It was once the antidote to "the many living" and the poison that "killed countless people".
It was originally a secret recipe, and the great writer Su Dongpo broke his oath and lifted its veil.
It debuted on the stage of history, C, and its reputation was dry for a while; in the end, it left the stage and fell silent.
It is—The Holy Son, a prescription for the disease.
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The origin of Saint Sanzi is a mystery, and I don't know what happened.
Its origin can only start from the Northern Song Dynasty's great literary hero Su Dongpo.
In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), the 45-year-old Su Dongpo, who was imprisoned for the "Wutai Poetry Case", was almost killed, because Song Shenzong spared talent, he was spared the death penalty and demoted to Huangzhou and served as the deputy envoy of the Huangzhou regiment.
The deputy envoy of the regimental training is a military attaché position, a military officer. It is not uncommon for a literati to be a military attaché, and in the Song Dynasty, this "deputy envoy of regimental training" was a position for placing degraded officials, with no authority, and belonged to the fourth rank of the tenth rank of scattered officials.
The poem thought that he was slandering, and was arrested and sent to Taiwan prison, wanting to put him to death. Exercise for a long time and not decide. Emperor Shenzong had no mercy on him and placed him as a deputy envoy of the Huangzhou Regiment. Shi and Tian Father Ye Lao, from the creek and the mountain, built a room on the east slope, and called themselves "East Slope Residents".
- "The Biography of Song Shi Su Shi"
Su Dongpo was also involved in Buddhism, Taoism, and medicine. We simply say "medicine."
Su Dongpo is very careful in "medicine", and he likes to collect the recipes that are circulated or hidden among folk, Taoist, and Buddhist families. The famous "Su Xueshi Fang" is the Chinese medicine recipe he collected. Later, some people combined it with Shen Kuo's "Good Recipe" into "Su Shen Liang Fang". Now, you can see it. In addition, it is worth saying that Su Dongpo is more enthusiastic about the collection and trial of longevity prescriptions and methods, and he has tried a lot of it himself, and he often recommends it to relatives and friends. However, many times it is the beginning of the matter, the end of the shallow taste. Because of this hobby, he made many friends with many people in this area. Chaogu is one he met when he was in his hometown in Meizhou, Sichuan.
From the third year of Yuanfeng (1080) to the sixth year (1083), Su Dongpo stayed in Huangzhou for more than four years, when Huangzhou was plagued by epidemics for many years.
It is a bit of a coincidence that Huangzhou, Huanggang, Hubei Province, is also an epidemic area of new crown pneumonia.
In September of the fifth year of Chaogu Yuanfeng, he came from Meizhou to visit Su Shi in Huang, and did not leave until the first month of the following year. During this period, Chaogu used the secret recipe hidden in it to treat many people infected with the plague. Su Dongpo looked in his eyes and asked for directions from the Chao clan. The secret recipe, the secret is not passed on is the secret recipe. ChaoGu regarded it as the most precious treasure, and even his own son was not willing to pass it on, but he could not help Su Shi's soft and hard bubbles, and he had to teach it to him.
This square is the holy sanzi square.
Chaogu passed on the Fangzi to Su Dongpo, which was conditional.
He and Su Dongpo agreed: FangZi can be used, but it cannot be passed on.
Su Dongpo swore an oath to the river and quickly agreed.
Its party did not know where to go, but it came from the Meishan people's nest Jungu. Gu Duoxue, good recipe secret, unfortunately this party does not pass on its son. Yu struggled to get it. Who lives in Huangzhou, than the epidemic of the year, combined with this medicine scattered, the number of lives is innumerable. The nest was originally granted to Yu, about not passed on to others, referring to the river as an alliance.
- Su Shi, "Saint Sanzi Shu"
However, Su Dongpo still reneged on his word, and turned around and told Pang Anshi about Fangzi. Pang Anshi was a famous doctor in Huangzhou Pushui (present-day Huanggang, Hubei), su Dongpo became acquainted with him due to illness, and later often consulted with him for medical treatment, and the two became very good friends. Su Dongpo passed on Fangzi to Pang in the hope that through him, Fangzi would be passed on and benefit future generations. Pang Anshi was indeed very famous as a doctor, and his descendants gave him the reputation of "King of Medicine in the Northern Song Dynasty".
