Chapter 57 Getting to know Zhuang Lianzhi

It is said that at that time, there was a student named Zhuang Lianzhi. When he was young, he studied with a teacher surnamed Wang and a teacher surnamed Yu. At that time, these two gentlemen were friends of Miao Xiyong, and the three of them often stayed together. reunion. Zhuang Lian later described the meeting of the three of them, saying that the three of them "raised their beards and folded their coats of arms, going up and down the past and the present, with high spirits, and they looked at each other irresistibly." It can be seen that the scene when the three of them got together was really impressive, and they made their classmate Zhuang Lianzhi extremely admirable, and they kept thinking in their hearts, how could they also learn from this hero Miao Xiyong?

Later, when he grew up, his father asked him to bring a gift and practice the etiquette of nephew and nephew to meet Miao Xiyong. In this way, the two met each other. No one thought that they would become masters and apprentices in the future relation. This year was 1611 AD, and Miao Xiyong was already sixty-five years old. From then on, Zhuang Lianzhi was able to get in touch with Miao Xiyong very closely. Every time Miao Xiyong went to the Jintan where Zhuang Lian's home was located (Miao Xiyong was still living in Changxing at that time), Zhuang Lianzhi would hurry up If you have the opportunity, chat with Mr. Miao Xiyong and learn about it.

Not long after, a tragic incident happened in Zhuang Lianzhi's family. It turned out that Zhuang Lianzhi's old father was ill. The specific symptoms are not recorded in the literature, but all the doctors think that they are suffering from exogenous diseases, so they prescribed a lot of medicines to relieve the symptoms, and the most unreliable thing is that they also asked the patients to "abstain from eating and drinking". The treatment method, I really don't understand. If you say taboo, don't eat any raw seafood, big fish and big meat, I can understand, but this is good, even drinking water is banned, don't be against this family, right? ?It can be seen that there were many confused doctors at that time.

Then, half a month later, the father of our classmate Zhuang Lianzhi was critically ill. If you say that he was really able to survive, let alone half a month for ordinary people, he died in a few days. At this time, I thought of Miao Xiyong, so I asked someone to send a message to Miao Xiyong, hoping that he would come and read it. When Miao Xiyong heard about it, he left immediately without saying a word. As we mentioned before, the characteristic of Miao Xiyong is that as long as he hears that someone comes to see a doctor, no matter how far away, he will go there immediately, which is "a thousand miles must go".

To say that this Miao Xiyong is really a heroic figure, a man in his 70s (this year was 1614 A.D., and Miao Xiyong was 68 years old), after hearing the news of seeking a doctor, he kept going, From Changxing, where he lived, to Jintan, he rode there "three days and nights", then got off his horse and entered the house, and immediately began to check the pulse of Zhuang Lianzhi's father. After examining the visual pulse, he "stamped his feet and yelled" and said, "Your father's disease is not an exogenous disease, but an internal injury and miscellaneous disease. It should be treated with regular tonic methods, and he should also eat some delicious food. Now the spleen and stomach qi is about to die out, what should I do?!"

After everyone heard it, they realized that it was delayed, so they hurriedly begged Miao Xiyong to treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor, and forcefully prescribe a prescription to see if he can be saved. In this way, Miao Xiyong prescribed a prescription, but after five days, it was found that the patient showed no sign of improvement at all. Miao Xiyong looked up to the sky and sighed, "I have tried my best, but I still can't bring him back!" So, weeping and leaving. Within two days, Zhuang Lianzhi's father passed away. Another life was killed by these quack doctors.

By the way, now this doctor (or not a doctor at all, but a so-called health care expert) still exists. A few days ago, I was treating a patient who was suffering from lack of energy and blood. When I came to the clinic this time, I found that her tongue coating was white and greasy, and the tongue was pale. It was already very rosy before. I was shocked and asked why the yang energy was suddenly damaged, and the water in the body became so wet.She replied that she had seen health experts on TV these days, telling everyone that drinking a glass of cold water every morning would help the body to expel toxins in a healthy way.So she persisted for more than ten days, during which she had two stomach troubles.

Which health expert is this?Don't you know that people have different constitutions?Those who suffer from deficiency of the spleen and kidney have no idea how much damage they will suffer from a cup of cold water every morning. Some people with serious diseases will suffer from a sudden deterioration in their condition. The yang qi of the human body is like a small flame in the morning, and it is like a big fire at noon. It is no problem to drink a few glasses of cold water at this time, but for people with spleen and kidney yang deficiency, a glass of cold water in the morning is very harmful. affected.

I can even imagine that this expert must be using the banner of Chinese medicine when promoting it, and will definitely say: "Our Chinese medicine believes that drinking a glass of cold water in the morning is of great help to health preservation. Chinese medicine believes that..." Then it is estimated that there will be more people who drink cold water and have stomach problems, and eventually become many intractable diseases. They will pull up the banner of banning Chinese medicine, shouting: "Damn Chinese medicine, it made me have stomach troubles!" Not much to say, let us continue to pay attention to Zhuang Lianzhi.

After going through this incident, student Zhuang Lianzhi learned from the pain and finally figured out that he can no longer trust these so-called experts indiscriminately, and only trust Teacher Miao Xiyong. Sure enough, it didn't take long for things to prove that his decision was correct. It should be said that the family of this classmate Zhuang Lianzhi should be relatively wealthy, because besides his eldest wife, he also married several concubines. (The specific number of rooms, I have not verified clearly) In fact, having so many concubines in the family is very difficult to manage. It is probably similar to managing a company, and everything about the employees must be taken care of.No, that day, one of the concubines fell ill, suffering from malaria, which made Zhuang Lianzhi very worried.

