Chapter 7 Zhang Zhongjing

Changsha Taishou Lobby, a human dragon extends from the lobby to the street. A white-haired old man sat in the hall to check the pulse, picked up a brush and opened a prescription, and handed it to the boy next to him to grab the medicine.

Then he said to the patient: "It's okay, it's okay, you don't need to worry about this disease, you take this medicine back, boil three bowls of water into one bowl, twice a day, and after three days, your disease will be cured naturally." ”

The patient, a middle-aged man with tattered clothes and a dirty face, couldn't help but burst into tears when he got the medicine bag handed by the boy, knelt down and kowtowed to the old man a few times.

"Thank you Zhang Taishou, if it weren't for Zhang Taishou's pity, Xiao Ke's little life would be gone, woo woo woo ......"

A man who is too obedient to "not do his job" to treat people? That's right, there is only one such pro-people Taishou in history. The official who cares so much about the suffering of the people is only the "medical saint" Zhang Ji and Zhang Zhongjing.

Legend has it that during Zhang Zhongjing's tenure as the Taishou of Changsha, there was an epidemic of epidemics, and many poor people came to seek medical treatment. He went against the official style of feudal officials, and always warmly received those who came to seek medical treatment, carefully diagnosed and treated, and never refused.

At first, after he had finished his official duties, he would treat people in the back hall or in his own home. Later, due to the increasing number of people who came to treat the patient, he was overwhelmed, so he simply moved the clinic to the Changsha lobby and sat in the hall openly, creating a precedent for famous doctors to sit in the lobby.

Later, in order to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing, the people called the doctors who sat in the pharmacy to treat the disease as "sitting doctors". These doctors also named their own pharmacies "xx tang pharmacies", which is the origin of the name "tang" in traditional Chinese medicine stores.

At this time, a servant hurriedly came in from the back hall and said to the old man, "Master, ephedra, cinnamon branches, and kudzu have all been used with chimes." These drugs are the same drugs commonly used in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases.

Zhang Zhongjing frowned, raised his tired face, and said to the servant: "Then don't hurry up and go to the purchase, find the shopkeeper Peng, he promised to give me a discount." ”

"Master, this, this ......" the servant hesitated.

"What is this, if you have something to say, what kind of system will it become."

"Sir, we don't have that much money." The servant lowered his head and whispered.

"This ......" This time it was Zhang Zhongjing's turn to "this".

After saying "Alas......" and "this", he couldn't help but sigh. He himself knew the state of the Taishou Mansion. He is a person who cares about the suffering of the people, of course, it is impossible to exploit the people, not only will he not collect taxes indiscriminately, but he also often reduces or exempts some taxes according to the situation, so that the income of the Taishou Mansion can be imagined.

However, there are wars everywhere, and there are many displaced people, and epidemics are rampant. Most of these sick people are extremely poor, and they can't even fill their stomachs, so how can they have money to see a doctor and buy medicine?

In this case, Zhang Zhongjing usually treats these people for free. Of course, you can do without the consultation fee, at most you work hard, but this medicine is not obtained out of thin air, and it also needs to be bought back with money, although the pharmacist has given a big discount, but he can't afford to toss this long-term medical gift.

How does that sentence come about: "It is not difficult for a person to do good deeds, but it is difficult to do good deeds in a lifetime." ”

Zhang Zhongjing is this kind of person who has done good deeds all his life, and he is worthy of the name of "medical saint". But doing good deeds also depends on ability. This capability refers not only to technology and strength, but also to other aspects, such as financial strength.

In terms of technical level, Zhang Zhongjing is estimated to be among the top three in the world, but in terms of financial resources...... However, the medical treatment and medicine donation need to be backed by strong financial resources.

A penny is difficult for a hero, not to mention ......, Zhang Zhongjing looked at the dragon of people who stretched out from the lobby, and these people became birds waiting to be fed in his eyes. It's not a problem that money can solve.

A sense of powerlessness hit, "At this time, born in troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog, who can blame it?" If you want to blame it, blame the warlords who have caused trouble in the world. Zhang Zhongjing hated those warlords who fought all day long.

