Chapter 194: The Corpse
"The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" is a needle classic. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
"Shennong's Materia Medica" is a medicine scripture. ”
"Needles are the mainstay, medicine is the supplement. It is a medicine that is three parts poisonous. Therefore, if it is not necessary, only needles are used, not medicines. This is a general summary and basic principles of Chinese medicine. Zhang Lao said lightly, "However, medicine can be learned, but needles cannot be learned." ”
Therefore, since later generations, the internal scripture has been in vain, and most of the time its actual situation has been shelved. ”
"For thousands of years, even famous doctors in the past dynasties, such as Zhang Zhongjing, Tao Hongjing, Sun Simiao and others, have been named after medicines. As for famous doctors, for the vast majority of medical practitioners, there is a way to learn medicine, and there is no way to learn acupuncture. ”
"What about Bian Que, Hua Tuo, and Li Shizhen?" asked Xu Guangling.
For the understanding of ancient Chinese medicine, strictly speaking, Xu Guangling actually knew a Li Shizhen and "Compendium of Materia Medica", and Bian Que was the little article mentioned by the old man when he first met Zhang Lao, "Bian Que Meets Cai Huangong".
As for Hua Tuo, Xu Guangling knew that the name was entirely because of Cao Cao's relationship.
Zhang Zhongjing and others that Zhang Lao just mentioned, these names Xu Guangling are not unfamiliar, but these people Xu Guangling are very unfamiliar, I don't know what works and achievements they have had, and even their age is relatively vague.
But the three people he "understood", but Zhang Lao didn't mention it at this time.
"Bian Que, known for needles, also has decoctions. ”
"Hua Tuo, because his writings have not been circulated, it is difficult to make a practical evaluation of it, and in the actual tradition of traditional Chinese medicine, this is only a symbolic symbol. ”
Xu Guangling nodded.
The so-called symbolic symbol can actually be regarded as non-existent. People may talk about this person because of the world's first open surgery, but for practitioners, this famous doctor does not have much practical significance.
"Li Shizhen, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica," Speaking of this, Zhang Lao pondered for a moment, and then said: "There is a contribution." But this book is not the same thing as the "Shennong's Materia Medica" I just mentioned to you. ”
Is there a contribution?
Hearing Zhang Lao say this, Xu Guangling was very surprised.
What is the ......
But since Zhang Lao didn't elaborate, Xu Guangling didn't ask again, he would naturally understand about these things in the future, and in fact, these things had nothing to do with his medical studies, and he asked what Zhang Lao said before: "Teacher, you just said that medicine can be learned, but needles can't be learned?"
"Hmm. Zhang Lao nodded, "This is exactly what I want to tell you next, medicine has a form but a needle is invisible, medicine can be passed on but needles cannot be transmitted." Why can't the needle be transmitted? It's because it involves the most fundamental and crucial things in Chinese medicine. ”
"The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon is divided into two parts. "Zhang Lao's topic changed and turned to this, "One is called "Su Wen", and the other is called "Lingshu". ”
"Suwen is a general introduction, an introduction, and a preface, although it is relatively long. But the main body of this book is still "The Corpse". Over the years, many medical masters, such as Zhang Zhongjing, have inherited, summarized and played "Su Wen", and have become a generation of famous doctors with the principle of Su Wen and the use of medicine. ”
And they don't inherit much from "The Corpse", or simply ignore it. ”
"Why?"
Actually, it's just a sentence. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Lao paused slightly, looked at Xu Guangling, and then said so seriously that he said solemnly: "Those who learn from the Lingshu will be the grandmaster." ”
After saying this, Zhang Lao immediately asked: "Humble words, what is 'pivot'?"
What is a pivot?
Hub.
Central.
Regular activity keeps things in good shape.
This is what Xu Guangling thought of for the first time, and later, the original meaning of this word became clear, pivot, which is the hinge on the old-fashioned door. Broadly speaking, it is a fluid, moving part of a system of activities.
The soldiers of the iron-beaten camp and the flowing water, this "pivot" is the "iron-beaten camp".
Xu Guangling told Elder Zhang all the trivial things he thought of, and after the old man nodded, he asked again: "So, in humble words, what is this 'pivot' in the human body?"
Xu Guangling's expression was grim.
The soldiers of the iron camp and the flowing water, he thought of this sentence again.
The soldiers of flowing water, placed in the human body, obviously refer to the flowing qi and blood, the iron-beaten camp?
Is it a limb, a bone, a blood vessel, a nerve?
Or does it refer to the so-called meridians?
The answer is actually self-evident, in traditional Chinese medicine, it does not talk about bones, blood vessels, or nerves, but only about meridians, which is something that Xu Guangling, a complete layman, also knows.
This cannot be explained by the underdevelopment of ancient understanding.
One of the most obvious examples, that is, blood vessels, which are known to ordinary people, and there must have been injuries and bleeding incidents in ancient times, so the "blood vessels" thing will definitely be discovered, but for a long time, this thing is not talked about in Chinese medicine.
It only talks about meridians.
And it's amazing that acupuncture doesn't hurt.
Can you imagine that a needle is pierced into a human body, sometimes even deeply, and it doesn't hurt at all!
To put it in a somewhat witty way, this TM is not scientific!
Well, science can easily explain this phenomenon, but the question is, how did the ancients come up with the idea of sticking needles into their bodies, and how did they find those landing spots?
"Teacher, are you talking about 'meridians'?" Xu Guangling said.
In the past nearly a month, Zhang Lao only told him some basic conditions of the human body and various pathological cases, but basically did not talk about anything about traditional Chinese medicine, and some basic understanding of acupuncture and moxibustion was still known by Xu Guangling a long time ago.
Of course, he knew this on the one hand, by accident, by curiosity, and by the end, only a little bit of it.
Zhang Lao nodded, "Since the appearance of glass, the discovery of magnification, and the development of magnifying glasses and even microscopes, human beings' understanding of the world has advanced at more than one level. The whole of modern biology can be said to be based on the microscope. ”
"Blood vessels, capillaries, nerves, cells, and even DNA, all of which are visible under the insight of the microscope. And in this case, a very embarrassing thing happened, that is, the meridians mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine. ”
"Meridians, where is it?"
"Since it's in the human body, and it's a place where a needle or even a sharp stone can be pierced, there's no reason why it can't be spotted by a microscope. ”
"Therefore, 'finding the meridians' is the first and fundamental topic of TCM research in the new era. If there is no progress in this topic, it is impossible for Chinese medicine to make progress, and if this proposition cannot be confirmed, then it is impossible for Chinese medicine to gain a foothold in the modern medical system. ”
"There is no doubt about the efficacy of Chinese medicine. Whether it's a needle or a medicine. ”
"There is no doubt that the root of Chinese medicine, the meridians, has not been visible under the microscope. ”
Between the two, there is a great contradiction. ”
Therefore, in view of this, the country has set up the search for meridians as one of the key research plans in the 15-year scientific and technological development plan. ”
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