The classic story of Zhang Zhongjing
Zhang Zhongjing (about 15-154 AD-about 215-219 AD) was born in Nieyang County, Nanyang, Eastern Han Dynasty (now Zhangzhai Village, Gedong Town, dengzhou city City, Henan Province). A famous physician at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was honored as a medical sage by later generations. The following is a life story about Zhang Zhongjing. Welcome to read it!
Nanyang Zhang Zhongjing was a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is not only rigorous in his academic attitude, but also noble in medical ethics. He has been treating diseases for the people all his life and is deeply loved by the people. People respected him as a medical sage, and built a "medical shrine" in the east of Nanyang City to commemorate him. There are many stories about him among the people.
Visiting a doctor in Xiangyang
When Zhang Zhongjing was young, he became famous in medicine. But he is still diligent and studious, visiting famous doctors everywhere and asking for advice. This year, Zhang Zhongjing's younger brother wanted to go out to do business. When he left, he said, "Brother, I'm going away this time. Please show me if there are any serious symptoms in the future!"
Brother felt his pulse and said, "I'm afraid you'll get a sore on your back next year!"
the younger brother said in surprise, "ouch! I often hear you say that the sore is afraid of fame, and the disease is afraid of anonymity. I have a sore on the back of the tower. I can't see it with my eyes and I can't touch it with my hands. How can I cure it? "
Zhang Zhongjing said, "Don't be afraid! I'll give you a prescription. At that time, take this medicine and move the sore to the soft meat of your ass. In the future, whoever can recognize back sores will be treated. If anyone is cured, give me a letter. " My brother left safely.
Zhang Zhongjing's younger brother went to Hubei to do business for a year. The next year in Xiangyang, I suddenly felt pain in my back, so I took the medicine according to my brother's prescription. In a few days, the sore really broke out from the ass. He begged all the doctors in Xiangyang, but this one said it was a boil and that one said it was a sore. Later, there was a famous doctor "Wang Shenxian" in Tongji Pharmacy. He smiled and said,
"This was a sore on the back! Who moved it to the ass? "
Answer: "My brother moved it".
Wang Shenxian said, "Since he can move, he can certainly be cured!"
Zhang Zhongjing's younger brother said, "He's far away in Nanyang, and he's thirsty for water. I still hope that Mr. Wang will work hard to cure it! "
Wang Shenxian made a prescription at once. Zhang Zhongjing's younger brother took medicine and put on some plasters. Soon, the sore healed, and he immediately wrote a letter to his brother. Zhang Zhongjing was very happy when he received the letter. He immediately prepared the plate fee, packed his bags and walked to Xiangyang.
Early this morning, in front of the gate of Tongji Pharmacy in Xiangyang, a young man stood with luggage and an umbrella in his hand. He begged the housekeeper, "I'm from Henan, and my life is uncertain. Please take me in as a buddy!"
Wang Shenxian heard the sound and walked out of the drugstore. Seeing that the young man was young and neat, he said, "All right! I'm short of people here, so I'll accept you as a fellow who cooks medicinal materials! " This epigenetic is Zhang Zhongjing.
Since then, Zhang Zhongjing has lived in Tongji Pharmacy. He is smart, studious and proficient in pharmacology. He is not only familiar with the properties of various Chinese herbal medicines, but also processes them quickly and well. In a few days, he was replaced by Wang Shenxian as a medicine store. He is in charge of medicine and medical treatment. People in the shop have a headache and fever, and they also come to see him for treatment. Everyone praises him as Mr. Er!
Seeing that Mr. Er really has two hands, Wang Shenxian asked him to be his helper. Wang Shenxian caressed the pulse to see a doctor, and he copied the medicine list; Fairy Wang encountered a difficult disease, felt his pulse and then asked him to feel it, so that he could know where the disease was and how to treat it. Zhang Zhongjing kept these medical theories in his heart and wrote them in his notebook, so he spent a year.
On this day, an old man riding a donkey came to the drugstore in a hurry and said that his son was suffering from acute symptoms, so he invited him to visit the immortal Wang.
about half an hour later, the old man took back a prescription and went to the drugstore to get the medicine. When Zhang Zhongjing saw that there was poison Garcinia cambogia in the prescription, he knew that there were insects in the patient's stomach. This medicine was used to treat insects. But seeing that Garcinia Garcinia only opened five dollars, he hesitated, then grabbed the medicine and called it away. Soon, Wang Shenxian came back. When he got off the donkey, he was going to have a rest in the backyard. Zhang Zhongjing hurried forward and said, "Take care, sir! The patient will come again soon! "
Wang Shenxian said in surprise, "The patient is well, so what are you doing?"
Zhang Zhongjing said, "I beg your pardon. Garcinia cambogia can poison insects in the human body, so it takes one or two doses. Sir, for only five dollars, you can only stun the insect poison, and when it wakes up, it will be even more vicious. It doesn't work to use drugs again, I'm afraid the patient's life is still in danger! "
Wang Shenxian was dubious when he heard this. Suddenly, the old man ran headlong and shouted, "Mr. Wang! Great! My son is in terrible pain, please go and have a look! "
Wang Shen-xian suddenly panicked, so anxious that a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He turned left and right in the shop and dared not go. Zhang Zhongjing looked at it and smiled and said, "Sir, whether it is good or bad, the students take the liberty and are willing to go for Mr.!" I rode away on a donkey now.
