Li Ke was born in 1930 in Lingshi, Shanxi. Starting from a barefoot doctor, he is committed to inheriting the traditional Chinese medicine before the Han Dynasty, becoming a unique contemporary clinical master who uses pure Chinese medicine to engage in emergency treatment and treatment, especially good at treating acute and critical diseases with heavy agents, and has the reputation of "modern Zhang Zhongjing". His monograph "Li Kelao Traditional Chinese Medicine Acute critical illness incurable disease experience album" records his precious treatment experience in acute and critical diseases, and the rational prescription is incisive and practical, which has become a must-have book for many TCM clinicians.
On February 7, 2013, the legendary old Chinese medicine doctor Li Ke died at his home in Shanxi at the age of 83. When the news came, people in the Field of Traditional Chinese Medicine all sighed. Li Ke is the "founding father" of the ancient School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and is known for his ability to use pure Chinese medicine to treat emergencies. After 40 years of clinical practice, he created 28 Chinese medicine recipes, among which the famous "Breaking The Heart Soup" brought thousands of dying patients back to life, and was praised by the master of traditional Chinese medicine Deng Tietao as "the backbone of Chinese medicine". In his later years, Li Ke devoted himself to promoting and reviving Traditional Chinese medicine, and established the country's first Li Ke Chinese Medicine Academic School Inheritance Base in Guangzhou Southern Hospital. He said: "The establishment of the base is already the highest reward of the state for my life, more precious than the Nobel Prize." Recently, Professor Lu Ying, one of Li Ke's most important protégés and director of the base, accepted an exclusive interview with reporters, fondly recalling and showing Li Ke's medical demeanor as a doctor, a teacher, and a person.
Li Ke has a legendary path of studying medicine: he taught himself in prison. Born in 1930 to a small farming and merchant family in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, Li Ke joined the army after graduating from junior high school at the age of 16, and worked as a field reporter in the Northwest Field Army and as an editor of an army newspaper. In 1953, Li Ke, who had a strong personality, was inexplicably beaten as a counter-revolutionary and imprisoned for expressing different views on an important letter. In prison, he met a cellmate surnamed Huang, who instructed Li Ke to memorize "soup heads" to learn Chinese medicine, and read the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" by Zhang Zhongjing, the "medical saint" of the Han Dynasty. Since then, Li Ke began to read medical books in prison and embarked on a long road of self-study in Chinese medicine. During the Cultural Revolution, Li Ke was again unjustly imprisoned for being falsely accused. In prison, he continued to study the I Ching, the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, the Difficult Classic, the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases and other medical classics.
Traditional Chinese medicine methods are used to rescue seriously ill patients
In decades of clinical practice, Li Ke has gradually formed an academic school with the characteristics of "ancient Chinese medicine". Lü Ying said that Master has repeatedly stressed in public that "I have not created any genre, but I am returning to the path of Chinese medicine before the Han Dynasty, if I must have a name, use Pengzi's 'ancient Chinese medicine'." ”
Li Ke has proposed on many occasions that if contemporary Chinese medicine is to be revived, it should take the path of traditional Chinese medicine before the Fa And Han Dynasties, and take the path of combining the "I Ching" and the "Inner Classic". Li Ke especially admired Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", believing that "Zhongjing Theory is the soul of Chinese medicine and a golden key to solving the problems of world medicine".
Li Ke is good at diagnosing and treating various difficult diseases and pure Chinese medicine to rescue endangered patients such as heart failure and call-off, creating many miracles of resurrection from the dead, and completely changing the outside world's view of Chinese medicine "slow langzhong". In line with the principle of "life and death, saving the sun is urgent", he used a large number of Traditional Chinese medicines known as "the first product of returning to yang to save the rebellion" - Zhizi. The appendage is poisonous, and the general Chinese medicine only dares to prescribe a dose of tens of grams at most, and he is facing a patient who is on the verge of death, and the use of small doses is like scratching the itch of the boot, and he often prescribes hundreds of grams of doses. In his lifetime, he used 5 tons of appendages to bring thousands of dying patients back to life, among which there are cases that can be investigated, and there are more than 100 people who have been notified of critical illness by Western medicine, which is legendary.
Lü Ying stressed that although Li Ke's use of appendages seems to be biased by sword, Li Ke cannot be equated with "large-dose appendages". "He's not biased, he's just taking the drug."
Teacher: As long as young people are willing to learn Chinese medicine, I am willing to teach
In order to inherit and carry forward the essence of Chinese medicine, Li Ke has been leading apprentices since the 1980s, doing his best to teach medical skills, and many apprentices have obtained their essence and stood out in their respective clinical positions and become independent clinical doctors. In 2005, he was invited by guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to start receiving apprenticeships in Guangdong, and now has more than a dozen apprentices in Guangdong, mainly concentrated in Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, southern hospital of Southern Medical University, etc. In 2010, under the initiative of Li Ke, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine established the "Traditional Chinese Medicine ICU", which created a precedent for the use of pure Chinese medicine to rescue and supervise cardiopulmonary diseases. At the end of 2010, with the support of the leaders of the national and Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine circles, the Li Ke Traditional Chinese Medicine Academic School Inheritance Base was established in the Southern Hospital of Southern Medical University. Lu Ying, the director of the base, was the apprentice that Li Ke had adopted four years ago.