Yu steals the pass, but it is to spread the water man Pang Jun'an. An Shi is known to the world as a good doctor, and he is good at writing books, and he wants to pass them on to the future, so he gives it, and also makes the name of the king immortal with this party.
I don't know, how does Chaogu feel after he knows it? unknown. However, Su Dongpo's worldly mind is really admirable. Reneging on words is a subsection. In fact, more renegade things are still to come- writing books and sayings, which have been widely spread to the world. This is an afterthought, and it will be said later. First of all, another feat of Su Dongpo and Saint Sanzi.
In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1089), Su Dongpo was appointed as the Zhizhou of Hangzhou, which was the second time that Su Dongpo came to Hangzhou to serve. The first time I came, I was 36 years old and served as a deputy judge in Hangzhou; this time I was 54 years old, serving as a leader in Hangzhou Zhizhou. Three years of time in Hangzhou is the highlight of Su Dongpo's life, and it is also one of the few beautiful times in his life. Now we can still see the three pools of the moon, Su Causeway Spring Dawn, everyone is familiar with the "want to put the West Lake than the West, light makeup is always appropriate" ... . However, real life is not the landscape painting we imagine. Hangzhou, where "there is heaven on the top and Suzhou and Hangzhou on the bottom", also has its suffering.
West Lake in Hangzhou
Three pools of the moon
In the spring of the second year when Su Dongpo came to Hangzhou, the plague in Hangzhou began to circulate and lasted until the summer of the following year. Saint Sanzi, the killer weapon that Su Dongpo took out, appeared in this way. He ordered people to send saints to cure the epidemic, and also mobilized some monks and believers in some temples to practice medicine, and later founded the "Anle Fang" to administer medicine, which saved more than a thousand people.
At this time, it had been 8 years since Su Dongpo asked for directions in Chaogu.
The main disease of "Saint Sanzi" is not the same. Last spring, the people of Hangzhou fell ill, and the number of people who got this medicine was innumerable. All the drugs used are medium and low-quality medicines, and every thousand dollars is counted as a thousand servings, and the benefits have reached a thousand people.
--Su Shi, "Shengsanzi Hou Prologue"
As mentioned earlier, when Su Dongpo passed on Fangzi to Pang An, he hoped that he would be able to "write a book and pass it on" and spread it more widely through his medical name.
Pang Anshi did it. In 1099, he wrote the Treatise on the General Disease of Typhoid Fever, in which Saint Sanzi Fang was included. Su Dongpo's letter is prefaced.
The year 1099 was the last of Pang Anshi's life.
The Treatise on the General Disease of Typhoid Fever was published in 1100. In this year, Song Zhezong fell ill and died, and Song Huizong succeeded to the throne. Su Dongpo was pardoned from Danzhou, Hainan. In this year, Su Dongpo wrote "Saint Sanzi Fang", and there was only one Side of Shengshan Zi in the book. This year is also the last year of Su Dongpo's life.
The book "Shengshan Zi Fang" is a song dynasty engraving in the library of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and a manuscript of the Zhao clan of the old mountain tower. I went to see it 10 years ago when I was a master's student. Now, most of the library's ancient books have scanned electronic files and no longer let the original books be read.
Saint Sanzi is the cure for plague, but what kind of plague? Su Dongpo said:
"Those who use the Holy Scattered Son, everything is not asked, the two senses of yin and yang, or the man and woman are in exchange, the shape is dangerous, even drinking several doses, and sweating and breathing, eating gradually, the gods are complete, not to mention the use of medicines, even taking the fistula." The rest of the light, the heart is slightly sweaty, and it is unharmed. The medicinal properties are small and hot, and the impotence is crazy, and the entrance will feel cool, and this medicine can not be rationalized and questioned. If the epidemic is epidemic, do not ask the old and the young, do not ask the old and the young, boil a pot, drink a lamp, then the time is not in. If you live in peace and take it on an empty stomach, you will eat fast and beautiful, and you will not be born with all diseases, and you will have the tools of the world and the treasure of the Wei family. "
"Everything is not asked", "can not be common sense and cross-examination", "do not ask the old and the young to be good" to discuss the party, it is really people... Speechless...
