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Ge Hong (284-364 AD), courtesy name Zhichuan, self-proclaimed Baopuzi, was a famous medicine scientist of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Han Chinese, from Danyang County, Jin (present-day Jurong, Jiangsu). The nephew of Ge Xuan, the Fangshi of the Three Kingdoms, was known as Xiao Xianweng (小仙翁). He was once made the Marquis of Guannei, and later lived in seclusion on Luofu Mountain to refine Dan.

Ge Hong was a famous physician in the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China and a mediator of preventive medicine. He is the author of "Behind the Elbow", which first recorded some infectious diseases such as smallpox and scrub diseases and diagnosis and treatment. "Tianxing spotted sores" is the earliest record of smallpox in the world. It also has a lot of experience in alchemy, and the Danshu "Baopuzi Inner Chapter" specifically describes the knowledge of chemistry in many aspects such as refining gold and silver elixirs, and also introduces many material properties and material changes. For example, "Dansha burns into mercury, and the accumulation changes into Dansha", that is, heating red mercury sulfide (dansha) and decomposing mercury, and mercury plus sulfur yellow can generate black mercury sulfide, which then becomes red mercury sulfide. Describes the reversibility of chemical reactions. Another example is "iron is coated with zengqing, and iron is red like copper", which describes the reaction of iron replacing copper, and so on. "Ge Zhichuan Migration Chart Axis" Yuan Wang Meng painting, the Palace Museum collection. "Character Diagram Ge Xian SpitTing Fire Map" Ming Guo Xue painting, Shanghai Museum collection.

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Ge Hong was from the Jiangnan Shi clan. At the age of 13, he lost his father and his family was gradually impoverished. He exchanged the proceeds of chopping wood for paper and pencil, and copied books and studied in his spare time, often until late at night. The townspeople therefore called him the Man of Baopu, and he called him "Baopuzi". He is introverted, not good at socializing, only reading behind closed doors, and dabbling in a wide range of subjects. During the Time of the Three Kingdoms of Wu, his ancestors successively held important positions such as Yushi Zhongcheng (御史中丞) and Shangshu (吏部尚書), and was the Marquis of Fengshou County. His father, Wu, continued to serve Wu. After Wu's death, he initially moved to Shaoling Taishou and died as an official. Ge Hong, the third son of Qi, was quite favored by his father, and when he was thirteen years old, his father died, and from then on his family fell into the middle of the road, but he was "hungry and cold, and he was obsessed with farming, carrying on the stars and walking on grass, and secretly attacking." ...... Cut the salary and sell it, give it pen and paper, camp in the countryside, and write books with firewood. ...... Often lack of paper, every writing, repeated words, people can read also. Ge Hongbo's grandfather Ge Xuan had studied the Tao from the alchemist Zuo Ci, known as Ge Xiangong, and passed it on to his disciple Zheng Yin with the alchemy of alchemy. When Ge Hong was about 16 years old, he worshiped Zheng as a teacher, and because of his dedication to learning, he was deeply respected by Zheng Yin. Zheng Yin's ideas of immortality and reclusiveness had a great influence on Ge Hong's life, and since then he has deliberately returned to the hidden mountain forest to practice Dan Cultivation and write books and teachings.

At the age of sixteen, he began to read Confucian classics such as the Book of Filial Piety, the Analects, the Poems, and the Yi, and especially liked the "Method of Immortal Guidance". Self-proclaimed: less good square technique, negative step please ask, not afraid of danger. Every time you hear something different, you think you are happy. Although I saw the ruin and laughed, I didn't think it was a relation. Later, he learned the alchemy from Zheng Yin and was quite valued. It is said that "there are more than fifty disciples, but the rest of them have received the Jindan Sutra and the Three Emperors' Inner Text, and the Five Elements in the Pillow, and the rest of them are those who are not allowed to look at the first title of this book."

