Till today, for Chinese medicine is still questioned endlessly, the famous scholar ark has flagrantly said that Chinese medicine is pseudo-science, is a kind of obscurantism, mysticism treatment, should be completely negated, abandoned. So, is Chinese medicine useful or not? Little known is that the Eastern Jin Dynasty a Chinese medicine classics, but recorded the results of two modern Nobel Prize.
When it comes to the medical masters of the Wei and Jin dynasties, we are most familiar with Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, but there is actually another one, and this one is called Ge Hong!
Ge Hong, a native of Jurong, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, was a legendary Taoist leader, the nephew and grandson of Ge Xuan, a square scholar of the Three Kingdoms, who was known as the Little Immortal Weng, and who is said to have finally succeeded in ascending to the heavens. At that time, Taoist people were often skilled in alchemy, taking pills to refine the Tao, so in our impression, Ge Hong is labeled as a Taoist priest and alchemist. But what is less well known is that Taoists would also study the secret art of health maintenance, researching on divine prescription medicines, health prolongation, etc., so Ge Hong was also a top doctor.
There is no rainbow without a storm, and this was the case with Ge Hong! Ge Hong was born in Jiangnan, his grandfather's name is Ge Xuan, Ge Xian Gong, master is the Three Kingdoms era of Zuo Ci, but Ge Hong 13 years old when he lost his father, the family is getting poor, in order to continue to study, Ge Hong to cut wood, in exchange for pen and paper, copying and learning in the spare time of labor, often late into the night. At the age of 16, Ge Hong took Zheng Yin, his grandfather's younger brother, as his teacher, and was highly respected by Zheng Yin for his dedication to learning.
Historical records, Zheng Yin "disciples more than fifty people, only Yu (Ge Hong) see the scriptures and the Jin Dan "Three Emperor within the text", "Pillow in the five lines of the record", the rest of the people are not allowed to look at the first title of the book". The so-called "Three Emperors", is the "Three Emperors scripture", is the "Emperor of Heaven", "Emperor of the Earth", "Emperor of the People" of the collective name, is said to be able to ward off evil spirits, warm the epidemic gas, the cross-border disasters and flying, heal the dead and flesh and bones, and resurrection of the dead, etc., has been lost. Ge Hong was the only one who could read this book, which shows the importance Zheng Yin attached to it.
In 302, Zheng Yin realized that the world was about to be in chaos, so he took his disciples and went east to Huoshan to live in seclusion to avoid the disaster, only Ge Hong still stayed in Danyang. 304, the year of the prelude to the Five-Hu Rebellion, Ge Hong joined the army, and was named "General Fubo," and ten years later, Ge Hong returned to his hometown to live in seclusion in the mountains. Two years later, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was founded, and Ge Hong was given the title of Guannei in honor of his old service, but he always refused to become an official. Until 325 years, because of the forced life, as a consultative counselor and other positions, and then heard that the Jiao-toe Dan sand, so took the initiative to request to serve as a hook leakage (now Beiliu County, Guangxi) order.
But when passing through Guangzhou, I heard that there is a fairy cave on Luofu Mountain, and according to legend, An Zhisheng of the Qin Dynasty served nine sections of calamus on this mountain, and ascended to heaven, so Ge Sui decided to suspend the trip to the appointment, and from then on to live in seclusion in Luofu Mountain, and resigned from his post several times in the middle of the journey.
Hidden in Luofu Mountain, Ge Hong practice alchemy, writing books and lectures, leaving a lot of classics, in addition to Taoist writings, but also includes the Wujing seven history of a hundred words, military affairs, square technology, short miscellaneous odd, as well as medical books, "Jin Gui medicinal formula," "after the elbow to prepare for the emergency formula. Unexpectedly, the value of the book "After the Elbow", after 1600 years, but twice in the Nobel Prize was verified!
In 1928, the French bacteriologist Charles Nicoll, was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on identifying lice as typhus contagion.
