynasty, Yin. It is recorded in the "Book of Rites and Tables" that "the people of Yin respect god, lead the people to serve god, and first ghosts and then salute." They used oracle bones carved into turtle shell bones.
With a sensitive sense of cultural relics protection, Wang Yirong immediately began to buy a large number of keels, and as long as there is a word, the price offered is several times higher than the market. As a result, the peasants who hid the keel sold the written keel to Wang Yirong, and it was difficult for the pharmacy to collect the medicinal material, and the prescription of the sharp knife medicine was lost.
Later, these oracle bones collected by Wang Yirong were resold by his son to the late Qing dynasty scholar Liu Yi, who sorted out these materials and published the book "Tieyun Hidden Turtle" in 1903, which laid the foundation for the later mining of Yin Ruins in the mainland.