"Master, master......" The servant's shout sounded in his ears, and Zhang Zhongjing withdrew from his thoughts.

"Go, take Madame's bead to Long Fengxiang and sell it, let's make an emergency first."

"Master, this is unacceptable, it is Madame's favorite gadget, Madame often takes it out at night to see, saying that she can see the faint light."

Long Fengxiang is the most famous jewelry store in Changsha, and that bead was a thank you gift from Zhang Zhongjing who cured Wu Guotai's illness a few years ago, and Wu Hou Sun Quan.

And that bead is said to be a night pearl, which can shine at night, but it is estimated that it is not a high-grade night pearl, and the light emitted is difficult to see if it is not seen carefully.

"If you are told to go, you will go, why are there so many words, just a bead, and you can't eat it as food."

The servant went to run errands, and Zhang Zhongjing continued to devote himself to intense diagnosis and treatment.

Late at night, Zhang Zhongjing dragged his tired body back to the back hall to prepare for rest. The expected nagging of the lady did not show up, because an uninvited guest arrived.

The uninvited guest was a middle-aged scribe who gave Zhang Zhongjing a long look and said, "The student meets Zhang Taishou." Mrs. Zhang was guarding the sick, countless people were alive, and the high wind was bright, which made the late students admire. ”

"Oh, where do you come from?" Zhang Zhongjing asked listlessly with a tired face.

"I can't hide it, my late life came from the west."

"Oh, it turned out to be under Uncle Liuhuang, Uncle Huang is benevolent and righteous, and the old man is also admired. Uncle Huang sent you here, but someone needs to be treated by the old man. Oh, by the way, the old man helped his wife treat his illness a few years ago. Dare to ask if Mrs. Gan is okay? Although he was very dissatisfied with the major warlords attacking each other, Liu Bei was an exception, he was known for loving the people and being benevolent, and Zhang Zhongjing had a good impression of him.

"Mrs. Gan is fine, but her body is still a little weak, and she stays in the backyard all day to recuperate her body, and rarely comes out to see people."

In fact, although Mrs. Gan was saved by Zhang Zhongjing, her vitality was injured by that serious illness, and her body and bones were not good, so she could not serve Liu Bei. Because Mrs. Sun ran away again, Liu Bei, a ruthless person, married Mrs. Wu after entering Shu.

Mrs. Wu's name is amaranth, she is the daughter of Wu Shu, Wu Yi's sister, and Chen Liuren. The Wu brothers and sisters lost their father at an early age, and their father had old friends with Liu Yan during his lifetime, so the whole family moved into Sichuan with Liu Yan. When Wu Amaranth became an adult, he married Liu Yan's son Liu Mao. After Liu Mao's death, Wu Amaran became a widow.

Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, and then Mrs. Sun divorced him and returned to Eastern Wu, so someone suggested that Liu Bei marry Wu Yuan, a stable and intelligent beautiful widow. Liu Bei was worried that he had a kinship relationship with Liu Mao, and Fa Zheng persuaded: "When it comes to kinship relations, how is it compared to Jin Wengong and Ziyu? So Liu Bei had no worries and married Wu Amaranth as his wife.

"Well, Mrs. Gan's illness is a lot of consumption, and she is alive after nine deaths, and she really needs a few years of recuperation. Could it be that Uncle Huang wants the old man to go and recuperate Mrs. Gan's body? ”

"No, no, I was not sent by the lord in my later life, and the person who sent me was the little son."

For a national treasure-level figure like Zhang Zhongjing, how could Liu Hou let it go. Liu Houke remembered that Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" was praised as "the treasure book of eternity" by later generations of doctors, and many famous prescriptions in the book, such as ephedra soup, guizhi soup, chaihu soup, white tiger soup, Qinglong soup, Ma Xing Shigan soup, etc., have been tested by thousands of years of clinical practice, and have been confirmed to have high curative effects.

