Li Shizhen was a famous expert in medicine in ancient China, and his "Compendium of Materia Medica" has also become a precious book of traditional Chinese medicine.
There are already many records and legends about Li Shizhen in history, and everyone is familiar with it, and today we want to talk about the philosophical ideas that occupy the most important position in Li Shizhen's medical system.
This is the idea of "Zhou Yi", it can be said that in Li Shizhen's works, Yixue thought is almost ubiquitous, and he is an expert who highly combines Yixue with medicine.
Today we will talk about the relationship between Li Shizhen and "Zhou Yi".
Chinese medicine and "Zhou Yi" have been inextricably linked since ancient times, from the pre-Qin era, Chinese medicine and the five elements of yin and yang are integrated together, Qin and Han medical scientists often use the five elements to represent people's five internal organs, with yin and yang qi and blood flow to illustrate the meridian operation of people, and also use qi, yuan, god and other representatives of people's spiritual consciousness.
At that time, the combination of Liu Yao Bagua and Chinese medicine, the most core part of "Zhou Yi", had not yet been completed, and the five elements of yin and yang connected Yi with medicine.
With the development of the times, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, "Zhou Yi" and Chinese medicine began to be highly integrated, Sun Simiao attached great importance to the "Zhou Yi" for the guidance of medicine, in his works, Yi Xue thought is very strong, has reached the situation that there is no easy not to become a doctor, there must be easy medicine.
The complete integration of "Zhou Yi" and Chinese medicine was still in the Ming Dynasty, and a group of medical scientists represented by Zhang Jingyue, Zhao Xianke, and Sun Yikui combined the bagua words of "Zhou Yi" with Chinese medicine, and put forward the "great doctor who does not know how to be easy to say".
Since then, "Zhou Yi" and Chinese medicine have been closely related to each other, almost indistinguishable from each other.
Li Shizhen is really the inheritance of this kind of thinking.
Li Shizhen came from a family of medicine, and his father was a palace doctor. Li Shizhen planned to take the career path in his early years, but it did not go well, so he turned to study medicine.
He became famous for treating Wang Ye's family, and was later recommended to enter the Tai Hospital, where during his years, Li Shizhen was able to read a lot of books and collect a large amount of information on Traditional Chinese medicine.
With his talents, Li Shizhen resigned from his hometown and ran his own hospital, while traveling in various directions to search for medicinal formulas and argue for his own works.
After years of hard work, the Compendium of Materia Medica was finally completed.
In this imperial masterpiece, Li Shizhen brought the ideas of "Zhou Yi" to the fullest, and he used the five lines of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth to classify a wide variety of traditional Chinese medicine. Based on the yin and yang to which bagua belongs, different parts of the human body, different properties of medicinal herbs, and even the properties of all things are divided.
At the same time, he uses yin and yang transformation and opposing ideas to explain the fierceness and softness of the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine.
His research on pulse diagnosis is also explained by zhou yi, for example, he said, "Floating pulse law heaven, there is a light and clear upward image, in the gua is dry, in the time for winter, in the man-made kidney." ”
He was also a qigong master himself, and in his writings, he also profoundly expounded the study of the qi meridians of the "Zhou Tian Run", as he said: "The pulse of Ren Dou ... Kanshui is far from the land of fire and fire" and so on.
Li Shizhen's theory of medicine is actually a collection of Zhou Yi's ideas, which is the embodiment of the ancient Chinese philosophical system.
In ancient China, Zhou Yi not only guided medicine, but also politics, military, literature, art, martial arts, and even the big and small things in life.
Li Shizhen is great because of medicine, and his greatness proves the greatness of "Zhou Yi".