In the first year of the Western Jin Dynasty (302), his master Zheng Yin knew of the rebellion of the Ji Dynasty, and Jiangnan would be boiling, but he was holding the immortal medicine of Pu, and brought his disciples into the room, Dongtou Huoshan, but Ge Hong remained in Danyang. In the first year of Jin Yongxing (304), Ge Hong joined Wu Xingtai's army of Guarding Secrets, served as a general and lieutenant, fought against Shi Bing's peasant rebel army, and was awarded the title of "General fubo". The following year, the Shi Bing Incident subsided, and Ge Hong was unwilling to compete for merit and rewards, so he resigned his official position and went to Luoyang to search for the book of alchemy medicine. Because Chen Minpan rebelled in Jiangdong, the return route was cut off, and he wandered between Xu, Yu, Jing, Xiang, Jiang, and Guangzhou. In the second year of Tai'an, Zhang Chang and Shi Bing revolted in Yangzhou, and the governor of the capital, Ren Hong, was made a general and lieutenant, and because of his merits in suppressing the rebel army, he moved to Fubo. After the peace, Hong immediately "threw himself into The Armor, went to Luoyang, and wanted to search for a different book, regardless of his military achievements." However, because "in the midst of the chaos of the Great National War (referring to the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings"—citation note), the North Road was impassable, and Chen Min was instead of Jiangdong and returned to Tu Estuary." At this time of the dilemma, it coincided with his late friend Ji Han as the assassin of Guangzhou, and asked him to join the army and serve as a pioneer. Ge Hong thought that he could avoid chaos in the southern land, so he gladly went there. Unexpectedly, Ji Han was killed by his enemy Guo Li, so he stayed in Guangzhou for many years. Deeply felt that "the position of honor and snobbery, the arm is like a guest, it is not a very thing, and it is impossible to stay." Rumbling is extinct, and the great is extinguished, and if there is a spring, the whiskers are withered. Gain or not, lose peace and sorrow? Repentance, fear, invincibility, not enough." It is to abandon the affairs of the world, to be determined to follow the path of Song qiao, to take food and nourish, and to practice Xuanjing. Then he taught Bao Liang, who continued the cultivation of Taoism, and was deeply impressed by Bao Liang, and was matched with his daughter Bao Gu. In the second year of Jianxing (314), he returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion in the mountains to continue to engage in the creation of "Baopuzi".

In the fourth year of Jianxing (316), it was also returned to Sangzi. The Eastern Jin Dynasty founded the country, remembered its old merits, and gave him the title of Marquis of Guannei and the Two Hundred Yi of Food and Sentences.

At the beginning of Xianhe (326-334), Situ Wang summoned the main book of the prefecture, transferred Situ Tuan, and moved to consult and join the army. Gan Bao was also recommended as a scattered riding regular attendant, leading a large number of works, and Hong Jun's resignation was not enough.

In the third year of Taining (325), his friend Gan Baoli recommended him to serve as a regular attendant to lead the history of the country, but insisted on not taking office. Later, due to the compulsion of life, he was again appointed to consult and join the army. And smelled the toes to produce dansha, asked for a sentence omission order, and led his sons and nephews to accompany him. In the second year of Xianhe (327), Ge Hong heard that Jiaotong had produced Dansha and requested to be appointed as the commander of Goulu (present-day Beiliu County, Guangxi). With the emperor's permission, he traveled south to his post, passing through Guangzhou, to meet with Shi Dengyue. Deng told Ge that the Luofu Mountain under his jurisdiction was known as the Immortal Cave House, and it was said that The Qin Dynasty An Zhisheng took nine calamus on this mountain and feathered into heaven. Deng Yue expressed his willingness to provide him with raw materials to refine Dan here, and Ge Sui decided to suspend his trip to Ren and live in seclusion in Luofu Mountain from then on. In the meantime, Deng Yue planned to appoint Ge Hong as the Taishou of Dongguan, but Ge resigned. He built the Nan Nunnery in front of Zhu MingDong, practiced alchemy, and wrote books and lectures. Due to the increasing number of scholars, the three nunneries of the East and West North (The Nine Heavenly Temples of the East Temple, the Yellow Dragon Temple of the West Temple, and the North Temple of the Crisp mash were added). Travel south to Guangzhou, left by Shi Deng Yue, and stop at Luofu Mountain. In the mountains, you travel leisurely and write endlessly. He died in the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (363) at the age of 81.

