"Medicine King" Sun Simiao learned herbal medicine from Shangu

"Medicine King" Sun Simiao learned herbal medicine from Shangu

Tang Taizong Li Shimin once fell ill, and the doctors did not have a good plan, so Emperor Taizong passed on the holy will to summon the medicine king Sun Simiao into the palace to see the driver. Sun Simiao entered the palace to diagnose Tang Taizong's pulse, prescribed a prescription, went down with one dose, did not see any improvement, so he took another dose, which still did not work. Although Tang Taizong was also anxious, he did not show the intention of blaming him, but just asked him to go home first and think about it carefully and come up with a treatment plan as soon as possible.

Although the emperor's grace was vast, Sun Simiao was really unhappy in his heart. After walking for half a day, Sun Simiao came to the foot of a mountain, and he was thirsty and tired, and he asked the mountain people for water to drink. This mountain family has only two sisters, and they make a living by selling medicinal herbs. They were very enthusiastic about the distant guest, and the sister made a bowl of golden flower tea for him with a yellow flower, and the sister made a bowl of silver flower tea for him with white flowers. Looking at the umami and fragrant tea, Sun Simiao took a sip of everything, felt that the taste was sweet and light, could quench thirst and heat, and asked: "These two kinds of flowers can be medicated, right?" After the two sisters listened, they laughed and leaned forward and backward. The sister explained: "These two flowers are actually the same kind of medicine, the flowers are white when they first bloom, and gradually turn yellow when they bloom, so they are called honeysuckle." Then he said, "Don't say it's you, maybe even Sun Simiao probably doesn't recognize this medicine here, you know, he lost face in front of the current Saint Shang this time." This is because a few days ago we went into the city to sell medicine, and those hateful eunuchs took away all our medicines, but only gave a little money, and we were angry, so we deceived them with fake drugs, so Sun Simiao could not cure the holy disease even if he had the ability. Sun Simiao listened to it, suddenly realized, and immediately revealed his identity, decided to worship the two mountain girls as teachers, put down the shelf, and humbly learned the methods and experience of medicine collection and medicine with them, so as to understand the medicinal properties and situation of various local medicines as soon as possible. After completing his studies, he collected some fresh herbs and returned to the palace, and only took the medicine to cure Tang Taizong's illness. Emperor Taizong of Tang also accepted his advice, stipulating to the eunuchs that the listing and trading must be fair, and named Sun Simiao the "King of Medicine".

Later, the "Medicine King" took honeysuckle as the "king", and licorice, raw land, and orange stem as the "subject", and formulated the "sweet orange soup" formula. To this day, when all Chinese medicine practitioners prescribe "sweet orange soup", they will have infinite reverence for the "medicine king" Sun Simiao's humble and studious sentiments.