Chapter 273 "Li Shizhen is a bit unreliable!", Misleading Traditional Chinese Medicine for Four Hundred Years (3K)
Hearing the words in dialect, Zhu Lin showed a surprised expression and asked:
"What kind of fairy tale is this?"
Dialect said:
"If you tell me you don't believe it, the book classifies this story as a medical story related to traditional Chinese medicine."
Zhu Lin's curiosity was aroused, and she urged to the dialect:
"Then please tell me, what exactly is it like?"
While Fang Yan was frying Bai Ziren over low heat, he told the story about this medicinal material:
"The story was recorded by Li Shizhen in "Compendium of Materia Medica", but his story is also a reprint of the story in "Baopuzi" by Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty."
Zhu Lin nodded. She had heard of "Compendium of Materia Medica" and Li Shizhen, but she didn't know Ge Hong and "Baopuzi".
There was no way she could learn about Western medicine through memory.
She spent the first ten years of her life dancing, and basically all her knowledge about traditional Chinese medicine came from dialects.
Fang Yan continued:
"It is said that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a road in Zhongnan Mountain, which was the only way for merchant caravans to pass. One year, someone said that he saw a long-haired black monster in the mountain."
"This long-haired monster is very powerful. It is like a monkey in the mountains near Zhongnan Mountain. It walks among the treetops and cliffs as if it were on the ground. More than one person has seen it, so it makes the merchants and horse gangs who need to pass by here panic."
"As time passed, not many people dared to pass here. Even if they wanted to pass by, they would only dare to cross the mountain in groups. This news spread to the ears of the local county magistrate."
"The county magistrate suspected that someone was deliberately pretending to be a ghost, so he summoned many local hunters to prepare to go into the mountains to encircle and suppress this black-haired monster."
"Then they spent a few days and actually used a trap to catch this black-haired monster in a forest. They found out that it was actually a middle-aged woman."
"According to this woman, she was originally a maid of King Qin. After the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, she fled from the palace to Zhongnan Mountain. At that time, she was hungry and cold and had no food. One day she met an old man with white hair. The old man taught her how to starve. When she was thirsty, she ate the seeds of Platycladus orientalis, and when she was thirsty, she drank the juice of Platycladus orientalis. She had no other choice but to listen to the old man’s words.”
"At the beginning, I just felt it was bitter and hard to swallow. I had to bite the bullet and eat it in order to be full. But I didn't expect that after a while, I got used to the taste. I even felt that my mouth was full of sweetness and my tongue was filled with saliva. After eating more, she found that she would not be hungry for a long time, and even felt lighter. She did not feel the cold or heat in summer or winter, and she did not age. It was as if she had become an immortal. In this way, she was He lived in the mountains for more than two hundred years.”
"What happened next? What did the book say later?" Zhu Lin asked.
Dialect said:
"Then the news spread, and everyone rushed to eat Bai Ziren to seek longevity."
"What happens next?" Zhu Lin asked with raised eyebrows.
"Then it'll be gone." Fang Yan smiled and turned off the heat and started pouring the fried cypress kernels onto the plate.
Then get ready to stir-fry the next flavor of Chinese monkshood.
Zhu Lin looked at the steaming Bai Ziren and didn't think this thing could make people live longer. She said:
"Is this obviously a fairy tale? Li Shizhen is a bit unreliable..."
When Fang Yan heard the last sentence "Li Shizhen is a bit unreliable", he couldn't help laughing:
"Hahaha, your point of view is very critical, but I also think that Li Shizhen is indeed quite unreliable in some aspects."
The dialect is not nonsense, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" is highly praised.
However, the book mentions the conclusion that "one tael in ancient times can be used today for one penny." This is also the most criticized point in the traditional Chinese medicine community in later generations.
In fact, some Chinese medicine practitioners in the Qing Dynasty questioned his views on this unit.
Qian Tianlai, a researcher on Febrile Diseases in the Qing Dynasty, said in "Tracing the Origin of Febrile Diseases": "Li Shizhen's so-called differences between ancient and modern systems are that one or two in ancient times can be used for one coin today. This statement is not based on textual research, but is based on conjecture. If you use it accordingly, you will lose too little.”
The dosage of Coptis chinensis in Wuxiexin Decoction and Xiaoxianxiong Decoction was used as an example to refute this.
This shows that in the Qing Dynasty, some doctors had already thought about and questioned Li Shizhen's view on the conversion of measurement units.
But doubts remain doubts, but most people still believe him.
It was not until 1981 that the weights and measures instrument of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Da Sinong Bronze Quan, was unearthed. After comparison, it was found that one tael in the Eastern Han Dynasty was equal to 15.625 grams in modern times.
Li Shizhen's clinical application standard of only taking one-tenth of the original dosage of the prescription is obviously wrong.
This discovery also solved the mystery of ancient measurement, which was misled by Li Shizhen for four hundred years.
Mr. Li Ke, who developed the Extraordinary Heart-Rescuing Decoction, once said publicly that before the 1960s, he used a small dose of Sini plus ginseng decoction to rescue six people with severe heart failure according to Li Shizhen's standards, but only one person survived. The other five are dead.
The cause of death is all due to the failure of the middle qi, the earth does not subdue the fire, and the yang recovers and disperses.
The only person who was saved survived because of an accident in which he took medication against the doctor's instructions.
The patient was his friend's mother. She had suffered from pulmonary heart disease for 20 years and was hospitalized in critical condition. The hospital then asked her to take her home to prepare for the funeral.
