Ancient food and medical conditions could not keep up, plagues often ran rampant, and some even changed history.
From the Lingdi period in the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Liang Wudi period in the Western Jin Dynasty, there were more than 20 large-scale plagues. During the period of 167, 59 large-scale plagues occurred in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty 152, the 15 plague broke out. In 277 of the Ming Dynasty, there were 75 large-scale plagues in * * *, among which the plague in the late Ming Dynasty directly gave birth to the great uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.
During the 296 years when the Qing Dynasty enjoyed the country, there was also a great plague in 78 years.
No matter Chinese or foreign, no matter when. Plague? Epidemic? The bones were bare in the field, and there was no one among them, and there was no crowing. What happened to people? Are the truest portrayal.
In the face of this devastating plague, the central government and ordinary people attach great importance to it and sum up many effective means.
The first measure: control the source
During the period of Song Shenzong, the plague in Ganzhou originated from the polluted water source in the upper reaches, and with this continuous pollution source, the plague spread quickly.
Seeing that the epidemic was getting worse, the new county magistrate Liu Yi took decisive measures to control the epidemic? Separation of rain and sewage? Build a famous? Fushou Ditch? To ensure that the sewage bypasses the living area.
It was also with this move that the plague in Ganzhou was completely contained.
The second measure: cut off the route of transmission.
It was implemented as early as the Qin dynasty? Isolation method? All leprosy patients are concentrated in? Moving? Go and live.
Using this trick generally requires the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, because at that time, once the patient was? Moving? Basically, it is equivalent to being sentenced to death. Whether you can survive depends on your nature.
Although it is biting, it has a very obvious protective effect on healthy people.
This technology was carried out more thoroughly in the Qing Dynasty. Because Jurchen is from outside the customs, her resistance to smallpox is relatively weak, even if the royal family is infected with smallpox, it is difficult to escape.
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So the Qing dynasty strictly controlled smallpox: the laws of the Qing dynasty stipulated that as long as smallpox patients were found, they must be isolated and let them live 20 miles away from the city. Ships from overseas should also be strictly inspected? Acne patients? , put an end to all input channels.
The third measure: free medical care.
Although the first two measures are effective, they can only contain the plague, and if we want to eradicate it, we must start with medicine.
Since the early Han Dynasty, official volunteers have provided free medical services to epidemic areas and patients. This policy of benefiting the people was later inherited and continued by successive dynasties.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, once faced with epidemic disaster, the government would immediately allocate special funds and send special personnel to the epidemic area for disaster relief. Doctors all over the country are the best doctors, and the medical expenses are paid by the court free of charge.
Typical Emperor Taizong Chunhua Kaifeng disease prevailed for three years, and the court ordered the Imperial Medical Bureau to send ten doctors with excellent medical skills to the front line to save lives.
In addition, the government will carry out medical reform. The Sichuan plague, which broke out in Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, was difficult to control for a while. Many people think it is? Natural disasters? However, the local governor did not believe in evil and played a hard operation. He ordered a dozen resettlement areas for victims to be demarcated in blocks and cleaned up every day. Finally? Live tens of thousands of people? .
Pay attention to hygiene, health and longevity? It's true.
What wonderful epidemic prevention measures did the ancients create themselves?
The government works hard for disaster relief, and the people also work hard for disaster relief? Save yourself? Some methods are as shocking as today.
First, drink water.
The ancients had very limited knowledge of the disease itself and how to treat it, and most of them prayed for the blessing of the gods, which created a hotbed for cults.
For example, the opening angle in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The plague at the end of the Han Dynasty made Zhang Jiao suddenly rise, and he practiced the magical technique of ghost painting:
This technology is not difficult to operate. Burn the painted spell and drink it with water. It is said that? Cure all diseases? .
If there was a big Han TV station at that time, Zhang Jiao would be invited to make a live broadcast.
As for the curative effect, there are scores: if it is cured, it is the divine power of Zhang Tianshi; What is not cured is your insincerity.
If a big fellow asks the Socratic question of Zhang Jiao, Zhang Jiao also has something to say. Isn't it alive and kicking after healing? So what if you die? Can the dead get sick?