Can there be a divine formula of "not asking anything" in the world, any epidemic can be cured, and if there is nothing to drink, you can still live without a disease? And so the curse was sown.
In fact, Pang Anshi will include Fang Hesu Dongpo's theory in the "Treatise on the General Disease of Typhoid Fever". But one thing, it is worth noting, that Pang's party is placed under the "cold plague" article, and Pang's has a clear understanding of the treatment of cold plague by "Saint Sanzi". But unfortunately, he did not say it explicitly.
The Word spread. Its use is very popular.
Saint Sanzi Fang, who was highly respected by Su Dongpo, had repeated accidents in the application of posterity. Ye Mengde recorded in the "Summer Retreat Record":
"During the reign of Emperor Xuanhe (Emperor Huizong of Song), this medicine (Shengshanzi) flourished in the Jingshi, and the students believed in Yu Du, killing countless people and destroying them."
In the Song Dynasty Chen Wuxuan's "Theory of Three Causes and One Disease Evidence", and the Ming Dynasty physician Yu Ben's "Continuation of Medicine: Volume III: Shengshanzi Fang", both mention the tragic situation of the Yongjia plague epidemic at the end of the Song Dynasty, and the victims of The Shengshanzi were "innumerable" and "invincible". In addition, Yu Ben also clearly recorded an application of Shengshan Zifang in the Ming Dynasty:
"In the ugly year of Hongzhi, Wuzhong plagued the great works, Wu Yi ordered Sun Pan, and ordered the healers to cultivate the holy scattered sons all over the streets of Shi, and published them in their formula, and the sick took it, and there was no life."
Ten lifetimes, too tragic.
The former "countless living people" recipe for the world has become a "countless murderer" handmaiden. Why? Someone pointed the finger at Su Dongpo. Su Dongpo's inheritance and promotion of the Shengshanzi fang, first of all, should be worthy of affirmation of the fly in the ointment is that he has excessive respect for the Shengshanzi fang, although there is a cure but it is not clear, and it is even in an arbitrary way of "everything does not ask", which misleads people's understanding of the shengshanzifang. However, this is also not the root of the problem.
The poison of medicine is actually due to medicine, not to the prescription medicine itself. Although there are certain problems in Su Dongpo's account, the biggest problem is the person who uses the party. "Too student" and "Wu Yiling Sun Pan" are not doctors, and they actually use them hard when the epidemic is epidemic.
After a few accidents, Saint Sanzifang was abandoned.
Saint Sanzi Fang, today seems nothing special. Look at its composition:
Galangal (stir-fried in sesame oil), Bai Shu (de-reed), White Peony (peeled), Xue Ben (peeled), White Poria (peeled), Chai Hu (de-reed), Ephedra (de-rooted), Windproof (de-reed), Ze Yi (peeled whiskers), Pig Lily (peeled), Herbs (de-branched soil), Fine spices (de-seedling), Evodia (soup washed seven times), Du huo (de-reed), Cang Shu (de-blackened, rice swill water immersion), Citrus shell (peeled, bran stir-fried), Magnolia (de-skinned, ginger juice, seared), Half Summer (soup washed seven times, ginger juice), Zhizi (stir-fried, Peeled umbilical tip), stone calamus (avoid ironware)
Twenty-two flavors of the above half, licorice root (hot, one or two), grass cardamom kernel (ten, peeled) and so on, are used to "cure typhoid fever when doing epidemic boils, wind temperature, damp temperature, everything is not asked, yin and yang two senses, the surface is not distinguished, or external heat and internal cold, or internal heat and external cold, the head and waist spine are urgent pain, fever and cold, limb pain is heavy, vomiting, wheezing cough, nasal congestion is heavy and cold wounds in the stomach, chest is full of stuffiness, swelling and pain in the ribs, under the heart, cold hands and feet, intestinal sound and diarrhea, water valley does not disappear, when sweating, urinating is unfavorable, and it is advisable to take it." "
Fangzhong ephedra, fine spices, appendages, Wu Yun, galangal Wenyang scattered cold; cangshu, magnolia, herbs, half summer, stone calamus, grass cardamom dry and wet, with poria, pig lily, Ze diarrhea wet, Bai Shu Jian spleen wet, windproof, gao ben, single life with wind to win the wet; chai hu, citrus shell, peony, licorice combined into four reverse dispersion, smooth air machine.
