Chapter 47 The vast world has a lot to do

After he came out of the army, Miao Xiyong was already a proud and strong young man. At this moment, he set his sights on the people. As long as he hears about the folk masters, he must visit and study. At that time, there was a famous doctor in Wuxi named Ma Mingju, who was said to be very good at treating diseases. When Miao Xiyong heard about it, he went to visit immediately. Under normal circumstances, the skills of a doctor like Ma Mingju would not be easily spread to the outside world. However, Miao Xiyong had a sincere heart. The sincerity moved Ma Mingju, so Ma Mingju asked Miao Xiyong to follow him and passed on his knowledge to Miao Xiyong.

Learn with a sincere heart, no one will be unwilling to teach you. In Mr. Ma Mingju's place, Miao Xiyong really opened his eyes. To give a few examples, this Mr. Ma is very good at treating venereal diseases. At that time, with the reform and opening up of China, some nonsense things also came in with foreign merchant ships, and venereal diseases were very popular in the southeast. One day, a man named Li Xingfu was suffering from syphilis. During the treatment by his former doctor, he used mercury and other medicines. As a result, the patient developed symptoms of tongue rot three days later, tooth loss, and throat ulceration. It made the whole room full of filth, and the rotten meat that was spit out was the same color as pork liver. In this case, don’t ask me, I can’t eat anything, and I can’t pass the stool.

The invited doctor saw it, yes, there is no way to cure it, so bye, you can stand up by yourself. This Li Xingfu regrets this, if I knew this earlier, why bother, if I didn't go to that Chunxiang Tower, wouldn't this matter be gone? What's the use of regretting, let's call a doctor, so Ma Mingju was invited. As soon as Ma Mingju made a diagnosis, he said: "This is poisoned by mercury. Although the patient's stomach is swollen, it is not yet hard. It means that the poison of mercury is not fatal. The first thing to do is to detoxify it." This detoxification method sounds scary. He took some black lead, and then boiled it with a lot of licorice, bellflower, honeysuckle and other medicines. After the boil was done, he gave the patient some to drink, and then used the rest to wash the patient's hands and feet.

As a result, on the second day, the patient began to discharge a lot of black water from the urine and stool, and his condition began to stabilize. Then, some medicine for external use was blown into the throat, and some antidote medicine was taken orally, and the patient recovered later. It seems that in China before the invention of antibiotics, doctors thought of many ways to solve the problem of syphilis. After reading it, Miao Xiyong studied it seriously, and later recorded all these methods and wrote them in the book. There is another patient, a young man named Ni Zhongzhao, who suffers from tinea laryngitis, which is also a disease in the throat. No matter how other doctors treat it, the whole throat begins to rot. The food he eats must be boiled flour. , You can only swallow with your head up, and you have to cry every time you swallow.

Everyone didn't know what disease it was, so Ma Mingju was invited. Ma Ming looked at it and said, "This is not the wind and fire poison caused by external factors. Have you ever suffered from syphilis?" The young man said, "No?" Ma Mingju then asked: "Then did your parents suffer from syphilis?" The young people suddenly realized: "Yes, they suffered from it before, and it was me who was born three years after being cured." Ma Mingju said: "As expected, this is because the toxicity is passed on to the children." Therefore, medicines such as licorice, platycodon grandiflorum, mountain bean root, grass gentian, and shegan were also prescribed. Months later, the disease was cured.

Turning around, Miao Xiyong asked for advice: "Mr. Ma, do you think this syphilis can be inherited?" Ma Mingju sighed, and replied: "It is rare for children born to parents who are suffering from syphilis to not be infected. The specific symptom is that the whole body is festered, from the top of the head to the toe, except for the two eyes, there are almost no complete parts. This must be treated according to syphilis, and many doctors do not know that according to various methods of treatment, it is inevitable to die in the end, it is a pity." ) Therefore, Miao Xiyong recorded this passage, and later, when he published "Xian Xingzhai Medicine Broad Notes", it was included in it, and marked "Ma Mingju Chuan" at the back, which means that Mr. Ma taught , but because Miao Xiyong is so famous, many people now write articles saying that Miao Xiyong first discovered the hereditary nature of syphilis, but it was actually Mr. Ma's achievement. Comrade Miao Xiyong's scientific research attitude is rigorous. Everyone said it in the quotation.

The relationship between Miao Xiyong and these people is very interesting. Rather than saying that it is a teacher-student relationship, it is better to say that it is a relationship that is closer to a friend. During his ten years of traveling life, he has traveled all over half of the land of the Ming Dynasty. He visited many famous mountains and great rivers, rural villages, and wherever he went, he treated people who were sick. The village is erected, and it is very rich to search for secret recipes." What do these words mean?That is to say, Miao Xiyong is full of pride, he is very cheerful, has no airs, and is very popular. He will not treat himself as an outsider when he meets him. Sincerely communicate with you, treat each other with sincerity, and wish I could take out my heart.

Miao Xiyong has never been conservative with the people around him, saying that he has some secret recipe to hide, it's okay!Miao Xiyong always tells everyone the medical experience he knows, but he is afraid that others will not remember it, so he always writes it down for others. In this way, all the people around him were touched, and they often pulled him and told him: There is such a prescription passed down from my family, which is very effective in treating a certain disease. Let me tell you now. In such ten years, Miao Xiyong has learned a lot of medical knowledge from the folk, and the richness is breathtaking. Why do you say that, you just need to look at the number of secret recipes he included in "Xianxingzhai Medical Notes" , Moreover, in his book "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", he learned a lot of knowledge about pharmacology from practice, especially in the field of drug processing. In fact, the prosperity of drug processing in the Qing Dynasty was due to Miao Xiyong.

Of course, during these ten years of traveling, Miao Xiyong also met some people who were enough to influence his life. Master Zibai is one.