According to legend, Ge Hong and his wife also studied alchemy and medicine at Xiqiao Mountain in Nanhai and YuegangYuan in Guangzhou (now Sanyuan Palace), and often practiced medicine among the people. Ge Hong wrote a lot in his lifetime, and "Baopuzi" is his masterpiece. The book is divided into two parts: internal and external. The 20 volumes of the inner part, which discuss the immortal prescription medicine, health care and longevity, and the evil but the evil, summarize the immortal alchemy before the Jin Dynasty, including shouyi, xingqi, guidance, etc., accumulating valuable information for medicine; the outer 50 volumes discuss the gains and losses in the world, the world's affairs are zang or not, and clarify their social and political views. The whole book links the theory of Immortal Taoism with the Confucian Gang Changming Sect, and opens a precedent for the integration of the two philosophical systems of Confucianism and Taoism. The advent of "Baopuzi" had a profound impact on the development of Taoism.

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Ge Hong's works in his lifetime were magnificent, and he claimed to have twenty volumes of the Inner Chapter, fifty volumes of the Outer Chapter, one hundred volumes of the Epitaph poetry endowment, thirty volumes of the Notes on the Moving Chapters of the Military Book, ten volumes of the Biography of the Immortals, and ten volumes of the Hidden Tales; and he also copied the Five Classics and the Seven Histories of the Hundred Sayings, and the Short and Miscellaneous Techniques of Military Affairs and Techniques to ask for three hundred and ten volumes. There are also 100 volumes of "Golden Medicine Prescription" and 4 volumes of "Elbow Reserve Emergency Formula". However, there are many deceased people, and the Orthodox Daozang and the Wanli Continuing Daozang collect a total of thirteen kinds of his works.

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Taoism

Ge Hong inherited and transformed the early Taoist theory of immortals, and in the Baopuzi Inner Chapter, he not only comprehensively summarized the theory of immortals before the Jin Dynasty, but also systematically summarized the immortal techniques before the Jin Dynasty, including Shouyi, Xingqi, Guidance, and Fangzhong Techniques; at the same time, he combined the Immortal Fangshu with the Confucian Gangchang Mingjiao, emphasizing that "those who desire immortals should be based on loyalty and filial piety and Shunren Xin." If virtue is not cultivated, but the practice of alchemy, neither shall live forever." He also integrated this kind of gangchang name with the precepts of Taoism, requiring believers to strictly abide by it. He said: "Looking at all the precepts of the Tao, all those who desire eternal life will desire to accumulate good deeds, be merciful to things, forgive themselves and others, be kind to insects, be happy with their good fortune, be anxious to save others, save people's poverty, do not hurt their lives, do not persuade them to be evil, see people gain as they gain, see people's losses as their own losses, do not value themselves, do not honor themselves, do not envy themselves, do not slander thieves, so that they are virtuous, blessed by heaven, and their deeds will be accomplished, and they will be immortal." "Advocate that the health of the immortals is inside, and Confucianism should be outside."

In the "Outer Chapters of Baopuzi", he specializes in the gains and losses of the world, and the world is not. Advocate the application of heavy punishments to control the chaotic world, and advocate severe punishment and harsh laws. Kuang Shi Zuoshi was eclectic to the Confucian, Mo, Ming, and Dharma families, and respected the king as heaven. Dissatisfied with the talks of Wei and Jin, he advocated attaching equal importance to articles and virtues, and that making statements should help to indoctrinate. Under the guidance of the idea of believing that refining and taking Jindan can be long-lived and immortal, Ge Hong has been engaged in alchemy experiments for a long time, and in his alchemy practice, he has accumulated rich experience and recognized some characteristics of substances and their chemical reactions.

In the "Jin Dan" and "Huang Bai" chapters in the "Baopuzi Inner Chapter", he systematically summarized the achievements of alchemy before the Jin Dynasty, specifically introduced some alchemy methods, recorded a large number of ancient Danjing and Dan methods, outlined the historical outline of ancient Chinese alchemy, and also provided us with precious materials on primitive experimental chemistry, which had a major impact on the development of Sui and Tang alchemy, and became a famous alchemist in the history of alchemy.