Moreover, the influence of "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" far beyond national borders, and has a great impact on Asian countries, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and other countries. Especially in Japan, there was an ancient school of Zhang Zhongjing in history, and to this day, the Japanese Chinese medicine community still likes to use Zhang Zhongjing's prescription.

Typhoid prescriptions generally account for more than 60% of the proprietary Chinese medicines (leaching agents) produced by some well-known Chinese medicine pharmaceutical factories in Japan, such as Kotaro, Uchida, and Mori Fudo, (some of which are obviously evolutionary formulas of typhoid formulas). It can be seen that "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" has a far-reaching influence in the field of Japanese traditional Chinese medicine.

"Oh, I don't know what your son is looking for the old man?" Zhang Zhongjing asked as he stroked Bai Huahua's beard. He still has a certain impression of Liu Hou, when he saw Mrs. Gan back then, the little kid followed him in and out, asking this and that, and was very curious about everything.

Zhang Zhongjing felt that he was very interested in medical skills, and he was also very smart, but he also had the idea of accepting him as an apprentice. But knowing that Liu Hou, as the heir of a hero, would never leave behind his good family business and travel around with him, he had to give up this idea in the end.

"The little boy opened a hospital in Chengdu and wanted to invite a divine doctor to preside over it." When it comes to business, the middle-aged scribe changed his name to call Zhang Zhongjing a "miracle doctor", obviously for his identity as a doctor, not for his identity as a guard.

"Oh, the hospital? Is it too a hospital? The Son of Heaven is obviously in Xuchang, and your son-in-law has set up a hospital in Chengdu, aren't you afraid of overstepping? Zhang Zhongjing was a little angry, no matter how he said it, he was also a Hanchen, and he had always been disgusted with rebellious ministers and thieves.

"No, no, this hospital is an institution for the people to see a doctor, not for the royal family. It's a long story, so please listen to me slowly. ”

At this time, the servant brought tea, and Zhang Zhongjing beckoned the middle-aged man to sit down, intending to talk with him at night.

"It's just that you have seen it during the day, I have a lot of patients here, if I leave, they have no way to seek medical treatment, and the old man really can't bear it." The medical saint really has great compassion, he is not greedy for the power of Taishou, let him leave, his first thought is what to do with the patients.

In fact, he had already moved the idea of resigning from the government to concentrate on medicine, but when he became this Taishou, he could mobilize a lot of resources and treat more patients, so he has always hung the name of this Taishou.

"Don't refuse the divine doctor first, ask the divine doctor a few questions first. First, how many patients can you treat? ”

"This, the old man can probably diagnose and treat more than 100 people in a day."

Don't think that more than 100 people are not much, in fact this is quite impressive. What is the concept of more than 100 people? If you diagnose and treat one person in an average of 5 minutes, there are only 12 people in an hour, and only 120 people work 10 hours a day without eating, drinking, or going to the toilet.

What's more, the diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, looking, smelling, asking, and cutting, is very time-consuming, and 5 minutes is not necessarily enough to prescribe medicine. In addition, some patients need time-consuming and laborious special therapies such as acupuncture, massage, cupping, and bone grafting. So there are more than 100 people a day, which shows how hard Zhang Zhongjing is.

Zhang Zhongjing is now in his 60s, and his energy is not as good as day by day, and long-term hard work has caused great damage to his body. In fact, history records that Zhang Zhongjing was born in about 150~154 A.D. and died in about 215~219 A.D. (Because the time is too long, the birth and death years cannot be accurately obtained.) ）

However, one thing is for sure, his lifespan is no more than 70 years old, and according to the above years, the longest is 69 years old. A medical master, in the eyes of ordinary people, should be able to live a long life. For example, Tang Zhi's grandson Simiao is said to have died at the age of one hundred and two (according to legend, he lived to be one hundred and forty-one years old), but why did Zhang Zhongjing not even live to be 70 years old?

Zhang Zhongjing, as a Changsha Taishou, a high-ranking official, will not die because of poverty and other reasons. So what is the reason that this ancient medical saint will not even live to be 70 years old? Liu Hou believes that it is probably due to his long-term hard work.