The symptoms of her illness are "cold, less hot, more severe". This malaria attack is not always regular and hot for a while. In many cases, the cold and heat are asymmetrical. eat. At this time, classmate Zhuang Lianzhi went directly to Miao Xiyong for a consultation. It happened that Miao Xiyong lived nearby at that time, so he rushed over. After examining the pulse, I felt that the pulse condition was heavy and solid. This was a pulse condition with heat. Looking at this patient again, the condition was indeed consistent with the pulse condition. He had a lot of fever and sweating. These are the manifestations of heat syndrome. Therefore, a prescription was prescribed for clearing away heat, promoting body fluid and invigorating the spleen: Ophiopogon japonicus, Zhimu, gypsum, bamboo leaves, japonica rice, orange red, achyranthes bidentata, dried kudzu, white poria cocos, and white lentils. This prescription is the basis of Zhang Zhongjing's bamboo leaf gypsum soup and Baihu soup, which are used to treat both qi and yin injuries. Among them, Ophiopogon japonicus, Anemarrhena, gypsum, and bamboo leaves are used to clear qi and divide heat evil. Japonica rice nourishes the stomach yin. It can be seen that Miao Xiyong is very cautious in using medicine. For example, he removed the pinellia from the original prescription. Why?Because pinellia pinellia is warm and dry, which is not good for fever, he uses orange red to regulate the qi in the chest, and then uses achyranthes bidentata to strengthen the qi and blood of the waist and legs, and the medicinal qi goes down. (Because it was recorded in the following medical records that this woman had chest pains and weak legs, so these two medicines were used) Among them, dried kudzu is used to increase the qi of the Yangming stomach meridian, which can relieve muscles and collaterals, and relieve headaches. It is also an important medicine for treating diarrhea. In this prescription, the properties of the medicine can be raised or lowered, which can regulate the up and down of the qi mechanism. Once the qi mechanism is activated, the heat will be easily dissipated. , and incidentally replenish the spleen meridian (this is the creation of Miao Xiyong, and later Ye Tianshi almost fully absorbed Miao Xiyong's theory of regulating the spleen and stomach), to enhance disease resistance. After three doses of this medicine, there was no effect. Moreover, the patient became more serious, had severe fever and chills, and lost his mind. Huh?This is strange, could it be that he did not diagnose accurately? At this time, classmate Zhuang Lianzhi also came, and said worriedly: "Is the plaster used too cold? I think it's better not to use it!" (My concubine feels sorry for herself) It was already very late at this time, and it was not convenient for Miao Xiyong to go for a diagnosis. Seeing the pitiful look of classmate Zhuang Lianzhi, his heart softened, so, let's take the plaster off and add ginseng two dollars. When Zhuang Lianzhi heard this, he went back happily, and he could finally make up! When Zhuang Lianzhi left, Miao Xiyong thought about it carefully, no, could I have made a wrong judgment?No good, make a mistake! So, quickly send someone to stop Zhuang Lianzhi, and let him fry the ginseng, but don't take it, and make a decision after I go to get a pulse. Then, at dawn, Miao Xiyong came to Zhuang Lian's house, and took the concubine's pulse. It was actually Hong Shu's pulse. The diagnosis was correct. Don't take ginseng, the plaster is not enough. Last time I prescribed one tael or five yuan, and this time I added it to two taels (as I said before, the flexible application of gypsum is a great contribution of Miao Xiyong to Chinese medicine, and doctors still use it like this now), plus Polygonum multiflorum Five cents. Why add Polygonum multiflorum?This place is used to nourish the blood. Miao Xiyong has noticed the possible problem of emptiness in the rear. Why don't you use angelica and other medicines to nourish the blood at this time?Because the drug is dry in nature, it is not good for the treatment of febrile diseases. These usages of Miao Xiyong have opened up ideas for febrile disease experts in later generations. Moreover, Polygonum multiflorum enters the liver meridian, and the ancients believed that malaria is most likely to invade the liver meridian.Raw Polygonum multiflorum can detoxify and dissipate stagnation. I believe Miao Xiyong used raw Polygonum multiflorum here. Moreover, Miao Xiyong asked this prescription to be taken twice a day, which means that four ounces of gypsum was used a day. After the dose of the medicine was increased, the concubine's malaria was cured suddenly. Zhuang Lianzhi was really sweating all over his body, he finally got better, thank you Teacher Miao very much! Later, just a year later, this little concubine fell ill again. The symptoms were a sudden splitting headache, unbearable annoyance in the heart, sore throat, hoarse voice, cracked tongue, cough with phlegm, and chest pain. I felt bloated, nauseated, unable to eat, and four days later, I started to have another attack of cold and fever, which was still less cold and more hot. After the fever, I had to sweat to reduce the fever. This time, after Miao Xiyong came to make a diagnosis, he believed that the heat evil had not been cleared up last time, so it happened again. (It is estimated that Zhuang Lianzhi felt sorry for this concubine and did not use the medicine thoroughly) Ladies and gentlemen, here Miao Xiyong applied the theory of subduing evils in traditional Chinese medicine. This theory believes that if the evils are not cleaned up, they will hide inside the human body, wait for the opportunity, and attack again. This was developed. Then, Miao Xiyong continued to take medicine, and finally healed the concubine's illness completely.