Jincheng Mountain has 99 peaks, 36 springs, and 48 caves. Jincheng Mountain, also known as Jinsu Mountain, Jinshan, Jinfeng, Jinziling, it is said that tens of thousands of stones of golden millet are hidden in the vault inside guangfu gate, which has a golden horse leisurely pulling mill, if you stick to the stone wall, the sound of pulling grinding will be faintly heard. Treasury Nursery Rhymes: Stone Horse (Stone Horse Village) to Stone Drum (Drum Village), Gold Billion Five. Who can recognize the broken, can buy Chongqing Province. More than 100 meters into the mountain gate is the "Little West Heaven"; the Nanjing Gate is said to have been built by Zhang Xianzhong, a peasant leader in the late Ming Dynasty. There is a "cave of the gods" on the mountain, it is said that the Eastern Jin Dynasty Taoist Ge Hong once practiced here, wrote the "Baopuzi" and other scriptures, whenever the sun is shining, he will spread out the scriptures one by one and put them on the boulders on the top of the cave to dry in order to obtain the true scriptures, so it is called "Sunning Scripture Stone".

Medicine

Ge Hong was well versed in medicine and pharmacology, and advocated The Taoist and medical practices. "In the beginning of the ancient world, those who were Taoists could not practice medicine at the same time to save the near future", believing that if cultivators did not practice medicine at the same time, once they "suffered from illness and self-inflicted pain", they would "have no way to attack and heal", not only would they not be able to grow into immortals, but even their own lives would be difficult to save.

His medical work "Elbow Backup Emergency", the title of the book means that it can always be prepared behind the elbow (carry around) emergency book, is a practical book that should be carried with you. The book collects a large number of emergency prescriptions, which he collected and screened in the process of practicing medicine and traveling, he specially selected some drugs that are easier to get, even if you have to spend money to buy them, they are also very cheap, changing the previous emergency prescriptions are not easy to understand, drugs are difficult to find, expensive drawbacks. He especially emphasized the use of moxibustion, using simple and easy to understand language, clearly and unambiguously named the use of various moxibustion methods, as long as the moxibustion is clear, people who do not know acupuncture can also use.

Ge Hong paid great attention to the study of emergency diseases. Most of the acute diseases he refers to are what we now call acute infectious diseases, and in ancient times people called them "heavenly punishments", believing that they were disasters descended from heaven and were the work of ghosts and gods. Ge Hong said in the book: The emergency disease is not caused by ghosts and gods, but by the boils of the outside world. As we all know, acute infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms (including protozoa, bacteria, Rickettsia and viruses). These microorganisms have to be magnified hundreds of times to see, and microscopes were not invented more than 1600 years ago, and of course, bacteria are not known. Ge Hong's ability to rule out superstition and point out that acute illness is caused by external material factors is already remarkable.

It is reported that Ge Hong also wrote "Saving the Pawn Fang After the Elbow" and "Yu Han Fang". "The hundred volumes written by Yu, called "Yu Han Fang", are all disease names, continuous in class, not mixed with each other, and the three volumes of his "Saving The Jailer" are all easy to act alone, easy to test, between the fences and strangers, Gu Xiao is all medicine, and the diseases of the public are all prepared, and the family has this party, but there is no need for medical treatment." Ge Hong made detailed records and explanations of the morphological characteristics, growth habits, main places of origin, medicinal parts and therapeutic effects of many medicinal plants in "Baopuzi Inner Chapter: Immortal Medicine", which had a great impact on the development of medicine in later generations in China.

chemistry

He was an early chemist. Why does Ge Hong like alchemy? In feudal society, aristocratic bureaucrats dreamed of immortality in order to enjoy a life of arrogance and lavishness forever. Some people want to refine the "elixir" to satisfy their luxuries, so they form an alchemy. The alchemist puts some minerals in sealed dins and uses fire to smelt them. Minerals undergo chemical changes under high temperature and pressure, producing new substances. The elixir of immortality is the illusion of the exploiting class, and of course it cannot be refined. However, in the process of alchemy, people discovered some laws of material change, which became the precursor of modernization. Alchemy developed relatively early in China, and Ge Hong was also an alchemist.

At that time, ge Hong refined drugs such as tantric monk (lead oxide), three immortal elixirs (mercury oxide), etc., which were raw materials for topical drugs.

In the process of refining mercury, Ge Hong discovered the reversibility of chemical reactions, and he pointed out that heating dansha (mercury sulfide) can refine mercury, and mercury and sulfur can be combined to become dansha. He also pointed out that lead can be refined with lead tetroxide, and lead can also be refined into lead tetroxide. In Ge Hong's writings, it is also recorded that female yellow (arsenic trisulfide) and male yellow (arsenic pentasulfide) are sublimated after heating and directly become crystallization.

