According to information, the person who said this is Liu Chun, Ming Dynasty physician, the original text is from the "medicinal treatment of the General Law Supplement". From the age, there was no Western medicine, should be referring to Chinese herbs. The full text of this sentence is "the medicine is three times poisonous, only appetizer is not poisonous, cover appetizer detoxification also". Meaning: any drug, its own have a certain degree of toxicity, only appetizing herbs are non-toxic, because the role of appetizing herbs for the elimination of toxins in the human body.
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine divides Chinese herbs into four categories: big poison, regular poison, small poison and no poison. The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica, which contains 365 types of herbs, including 120 top quality ones, clearly states that they are "non-toxic" and "prolong life".
Here we find that "medicine is three times poisonous" of "is", not "all" of "is". ". The "medicine" is not "all the medicine". The term "three points" is considered by some medical practitioners to mean "three points for treatment and seven points for nourishment". The word "poison" has a different meaning in ancient and modern Chinese, and the modern Chinese word "poison" means "harmful".
Anciently, "poison" has two meanings, one is "harmful", the other is "partiality" meaning, the ancient medical books in the era of the Neijing, most of the cases refer to the "partiality". In most cases, ancient medical texts of the Nei Jing era refer to "partiality". The ancients believed that as long as the drug is cold and hot, even if it is toxic, Chinese medicine scholars follow the ancient, Liu Chun is also along the meaning of "partiality".
In fact, people are sick, is the body's yin and yang out of balance, the bias itself, the doctor with hot medicine to drive your cold, cold medicine to clear your heat, it is the use of drugs to fight against the bias of your body, so that your yin and yang to re-balance, the right medicine, is not the right thing to do?
Scientific development today, the natural environment has changed, from the development trend of disease, some diseases have an earlier age of onset, and some diseases become more serious. Young people get old age disease, not new at all; just onset is very serious, more not uncommon; many people can not sleep, irritable, long-term in a state of sub-health ...... At this time, traditional Chinese medicine can play its role, used to strengthen our physical fitness.
As the saying goes, "a daily piece of ginger, no need to prescribe medication", "a few dates a day, a lifetime does not appear old", ginger, jujube is the most commonly used medicines of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, the famous "Gui Zhi Tang The famous "Gui Zhi Tang" *** have 5 flavors of medicine, ginger, jujube accounted for 2 flavors, used to strengthen the spleen and stomach, inspire Yang Qi.
More inconceivable is that some people actually use "yam" to save the patient. According to records, the author of "medical Zhizhong Senxi Lu" Zhang Xichun, he has repeatedly used fresh yam juice, successful treatment of dying patients. Until today, yam is still very effective in tonifying the lungs, spleen and kidneys.
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In 2002, the Ministry of Health published a list of 87 items that are both food and medicine. For example, papaya, yam, white lentil, jujube, ginger, kelp, fennel, peppercorns, honey, and dandelion, which are both food and medicine, are not toxic.
Maybe someone asked, dietary medicine health care is okay, can cure?
The therapeutic medicine is indeed good, but can not cure all diseases. In these 87 flavors of therapeutic medicine, not all of them are as great as yam, there are a few generals, the rest, sort of a caretaker.
The doctor's prescription of medicines, just like the war, pay attention to strategy and tactics. For example, "acute pneumonia" this enemy, will generally send "ephedra" to play the vanguard, so that "gypsum" to do the main force, so that "almonds "bomb bunkers, and ordered" hot licorice "to penetrate into the enemy's internal, pretending to be" peacemaker "and sometimes also need to" chicken song dog thief "knocking on the sidelines! ...... to arrange the troops to defeat it.
When fighting a tough battle, you need a variety of "talent", alone therapeutic medicine is far from enough, then, where do we go to select "talent"?
The Compendium of Materia Medica contains 1,892 kinds of drugs. The Chinese Materia Medica (1999) recorded 8980 kinds of Chinese herbs, plus other ethnic minority drugs, there are about 12,800 kinds of medicinal plants in China. And in the many medicines, there are some good medicine, surprisingly poisonous, they are like generals, not inevitably a little stubborn, but can save the day, victory in a thousand miles. When the condition is extremely serious and complex, the doctor had to use the "tiger and wolf medicine", "poison to fight poison".
Some people will ask, put poison can indeed cure, the key is to be able to detoxification ah?
In order not to let everyone poisoned, generations of ancestors, in order to test the poison, at the risk of life, such as "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons, and get tea to solve the". Li Shizhen is not an example of trying drugs, he tried mandarins, many times divided into different doses to eat, and finally get the antidote, but also understand the mandarins.
It is because of our countless ancestors that we have the famous "nineteen fears" and "eighteen countermeasures", which clearly tell us which drugs cannot be overdosed and which drugs cannot be used together. Our ancestors also created the concoction method of traditional Chinese medicine, which removes the toxicity and preserves the medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine. The ancestors, with their lives, wrote the perfect chapter of detoxification for future generations.
According to the latest statistics of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are about 12,800 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, of which more than 120 kinds of adverse reactions occur, and no more than 50 kinds of serious adverse reactions occur, and there are many medicines without side effects, and the doctors are curing the diseases without toxicity, which is not a matter of concern, so you can use them without any worry.
There is no perfect thing in the world, and the same is true of drugs. Drugs are again special and are used to save lives. Doctors do not use drugs, no weapons, how to fight? Fighting hard battles also need to use more powerful weapons. The enemy is rampant and if we don't kill these diseases at the earliest, they will kill us. Sooner or later, wounds can heal, fear of injury to miss the opportunity to fight only defeat.
War will inevitably lead to injuries, treatment will also be at risk, patients and doctors should work together, *** with the fight against the virus. Our world leader in traditional Chinese medicine, not to be used to strengthen our body, is tantamount to a fool.
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