Chapter 39 postscript

One hundred and twenty-nine years after Zhu Danxi's death. 1487 AD. On the vast sea, a sailboat is advancing through the waves. Standing at the bow of the boat was a twenty-two-year-old young man in a kimono. He stared into the distance, staring at a strange land that was about to appear in front of him - China. His name is Tashiro Miki. Miki Tashiro was born in a medical family and started studying medicine at the age of fourteen. He is calm, smart and ambitious. After his medical knowledge accumulated to a certain level, he felt that he had to find a broader field of study. So he turned his attention to China.

At this time, in China, the Yuan Dynasty has ended, and now it is the Ming Dynasty. The medical thoughts of the four masters of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties were widely disseminated at this time, and clinicians gained more medical experience on this basis. After receiving the news, Miki Tashiro began to eagerly arrange her own plan—to go to China to study Chinese medicine. Miki Tashiro finally came to China at the age of 22 after going through all kinds of hardships. In Qiantang, she found her object of study, the Japanese monk Yuehu. Yuehu came to China earlier to learn Chinese medical skills, especially Zhu Danxi's medical thoughts.

Tashiro Sanki was deeply impressed by the prosperity of the Jiangnan area in China, but what impressed him even more was Chinese medicine. The Japanese are gifted at learning and assimilating other cultures. Twelve years later, Miki Tashiro returned to China after studying and practiced medicine in the Kanto region until his death at the age of eighty.Due to his superb medical skills and many people living in the whole world, many people came to be apprentices. He vigorously promoted the academic thoughts of Li Dongyuan, Zhu Danxi and other four masters of Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and finally formed a "Jing Fang School" that stood side by side with Japan's use of Zhang Zhongjing's medical prescriptions. The "later school".

Before his death, Miki Tashiro lay on the sickbed and endured the pain to teach his apprentice Qu Naose Dozo his lifelong academics. After listening to it every day, Dozo stepped back to record the teacher’s thoughts. Because of grief, tears flowed into the inkstone, He studied ink with tears, and finally wrote the famous medical book "Tears Ink Paper" in Japanese history. In such stories, we vaguely see the familiar "medical way". In the later generations, Zhu Danxi is respected as "the sage of medicine". Zhu Danxi's academic thoughts have been passed on continuously and spread overseas.

Today, we have much better learning conditions than the Japanese like Tashiro Miki. We can buy Zhu Danxi’s books at any time when we go to the bookstore. Read it carefully. I believe you will feel that Zhu Danxi seems to have come to you again. Tell you how to diagnose a disease and how to prescribe a prescription. And in his mind, the way of medicine. So, what is so special about Zhu Danxi's knowledge that has such a great influence? Before Zhu Danxi, Chinese medicine had a relatively sound theoretical system for treating exogenous diseases, but the theory of miscellaneous diseases was not always so thorough.

Zhu Danxi added many new theoretical ideas to the treatment of miscellaneous diseases, such as resolving phlegm and relieving depression. He also put forward two viewpoints: "Yang is more than yin and yin is not enough" and "Xianhuo theory". We will not discuss these, you can buy a book to read.Let me tell you some of Zhu Danxi's views on health preservation, I hope it will be useful to you. First, let’s talk about how the old man Zhu Danxi supported his mother. Since the old man Danxi was not present today, I will speak for him. Please forgive me for any omissions, because I also learned from reading. I did not get the permission of the old man to speak without permission. I am sorry.

Confucianism talks about filial piety, so how to care for the elderly is a topic that is highly valued. If one's parents died at an advanced age, it would be something Confucians are very proud of, and they should mention it when writing articles or when others introduce themselves. In fact, the current situation is also like this. How is the health of your parents today?Everyone is thinking about it too, right? Many people are working hard in a foreign land, and their parents stay at home. In fact, the health of their parents is beyond their concern. But those who stay with their parents can take more care of them.

Now let me talk about Zhu Danxi's way of supporting his mother. This kind of support method is mainly reflected in the aspect of diet, and the specific content is-don't give the old people special delicious food. You should be surprised, don't you say the opposite?It should be something delicious for parents, right? Not to mention, Zhu Danxi really thinks so, why?Let me take my time. Zhu Danxi believes that when this person gets old, the function of the spleen and stomach will weaken, so it is easy to show some symptoms of deficiency and heat. The performance of heat; another example, you are hungry, you just ate something, hey, you are full, and your stomach has been distended for a long time after a little more, this is a manifestation of a weak spleen.

And the old man’s deficiency of heat is also manifested in temperament, easy to get angry, this is what we call the situation of a little old child, maybe everyone has experience, that is, when parents get older, they tend to get angry for no reason, a little sesame seed Zhu Danxi said: "Although there are filial sons and grandchildren, they are often scornful, so it's not necessarily filial." It can be seen that this situation was more serious in the Yuan Dynasty, and Mr. Zhu has already noticed it. So Mr. Zhu told everyone that those hot foods, such as barbecued, spicy, and fatty foods, may taste good, but don't give them to the elderly, because these foods help heat.