In addition, Ge Hong has also proposed a number of simple drugs and prescriptions to treat diseases, some of which have been proven to be specific drugs. Such as turpentine for arthritis, copper blue (copper carbonate) for skin diseases, male yellow, mugwort leaves can be disinfected, tantric monks can be antiseptic and so on. These records have a certain effect on the treatment of arthritis. The arsenic contained in male yellow has a strong bactericidal effect. Mugwort leaves contain volatile aromatic oils, and poisonous insects are very afraid of it, so Our folk burn mugwort leaves around the May Festival to repel insects. Copper cyan can inhibit the growth and reproduction of bacteria, so it can treat skin diseases. Tantric monks have a disinfectant and bactericidal effect, so they are used as preservatives. Science and religion are often not strictly opposed (Nie Wentao). As a Taoist monk, Ge Hong discovered the efficacy of these drugs more than 1500 years ago and made great contributions to medicine.

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In "Elbow Reserve", Ge Hong describes a disease called "corpse note", saying that this disease can be contagious to each other and changeable. People infected with this disease can't figure out where they are uncomfortable, they only feel afraid of cold fever, fatigue, mental trance, body emaciation day by day, and will die after a long time. The disease that Ge Hong describes is what we now call tuberculosis. Tuberculosis bacteria can cause disease in many organs in a person. Tuberculosis, osteoarticular tuberculosis, meningeal tuberculosis, intestinal and peritoneal tuberculosis, etc., are all caused by tuberculosis bacteria. Ge Hong was the first scientist in China to observe and record tuberculosis.

Ge Hong's "Elbow Reserve Emergency" also records a disease caused by dog bites. Dogs are mad dogs. People are bitten by mad dogs, very painful, patients can not stand a little stimulation, as long as they hear a little sound, they will convulse and spasm, and even hear the sound of pouring water will also convulse, so some people call mad dog disease "water phobia". In ancient times, there was no cure for this disease. Ge Hong thought that in ancient times, there was a way to attack poison with poison. For example, china's oldest medical work, the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, said that "poison" medicine should be used to treat diseases, and there is no "poison" to cure diseases. Ge Hong thought that if a mad dog bites a person, it must be a poison in the dog's mouth, invading the human body from the wound and poisoning the person. Can you cure this disease with poison from mad dogs? He hunted the mad dog to kill, took out the brain, and applied it to the wounds of the dog's patients. Sure enough, some people did not get sick again, and although some people got sick, they were lighter. (The severity of the disease should be a misunderstanding caused by the lack of knowledge of the ancients, and the mortality rate once rabies occurs is 100%, no matter the severity)

The method used by Ge Hong is scientifically justified, containing the germination of immune ideas. As we all know, planting cowpox can prevent smallpox, injecting encephalitis vaccine can prevent encephalitis, and injecting toxins of tetanus bacteria can treat tetanus. These methods are all results of modern immunology. "Immunity" means protection from infectious diseases. Bacteria and viruses invade our body, our body originally has the ability to reject and destroy them, so it is not necessary to have the disease, only when the body's resistance is poor, bacteria and viruses can make people sick. The method of immunization is to try to improve the body's resistance to disease and save people from the disease. Injectable injections are a method of immunization (modern immunology is becoming more and more abundant, and injecting preventive injections is only one aspect of it). Ge Hong's ability to take preventive measures against rabies can be called a pioneer in immunology. Immunology in Europe began with Pasteur in France. He used artificial methods to make rabbits get mad dog disease, and took out the brain marrow of sick rabbits to make injections to prevent and treat mad dog disease, and the principle was basically similar to Ge Hong's. Pasteur's method of work was, of course, more scientific, but more than 1,000 years later than Grundy's.

In the history of world medicine, Ge Hong also recorded for the first time two infectious diseases, one is smallpox and the other is called scrub worm disease. Ge Hong wrote in "Elbow Reserve": One year a strange epidemic occurred, and the patient was covered with herpes one by one, which was at first a small red dot, and soon turned into a white pustules, which were easily broken. If it is not treated properly, the herpes will fester while growing, people will have a high fever, nine out of ten can not be cured, even if it is cured by chance, there will be a small fistula on the skin. The epilepsy begins to turn black, and it doesn't become the same color as the skin after a year. The strange epidemic described by Ge Hong was exactly what he later called smallpox. Western medical scientists believe that the earliest record of smallpox was the Arab physician Rezas, in fact, Ge Hong lived in an era more than 500 years before Rezas.

