At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous doctor named Yu Huiyuan, who passed the imperial examination in his early years and entered the career path. Before entering the officialdom, he was bent on being a good official for the country and the people, worthy of the imperial court and the people.
But when he entered the officialdom, he found that if he wanted to mix well in the officialdom, he looked at more than ability. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, officialdom was dark, and donating officials became a means for the imperial court to make money. Those who bought officials and took office only thought about how to make a little more money when they were officials.
Over time, Yu Huiyuan became frustrated with officialdom, he was not accustomed to the phenomenon of corruption in officialdom, but he was weak and unable to change this status quo.
He resigned from the government and returned to his hometown to become a doctor, and his benevolence was famous all over the world
After seeing the darkness of officialdom, Yu Huiyuan chose to resign and return to his hometown. Although he is no longer an official, after he returns to his hometown, he plans to become a doctor, treat diseases and save people, and it can be regarded as doing things for the people.
After Yu Huiyuan returned home, he began to diligently study medical skills. I never thought that he was still very talented in this area, coupled with his obsession with studying texts, his medical skills became more and more sophisticated.
Yu Huiyuan does not necessarily collect money for medical treatment, and when he encounters poor people with poor family conditions, he often goes to the hospital for free. Sometimes, even if he finds a small animal injured on the side of the road, Yu Huiyuan will take the initiative to come forward to heal, and he is a very kind doctor with a loving heart.
Because he was kind and very skilled in medicine, gradually the people around him knew that there was a famous doctor nearby. When encountering headaches and brain fever, he will come to him for diagnosis and treatment.
Later, word of mouth spread that Yu Huiyuan's reputation became more and more popular, and even after many dignitaries fell ill, they would ask people everywhere to beg Yu Huiyuan, hoping to invite him to the clinic for treatment.
Cixi had a strange illness that was too difficult to treat, and Li Lianying personally visited her home
Once, Yu Huiyuan was sitting at home for a doctor, and suddenly heard noisy footsteps outside the door, and it seemed that many soldiers had arrived. The patients present were all scared away, and I saw a group of officers and soldiers walk in, surrounded by a man dressed in eunuch clothes, he was Li Lianying, the chief executive.
Yu Huiyuan is just a jianghu langzhong, why did Li Lianying come here?
It turned out that Li Lianying wanted to invite him into the palace to see Cixi Lao Foye.
According to Yu Huiyuan's ideas, it is a very risky thing to treat these court dignitaries, and if he is optimistic, he should be divided, and if he is not good, he will lose his head, and he was originally unwilling to go.
But since Li Lianying had already come to the door, if he didn't go, he would be kidnapped, so Yu Huiyuan had to follow him into the palace.
Along the way, Li Lianying roughly described Empress Dowager Cixi's illness, and Yu Huiyuan frowned after hearing this, and his heart was even more apprehensive.
It turned out that Empress Dowager Cixi's living conditions were too good on weekdays, she ate all kinds of supplements, and she didn't like exercise very much, which caused her to have a small acne on her neck.
At first, the acne was only occasionally itchy, and Empress Dowager Cixi did not care. But over time, the acne grew bigger and bigger, turning into a poisonous sore.
Empress Dowager Cixi was tortured by pain every day, and even when the eunuch palace maid combed her hair and washed her face, the movement was slightly larger, which would cause severe pain.
Because of this poisonous sore, many people who served Empress Dowager Cixi were punished, and everyone was miserable.
It is not that Cixi has not sought a imperial doctor, but these people have never seen a similar disease, studied for months, and have not come up with an effective treatment plan. Empress Dowager Cixi was furious, and all the imperial doctors who treated her were severely punished, but still no one knew what to do.
At this time, Li Lianying learned about Yu Huiyuan through his connections, so he personally went to the door to invite him.
When Yu Huiyuan saw Empress Dowager Cixi, he looked at the poisonous sores carefully, saying that he had a way to cure them, but it was definitely different from the way of the imperial doctor in the palace. The implication of Yu Huiyuan's words is that he came up with a partial formula, that is, a lower-ninth rate method that the imperial doctor can't look at, and the dignitaries generally don't use it.
Catch insects to make remedies and cure Cixi strange diseases
Cixi had been tortured to the point of almost collapse at this time, and he didn't care about any strange methods, and quickly signaled Yu Huiyuan to heal at ease and not have any worries.
After Yu Huiyuan obtained Cixi's consent, he asked to retreat and talk to Lafayette alone.
Cixi was a little puzzled, and asked Li Lianying to take the palace eunuchs out, and Yu Huiyuan knelt on the ground, saying that he needed to go outside the palace to get medicine, and the medicinal materials in the palace did not work.
Cixi was already a little unhappy at this time, feeling that Yu Hui Yuan had made a mistake, I am afraid that he did not know how to cure it, and wanted to find an opportunity to escape.
But Cixi did not get angry, because the imperial doctors in the palace were helpless against her illness, and she could only choose to try her luck to see if Yu Huiyuan had real skills.
In order to prevent him from escaping, Cixi also sent people to keep an eye on him in secret, and if he really found that there was something wrong with him, it was not too late to put him to death.
In this way, Yu Huiyuan went out of the palace to look for medicine, and Li Lianying followed him closely with several guards.
In fact, Yu Huiyuan really had a way to treat poisonous sores, but he couldn't tell Cixi in advance, because he was going to use a home remedies, and once he let Cixi know, it would definitely lead to killing.
Yu Huiyuan's prescription requires two insects, leeches and maggots, and both must be living creatures.
Therefore, Yu Huiyuan took Li Lianying and the others straight to a rice field on the outskirts of Beijing, signaling everyone to roll up their trouser legs and go down to the water to catch leeches. Immediately afterwards, Yu Huiyuan led the people to find the maggots and quickly returned to the Forbidden City.
Cixi didn't expect that Yu Huiyuan really came back, and he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, it seems that he really has a way, otherwise how dare he come back.
Yu Huiyuan asked Cixi to turn over, lie on the bed, close his eyes, and expose the position of his neck. Then, Yu Huiyuan picked out the leech and placed it in the position of the poisonous sore. Cixi felt an itching in the position of her neck, accompanied by a slight pain, and instinctively touched it with her hand, which was immediately stopped by Yu Huiyuan.
Indeed, if Cixi found a few leeches crawling on his neck, Yu Huiyuan's 100 heads would not be enough to cut off.
Cixi had no choice but to continue to lie on his stomach with his eyes closed, and soon felt that there was no more pain in his neck, at this time, the leeches had sucked the pus and blood in the poisonous sore dry, and Yu Huiyuan immediately picked them out, leaving only a pile of rotten tissue. Yu Huiyuan then picked out the maggots and placed them in the position of carrion, allowing them to carry out the work of "cleaning up and sweeping the tail".
A moment later, the poisonous sores residue on Cixi's neck had been eaten clean by maggots, and Yu Huiyuan picked them out, burned them with fire with leeches, and then took out ordinary trauma ointment and pasted it on Cixi's neck, even if it was done.
After Cixi was cured, he was very happy and rewarded Yu Hui Yuan on the spot.
This story comes from some anecdotal and wild history. However, although many folk rumors are suspected of catching the wind, they may not all be false.
"True and false" is the characteristic of wild history, as the saying goes, "those who are wild historians also make up for the lack of history."