Taoist medicine occupies an important position in ancient medicine, and is a very brilliant chapter in ancient medicine, and Leng Jicang, Ding Jiuwu, Feng Daochan, and Mo Wendao are all known Taoist doctors in the rivers and lakes. ”

Although Taoist medicine is said to be witch and doctor, it is still divided into two different directions, one is herbal medicine, mainly relying on picking herbs in the forest, according to its medicinal value, to explore its curative effect on the treatment of people, Leng Jicang and Ding Jiuwu are very proficient in this regard, have treated countless patients, so they are famous in the rivers and lakes, and the other is Taoist spells, with charms, spells, blessings, fasting, etc. as a method of treatment, is a part of Taoist medicine with the color of witch doctors, they believe that the root of the disease is ghosts and gods, the medical book "Taiping Sutra" In addition to discussing medicine and nourishment, there is also a saying that "those who want to cure diseases and open the way to the great way take the trick from the Danshu to swallow the words". Feng Daozen and Mo Wendao are good at spells, and they are the masters of saving people and curing diseases for witch doctors, and the two are also famous all over the world.

The origin of Taoist medicine is very long, it has existed with the emergence of Taoism, and it has gradually reflected its extraordinary value in pathological medicine in the continuous development. It includes the ingestion, outer pill, inner pill, guide, elixir and charm with the color of witch doctors, etc., which are both related to and different from traditional Chinese medicine, and the essence of medicine and pharmacology is an integral part of Chinese medicine.

In ancient times, there was no distinction between witches and doctors. "Shiben" has a record of "Wu Xian, Yaochen also, with Hongshu as the doctor of Emperor Yao". "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the West" says that in the great wilderness, "there are spiritual mountains, Wu Xian, Wu Ji, Wu Qi, Wu Peng, Wu Gu, Wu Zhen, Wu Li, Wu Di, Wu Xie, Wu Luo Ten Witches, from then on, a hundred medicines are there." The ancient wizards were all witches and had both medical knowledge and health preservation skills, and were later called fairy monks. The medical knowledge, health preservation techniques and other methods they mastered were later transformed into Taoist cultivation techniques, and the immortal monks also evolved into Taoist priests.

In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, early Taoism used charms to cure diseases as an important means of preaching. When expounding the immortal idea of immortality, the Taiping Sutra expounded the relationship between essence, qi and gods, as well as the nine heads of the true way and the law of keeping one, and demonstrated the heaven and earth, yin and yang, the five elements, health preservation, medicine, charms and cures, etc., emphasizing that "the art of saving the dead and life must be examined in detail", and created the excellent medical ethics of "the lower and the slaves and maids of the people".

Wei and Jin Dynasty to descend Ge Hong, summed up the theory of immortal magic since the Warring States Period, he in the "Bao Puzi Inner Chapter" "Jin Dan", "Huang Bai", "Immortal Medicine", "Di Zhen", "Zhi Li", "Wei Zhi", "Shi Stagnation" and "Miscellaneous Ying" and other articles, summarized the Eastern Jin Dynasty before the basic overview of the Wai Dan, Xing Qi, Food, Shouyi, Fang Zhongshu and so on. Ge Hong listed "those who serve the Tao to save people from danger, avoid disasters, protect people from diseases, and make sure that they do not die in vain" as "meritorious service". In view of the fact that in the poor countryside and the suffering of civilians who have no medical treatment and no prescription, he considered the opinions of all families, collected more than 100 kinds of simple prescriptions, and wrote "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" to save people from death.

Tao Hongjing, a famous Taoist priest in Qi Liang, wrote "One Hundred Sides Behind the Elbow" with his incomplete omissions, and wrote "One Hundred Sides Behind the Elbow", so that he "passed through the people and sent them down to the people". He is proficient in medicine and pharmacology, diligent in alchemy, and has written Danshu and works on medicine and health cultivation, such as "Taiqing Zhudan Collection", "Serving Bait Formula", "Materia Medica", "Jijin Dan Huang Bai Fang", "Herb and Tree Miscellaneous Medicine Method" and "Serving Qi Guidance", etc., and has special discussions on foreign pills, taking food, guiding, and atrial surgery.

Sun Simiao, an outstanding Taoist medical scientist in the early Tang Dynasty, collected the great achievements of medicine before the Tang Dynasty, and was famous for his practice of medicine and cultivation. He personally collected medicines and medicines, extensively collected folk prescriptions and secret recipes, and made great contributions to the development of medicine, and later generations respected him as the king of medicine. There are more than 30 kinds of works recorded in history, and the existing ones in the world include "Preparation for Emergencies", "Theory of Recuperation", "Taiqing Danjing Tips" and "Pillow Zhongfang", etc., which combine the Taoist internal cultivation theory with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and incorporate pranayama, massage, guidance, qi and other health preservation techniques into the field of medical technology, and use alchemy as a means of medicine.