At this time, the patient rolled on the ground in pain. Zhang Zhongjing knew at a glance that it was a bug at work. I saw him unhurriedly, took out a three-inch silver needle, told the patient to take off his clothes, look at the acupoints, twist his fingers and stab the worm in the head.
the head of the worm was stabbed and struggled desperately. I only heard the patient faint with a whoop of pain. The old man was frightened to disgrace.
Zhang Zhongjing laughed and said, "Don't be afraid, the insect has been stabbed to death!" " Then the patient groaned twice and woke up.
Zhang Zhongjing prescribed laxatives for patients to eat. In an instant, a ruler excreted the long worm, and the patient was completely cured.
When Wang Shenxian knew this, he was surprised and delighted. He asked, "Who are you, Sir?" Zhang Zhongjing said: "My name is Zhang Mingji, and I am here to study medicine!"
Wang Shenxian said, "Ouch, that's not worth it!" Give a banquet at once.
Later, Zhang Zhongjing returned to Nanyang, and the two also interacted with each other and became good friends in medicine.
Prescribing the medicine for the disease
Zhang Zhongjing is famous in medicine. He also treats his peers with an open mind and loses no time to learn from other doctors.
in the past, some practitioners only passed on their medical skills to their own children and grandchildren, but generally kept them secret. At that time, there was a famous doctor named Shen Huai in Nanyang, who was over seventy years old and had no children. All day long, he was disappointed that there was no successor, he couldn't eat, he couldn't sleep, and he slowly became ill with worry.
The local doctors all shrank back when they came to see Shen Huai. No one can see the old man's illness well. It's getting heavier. When Zhang Zhongjing found out, he came to Shen Huai's house.
Zhang Zhongjing looked at his illness, and he was diagnosed as a disease caused by anxiety. He immediately prescribed a prescription, in which one catty of whole grain flour was used, eggs were made into balls, and pearl sand was coated on the outside, so that the patient could have a meal.
Shen Huai is not amused when he knows! He ordered his family to hang the pill made of whole grain noodles under the eaves, and everyone pointed at it to ridicule Zhang Zhongjing.
When relatives came to see him, he smiled and said, "Look! This is a prescription given to me by Zhang Zhongjing. Who has ever seen whole grains cure diseases? Joke! Joke! "
When his friend came to see him, he smiled and said, "Look! This is a prescription given to me by Zhang Zhongjing. Who can eat five Jin of noodles in one meal? It's funny! Funny! "
When a fellow doctor came to see him, he smiled and said, "Look! This is a prescription given to me by Zhang Zhongjing. I've been sick for decades, but I've never heard of it, hee hee! Hey! " He just wanted to make it ridiculous, put all his worries behind him, and got sick unconsciously.
At this moment, Zhang Zhongjing came to visit him and said, "Congratulations on your recovery! The students dared to play tricks in front of Luban. " When Shen Huai heard this, he suddenly realized that he was admired and ashamed. Zhang Zhongjing went on to say, "Sir, what we do as a doctor is to benefit the people, get rid of illness and prolong life. Mr. Zhang has no children. Aren't we all your children?" Why worry about no successor? "
when Shen Huai heard this, he felt very reasonable and was deeply moved. Since then, I have taught all my medical records to Zhang Zhongjing and other young doctors.
Zhang Zhongjing and jiaozi
Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha. When he retired from his old age, it was just in time for the winter, when the wind was biting and the snow was falling. On the edge of the Baihe River, Zhang Zhongjing saw many homeless people with sallow complexion and thin clothes. Because of the cold, their ears were frozen and rotten, and their hearts were very uncomfortable.
After returning home, because Zhang Zhongjing's reputation has long been famous all over the world, many people came to see a doctor. Zhang Zhongjing is responsive and busy all day, but although many people come to see a doctor, Zhang Zhongjing still misses those who have frozen rotten ears.
After research, he developed a therapeutic prescription that can keep out the cold, which is called "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction".
He asked his disciples to build a shed in an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang, and put it on a big pot to give medicine to the poor. The opening day was the winter solstice, and the medicine given was "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction".
At first, the soup for dispelling cold and jiao 'er was actually to boil mutton, pepper and some medicines for dispelling cold in a pot, take it out and chop it up when it is cooked, wrap it in a dough bag to look like an ear, then put it in a pot, and cook the dough wrapped with stuffing with the original soup.
After the dough bag is wrapped, it looks like an ear, and because its function is to prevent the ear from freezing and rotting, Zhang Zhongjing named it Jiaoer.
Zhang Zhongjing asked his disciples to give each poor person a bowl of soup and two "jiao 'er". People ate the "jiao 'er" and drank the soup, and their whole bodies were warm and their ears were hot. No one had frostbite on their ears any more.
