In the first year of Tang Yongchun, a respected 142-year-old man died of illness, which was only thirty-five years old in an era when medical technology was extremely underdeveloped.
However, his life can be more than a hundred years old, it can be said that there are very few, and he has made great contributions to the medicine of our country in this life, but what makes everyone most surprising is that Zhang Zhongjing, a physician in the Han Dynasty, invented five stones for typhoid fever.
After saving the lives of countless people, later, when he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, he not only did not use it, but resolutely resisted, so why is this? Who is this 142-year-old man? What's so great about it?
Zhang Zhongjing
In fact, this old man is not someone else, but the well-known "medicine king" Sun Simiao, who was born in the seventh year of the Western Wei Dynasty, and when he was young, he did not show any signs of longevity, but he was seriously ill, sick all day, and did not have a little spirit.
The parents in the family are very anxious about this, in order to cure their son's illness, they have sought medical treatment everywhere and spent a lot of money, however, the heavens are fair, although they did not give Sun Simiao a healthy physique, but it allowed him to have a head that surpassed ordinary people and was extremely intelligent, and it was precisely because of this that his life was greatly changed.
Sun Simiao has been reading poetry since childhood, intelligent and studious, only seven years old can skillfully recite a thousand words, as he grew older, Sun Simiao's talent was favored and appreciated by the Western Wei minister Du Guxin, and even once called him a "holy child", but Sun Simiao did not care about these so-called fame and profit.
On the contrary, in his mind, he already had a clear goal, he knew that his body was unbearable and could not be cured for a long time, so at the age of 18, he silently resolved to study medicine in his heart and save the people of the world with the same fate as himself.
Sun Simiao
Since then, Sun Simiao has studied medical knowledge assiduously while saving the injured people around him, and at the age of 20, he has become famous in the local area with excellent technology.
In addition, Sun Simiao is a very perceptive person in medicine, he understands that if he wants to get rid of the incurable diseases in the world, he must start from the root, so he began to pay attention to health maintenance, learned the Taoist Huang Laozhi technique, and only a few years later made outstanding achievements in the field of medicine, creating a work that has been handed down to future generations, "A Thousand Golden Fangs".
At the same time, he also spent several decades studying the works left by predecessors such as Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, hua Tuo, etc., especially Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases".
As for the difference between "The Theory of Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" and "Qianjin Fang", it is that "Qianjin Fang" is a collection of various types of medicines, which can be used to see a doctor, and the scope is relatively wide, while the theory of "Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" is relatively high, and it also needs special practice, and its scope is relatively narrow.
Five stones scattered
But this was not the case, in the war-torn era of that time, typhoid fever was the most threatening disease for mankind, when a large number of people died of this disease.
Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing's five stones saved thousands of people at that time, and it is precisely because of this that Zhang Zhongjing was known as the "Medical Saint", relatively speaking, and Sun Simiao was known as the "Medicine King" by virtue of his contributions, and in China's ancient honorific system, "Sheng" was the highest level of praise.
Wushishan was invented by Zhang Zhongjing when dealing with typhoid fever, and the biggest symptom of typhoid fever is dysentery, in other words, the symptom is diarrhea, which is related to intestinal diseases.
However, the good medicine invented by Zhang Zhongjing in the Han Dynasty, but Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty insisted on burning it.
In fact, although the effect of five stones is extremely great, there are many side effects, and this side effect has fascinated many people.
As the saying goes, the heart of love of beauty, everyone has it, beauty, since ancient times, not only women pursue, men also prefer, and men are more admired in the era, is in the Han Dynasty after the Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, when men pursued a kind of immortal thin, fluttering feeling.
After taking the five stones for a long time, this effect will be achieved, and the clothes will appear extremely loose, and the face will be red and shiny, so that the effect of fairy fluttering can be achieved, so why do people have such an aesthetic?
Because during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the state resolutely did not allow intellectuals to participate in politics, so these people spent all day idle, pursuing some other things, such as immortality, becoming a god and the like, so they ate five stones to achieve this effect, but they did not think in their hearts that such a feeling was a side effect of the drug.
On the contrary, they are proud of it, seeing it as a harbinger of becoming an immortal, and immortality is what they pursue all their lives, so they especially like to eat five stones.
Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao saw that the people of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties were addicted to it and could not extricate themselves, so he desperately tried to stop it, and even before he died at the age of 142, he kept telling his disciples: Don't stop everyone from taking it, and destroy the five stones!
Because Sun Simiao, who is dedicated to serving the people, is well aware of the side effects of the five-stone dispersion, and also knows that the pursuit of immortality is impossible, plus this five-stone scatter is like a drug, long-term use not only can not live forever, but will not be able to live forever.
In short, Sun Simiao's approach is for the body of the people in the world, but this thing that has been circulating for decades is so difficult to completely eradicate and burn it.
However, it is more difficult to remove people's heart disease of becoming immortals, which also reflects from the side that people pursue some unrealistic things, and in the end they have nothing, and even kill themselves.