Chapter 287 Traveling through time and space, inheriting classics... (please subscribe)

"Li Shizhen was born in Qizhou, Wu Province in 1518. His grandfather was an herbal doctor, and his father Li Yanwen was a famous doctor at that time. He served as an official in the Imperial Hospital. At that time, the civil doctor was in a low position and lived a hard life. His father did not want Li Shizhen to study medicine again. When Li Shizhen was 14 years old, he followed his father to Huangzhou Prefecture to take the exam and became a scholar. Li Shizhen came from a family of doctors. He loved medicine since he was a child and was not keen on imperial examinations. He went to Wuchang three times to take the exam, but failed. Therefore, he decided to abandon Confucianism and study medicine. At the age of 23, he studied medicine with his father, and his medical reputation became more and more popular..."

Traditional Chinese medicine in this world is declining.

In my previous life, everyone may be very familiar with "Compendium of Materia Medica".

But everyone in this world does not know much about Compendium of Materia Medica.

but.

It doesn't matter.

This program today is to introduce Li Shizhen and his Compendium of Materia Medica.

Chen Fan briefly introduced Li Shizhen, and then the picture changed and came to another stage.

This stage is very interesting.

Inside the camera, there is a huge screen that slowly pulls away from bottom to top.

This gives people a very mysterious feeling, and it also gives people a feeling that they have come to another time and space.

Whether it is the audience on site or the friends in front of the TV.

When they saw the screen pulling out, everyone came to the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

at this time.

A little baby who played Li Shizhen when he was young appeared in front of everyone: "I am weak and sick, and I often suffer from eye diseases. I know the pain of illness, and doctors can help patients. Father, I want to be a doctor."

On the other hand, the actor who played Li Shizhen's father Li Yanwen shook his head: "It's too difficult to be a doctor, like sailing against the current, studying hard, and getting fame."

The little baby pretended not to understand, shook his head: "I can't understand."

Li Yan sighed when he heard this: "Oh, I understand when I grow up."

Then.

The actor who played Lee Shizhen when he was a teenager appeared.

At this time, he had already passed the scholar exam, but his ambition was still to be a doctor, but he still did not agree with Li Yanwen.

It was not until Li Shizhen became a young man that Li Shizhen begged his father for the third time: "Father, I remember that when I was 20 years old, I had a serious illness. It was you who used Scutellaria baicalensis as medicine that I had to survive. Father, the child begged again, let me be a doctor."

Li Yanwen: "You have decided?"

Li Shizhen: "I hope my father will be successful."

The actor who played Li Shizhen knelt down and said, "Reading the medical books of ancient sages, admire the sages to try medicine with their bodies. Reading the thesis on typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases, admire Zhang Zhongjing to save the suffering of the people. Reading the prescription for a thousand gold medals, admires Sun Simiao's sincerity."

Li Yanwen: "What does the great doctor mean?"

Li Shizhen: "To benefit the people, whenever a great doctor treats diseases, he must calm his mind and calm his mind, and have no desires or demands."

Li Yanwen: "If you have illnesses and come to ask for help, you must not ask them to be humble, rich and poor."

So far.

Li Shizhen and his father Li Yanwen were doctors side by side.

This performance stunned everyone, and then applause came all over the sky.

"The great doctor is sincere and well said."

"If there is a disease, you must not ask him about the poor and poor... This is the doctor, this is the doctor."

Although traditional Chinese medicine has not developed very well.

But looking at Li Shizhen and his son, everyone couldn't help but admire the doctors who treated the people.

The screen continues.

After Li Yanwen agreed to Li Shizhen for practice medicine, Li Shizhen and his father went to various places to practice medicine together.

at this time.

But I discovered an interesting story.

At this time, a drug dealer and a pharmacy had a conflict.

The reason for the conflict is that the pharmacy owner believes that the drug dealer sells him not ginseng, but probably platycodon.

This shot makes everyone surprised.

How could you not recognize the medicine?

turn out to be.

People who participate in Platycodon look very similar.

Most people really can't tell it.

at the same time.

This is not just because Platycodon looks like ginseng.

and.

Many materia books do not fully record some of the characteristics, shapes, etc. of various medicines.

So this causes misunderstandings from others.

Don't think that's just a trivial matter.

Medicine is of great importance.

If this is given to the patient, the condition of the patient will not improve at all in mild cases, and the condition of the patient will directly harm people's lives.

Although this is a small matter, this small matter gave Li Shizhen a very big idea.

"Father, I want to practice a new book of materia."

But Li Yanwen asked, "Shizhen, do you know how many kinds of medicinal firewood we in China have?"

“More than tens of thousands.”

"Since that's the case, do you still need to repair it?"

"Father, it is precisely because there are so many kinds that we should practice. Otherwise, among the more than tens of thousands of medicinal firewood, how can people know these medicinal firewood? If we cannot understand it, how can we doctors treat diseases and save people?"

In fact.

Modern Western medicine often prescribes the wrong medicine, not to mention facing more than tens of thousands of Chinese medicines.

Li Shizhen has known the difficulties of the people since she was a child, and has seen many examples of getting the wrong medicine.

Until such a thing happened, it aroused Li Shizhen's belief in cultivating materia.

In order to make his Materia Medica more convenient for future generations to read, Li Shizhen divided his Materia Medica into the outlines, namely water, fire, earth, metal, grass, grain, vegetable, fruit, wood, square, insect, scale, interstitial, bird, beast, human, etc. Each section has a brief discussion before, and several categories are divided into several categories under each section, such as the grass part is mountain grass, fragrant grass, pine grass, poisonous grass, vine grass, water grass, stone grass, moss, weeds, etc., and there are 60 categories. Each medicine is marked with the source of the first document. If there is a classification change or an incorporation into a certain medicine, it will be corrected and explained; the following is a column explanation of the name, collection of explanations, identification of topics or correcting, remediating, smell, indication, invention, and other columns... Therefore, the name of the book is called "Compendium of Materia Medica".

It's just a pity.

It is not easy to compile such a masterpiece.

Before the Compendium of Materia Medica began, Li Shizhen's father passed away.

But Li Shizhen did not stop.

He took over his father's job as a doctor, while traveling around the country and learning about the materia meditations in the world.

In such a process.

Li Shizhen has been exposed to many herbs that he has never seen before, and at the same time, he has also corrected many materia medicinal herbs that were wrongly annotated by his predecessors.

Spring goes and autumn comes.

Before he knew it, 27 years later, Li Shizhen finally compiled this novel work.

"This perseverance is awesome."

"It's been nearly 30 years. In our eyes, we just saw it in a flash of our fingers, but for life, nearly 30 years is almost equivalent to a lifetime."

Looking at the Compendium of Materia Medica compiled by Li Shizhen in the camera, everyone was extremely pleased.

only.

Just because everyone thought that this book would be enough.

but.

It is difficult to weave materia medicinal herbs, and even more difficult to engrave.

Because Compendium of Materia Medica is really too big, there are a total of 1.7 million words.

Not to mention the 1.7 million words were placed at that time, but also in modern times, it was also a novel.

But there was no Internet in ancient times, and there was no such convenient engraving and printing technology as it is now.

Facing more than 1.7 million words and tens of thousands of pictures of materia meditation, all booksellers were afraid to carve it.

"I'll go, but I can't print it out?"

"Did those publishers grow up eating shit? They dare not print this."
To be continued...