When Zhang Zhongjing worked in Changsha, he often treated the people in peacetime, and was very loved by the masses. After retirement, the people of Changsha send representatives to visit their hometown every year.
as the saying goes, doctors can't cure their own diseases. Zhang Zhongjing is also a human being, not a god.
One year, Zhang Zhongjing was ill, and he knew that the lamp oil of life was about to burn out.
People who came to visit him in Changsha said that there was a place with good geomantic omen in Changsha, and they wanted Zhang Zhongjing to settle down there after a hundred years, but people in Nanyang quit, and the two sides quarreled.
Zhang Zhongjing said: After eating Changsha water, I will never forget the feelings of my parents in Changsha. Born in Nanyang, I don't forget my hometown. After I die, you will carry my coffin from Nanyang to Changsha, and bury me where the spiritual rope breaks.
In the winter of that year, Zhang Zhongjing drove the crane to the west. The day of death happens to be the winter solstice.
When the funeral procession went to the place where Zhang Zhongjing gave everyone a soup to dispel cold and charming ears, the coffin rope suddenly broke.
As instructed by Zhang Zhongjing, everyone struck the tomb, lowered the coffin and filled the grave on the spot. The people of the two places, one for you and one for me, kept flowing, built Zhang Zhongjing's grave greatly, and built a temple for him in front of it. This is now the medical shrine.
Zhang Zhongjing died on the winter solstice, and also made a soup for everyone to get rid of cold and charming ears. In order to commemorate him, everyone has to pack a jiaozi meal on the winter solstice, and they all say that eating jiaozi on the winter solstice will not freeze their ears in winter.
"Quhan Jiaoer Decoction" is rarely eaten now, but after years of erosion, the custom of eating jiaozi on the winter solstice has been passed down. And the types and shapes of jiaozi have been greatly improved. Now, where there are China people, there are jiaozi, and jiaozi has become the representative food for family reunion, but the name of Zhang Zhongjing is rarely mentioned.
Chili peppers are native to tropical areas of Central and South America, and the country of origin is Mexico. At the end of 15th century, after Columbus discovered America, he brought pepper back to Europe and spread it to other parts of the world. It was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, so there was no pepper in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. It doesn't matter if everyone looks at it as a story, but be clear in your heart.
the origin of "Tang"
during Zhang Zhongjing's tenure as Changsha satrap, the epidemic was prevalent, and many poor people came here to seek medical treatment. Contrary to the official style of feudal palace officials, he always gave a warm reception to those who came to seek medical treatment, made careful diagnosis and treatment, and never refused. At first, he treated people in the backyard or in his own home after handling official duties; Later, because more and more people came to treat patients, he was overwhelmed, so he simply moved the clinic to the lobby of Changsha and sat in the hall for treatment in public, setting a precedent for famous doctors to sit in the lobby. His move was passed down as an eternal story.
Later, in order to remember Zhang Zhongjing, people called doctors sitting in pharmacies "sitting doctors". These doctors also named their own pharmacy "XX Tang Pharmacy", which is the origin of Chinese medicine stores called "Tang".
Zhang Zhongjing invents artificial respiration
Zhang Zhongjing's medical methods are brilliant, which are not only reflected in the Six Arguments, but also the invention of some rescue methods, including artificial respiration, which is now widely known. It was not spread from abroad, but an ancient medical method in China. However, due to the restriction of etiquette in feudal society, this technology was lost.
One day, when Zhang Zhongjing went out to see someone else, he happened to pass by a clinic. There was a group of people at the door, and there was still a man lying underground at the door, next to his relatives crying. The doctor stood by and there was nothing he could do. He was afraid of being angry with the patient's family and hid behind the door and trembled.
Zhang Zhongjing came forward to find out about the situation. It turned out that the "deceased" was in conflict with his family. In a moment of anger, he couldn't get over it. He hanged himself with a foot of hemp rope, and when the bench fell, he shocked his family. Then he quickly got the man down. When he saw that his face was purple, he had no breathing and could not move, so he carried him to yiguang to find a doctor. But when the doctor saw it, it was all out of breath and he was helpless. The grief-stricken family members of the "deceased" were angry at the incompetence of the doctor, and surrounded yiguang, asking the doctor to accompany them.
Zhang Zhongjing looked at the situation of the "deceased", and then took a pulse check. He knew that it was not long before he hanged himself, so there should be a possibility of saving him. So I loudly ordered everyone to help, carry the patient to the board, and then cover the quilt to keep warm. One person raised his arm, one person massaged his chest, and Zhang Zhongjing held the chest and abdomen of the "deceased" with his own hands and pressed rhythmically.
With the rise and fall of the arm, the "dead man" came alive with a trembling under the pressure! Zhang Zhongjing ordered not to stop the action. After doing this for dozens of times, the patient finally woke up, and the surrounding family members cried with the dead, and then kept kowtowing to Zhang Zhongjing to thank him. This was the original artificial assisted breathing method.