Chapter 99 How are critics made?

As I said before, I included Xu Lingtai in the ranks of critics of traditional Chinese medicine. I don't know if anyone still thinks so.In fact, his doubts about certain famous doctors began when his younger brother was treating diseases. Later, with the deepening of his own experience, he discovered some problems more and more, especially in the process of treating people. There were always some patients who were badly treated by quack doctors, so his doubts and anger grew day by day, and finally became irrepressible. Next, let's take a look at how the critic Xu Lingtai was made. First of all, let us analyze why Xu Lingtai became a critic of traditional Chinese medicine?

Yes, there are so many Chinese medicine practitioners in the world throughout the ages, why is only Xu Lingtai so outstanding? One of my answers is: First of all, because he is not in the circle. Many things, if you are in it, you can’t see clearly, and sometimes you just drift along in a daze, but if you are outside it, it’s different, you may see it very clearly, which thing is better something bad. For a long time, there has been a circle of Chinese medicine. Everyone supports and takes care of each other. Sometimes this is a good thing, and sometimes it is not necessarily so. For example, there is a patient who is not optimistic about the doctor in front. Come on, don't say it's the fault of the doctor in front, don't scold each other, because maybe one day a certain patient you don't like, he ran to the doctor in front again, if it's a problem, That person may not necessarily say it.

There are many things like this, so Chinese medicine is not good at self-criticism. When did you see a Chinese medicine doctor angrily scolding the doctor in front of him?Ordinary old Chinese doctors are kind-hearted, even if you complain that the doctor who saw me was not very good, and it hasn’t worked out after taking it for more than two months, this old Chinese doctor will always smile: Fang Zi It's okay to drive, but it's on the fire... and then smiles, no one can offend. In the past, these things in the circle were particular about! It is precisely because our Xu Lingtai is not a member of the circle, he is under the control of the Ministry of Water Resources, so he can criticize others without scruples, and at the same time, he can also see things that everyone cannot see, so his perspective is relatively special.

Comrade Xu Lingtai is like an outsider who has entered the Chinese medicine circle. I say so for a reason. One day, a son of a high-ranking official felt that his body was too bad to continue like this, and it was time to take care of it, so he invited two experts to ask for advice on health preservation. One of the two experts is Xu Lingtai, and the other is an old Chinese doctor in the same circle. Xu Lingtai stepped into the door of this young master's house and took a look, hey, this style, with carved beams and painted buildings, is really rich. When the two of you were seated, everyone was polite for a while.

Then the young master got to the point. He humbly asked Xu Lingtai: "Sir, I invited you here this time to trouble you." Seeing that he was really modest, Xu Lingtai replied politely: "What's the matter, just tell me." Your son: "I want to ask my husband for the prescription of immortality!" (Ask Yu for the prescription of immortality) Xu Lingtai almost fell down on the chair, and his nose was crooked in anger, thinking: Is this idiot? Thinking this way, he was not polite, so he replied: "Master, your question is really unusual, how about it, first you can help me find an immortal person, show me, and then I will match you with another one." The formula of immortality, if you can’t find someone who can live forever, then I can’t get my formula of immortality either.”

The noble young man was very happy to hear that, and he began to wonder who would live forever?The neighbors in the neighborhood started to think about it, but they couldn't think of it for dozens of miles, so they started to roll their eyes and were very upset (they had a sullen look). So he dragged the old doctor aside, and said to the old comrade: This Xu Lingtai is very uninteresting, just give me the formula of immortality. The old doctor didn't show any modesty, so he gave the young man the formula of immortality. So the young man returned to the lobby, holding the formula of immortality in his hand, and Xu Lingtai became angry: "The old man has already given me the formula of immortality, you are really stingy, why are you being stingy?" Ah? I'll pay you." (Nai Aoyu said: Mr. Changsheng Fang is with me, why are you so stingy?)

Xu Lingtai's eyes were like bells, thinking that I was not dreaming: "Then why don't you show me this recipe for immortality?" Young Master: "Just look at it, I'm more generous than you, take it and have a look!" Xu Lingtai took it over and took a look. It turned out that they were warm and nourishing products of flesh and blood (presumably including some deer whips and donkey whips, etc.), but the production method was deliberately complicated to make it look very unusual. That's all (it is estimated that there is an item of finding the original cricket).

