"Even myself, I am attracted to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", when I was a child, I liked to read the pictures and explanations in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", efficacy, go to the mountains and forests to pick all kinds of medicinal materials, not to sell but to eat for myself, what wild vegetables, medicinal materials are good for the body, I have picked a lot."

Li Shizhen: Miss Zhang still has such hobbies! Good! Good! Good!

Li Shizhen, whose name is Dongbi, called himself a native of the lake and mountains in his later years, and was a famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty. He is the author of "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Examination of the Eight Veins of the Strange Scriptures", "Pulse Science of the Lake", etc., and was respected as the "Sage of Medicine" by later generations. ”

"Li Shizhen can be regarded as a family since elementary school, and family reasons, his grandfather was a herbalist doctor, and his father Li Yanwen was a famous doctor at that time, and he was a doctor in Tai Hospital."

At that time, the status of private doctors was low, and doctors were regarded as "lower nine ranks" by the gentry and nobles, and their social status was very humble. ”

Li Yanwen is deeply impressed by the discrimination he has suffered, and naturally he does not want his smart youngest son to repeat the mistakes of the past, and pins all his hopes for changing the court on Li Shizhen.

"Although Li Shizhen loves medicine, in order to live up to his father's high expectations, he had to temporarily put his mind on the boring eight-strand article."

"He is smart and intelligent, and he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of 14. Li Yanwen was overjoyed, thinking that his son was hopeful of his ascension. ”

"Who knows the opposite, since the age of 17, Li Shizhen has been named Sun Shan in 3 consecutive township tests."

The grim reality educated Li Yanwen and made him finally understand a truth: you can't impose your will on your son, and the twisted melons are not sweet. Since then, Li Shizhen has given up his fame, so he is determined to abandon Confucianism to study medicine, study medicine, and study medicine with his father at the age of 23, and his medical reputation is becoming more and more prosperous. ”

In the 30th year of Jiajing of Ming Shizong, when Li Shizhen was 33 years old, he became famous because he cured the illness of the son of Zhu Houkun, the king of Fushun, and was hired by Zhu Yingdi, the king of Chu in Wuchang, as the "Fengcizheng" of the palace, and was also in charge of the affairs of the good medical institute.

In the 35th year of Ming Jiajing, he was recommended to work in Tai Hospital, and was sentenced to the post of "Tai Hospital". Three years later, he was recommended to be sentenced to Rentai Hospital in Beijing. After serving for one year, he resigned and returned to his hometown. ”

"During this period, Li Shizhen was actively engaged in drug research, often going in and out of the pharmacy and imperial medicine warehouse of the Tai Hospital, carefully comparing and identifying medicinal materials from all over the world, collecting a large amount of information, and also having the opportunity to enjoy the rich classics of the royal palace and the royal collection."

"At the same time, I obtained a large amount of information about the folk herbal medicine from the court at that time, and saw many drug specimens that are difficult to see, which broadened my horizons and enriched my knowledge."

"In order to clarify each drug, Li Shizhen proposed eight tasks, such as name interpretation, collection of explanations, doubts, correctness and error, repair, smell, indications, inventions, and prescriptions, which can be seen and marked on the "Compendium of Materia Medica".

"Li Shizhen is also very sensitive to the observation of drugs, and has achieved great success by personally collecting and carefully observing drugs to obtain their true methods."

He broke the long-standing classification method of upper, middle and lower grades in materia medica, and established the sixteen-part classification method of the three realms, making the classification system more scientific. In addition, on the basis of Tao Hongjing's main drug classification method, he also established a more complete classification method for all kinds of diseases, and created a drug attribution classification method. ”

"After resigning, he opened a medical hall to sit and practice medicine, and it is also more convenient to understand and observe drugs and medical skills.

"In the course of practicing medicine and reading classical medical books for decades, Li Shizhen found that there were many errors in the ancient herbal books, and decided to recompile a book of herbal medicines."

"In the thirty-first year of Jiajing of Ming Shizong, Li Shizhen began to compile the "Compendium of Materia Medica", in order to understand these drugs in more detail, he left home many times to investigate, and traveled to many famous mountains and rivers in Huguang, Jiangxi, and Zhili, and clarified many difficult problems.

"Li Shizhen personally practiced, extensively learned from the working people, and paid attention to investigation and research, which is another important research method for him."

After extensive consultation, Li Shizhen knew the function of tiger bones to strengthen the spirit from the hunting account, and the vegetable farmers clarified that brassica is rape, and learned the method of preventing mining poisoning from workers, mountain people, fishermen, farmers, cobblers, and hunters...... It was his teachers who benefited him a lot from his research. ”

"Finally, through literature research, the Compendium of Materia Medica records the medical knowledge from Tianzhu, Dashi, Nanyang, Hu people, Fan people, and Sanskrit and Buddhist scriptures."

"After 27 years of long-term efforts and observation, 61-year-old Li Shizhen completed the first draft of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the sixth year of Wanli of Mingshenzong.

After that, it was revised three times in 10 years, for a total of 40 years. Wanli died in the twenty-first year. ”

"Although he has passed away, he has left behind the treasure of the nation."

"On the topic of immortality, when it comes to this, I have to say that there is an emperor, that is, Emperor Jiajing, he is also a superstitious immortal, praying for immortality, people can see the emperor's intentions, so they refine the immortal elixir to please the emperor, thus setting off an alchemy craze in the country, but many people died of poisoning after taking the elixir."

"There are harmful substances such as mercury in the pill, Li Shizhen also said it at the time."

"Li Shizhen knew that the elixir of immortality was refined with mercury, lead, dansha, sulfur, tin, etc., and contained toxins, so he made an announcement to everyone: The claim that the elixir can live long is absolutely not credible!"

He listed that Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty both ate elixirs in the hope of immortality, but didn't they die? Most of the ingredients of the so-called elixir are poisonous substances, and eating them will not only not live long, but will make people poisoned and die! ”

"I was still refuted by Fang Shi, saying: Mercury is non-toxic, and it can become an immortal when taken to become an immortal, and it is a kind of elixir."

"Li Shizhen's words were not fully believed at that time, and there were only a few people who did not take the elixir."

"Although Li Shizhen is resolutely opposed to taking the elixir, he still can't stop these people, so he will come to alchemy himself and fight against these monks."

"He personally developed mercury to treat scabies and other diseases, and used alchemy to burn external medicines, and he also recorded the data of his research in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which had a far-reaching impact on later generations.

It is a pity that Li Shizhen did not see the printing of this masterpiece that he had worked so hard for all his life before his death. In the early autumn of 1593, when the 75-year-old man passed away, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" was still in Nanjing, China, and the book was not printed until three years later. ”

"Li Shizhen's life has been outstanding and brilliant, and he has made great contributions to the medical cause of the motherland. He is not only the pride of the Chinese nation, but also a recognized world cultural celebrity, and it is not an exaggeration to call his "Compendium of Materia Medica" an "encyclopedia". ”