People in despair at that time didn't think so much at all.
Of course, this move was also very effective at that time. The followers of Zhang Jiao once expanded to millions, and the operation of drinking water was used until Zhang Jiao died.
Second, psychological adjustment.
Same point? Heart? The role of? Zhang Fake Shi Tian? Didn't expect this? Real Zhang Tianshi? Do the same thing.
The ancients paid attention to it? Calm, cool and natural? . Once upon a time, some people thought: if you feel good, the whole person will feel good, and you won't get sick.
In this way, will Zhang Daoling, the ancestor of Taoism (that is, Zhang Tianshi in The Journey to the West) look for inaccessible places after the outbreak? Seclusion? . Therefore, the real Zhang Tianshi is not as divine as the pseudo-Zhang Tianshi, and will cast spells by drawing lots, but in the face of the epidemic, he still hides at home to avoid the crowd like some people now.
Three or five stone powders
However, once the physical illness exceeds the threshold of human tolerance, self-hypnosis is useless. What should I do? Then we can only rely on drugs.
Friends who are familiar with the history of Wei and Jin dynasties know that Samurai III was very popular among the literati of that era, and Samurai III was originally aimed at? What's wrong with you? At that time, there was a great plague.
Like opium, it can make people hallucinate and get excited inexplicably, so even if they are still sick, they feel different.
But this thing is as addictive as opium. Ji Kang, a man of character in Wei and Jin Dynasties, wore light clothes in winter and sweated. Liu Ling was drunk and streaked. These crazy gestures are probably related to overdose.
However, it was not easy to match these five stones in those days, and only the literati could afford them.
As for the efficacy of this Wushi powder? Or? Natural eggs? !
Wushisan was poisonous for hundreds of years, until Sun Simiao, a famous medical expert in the Tang Dynasty, waved his hand and said? You're not eating? Was completely abolished.
Other operations
In addition to the above conventional and unconventional means, there are operations such as eating five poison cakes and drinking.
To put it simply, you don't really take the poisonous cakes here, do you? Scolopes, poisonous snakes, scorpions, geckos and toads? Food made of five poisons. Just like an old woman doesn't have a wife in her cake, someone else's poisonous cake is just carved with scorpions, toads, spiders, centipedes and snakes on its skin? Five poisons? The imprint of the image, the stuffing inside is actually a rose!
To put it bluntly, this? Tough and soft-hearted Ruling cake is the door god of food industry. The meaning of blessing is far greater than the function of antivirus.
What about drinking again? Restrain? According to the method of plague, the types of wine can be roughly divided into Tu Su wine, realgar wine and chrysanthemum wine.
Spring breeze sends warmth to Tusu? It is said that the Tu Su wine in the hotel was founded by Hua Tuo, and its formula is quite complicated, and it also contains highly toxic ingredients, which basically belongs to fighting poison with poison? Chemotherapy? Category.
Similarly, realgar wine mixed with realgar is the kind of wine that forces the white snake to reveal its true colors in the new legend of the white snake.
Besides,? Wait until the mountain is on holiday, and I'll come back at chrysanthemum time? For the ancients, the Double Ninth Festival was not only about watching chrysanthemums, but also about drinking chrysanthemum wine to enhance immunity.
In short, in the eyes of the ancients, drinking can not only relieve anxiety, but also detoxify.
Plague, the enemy of mankind, has been fighting for thousands of years, and the staged victory is a little bit, but we have never occupied an overwhelming advantage.
These invisible enemies are always? Come and go, go and return? .
In this long process, it seems that both reliable and unreliable anti-epidemic methods can find their shadows from ancient times.
Of course, some ancient laws are not all? Pseudoscience? Moreover, the measures explored by the ancients, such as finding the source, centralized isolation, controlling diffusion and increasing medical investment, are still practical in modern times.
For us ordinary people, we still have to believe in the content of scientific governance, not believe in rumors, not spread rumors, listen to the opinions of authoritative doctors, stay indoors, exercise diligently, keep fit, strictly protect ourselves and have less contact, so as to effectively curb the spread of the epidemic.