Xu Lingtai almost spit out, today is really an eye-opener! In the end, I couldn't bear it any longer, and asked the old gentleman when there was no one around, "Brother, which boss taught you this recipe of immortality? It's really eye-opening for me!" The old comrade was very ashamed, and said in a low voice: "Brother, don't laugh at me, you are not a person in the circle who relies on practicing medicine to make a living (Zi is not a person who has entered the world to practice Taoism)." Xu Lingtai: "What does this have to do with people in the industry?"

Old Comrade: "Anyone who is rich or noble needs nothing, but he is afraid that he will not be able to live forever and indulge in sex forever. Therefore, whenever he meets a famous doctor, he must ask for the prescription of immortality. If you don't know this prescription, it will appear that you are not very educated. Everyone else knows, why don’t you know? How can you mess around, I didn’t mean to lie to him, it’s just that people are messing around in the circle and can’t help themselves.” After hearing this, Xu Lingtai suddenly realized that the so-called secret recipes were all like this! (Yu Yin knows that all the secret recipes passed down in the world are like this)

Sure enough, when he was leaving, your son gave the old doctor a large sum of money. After returning, Comrade Xu Lingtai was also polite. In the spirit of criticism and self-criticism, he wrote this incident into his book, which was called "Shen Ji Ruan Yan", which was published later. (This is a bit like the current reporter who disguises himself as a peddler to break into the circle of counterfeit products, and exposes them after obtaining first-hand information) I don't know if this noble son's IQ has improved after eating so many donkey whips, and what he thinks after reading this book.

The only thing we can be sure of is that the old comrade must be very upset: it's so uninteresting!Doesn't this mean exposing my industry secrets?How can I prescribe the medicine of immortality to others in the future! But Comrade Xu Lingtai must not be afraid, because: I am not an insider. Another condition for becoming a Chinese medicine critic is to be knowledgeable. That is to say, you have to read more books, and you have to be more knowledgeable than others, otherwise you can't criticize them. Reading books is not a problem for Xu Lingtai. He has a problem with being strict with himself in this regard. In the preface of "Shen Ji Ruan Yan", he said that after he studied Chinese medicine, the books on Chinese medicine he read were "books of review about There are more than a thousand volumes, and there are more than ten thousand volumes in the extensive book", this is incredible, this sentence can be regarded as leaking the secret of Xu Lingtai's success! How do you say he became a genius?You said how did he become a national player without a teacher?People have worked hard!I don’t know how many times more books they have read than your professional medical practitioners!Do you think people can become talents? At that time, there was another famous doctor named Ye Tianshi, who was older than Xu Lingtai, and they were regarded as the twins in the medical field at that time. This Ye Tianshi was an insider, and he and Xu Lingtai happened to have two paths. He came out by worshiping his teachers. He worshiped 17 teachers in total. He got the best of his knowledge and became a master of his generation. Once, Ye Tianshi said to his disciples: A scholar named Xu came from Wujiang, "He is very thoughtful about treating diseases outside. But the smell of the medicine is too mixed, which is why there is no teacher to teach it." Later, Ye Tianshi got the Song version of "Waitai Secret Yao" and took a look. He broke out in a cold sweat and said to his disciples: "I used to call Xu Shengli Fang There is no book, and whoever knows it will publish "Waitai", which shows that knowledge is infinite and should not be taken lightly." You see, even Ye Tianshi, who specializes in Chinese medicine, has books that he hasn't read, but Xu Lingtai has read them, not only read them, but also used them quite effectively, so there is nothing to say, his knowledge is too broad Well, it's easy to criticize you a few words, so don't be wronged. And someone like Xu Lingtai who came out of nowhere is the most suitable critic, it's only fair. There has always been a problem with the Chinese medicine community, which is a bit similar to this Wulin. There are sects. When we meet, which sect are you from?Maybe they would say some exaggerated things to each other, and sometimes they would scold each other in ancient times, and the momentum was very frightening. This will give Xu Lingtai a chance, he is an outsider, he has no background, so he can see more clearly, and he can criticize everyone's shortcomings.