Maybe you have to ask, in this way, many parents can’t enjoy the delicious food. Is this filial piety? You are right. Not only did you ask, Zhu Danxi was asked by someone else at that time, saying: "Delicious food for the elderly, all the scriptures are there, but you hide all delicious food from your parents. Isn't it like this?" Deviate from filial piety?" Zhu Danxi replied: Come and analyze for yourself what filial piety is. One is to let your parents enjoy it for a while. If you have delicious food, you can eat it hard. Spicy hot pot, parents are very happy. Later, blood pressure rose and cerebral hemorrhage was hospitalized for surgery. Another way is to let the parents eat a plain diet, and they don’t eat anything good. Although the mouth is a little bit bad, but the family is not sick. Comparing these two situations, which one do you think is filial piety?

Mr. Zhu went on to add: "A gentleman loves others with virtue, and a villain loves others with appeasement. What's more, give it to the venerable." In life, that is, food can be used to maintain health, but if you use health-preserving things instead to become What harms people is probably not what a gentleman calls filial piety. Then Mr. Zhu gave an example of supporting his mother. Mr. Zhu has a deep affection for his mother. He decided to study medicine because his mother was ill. His support for his mother is also a model. He said that his mother used to have a bit of phlegm, but because she kept a light diet, after the age of seventy, it disappeared. Later, because of a dry stool, I mixed some milk and lard into the porridge and drank it. Although the stool was smooth and smooth at the time, it was a bit greasy after all. , Doomed Chu for days, Mei Xing fell, and those who are his sons have no place."Later, some medicine was adjusted, and it was considered safe. It is estimated that Western medicine does not understand this point. I am tired of eating this year, so why is it related to sores next year?Where does this follow?Don't tell me, Chinese medicine thinks so. Sometimes the problem that appeared a few years ago will come on a few years later. It is not good to prescribe according to the current symptoms. Fang, the disease will be cured immediately.This is Chinese medicine, which believes that the front and back of time, the top and bottom, inside and outside of the body are a whole and are closely related. I often encounter this kind of situation in clinical practice. The cause of the disease was solved a few years ago, and the prescription for it actually solved the problem. Even I find it incredible. It can be seen that we still know too little about the human body. So is the issue of old-age care still the same as it was in Zhu Danxi's time? I think it's more serious. Because the richness of food today is unprecedented in Chinese history. If you want to eat roast goose in Guangzhou, you can always have roast duck in Beijing. You can also have pork stewed noodles in Northeast China at any time. Crocodile meat, kangaroo meat, and ostrich meat are all sold. The aroma of Xinjiang’s roasted lamb wafts through the streets all day long. Without a little perseverance, I really can’t resist the temptation. In the past, there was very little oil and water, and a little lard was used sparingly, but now I think it takes a big spoonful of salad oil to scramble an egg. So the modern diet is characterized by an excess of fat. Don't listen to some parents who say, I am a vegetarian all day long. In fact, she puts more oil when frying vegetables than anyone else. The one who lives next door to me is a classmate from Taiwan who came to study Chinese medicine. He is fat and fat, but one day I was shocked when I saw his return pass. In the photo, he was thin and handsome before, just like the little tiger before. I don't know how the customs officers let him go, the gap is too big! I asked him, why is he so fat?He said that when eating at home in Taiwan, the green vegetables are all boiled, and even the eggplants are oiled in canteens in mainland China, and the result is quickly eaten like this. In the unit next door to me, there is a school girl who is also Taiwanese, she is slim and thin, and she is studying with our master of typhoid fever. I was taken aback by a big fat man who looked at her thin and small body, how could it be possible?I asked her why she lost weight again?She said, it's very simple, don't eat in the cafeteria, and cook by yourself in the rented house, boil it in water, and use less oil. After the situation report is over, that’s it. Don’t listen to your parents, we have been vegetarian all day long. Why are the blood lipids and other indicators still high when we go to the hospital? In fact, they ate a lot of greasy food. It’s not a problem to eat some meat. You don’t have to insist on being a vegetarian, but you should control the oil. Use some olive oil and camellia oil, mix it in the dishes, and it’s best not to fry it. There are also vegetarian ones. When the child comes back, go to boil the mutton and have a serious meal. It’s better to eat some meat as usual, your body can’t adapt to it. There is an area called Bama in Guangxi, my country, not far from Baise. It is currently recognized internationally as the longest-lived area in the world. There are many centenarians in every village. I have always wanted to take the phenomenon of longevity in this area as a topic. Research it. In addition to the good environment, the characteristic of this area is that people seldom eat meat, and pigs are basically slaughtered during the Chinese New Year. A special breed is called fragrant pigs. They can usually catch some fish from the river to eat. The main food is camellia oil. And hemp seed oil, boiled vegetables, the staple food is polenta and sweet potatoes.Two meals a day. This makes their ratio of centenarians surpass Okinawa, Japan, and the Caucasus of the former Soviet Union, ranking first in the world. It can be seen that Mr. Zhu Danxi's pension theory can find evidence in the real world. Everyone should reflect on themselves, if there is anything that needs to be improved in terms of the diet of parents, record it, because in another 30 to 40 years, we will be old people ourselves.