Ge Hong called scrub worm disease "sand lice poison". It has now been clarified that the pathogen of sand lice poisoning is a microorganism smaller than a bacterium called "Rickettsia". There is a small insect called sand lice, and when a stinging person sucks blood, it injects this pathogen into the human body, making people sick and feverish. Sand lice grow in the south, according to the survey, China only Guangdong, Fujian has a scrub worm epidemic, other places are extremely rare. It was through hard practice that Ge Hong gained knowledge about the disease. It turned out that he was passionate about alchemy and lived for a long time in Luofu Mountain in Guangdong. There are sand lice in the deep mountain meadows of this area. Sand lice are smaller than small grains of rice and cannot be found without careful observation. Ge Hong not only found sand lice, but also knew that it was a vector for transmitting diseases. His account predates the American physician Pam in 1878, more than 1500 years.

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Hard work

[sic] Ge Hong's bitter learning: Ge Hong, Danyang people, poor childless servants, hedges (fences) are not repaired, often draped (separated) hazelnuts (messy grass and trees) go out, row (push) grass into the room. Repeatedly (many times) Caught in fire, the classics (important ancient works) are exhausted, but (ben) bear (carry) the flute (book box) on foot, regardless of thousands of miles, borrow books to copy, sell salaries (firewood) to buy paper, and (same as "burning") fire to read (flip through).

Ge Hong, a Danyang man, was poor and could not afford servants, and the fence in the house was so bad that it could not be repaired, and it was often necessary to remove the messy grass and trees to go out, and then push the weeds into the house. There were several fires in his home, and the books he collected were burned, so he took the book basket and walked to other people's homes to copy books, he sold firewood to buy paper, and borrowed the light of the fire to read.

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Ge Hong was a famous Taoist leader in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who was good at Dan Dao, studied medicine outside, studied Taoism, studied Hundred Schools, had profound thoughts, and wrote rich works. He not only made great achievements in the development of Taoist theory, but also learned both inside and outside, and made many achievements in healing, medicine, music, literature and other aspects. "Baopuzi" is his main work, and his exposition of articles and aesthetics is scattered in it, although it is relatively scattered, but its value cannot be ignored.

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His main activity throughout his life was to engage in alchemy and medicine, both as a religious theorist of the unity of Confucianism and Taoism, and as a medical scientist engaged in alchemy and medical activities. Ge Hong dared to "doubt the ancients", opposed "the noble and the modern", emphasized innovation, believed that "although there are many ancient books, they may not be perfect", and insisted on implementing the idea of attaching importance to experiments in the actual practice of medicine and alchemy, which is very important for his contribution to medicine. Ge Hong read a large number of medical books, and paid attention to analysis and research, and in the practice of medicine, summarized the treatment experience and collected folk medical experience, based on which, completed the hundred volumes of the book "Yu Han Fang". Due to the voluminous volume and difficult to carry and search, the summaries of common clinical diseases, emergency diseases and their treatment were summarized into 3 volumes of "Saving The Party after the Elbow", so that doctors can easily carry them to meet the needs of clinical first aid search, so this book can be called the first clinical first aid manual in the history of Chinese medicine.

He summarized the previous ideas of immortals, proving that the existence of immortals and immortals was of great significance in the history of Taoism.

He discovered the redox reaction of mercury. He was the first to apply rabies' brains to the wounds of rabies patients to treat rabies.

Ningbo Lingfeng Temple has a Gexian Hall, which enshrines a statue of Ge Hong. In the second year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (327), Ge Hong came here to practice Dan. When he was living in seclusion on Lingfeng Mountain, the plague was prevalent, and Ge Hong collected herbs and gave medicines, bringing many people back to life. Every year, from the first to the tenth day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, the incense of Lingfeng Temple is the most popular day, because the legend says that the tenth day of the first month is the birthday of Ge Xianweng, and people come here to commemorate this immortal who hangs the pot and saves the world.

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