When Mr. Li checked at that time, he found that the patient's whole body was cold, with only a slight warmth in his chest. He was unconscious, breathing heavily, and his heartbeat did not stop. His six pulses seemed to be present or absent, his blood pressure could not be measured, and he was incontinent. He only had Fuyang and Taixi pulses on his feet. , Taichong three parts have pulse.
At that time, he prescribed three doses of medicine. Because all five people had died before, he felt something was wrong, so he increased the price of the pills from three pills for one pill to one and a half for one pill.
At that time, the patient was critically ill, his friends and family were in chaos, and his daughter-in-law had to sew a shroud. In the rush, she boiled all three medicines into one dose, adding too little water and using high heat, and the soup was only half a catty.
At midnight that night, my daughter-in-law fed me a spoonful every ten minutes. I finished half a kilogram of medicine in forty minutes. I originally planned to send him away after drinking it. However, the patient gradually improved and asked my daughter-in-law about the lotus root starch she wanted to eat. Cookies, I was able to get out of bed and walk around the next day.
Mr. Li realized at that time that there was something wrong with what Li Shizhen said.
So he personally prepared the prescription and took it with his disciples to experiment with, starting from less to more. He drank it with several disciples for a day and a night, and felt the sensation at each time.
As a result, only one of the disciples named Zhang Han had a slight poisoning reaction, while the others were fine.
Later, in 1981, the Da Sinong Bronze Quan was unearthed, which indeed proved that Li Ke was right. It was Li Shizhen who made a mistake four hundred years ago. Such a mistake on his part is terrifying if you think about it carefully.
In the past four hundred years, because the basic effective dose of Zhongjing's theory could not be reached, serious diseases could not be treated, and Chinese medicine practitioners were accustomed to using light doses. Although this was stable and risk-free, it castrated a major feature of Zhongjing's scholarship.
Just like taking away the sword from the hands of a general, in the competition between the two major medical systems in modern times, it is because of this situation that Chinese medicine lost its emergency position and retreated to a vassal status.
So when Zhu Lin said that Li Shizhen was unreliable, he was not unfair at all.
It is also worth mentioning that the friend’s mother who was rescued lived for another nineteen years and died at the age of seventy-eight.
……
Next, Fang Yan was busy chatting with his wife.
After working hard for a while, I finally finished preparing all the medicinal materials.
At this time, he already regretted not picking up a few more medicines.
If the daughter-in-law fails to drink the medicine well and she takes another medicine, she will have to work at home again.
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Then Fang Yan started to cook the medicine again. By the time Fang Yan finished cooking the medicine, Zhu Lin had already started to yawn.
Then she said to the dialect:
"After chatting with you for a while, I feel better."
Fang Yan asked curiously:
"Are you no longer anxious? Are you no longer panicked?"
Zhu Lin nodded:
"Well, I'm not anxious at all, and my mood is much better."
Fang Yan reached out to her and patted his thigh, motioning for her to put it up:
"I'll take your pulse."
"Here." Zhu Lin put it up.
Fang Yan began to feel his wife's pulse.
Sure enough, he found that his pulse was much calmer, and he was surprised and said:
"It's true."
At this moment, I couldn't tell whether it was my own conversation or the two Changbai Mountain ginseng I had eaten at dinner.
Zhu Lin pointed to the Baiziren soup cooked in dialect and asked:
"Do you still want to drink that medicine?"
Fang Yan thought for a while and said:
"Let's see tomorrow morning. If it's normal tomorrow morning, I won't drink it."
Zhu Lin felt a little pity. She had been making medicine with Fang Yan for so long today. It was brewing wine, frying in a casserole, and steaming... It felt more troublesome than cooking. It took a long time to get it out. Such a little medicine, she said:
"But you have worked hard for so long."
Fang Yan knew his wife's mood, he said:
"I've been doing this for so long just to cure you. Now that you're better, there's no need to drink it. It's only three parts poisonous. If you're not sick, don't drink it."
Zhu Lin said:
"But the story says that eating Bai Ziren can lead to longevity."
Fang Yan smiled and said:
"You have said that Li Shizhen is unreliable, and the mythical stories he reproduced are not credible."
Zhu Lin was also amused when he heard this:
"Hahaha..."
Seeing his wife trembling with laughter, Fang Yan felt that the medicine he took tonight was not in vain. At least he could talk to his wife about her anxiety.
I accidentally became a psychiatrist.
"Okay, then I'll put the medicine in the refrigerator first. It's almost time." Fang Yan said.
Zhu Lin asked:
"Did you watch TV or take a shower?"
Fang Yan glanced at his watch. The programs on the TV station were almost over now. In the past, he only watched the ending. He was too lazy to watch it, so he said:
"No more, let's wash up and go back to bed."
Zhu Lin blushed and looked left and right. After making sure there was no one there, he said shyly:
"There is hot water in the kettle. I'll pour it for you to wash your face."
While Fang Yan was waiting to put the medicine in the refrigerator, Zhu Lin had already poured hot water into the basin.
At this moment, the compressor of the refrigerator made a working sound, reminding people outside that the medicine was a bit hot.
This habit was taught to him by Teacher Fang Yan in his previous life. He said that putting things in the refrigerator when they are hot does not use much more electricity. Instead, he puts things in after they have cooled down, giving space for bacteria to breed.
When Fang Yan heard the sound of the compressor, he remembered that domestic refrigerator compressors were not good at this time, but he had no plans to come up with it. For the sake of the future generations of the Fang family, he would just work hard on the refrigerator compressor first.
I'm going to the bedroom with my wife right away. I can't wait for the medicine to cool down first, right?
How can a newly married young man have such great determination?
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