The Shocking and Extraordinary Romance of the Great Sage

Li Shizhen often said: Learn from the ancients to maintain health: childlike innocence, ant food, turtle desire, and monkey behavior.

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Li Shizhen's father, Li Yanwen (Li Yuechi), once told him before his death:"You don't have to get fame, but you have to be determined." His father was well aware of the difficulties of being a doctor. He taught Shi Zhen'er during his lifetime, saying:"As a doctor, your status is not high, your responsibilities are very heavy, and your life is at stake." He also said:"If someone comes to seek help from someone who is sick, don't ask him whether he is rich or poor. Young and beautiful, grudges and good friends, Chinese and barbarians, stupid and wise, ordinary people, all as one would think of a close relative." While practicing medicine with her father, Li Shizhen discovered early on that there were many errors in herbal medicine books. The efficacy and other data were written in a confusing and unclear manner. Some people even mistakenly wrote poison as tonic and killed people. Therefore, he determined to re-compile the herbal medicine book. When he told his father about the important matter of rebuilding the Kui herbal calligraphy, his father Li Yuechi said:"This is a very meaningful event! But the work of repairing the calligraphy is very arduous. You must have perseverance and be prepared to spend your whole life to complete it.!" His father was very supportive and said:"Son, I am proud of you."

Before and after his father's death, Li Shizhen worked hard to write"Guicao Gangmu"…………

Needless to say, practicing medicine is difficult and upsetting. Li Shizhen founded"Dongbi Hall" with his own name - Dongbi as the hall name. In the first year, the wind howled and the rain roared, and rumors spread everywhere.

After the imperial doctor returned to the capital, he slandered Li Shizhen and spread bad rumors. There were rumors:"The Tang Dynasty died and Li Shizhen died."""Li Shizhen is suffering from Li Death Syndrome""Li Shizhen had one hand chopped off in Lushan Mountain""Li Shizhen only knows a little bit about medicine, but not about treating diseases.""Li Shizhen makes books behind closed doors like building a car, and will be shattered on the book cliff."

Speaking of which, Gao Gao, the imperial doctor in Kyoto, slandered others, but made a lot of jokes himself. It is said that Gao Gao never treated ordinary people, but in order to"show his hand", he treated a countryman until he was half dead. It turned out to be Gao Yu He used a pulse-pulling spell for concubines in the imperial court. He made a string 2 feet long, tied one end to the patient's wrist, and squeezed his own hand with the other end to pull the pulse wave. As a result, he misdiagnosed and gave the wrong medicine. The countryman He was killed by medicine. When the medical community asked about the high-end matter, Dr. Gao confessed:"There are infectious diseases every day. If a national doctor is infected, can I still treat the disease after I die?" And using a long rope to pick up the pulse is the trick"

"The"special trick" was very harmful to people, and concubines in the palace were often misdiagnosed. There was a concubine named Tianli who was also killed once, and then she chose medicine to cure her illness. After Tianli became ill, she was filled with anger. , first played a trick on the imperial doctor Gao Gao, and ordered the girl to destroy all his clothes and pants while he was bathing, leaving Gao Gao in the bath for two days, making him dizzy and falling down with a black nose and swollen eyes. Tianli was eager for revenge and sued the emperor. As soon as Gao Gao behaved like this, Gao Yuyi was demoted from the palace.

Gao Gao had a bad reputation and was beaten on all sides after leaving the palace. He often hit his head with rotten fruit, thinking that there was a"ghost", and often shouted"beat the ghost - beat the ghost", causing I'm so worried that I can't even mention my prestige.

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But it was said that Li Shizhen had not had time to rest since he returned to Qizhou from Lushan, and patients with serious illnesses and injuries came one after another. There was a man with seven broken ribs who was howling to death. Dr. Li urgently applied a secret recipe to relieve his danger.

The gambling doctor Hai Shiwan, a wealthy old man who is obsessed with gambling, came to visit him again, but he saw that he had a sad face and a sad look on his face. He must have lost his gold and silver in gambling.

The leaves fell and I was frightened, thinking that the monster was chasing me again.

Known as a gambling doctor, he does not gamble on medical skills, but gambles all day long, 365 days a year. He had no money left from gambling, so he came to Li Shizhen's house to borrow money. Dr. Li was kind and compassionate, and he also lent him some large sums of money. This time was different. Li Shizhen was furious, and his words were like steel needles piercing his soul. He said sternly:"Hai Shi Wan! If you gamble, you will die faster! Gambling is a serious problem, more dangerous than an incurable disease. Bet again." If you go on, you will lose everything, and that will be miserable. If you can't pay off your gambling debt, you will be torn into pieces. Otherwise, you will be arrested and imprisoned. If you break the law when you are old, it is equivalent to committing suicide; if you are old, entering a prison cell is equivalent to death!"

Li Shizhen took out twenty taels of broken silver and said sternly:"This is the last time. If you gamble again, you are not allowed to enter the door of my Li family again! Let's cut it off and never have any contact with you again!"

The gambler Hai Shiwan complained bitterly, kowtowed and thanked him, and kept saying to change his ways. So he went.

Then Lin Yan, the florist, was poisoned again. No cause could be found. He tried various medicines and sought medical treatment everywhere, but to no avail. On this day, I found the Li Family Medical Hall. Li Shizhen is a sitting doctor and likes to investigate carefully. Listen to what they say and ask where they come from. He asked florist Lin Yan to go to the garden to view flowers and found that"diseases come from flowers." It turned out that half of the ten-acre garden was occupied by oleander flowers, and the red powder flying in the air was poisonous pollen. After Li Shizhen told him, Master Lin was shocked. After returning home, he got rid of all the poisonous flowers and trees. Treating the disease and its root cause, soon the florist Lin Yan's body poison was eliminated, and it was like waking up from a nightmare

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Zhuangzi: A truly strong person understands: being alone is warm, and being alone is also joyful.