However, Charles Nicoll's discovery was not a world first, because more than 1,600 years ago, Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had already revealed lice to be the infectious agent of scrub typhus (typhus) and proposed a program to prevent it in his "Post-Elbow Preparedness Formula".
The "After Elbow Prepares Emergency Prescription": There are many sand lice in the mountains and waters, and their insects are very fine and invisible. When a person enters a water bath or draws water for bathing, this insect sticks to him in the water. When people enter water baths and draw water for bathing, the bugs will stick to them in the water. Diagnostic method is: the first to get, the skin is as red as a small bean corn corn grain, with a hand on the red, pain like a thorn, after three days, it is strong, pain, cold and heat, red on the sores, the worm gradually into the bone, it kills people.
Scientific studies have shown that scrub typhus is an acute infectious disease, is caused by infection with a pathogen called "Oriental rickettsiae", and "Oriental rickettsiae" can not be directly infected with human beings, and need to be called a tsutsugamushi (also known as scrub typhus). The chiggers can't infect humans directly, but require a vector called a chigger (also known as a mite or tick). The larvae of chiggers are called chiggers, but there are hundreds of species of chiggers, and only the reddish-colored red chiggers and the ground chiggers can transmit chiggers.
So is Ge Hong's "sand lice" the same as Charles Nichol's? In "Park Zi Nei Zhi Deng Zhi", Ge Hong described the sand lice, saying, "Its big as the end of the hair, the first to stick to the person will enter its skin ...... can be picked by a needle to take it is as red as Dan." This is the world's earliest record of chiggers.
It can be seen that Ge Hong's writings are 1,600 years older than the Nobel Prize winner, which fully reflects the wisdom of the Chinese people as well as the profundity of Chinese medicine!
In 2015, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering the isolation of artemisinin from Chinese herbs for use in malaria treatment.
Tu Youyou is the pride of China, and we're all familiar with the origins of her work, which was inspired by Ge Hong's Preparation of an Emergency Formula for the Post-Elbow Period (肘后備急方)》, which states, "Take one grip of Artemisia annua, impregnate it with two liters of water, extract the juice from the strings, and take it as much as you can. What is less well known is that Tu Youyou mentioned something else in her Nobel Prize speech that remains inspired by this text.
Tu Youyou: When I was faced with a research dilemma, I revisited the ancient books of Chinese medicine, and further thought about the Eastern Jin Ge Hong's "Post-elbow Preparation for Emergencies," about the interception of malaria, which was recorded as 'a grip of Artemisia annua, impregnated with two liters of water, and then twisted and extracted the juice, which was taken by the end of the service'. This reminded me that the extraction process may need to avoid high temperatures, thus changing the extraction method to a low boiling point solvent.
Ge Hong's account, although vague, pointed to two directions: one is that Artemisia can cure malaria, and the other is that Artemisia juice should be extracted at room temperature, especially the latter point, and Tu Youyou "switched to a low-boiling-point solvent extraction method", and successfully extracted artemisinin.
It can be seen that, in the face of the worldwide problem of malaria, the wisdom of the ancients and the ancient medical books of China, which have been passed down for thousands of years, have given two key revelations to modern researchers.
So, whether Chinese medicine is useful or not, there is no need to discuss, existence is the truth, Chinese medicine has been passed down for thousands of years, the crystallization of countless wisdom, so that countless Chinese people away from the disease, so that the ancient Chinese population has been steadily accounted for about 25% of the world's population, has proved the role of Chinese medicine. Nowadays, certain theories of Chinese medicine have not been confirmed, does not mean that there is no truth, perhaps modern medicine is not developed enough, after all, human medicine is still far from being out of the ordinary.
It is worth mentioning that, as the effect of Chinese medicine becomes more and more significant, and successfully solves a lot of problems of Western medicine, nowadays Chinese medicine, on the contrary, is also becoming more and more popular in the world. The funny thing is that Chinese medicine, which is becoming more and more popular abroad, is being questioned in China.