With the test of the party, it is not difficult to see that this party is designed for the evil of cold and humidity. Although we cannot know from the records what kind of epidemic was prevalent in Huangzhou and Hangzhou at that time, it is reasonable to say that it was a cold and wet epidemic. If this hot and dry medicine is used to treat warm blight, how can it not be a scourge?
Su Dongpo said, "The medicinal properties are small and hot, and the yang poison is crazy, and the entrance feels cool." Such a warm medicine, used in patients such as impotence and madness, will it be cool? The consequences are severe.
As early as the Song Dynasty, the physician Chen Wuxue said that Su Dongpo was talking about the shortcomings. He said in the Treatise on the Evidence of the Three Causes of One Disease, Volume VI:
"Xin Wei Nian, Yongjia plague, the number of victims is innumerable, often when the cold epidemic is epidemic, its medicine is even, or the unknown square soil is biased, and it cannot be examined." Dongpo is said to be the same as Sanjianshan, and everything is not asked, it seems too impersonal. "
Chen also further specified that Saint Sanzi was for the treatment of cold disease, and stressed that in the diagnosis and treatment of epidemic diseases, it is necessary to distinguish between cold and warm diseases. Unfortunately, it did not attract the attention of those who came after him.
In the Ming Dynasty, Yu Ben made a further analysis of the cold and wet environment of Huangzhou, where Su Dongpo was at that time, in the "Theory of Continuing Medicine", emphasizing the importance of distinguishing the yin and yang evidence, believing that if the yin and yang diseases were not distinguished, they would be treated universally, and killing people would be beneficial to the sword.
Zhang Fengkui also pointed out in the "Supplement to the Complete Book of Leaf Commentaries on Injuries and Summers": The epidemic is often diseased in the year when the golden water is not contained, and the cold epidemic of the Holy Scattered Sons is set up by the wet side, and the people who die in the years of Yongjia and Xuanhe are because they are mistakenly applied to the warm epidemic with the cold epidemic.
In addition, there are also doctors such as You Zaijing, Wu Jutong, Wang Puzhuang, and Lu Maoxiu who analyze the causes from the perspective of five luck and six qi. The luck environment is the external condition for the occurrence and epidemic of epidemics. Some of them have been analyzed from traditional luck and some have been discussed from the "Great Si Tian". The general idea can be summarized as: the epidemic is cold, warm, hot, wet, dry, etc., and the luck environment is different, and the epidemic diseases brought about are different. The effectiveness and saving of people by the Holy Scattered Son is to cure the cold (wet) disease with the right one; ineffective and harmful is to use the wrong use to cure the "warm" disease.
The reason for the saint's transformation from "countless living people" to "killing countless people" and "ten lifeless" was also revealed.
Fang Zi is not faulty, but it is misused!
P.S. (1) The different books contained in the Holy Scattered Sons are not the same. The 22 flavors of medicine contained in the Song carved version of the "Shengshan Zi Fang", "Three Causes of Extreme One Disease Evidence", and "Theory of the General Illness of Typhoid Fever" (containing "Wu Shu" or "Cang Shu") are the same; while the medicine contained in the "Su Shen Liang Fang" is 20 flavors, less "Wu Zhu Yu" and "Cang Shu"; Qian Zeng's "Reading Minqiu Ji" records that the Sheng San Zi Fang is only 28 flavors; the "Golden Wings" contains no white art, half summer, but more cohosh, Qiang Huo, Sichuan Qian, and Bai Zhi. These different accounts may have been appropriately adapted by later generations in the application process. (2) This article mainly refers to my article "Nirvana and Each Family of Saint Sanzi Fang" published in World Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2013.