Lu Ying introduced that Master is a clinical physician with profound theoretical skills. During his work at the base, together with his disciples, he summed up the inheritance ideas of seven Li Ke chinese medicine academic schools such as "qi monism, yuan qi, middle qi, root qi, and bud", forming the theoretical framework of his academic thought. In addition, through the case explanation, he also let the disciples of the base have a clear understanding of the medical theory of yin and yin disease melting cold and warm in one furnace, and the disciples grew rapidly. Under his clinical guidance, a large number of patients with advanced tumors and three-decay patients have been successfully treated. Regarding the yin disease, a typical example that Li Ke's disciples most talk about is a patient who suffers from the stubborn disease of "true winter and false fever", and every day his feet are so hot that he needs to be soaked in cold water, especially at night, and he is miserable, but he has been unable to cure it for many years. Li Ke adopted the method of "smuggling on the scorch", through hot medicine cold, only one dose of medicine to completely solve the old problem that pained patients for many years.
As the trainees of the base teacher-undertaken training class participated in the training and greatly improved their ability to diagnose and treat acute critical diseases and difficult and complicated diseases, the Gansu students of the training class had a strong response, and the Gansu Provincial Health Department established the Li Ke Traditional Chinese Medicine Academic School Gansu Provincial Inheritance Base in 2011, so that his academic ideas could be inherited in the northwest.
Li Ke once said publicly: As long as young people are willing to learn Chinese medicine, I am willing to teach. "He really poured out his heart, without reservation, there are some special cases, the prescription in the later period has been changing, and whatever he has realized, he will write it out and send it to his disciples."
Lu Ying told reporters that once, she and her master discussed pure Chinese medicine for tumors. She asked, "The Inner Classic" says that "righteousness exists within, and evil cannot be done," so can we transform evil qi by cultivating righteous qi? Li Ke said that it should be possible, on the basis of Fu Yuan Qi, Jian Zhong Qi, and Tong Yang Qi, when witnessing, it should also use the opposite of "eighteen antis, nineteen fears", phase stimulation, phase grinding, phase swing and insect drugs into the network to treat cancer, of which four groups of drugs are as follows: seaweed licorice soup, ginseng five spirit fat, raw half summer ginger, antispasmodic dispersion. After Lu Ying practiced, the clinical effect was very good. In this regard, Li Ke laughed and said that this can make up for the lack of 'attacking cancer soup' in my album. This is the spirit of Li Ke to live to learn from old age. In 2012, he told his disciples about his self-created Wusheng Drink, which he used to treat cancer and acute stroke.
For people: children of the people, bodhisattva heart
On the wall of the office of the Li Ke Traditional Chinese Medicine Academic Tradition Inheritance Base of The Southern Hospital hangs a calligraphy handwritten by Li Ke: "Establish great aspirations, suffer greatly, become a great cause, revive Chinese medicine, and give up who I am: the sons and daughters of the people, the heart of the bodhisattva, the hero's liver and gallbladder, and the thunderbolt means." ”
This is the motto that Li Wei specially inscribed when the base was first established to encourage his disciples. In Lu Ying's eyes, this is the portrayal of Master's own life.
Li Ke attaches great importance to medical ethics. He often taught his disciples: "If a person does not do well, he cannot become a good doctor." And he himself is a noble healer with a bodhisattva heart. "He gave himself to patients all his life, even in his old age, his hearing was not good, his eyesight was not good, as long as he felt that his body could still support him, he insisted on seeing patients." Moreover, he never distinguished between high and low in his heart, and treated all patients equally. Lu Ying said.
Another disciple of Li Ke, Guo Boxin, also mentioned in the preface to Li Ke's work that Li Ke was not only superbly talented and skilled in medicine, but also had noble medical ethics. When he was running around practicing medicine in poor mountainous areas, he encountered illiterate patients' families who could not take medicine according to the doctor's instructions, so he often waited at the side late at night, personally decocting and pouring medicine for the patient, until the patient was out of danger.
When working as an outpatient doctor at the local hospital in Lingshi, Li Ke often paid for the peasant patients to eat. In 1983, he led the founding of Lingshi County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and served as its president for 9 years. Many peasant patients go to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital to see a doctor, and when they have no money to take medicine, they will first record it in his account, but they really can't afford it, and this account will not be settled in the end.
After Li Ke became famous, more and more patients sought medical treatment, and they had to answer dozens of phone calls at home every day, sometimes chatting with a patient for more than an hour, and some patients from other places even came directly to the door, and he did not tire of receiving them.
Under the influence of Li Ke, his family is also full of understanding for the patient. Once, in order not to hinder Li Ke's lunch break, an apprentice stopped a patient from a foreign place, Li Ke's wife was very unhappy after seeing it, she sympathized with the patient, thinking that the patient ran far and wide to be blocked downstairs is an inhumane practice.
Lee is a doer and low-key. Compared to his resurrection skills, he did not have many opportunities to appear in the media. "Why is there so little coverage of him? This is because in his view, Chinese medicine does not practice medicine by propaganda. Those who take this road are to bury their heads in hard work, and this is our duty. Lu Ying said.
In a letter to Lü Ying, Li Ke once wrote: "We only need to do our best, do the right and wrong, and let future generations comment." Master's teachings also made Lü Ying understand that this path of practicing medicine from ancient Chinese medicine is not to understand medical principles by just working hard, "A person must maintain a quiet and pure heart in order to understand and apply the laws of heaven and earth and the laws of nature contained in the "Inner Classics", "Difficult Classics", "Benjing" and "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases"." Therefore, the second and third generations of disciples in the base rarely socialized, "when they have time, they concentrate on reading books and studying medicine."