Sun Simiao, The Story of Eliminating Illness for the People and Indifferent to Fame and Fortune (Youth Story Series)

Sun Simiao (581-682) was a Tang Dynasty physician. A native of Jingzhaohuayuan (present-day Yao County, Shaanxi Province). As a teenager, he was frail and sickly, so he began to study medicine. Later, he summarized the clinical experience and medical theories before the Tang Dynasty, collected medicinal prescriptions, acupuncture and other contents, and wrote two books, "Preparing for Emergencies and Thousand Golden Formulas" and "Thousand Golden Wings". He advocated medical ethics and attached importance to women and pediatric diseases. Create a dirty disease. Disease classification, with a new system. He has rich experience in the diagnosis and treatment of prevention, health maintenance, dietary therapy, acupuncture, medicine, etc., as well as the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in various clinical disciplines, and has made great contributions to medicine.

Today I will tell the story of Sun Simiao.

On this day, Sun Simiao, who was seventy years old, was concentrating on writing articles in his study. Suddenly, a middle-aged man rushed in and said excitedly, "Dr. Sun, I think you are here!" ”

Sun Simiao looked up and fixed his eyes on li laowu, who was on an errand in the county. As he invited people to sit down, he put down his pen and asked with concern: "What joy, is your father's sparrow blindness (night blindness) only good?" ”

Li Laowu replied: "My father's sparrow blindness, after your old man treated it with cattle and sheep liver, it was all fine in a few days, I am really grateful, but today I came to the house to give you a congratulations." To tell you a great happy event, the county official asked me to send you a message: the emperor sent an envoy to send you gold as a generous gift, and asked you to come to the capital to be a counselor. The envoy will arrive early tomorrow morning and will be welcomed at home. ”

Sun Simiao has been diligent and studious since childhood, and has been famous in medicine since he was in his 20s. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, he sent someone to ask him to be a "doctor of traditional Chinese studies", but he did not go to the hospital because of his illness. In the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin wanted to grant him an official position, but he did not accept it. This time it was Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi, who sent envoys to invite him to be a counselor. After Sun Simiao listened, he just smiled faintly.

At this time, a neighbor hurried in and said to Sun Simiao: "Yesterday I passed by Qingshi Village and saw Chen Ada by the way, he is still lying on the bed, and his thighs are moaning in pain. Listening to his family, he took a lot of medicine and put a lot of needles, but the condition still did not improve, but it became more and more serious, and he passed out in pain a few days ago, and his family wanted to ask you to go to the hospital, but the family was too poor to open the pot, and they were afraid that they could not afford it. ”

Sun Simiao listened and said, "Hurry, I'm tired of you showing me the way, let's leave immediately." ”

After hearing this, Li Laowu next to him hurriedly said: "Tomorrow, won't there still be envoys in the capital to invite you to enter the dynasty, besides, you are nearly ancient, Qingshi Village is one or two miles away, the road is rough, you are old, I'm afraid it won't work." ”

When Sun Simiao was young, he ran around to practice medicine for many years, and usually paid attention to practicing exercises, although he was already a septuagenarian, his body was still quite tough, and he said to Li Laowu while packing up the medicine box: "Life is the most precious, more precious than gold." Human life cannot be bought for how much money it takes. ”

After saying that, he carried the medicine box and followed the neighbor out the door.

Near noon, the two came to Qingshi Village and saw Chen Ada, a unconscious patient, in a cave that was about to collapse.

Sun Simiao could not rest and immediately began to diagnose and treat. In the middle of the night, Chen Ada finally woke up, and when he saw that the old man who treated me in front of him was Sun Simiao, he was surprised and moved, and wanted to sit up and thank you, but his left leg moved slightly, and he wanted to cut the same pain as a knife. Sun Simiao made the patient feel at ease in bed, and took out a golden needle to give Chen Adaza a painkiller. After the needle is drawn, the patient is still in pain. Sun Simiao chose another acupuncture point, which also had no effect. He followed the pain relief acupuncture points recorded in ancient medical books one stitch after another, all of which had no effect. He suddenly thought that in addition to the 365 acupuncture points recorded in the Fourteen Classics, there may be new acupuncture points that have not been discovered.

So he now looked for it on his own, trying it out. Then let the patient straighten his left leg, use his thumb to pinch the acupuncture point on the patient's leg one point and one inch, and keep asking: "Is it painful here?" Finally found a new acupuncture point, between the patient's forehead sweat, and then the face stretched, later, the patient said: "You this needle god, at that time I was numb, leg pain disappeared a lot, relaxed." He looked at the acupuncture point of the needle and asked, "What is this called acupuncture point, why has the previous doctor never pierced this acupuncture point?" ”

Sun Simiao smiled and said, "When you tried it just now, didn't you say: Ah--- is ---, just call it A is a cave." This method of pricking needles wherever the pain points are, has been passed down to the present, and it is called "A is a hole."