Chapter 33 The road to medical study

Everyone knows that Chinese medicine is very difficult to learn. Its theoretical system is so complex, and its sects are so numerous, that newcomers may feel dizzy at first sight—where should I learn all this? However, Zhu Zhenheng's train of thought was clear. One must grasp the fundamentals of everything, and learning Chinese medicine is the same. Zhu Zhenheng is so smart, can he be ambiguous about this kind of thing?Absolutely not, he found the correct course of action almost immediately - to trace the source. He once again opened the almost torn "Huangdi Neijing Suwen".

This book, which he had studied carefully to treat his mother's illness when he was thirty years old, is now yellowed. However, the person who is reading this book is no longer the Zhu Zhenheng who was thirty years old. At this time, he had already undergone the orthodox Neo-Confucianism training under Xu Wenyi, and had laid a solid philosophical foundation. So when he opened "Plain Questions" again, he found that the words and sentences in it had never been clearer, and its theory had never been more thorough. Writing here, even I, who never dared to talk too much, couldn't help but add a sentence: Philosophy is really not a waste of time!

You must think, now it's done, Zhu Zhenheng has read through the medical scriptures, and finally became a great doctor this time!Is it time to tell the story of his cure? Don't be in a hurry, the reason why you don't have to be in a hurry is that Zhu Zhenheng himself is not in a hurry yet. Because Zhu Zhenheng discovered something. This matter puzzled him. That is why the doctors around don't read "Huangdi Neijing Suwen"? At that time, the prescriptions in books such as "Correcting Taiping Huimin Heji Bureau Prescriptions" were popular among doctors.

This is a bad problem left over from the Song Dynasty, because people in the Song Dynasty were very keen on collecting medical prescriptions, and even the emperors never tired of it. For example, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi collected more than a thousand prescriptions before he ascended the throne. It was even more convenient, and ordered the subordinates to donate all the ancestral prescriptions in the family. If you donate more, you will be rewarded for promotion. As a result, the Song Dynasty collected tens of thousands of prescriptions for every prescription book published. At that time, the meaning of the above was to think: it would be better to see a doctor simply, why make the theory so troublesome?Print more medical prescriptions. If you have any disease, you can check it inside, find the prescription, and take the medicine according to the prescription.

I thought of good intentions in my heart, but I never expected that it would be completely different in the future. These unsatisfactory doctors among the people simply save their troubles and don't learn much basic theory. When a patient comes in, he asks, "What's wrong?" The patient replied: "Doctor, I have back pain." Doctor: "My back hurts, okay, wait a minute." Then I opened the book, like looking up a dictionary, and started looking for prescriptions: "I found it, there are dozens of prescriptions, just come here, yes, just this one Fang, you can try it at home, if it’s not good, I’ll change it for you next time you come.”

Did you say that there is such a diagnosis? This bad habit has been spread among those quack doctors until the Yuan Dynasty. So what puzzled Zhu Zhenheng was that in this atmosphere, there was no one around to share with him the experience of studying "Plain Questions". Moreover, Zhu Zhenheng also deeply knows that he has the most fatal weakness. That is: too little clinical experience.You should find a teacher with rich clinical experience to take you for a ride. What should we do, Zhu Zhenheng? Zhu Zhenheng's gaze began to become deep, he looked at the mountains in the distance: it's time to set off!

The distant mountains appear vast and distant in the mist. Zhu Zhenheng packed his bags, bid farewell to his old mother and children, and embarked on an unknown journey. Traveling all over the world, looking for teachers from thousands of miles away, in order to seek the highest level of medical skills and the way of medicine in the heart. Therefore, people at that time would occasionally see a scholar trudging along a deserted country road or on a bustling town street. That is Zhu Zhenheng. In the deep mountains and cliffs, he was asking the herb pickers about the types of medicines; in the country doctor's house, he was asking the old man about the unique treatment methods.

Let us zoom out the angle of view. We can see that in the vast wilderness, Zhu Zhenheng is walking alone. Compared with the sky and the earth, his figure looks so small, but his belief in pursuing medicine is like the truth behind him. Like the rising sun, it is radiant and dazzling! Starting from his hometown Yiwu, Zhu Zhenheng went through Wuzhong (probably present Suzhou), Wanling (Xuancheng), Nanxu (Zhenjiang), Jianye (Nanjing) and other important towns at that time, and traveled all over the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River. After traveling for a period of time, Zhu Zhenheng found that the growth of his knowledge still could not meet the expectations in his heart, so he quickly adjusted his strategy.

To learn art, one must learn from the top masters of the world in order to reach the highest level. So, who are the top masters and masters in the world? When he started asking, many people immediately told him the same name——Luo Zhiti. Luo Zhiti, a heavyweight appeared.