Chapter 51 Met a man named Wang Kentang

Miao Xiyong is a chivalrous person, this kind of person is righteous and courageous. People at the time said he was: if anyone heard of a critical illness, he would promise without hesitation, "Seven feet can be donated, and a thousand miles must be traveled." ".So there are a lot of friends. During this trip, Miao Xiyong also met a friend, that is, Wang Kentang, a famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty. Who is this Wang Kentang?It turns out that to mention this person, he is also a well-known figure in the history of Chinese medicine. By the way, let me introduce this Wang Kentang: he was born in an official family, and he was not a doctor at first. When he was a child, he started to study medicine because his mother was sick. To gain fame, he was a Jinshi in the 17th year of Wanli, and later he did a review of the Imperial Academy. Because he wrote a letter to fight against Japanese pirates, he somehow offended his superiors (the superiors were in chaos at that time) and was demoted. , Hey, I won’t mess with you anymore, it’s still comfortable to go home, so he said he was sick and returned home, and began to treat people. Later, he wrote the famous medical book "Criteria for Syndrome and Treatment", which has very important academic value.

It can be seen that this Wang Kentang is also a master. The year they met was the seventh year of Wanli (1579), when Miao Xiyong was thirty-three years old and Wang Kentang was thirty-three years old. Both are in their prime and full of energy. The place where we met was Baixia (today's Nanjing). Wang Kentang recorded in detail the meeting process of the two people in the "Criteria for Evidence and Governance". One is a white-faced scholar, and the other is a knight-like figure with electric eyes and beard. However, the two hit it off. Because people like this can know each other's knowledge base after just a few words of chat, and, more importantly, they can immediately feel the other's heart to save all sentient beings.

This kind of sympathy in their hearts immediately made them abandon everything and quickly became confidants. Since then, the two have become lifelong friends, creating a good story about friends in the history of Chinese medicine. There are many interesting stories among them, let's talk about them. When the two were talking about medicine, Wang Kentang noticed that Miao Xiyong had a habit, what habit?It’s just that it’s all right, always take out something from the sleeve, put it in your mouth to chew (see the chewing of the projectile in the sleeve), Wang Kentang is surprised, what kind of good thing is this old man secretly eating? ?so mysterious?

At first I held back, I was ashamed to ask, don’t make myself feel greedy, but later I couldn’t stand Miao Xiyong’s eating all the time, so I couldn’t help it anymore, so I asked: “Brother Miao, what is that you? Good stuff?" Everyone pay attention here, we are all very curious, how does this Miao Xiyong take care of himself?It turned out that he was a child with a weak body, but how did he become a strong man like a hero, and his voice was so loud that it would shake the walls. Don't ask, he is full of energy. What do you eat to make your body look so good? Coincidentally, Comrade Wang Kentang asked for us, let's listen to how Miao Xiyong answered.

Miao Xiyong said: "This is a secret recipe I got during my travels. It is called Zisheng Pill (this medicine is now sold in pharmacies, some are called Zisheng Pill, and some are called Buyi Zisheng Pill). It is for regulating the spleen and stomach. Yes, people who are hungry will feel no hunger after taking it, and people who are full will digest food quickly after taking it." (It is estimated that this is the effect of the two-way adjustment we are talking about now) Then, without any hesitation, Miao Xiyong immediately wrote down the prescription and gave it to Wang Kentang. Ordinary people, if they have a secret recipe, they hide it under the pillow and don't tell anyone, but at the level of Miao Xiyong and Wang Kentang, they are not conservative at all, and they take the initiative to tell each other what they have.

Wang Kentang took a look at this recipe, and couldn't help being amazed, what a recipe!So it was put away. Then, Miao Xiyong also gave Wang Kentang some Shisheng Pills. However, at this time, although Wang Kentang thought it was a good prescription, he did not believe that it had such a great effect, that is to say, he doubted that it could have such a good digestion effect. (I don't believe in its power to digest food) Finally, one day, the time came to test the efficacy of the medicine. On that day, a friend asked Wang Kentang to drink, and Wang Kentang ate a little more. After drinking and eating, the problem came. I know how to keep in good health. Going to bed immediately after eating too much is very harmful to the spleen (everyone pay attention to this, many people do this now), what should I do?Hey, isn't this a good time to test the efficacy of this Zisheng Pill?

Therefore, Comrade Wang Kentang, in a responsible spirit, personally experienced the efficacy of Zisheng Pills and took two pills. As a result, I really didn't expect that the digestion effect is very good, and I don't feel any stagnant feeling when I wake up the next morning. Therefore, Wang Kentang was particularly convinced of this prescription (beginning to believe in the god of this prescription), and took this prescription as his father's health care medicine in his later years. As Wang Kentang's father was getting older, "he was old and his spleen was weak, and he ate less and had more phlegm." He basically relied on this Zisheng pill for his maintenance in his later years. (Photo by Yu Lingbao, thanks to this recipe)

By the way, Wang Kentang's father lived to be more than ninety years old, which was very rare in ancient times, which shows the strength of this party. As for Wang Kentang, he soon let Miao Xiyong see his strength. The reason is that Miao Xiyong himself was ill once. You should be surprised, a doctor with such a powerful method is also sick? Look at what you said, doctors are human beings too, how can a human being not get sick? There is an old saying that goes well: Medicine is not autonomous.It means that when the doctor himself is sick, the effect of his own treatment is not good.

In fact, there is some truth to this statement, because when a doctor treats himself, he usually considers many factors, which will confuse his own diagnostic thinking, and sometimes it is difficult to make a correct judgment. At this time, Miao Xiyong was like this. His symptom at this time was that his body was full of fever. He treated it as an exogenous pathogenesis and took the medicine of Xinliang to relieve the surface, but it had no effect. will not pay". what to do?I couldn't prescribe medicine by myself, and among the nearby doctors I could trust, there was only Wang Kentang, so I invited Wang Kentang here.

Wang Kentang made a diagnosis, hey, Brother Miao, you made a mistake, this is not exogenous infection, this is blood stasis! It seems that Comrade Wang Kentang also has his own unique diagnostic method. So, he prescribed medicine to treat blood accumulation, and when the medicine was cooked, he brought it in front of Miao Xiyong. When Miao Xiyong smelled the medicine, he sighed loudly: "How fragrant is it!" So I drank it all in one gulp. On the same day, the fever subsided. On the second day, I had a lot of black stools, and then the disease was cured. Cousin Wang Ken really has something unique!

Since then, the two have respected each other more, often discussing with each other and treating some patients together.