Around the middle of the eighteenth century, Xu Dachun treated Shen Weide, a patient from Puyuan Town, a neighboring township, in his Wujiang Huixi Thatched Cottage.

Shen suffered from severe chancre, the pubic root was rotten, and his life was in danger. After Dr. Xu treated him according to the usual Chinese medicine surgical methods, he gave the unfortunate and crippled patient a medicine called "Regeneration Linggen Fang" based on the secret books of Chinese medicine he had read. Two years have passed since the drug was taken, and Dr. Xu may have forgotten how effective the drug was, but the patient's family had a dispute because of this. Because the loss of Shen's reproductive organs was known to the whole town, but this year, his wife gave birth to a son, which was related to the legitimacy of the inheritance, and the people of the same clan who coveted Shen's property raised suspicions and intervened. Shen had no choice but to tell his father-in-law that he had taken Doctor Xu's medicine, and his yang path grew again. So, his father-in-law invited the clansmen to conduct a public inspection, and if this was the case, Shen's original rotten genitals were now clearly a new **. The suspicion has disappeared, and the miracle that happened to Shen has also become a medical legend, adding a good story to Xu Dachun's medical activities.

When recounting this medical incident, the specific recipe of the Regenerative Spirit Root Formula, as well as the preparation and usage, are disclosed:

Calcined milk stone three coins and five points, amber seven points, cinnabar six points, ginseng one coin, pearl seven points, bezoar four points, real gouache four points, fetal dog one, realgar six points. Boil it with Ganoderma lucidum, Shou Wu, strong seed, and knotweed juice for a day and night, and fry it like silver. The top is the end, each serving is three centi, four servings a day, lying and another serving, all with half a catty of Poria cocos, twenty bowls of yin and yang water, five bowls of frying, five servings in a row, seven days of inspection.

The author's medical case rarely records the prescription, but it is recorded to confirm the authenticity of the medical case, and at the same time, as a morally credible and honest physician, Xu Dachun hopes that this fruitful prescription will be made public so that other doctors can use it to treat the same disease. This is also the embodiment of the ethical spirit of a Chinese physician with the purpose of "living people".

However, the extent to which this real clinical case illustrates the significance of the progress of medical technology cannot be explained in Xu Dachun's time. Cases of organ regeneration such as this have always been difficult to avoid the danger of solitary evidence. As for Chinese medicine, the argument that supports its establishment is the imagination of the body in Chinese medicine. In other words, according to the Chinese understanding and principle of the body, the body that has been damaged (i.e., disease) has the function of self-repair and regeneration (and even immortality), and only needs to find a suitable medical method. Therefore, the key lies in the medicine, what kind of medicine has the effect of repairing the body, which is the goal that Chinese doctors (including Chinese Taoists who use medicine as a means) have been pursuing. Similarly, according to the Chinese imagination and knowledge of the body, those natural medicines (plantal, animal, mineral) that correspond to and are related to the human body may be a panacea, and they have also become secret methods of repairing the body and have been used in medical attempts. Xu Dachun followed the same line of thought, and he used a secret recipe to do an experimental treatment of Shen's reproductive organs, and received strange results. Obviously, this successful medical case of the eighteenth century once again validated the medical possibilities of body repair. For physician Xu Dachun, what really convinced him was not only the mysterious restorative effect of the leading drug "fetal dog" in the secret recipe, but also the special knowledge relationship between the body and the drug. It was this relationship of knowledge that guided and inspired him to create the miracle of organ regeneration.

But what makes people feel unsatisfied is that after this case appeared once, at least not a second time in Xu Dachun's case. According to modern Western medicine, the authors have not been able to conduct effective replicate trials, and therefore have not yet reached empirical value. In fact, how many years have passed since Xu Dachun announced his prescription, and we have not been able to find a follow-up certificate for the clinical use of traditional Chinese physicians. That is to say, the prescriptions that Xu Dachun discovered and hoped to play a wider role in medicine could not actually be popularized and applied, and the fact of this organ regeneration was only a historical story.

The question is: why does the "seminarian" that Chinese medicine has long aspired to and believed in always stay in the embryonic stage? Why are Chinese physicians surprised to witness organ regeneration, but fail to develop into a complete restorative medicine? Finding the answers to these questions requires going deep into the knowledge structure of Chinese medicine and the body, and it is undoubtedly quite difficult to understand them. Perhaps, the obstacle lies in the interpretation of the body in Chinese medicine. Obviously, the direction of Chinese medicine is only to insist on constructing the body, not analyzing it. In the construction of a closed and self-sufficient body, Chinese medicine only reads the body repeatedly, and never feels the need to open the body. This body, which is described by Chinese medicine, is known but not visible. Therefore, when a lost reproductive organ is suddenly revived, even if the doctors "can't see" why it has regrown from the body, they do not have the urge to enter the body to ask questions and study. Xu Dachun's medical records, although their clinical prospects are very attractive, have once again shelved the essence of restorative medicine.

Not long ago, I read the latest introduction to Western medicine, which included research on organ regeneration, and compared it with the case of Xu Dachun, I found that Chinese medicine had been shelved for nearly 300 years. According to the development of its "visibility", Western medicine has made more and more discoveries about the inside of the human body, and the development and application of "rejuvenation medicine" with "organ regeneration" as the forefront is based on the discovery of the "extracellular matrix" inside the human body. The discovery suggests that the extracellular matrix, which is the "glue" for cell integration in the body, "not only forms the biological scaffold necessary for the maintenance of animal tissues and organs to prevent them from dissolving into a paste, but also releases signaling molecules to help the body repair itself." Therefore, surgeons can "extract extracellular matrix from the natural tissues of pigs and other animals" and implant it into the patient's body to "induce the body to regenerate new organs and replace damaged organs", so as to achieve the final effect of repairing the body.

This article appeared in Global Science, Issue 5, 2014. The biggest difference between Western modern medicine and Chinese medicine is that they open the body to the greatest extent, and everything is based on "visible". Because it is "visible", it is possible to find the cause of the body's repair, and it is possible to repeatedly compare and experiment to finally determine the effective "extracellular matrix" extracted from "animals", which is widely used in clinical practice.

Western medicine uses "pigs" and Chinese medicine uses "dogs" to use animals as "medicine", however, they make organ regeneration a medical science, while Chinese medicine can only become a medical legend. Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine are divided into two paths, and it is always difficult to end up in the same place. Although the imagination of Chinese medicine about body repair is by no means worse than that of Western medicine, the "knowable" can reach a miraculous level on the intellectual and emotional level, but it is no match for the practical function of "visible". This is one of the key themes of many puzzles in Chinese medicine.

I saw an article by accident, and I will show you, if you have any opinions and opinions, you can leave a message in the book review, or you can come to the group to talk to Lao Bai, see the introduction of the group number!