In the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, there were "four great families" in medicine, namely Liu Wansu of the Hanliang faction, Zhang Congzheng of the Conquering faction, Li Gao of the Bushi faction, and Zhu Zhenheng of the Yin Cultivation faction.

The Taoist Neidan family compares the human body to a furnace, and compares the essence and qi in the body to medicine, which is smelted by the gods and masters the operation methods, believing that the essence, qi and spirit can be condensed into "Dan" in the body to achieve immortality. The development of Neidanshu has formed a relatively complete system of Taoist medicine. In the 600 years before and after the Jin and Yuan dynasties, Nei Dan became the focus of Taoist medicine.

Taoist medicine is rich and complex, among which the core of traditional Chinese medicine is the consumption of Waidan, as an important content of Chinese medicine in a broad sense, there are health preservation techniques such as guiding, pranayama, bigu, fangzhong and inner Dan cultivation, and there are also some charms, mantras, blessings, fasts and so on with the color of mysterious witch doctors. The three are integrated into one, constituting the characteristics of Taoist medicine, with the essence and the dross. In the process of development, its essence has made great contributions to Chinese medicine.

In the medical literature before the Han Dynasty, basically pharmacies, and no plasters were used. After the Two Jin Dynasty, a large number of ointments made by alchemy methods appeared, such as the five poison god ointment, the continuous ointment, the salvia ointment, the snake bit ointment, etc. The plaster preparation of TCM surgery has a significant effect on the treatment of sores, ulcers, carbuncles, gangrene, etc., and has become the main drug of TCM surgery.

The "Four Great Dans of Xuanmen", such as the Red Ascending Pill and the White Descending Pill, as well as the Qiankun One Qi Pill, the Mixed Yuan Pill, the Golden Turtle Xia Hai Dan, and the Poison Dragon Pill, are all derived from the secret methods passed down by Taoist doctors. With the development of consumption, herbs and herbs were gradually added to the smelting of pills, and the types of medicines continued to increase, which promoted the development of this herbal medicine. Most of the herbs and herbs in "Hug Puzi Inner Chapter: Immortal Medicine" are herbal medicine prescriptions.

Tao Hongjing's "Notes on the Classic of Materia Medica" brings together more than 700 kinds of medicines. Sun Simiao classified more than 800 kinds of medicines in "Qianjin Yifang", some of which were rare in pre-Tang Materia Medica. The medical practice of Taoist physicians provided the basis for the development of this herbal medicine.

According to ancient documents and archaeological excavations, the art of guidance and room was popular in the world as early as the Warring States period as the art of the monks, and then it was inherited by Taoism as an inner Dan technique and constantly enriched, becoming one of the important contents of Taoist medicine.

From a religious point of view, the priests and Taoist priests explain the light sensation of the eyes when the eyes are closed, the heat sensation in the abdomen when they are lucky, and the floating sensation of the body when they are in meditation. In a large number of works on Neidanshu, through the exploration of the changes of the human body's "qi, qi, qi, blood, meridians" and other laws, the theory and medical methods of traditional Chinese medicine have been enriched. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Imperial Medical Department set up masseurs to teach the method of introduction. After listing the causes and symptoms, the famous book "On the Origin and Symptoms of Diseases" by Chao Yuanfang, a doctor of the imperial physician of the Sui Dynasty, also included guided treatment methods, including the method of self-luck. After the Tang and Song dynasties, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine emphasized "form" and slightly neglected the study of "qi", but the theory of internal cultivation of Taoism continued to develop and received the attention of doctors.

Most of the techniques of internal cultivation and cultivation in Taoist medicine imitate nature. Knowing the longevity of the turtle and crane is to prolong its life, and its food is used to clear the valley, blowing and breathing, spitting out the old and accepting the new, conducting the qi to make peace, and the pull-up to make the soft, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, and practicing all kinds of techniques, not sticking to one side. It is believed that by insisting on internal cultivation, we can return to the roots, adjust yin and yang, dredge the meridians, promote qi and blood, enhance immunity, and even prolong life.

Zhang Ziyang's "Eight Veins Sutra" recorded in the breath breath wandering has become the main guide for the martial arts factions to practice internal strength, the martial arts of all factions in the rivers and lakes are used to adjust the yin and yang, dredge the meridians, and activate the blood, in order to achieve the purpose of quickly improving internal strength and practicing martial arts.

Taoist medicine is broad and profound, has a long history, and has made great contributions to the treatment of the people of the world, and its achievements are far more than the above, and Leng Ji Cang, Ding Jiuwu, Feng Dao Zen, Mo Wendao have all the true transmission of Taoist medicine, and the rivers and lakes have asked them "North Ji Cang, South Dao Zen, East Ninety-five, West asked." The evaluation is enough to reflect the status and reputation of the four people in the rivers and lakes.

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